john ninan's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Hiding Inherited Control's Properties

  Is this possible I'd like to inherit from a control so i can reuse some of it's base functionality, but override other parts.  I tried using Shadows and creating a property over one that already existed, but the WindowsForms designer cried about&nb ...Show All

• SQL Server How to Execute different Packages Sequencially

  Hi All I have different Packages, So i want to execute these packages in sequence Any body can tell which task support this procedure Thanks in Advance You would use an Execute Package Task to call one package from another. You can use several tasks, contained by workflow to control the execution order. ...Show All

• Visual C++ how to load pass and get info from (System::Object^ sender, System::EventArgs^ e) C++/CLI

  Hi! all I'm back again!! The internet is full of information but there are some things when you type them in you get 5 million pages of irrelevant information What I'm after is how do load these up with info and then how do you unpack them on the other end....... (System::Object^ sender, System::EventArgs^ e) Thanks! P.S. Do you know were I can get a rainman (like in the 1988 movie) for C++/CLI I'm playing with VS ...Show All

• Architecture XP or XPE for POS application

  Hi, Not sure if this is the correct place to post this - apologies if it's not. I'm developing a custom POS application in VB.Net 2.0 for no more than 4 terminals. The touch terminals all have P4 processors with 512 MB RAM and 40 GB HDDs. I'm just wondering if there are any advantages to installing XP embedded (or XPE for POS) instead of XP Professional. Because of the limited number of clients, it would be more expensive to buy t ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista help with Shellexecute

  hiyaz i new to this guys and was told to post this here,i'm trying to get shellexecute to run something, just say i wanted to run/open a old text document "C:\test.txt" i would use this ShellExecute(handle, open,"C:\test.txt", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL); or ShellExecute(handle, open,"C:\test.exe", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL); correct if so it doesn't work.... it complains about the handle part... i'm new to this command so dont know what your me ...Show All

• Windows Forms Populating Textbox from Combo Box Selection

  Friends, Looking for suggestions on how to populate a textbox based on a combo box selection. My instinct tells me that I will need to have two seperate data tables...One to populate the combo box with values from a data table and another against the same data with a query parameter. For example, my combo box contains values from data table called Departments. In the combo box I would like to display all the department numbers available... ...Show All

• Windows Forms Listbox not displaying text on XP Home Edition but OK on XP Pro

  I built a simple Windows Forms application with a list box and a combo box with five items. When I run this application on my XP Home (Version 2002, SP2) with .NET 2.0 or .NET 1.1 framework I do not see the text in the ist box. However the same application when executed on XP Professional shows the list items just fine. Any suggestions as to what might be wrong with my setup Thanks, Anup Since ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Saving data with SqlPersistance

  Is there a way to store extra data when doing SqlPersistance For example, I would like to store a cleaner name than the GUID and I would like to store who created the workflow or who has worked on the workflow. Are there any examples of this Thanks, Nichole You can download samples from WF help, if you have installed "Visual StudioR 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation" There are a bun ...Show All

• Visual Studio copy the .dll of a solution

  gday, I've got 2 solutions - solution1 - solution2 how can I copy the dll's of each solution with the relating projects into a single directory each - solutionDllDir1 - solutionDllDir2 thanks for any help Would it be possible to provide a concrete example of this  Are you trying to do -Solution 1 Project 1 Project 2 -Solution 2 Project 3 Project 4 &n ...Show All

• Smart Device Development text localization of a pocket pc application

           hello everyone       could anyone suggest how i can make it for text  localization (captions of all the controls / any kind of text in my application) - if my application's User Interface has to support multi-lingual feature the application is in embedded visual c++ for smart device - (mfc)   thanks in advance       ...Show All

• Visual Studio switching reports problem in local mode, windows form environment

  Hi, I'm using a radio button for user to pick one out of two reports to run. Both Report1 and Report2 use the same data source just present them in different ways. However, only the first one picked shown in the report viewer (no matter which one first). i.e. Pick another report to run and the report viewer always shows the first one. Any step that I missed Thanks. Private Sub btnGetReport_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, By ...Show All

• .NET Development How have been used the Microsoft Dynamic DHTML Editing control?

    I use Microsoft Dynamic DHTML Editing control to develop a BBS of my website.I met a question is :    You should know if I input a url like www.microsoft.com , I get a link now. However,I want this link have a target="_blank" in my own website. Do you know how to implement it    Thank you for coming! Hi there, this forum is particularly focused on Web services, so there might not be any folks here who can hel ...Show All

• Windows Forms Urgent: How to Add Link column in Windows Forms DataGrid Programmatically?

  Hi, I want to add link column in my datagrid in windows forms how can i do this. Ids it possible to create datagrid at runtime. How can i do it programmaticaly. I tried but it not giving me any result. Regards, Ghazala Check out&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System "Currituck WITs" failure whilst trying to create a new project...

  I am getting a "Currituck WITs failed" when I try and create a new project, the exception has the following... System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK__@members__24C087ED'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.@members'. The trouble is I can't seem to find which database or table this is refering too.  Anyone any idea Cheers Simon All fixed. i did a complete removal of everything and r ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS2005: MSDN error: Cannot find the server

  I have installed on my pc (Xp pro SP2) vs2005 and the MSDN. Unfortunately i cannot view the MSDN beacause i receive this error: "The page cannot be displayed" or "Cannot find the server". Someone knows why   Thanks for help! Finally i have solved my big problem!! Here is an usefull link that helped me to solve the problem!! http://www.codecomments.com/archive359-2005-10-656957.html To solve, i'm logged with an ...Show All