MattMc3's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Taskbar Marquee

  Hey everyone. I'm in a bit of a bind. I'm trying to make the text in the taskbar area of my application marquee like Winamp does. I've been trying for a few days but have found no way of doing it. I've even tried searching Google, etc but still no leads to helping me accomplish this goal. Any help would be great. Thanks in advance. Your welcome and thank you for the intersting post. I'm going to "borrow" some of your code for this to use in my little Weather application that I keep playing around with. Instead of using a popup with the latest weather update, I'm just going to have it scroll the ...Show All

• Visual Basic mdi form problem

  in form theres an event called closed or closing or something like that but i have a problem with MDI form! how can i write codes as i wrote into form's closed event md form doesnt have closed or closing event how can i show message before closing md form Thank u Override OnClosing - Public Class Form2 Protected Overrides Sub OnClosing( ByVal e As _ System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) MessageBox.Show( "I am Closing!!!" ) MyBase .OnClosing(e) End Sub End Class ...Show All

• Visual Studio Windows batch script that will automate the check-in all files recursively into VSS into the same folder structure

  How can i write a Windows batch script that will automate the check-in all files recursively into VSS into the same folder structure. If the file doesn't already exist, it should be created automatically. Hello, You will find a basic skeleton for a batch file of SourceSafe commands at: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181076 You will want to change the line that starts with "ss checkout" with a line using the "ss checkin" command. For a complete list of the options for the checkin command, please refer to: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tt66dycz ...Show All

• SQL Server Annotations

  Is there anyway to allow my Data Flow annotations to wrap (April CTP) Thanks   DarrenSQLIS wrote: Would be nice if they actually wrapped though, so when you resize a component's screen icon, you don't have to change the hard-code line breaks. Logged this a while back. Yeah, I put in a request for font formatting and the ability embed links/images as well. Basically an editor like the one I'm currently writing in would be nice. ...Show All

• SQL Server Creating SQL 2005 Logins during installation

  Hello, We use one standard account with a password that is never given out. In SQL 2000 we had a script to extract the password in encrypted format so that it could be run as part of the installation process. That same process does not work for SQL 2005. Below is a sample of the script that we were deploying for SQL 2000 installations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Login: CPAPP declare @pwd varchar(50); SET @pwd = CONVERT (varbinary(256), 0x01003402EC1BDADF45C9D788C23459BC36D73E5B2B9F2F235138F6BB8D0CD2317FCBA41EB59D191801AC287A14FF) EXEC master..sp ...Show All

• SQL Server Form Authenticate Report Services 2005 Users

  We are going to write a reporting appliction which will be accessed by our customers. As such we will need to use form based authentication for them to gain access. I have found this link in this regard: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnsql2k/html/ufairs.asp But ... we will also want them to use the new ReportBuilder client. So, I am guessing that we will need to provide them with a Windows Account for that. That is something we DO NOT want to do in our NOS Active Directory. We are talking about thousands of customer users. So, can I get ADAM to play a role here. Can I set-up an ADAM instance and have ...Show All

• Visual C++ Broken _findfirst() when using PSDK and VS2005 Beta2 under AMD64

  I am having a problem with _findfirst when cross compiling for AMD64 with PSDK and linking with VS2005 Beta2. The scenario: Below is given the test code I'm using. I am working on AMD64 trying to compile my code with latest PSDK. This works fine when both compiling and linking with the PSDK. When I compile and link with VS2005 Beta2 it works too. However when I use 'cl' to compile with PSDK and 'link' from beta2 it fails at runtime. Compilation gives no errors though. _findfirst function succeds but ".name" member of FindData is empty. Here is a printout of what happens: (Using either PSDK or Beta2 for compile and link): dbg: .\*.exe dbg2: j ...Show All

• Visual Basic Pardon my ignorance.. Visual Basic ".NET" ?

  I've been out of the development loop for over 4 years. What is this Visual Basic ".NET" Is it a different version of Visual Basic I've seen Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic 2005. What is the latest version, and how does Visual Basic ".NET" fit into all of this I didn't see a ".NET" version of VB for sale.. Clearly I'm missing something. Any help or links to more info appreciated! .NET is a framework for writing applications, any Visual studio past 6 is .NET by definition. Both C# and VB since VS2002 target the common language runtime, which means that they can use each others cl ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to suppress double click event on form’s title bar?

  I have a form with WindowState set to maximized, however, I like to suppress the double click on the Form’s title bar. Any idea Thanks. I'm not quite sure why...but subclass your form and override the WndProc to ignore doubleclicks in the caption.: const int WM_NCLBUTTONDBLCLK = 0x00A3; const int HTCAPTION = 2; protected override void WndProc( ref Message m) { if (m.Msg == WM_NCLBUTTONDBLCLK) { // See if clicked in titlebar if (m.WParam.ToInt32() == HTCAPTION) { return ; } } base .WndProc( ref m); }   This will not interfere with the control box ...Show All

• SQL Server Customizing Report Manager

  As I recall, in RS2000 there was no way to customize the appearance of Report Manager. I see that RS2005 has stylesheets which permit some customization of the appearance (maybe these were available in RS2000 also, but I never looked for them), but it appears that the source code for the web pages is still not provided. Is that the case, or is it possible to obtain the source code for Report Manager so that more extensive page customizations can be made Thanks! -- Chris Report Manager can only be customized in two ways: * style sheets (as you have already discovered) * UI strings (e.g. "View Report&qu ...Show All

• SQL Server How to connect from Sql Manager to a sql server 2000 database at an ISP

  To use the front end tools in SQL Manager on the database at my ISP I want to connect directly. I have enabled TCP/IP and Named Pipes without succes. My installation is based on SQL Server Developer Edition and VS 2005. With my previos installation based on Express versions of the product this worked fine. To be more specific: In VS 2005 I select Tools -> Connect to database and fill inn the dialog window with the serveraddress (sql01.active24.com), username and password. I then get the following message: An errror has occurd while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be ...Show All

• Visual Basic Property Pages in VB.Net

  Hi, I am creating a user control in VB.Net, i want to add a property page for the user control as in VB6, how shall I add property page in VB.Net. Thanks, Benin ...Show All

• Windows Forms Failed to load resources from resource file

  Hi, I may just be being thick here but, after installation, setting up a new Terrarium, compiling the simple carnivore, and trying to indrocude the animal to the Terrarium, I am getteing the following error: "Setup Error Failed to load resources from resource file Please check your Setup" I have the '.NET Framework 1.1 redist' installed, along with the SDK 1.1 i ...Show All

• SQL Server Kirk: Importing/Exporting with column ErrorCode, ErrorColumns

  I am currently redirecting lookup failures into error tables with ErrorCode and ErrorColumn. It works fine until I want to transfer data into the archived database. The SSIS pacakage generate by SQL Exporting tool is throwing an "duplicate name of 'output column ErrorCode and ErrorColumn" error. This is caused by oledb source error output. The error output automatically add ErrorCode and ErrorColumn to the error output selection and not happy with it. I think the question is down to "How to importing/exporting data when table contains ErrorCode or ErrorColumn column " Can you not ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Documentation Error or am I doing something wrong?

  Hi, I have a PPC app which uses two things - a thread and control.invoke. After takeing the code running on PPC to a smartdevice project it tells me that thread.abort and Control.Invoke(Delegate, Object []) is not available. In the documentation I found for both functions .......Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC, Windows CE, Windows Mobile 2003 for Smartphone So fromt this point it looks like they are available. Now what is wrong The documentation -  my code something in the project Thanks in advance Manfred Hi Daniel, thanks for that matrix --- but then how about SQL-Mobile. I think one if the featu ...Show All