tosco's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms user control...

  Hi, I made a user control to create panels with rounded corners. I am doing all the draw stuff in the paint event of the control (I don't know if this is right or not... ). There are some properties I would like to show on the vs ...Show All

• SQL Server Can you setup backup/restore functionality in SQL Express 2005 from a C# app?

  Hi, I'm currently working on a project which uses a SQL Express 2005 database. I want to be able to setup SQL Express from my C# program so that it can perform backups to a specified path location at the requested interval itself. This would free up my program from having to manage the backups. Just wanted to know if this is possible Also, when the current database becomes corrupt will SQL Express perform the restore for the user ...Show All

• SQL Server error of Initializing SQL Server Reconciler has failed using SQL Server CE 2.0

  hi, i'm using SQL Server CE 2.0 in my application. When i try to synchronize my database by calling replicator.Synchronize(); errors :   Initializing SQL Server Reconciler has failed. process could not connect to Distributor SQL Server does not exists and access denied. what i did right now is i try to register regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server CE 2.0\Server\sscerp20.dll" regsvr32 "C:\Labs\NorthwindTempFiles\sscesa20 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VB 2005 Express and .NET 1.1

  My work environment has a current standard of .NET framework 1.1 on workstations, and no sights set on 2.0 as of yet. I want to use VB 2005 Express... but projects are compiled using .NET 2.0. Is there a way I can use that IDE but my Windows App uses 1.1 for now You have to have VS 2003 to work with 1.1. Do you have an MSDN subscription If you do, you are allowed to install the software at home if you are u ...Show All

• .NET Development Inserting a New Record with FormView in ASP.NET 2.0

  In the insert mode of form view, the primary key is hidden from the user. In the underlying access database, the primary key is autonumber. Clicking the autogenerated insert button causes the error: "You tried to assign the Null value to a variable that is not a Variant data type." Do you have to programmatically set the unique ID key, and if so how would you do that in Visual Web Developer The form view is linked to an access datasource with ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Build Guidance

  Hi all, We are in the process of trying to find information on what the options are and how to implement Team build for our web and back-end business logic projects.  I was wondering if someone could point us towards a URL or documentation for this   The administration guide is woefully lacking and doesn't explain how websites are built and deployed using this tool. Thanks in advance....google has failed us here and so has the li ...Show All

• Windows Forms Simple search engine (newbie)

  I'd like to build a simple search engine against Sql Server. Does .NET Framework provide some class to help in this task From what I've heard there is an interface which implements it.. I don't recall hearing about any particular class for searching in sql server. There is a com interface called iFilter , but normally people simply utilise t-sql to do searches. If it's a table/column level search you can simply ...Show All

• Visual C# Create a new control to use at design time

  I am new to C# and the whole visual programming, so please be kind... Suppose I create a new control inherited from another one, for example Label. I can put it manually on my form at design time (drag & drop with mouse from toolbox), and I can modify the properties that my new control inherited from the old one (Label). public class NewLabel : Label {   int _cnt; public SuperLabel() { _cnt ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System ExceptionException Attribute message argument ignored

  Correct me if I’m wrong here, but I have reason to believe that the “message” argument on the ExceptionExceptionAttribute constructor is ignored. Here’s my proof: I have a class I’m testing: Public Class Class1 Public Sub Foo() Throw New ApplicationException( "kaboom!" ) End Sub End Class And a unit test class: Imports Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTestin ...Show All

• Visual C++ What equals to C# ref keyword in VC++ 7

  Can somebody tell me what equals to C# ref keyword in VC++ 7 Thanks in advance. It can, but its neater and less prone to mistakes if you use the &. The ** means a double pointer or a pointer to a pointer, so setting this up can be awkward. & on the other hand is just passing the variable by reference. The following demonstrates the difference. void fun1(int** a) {     *a = 1; }   void fun2 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Automatic Cells in Datagrid

  Hi! I'm using a datagrid to save same information about materials and its quantity, price, etc and i need to know how to create an automatic cell that calculates quantity * prince right after the user have filled quantity and price field in the datagrid. I need that this 'automatic' cells belongs to the datagrid and also its value be saved into my db. Any idea Thanks well.. i've already solved it.. Your sol ...Show All

• Visual C++ Problem calling JavaScript from C++

  Actually, all examples where you use a UI button for a JavaScript call work; but when a call is done without any button being pressed, there's an error! The program does a JavaScript call when window loading is complete: DWORD WINAPI CallJScriptLater( LPVOID lpParam ) {     CHtmlCtrl* a = (CHtmlCtrl*) lpParam;     CStringArray strArray;     strArray.Add("Picture@500");     strArra ...Show All

• Windows Forms Sub-forms (like in access)

  Dear All, I am trying to create a windows form app that links to a remote access database. Basically because I could not get what I wanted using the (DAP) Data Access Pages...(mainly doing forms within forms) I decided on doing that Using windows forms I'll simply host the *.mdb file remotly and use the Windows form app as data entry My question is this...how do you create a subform properly Say the main form is for music album and the ...Show All

• Windows Forms VS Crashes upon exit

  I've been having the following problem since B1 and I was hopping it would go away in B2 but it didn't. Here it goes: I have a control designer (Windows Forms Control) that makes a call to the following code from a Verb: internal static void ShowURL ( string url) { WebBrowser browser = new WebBrowser (); browser.Navigate(url, true ); } This works fine, a new browser is created, the pages is shown and everything is fine and dand ...Show All

• Visual C# Sharepoint Service for Document Library.

  Hi , Could anyone please help me on the code to create a document library & upload a document to it Thanks in advance, Clayton ...Show All