David Homer's Q&A profile

• .NET Development operation must use an updateable query

  When I insert new data in access table, i face an error which stats that "operation must use an updateable query". However sometimes it works fine and sometimes stat error. Please help me on this issue Best Regards! Shahnawaz Khan   Since you say that it is happening intermitently, I am lead to beleive that one request is blocking another - so to the request being blocked, your access file ...Show All

• Windows Forms Using Win32API to check scroll information from text box

  I am trying to get the scroll information from a text box particularly the page size.Using VB6. As anyone got a sample code for vb6 or can point me in the right direction or recommend any books on code for Accessing the API in VB6. Ma ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting services passing parameters

  I have a report that is link from another report, I've created this link in the report designer by using the rightclick textbox>select properties>Navigation tab > jump to report. Now I have passed 4 parameters over to the new report, these are hidden and shouldn't be seen by the user. There is however a fifth parameter that should be set by the user at run time, as this controls what the report shows. This works perfectly w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Can ItemGroup be refreshed?

  I have a MSBuild project which creates some files, and then ZIPs them up in to an archive. This is a simplification, but let's say I have this ItemGroup to specify all of the files that I want in the archive: <ItemGroup>   <ArtifactFiles Include="**/*.dll"/> </ItemGroup> And I have this target to build the DLL's. <Target Name="compile">   <MSBuild Projects="src/App.sln" /> </Target> I then ha ...Show All

• Visual C++ About unicode settings in visual studio 2005, it really puzzled me a lot

  When I tried to open a file whose name contains non-english words by using ifstream in vc6, everything was OK. But in vc2005, any file path contains non-English words will never be openned successfully. How to do it the right way My code is as below:  ifstream f;  f.open("C:\\Documents and Settings\\Could\\桌面 \\hehe.txt",ios::in );  //f.open("F:\\My Cpp\\Projects\\__stl_read\\__stl_read\\hehe.txt",ios::in); assert(!f ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB 3.0 migrating from NT 4 to 2003 DLL question

    Does anyone know if we migrate a Visual Basic 3.0 environment from NT 4.0 to 2003 if we need to update the VB DLL's Sorry, I'm not sure where you would find this.  I do know that 16 bit applications will run on 32 bit Windows Server, and VB 3 apps are no different than any other 16 bit app. You might have better luck posting your question on a Windows Server newsgroup. You really should think ...Show All

• SQL Server Inifinite Click-Through for SQL Server 2005 Report Server

  Iam not finding jack about this on the net. Can this be done in Reports designed in Report Designer or must you use other components such as Report Builder I hope it's not just limited to Report Builder. Also, does anyone know where I can get some decent in-depth info on this subject I can't find much! It only works with Reports built by Report Builder. ReportBuilder reports use semantic queries that execute against semantic models st ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Search bluetooth devices and pair them programmatically

  Hi All, I am developing VB.Net smart client application for Pocket PC 2003. Here its required to connect my Pocket PC with GPS Device (TomTom Navigator) on BlueTooth Port. Everything is working nice enough except I have to create pair between my Pocket PC and GPS Device manually. What i want is my program should automatically search GPS device, It must create pair between them. Other than this, My application is already working fine. Any class l ...Show All

• Windows Forms Determing if a control inherits its font

  So, I figured I'd post my first question here, and see if someone can help. I'm writing some code that needs to know if a control's Font property has been set individually, or if the control is inheriting its Font property from the form. I ...Show All

• Windows Forms Making a .net Grid

  Hi , im currently designing the architecture of my coming grid for .net and i just want to ask all of you what grid (for .net or whatever) that you think is the best and easiest to use my current implementation is beginning to resemble th ...Show All

• Windows Forms PictureBox GotFocus/Enter events

  I have a Picturebox and TextBox on a usercontrol.  I want to draw a border around the the usercontrol when the usercontrol (or anything else in it) is selected.  I have a sub that draws the border around the control.  The sub is called from the Enter event of the UserControl and the TextControl.  However, when I try to do the same thing with the PictureBox, I don't see an Enter event listed for the PictureBox (strange as it i ...Show All

• Windows Forms Drawing a textbox/combo

  is there a way to override drawing a textbox or combo i have a MyTextBox control that inherits from textbox, i want it to draw normally if a boolean normal is set to true, or draw as a button/rectangle/frame (or sometrhing else) if the boo ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) DLINQ Queries and observations

  I have the following queries/Observations about DLINQ. 1. I could not find any direct way of handling many to many relations. Suppose if User and Role are related by a join table UserRole then I should be able to have a collection of Roles in User and vice versa. Which i think is not possible in DLINQ. (Please correct me if I am wrong) 2. State management is handle outside entities. In scenareos where a client grabs a entity from a WS , ...Show All

• .NET Development WSE 3.0 problem

  I am developing a web services app in compact framework and want to use only MTOM feature of WSE 3.0 for dending data but if possible would love to use other features also I enabled WSE 3.0 in my web services app but as soon as i built my code I got a lot of errors. So I tried msdn and found foll article . This did a great work and most of the errors were removed except one "The type 'System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtoc ...Show All

• Visual Studio MSBuild and SmartDevices

  We are generating smartdevices projects and we need to compile, deploy and run the application in the emulator. Is it possible to do this using msbuild tasks I know that I can build the project but I could not find the tasks for deploy and run the application. I mean start a process in the device. ie: I start a create database process on the device and I need to know if the process was executed ok. ...Show All