Billy Hollis's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Charts in AVALON

  Hello everybody. I’m very beginner in this avalon world. I’m trying to discover if it’s possible to build charts using xaml (pieCharts, barCharts, etc…). Do you know if this is possible . If so, could you send me any url to get some training documentation. Thanks a lot in advance. It is definitely possible. WPF (Avalon) is a great platform for doing charts. There are no existing chart controls or documentation specific to creat ...Show All

• .NET Development Why does the BitArray use LittleEndian?

  I'm curious about why System.Collections.BitArray uses Little Endian format. Was there a reason for this http://cplan.cse.msu.edu/cs/blogs/smithiscrazy/archive/2005/04/11/684.aspx And I think the BCL people should change it. BitArray uses little-endian format because you are running your program on a little endian CPU. BitArray stores the bits in an internal array of integers. So if the integers on your plat ...Show All

• Windows Forms Walkthrough: Using a Custom Action to Create a Database at Installation

  I am studying the Walkthrough about Using a Custom Action to Create a Database at Installation in ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.VisualStudio.v80.en/dv_deploy/html/2527c071-bf97-4f66-8e64-10e9b67a0569.htm There are codes: Private Sub ExecuteSql(ByVal DatabaseName As String, ByVal Sql As String) Dim Command As New SqlClient.SqlCommand(Sql, sqlConnection1) ..... End Sub I can't figure out how the variable sqlConnection1 co ...Show All

• .NET Development Visual Studio 2005 NEW Data Access Methods!

  Hi, I've been using Visual Studio 2003 for a few months (having come from Java). I had just got used to using datasets and data adapters and stuff, then Visual Studio 2005 comes along and changes it all !!! It's supposed to be easier, but I dunno! My question, is this : - I have just created a datasource called PhonebookDS which is my single oracle table. I dragged a single field over to my blank windows form, and it created a TableA ...Show All

• Visual Basic Data entry master form design guide line needed.

  I m going to develop a windows application for inventory.So I want to create a master form with common functionality like navigation buttons,action buttons with template dataset,searching records etc then from it all other form will create or in other words inherits. I have vs2003 and its my first project in vb.net. I have vb6 experiance. Any guideline and suggestions are welcome. ...Show All

• .NET Development Search a network drive

   I need to be able to search our companies shared hard drive through an intranet page. I am not sure if this is possible. Basically I want to create a form and then when that form is submitted. I want it to call up Microsofts built search utility and then display the results. The reason for doing this is to make it easier for people to search company info by going to a form instead of a list of directories. Is this possible, any direction ...Show All

• Visual Basic Calendar Pop-Up in Access

  I am trying to run a pop-up calendar in Access (I am a SQL girl... not familiar with VB code) and I can't seem to figure out why I keep getting this error: Run-time error '91': Object variable or With block variable not set Can anyone help tell me what is wrong here Here is my code: Option Compare Database Option Explicit Dim cboOriginator As ComboBox Private Sub cboStartDate_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Singl ...Show All

• Visual C++ not visible buttons

  i am using VC++2005 exp.ed. i haven’t changed anything i remembered in the configuration setup of vc++. every time i place a form (button, label...) into my window it is not visible in the proggy itself. all possible parameters (visible, size...) are set the right way. a new installation of vc++ doesn’t help. older programs behave the same way. what could that be please help! thanks in advance drole ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem with Beta 2 TFS Install with Sharepoint portion

  Although I have had no problems installing the pieces for TFS during Beta 1 and all the CTPs , I can't get Sharepoint Services 2.0 to install correctly this time. I have tried 3X and I get this on install: An unexpected error has occurred. Web Parts Maintenance Page: If you have permission, you can use this page to temporarily disable Web Parts or remove personal settings. For more information, contact your site administrator. I am running ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office c# counterpart of VBA for Excel

  hi, can anybody tell me the c# counterpart of the following Excel VBA code line: ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Columns(1).Cells i tried (and also its variations) ((Range)((Range)((Worksheet)((Excel.Application)app).ActiveSheet).UsedRange).Columns[Type.Missing,1]).Cells but doesn't seem to work. no matter what i tried i got an exception. neither could i find anything on google. i would appreciate any help. thanks. H ...Show All

• Visual C# Could not start the service "ServiceName" on local computer?

  Hi all, I had wrote a service and install it using installutil successfully. But upon starting the service, I encountered the following error: Could not start the service "ServiceName" on local computer. The service did not return an error. This could be an internal windows error or an internal service error. If the problems persists, contact your system administrator. Does anyone know what is the problem Please hel ...Show All

• Visual C# How to catch windows messages in normal class

  Hi, During the development of a project with threads i was supposed to use windows messages. I know how to catch windows messages in forms, but not in a normal class. Can anybody help me with this problem With kind regards, Jeroen Olie what u r meaning about window message -- is this 1. Showing Message box. 2. Catching Exception. 3. Events. or any other ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Why am i not been asked to activate the Express Editions?

  I downlaoded the offline versions (the CD images and full installs). I registered, which i assume is optional (to get the books, icons etc), but there seems to be nothing asking me to activate. Is this because i downloaded the full CD images Cheers. Yes, for the CD image versions, registration is optional.  You can access the optional registration process by clicking "Help->Register Product..." Thanks, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions As Any

  In Visual Basic 6 this works fine but VB 2005 doesn't like the As Any part, what can I do to substitute it Public Declare Auto Sub MemCopy Lib "kernel32" Alias "RtlMoveMemory" (ByVal dest As any, ByVal src As any, ByVal cb&)   Daniel Maresca Jr wrote: In Visual Basic 6 this works fine but VB 2005 doesn't like the As Any part, what can I do to substitute it Public Declare Auto Sub MemCopy Lib "k ...Show All

• Visual C# How to get the path of cached image file?

  i want to get the image file currently shown. because the target image content changed every time the client read. You can find the browser control's last navigated document Url by subscribing to the DocumentComplete event. You could then use WinINet's Caching methods FindFirstUrlCacheEntry and FindNextUrlCacheEntry with the Url to search the cache for corresponding images. The following Microsoft Knowledge Base article demo ...Show All