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• .NET Development got problem when try to connect a Access database remotely

  Hi everyone, I have a c# desktop application, and it connected to a Access database, everyting was fine, my connection string (in app.config) was: <add key="LocalPath" value="Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=c:/app1/database/patientRecords.mdb; User Id=admin; Password=;" /> however, now I need to access this database through Internet, so I change my connection string to: <add key="LocalPath" va ...Show All

• .NET Development How to get the name of a unicode char programmatically?

  How can I get the descriptio(name) of a char in English  Assume the string it comes from is normalized. public static string GetDescription( char c){      // how to return the description } For example GetDescription( 'n' ) should return "Latin small letter n with a tilde" What about composite characters like most of the Hebrew letters Thanks in advanceCarl   ...Show All

• Visual C# Could I "inlcude" a C# source file?

  For example, there are three C# project in my solution, and I want to synchronize their version. What I have to do now is to manually edit "AssemblyInfo.cs" file in every project. If there were a way to "include" a C# file, put information common to all projects in that file, it would be much easier to maintain it. Thanks! I think what he want is to have a consistent and uniform metadata for all the asseblies in the solution, and link file ...Show All

• Visual C++ Application Configuration is Incorrect

  I am trying to run a program which is made in VC++ 2005 Express. I have installed the program on a different machine from the machine it was made on, and all of a sudden, it doesn't work anymore. The program uses the following dll files: mscorlib, system, system.windows.forms, system.drawing. system.dll was installed on the target computer with the .net environment, but I manually copied the other dll files into the system32 folder, but th ...Show All

• Visual C# Does the event Collapse in Contextmenu work?

  The contextmenu provide event Collapse, but it seems do not work. I can write the eventhandler for it, but the code respond to this event can not be executed no matter which operation is processed. Is it a bug { ..................... ContextMenu buttonMenu = new ContextMenu(menuItems); buttonMenu.Show(button1, new Point(0, button1 .Height ) ); buttonMenu.Collapse += new EventHandler(buttonMenu_Collapse) ...Show All

• .NET Development Data changes not being saved to the .mdf file

  I am working in Visual C# Express Edition, and I am using the Update() method of a TableAdapter. I am using the following C# code to update the database: try { this .Validate(); this.statsDataSetBindingSource.EndEdit(); this .runsTableAdapter.Update( this .statsDataSet.Runs); MessageBox .Show( "Update successful" ); ...Show All

• Visual Basic Best Practice

  I just want to know that in professional/commercial projects wat is the specification of font-size, font-face, font-color of Forms Is there any kind of rules exist or it depends on the form designer Well, the opinions on good GUI design are diverse if you ask me. I'm currently designer a set of controls for an application that looks completely different than Windows' control set, because we have an ar ...Show All

• Visual Studio vsmacros project and source control

    We have a vsmacros project which we'd like to place under source control. However, the vsmacros file seems to be binary so the standard diff/merge tools are unusable. Ideally we would like to be able to split the .vsmacros project into separate source files just as one does with a .vcproj and .cpp/.h files. Is this possible Select the macro project in the Macros Explorer, then in the Properties win ...Show All

• SQL Server Angry user #2

  I am also angry and frustrated with SQL 2005 Management Studio - here are some of the problems I'm having ... 1.  When I look at the jobs on the summary page and click details I see only the name and status of the job -  With Enterprise Manager I can see the name, status, category, last run date and next run date.  Where's the rest of the info 2.  Occasionally I get a blank summary page with nothing ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies WDS3 and Outlook2007 Beta2 German Problem

  Hello I installed Office2007 Beta2 German on a German WinXP Pro system. We work in a domain and ExchangeServer. The Quicksearch and the advanced search in Outloom doesn’t find anything with WDS3. When i remove WDS3 and install the actally WDS the search function works fine, but i get a message in Outlook to update the WDS to WDS3 Beta. Reinstall of Office2007 or WDS doesnt help anything. Anyone a Idea regards ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Tool tips in statusstrip

  I start working with VB 2005 EE. But I find one trouble.I was put StatusStrip control on design panel and ShowItemTooltips property switch on true. Then I put the Tooltip control on design panel and on the form add some controls. I fill Tooltip on ToolTip1 property with text. I see hint inside popup baloon, but not in the Statusstrip control. What i do wrong As far as i can see, the ToolTip will be displayed in ...Show All

• Visual Basic No text in MSGBOX

  The MSGBOX function presents a result that has no visible text in either the prompt or on the buttons. Is there some property that turns this off I wrote a simple test code and it fails on my machine by displaying a box without any visible text. It has just a button to force up a msgbox. Any suggestions Public Class Form1 Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form # Region " Windows Form Designer generated code " Public Sub New () MyBa ...Show All

• .NET Development Installation program

  Where can I find a code example for VB for creating an profesional installation program Installation Program As in an app written in VB that installs a given list of files to specific locations I can’t help you with that... however I would suggest looking into some of what is included with Visual Studio, namely Setup projects ( http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;en-us;307353&Product=vsnet ) which are automated systems ...Show All

• Windows Forms open with in vb2005

  Hi, i got the following question: how can i set my application to work like this: if i doubleclick on a file (for example an mp3) to open with my app cuz the program is opening up (starts to run) but don't start to play the mp3 file. how can i solve this thnx If Environment.GetCommandLineArgs().Length >= 2 Then     textBox1.Text = Environment.GetCommandLineArgs()(1) End If   The method returns an array ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions no visual studio template found

  I just installed the recently released Visual C# 2005 Express. When i tried to create a new project. I got this error message "no visual studio template found". I went to the "event viewer" in "Administrative Tools" to see the log. I found the message : "The Visual Studio template information is out of date. Regenerate the templates by running 'VWDExpress /installvstemplates' or reinstalling Visual Studio.  Note: corrective action requ ...Show All