Ushanta's Q&A profile

• .NET Development BinaryFormatter problem with Dates

  I am using BinaryFormatter class .net framework 2.0 to serialize and deserialze my dataset. My dataset contains a table which has column type of DateTime. The column is nullable. When I serialize my dataset into a binary file on the disk and read it back, it seems to be working fine. However there is one problem that if the DateTime value is empty in one of the records in the datatable in my dataset, when i read it back from the disk its valu ...Show All

• Windows Forms AutoToolboxPopulate option question

  Hi, Is it possible to limit the AutoToolboxPopulate to some certain projects in a solution Or is it possible to exclude some projects in the solution from toolbox population Thank you in advance Unfortunately, no. It will not add items that are marked ToolboxItem(false). However, the feature is either completely on or completely off. Sorry ;( ...Show All

• Visual Basic DataGridView Button in Column for deleting a row

  I have a DataGridview on a form with a Dataset,BindingSource and Table Adapter. I have added a button column called delete and I want the users to be able to press the "delete" button on a particular row which will delete that row and commit the deletion to the datasource. I have tried using the DataGridView.CellContentClick with code to extract the column ID from the System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewCellEventArgs to identify the cl ...Show All

• SQL Server Do I want the Developer version?

  I've downloaded 2005 Express but I want to do SSIS and don't see any way to do that with Express. The Developer Edition apparently has all features, but says you can upgrade to Enterprise, which I don't need (Standard would probably be fine). Here are my questions: 1) Is there any way to develop SSIS packages in Developer and run them in Express 2) Is it possible to upgrade Developer to something less than Enterprise, such as Workgroup ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Customizing a Smart Tag menu?

  When you add a smart tag to the Globals.ThisWorkbook.VstoSmartTags collection, your resulting smart tag menu includes three default menu items that appear below your Action item(s): 'Remove This Smart Tag' 'Stop Recognizing "abc"' 'Smart Tag Options' Is there a way to remove these default items   As a corollary to this question, is there a way to control how your menu items look (FaceID, Popup menu, etc.)   I haven't been able to fin ...Show All

• SQL Server return an id while doing an insert\update to a table

  Hi people, i Have a small issue. I need to be able to retrive an id number of a new row to a table using the the insert into command. I was able to do this in sql 2000 but the same sql does not work now in 2005. here is the code "Set NoCount On; select user_id from users insert into users (username) values('" & CurrentUser & "')" This used to work in sql2000, I am woundering if anyone could help me or ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Installing Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 1

  There have been several threads with questions about installing Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 1.  I'm hoping to summarize the installation instructions for anyone else that might be having trouble.   These instructions are also available on the WindowsWorkflow.net community site here .  James Conard Architect Evangelist - Windows Workflow Foundation http://www.WindowsWorkflow.net http://blogs.msdn.com/jamescon ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot link to SQL tables using ODBC Link table in Access 2003

  When trying to link to an SQL table in Access 2003, the software appears to be malfunctioning.  The sequence of events is File - Get External Data - Link Tables - Files of Type: ODBC Databases(). The Problem: On two of my computers, the select data source window does not pop up, preventing me from linking to any ODBC data source.  Observations:  This function has worked normally in the recent past and works on other compu ...Show All

• Windows Forms linklabels in middle of a text

  Hello, I'm in need to grab news from a website, those news can have multiple links anywhere in the text and the link's name must be kept to still have a logic message displayed. I was wondering how to do it, and I couldn't figure out  ...Show All

• Windows Forms List of Generic Collections? Trees?

  Where is there a published list of generic collection classes available in Whidbey If there's no list available, are there any Tree classes such as red-black, AVL or b-trees I realize this is an old post, not sure if anyone is st ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to make writable toolbar button?

  i want to make a math editor and i have done a toolbar but like most editors i want the user to be able to change the size of the text (i know how) but i want to make a button on the toolbar that the user can change like a listbox and not only *** the siz but also can write the size directly i write in c# and i can't find this anywhere anybody knwo how can i do it an willing to look at any lang source or articales thanks ...Show All

• .NET Development Can't download application blocks enterprise lib

  On this page : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=A7D2A109-660E-444E-945A-6B32AF1581B3&displaylang=en I got an error when i press continue to register (why register anyway) Looks like a dead link. Is it me(or my pc), or is this page broke Remco I still can not download the enterpriseLib, is there any other way to get it Regards Remco ...Show All

• SQL Server Online Data Transform

  Dear All, I am new to SSIS, and just watched some of the webcasts and take a look at SSIS Hands on Lab on the MSDN site. I want to handle an online data transformation scenario which has some data mappings between. I want the SSIS to add each new record in source table, insert in the destination tables online. If this is possible, please let me know where can I find a sample package and configurations. Happy new year, Sassan ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Having no one assigned to a Work Item

  Just today I put all our issues (non-closed) into TFS. This is over 600 issues. 80% of these issues have no one assigned to them because the Issues are: -Notes jotted down to keep information -Many duplicate bugs(we keep these for tracing purposes) -etc. So... now I have over 550 assigned Work Items and I feel Overloaded... I should ask for a vacation... anyways... Is it possible to tweak that field so we can have no one assigned I don' ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Classes that need each other

  Hey, I'm currectly working on a game, and I'm writing loader classes for it. But I've a problem :( It uses irrlicht, but that doesn't matter for my problem. I've a class CLoader, CLoaderNode and CLoaderNodeContainer: namespace boomwar { class CLoader; class CNodeLoader; class CNodeLoaderContainer; class CLoader { private : typedef std::map<std::string, boomwar::CNodeLoad ...Show All