private21's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic How do I...

  specify an icon to use for my exe file I have the icon file that I want to use, but I'm not really sure where I would include it... Menu option Project | Properties Application Tab Icon Clearly tiltled questions are always appreciated! Happy programming. ...Show All

• SQL Server Page break after X items

  Is it possible to force a page break after a specified number of items in a table For instance, I have a name badge report but I'm running into a problem where some badges are sliced down the middle at page breaks when exporting to pdf or tiff.  If I could force a page break after every 2nd or 3rd badge it would alleviate that problem. Thanks in advance. Figured it out.  I added a group on Code.GetCount ...Show All

• SQL Server Bug in NS 2005?

  We have rolled out a solution on SQL 2005 and NS for 2005. As we have been looking into reporting notifications from our system I came across that a column that is created out of the box does not make sense. In the generated table NS<NotificationClassName>Notifications there is a column called SubscriptionID, it is set as nvarchar(255), but in the NS<SubscriptionClassName>Subscriptions the SubscriptionID is BIGINT. Why would then be ...Show All

• Windows Forms About an error with FotoVision

  I was downloaded this source code example from msdn http://msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient/codesamples/fotovision/default.aspx pull=/library/en-us/dnne And open it with Visual Basic Express Edition Beta but... I found this errors: Error 1: Error 34 Specified access 'Public' for 'Settings' does not match the access 'Friend' specified on one of its other partial types. D:\Dev\NET\VisualBasic8\FotoVision\DeskTop\1.0\VB\Desktop\Sour ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Defining a range according to the number of responses

  Dear all, I'm a new user of Visual Basic (version 6.3) and need to write a Macro for use in Excel. I need the Macro to calculate Rank values for an unpredictable number of scores. The number of scores that need to be Ranked will vary and I don't know how to incorporate this variation into the Visual Basic Macro. In my current spreadsheet there are 11 scores (Sorted in descending order) in column DS (cells DS2:DS12). The Visual Basic cod ...Show All

• Windows Forms Issues with MyApp.exe.config

  Greetings, I have a VS2005 solution that contains a main executable and a number of auxillary projects (class libraries, etc).  One of the libraries is a collection of business objects and their service agents, which use web services to marshall data between the client and the server. The issue we're running into is even though our web references' URLs are set to Dynamic, we are unable to modify them via the application's configuration fi ...Show All

• Visual Basic Uneditable combobox

  I want combobox1 to be uneditable while the program is running, so people can only choose things that are in the list, not be able to write in it as well Very easy... Just set the dropdownstyle property to DropDownList and this should give you what you want.       ...Show All

• SQL Server How do I run/schedule my legacy dts packages in 2005?

  My packages are migrated over our new 2005 server.  How do I schedule/run them   BOL seems to suggest that we replace the dtsrun commands with the dtexec one.  Am I on the right track Is there a X64 version of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 DTS Designer Components from Feature pack for SQL Server 2005 I have installed an X86 version on the AMD64 machine. But when I open a sql 2000 dts package, th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can i include MySql to the IDE?

  Hey folks I tried the whole week to get my MySql Database going with the VS Express 2005. Is there a way to Connect via Data -> Add Data Source, where i can select Database, and then some kind of MySQL Driver I only have MS Access Files, and MS SQL Server Connection, there's no other Data Provider. Where's the Point to tell the IDE of a new DataProvider I have the MySql .NET Driver installed... I can add "MySqlConnection", "My ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Asynchronous I/O functions on CE

  Hi, I need to port a Windows desktop communication DLL to a PocketPC target. Unfortunately, it seems that CE doesn't support aynchronous call for the I/O function ReadFile, WriteFile and CreateFile but these functions were esential to my DLL. So, is there really no support for overlapped I/O methods on CE Is there another way to implement non-blocking read/write operations on serial ports or sockets Thx, Negyoshi. ...Show All

• .NET Development how to attach acces file to project in visualstudio 2003

  hello can anyone help me to attach acces file to project becouse now when i change location of project, my project stop working becouse it has to be in same place where it was when i was adding a connection. I want to be able to change location of application and mdb file without any problems thank a lot arek Arek, While developing applications it is always a good thing decoupling your application with oth ...Show All

• Windows Forms WebBrowser Control and Mime Parts

  Hi all, It seems that posting here on the forums takes an extensive amount of time to be answered, however, I shall try again. I am looking to display emails via the webbrowser control in .NET. Insofar, I have the entire message stored in a .eml file locally and simply point the webbrowser.document to the file uri of the message. The webbrowser is kind of a mixed blessing for displaying email. The ability to render images saves me the t ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Using ListView control in Compact Framework

  I'm using a ListView control in a Compact Framework project that displays the listview as the main control with large icon images.  The text for the items are paritally showing with an ellispes on the end, such as "Maint...".  I would like the text to wrap and show the entire text as items do in the Program Files directory view.  How do I do this Thanks, Vince Alright, I've got what you need. Take a look at my post here: ht ...Show All

• Windows Forms Local Stats

  Is there a way to track stats in a local terrarium  I am intereseted in trying some combinations of plants and critters in a controlled enviroment. It would be nice to get a breakdown of population over time and see charts. I looks like&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Not a valid Win32 Application Error

  Hi everyone, I made a small program with C# express for someone (just a simple form) and when I run it through Visual Studio, it works perfectly.  Now when I take the .exe file from the bin directory and copy it on the desktop, it works great for a while, but after a certain time (or if I reboot), I get an error when I start the executable file: "C:\Documents and Settings [...] Projects\Quiz\bin\Release\Quiz.exe is not a valid ...Show All