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• Windows Forms Bad coloring in GroupBox

  Hi for all what I make is drag a group box control and change the BackColor to red THEN I have a very bad extra coloring space at the top of the control text Can any one help me how to remove this extra coloring space or Adjusting It ***** It is really annoying thing to see this Thanks for any help If you are talking about the space of color between the group text label and the top of the control (the space above ...Show All

• Windows Forms AppUpdater Componet Download?

  I noticed that they said TaskVision is now fixed, I downloaded the source code but I noticed that appupdater.dll I am not able to access the code to look at it. I tried to download the appupdater from: http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/windowsforms/appupdater.aspx But it s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Serial communications outputting and receiving one byte of data.....

  Okay, I am on deadline here.... 3 days... and for the last 2 weeks I have been trying to find the answer. Apparently there is no easy way to use a serial ports in VB2005 express... Most of the code I have found is for the .net version. It really doesn't port well. I have gone through and for the most part changed what needed to be changed. No Luck.... With the code written below that was copied and I duplicated the form to match the text, co ...Show All

• Visual Basic Non-working keys in VB 2005 Express editor

  My previously working 2005 Beta version expired so I uninstalled it and reinstalled VB 2005 Express Edition per the instructions. Now the backspace, arrows, Enter and some other keys don't work in the editor (same result whether a new project is created, or an old one loaded). Any help would be appreciated. Try Tools -> Options Then Select Environment -> Keyboard from the treeview and then ...Show All

• Visual C++ building WinXP x64 application

  Hi want to compile/build a piece of code that was written in Visual Studio 6 for use under WinXP x64. I would like to use my 32bit machine, compile and build and than put the exe on the 64bit system and test it there. How can I do it, are there tutorials somewhere Any help is appreciated please help Thanks Maik Yes, Visual C++ 2005 runs on a 32 bit system, and builds apps for 64 bit. -Kev ...Show All

• Visual Studio I do now have a minimal test case.

  I am trying to abort a commandline initiated build before it does any work. I have a OnBuildBegin handler that does some checking to see whether to actually build. None of my current approaches work reliably. Invoking Build.Cancel in the handler. As far as I can tell, commands are not availablewhen running in commandline mode. Is that correct, or am I missing something Using the HRESULT for the callback. As far as I can tell, that value is ...Show All

• Visual C# How can we do

  Namaste Everybody,       I am working with ListView Controller. I want to know two things.      1. Can we override the sort() method of ListView Controller, if so can anybody give the code.    2. How the internal process of sort() method of ListView Controller works please expalin me using suitable pictures. Advanced Thanks to all who helped me to understand the above listed things. ...Show All

• Visual J# Unable to load the J# Browser Control

  I've created an html page with ONLY the following code.... <OBJECT WIDTH="1024" HEIGHT="768" CLASSID="clsid:a399591c-0fd0-41f8-9d25-bd76f632415f" VJSCODEBASE="myfile.dll#_0" ID="Object1" > </OBJECT> where the dll file is named "myfile.dll" and the first class file is _0.jsl and each time I load the file into internet explorer the statusbar shows: "Unable t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System "The request failed with HTTP status 503: service unavailable"

  I have installed Team Foundation Server and successfully working with Team Projects. But suddenly one day "The request failed with HTTP status 503: service unavailable" message displayed when i was trying to connect to the Team Foundation Server. All services are running. But I don't know why this problem occured suddenly. Anyone can help me. Thank You I can access from client the service. http://<server-name>:808 ...Show All

• SQL Server MCTS Exam 70-431 Database Administration Study Documementation and Samples ?

  Hi, I am looking for good documentation and examples to use to 'study' for Microsoft exam 70-431. This has everything to do with nuts-and-bolts Database Administration of SQL Server 2005. The December BOL examples, do not cover enough topics. The topics that are covered are not in enough detail. The 70-431 exam requirements are very detailed. This seems to be a nuts-and-bolts test. I am looking for nuts-and-bolts study material. No b ...Show All

• Visual Basic send mail

  Hi, i have problem in writing send mail codes. can someone pls help me regarding it i have written code to send mails but somehow there are errors. i have attach my codes below. when i click on the send button, an error message prompt out saying that "An Unhandled exception of type 'System.nullReferenceException' occured in testingMail.exe. Additional information: object reference not set to an instance of an object." Private ...Show All

• SQL Server Problems with the VS2005 IDE

  I have installed VS2005 MSDN-final, SQL2005, SQL2005 EXPRESS The problems I have are two 1. I can't add a new sql Database to my windows project due to an error about not being able to start a user instance 2. After I create a new database in SQLExpress, then the datasources window doesnot show the datasource I have created when if form designer view Any suggestions please SQLExpress instances must be reference ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Web Developer Express & Nunit?

  How do you configure a web developer express project for Nunit integration I let WDE import my VS.Net 2003 code, figuring that I would continue to be able to use the TDD methodolgies, but it doesn't work. It throws a FileNotFoundException, because it can't locate the project dll. I can't even find the project assembly to manually load into nunit. It used to live in the bin folder, where the heck is it now Gac'ed I have googled and searched MSD ...Show All

• Visual C# Covert String or Object to Hex

  Hello Everyone, I have something like this .... object var = property.Value; I want to change var to hex, how can I do it.... In C or C++ we use to do something printf("%x, var)....does the trick.... I'm sure will be really simple, I'm not doing something correct..... Thanks, Harsimrat In C#, it's string.Format, and items to format are specified as {0}, {1}, etc. There are also format ...Show All

• Windows Forms Balloon tip

  A built-in control to display balloon tips on a given control (currently I'm using 3rd party libraries and self-written components to do this via a Platform SDK invocation). Check out this ToolTipExt - http://component.cheapcard.com.au ...Show All