David Leibowitz's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ How can I manipulate strings in ATL

  Some problems happened during my simple development on IE. When I try to use MessageBox to display one string, manipulated by"strcat", there is no error or warning during compiling. But when IE tries to invoke the DLL, MessageBox involved, the IE reports that there are some errors in my DLL. After removed "strcat", every thing is ok. I wonder whether perhaps the string manipulation is different from the ordinary ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to run VB2005 EX B2 .EXE Files...

  How do I run an .exe file that I create in Visual Basic 2005 Beta 2   Where are the real files located   I looked in the projects folder and saw the \bin folder and tried running the .exe file located there of my application.  When I double-click the files located in the \bin folder, each program crashes and ask me do I want to send a report to microsoft about the error.  The program will run fine within the programming ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem with Report using BI fields

  Hi, I have created a cube using 3 Dimensions and 1 measure. One of the dimensions is a time dimension. I have also used the ADD BI command to get the Year to Date and Year over year % . This works perfectly with the cube. But when I try and create a report I am unable to display the figures for the above mentioned columns. I get Null data there. Does anybody have any suggestions as to why this is happening and what the way to overc ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO lab2: Doc.Saved always true

  Hello all, I'm a newbie of .NET world and sorry for my english. I'm trying to do the "Lab2: Adding Functionality to Word Document Solutions in Visual Studio .NET 2003" and I have a problem about this code fragment: "Private Sub ThisApplication_DocumentBeforeClose( ByVal Doc As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document, ByRef Cancel As Boolean ) Handles ThisApplication.DocumentBeforeClose If Doc Is ThisDocument And Do ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Passing a reference to a function?

  I'm trying to put all my device configuration in a separate class from my GameEngine class, but I'm not sure the best way to get the created device back. Currently I have a function that does the capatilities checking, creates the device and returns it. Is there a way to pass a device variable reference to the function instead of creating a whole new one in the function As opposed to creating a device, returning it from the function then ...Show All

• Architecture what are available workflow standards

  Hi, I am doind research on workflow applications and tools which help in generating workflows in .net. Can somebody send me a list of workflow standards like BPEL etc. followed now- a-days and which is followed mostly. If you can guide me to some link, that would be of great help. regards bhaskar ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2-page report

  hi! i have a problem with my report's custom width. i set my report's page width to 23 inches. then, my VB.NET DESKTOP APPLICATION exports this report to pdf file. it works fine, the exported report is being displayed as a single page with the custom width that i have set. now i need to do the same in my WEB APPLICATION. the problem is, the exported file now has two pages. the report is cut in the middle. i used the same code and the same report ...Show All

• .NET Development Databases for Express Editions of VS2005

  Hello, never been using Visual Studio before. Now I decided to _try_ a jump from Delphi to VS as my new toolkit. Got the C# Express Edition installed and running properly. But I do not seem to be able to connect to any database other than SQLServer or Access. Question: is this working as designed for the Express Editions If no, what do I have to do to connect to my recently modernized databases (Firebird). If yes, are those connections allowed/ ...Show All

• Windows Forms Dreaming away.

  Hi. Here is my wish list.  I have not had the chance to check out the 1.1 beta, so it is very possible that some of these issues have already been addressed.  Also, please don't take any of this personally.   I think .Net&nb ...Show All

• Windows Forms TextBox Context Menu

  How do I remove the context menu of a textbox in VB.NET How do I disable/remove individual items in a textbox context menu Using your custom properties inside WndProc method has no conflict, logically it should work.  Be reminded tha ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting Services: timeout issue

  Hi there, I've just developed this big report in RS SQL 2000 that includes 6 subreports (repeated for each item in the database) and that should print some 800 pages. A light version of the report that only queries part of the data (about 10%, for testing purposes) run with success, including all subreports in about 15 minutes. Once I try to test the report with all the data (all subreports and the main report query directly from th ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB Database program wants to go world wide web

  I have a nice little database search program I created in VB 6.0 It uses Access for the database, and ADO db controllers. I packaged it up and have shared it with my friends, but now they want to be able to log on to my website and use the program from there. I have heard that VB.Net can convert my program to being used on a webserver, does anyone know if this is the case, and, if so or if not, what would be the best way to go about doin ...Show All

• Windows Forms Designer support? requires IBindingList ?

  Hi, What is the requirement for a property to appear as "DataMember" in the "Object BindingSource" control for example if I have 2 classes , Order and OrderLine , and Order got a "IList<OrderLine> Details" property. this whill not show up as a valid binding. however , if the property type is IBindinglist or any other type that implements it , it shows up just fine. Is that the only way to make a collect ...Show All

• SQL Server ADO.NET Please Help ??

  ADO.NET is great But I have a problem I using Stored Procedures and UDFs to Insert and retrieve my data I can recieve a variable Only from UDF or Stored Procedure Put when the returned value is a set of records Whats the matter then and very especially: I need to know How to navigate through this set of records Next,Previous,First and Last Programmatically without Binding to Controls One of my Friends challenge me and Say :&quo ...Show All

• Visual Basic Ctrl-Break?

  In VB6/VBA you can hit Ctrl-Break when a message box is displayed and the code drops into debug. How do you do the same thing in VB2005 That is, if I have a mesage box displayed how do I quickly get to the place in the code that called MsgBox Ctrl Break is the correct Hot Key if you have the VB Profile applied.  However, if you have the MsgBox in a Console Application, Ctrl Break will actually work as Stop ...Show All