NickP's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Reason for Limitation and Work around for referencing Table Group fields in Footer!

  I'm gonna try this again, Microsoft, Please help! There has to be a solution for this!!!!  How can I get around the limitation in SSRS 2005 of being able to SUM on a Table's Group field from my group footer expression! Keep in mind, I'm talking about a table here, not the global Report Footer, a Table object's footer! It's driving me nuts My table footer GrossGoal_gt   's field expression (non of these work and throw the error below): =SUM(Fields!GrossGoal1.Value, "CustomerNumber_Grp" ) neither does this: =RunningValue(ReportItems!ProjFee_AZ.Value, Sum , "Custo ...Show All

• .NET Development Memory usage of application increasing automatically !

  I have made a simple windows GUI application in VB.NET. There are combobox, buttons,menu and text box on my application form. The strange thing is as I move my mouse on my application form or move the focus from one control to another using Tab, then the memory usage seen in task manager for my application goes on increasing. There is no mousemove or tab focus change handler in my code. The memory usage continuosuly keeps on increasing as long as I am moving the mouse. Please let me know the reason for this and any solution/work around to avoid this behavior. Hi Vishal, I am too searching for this solution. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Icons in System Tray

  My icons in the system tray display only in 16 color mode and look very choppy. For instance, I have a circle that looks like an octogon. Does anyone know how to fix this This is now fixed. To see what I did, <post>847</post>. ...Show All

• .NET Development (.NET 2) SSL Stream ans async write

  Hello, im using the new SSLStream class from the .NET framework version 2.0. My stream is using async functions BeginRead and BeginWrite. When i send multiple packets very fast with multiple BeginWrite calls then i get the following exception: "The BeginWrite method cannot be called when another write operation is pending" Is there smth i do wrong Shouldnt the stream itself take care about pending packets and queue them I never had problems before with normal unencrypted sockets in my apps. Thanx Alex According to the developer that wrote the SSLStream class, this behavior is because SSLStream designed to work on any generic trans ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista EventHandler won't fire in state machine when calling event from host

  Hi, I have written a simple state machine which is very similar to the order example comes with WWF Jan Lab Beta 2. I created the following service public class NavigationService : INavigationService { public event EventHandler < NavigationEventArgs > StartPageStart; public void RaiseStartPageStartEvent( Guid instanceId) { if (StartPageStart != null ) //StartPage is null when host calling RaiseStartPageStartEvent { StartPageStart( null , new NavigationEventArgs (instanceId)); } } In the state workflow, I have bound the "InterfaceType" and "EventName ...Show All

• Visual C# Report Printing

  I am required to create several reports from the data in my C# WinForm app to display information to the user in different formats.  I am trying to create the reports without the use of the Crystal Report Viewer. When I try to get the different fields to seperate, I've noticed that when I use any number less than 6 in the PadRight value, no spacing takes place.  If I change the spacing to 10 the spacing is halved!  For example, in the code sample below, the PadRight will display on the report as: R9999*person name; even though I coded for six asterisks. (UPDATE:  After the first PadRight, any amount entered does n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Capturing the start of debugging with a VS add-in

  I'd like my add-in to be able to run logic when a user starts debugging an application. I've tried using the OnEnterRunMode event but I find that it is fired both when I start debugging and when I continue debugging after hitting a breakpoint in code. I'd like to find a way to only run my logic when the user starts debugging but not when the user continue on from a breakpoint. Can anybody point me in the right direction Can you use DTEEvents instead of DebuggerEvents The DTEEvents.ModeChanged event will notify you when you switch between the Design/Debug mode. The LastMode parameter indicates the previous ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can I work on .NET 2.0 with VS2003?

  Hi, I want to know if I can work on .NET 2.0 with VS2003... Thank's Alexei Hi Alexei, No. You need Visual Studio 2005 or the Express Editions to work with .NET Framework 2.0 Check out the Express Edition for VC# here: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/vcsharp/default.aspx Regards, Vikram ...Show All

• Visual Basic check collection

  Hi all, I have a really simple form, with a combo box with some items in the collection. Is there a way in code I can reference to see if the text on the cbo is that which corresponds to the collection IE. Private Sub btnSomething_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSomething.Click if me.cboMyCombo.text = ITEMS IN COLLECTION then do something else msgbox("Selected item does not correspond to items in collection") If me . ComboBox1 . Items . Contains ( Me .cboUser.Text) then ...Show All

• Windows Forms popup text box?

  I have a findows form that has a lot of textboxes, but is short on real estate.  I was wondering if there's a way to pop up the text boxes into another window, I guess using the onclick or focus events   So that I can make my text boxes smaller on my form, but when the user tries to type in one, it opens a new, b ...Show All

• Windows Forms font color changing

  Now I need to change the color of a font using a line of code, I've tried several combinations but have had no success. Thanks again That's somewhat weird. Label controls in WinForms has ForeColor property. Edit: Sorry, I didn't noticed that this is J#. -chris ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums MSN Best App Competition Prizes?

  Hello winners of the MSN Best App competition. Being one of the winners myself, I was wondering whether anyone has received anything (documents, forms, PRIZES) after they sent their affidavit of eligibility back to Microsoft I tried contacting Jennifer Johnson one month ago and she said that they are still in the process of sending out additional forms for us to fill out. She said that they are planning on having all of them sent out by the end of next week (which should've been April 14). On April 18 I emailed her again inquiring about the status of the documents since I haven't received any. I haven't heard back from her since. Th ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET 2.0 b2 Remoting and filling a hierarchical dataset?

  Hello, I have no idea how to get my hierarchical dataset filled by a remoting service. Please imagine the following Typed Dataset called BookDataset : Authors table ---- authorid name Books table ---- bookid authorid (fk) title For simplicity reasons, a book is always written by one author, but one author wrote several books. There are existing Constraints and a (nested) relation between the Tables. I have two functions in my Remoting Object, to fill the Authors, and to fill the Books by author:    BookDataset FillAuthors (BookDataset.AuthorsDataTable target);    BookDataset FillBooksByAuth ...Show All

• Windows Forms TextBox Context Menu

  How do I remove the context menu of a textbox in VB.NET How do I disable/remove individual items in a textbox context menu Using your custom properties inside WndProc method has no conflict, logically it should work.  Be reminded that the other window messages (WM_PASTE, WM_UNDO, etc.) are the actions not the context menu entry itself.  You& ...Show All

• Windows Forms Highlighting text in RichTextBox

  Hi, I want to highlight (with some color) some lines in a RichTextBox say in a 100 line text, I want to highlight lines 5-10, 18-23, 76-85 etc. I at first thought of using SelectedText but we can only select one portion isn't I need to highlight all the above portions at once Is there a way to do it Another thing, after highlighting these portions, even if the user clicks on the text , these highlights shouldn't disappear It should be permanent. So should I kind of disable single clicks on the text area Just got this idea. Is it possible to do it. Thank you. Select the text and then highligh ...Show All