Marc M's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Is there a way to programatically control Windows' "Unplug or eject hardware" functionality?

  An example of this functionality is if you have a usb hard drive for example. When you are done using it, it is recommended to double click the "Unplug or eject hardware" icon in the system tray to safely stop/shutdown that device. As .NET can pretty much do anything :), is there a way to control this functionality programatically and automate it. The reason I ask is that when I plug in my usb hard drive, I want it to do a quick sync and then st ...Show All

• Visual Studio Package 'Visual Web Developer Trident Designer Package' has failed to load properly.

  I've been using VS 2005 Beta 2  for a few weeks now on a win2K machine, with nothing else installed at all. It's been working fine every day for three weeks, but today I get the following error message whenever I try to open an .aspx file. "Package 'Visual Web Developer Trident Designer Package' has failed to load properly. ( GUID = {30AE7E2B-6CO2-496D-8E43-85F7A90AEFF1} )..." I have not had any previous versions installed, and instal ...Show All

• Visual Basic how i can get connection string of db on host computer??

  as my code is dependent on the database so whenever i take my code on the different computer, i need to set connection string for it and recompile the project.. can i get this string by using any api.. at run time i don't want to give it string every time when i change pc or database server.. if i have it.. then why should i store it any where... the problem is that i don't know when i change my computer... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Help collection integration

  Hi All, This is for plugging in one help collection to another one, Let me explain the requirement: We have two VSIP packages, say Product-1 and Product-2, and both have their on help collections. Let the root node in TOC of the first collection be HelpProduct-1 and the second- HelpProduct--2. These packages will be installed in separately, and the requirement is to show in help contents, these two collections as children ...Show All

• Visual C++ Help with adding Keyboard shortcuts

  Hi Everyone, I am very new to programming in Visual C++. However, I am finding it to be quiet interesting. I am working on a project in wish I had to develop GUI's,. I have implemented the GUI with some buttons included. One task that is currently beating  me is implementing a keyboard shortcut. I have a botton called "RUN" and want to use "ALT+R" to invoke the run button. Can anyone kindly help me with this. I have tried doing this with ...Show All

• Windows Forms Accessing list of all controls for a form at design time

  I am creating a modal custom UITypeEditor.  Is it possible to walk back up the context tree and access all the controls that are on a form   Is there a proper and not proper way to do this   Any push in the right direction&n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office NewSheet event not always raised

  Hi All, I have this code in my Thisworkbook.NewSheet event handler: private void ThisWorkbook_NewSheet( object Sh) { Excel. Worksheet ws = Sh as Excel. Worksheet ; if ( null == ws) Console .WriteLine( "ThisWorkbook_NewSheet: not a Worksheet" ); else Console .WriteLine( "ThisWorkbook_NewSheet: '{0}'" ,ws.Name); } When I create a new worksheet from the main menu Insert->Worksheet or from context menu Insert... I'm getting ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Animations in Messenger 8.0 BETA

  Hi everyone! 1. Thanks BETA team for adding me onto (once again) another great BETA. This and the other 9 BETA's that I'm on will certainly keep me busy testing... 2. I wanted to ask tho... Is it possible to have a animated picture in the Display Pictures area (The 96x96 pixel area) and how would I do this... I would want to accomplish this thru Messenger API's calling on the picture to display and NOT thru an external program, i ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Express import of Access

       I have installed SQL Server 2005 Express on a laptop for development purposes and would like to import some Access databases that I was using coupled to programs written in VB 6.  If using SQL Server 2000 I could use the management studio to automate the import but I can not find any way to do this in Management Studio Express. Would have thought that this would be the typical migration route - Access to Server Exp ...Show All

• Visual C# Where do I put Using System; !!!!

  I have a form using Web Developer 2005 and C#, and I'm after putting the code behind and the c# code into the same file, rather than putting them in separate files. I want to open a connection string, but when I put Using System; and Using System.Data.Oledb; at the top of the script it says its an invalid token in class, struct, or interface member declaration Where should I put it Thanks! hi, ...Show All

• Visual Basic using built-in feature

  Hi all, Can pls teach me how to include a built in features in my program i want to include browse feature in my program. i have a "browse" button in my interface and when user clicks on it.. i want the built in form to be displayed and allows the users to select the file from their pc. You probably wanting to allow them to select a file from there PC such as the file to load data from. There is a control called the Ope ...Show All

• Visual C# Reading large .csv file loading is very slow.

  First let me state that I am very new to C#. I learned C++ in college but that was in 99 and have been coding mainly mainframe since then. So I am kind of new to the .Net platform as well. The problem that I am having is when I am loading in a .csv file it is taking a long time before the user can do anything because the program is busy loading my data into my array. Is there a better way for me to do a read then using StreamReader. Here is a sn ...Show All

• Windows Forms Please post here if you are running a Terrarium server.

  I want to get a feel for how many are out there, if any. Thanks! It's up!  I had a little time last night and things went well.  Since it's not running on a dedicated server I may need to limit the number of&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Basic change the ConnectionString in a built application

  is it possible to change the Connection String when the application is built.By that i mean the connection string that was used in the database source window and is used to create everything in the GUI. i know u can change a connection later if you use System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection but the connectionstring that you work with using the gui development tools seems to be a read-only property (my.settings and so on) and i haven't found a way of ...Show All

• Visual C++ message box

  i have troubles with this code: #pragma once #include "gerenciamento_bb_mysql.h" using namespace System; using namespace System::ComponentModel; using namespace System::Collections; using namespace System::Windows::Forms; using namespace System::Data; using namespace System::Drawing;   namespace form_050826 { /// <summary> /// Summary for interface_incluir_papel /// /// WARNING: If y ...Show All