Brenda W's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Clear items in a Combo box

  Hi guys! I have a datasource bound combo box.I want the items to be deleted when I click the Clear button but when  I tried to clear the items like this:    combo.Items.Clear() I got an error message that I cannot change the items in the collection. Is this possible to do Please help! Hi, Try setting the DataSource property of your combobox to null (Nothing in VB.NET) comboBox.DataSource = null; ...Show All

• Visual Studio Reportviewer.localreport screen res issue

  Hi all, that's my firs post ever. First of all, sorry for the poor english, i'm italian : ) I'm a MS environment programmer since few years now and usually i find answers for my problems in a bounce of sites trhough the net, but this time i cant really figure out how to solve the problem. I developed a small backoffice app that use reportviewer control to show a few local reports. The problem is that on my PC the reports are perfecly printed on ...Show All

• .NET Development XPathDocument and XPathNavigator

  Hi guys, I'm a newbie to Visual Studio 2005 and Xml. I need your help on this one. I am actually trying to get a node value from an xml using the XPathDocument and XPathNavigator. Here's part of my code: string xmlMessage = ""; string idValue = ""; string nodeToLookFor = ""; StringReader myStringReader; XPathDocument myXmlPathDoc; XPathNavigator myGroupXmlNav; XPathNavigator valueNode; XPathExpression myXPathExpr; / ...Show All

• Visual C# Making a folder virtual folder on button click in asp.net using C#

  Hi All Please tell me is there any way from which i can make a folder a virtual folder by clicking a button in asp.net using C# You can use the following code segment using System; using System.DirectoryServices; namespace VirtualDirectory {     public class IISManager     {         public static string VirDirSchemaName = "IIsWebVirtualDir";       ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions need help to uninstall sqlserver 2005 beta tools express so I can install.

  Hi, Im having problems installing the MS Visual studionweb developer express 2005. I went to the Auto-Uninstall Tool and it said I had sqlserver 2005 beta tools express edition installed. I tried to remove it using the auto tool but got the error: The XML page cannot be displayed Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later. What you might have to do i ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot talk to Dataset!

  Ok, I have tried just about everything.  I deployed a report and some datasets to Report Manager.  I have set the permissions on every level (Home, folders, reports, datasets) and added domain users with read roles.  I logon though as one of the users and still, when I try to run the report from Report Manager as that user, it tells me it cannot create a connection to the underlying dataset.  When I run it on my PC it works ...Show All

• Visual C++ Project : error PRJ0002 : Error result -1073741515

  Well, I know I am not the first one having this problem . The answers and solutions given in previous messages in these forums did not help. I am on my 6th day of darkness after I downloaded Visual Studio Express . Yes I am a Newbie , who wants to learn C++ code. Here is the error message I get : 1>------ Build started: Project: new, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ 1>Compiling... 1>Project : error PRJ0002 : ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to: part of the form is opaque, and the rest may have a 50% opacity

  Dear All, After I saw a screen shot of Longhorn, I started wondering current .net framework offered feature for us to implement that style of forms. This is true. We have implemented a TranslucentWindow class in VG.net. With this class you can use various VG.net Pictures, which are like windowless controls, but it is not possible to use true windows forms controls in them. However it is still a lot of fun! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VB.net equivalent of "Selection"

  Hi I wanted to know what the VB.net (used in VSTO) equivalent of Selection is eg for Selection.Clearcontents Hi, I'm assuming you are refering to a VSTO Excel project   There are a couple of things you need to know about the Selection property.  First, that it is a property--it is a member of the Application class.  In Vba, Application members are part of the global namespace which is why you can refer to it wi ...Show All

• Windows Forms digital signatures

  Hi, we are developing a simple VB.NET Win32 client to invoke MSFT´s CAPI to sign and encrypt files of any type.  Later we would like to verify signatures and validate the status for a certificate with the CRL distribution points extension  ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Connected Party did not Properly Respond After a Period of Time

  I've begun to expand the WCF services in my application and I'm starting to get a timeout error: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. I have a number of data services that download lists of business objects of various kinds. This error seems to occur after ...Show All

• SQL Server Adding Reference and Importing .NET into Script Transformation

  I have a .NET component that I want to import into a Script Transformation of a Data Flow. Going into the script code (editing Script transformation and clocking "Design Script" button), I try to "Add Reference" to the component (Add Reference selection under "Project" menu), but I do not see it - nor do I have the option to Browse for the component. How do I establish a reference to an external .NET component so I can use it in my transformati ...Show All

• .NET Development Receiving unexpected OutOfMemory exceptions

  I have a (nearly) released commercial application built in .Net 1.1. At the high level, it is a protocol proxy. Needless to say, it creates and uses many sockets. It is running on a 2003 Std Edition SP1, 2MB memory with 4MB virtual and 2 hyper-threaded XEON CPU’s. and is configured to use server mode GC via the following in the .config file. <runtime> <gcServer enabled="true"/> </runtime> The customer has ...Show All

• SQL Server MDX Sum syntax problem

  Hi All, I'm extremely new to MDX, and I'm having some trouble getting one of my expressions to work. I would appreciate any help with this hopefully easy problem. I have a cube like this: Subcription_CruiseId HomeAirportId AccountId With dimensions like this: (related to Subcription_CruiseId) SubscriptionStatusId SubscriptionStatus (related to HomeAirportId) AirportId AirportCode The account id is a measure that has a distin ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to replicate over websync but via the lan

  Hello, I am having a problem trying to run websync but can run replication over the lan. During the websync it errors out stating cannot connect to the distributor. The same login and password are used in both scenarios. Am I missing a setting John Are your Publisher, Distributor, IIS and Subscriber machines separate Are you using Integrated authentication If so, try with Basic authentication ...Show All