Yuri de Jager's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic DefaultLocation

  I have developed a COM Add-in for the Office Suite. Since COM Add-in's wont use the app.config file I am storing app settings in settings.txt file which I have hard coded the path to in the application. My question is this. If during installation the user installs the application to somewhere other than the 'DefaultLocation' my app will fail on reading the settings.txt file, is there a variable I can use instead of hard coding the path that wil ...Show All

• Windows Forms SDI to MDI Problem

  Can anyone help me turn my SDI project to an MDI project while still keeping the same logic, especially for the login. The login algorithm is within the project.  If you decide to run the project username = admin ; password = 999 ftp://msdn:msdn@tibby.homeip.net/CurrentProject.rar Thank you in advance. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista State Machine Dependency Properties

  I have a state machine setup with a custom activity that executes a ruleset. The ruleset is a property of the activity. I'm trying to change the ruleset at runtime. When I change the property the value only changes for the next instance of the state machine. The current instance continues without seeing the updated value. It works in a sequential workflow, just not state workflows. Any idea how I can do this Example: MyActivity.RuleSetP ...Show All

• SQL Server Format String

  What is the difference between "#,#0.00" and "#,#.00" In the 2nd case, numbers between 0 and 1 won't have a leading 0. So, for example, "0.31" (1st string) will display as ".31" (2nd string): http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms146084.aspx >> 0 Represents a digit placeholder that displays a digit or a zero (0). If the number has a digit in the position where the ze ...Show All

• .NET Development Drawing on a button...

  Hello! How can I draw some lines on a ASP.NET Server Control Button or on a HtmlButton .How can I block the postback of an ASP.NET Server Control Button Thanks! For drawing lines you can have it as an image and use the image button. And for avoiding the postback use a client side code. Button1.Attributes.Add( "onclick" , "return false" ); Regards, Jimmy ...Show All

• Visual Basic Ipod Programming

  I just got myself an IPod for x-mas, and was not happy with the the software bundle included (ITunes). So I started browsing the web for 3'rd party software which could transfer music from IPod->Computer and Computer->IPod. But I found all of those programs missing something I needed and wanted to make an application myself. The only thing I need help with is code to transfer a song to ipod which makes it compatible with the device fo ...Show All

• .NET Development Trouble Retrieving Data with OleDBAdapter

  How do I retrieve data from a database and then bind that values from the dataset to the controls, eg: textbox, ,listbox, combobox, etc. Can anyone please help me, by including the procedures. I created the Connection, Adapter, ConnectionString, DataSet, And the select querry for retrieving the values. I filled the dataset. But how do I bind that values to the controls Do I have to create datatables, datacolumns, etc.. An example with be ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Is it possible to move an InlineShape around the document?

  I'm working with many InlineShapes in a document and need to move their positions. Getting the Range they're anchored to and changing it doesn't seem to have any effect. I can, in the Word document, cut and paste an InlineShape (thus moving it). However, you have to select, in addition to the InlineShape, a character before it or after it for the selection to "appear" and for you to be able to cut it. If I access the Ran ...Show All

• Visual C# missing data sources

  I have upgraded from a CTP to the RTM. The data sources window is open but none of my datasets are there. Also, all of the icons in the data sources window are greyed out. any ideas thx...jb UPDATE: ok, the only time i can see my data sources is when i open the applications file for setting security, build events, application, debug, resources, etc. any info   jb ...Show All

• .NET Development Autentication Types in .NET ?

  Can any one brief me on Authentication Types in .NET Windows Authentication Mixed Authentication Custom Authentication are some types ...Show All

• SQL Server Merge Replication Weird Scenario?

    On the national Server:           SQL 2005 Enterprise On the mobile clients:             SQL 2005 Workgroup.     I was asked to find a solution to such scenario   2 mobile subscriber S1 and S2 to the same simple merge publication P1 on server N   Day 1, ...Show All

• Visual Basic Dataset HasChanged Property

  I'm Making a database program I've noticed that the property HasChanged intented to track wether the dataset has changed does not update it's value to True in case of the user has edited the data on the screen till you move to another record can I know if the user changed the data before the user leaves the current edited record to another the purpos of this is to alert the user to save data before he mopves to another record or cl ...Show All

• Visual C++ cannot compile ANY C++ project in VS2003

  I think I've screwed up the paths the IDE uses to search for include files and header files. I am unable to compile any project using C++. I cannot compile brand new Win32 console apps or MFC apps. The compiler error is : c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\atlmfc\include\afxv_w32.h(166): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'windows.h': No such file or directory I've tried running the repair and reinstalling VS2003, ...Show All

• Visual Basic Scrollbars

  What i have is a text box (with scroll bars) that is updated every second on a timer by replacing all displayed text with the text from a file. My problem is that every time it updates it automatically scrolls back to the top of the box, making it impossible to scroll part way through the file and have it stay there more than a second. I was wondering if there is a way to do this. I was thinking of finding a way to track where the blinking curso ...Show All

• Visual Studio SourceSafe from IDE

  I am not being able to see anything from Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 File > Source Countr > (NOTHING IS THERE) please, help!!! thanks "Open From Source Control" has been integrated into the Open Project dialog itself. Go File->Open Project, and then you will see the SourceSafe icon on the icon bar to the left of that dialog. That will allow you to navigate into your SourceSafe stores. ...Show All