bluemaple's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Looking for answers not in Terrarium FAQ

  Hi, I've been trying to find an answer to coule of questions about Terrarium.  I was wondering if you would know. I am getting this error when I try to compile for this line [AnimalSkin(AnimalSkinFamilyEnum.Spider)] No overload for method 'AnimalSkinAttribute' takes '0' arguments Am I not including something I need to include Can I determine if a carnivore is one of my carnivores  IE if I made one named trapdoorspider can I determine if another carnivore it sees is a trapdoorspider Can herbivores attack   If not can they defend a target creature and deal damage without that creature attacking I've seen creature example ...Show All

• Visual Basic Parse a sentence in VB. Net

  I am trying to parse a sentence wherein the words are seperated by spaces.  The words are then stripped  of commas (",") or semicolons (";") and written to a database.  This code to split the words works in VB.net 2002 but not VB.Net 2003 or 2005.  Iam using streamReader/StreamWriter to read/write from a text file. Variables: currentSentence as String splitSentence() as String i as Integer Code: Do Until sr.Peek = -1    currentSentence = sr.readLine    For i = 1 To currentSentence.Length -1  ' Ignore first word        splitSentence = currentSentenc ...Show All

• Visual Basic PDF Nightmare

  I have been searching the world for a free, or at least cost effective solution to add the ability to save PDF files within my programs. All of the solutions that I have been pointed at cost at least $3000 for a full redistribution license! I'll be lucky if I sell 1 copy of my software at a price of $25, so I can't possibly see the point of spending that much money. So this leads me to two solutions: 1. If ANYONE out there knows of a free or cheap ($100) pdf dll that I add to my program then please throw me a bone. I need the ability to create pdf files from scratch and just add text and pictures... 2. I would like to create my own pdf ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL error while installing CRM 3.0

    Im pretty new to SQL so my trouble shooting efforts have gotten no results thus far. We are running Server 2003 for small business (clean install, mostly default settigns) sp1, with SQL 2005. I recieve this error while trying to install CRM: [dbnetlib][connectionopen (connect()).]sql server does not exist or access denied. I have tried re-installing SQL 2005 and old versions of SQL.   Release notes confirm that SQL2005 should work, but with some issues related to running reports. (I have tried the older versions with service packs and without.) I ran the SQL Server M ...Show All

• Windows Forms N-Tier vs. my old code library advice

  I am developing a new windows app based on an old Access DB I have written and I could really use some advice.  In previous ASP.NET apps, I have developed a code library that allows me to easily populate a form from a database, as well as run inserts & updates based on form data.   The good news: this utility allows me to a ...Show All

• Visual Basic Double-Precision floating point number

  I have the value -> 20.116840233680467360934721869444 When I use it in my program it truncs it to -> 20.116840233680467 I declare it as a double. Is there a way to make it not trunc Declaration/Assignment: Private chains As Double = 20.116840233680467 Thank you. Hi there, Joining a little late but I'd just like to add a little bit to what the luminaries who have already posted have said already. From my experience, the Decimal data type accomodate up to 28 places to the right of the decimal point while double can only really do up to 17 or so (not sure of the exact precision for double but I am for Decimal because I remember it' ...Show All

• Visual C# Problem with build Web Site

  When I try to build a web site solution I get the follwing errors : Error 1 (0): error CS0006: Metadata file 'C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50215\Temporary ASP.NET Files\testeinf\15e74bc9\75b17dc3\App_Web_tzppu2tl.DLL' could not be found Error 2 Metadata file 'C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50215\Temporary ASP.NET Files\testeinf\15e74bc9\75b17dc3\App_Web_tzppu2tl.DLL' could not be found   I close VS.NET 2005 Beta2, restart and now it's building. After I chenge something and build again I get the same error. So I close VS IDE, restart again and build again. And so on.... Is it a bug I have VS ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System web deployment projects not working with team build

  Hi - I have a solution with several web projects and web deployment projects, as well as a class library project. When we use Team Build to build the solution without the web deployment projects, everything works fine and the projects compile, but when we tell it to build the web deployment projects too, I get errors where the deployment projects can't find any of the code that it's supposed to deploy (several classes aren't defined, or msbuild can't find the files specified). When I look at the project files for the web deployment projects, it has the correct code path for the appropriate web project (i.e., ../ActualWebProject, not ../Inetp ...Show All

• Windows Forms Need help exporting data in data grid to Word

  I'm still stuck on how to export data from a data grid into Word. The data in the data grid is compiled from a query that the user builds. Is there any alternative  I can't use data reports because the fields on the report cannot be set at runtime. I just need to be able to let the user run a query on a database, and then& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Copy-modify-merge

  Hi, I'm new to Visual SourceSafe and have some questions about the copy-modify-merge work style. In this model what is the whole purpose of checking out as opposed to just getting the files Is it just to signal what files must be checked in later In that case why do you need to be connected to the database in order to perform a check out In particular when I try to check out a file in Visual Studio 2005 (with SourceSafe 2005) while I'm offline, the program warns me that the "real" check out will actually be performed only when I get back online. So what is this "real" check out about It also warns me that it may be poss ...Show All

• Windows Forms outlook 2003 clone

  I am new to .net and I need to develop a customzied outlook clone application for a dr clinic for patient management and appointment management. I was wondering how can I change what's loaded in the different panels when the user clicks on a button from the stackview ie if user clicks on calendar button I need to load a calendar control in one&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) ProxyClient

  Hi, I'm having some problems using a proxy-client. I have an object "Bracket" with some specifications (x,y,time,name) In that object-class, I also have a override string ToString- method. Now, the problem is when I'm trying to use that ToString-method in my Proxy-client. In a normal client using ChannelFactory, the client uses the correct ToString-method, but the proxy-client doesn't. The Proxy-client uses a self-generated assembly-class of "Bracket". Is there any possibility that I can take that override-method with me when I'm generating the Proxy Tnx in advance, PietPieter The pro ...Show All

• .NET Development SQL Dataset changes aren't written to database

  Hello! I'm a newb so bear with me. Also, I hope I'm in the right forum. I am trying to take the values from textboxes and write them to a database. The information seems to be assigned (ie. Displaying newCarsRow.Model in a MessageBox gives me the value entered into the corresponding textbox), but the changes aren't written to the database. Something tells me the fix may be simple, because I haven't completely grasped how to work with databases. An excercept of what I believe writes the changes is below. Thanks in advance. private void btnSave_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { //Put textbox values into variables strin ...Show All

• Windows Forms Uninstalling old version while upgrading to new version(Installer class)

  v2.0 of my application needs to use some data files of v1.0; I am not using InstallShield but am using normal Windows Installer built from VS.NET2003; Now the solution that I visualise is that the v2.0 installer will be in upgrade mode, "RemovePreviousVersions=False", and using the Installer class copy required data files in the BeforeInstall event, and finally uninstall the previous v1.0; Now the problem is that uninstallation is not being permitted from any before/after install events in Installer class. Is there any alternative or is there something that am missing. Thanks. Have you tried withR ...Show All

• Visual C++ Multiple Resource Files

  Hello. I have been "told" that my app may need to operate in multiple languages. As far as I can tell this will need me to create another resource file, with all the same dialogs, menu's etc just with different languages. So "File" is something else in spanish. I realise that this is a labourous task etc. I was wondering where it is in Visual studio that you can specify to use a different .rc file As I understand it is a .res file thats actually used in the build (i assume its a compiled rc file). I know where this can be changed in visual studio but is there somewhere that i can say instead of using "some path\m ...Show All