MAG's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Returning values from Database to strings

  Hi, Another beginner question coming up here. I need to return a value of a varchar element stored within a specific column to my C# program. I already know to use ExecuteNonQuery() for executing commands that don't use queries, ExecuteScalar() when returning a number of rows affected from a Query, but not the command to return the value from a specific Query. My C# program does the following: createstr = " SELECT AssocUIDA FROM As ...Show All

• SQL Server Issue on Models displayed in Report Builder

  I am launching the Report Builder from my web application. The launching works fine. The Report Builder displays all the models published on the Report Server, whereas the user launching the report builder doesnt have permission on most of the folders containing the models. The permission set on the folders individually (not inherit from parent) using Management Studio. The Report Server and the Report Builder folder under that both are runni ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How I can start game developing in C# (2D games)?

  Hi every one!! How I can start 2D game developing in C# Where I can find Online Books about game developing in C#   There are not many online books that you will find, but you are able to purchase several ebooks on Game programming from www.apress.com , from memory SAMS has some ebooks as well that you can purchase. As for other online resources you might want to have a look at www.thezbuffer.com , on this site there are lots ...Show All

• Windows Forms Form partial class

  Hello, I have a form named MainForm. I see that the class is defined as a partial class, and the designer class is also a partial class designation. Can I define a couple more MainForm partial classes and put some of the control event handlers in that class, to kind of break up the form a bit Thanks. I think designer see only controls from it's Form1.Designer.cs file, they must be added to internal components ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VB Express and existing SQL server connections

  I'm not sure if I've done something wrong during setup but, if I try to build a new Windows application in VB Express, the data window won't let me make a new connection to one of our existing SQL servers. It insists upon opening only an .mdf file which, of course, one doesn't normally have access to on an actual server. What makes me think there's a problem in setup is that I can easily open an SQL connection is Visual Web Designer Express. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Release issue

  I have two issues when I tried to create CAB file for my product. I created a shortcut inside the "Start Menu" folder, but it changed to "Start Menu\Programs" folder automatically after I run the CAB file. Is this the issue of the CAB file or the issue of the Pocket PC (My Pocket PC is ASUS A620 Series, OS is MS Pocket PC Ver 4.20.0 (Build 13252) After I uninstalled my product through ActiveSync (Ver 4.1), the shortc ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to upload the particular field information from DataBase to ListBox?

  Dear Friends, I want to know about, How to upload the particular field information from DataBase to ListBox, depending upon the particular character. I am using MS Access as a DB. For example we can consider the field name is Name. The Name field has the values is as follows. Name Andres Astrin Brish Bango Binges Charan .. etc., like that. If I can enter the Letter A in ListBox , it can show only the names, ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Publish feature in VS for WBAs

  I'm running september build of WinFX runtime + SDK.  VisualStudio is Beta2. Using WinXP+SP2. Steps to reproduce: 1) Create an Avalon Web Application from project template; 2) Build solution; 3) Go to project settings, "publish" tab; 4) Without changing anything push "Publish Now" button; Results: Build succeeds but publish fails: "Unable to add 'AvalonApplication1.application' to the Web.  Unable to add file 'AvalonApplication1.appl ...Show All

• Windows Forms "Docking" a WinForm

  I want to "dock" a WinForm to the bottom left corner of the screen. Since the WinForm doesn't have a Dock property, I wanted to do it through the Screen object. However, that doesn't seem to work. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Hi, I might be wrong, but I do not think that you can dock the form that way, instead you should position it like that: Top = Screen .PrimaryScreen.WorkingArea.B ...Show All

• Visual C# Newbie to C# - documented differences between ansi C and using C#

  I'm used to programming with versions of Ansi C and now I've been given C#. Without going out and buying a C# book, is there a net site that covers the diffrences in producing code for the visual c~ environment. Worked examples would be an added benefit! If not, what books are worth considering     Thanks Get Jesse Liberty's Programming C# (Oreilly) ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB.NET main procedure

  thsi is going to sound really stupid and in fact it is, but give me the benefit of the doubt as I am a new user!! I am trying to run a VB.NET windows application and every time i do i get the error message: No accessible 'Main' method with an appropriate sigr What exactly is this and what do i need to include in the procedure to get my application to work The only code I have is on Form1_Load where I fill a dataset which goes som ...Show All

• Visual Basic What are the new keys for F2 and ShiftF2?

  In VS2002 you could jump to the definition of a variable with F2 and back to the previous location in the edit window with ShiftF2. What are the new keys for this Tosch All keyboard settings are customizable. try Menu>tools>options>environment>keyboard. View.NavigateBackWord View.ObjectBrowser ...Show All

• Windows Forms Longhorn style Breadcrumb Bar

  Anyone have an idea for how to implement a Longhorn style "breadcrumb bar" in C# for Windows Forms  Basically, the idea is: - A parent window that can spawn child windows of the same style. The child windows will append their title/location&nbs ...Show All

• Windows Forms Docking one form to another

  New to VB.Net programming. I want to open Form2 from a button on Form1. Got this far.  Form2 has no border, I want it to appear to be part of Form1, (like a frame in a web page, everything else on the page stays the same exc ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Web test failing RequestFailed: The value of the date string in the header is invalid.

  All webtests I run from VS2005 RTM are failing with a response of: RequestFailed: The value of the date string in the header is invalid. The request looks like this: GET /Angel63/sidebar.asp HTTP/1.1 User-Agent : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Accept : */* Accept-Language : en-US Host : 600m01 Cookie : ASPSESSIONIDSATDSCQA=LMGPKPGDJNEPFDPPJKBKILEP Accept-Encoding : gzip I can successfully run the same test using the beta 2 re ...Show All