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• Windows Forms Saving location of database in the app, not the database

  How can I save the location (Path) of the MS Access database I want to connect to in my app without having a second database local to the VB Client. Obviously, the client needs to know the path to the database in order to connect,&nbs ...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

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to Obtain Fault from child activity in FaultHandler?

  How does a child activity obtain access to the Fault captured by a FaultHandler I have a code activity as a child of the FaultHandler. I simply want to spit out the message from the exception that was caught. I tried using the Parent property, expecting that to give me back a reference to the containing FaultHandler, but it was null. The only way I can figure is to add a property to the workflow to store the Fault in through a binding so t ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Cannot download any files on 5308

  Hi, I installed windows vista Feb CTP 5308 and i just can't download any file that is more than 500KB. It frequently disconnects the connection. I ahve disabled Firewall completely but no luck. In general i feel that network speed is very low (Even content rich sites show page cannot be dispalyed). An XP machine on same network works just fine. Is there any setting that i need to tewak to make it fast. Thanks -C ...Show All

• Windows Forms Error installing: "cannot download the application" - help?

  I've compiled my windows forms application (a product called "dropshark") and published it. In the release directory that I created, I see the setup.exe, two .application files (one named dropshark.application and one named dropshark_2_5_0_3.application - and both appear to be identical), and a directory called DropShark_2_5_0_3 that appears to have all of the files (with .deploy extensions). Hitting the default.htm (I renamed it, in the se ...Show All

• .NET Development error: oledbexception nust declare the variable '@Eff_Date'

  Here is the code in my Load event after declaring cn, da and cm cn.ConnectionString = "Provider=SQLOLEDB;Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=matrix;Integrated Security=SSPI;" cm = New OleDbCommand("select * from lk_Feat", cn) cm.Connection = cn da.SelectCommand = cm cm = New OleDbCommand("UPDATE Lk_Feat SET Eff_Date=@Eff_Date , Exp_Date = @Exp_Date ......etc. .., cn) cm.Parameters ...Show All

• .NET Development visual basic or c sharp 2005

  a couple of questions 1st why is C# Language now a ECMA language. Why not vb.net since it uses the same .net framework. Also I am looking at writting a business application. this will be for hr, QA, accounting, purchasing, engineering, etc. Also which language is best for the company growth as well as my future. I am familar with both, but only allowed to use one language to write this business application. I noticed that vb.net has ...Show All

• Windows Forms Web Service Progress Bar Problem

  RyanLM posted a great code sample on how to update a progress bar as a web service response comes across the wire. You can see it <a href="ShowPost.aspx tabIndex=1&tabId=41&PostID=11856">here</a>. My particular trouble is that I can't get it to ...Show All

• .NET Development Best encryption/decryption for strings

  I am looking for the best way to encrypt and decrypt a password. I looked into RSA but it gets too messy when you can only encrypt one letter at a time and get a byte[ ] back etc... Anyone know anything easier whether it is a built-in encryption/decryption or some class typed up from scratch Pref. something where you hand it a password and it encrypts the password into another string and vice versa but is just about as secure as this built in RS ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Plans for Windows Mobile Pocket/PC?

  Does Microsoft yet know their plans for Windows Mobile/PocketPC (.NET Compact Framework) for WCF The current netcf distribution doesn't contain non-soap/non-ws support (e.g. binary/tcp remoting), I'm wondering what kind of functionality we might be able to look forward to on a netcf version of WCF. Thanks! Yes, it would be nice to have a stripped-down version of WCF (like WPF will have WPF/E). What you can do right now is to use MSMQ inte ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Certified for Team System

  I just wonder if microsoft going to have another type of ceritification for team system, and any training available. Best Regards, yes, we will be releasing our certification strategy on Nov 7th at the teamsystem site.  We will have full training and exams roled out after this.  There will be a number of new changes, which will make it easier to be certified as different roles and disciplines. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Custom sum total of a single group

  Can any one solve this... I created a group and placed a file called sum(amount). The group is returning Two values Say - addition & deduction. I created another group above that group for custom total like addition-deduction. How can this be done. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Basic Excel Project

  Ok, I have posted many times on this forum for this subject, but so far I am yet to find the answer I'm looking for. I am trying to create a very simple application with Visual Basic 2005. I have a number of Excel workbooks and simply want them to be opened from a command button within my Visual Basic project. However, I would also like it to meet the following conditions: 1. The application should open on any computer, ie. the probl ...Show All

• Windows Forms showing child rows in datagrid in the same window

  Hi, I have a datagrid (using framework1.1). I am binding datagrid like this MydataSet.Relations.Add("Orders_SubOrders",MydataSet.Tables["Order"].Columns["Order_ID"],MydataSet.Tables["SubOrder"].Columns["Order_ID"]); MyDataGrid.SetDataBinding(MydataSet,"Order"); This allows datagrid to show the parent/child relationship. Is this possible to show the child rows in the same wi ...Show All

• .NET Development bug in serialport.close() ?

  Hi ! Here is my problem ... I developped in C# a class heriting from SerialPort. It contains functions structured like this : serialPort.open(); ....write....read.... ans so on; serialPort.close(); I use a timer to run theses functions every miliseconds. After a time, the application freeze. When i debug using "break all", i see a green arrow pointing serialPort.close(). When i press F11 to go to the next instruction, i can't see any y ...Show All