Mark Bower's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office I need a help with CMschart control!

  Can columns in a chart be divided into separate colored portions representing different variables Basically, it should act as pie chart as it represents percentages of a whole, only it looks as column chart. Thanx! Hi Could you give more details of what you are trying to do Does it deal with Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Thanks, Nikhil ...Show All

• SQL Server is it a bug ? (relationships in report builder)

  Hi friends am having some weird problem.am using sql server 2005 standard edition. i've a report model with tables (tab1,tab2,tab3). tab1 and tab2 (actually these are views) relate to same table but each has different columns from same table. the third table i.e. tab3 is child of tab1. in my report model project,i set cardinality of this role in tab3 as "one" and in tab1 as "Optionalmany". when creating a report in reportbuilder.if select columns from either tab1 and/or tab2 i get to see 100 records which is correct.if add any column from tab3 i get to see only 1 record which also correct as i've only 1 row tab3 at the moment. now ,fun begi ...Show All

• SQL Server Store images in db or in file system.

  which is better, storing images in database or storing it in the file system (saving only the path of the images in the database). Hi, that is (and I don’t hope that you started it right now) a religious war. I think files have to be stored on the file system (unless WINFS is launched). If you want to fulltext index them and search them though the database then you’d better store them in the database and keep use ofthe FT functionlities in SQL Server. Are the file small or big, how many files are you expecting, how do you want to extract them from the database. perhaps you build something like a generic inte ...Show All

• Windows Forms MaskedTextBox and the Decimal Type

  Hello All, I'm hoping someone can help me with this one. I have a model object that represents a stock part. This part has a price. The price is stored on the database as type money. The price on the object is stored as type decimal. I have a binding source that has this object as it's datasource and it is bound to serveral controls on the stock part view. The bound control for the price is a MaskedTextBox. When I input a price, say 2.35, and tab out of the control it is stored properly in the object but the bound control displays 235.__ I have tried the following masks, none of which work... 999.00 ###.00 000.00 Can someone clue ...Show All

• Smart Device Development me.close

  hi there, i have a device application, why whenever i perform me.close for any form, i can never show it back from others form for example: Private Sub btnClose_Clicl(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnClose.Click me.close End Sub Private Sub btnShow_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnShow.Click Form2.show() End Sub note that, btnClose is located at Form2, whereby btnShow is in Form1, after click close in Form2, i can never call back Form2 with btnShow in Form1 got any solution Please see this ...Show All

• Visual C# How to display unicode font in Windows 98

  My project is run well on windows XP. When i run it on Windows 98, all Vietnamese font are display wrong, all of them is font "Times new Roman". What should i do to display them in unicode font Thank you! sir please give me some instructions how to display unicode font in windows 98. sample text: DzsAawaPA CAvAAiEAAeUA aAAAUA AAgAA, aEAA 21-￡AUAgAzA aAAAUA A zEA gA﹐EUAiAA 2aA gAaAAPAEμAU D±AaaAAzA°e dA. 4 gAAzAA DzsAawaPA CAvAAiEAAeUA 2cgA dgAAUA°zE. ‥E AUEI 9jAzA ﹐AAeE 6aAgEUE ￡AqEAiAAAaA 2cgAzA°e ‥sAUAaA ﹐AAaAaAgAA dA.1gA M AUE D±AaaAAzA PAAiAiAeRAiAAzA°e oE﹐ ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to use a windows form as active desktop?

  How to use a windows form as active desktop I want my application to have a screen that behaves as or becomes active desktop. I would have buttons and other UI controls on it. User should be able to click the button. When user minimises all windows say using window+M button, my active desktop screen should be visible. Any reply would be appreciated -------------------------------- From: mani periasamy Oh yeah, and the registry entry is: HKLM\Software|Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell Just be carefult because you can hose up your computer fairly easily by messing around with settings under the Winlogon key. ...Show All

• SQL Server Seeking help with "inserted" table

  I am writing my first trigger ever and was trying to use a cursor to read through the "inserted" table, but got errors. Is it possible to do this successfully I have found very little information and examples for using these special tables. Yes, you can use a cursor, but why do you need to   Cursors should be avoided in the vast majority of cases outside of triggers.  Inside of triggers, they should ALWAYS be avoided.  One of the main concerns when writing triggers is to keep them fast, fast, fast.  You don't want a trigger holding o ...Show All

• Visual Basic DataGridView Component

  Hi all, I have create a UserControl. There is a DataGridView in this UserControl. I successfully drag this UserControl into my Windows Form Application. If user double click on selected cell in datagridview, I want to show it on my textbox in my windows form. But, how do I Catch DataGridView Double Click event in this user control There should be a CellDoubleClick event. There are many other events with the DataGridView, maybe one of the others is what you need If the question you are asking is how to pass the event to the form, then you could raise an event (defined for your user control) in that DataGridView event. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can't change resolution properties on an Image

  I am working with .NET 2.0 Beta 2. I am trying to change the resolution property items/exif values on an Image (a tiff image).  The three values I am trying to change are XResolution, YResolution, and ResolutionUnits. I am able to set the properties on the image and read them from the image to verify that my values have been set, the problem occurs when I save the image. When I save these properties are changed to values other than the ones I set.  They are changed to a re-factored equivalent of the original values (the values before I changed them).  The resolution values are stored as numerator/denominator (ex: 6000000/10000 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System "My Queries" using object model

  Hi all, I hope this is the right place for this. I can't find how to get the queries in "My Queries" using the object model. Anyone know how the get it   Nir Nir, This forum is mainly for the tools specific to VSTS for developers (Static Analysis, Profiler and Unit Testing). However, I can bump this over to the TFS forum where they may be able to better answer it. Thanks, Ian ...Show All

• SQL Server BizTalk Server 2004 Installation Query

  I am trying ti install BizTalk Server 2004 on a Windows 2000 Server platform.While i try to configure BizTalk Server 2004 I get the  undersaid error Failed to create subscription datatbase "BizTalkMsgBoxdb" on server"XXX" Statements could not be prepared Conflicting locking hints specified Conflicting locking hints specified Conflicting locking hints specified SqlScript file "C:\ProgramFiles\MicrosoftBizTalkserver2004\schema\\msgboxlogic.sql" SqlCommandBatch:"Create procedure [dbo].[int_PurgeMessageZeroSumTAble]@ Aggressive int as declare..." Can someone ehelp me out to resolve this error Thanks and Regards Rohit I got this error ...Show All

• Visual Basic Collapsible Text Outline...?

  When I collapse a #Region area the collapsed text shows the entire region name inside of an outline box. When a sub or function gets collapsed, it cuts off most of the right side of the text and shows the leftmost x characters inside the outline box with ... (three dots). Anyone know a way to show the whole line of the sub or function. Actually I don't care for the outline box. Thanks, dbProgrammer No, I do not think that you can do that but maybe XML comments could help you. If you type ''' before the Sub or Function you should get the following XML Comment added ''' <summary> ''' ' ...Show All

• Windows Forms Copy/Paste/Delete/Undo in a MainMenu

  How can I utilize these commands using a MainMenu as seen in most of today's applications Sure, but keep in mind that you don't have to literally store a "text" value in your tag -- since it is of type Object you are able store whatever you like! This can be an important tip to keep in mind for a variety of  ...Show All

• SQL Server Multivalue Parameter SQL Server 2005 SP1

  Hello, I've installed SP1 for SQl Server 2005 and I noticed that the option "Select all" on a multi value parameter drop down (using web browser) is missing. Even if I can see it on VS 2005..... Anyone can help me Thank you very much. I rely on the 'Select All' capability as well. How can I get it back now that I've upgraded to SP1 ...Show All