Dr.B.'s Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Show Menu

  Hello I created a menu and I made it invisible. How can popup it in the form. In VB6, I was using: Me.PopupMenu What do I use in VB.NET Thanks for assistance. Maksim Libenson wrote: Hi, You have Show() method for that. Max I don't want this. What I want exactly is: When I click on the notify icon in taskbar by mouse, the menu shows. How can I do it ...Show All

• Visual Basic Making a picturebox have a transparent background

  I have a picture of a panda with a pink background (panda_down.bmp) and I was wondering: how do I get that pink background to be transparent Draw the image yourself in a paint handler, and use the imageattributes class to make 255/0/255 ( magenta ) transparent. ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to change a controls padding or margin at runtime

  When trying to change a button control's padding or margin at runtime, i.e. Button1.Margin.Top = 10 The design enviroment indicates the error - Expression is a value and therefore cannot be the target of an assignment. Intellisense shows the property to be read/write. Is this a bug or am I missing something basic Thanks for any help. Instead of setting the top margin directly, create a padding structure and assign that to the margin. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2005 client and V6 Server

  Does the new client work or is it supported with the new V6 server Are there any good reasons to run this way Or, what is gained by doing it The database format did not change between the previous release and 2005. This means that you can use the new tools with the older version of the product which should improve stability and reliability. VSS 2005 has a lot of stability and reliability improvements. -mark ...Show All

• .NET Development Best practice for smal field patch?

  We have a couple of applications that each contain multiple projects which results in multiple .dlls. When we release the applications we rev all the project version manually by editing the assimblyinfo file. (VS 2003) If we find a bug that needs to be fixed in only one project we "can" fix the bug and recompile. If we don't change the version of that project we "could" simply copy the new .dll over the existing .dll. But if we do that we wouldn't have a new version to differentiate the old .dll from the new fixed .dll. On the other hand we could rev the version of the project with the bug fix. But then we cannot s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Merged Word Menus are not accessible after creating new word project

  Hi, I created a new word project from within the Visual Studio IDE. I noticed, that the merged word menus are not accesible, although most of the word functions are accessible via toolbar or context menu. Is this a bug or did i miss any settings Thanks, Klaus   Are the menus not enabled even when the designer is selected Can you send a screen snapshot ...Show All

• .NET Development Using XSD.EXE in conjunction with System.Configuration

  For a while now, I have been accustomed to defining my application's configuration values in the application configuration file in a custom section.  In the implementation of my IConfigurationSectionHandler::Create method, I typically instantiate my own user-defined type that is actually the output of the xsd.exe tool's consumption of my configuration schema (xsd).  That is, I'm using XML serialization to hydrate the type from the config file. So a representative code snippet -- where my type is CheckerConfiguration -- would look like: public object Create(object parent, object configContext, System.Xml.XmlNode Section) { Che ...Show All

• Windows Forms On a DataGridView control, is it possible to ...

    Completely hide/disable the leftmost fixed column Disable cell/row/column selection mode – A mouse click on any cell/row/column does no selection       If so, how       Thanks, A) Set the RowHeadersVisible property of the DataGridView control to false. B) What is it that you want to accomplish If you don't like the colors of the selected cells, you can set the foreground/background color of the selected cells to be the same as for the unselected cells: Me .DataGridView1.DefaultCellStyle.SelectionBackColor = Me .DataGridView1 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problems with my combobox

  I'm using a form to add information about companies in my program and i need to use a combobox filled with information about another table and the selected value became saved in the companies table. How can i do such thing using databindings in design mode When i do it in a datagridvew it works perfectly but if it is a single control in my form, it seems not to provide the compnies table the selected value and i have an error thats says that that row could not be null Thanks Andres Is the combobox bound to a datatable If not, how are you filling it with items     ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Stored Procedure Source Control

  Is there any way to implement source control for stored procedures using TFS and Visual Studio 2005 I am looking for the interface that was available under VS 2003 and Visual Source Safe. We would prefer to see the lock icon on the stored procedure itself when you view them under Server Explorer. This prevents anyone editing the sp without checking it out. We want to avoid the current approach of creating a script file and adding it to a database project. I have looked everywhere, but can't find the solution. I've installed the MSSCCI plug in for SQL Server Management Studio, but you still need to create a text file, and add that to sour ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Build Failed - When drop location is on other machine, than the build machine

  Hi, My Drop Location is on another machine on my network. I get a "Starting Build: Logon Failure: Unknow User Name or Bad Password On the Build Summary page - Clicking on the Drop Location Link takes me to the Drop Location. The Drop Location Folder is Shared with Write Permissions. The Build gets past this error when the Drop Location is the Build Machine. Thanks a little more tinkering on the settings, and i got a build to work. i changed the build to build and drop on the server with TFS Build installed on it.  That solved the problem and im looking at this great looking build report! This softwar ...Show All

• Windows Forms Best way to deploy a new DotNet windowsforms app

  Hi, I have a  application which sits in the taskbar that I have written in vb.net windows forms and everyone has been updated to asp net 1.1 ready for the app deployment. The executable app runs from a network drive which seems to cause security trust issues as it also opens the local browser on the machine. I have successfully trusted the application& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions accessing processes running in the remote machine

  hi i need help.. is there any possibility to retrive a process information which is running in the remote machine is there any possibility to run a process (application) in the remote machine is there any possibilty to calculate the load of CPU whren a process running in a machine rely as soon as possible... it very urgent Hi, The below link should be the one you are looking for.Hope this resolves some of your problems. Link: http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/56/280731.aspx If you think your post is answered then please mark it answer. Thanks! Bhanu. ...Show All

• Visual Basic radiobuttons don't function as expected on forms that have databound fields

  check out the code below Code:         MsgBox(ModuleUser.frmUserRegistration.txtGender.Text)         'get gender field value for display         If ModuleUser.frmUserRegistration.txtGender.Text = UCase("m") Then             'check male radiobox when user is a male             ModuleUser.frmUserRegistration.RBMale.Checked = True             ModuleUser.frmUserRegistration.RBFe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Install errors if VS2005 Windows Workflow Extensions previously present

  Installed VS2005 RTM Developer edition. Previously I had beta 2 + VS2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow installed. Completely uninstalled beta 2, and all the clean up tools reported my machine was good to install. However, I had forgotten to uninstall the VS2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow, before installing VS2005 RTM. None of the cleanup tools picked up on this. During RTM install, I had a couple of error dialogs popup asking me to send an error report to Microsoft. It looked like VS2005 was trying to start up, getting an error and then asked me if I wanted to restart VS2005 - I think it was trying to load the workflow ...Show All