OWSteve's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms related datagrids

  I'd like to use 2 datagrids that are related to each other in a form. Lets say the user clicks on the Name row in one grid, I'd like the information relating to that name to populate the second grid.  Anyone have any good ideas o ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) MS: Please release an assembly containing Func<> :)

  The Func<> delegates are already useful, and are trivial to create on our own.  However, without some canonical distribution of them, there are going to be problems coordinating the use of them pre-Linq. Would it be possible to release a live MS version of them, not bound into the Linq preview, to eventually be folded into the main framework, so we can all use the exact same namespace/version and not keep recreating things Unless you ...Show All

• SQL Server UK Datetime parameter problem SQL 2005 RS

  Hi, I am having a problem with the DateTime parameter option in SQL 2005 reporting services. Note that Server, workstation and database are set to British/English (UK) date/time localisation (dd/MM/yyyy) for example 25 th December 2005=25/12/2005. I create a simple query with a parameter on a datetime column and set the report parameter to Data type: DateTime in the report parameters dialog. On preview or after deploy ...Show All

• Visual Basic BASIC program to read/write SQL

  Anybody know how to read and write records in SQL I have a VB 2005 program which have a loop and generate a lot of variables I need to read and write them rapidly so the command need to be simple and efficent Can anybody help me I've tried to find all helps i can get MSDN library, BASIC website etc... they all have the information i need, but i just don't understand it! Those help just introduce the method it works then pop up source code ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows Form with ADO .NET and Web Services

  Hi all, I have a question. I am trying to upload data from a pc to sql 2000 server over internet. I have two choices and here is my scenario. 1. Using windows form with ado .net (my original idea) I have one window program that load the data from .dbf files and then insert them into sql server using batch update. 2. Using web services Write one program that will load these data and insert them into sql server.   T ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO installation

  The documentation says that I must install VS.NET 2005 Beta 2 first in order to create GAC. Then I must install MS Office. My question is if I have installed first MS Office and then VS.NET 2005 can I add Office PIA's to the GAC just reinstalling .NET programmability support in Office Do I need to reinstall the whole Office just to have the PIA's added to GAC Thanks, Martin Kulov Do you have any idea of when the Culture error will be fixed ...Show All

• SQL Server About the user defined sp for calculating & updating the staff annual leave record

  Hello, I'm using sql2005 and created a table use for contain the staff annaul leave holiday records of the company. I created a table 'test' and 3 columns 'id' (int), 'dj' (datetime), 'al' (int) which represent staff id, date join, annual leave holiday respectively. I used this table for testing the calculation of the annual leave of each staff have. the annual leave has the following conditions that must obey: working years annu ...Show All

• SQL Server customizable report model ?

  Hi friends we created report model for our clients to create reports using report builder which works fine. we have a situation now , as we've different clients for e.g.,individual doctors, hospitals etc., so we need to have smart report model which hides some entities/attributes if client is individual doctors or hospitals. what i mean some entities and attributes are unique to a particular type of client. so we want to hide some entities/attri ...Show All

• Windows Forms binarization

  is there a library for binarizing gray scale images wow - ... I wish I had that kindof brain capacity. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Migrating from Windows Forms 1.x to Windows Forms 2.0

  Hi, I would like to migrate from Windows Forms 1.x to Windows Forms 2.0. I also want to migrate f rom ToolBar to ToolStrip, MainMenu to MenuStrip, StatusBar to StatusStrip and DataGrid to DataGridView. Is there any utility or tool to do this conversion   Thanks, Amit. Unfortunately there is no utility to automatically upgrade controls on a v1.1 app to the newer v2.0 classes.  - mike ...Show All

• Windows Forms Controls Gone!!

  I have no idea what just happened.  I was adding items to my menu through the designer, I then got a message that said something about the Items in the collection..blah blah...with an OK button.  I clicked the button and then to much my dismay, all of the menus I created are gone as well as the statusbar at the bottom my window. All if the controls are in the designer.vb file and I have tried rebuilding, closing everything, opening, de ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Windows Ce 4.1 project under VST2005

  What do you need to do if you want to start a Smart Device Project for Windows CE 4.1 under VST2005 (b)  Because you can only select a Windows CE 5.0 project ! Is there a solution for this or should i use VST2003 thx, ...Show All

• SQL Server De-normalising query

  OK. I know this can be done with cursors but would like some pointers on if SQL 2005 provides any more elegant solutions. Basically I have 2 tables ... TableParent(ParentPK, ChildFK) TableChild(ChildPK, ChildValue) For each row in TableParent, TableChild may have up to say 5 rows. I need to transform this into a table containing at most the first 3 ChildValues (ordered by ChildPK) of the form ChildValue1 Childvalue2 ChildValue3 Any tips on ho ...Show All

• Windows Forms Config File settings not getting reflected

  Hi, The following is my scenario: 1. I have 6 Windows services, all of which are present in one project. 2. The installer class present in this project have the BeforeInstall and AfterInstall methods overriden. 3. In the BeforeInstall method, I set the config file settings got from the custom textboxes of Setup. 4. In the AfterInstall method, I start all the 6 services. All the above steps are working. However, when I try to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Dataset Question

  Hi, I created a form and setup a Split Container - the left pane being a Tree View (with some top level nodes being topics: Memory, Operating System, Hard Drives, etc). The right pane contains a listbox. Is it possible to use a dataset (with no DB connection) to hold all my information in memory Then I'd like to be able to query the dataset to fill the listbox with the info I need when a user click on a node in the left pane. I've trie ...Show All