CraigL's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms I wish this bug would go away...

  Steps to reproduce: Add a listview to a form.  Set its "view" property to "Details".  Set its "checkboxes" property to "True".  Add a column to it.  Put this code in the form load event:      Private Sub Form1_Load...&n ...Show All

• Visual C++ MessageBox problem under Visual Studio 2005 C++

  Hello, I'm a beginner with Visual c++ studio. I have made a new project MFC application and I want just to use this simple function : MessageBox("Test"); But when i compile the project i have this error message : c:\programmation c++\visual c++\testformwindows\testformwindows\Form1.h(100) : error C2440: '<function-style-cast>' : cannot convert from 'const char [5]' to 'System::Windows::Forms::MessageBox' ...Show All

• SQL Server Variables Vs. Package Configuration

  Hi, We can set the connection parameters using Variables as well as thru Package Configuration. My question is, if we use both to pass value for a connection string, which one will take precedence or in other words, which value will be used Advance thanks for your help. Test it, simple enough, but should be the expression/variable as this will evaluated during validation I belive, but configurations are applied prior to anything else ...Show All

• Visual Basic validate e-mail address in vb.net

  hi guy, any one know the simplest way to validate an e-mail address The MailAddress class performs very basic checking (it considers "x@y" valid). To be more strict, you need to use a regular expression: http://www.cambiaresearch.com/cambia3/snippets/csharp/regex/email_regex.aspx (These examples are in C#, but the concept is the same in both VB and C#) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System [LDD] Import IIS settings does not import WebSite that is no in default Web directory

  Hi all, As the subject says, when I try to import setting from an IIS server, VSTS does not import the website that is not in the default web directory (InetPub\wwwroot). Is it an issue Thank you, Aleks www.Dotnet-Project.com The Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects forum is where you want to post this question: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx ForumID=21&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Windows Forms <URGENT> Calling a parent form method from a child user control

  Howdy all, I'm new to Windows developement and have been struggling on this subject for sometime now. My query is how do you call a method in a parent form from a user control that is in another project  Someone mentioned referencing the Parent ...Show All

• .NET Development Permissions for dll hosted in IE

  hi all, i'm looking for solution to this problem - i host winform control.dll in IE. As soon as this dll is created, it tries to connect to server where it's loaded from to read configuration file control.config.xml and to connect to remote object through .net remoting. Problem is in permissions - how to give programmaticaly permissions (if it's ever possible), or what to do to successfully read config and then to be able to connect (=> ...Show All

• SQL Server How to generate SP scripts

  Hi ... there was a cool feature in sql 2k for exporting scripts for stored procedures. i.e for eg if I had 3 procedures. prc_proc1 prc_proc2 prc_proc3   and if I want 2 export the script of these sp's to 3 individual files rather than one single file then I was able to chose in SQL2000 i.e I was able to create 3 files with the same name as the sp's prc_proc1.sql prc_proc2.sql prc_proc3.sql   Now I wa ...Show All

• Windows Forms Smart Client Install/Uninstall broken

  Howdy all, I have a smart client application that is giving me an error when I try to install it (error text below).  There is an interesting twist though that is likely causing the error.  I recently developed this application in the hopes of making it a smart client.  The server where the smart client application will be hosted does nto have the .NET 2.0 framework installed.  It is not expected to be installed until somet ...Show All

• Windows Forms MDIContainer

  I have MDI Form, I want to add Panel control to the MDIParent. The problem is when I open MDI child, it always come behind the Panel in the MDIParent. so if the panel is docked FILL then  I never see the MDIChild Any Solution I am also having doubts about the Splitter control being replaced by the SplitContainer control.  While it is so much easier to use the container in a regular form, when you're talking about a scenario like ...Show All

• .NET Development Collection to store result from multiple tables

  what Collection should i use to store result from multiple tables. I have to view resultset from multiple table in a gridview. I don't want's to return reader. I want's to return my collection in such a way that fields name are binded as column. It shouldn't be strong type collection Any idea. You better use generics to create your collection and make it based on List<t>. if this is not helpful please let me know. Happy program ...Show All

• SQL Server granting select permission

  Hi, How to grant select permission on table of another database from current database. Ex: I am in database asddb I want to grant select permission on table "test" which is in database bsddb. Can anyone please help me in resolving this problem. ...Show All

• Windows Forms progress bar...

  Hi, Is there any way I can perform the step of a progress bar when there are no for loops or whiles  The operation I'd like to show the evolution of is simply this: CDO.MessageClass msg = new CDO.MessageClass();  msg.CreateMHTMLBody(url, CDO.CdoMHTMLFlags.cdoSuppr ...Show All

• Windows Forms Visual Inheritance

  Dears, I created a base form containing few ToolStripButton and panels, but another (mdi)child form can't show all these controls after inheriting the base form. Is there any properties need to defined first, or Bring To Front (I can view it successfully in Designer Mode of VS2005, but not in runtime... :( Thanks, Yes, you're correct, I've marked both of your answer as "bingo" here. :) Thanks! ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista RTM

  Is there a release date for WWF yet Will there be a cost   Will it work on Windows XP Pro/W2K3 Thanks hi Mark, I want to deploy some windows application to w2k ( server or professional). My application also uses windows workflow dlls. U have done similar thing as i think.could u help me here thanks ...Show All