mikeatroundhere's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums windows live messenger

  i hav been invited to windows live messenger 8.0 i should hav 5 invites but i dont hav any what the hell is goin on   Please be patient as this program is in BETA stage. By that, I mean that there WILL be bugs along the way and that is what beta testers are there for, and that is why Microsoft dont allow everybody into a beta as some people seem to "USE" the app, not "TEST" it. ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums VBA SDK mfc sample

  I have installed a VBA 6.4 sdk. My problem is in mfc example not in in visual basic example. Whe i try to use a method of the application host object in macro editor occur an error. Example: Public Sub prova() Dim app As New Application Dim str As String str = app.VBAVersion 'error Set app = Nothing End Sub when i execute the macro prova occur: ActiveX component can't create object or return reference to this object ( ...Show All

• SQL Server Best Practices Question - how do you execute multiple packages?

  I have 200+ plus packages that need to be flexible in how they are run. For example, an end user may choose to run packages 1,2,3 and the next end user may choose to run packages 2,3,7, etc. Prior ro running a package, I set an "instance id" inside the group of packages so I can tie them all together in the logfile - I know that packages 1,2,3 were all run as group and that's distinct from packages 2,3,7 that were run in a differnt gro ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView: Get row at point

  Hi, I would like to have a row selected when i right click on a control. However, i cannot find how to get the row based on the point of the mouse_up event. I searched the docs, but could not find any member of datagridview that could help me with that. I think i'm overlooking something. Ward The same (from the docs):    System.Windows.Forms.DataGrid.HitTestInfo myHitTest;    // Use the ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Adding a Windows Media Mobile control to a CE APP??

  Hi, and thanks in advance to anyone who can answer this... I'm attempting to build an application in vb.net and/or c#.net that involves putting a windows media control directly on a form. While this is easy when developing a normal application, when I try to implement it for a CE architecture it doesn't give me a normal object. All the samples I see are for eMbedded C++ which I'm not familiar with. Any ideas I have tried adding the obj ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to build a project containing Reporting Service project

  Hello, I'm working with a solution containing multiple projects, also one Reporting Service project. When I use MSBuild to build the solution, it fails with the following error: error MSB4041: The default XML namespace of the project must be the MSBuild XML namespace. If the project is authored in the MSBuild 2003 format, please add xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" to the <Project> element. If the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Use Of Keyword DataDirectory Causes Visual Basic 8 To Prompt For User ID And Password

  Problem solved Thanks, ...Show All

• .NET Development Disappearing text on buttons in a custom control

  Hi, I have a simple C# app that runs 99% of the time ok on some computers. On some others, the first form being open won't display the text on the buttons. The buttons are part of a custom control, that has a list view as well. However, if you click on any of the buttons once, then all text on all otehr buttons is disaplayed properly. Has anyone any pointer for me to investigate further Thanks much, J Hi, Here ...Show All

• Visual C++ Build phases

  The compiler /Bt option and linker /TIME option show times for two passes.  What is occurring on each pass, when compiling native In my case, nearly all the time is spend on pass 1 of the compiler and pass 2 of the linker. Phase 2 in the linker is the phase when all code is put together and the final image build and all cross references are solved. AFAIK phase 1 is just a collecting phase searching for ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Datagridview question

  Question from a newbie VB2005Express programmer I have a datagridview on a form bound to a dataset bindingsource. I have added some extra fields to the datagridview, unbound columns. Now I would like to populate these unbound colums (or e.g. give a different background in case a certain condition applies). How to do this... In case of a gridview I read in the documentation that I should use the gridview.rowdatabound event. This event is no ...Show All

• SQL Server Passing Parameters to the ReportView

  Here is the problem. I have a report that accepts multiple parameters. Two of them are "hidden" from the user. I don't want them prompted for these values. I set up the parameters so that it says Hidden but I get the following message. The report parameter 'CustomerID' is read-only and cannot be modified. (rsReadOnlyReportParameter) Here is the source in my ASPX page: ReportParameter [] parameters = new ReportParamet ...Show All

• Visual Basic Any way to save custom classs to a file?

  I THINK I saw this somewhere. I have a Custom Class and I'd like to be able to save that to a file and then read it back later. I think I may need to impelment the "serialize" interface or something like that, but can't find any info on that for custom controls. Any tips or pointers Check out the following that will probably point you in the right direction http://www.fawcette.com/reports/vsliveor/2002/09_18_02/ ...Show All

• Windows Forms Using the CellParsing event of the DataGridView to set Null-Values

  Hi, I'm trying to use the CellParsing event to map certain values to a null value. But the DataGridView is trying to parse the entered value instead of accepting my null value. I know that this behavior is described in the docs. But is there any way to set a null value in the CellParsing event void dataGridView1_CellParsing( object sender, DataGridViewCellParsingEventArgs e) { if ( this .dataGridView1.Columns[e.ColumnI ...Show All

• Windows Forms Articles on webbrowser control

  Can anyone point to me to any articles that address issues in using application resources (HTML, XSLT) with a webbrowser control   Not looking to hit external sites with the browser, just internally generated content, and I'm trying to get a feel for the effort involved. thanks ...Show All

• Windows Forms TableAdapter Update Error

  I made a TableAdapter and use ObjectSource to bind it to GridView, when I insert new rows it works OK, but when I try to Update or Delete it gives me this error: ObjectDataSource 'RegionObject' could not find a non-generic method 'Update' that has parameters: RegionDescription, original_RegionID. Version Information:  Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50215.44; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50215.44 Thanks Alaa Bhr Software Developer ...Show All