hwc's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Getting Number of Charts and Setting Titles

  In VS2005 B2, how can I get the amount of charts on a sheet and set the title for each in a loop I did figure it out, however, I am assuming with VS2005 B2, ONLY Office 2003 is supported thru the .net and anything below that is a com ref Or else Im not doing the setup correctly. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Extending/customizing test data sources

  Hi, Sometime ago i was experimenting with creating a db test data generator. I abandoned it for lack of time but one of the features i was working on was a mechanism by which i could set up some standard data tables containing City names/codes, country names/codes, popular first names and surnames, public anonymous address lists etc so that these could be combined and used to generate more meaningful test data instead of a simplistic 'colum ...Show All

• .NET Development Asp.Net codebehind files

  Can two web form have a single codebehind file. Yes, but the IDE does not like it. It would be better to create a class that derives from Page and then derive each of the web form code-behind classes from your derived class. So for example a page named Orders.aspx and a page Customers.aspx would have code-behind classes named Orders and Customers respectively. Both Orders and Customers classes would derive fr ...Show All

• Windows Forms Displaying text in a ComboBox when SelectedItem is null

  I have a ComboBox with DropDownStyle set to DropDownList. When I set SelectedItem to null, it displays nothing. I'd like to be able to have it display text like "Select one..." instead. Is there a simple way to do this Thanks, Brian Brian Leech wrote: I have a ComboBox with DropDownStyle set to DropDownList. When I set SelectedItem to null, it displays nothing. I'd like to be able to have it di ...Show All

• .NET Development Does any Support for SCTP?

  Hello everybody , I interesting in SCTP Stream Control Transmission Protocol, so  Does Windows Support  SCTP or any info. in Windows Vista to support this protocol ,  and does .NET Framework 3 Will Support this protocol   Hi misters, I'm very interest on that information too. Any news about this issue Thank you ...Show All

• SQL Server Error 14027 When Trying to Configure P2P Topology

  I'm beginning to wonder if replication is worth the trouble I've had to spend on it! Trying to create a simple peer-to-peer replication topology. I can create the initial publication. I can change the property to allow P2P. I can backup the database and I can create a snapshot. When, however, I try to configure the peer-to-peer topology, I get a 14027 error message telling me that ONE table out of 250, or so, "does not exist in the cur ...Show All

• Visual C# Well Done !!!

  Well Done Microsoft!!! I think The graphics class is the most iritaiting class of all, when u need an object of it you have to do 30 other things to get an graphics object, no offence but if u wanted to make the hardest thing to draw something u really done it, and i`m not talking about Paint Event Why didn`t let the constructor of the graphics class public (maybe u did have your reasons, mabe it was the only way, but heck man u are the MICRSO ...Show All

• Visual C# Storing program settings

  I'm needing to allow a user to be able to set/change various options for a program I'm developing. It seems that the best way to do it would be to keep the congifuration information in an XML file. Is there a place where I can find concepts and code that will allow me to be able to read an XML file and properly parse the contents Of course, I'll also need to understand how to write the file in the first place. As always, I'm looking not just f ...Show All

• Visual Studio Passing parameters to Crystal Report via Visual Studio 2003

  Hello. I am a C# programmer that needs some help. I have been able to create Crystal Reports that take a parameter to generate specific datasets. I have been able to view and print basic Crystal Reports through binding the report to a CrystalReportViewer (Window Forms Control). The problem I am having is in combing the two. I don't know how to pass the parameter from Visual Studio's (ie: through input from a textbox, etc) to the Crystal Rep ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Work items menu in Excel

  Hi there, I am having some problems installing the Team System Client. when i install the TS Client in Windows 2000, it show the "work items" menu in MS Project, but not in MS Excel. It works fine if i use Windows XP or Win 2003. what is the problem with Windows 2000 Thanks in advance, Guino. The # 3 was the solution! 3.  Create a '1033' directory under <program files>\microsoft office\office11 (if it doesn't already exist) ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Strange Error

  I have an Access 2002 SP3 DB and on occasion it seems to corrupt and all forms are no longer accessable any 1 else had this problem i am unsure to what causes it so cant fix it. i open it and it reports a corrupt error offten after a change to some code has been made and saved i always test before before closing so i know it works fine then on next load it corrupts and the MDB file is reduced to only half its original size. any help or adv ...Show All

• Visual C# Shortcut

  Hai, I am working with a project developed in Visual Studio.Net 2003 under Windows XP.I have assigned short cut to the textfields and buttons with "&" in front of the letter,which should be used as the shortcut key. When the window gets displayed,the letter which can be used as short cut is not underlined which must be the case,but the shortcuts are working. But surprisingly when i just press the "Alt" key the letters will be underlined.Cou ...Show All

• Windows Forms Printint the contents of a datagrid

  Hi, I want to print all the rows contents in a datagrid, what can I do to accomplish this Thanks Hello, I found the perfect code to print a datagrid.  Better then my previous post.  This code is perfect because the print ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WWF Case Studies / Samples / Justifications

  Can someone point me in the right direction to find a list of case studies and sample applications (not necessarily source code) for WWF. What I've noticed so far is that every single sample I've seen has said: "This workflow is really too small to be a justification for the use of WWF ... " What I'm looking for are justifications to use WWF, a list of applications that could greatly benefit from integration with WWF. What I've seen ...Show All

• Windows Forms save contents of picturebox

  I'm wanting to save the contents of a picture box to a SQL Server table.   How is this done and what field type should I use   VB.NET Code samples are appreciated. ...Show All