mcrfanatic's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Scrolling Text

  Hi There, Unfortunately another vb beginner for you guys here. I am building a windows application and I was wondering if it it possible to display text in a scrolling fashion i.e. with a label scrolling text through it. Like in some news websites where the main headlines would be scrolling along Hope this isn't a silly question Thanks very much Colin Yes, you can. You need to create a control to do this ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error 1311 during installation

  During install of the Team Tester edition, a message is displayed: Error 1311.Source file not found: \\server\share\contentofcd\_15777_RTL_x86_enu_VSD_Common.cab Verify that the file exists and that you can access it. Options: Retry and Cancel The file doesn't exists - it's not in the .iso image I've downloaded. The file to be copied from the .cab file seem to be esymp_mipsii_hlp.dll to be copied to [installdir]\SmartDevices\Debugger\bin Ret ...Show All

• Visual Basic Tab Control Problems in Beta 2

  It seems that the Alignment Property for the TabControl in Visual Basic in Beta 2 has problems. If you want the Tab Pages, tabs to be on the Left or Right side of a form, they will appear once set in the designer. But, any TEXT you put on the tabs is missing. With the Tabs set to TOP the text appears normally.  There is no errors raised or anything. Just no text. Have I missed something here I looked and tried several other settings an ...Show All

• SQL Server phone format expression

  what will be the phone format expression , in my db i have phone stored as 3105491234 and i would like the phone format to be like this (310) 549-1234  - thank you This is because regular expressions cannot parse nulls. Replace the " Fields!Phone.Value " part of the expression with e.g. iif(Fields!Phone.Value is Nothing, "", Fields!Phone.Value) -- Robert ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO download for students, beginners

  I searched a lot in MSDN to find an VSTO acadamic or express version. But the price range $799 is too much for students or beginners trying to be an office developer. Can Microsoft provide a version to the students, or lobbiyst so that they can use different features in VSTO. Is it possible to use the features like Excel object model, smart tages,action page, smart documents, xml usuage, COM, and deployment using any other less expensive tool ...Show All

• .NET Development Dynamically changine the SOAPAction

  I need to dynamically change my SOAPAction at run time to support calling a webservice method that is implmented in both .NET webservices as well as a SOAP::Lite webservice. I'm doing this with .NET 1.1 and Visual Studio 2003. So far I haven't figured out a good way of doing this. I've found a function: 'SoapServices.RegisterSoapActionForMethodBase' which seems that it should do what I want but it doesn't seem to affect the operation (probably I ...Show All

• Visual C# UnAuthorizedAccessException in Web Control when access iframe - Windows Form

  Hi, I am using Web Control and parsing data from a web site containing iframes. When i try to access iframe in below code (C# code) IHTMLDocument2 document = (IHTMLDocument2) axWebControl .Document; String frameName = "body"; Object o = (Object)frameName; Object obj = document.frames.item(ref o); IHTMLWindow2 mainWindow = ((IHTMLWindow2)(obj); IHTMLDoc ...Show All

• Smart Device Development My Pocket PC IE browser does not read XML files!!!!

  Hi all, When I uploaded an XML file from my PC to my Pocket PC and tried to open the file with the pocket pc IE explorer, it gives me a blank page, and doesn't show me the contents of the XML file, is there any known issue that I don't know regarding this problem Thanks in advance.. Hello, this is a security setting in the registry. If you set on the device the following registry entry: [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\ ...Show All

• SQL Server Encryption of Data in SQL05

  My current experience is with access and sql2000. In my current application, I compress/encrypt my data prior to storing in my database. Does the new verion of sql support compression/encryption and if so can you please point me to any links which discuss. thanks, Fred Herring Great! Thanks for the blog and the links! I look forward to diving into these! ...Show All

• .NET Development error in Deserialization

  i have a class thatz derived from MarshalByRefObject; i' have a client that has to serialize and deserialize this class.Deserialization throws exception. public class TestClass:MarshalByRefObject { public TestClass(){ } } in TestClient ihave this code //TestClient.cs BinaryServerFormatterSinkProvider provider = new BinaryServerFormatterSinkProvider(); provider.TypeFilterLevel = TypeFilterLevel.Full; ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help with SaveFileDialog???

  Hi Ladies and Gents, Please can you help with the below The SaveFileDialog is appending to my text files and I can't find a way to get it to overwrite whatever existing text is in the save file. Please can someone advise me Private Sub SaveToolStripMenuItem_Click_1( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles SaveToolStripMenuItem.Click Dim Save As New SaveFileDialog() Dim myStreamWriter As ...Show All

• Visual Basic msgbox on client browser problem

  am facing this problem hope some one can help.. I have developed web applications that uses msgbox, when I run the application from server side under the VS2005 it runs very well and msgbox pop very nice: The instruction I use to pop the msgbox is : MsgBox( "Password Has Changed, Please Click OK to Relogin with the new Password" , 4160, Omar.MsgTitle) When I run from vs2005 compiler it’s greate but when I publish to the ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Best way to implement this interface?

  I want to try to develop a small application using WPF. Here's what I invision my inerface looking like: At the top a set of large buttons that represent the different areas of the program. Clicking each one will load the respective page. Now, I figured what I could do was to use a NavigationWindow class, style it to include the Menu I specified above, and then use Navigate() to use the pages, but simply changing the default Window class that is ...Show All

• Visual Basic DirectDraw and DrawLine

  first off is it possible in vb.net to harness the power of Direct Draw and Draw a line to surface and if it is can some1 give me an example     Hi Bio, I've used drawline in vb 2005. It works. Dustin and I are still working on a piece together. But are some pieces of what I've done: Imports System.Drawing Imports System.Drawing.Graphics Imports System.Windows.Forms Public Class Form1     <System. ...Show All

• Visual C# What is significance of upper and lower case intellisence words

  When using intillisence, if I type in a word like string, I see that I can type it in lower case and it comes up blue, or in proper case, and it comes in in light blue. What is the significance Are they both words that are acceptable to declare a string variable Why do they have different colors Brendan Grant wrote: Second... tradition, since C# is based on C/C++ where lower case types were used ...Show All