reineckere's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Close App on Shutdown

  I have an app that when first launched has a ui, but after the user clicks the ok button the ui form will disappear and run in the background. Once running, the application performs a task on a timer.   When the computer is shut  ...Show All

• .NET Development Application level Dataset and the form designer

  What is the best way to do an application level dataset that all forms can share and at and not break the form designer   Using the DataSource to drag controls on really works nice but the dataset is local to the form. However if you point the dataset of the form to point to a Global/Application dataset the form designer does not work.   I have used conditional compilation which seems like work around but you have to ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista Download ?

  hi Where i can latest vista download Hi, From MSDN Subscription . ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions ReportViewer control for c# Express

  You may obtain ReportViewer control by installing the ReportViewer add-in for Visual Studio Express: http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/4/D/44DBDE61-B385-4FC2-A67D-48053B8F9FAD/SQLServer2005_ReportAddin.msi After that, add references (Microsoft.ReportViewer) to the C# Express IDE. Then right-click the Toolbox, Choose items, and then check the ReportViewer. You may not design or layout you reports on C#, but you may do that on Visual Web De ...Show All

• SQL Server Disable exporting in RS

  Hi, I would like to know if it is possible to disable the exporting option for individual reports in Reporting Services. I have seen a post explaining how to disable it for all reports (editing the config file on the reportserver) but the problem in my case is that I still need my users to have the exporting option for a majority of the reports. There are only a few reports that I need to disable this option for. Does anyone know if this is p ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help with MDI Form.

  How can i get like a taskbar sort of thing where you click on the button and it shows that form like in this example http://www.winmxunlimited.net/pic11.png The parent form has an MdiChildren property that is an array of Form references to the child forms. You can use that to access members of the child forms like Text and Focus. It's not really necessary though because the MainMenu and MenuStrip classes can automatically put a list of ...Show All

• Visual Studio Pet peeve of the day

  Why oh why doesn't VSS 2005 install over VSS 6.0 instead of requiring that first VSS 6.0 be uninstalled Normally an upgrade of a program installs over the old version keeping all settings. - dave As I said, you don't have to uninstall VSS6 to install VSS2005. Nothing prevents you to select the same folder (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VSS) instead of the default if you want to install VSS2005 on top of VSS6 and have only one s ...Show All

• Visual Basic how to add buttons programatically

  My application requires to add buttons programmatically, These button's should display in a dialog box for selecting purpose(this is a touch screen application). I can do something like  Dim b as new Button b.visible = true b.x = 12 b.y = 20 b.width = 12 b.height = 13 forms.controls.add(b). but the number of buttons always depends on the count(boxes) (boxes represents buttons). So, depending on the count(boxe ...Show All

• Windows Forms Help me find this control?

  I wonder if anyone here can help me. There's a control (or control-set ) in windows that I've seen in many places, but I haven't seen documented or expounded anywhere. To see what I mean, go to the Solution Explorer in VS.Net, right click on&nb ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista problems with vista graphics drivers

  ive been having problems with the last 2 builds of vista beta. i have an ati radeon x1300 pci express card with 256mb of memory. it is vista ready, but even the basic drivers that vista offers for it wont work. the only way i can use media center, view pictures and play games in when im in safe mode or when i load the standard graphics drivers. even the 5308 beta drivers from ati wont work right. can anybody give me any insight as to whats wrong ...Show All

• SQL Server Dynamic loading of a file

  I've been told by Kirk that it is possible to load a file whose metadata is unknown at design-time by using bulk insert along with a file (not a flat file) connection. He didn't elaborate though. Can anyone explain -Jamie Hi Kirk. Any guidance then on how to use SSIS to export a dynamic collection of tables as flat files. I used a foreach loop and a user variable to set the file name, the first table works fine but then it fails on the ...Show All

• Windows Forms combo-box auto-complete...

  Must have for any combo-box...should be built-in in all cases, whether it's a single column drop-down or multi-column (Hopefully in future releases). Again, no idea what the multi-column combo-box and auto-complete features for the combo-box were not included in&n ...Show All

• Windows Forms .Net 2005

  Has anyone be allowed to compile from Visual C# Express .Net 2005  I get an asembly validation error but with no description :/ I dont have the Framework directory in Microsoft.NET folder. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Start Date and Finish Date

  1- Why can't the Start/Finish Date fields be set inside Team Foundation Client Where and when are they supposed to be set 2- What about Remaining/Completed Work fields; should they be adjusted while people are working and re-estimating their work Hi folks,     Visual Studio Team System has no sense of calendar (unlike project). That's why we set it in project and make it read only in VSTS. Sou ...Show All

• .NET Development SendKeys and DirectX

     I've been trying to send keystrokes to a directx application, however normal sendkeys does not work. Assuming this is because DirectX is its own virtual domain, or the keyboard is exclusive to the application, is there anyway to send key strokes using direct input or similar I've just started playing around with adding voice recognition to games I play. I was able to send keystrokes to a d ...Show All