Marlund's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Blair Allen Stark

  Here is the problem I am working on. It asks me to use the method CalculateCharges, but I don't fully understand how to do this or how it works. I would be grateful for any input. Lab Problem III A parking garage charges a $2.00 minimum fee to park for up to three hours. The garage charges an additional $0.50 per hour for each hour or part thereof in excess of three hours. The maximum charge for any given 24-hour period ...Show All

• Visual C++ problem with adding callback

  The errors is trying to say that the compiler is finding it ambigious to resolve your parameter since there are 2 instances of SmAddCallback that can fit your call. You need to be more specific in the second parameter. Hope this helps! Thanks,   Ayman Shoukry   VC++ Team Hi, I changed from SmHandler __stdcall RecoTextCB(SM_MSG reply, caddr_t client, caddr_t call_data ) to SmHandler __cdecl RecoTextCB(SM_MSG reply, cad ...Show All

• Windows Forms Detecting remote control device events on a browser

  Hi, I'm new to dot net, was wondering if anyone here could help... I got a Windows XP PC with a remote control. ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnwmt/html/remote_control.asp ) I would like to grab the remote control events on a browser. I got the following C# code for the RMT events grabbing: using System.Windows.Forms; class Form1Window : NativeWindow {   private const int WM_KEYDOWN = 0x0100 ...Show All

• .NET Development Reading a MemoryStream using DataReader

  hey, I have a database table with a field of data type varbinary(MAX) which is storing binary, it was written to the database using this code: //ms=a memorystream ms.toarray(); I want to now read this binary back from the database into a new memorystream using a data reader, see code below: public CustomCollection < LSPForm > GetAllFroms() { SqlCommand cmdRetrieveAllForms = new SqlCommand ( "Forms_SelectA ...Show All

• SQL Server Date/time field accessing

  I am at the begin with SQL-server, so for the begin i want to test the value of a datetime field in a table. For example if the content of the field named "danast" is equal with '02.01.1983'. In the documentation witch I've downloaded for SQL-server are explained many things but i did not find any example for a comparation of this type. I've tried such a comparation also in MSAccess (danast=#02.01.1983#) and in C++ (on a ODBC connectio ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO and Microsoft Office

  I am having trouble getting VSTO to work. When I go into Visual Studio to create the project I get a cryptic error telling me to check for disabled items in Excel (I have none) and then it instructs me to reinstall VSTO. A classmate suggested that it is because the University edition of Office (Microsoft Office Professional Enterprise Edition 2003) is crippled. Can anyone confirm if this is so Thanks, Michael ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums print out to .pdf or calling a macro with parameter

  Hi, I created an .hta application that generates XML from Excel Sheets and the reverse, the thing is that when I do the reverse, generate Excel Sheets from XML files, i need to print that sheet to pdf. I try creating a macro that receives as a parameter the name of the final pdf file like this: Sub print2pdf(filename) ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.PrintOut Copies:=1, Collate:=True, PrToFileName:=filename End Sub and then i call the macro in ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataBinding Combos

  Hi All, Hope someone can help me out.   I have a winform with user details (textboxes, combos etc). I bind the textboxes to a dataset containing contact data. The combos are set to a reference dataset as the data source and bound to the contacts dataset.   Like this…   this .cboContactType.DataSource = Global.dsRef.Tables["ContactTypes"]; this .cboContactType.DisplayMember = "ContactTypeName"; this .cboCon ...Show All

• SQL Server store procedure

  Hi, I am shine. I've created a store procedure create procedure sp_tab_nam @tab_nam sysname,@fk_id int,@fk_out int output,@nl_out int output as set @fk_out=1 set @nl_out=0 execute('if exists(select * from '+@tab_nam+' where categoryid= '+@fk_id+' ) begin select '+@fk_out+' = categoryName from categories print ''shine''  end ELSE  begin select '+@nl_out+' as outputs  print ''kumar'' end ') and it's giving one error when e ...Show All

• Windows Forms enable a form from another form.

  how can i enable or disable a form from another form   eg: i have a project prs. and 2 forms pr_menu and person. person should open on top of pr_menu. at the same time when person is opened, pr_menu must be disabled. i tried by the following&nb ...Show All

• Windows Forms .NET LicenseProvider references?

  Can anyone point me to a good resource (online or e-doc preferably) that will explain how to use the .NET LicenseProvider. I am trying to license some usercontrols that I built. I’m especially looking for an A-to-Z resource with examples on how to use the lc.exe and .licx files. Also if anybody thinks there is a better forum than this one, please let me know. Hi Santa, Please go through the bel ...Show All

• SQL Server How to Delete Files on Maintenance Plan

  Hello, I am creating a Maintenance Plan in SQL Server 2005. The 'Back Up Database Task' has the choice 'Create a sub-directory for each database' as SQL Server 2000 does. But when I add a 'Maintenance Cleanup Task' I do not see a choice to delete files on subdirectories. Looks like it only deletes the files from the directory I specify. So, looks like SQL Server 2005 is removing some functionality already available in SQL Server 2000. ...Show All

• .NET Development Calling the GC.Collect method

  I have a code like this : public void SetFrmLoginNull() { frmLogin = null ; GC.Collect(); } This method is in FrmMain. But when i run a code analyzer from some tools i have, it's said that i shouldn't explicitly call GC.Collect(); b'cos it had side effect. I just need some comment from you all regarding this topic. Any Comment You should not call GC.Collect() yourself, because it ...Show All

• .NET Development bug in serialport.close() ?

  Hi ! Here is my problem ... I developped in C# a class heriting from SerialPort. It contains functions structured like this : serialPort.open(); ....write....read.... ans so on; serialPort.close(); I use a timer to run theses functions every miliseconds. After a time, the application freeze. When i debug using "break all", i see a green arrow pointing serialPort.close(). When i press F11 to go to the next instruction, i can't see any y ...Show All

• .NET Development VB.NET windows service

  I have developed a windows service . I want  to run it every Tuesday at 2AM(even when the clocks are turned an hour back or forward)  . I have added a timer control . I know I can assign value to the interval property. My concern is it takes value in milliseconds .  Is there a better way do acomplish this Thanks in advance Hello, Rather than using a Windows service, which forces your application to run in memory at all times ...Show All