Cazz88's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Determine TopMost Window on the Desktop

  Hi All, I have a tricky one (well, tricky for me) that I am having trouble finding a solution for. Here is the problem; I have a Form that is open and a Notify Icon.   I want to be able to click the icon and have one of two things occur depending on the current state of the form. If the form is the Top Most (i.e. on top of all other normalised or maximised Windows) I want to hide the form. If the form is NOT the Top Most (i.e. behind a ...Show All

• Windows Forms PrintPreviewDialog and printing don't use the sorted DataView Please Help!

  Hi All, Before, my English is not so good excuse me for that. I have a proglem with printing a sorted DataGrid. For Example: System.Windows.Forms.DataGrid dGrid; dGrid has for example 2 columns: Column 1 = "NAME" Column 2 = "BIRTHDAY" dGrid is filled with&nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server Using user variables in derived column transformation

  My derived column transformation with a user variable expression displays the user variable's default and not its assignned value. Background: I built a script component that seems to effectively assign a new value to a user variable. I use local variables within the component, make the assignment in the PostExecute subroutine, and check by writing the user variable to a messagebox there. In the derived column transformation I create a new ...Show All

• Visual C++ using a textbox from a 2nd Windows form

  I've got a Windows Forms .NEt application that uses 2 forms. I've got Form2 which is created from Form1 : (inside a Form1 button click event handler) : namespace::Form2 *myForm2 = new namespace::Form2; myForm2->Show(); This Form2 works well, & I now have the need to write text to it's textBox1. So I create one in Form2[Design]. I need to do this textbox population inside a function X that is defined within namespace but outside the defi ...Show All

• .NET Development Using System.Transactions and System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection

  We are attempting to use the System.Transaction classes with a SqlConnection.  When we call the EnlistTransaction method we are getting an InvalidOperationException with the following message [Cannot enlist in the transaction because the connection is the primary connection for a delegated or promoted transaction.]  I'm pretty sure what's happening is that we are getting a pooled connection that already has a transaction reference and ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Build a Program Now! E-Book Question

  Hey there, I just started using Visual Basic and I was wondering about that E-book. I went to the registration benefits and was told I can't register because I am not 16. Is there any way for a 15 year old to get a copy of the E-book I have an original hard copy of the book if you wanna purchase it from me Coops ...Show All

• SQL Server Expand page header as matrix expands

  Is there a way to tie the page header to the matrix so it expands to the width of the matrix as the matrix expands Thanks. Vicki Ecker Hello,   For physical paginated renderes, page header&footer width = page.Width – margin.Left – margin.Right If your matrix requires multiple horizontal pages, the header&footer will be repeated for every horizontal page.   HTML rende ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Licensing?

  I could not find any information in the current beta regarding licensing.   What are the terms of use and distribution of MSF Agile We are currently evaluating the MSF-Agile artifacts that are availabe for download and we are considering adopting the methodology.  Since it is currently available freely from the Microsoft site there don't appear to be any restrictions on simply adopting the informat ...Show All

• Visual Studio getting report data into a dataset

  Hi Friends am showing our server reports in report viewer controls. is it possible to get data the report viewer displays into a dataset or a data table. bcoz we need to do some custom action on the data for e.g. mail merge. is it possible Thanks for your help. finanlly i managed to get report data in to dataset. first i export the report to xml format(programmatically uisng SOAP) and imported into a dataset!! works nicely. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System could not access table 'tablename' in data source

  Hello, I have a simple login script which databinding the loginID and password from the database table and it is running perfectly fine from webtest, but when I ran this same script from generated code I ran into this error message... "could not access table 'Tablename' in data source. - Any ideas why it is failing from generated code Thanks so much for your help. Hi Bay, Most likely your user id and password that access your databound dat ...Show All

• SQL Server Nothing in SQL Server Configuration Manager?

  Trying to setup local server agent. SQL Server Configuration Manager---->SQL Server 2005 Services-->Nothing showed up No single items there. So strange, Anyone could tell me what is wrong with this. 2005 Developer Ed Windows Xp professional 32 I guess. The obvious starting question: are you sure that the installation succeeded What components do you think are installed on the box ...Show All

• Visual Basic Installing VB2005 Pro over Express

  Hello, I am using VB2005 Express for a while. I want to install full version VB2005 pro over the Express version. What do I need to do Do I need to first uninstall VB2 Express Also can I use SQL 2005 Express with VB2005 Pro Thank you. Athena Although you can install over the express edition I would recommend starting fresh by unistalling express and then installing pro! And yes you c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System The DoNotCatchGeneralExceptions rule

  The above rule documentation indicates that the rule should not be excluded, this is Ok in the case of a general Exception or catch being present without any other exceptions. The problem I have is that we have several Exceptions in place to catch the likly exceptions then a general catch(Exception) block at the end in case we have missed any exceptions. It is this general catch(Exception) that FxCop is complaining about. We cannot put a throw s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System subscribe an event using the API

  Hi, Can any one please pass the code how to subscribe an event using the API. I couldnt find any example of this issue. Thanks in advance, Shmulik. The API you are looking for is in the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server namespace in the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Common assembly. The interface that allows you to manipulate subscriptions is IEventService. You would do something like this: using Sy ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System APS.NET 2 : not same result in debug and release

  I use FxCop for analysing my ASP.NET 2 code. When I analyse the result of the debug compilation and the result of the deployement process (release), result is different (x2 more errors for the debug version). Why Thanks for your help. Clement M Most compilers generate unoptimized IL during a debug build, this can cause some FxCop rules (RemoveUnusedLocals, DoNotInitalizeUnnecessarily, etc) to fire on debug, ...Show All