danlehen's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms MdiWindowListItem oes not reflect changed form text

  Just started using the MdiWindowListItem property, but the list does not refesh the text when the text property of the forms changes, until the focus leaves the changed form. Is there a simple solution to this Thanks The Window list is refreshed when either the Visible or Active property of the child form is changed. Toggling the child visibility works, but has an (assumed) undesired visua ...Show All

• .NET Development cloning an object...

  What's the best way to clone an object I want to create a copy of it. thanks in advance, Devin Well, no relation. :) All objects have MemberwiseClone as it is implemented in Object class. It will create shallow copies which in most cases are not enough. If you implement the ICloneable interface in classes you want to clone you can make the cloning more generic. The article below show that kind ...Show All

• Architecture 3D Modeling tool

  I have this problem to solve, hope that you can help me: I have a building with a “control system”. The control system, depending of the temperature inside and outside the building, opens and closes windows automatically. I want to create a 3D model of the building that displays in real time the processing mode of the building (temperature inside and outside, windows that are open and closed, etc). For that I have to interconnect the ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro how could i shortened the time of looping in an SCAN...ENDSCAN?

  i have here a part of my code below which work fine for me...but the only problem is that it takes time to show the result. My product profile has only 8,500 records & the tables that were search for exact match has approximately 50,000 or more records added every month. Maybe my coding is not the right way. Can anyone teach me the right code just to shortened the time in accessing the actual output. LOCAL EachItemPurchases, lcpurchases, ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to Insert a vaule into a field?

  If anyone can help me, I'm trying to to create a form which will read in a value from a SQL table and i want to retrieve the data to a textbox or label field so that I can use the value to bind to another table as a foreign key. The SQL command I used is SELECT MAX(OrderNo)+1 FROM orders Thanks Add a scalar query to your TableAdapter. Then you can assign the result to whatever you want. For example, tx ...Show All

• .NET Development Using Ifilters to parse/index text from PDFs in C#

  Hi.  I've found code for using the free IFilter to parse text out of PDFs for the purpose of indexing it for my search application.  It is working fine for files on the file system.  What I really need it to do though, is to parse from a Stream.  I am indexing content in a database, and some of this contain contains pdf files. I found the BindIFilterFromStream method call which seemed like it should work fine, but I am not ...Show All

• Visual C++ Simple Questions on Classes in C++

  Hello all, I am just a student, learning C++ for the first time. I am having an issue understanding how to get classes to work together when using them in two seperate files. I have two classes seperated into their own two Interface Header Files and their own two member function file. When going through the book examples, we have our main source code file the main function. The book then has us create a header file that contains the clas ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Exception Message: The request failed with HTTP status 503: Service Unavailable.

  I am having problems creating a new project.  I also cannot type in the Computer name to connect to Team Foundation Server but I can type in the ip addresss. Here is my attempt to create a new project with the IP Address. This is the log.  Does someone know a solution for this 11/30/2005 12:15:07 PM | Module: ELeadServiceMediator | Team Foundation Server proxy retrieved | Completion time: 0 seconds 11/30/2005 12:15:07 PM | Module: Wiz ...Show All

• Windows Forms My own icon

  I've winform app generated by VS.NET 2003. There's a deafult icon. I'd like to have my own so I've created one, deleted default, set Icon property in form to my own (I can see it) & set in project properties Application Icon property t ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WinFX Runtime Components 3.0 Beta 2 installation problems

  Hello, I was using the February CTP until Beta 2. I’ve downloaded the new WinFX Runtime Components 3.0 Beta 2 and I can’t install them. I’ve uninstalled older version using the tool Microsoft has provided ( the MSI file ) and I’ve also removed several other components that I thought could cause the problem. I’m still receiving the following error: [05/24/06,00:29:52] VS Scenario: [2] CPrevProductInstalledCheck failed : <font face= ...Show All

• SQL Server Stored Procedure using linked server...HELP

  I created a stored procedure in SQL 2005 that connects to data on a Linked Server. I can pull the corrected data but, I am having an issue displaying the data within an ASP.NET page. Accessing the stored procedure from my ASP.NET page only brings back '0'. What am I doing wrong How do I assign the SQL output to @Count I have included my code. Stored Procedure --------------------------- set ANSI_NULLS ON set QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON go ...Show All

• Windows Forms Determining Application Startup Form at run time

  Anybody know of a pattern for determining the startup form of a .NET application at runtime Since the startup Main method is static, Template Method and other inheritance based patterns are problematic. Have not found any answers via Google either. I've seen the example using a derived class from the ApplicationContext class that allows setting of the MainForm property but that still leaves the "chicken and egg" problem of starting ...Show All

• SQL Server Server Name?

  I have a dialog box that is requesting the server name when I'm trying to create a new SQL Server 2005 database What is that and how do I find it Thanks. Creating a database requires connecting to a SQL server. Are you using Visual Studio, or SQL Server Management Studio What menu or action are you taking Karl Tarbet ...Show All

• SQL Server How to implement special text format in MSRS?

  Our team need to implement the following text format in MSRS: 1. Text Wrap We need to wrap the text at the end of the line in these 3 ways. 1) HARDWRAP: Hardwrap of overflow text. 2) TRUNCATE: Truncates letters based on column width. 3) WORDWRAP: Wraps words to the next line. 2.Text capitalization We need to specify capitalization rules for the text in a column. 1) INITCAP: Capitalizes the initial letter of the text. 2) LOWERCA ...Show All

• SQL Server Converting a Hex String to a Varbinary or vice versa

  I'm using SQL Server 2005. How can I convert a hex string to a varbinary or the opposite of that For the opposite, the easiest way is to use the built-in (but undocumented) function, fn_varbintohexstr:   DECLARE @x BINARY ( 16 ) SET @x = NEWID () SELECT master . dbo . fn_varbintohexstr ( @x )   ... Going the other way around is not quite so straightf ...Show All