Ernie100's Q&A profile

• Visual C# How Write a Visual Designer. Hope can help me

  hello I ask this in others board this question, I think this is hard. I'm developing a program same as microsoft Visio, paste the object and move this into the panel and later get the preview. The program is free of course. May one of you give me some explanation or suggestion about this matter I found it in http://www.divil.co.uk/net/articles...ers/hosting.asp , is about how I can write my own designer. I want write a DFD diagram same as a ...Show All

• Visual C# Use Access with Automation, from c# program

  Hi to all! for this my first post i ask information on an argument about wich a very poor documentation on the web exists: the office automation. My problem is about a windows c# program that manage some Access data using classic DataSet. In the same access mdb file where the tables are stored  i also have some access reports that i want to open in preview mode from the C# program. unfortunatel ...Show All

• Visual Studio Wizard size and colors

  Hi all... I'm using standard wizards to gather data: < Wizard xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/pag/gax-wizards " SchemaVersion = " 1.0 " > and I want to know if i can change the size and colors of that wizard. The problem is that the window displayed is too big and there is an unnecessary big blank space i'd like to remove. I'd also like to change the colors of some fields in the wizard. How can i do th ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting Services in Developer?

  I understood that the developer edition had everything (component-wise) in it that Enterprise did, but my SQL2005 Developer installation had the Report Services checkbox greyed out on the initial install dialog, and they don't appear to be available. Are Report Services not available in Developer Edition If not, what's a lonely developer to do that wants to learn and/or play with Report Services :) Thanks. I'm ...Show All

• SQL Server Time Zone Question

  Is there anybody having experience about Time zone on SQL server we have an application which needs to process difference time zone. If the time is UTC, it will be easy to deal with it. If the time is Daylight Saving Time(DST), that will be so complicated. Anybody has good idea or any suggestion I would appreciate it! Not sure if it helps, but the best website for DST is: www.thetimedifference.com ...Show All

• SQL Server How to know the next ID ?I

  Hi all, is it possible to know the next record's identifier of a table without inserting it I tried with SELECT MAX(ArticleID) FROM Articles but imagine that there is no record in the table (but there was of it), the SELECT MAX statement return a null value... Thanks in advance, Gilles Why do you need the next id What datatype is the column Does it have the identity ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VSTS Architect vs. VSTS Developer

  With he proposed changes in MSDN subscriptions and Visual Studio licensing, I now have to make a decision between VSTS Architect and VSTS Developer. As I understand, MSDN Universal subscribers will have a choice - they can either go for VSTS Architect and VSTS Developer. I believe that I need both architecture and development tools. Which out of two should I go for The information was interesting but too high-level to be really useful ...Show All

• Visual C# DropDownList in Windows Form

  Hi, How to create a dropdownlist in Windows Form with Text and Value property. Understand that the ComboBox can only add Text but not the value. Thanks. Buru. Hi Ralph, Thanks for the advice anyway. Buru. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions errors

  I have done some programming in vb.net 1.3 and now I have opend it in vb.net 2005, there are quit a lot of errors now, in vb.net 103, there is none, some of the errors I understand, but there is some that I don't understand. Here is on of them cmd = New OleDbCommand(sql) 'setting cmd cmd.Connection = DB 'Setting Image Para If Prent.Image Is Nothing Then cmd.Parameters.Add( "@Image" , SqlDbType.Image).Val ...Show All

• SQL Server Renaming databases sloooow

  We have SSAS 2005 setup which rebuilds our cubes each night on a single server. What we were trying to do is make it so that each night a second database is built and processed for the next days data, and then the previous days database is dropped and the new one renamed to the correct name. This was meant to minimize downtime. The problem is, renaming the database is slow (it takes hours!) .. is this a bug We've tried renaming it through AMO an ...Show All

• Visual Basic Background image

  How would you set a forms background image through coding not selecting it. Thanks ...Show All

• Visual C++ Bitmap on UserControl

  Hi all, I've created my own userControl, and I would like to have my own image (that appears in the toolbox). So, I've seen that I've to use ToolboxBitmap ...; but, I've never seen what to do after. I never achived to see my own image. I'm using : [ToolboxBitmap(myUserControl::typeid, "app.ico")] app.ico is in the ressources, i hope i can change it later by another ico, or bmp Should my image be a ressource how to compile it with the ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do I disable highlighting on Toolstrip items when the form doesn't have focus

  Using the Toolstrip or MenuStrip controls, items highlight on mouseover.  This is desireable when the form has focus, but when the form does not have focus it is undesireable because clicking the button doesn't actually activate it, it simply set s the focus on the form.  A second click is needed to activate the button.   I'd like the Toolstrip to behave like that of Office or Visual Studio and not highlight the buttons on ...Show All

• Windows Forms event on scaning barcode

  hi , i am using vb.net 2003 and i want to scan barcodes with the scaner i want if the scaner completes the scaning doesn't matter what the length is the next textbox is focused i tried it on different events but could not find the&nbs ...Show All

• Windows Forms programmatically find a row in a DataGridView and select it

  Hi There, I've got a DataView populated with data from a Table. The Table contains a PrimaryKey. With this DataView I populate a DataGridView and show all Columns except the PrimaryKey Column. What I now want is to find a row due to a given PrimaryKey Value. How can I do this without to iterate thorugh all rows and check the PrimaryKey from each DataRowView Thanks in advance... Greet Markus thank yiou. No ...Show All