Randa Maher's Q&A profile

• SQL Server I broke my MDAC 8.2 RTM on SBS 2003. Have file mismatches that I can not fix. Help!

  While working to try and install and evaluate 3rd party versions of the SQL Enterprise Manager on our SBS 2003, I managed to break our MDAC installation and the results are non-functional Veritas BackupExec (needs the SQL MSDE instance to work), I seem to have broken RAS in the process and our Web access for Outlook 2003 broke too. It seems there are many dependencies on MDAC working that have now failed with this problem I created. What I need ...Show All

• Windows Forms I have VB .NET, how do i make a file to build a bug?

  I have VB .NET, how do i make a file to build a bug Have a look at the animal farm under terrarium section of this site. make sure you set reference to your organismbase.dll. ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Excel to PDF

  I want to ask if anyone knows the code to detect if Adobe Distiller is installed on the machine, using VB. I'm new at this. All I know I need to write codes to see if distiller exist. I have further questions: Does Distiller comes with Adobe Reader, or do you need to have Acrobat to have Distiller I'm not working with the server version of Distiller. Do I need a Printer driver that converts Excel spreadsheet to PostScript and then call Distil ...Show All

• Windows Forms [VB.NET] Hiding menubar of MDI parent

  Anyone know how to get rid of the menubar in an mdi parent form that shows up any time a child is maximized Thanks in advance. try this one : when u call child form. in the button click event add this line menuitem(want to hide). MergeType= MenuMerge.Remove ; ...Show All

• .NET Development execute scalar daab 2.x

  Hi All, Ok so I am about to pull my hair out! Using vs2005 and ent lib 2.0 I want to retrive a single value using the execute scalar method : Public Function GetWhseStockId1() As Integer Dim _Pstldb As Database = DatabaseFactory.CreateDatabase() Dim i As Integer Dim strCommand1 As String = "SELECT IdWhseStk FROM WhseStk WHERE WHStockLink = 5774 and WHid =68" Dim dbCommand As DbCommand = _Pstldb.GetSqlStringCommand(strCommand1) i = CI ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Rulesets that define/build ASP.NET GUI

  I have been playing around with Workflow for a few days now and really like what it provides so far. Right now I am trying to find out if I can build a ruleset that will add buttons, checkboxes, etc to my web page. I have seen the example with the RulesDrivenUI, but they are just enabling and disabling fields. Is it possible to add new controls to the webform through rulesets Thanks, Currently we do not support the creat ...Show All

• Visual Basic VS2005ImageLibrary.zip NOT FOR EXPRESS??

  Oh Comeon guys, it was almost perfect, 2005 all the new changes, the editor the complete package of components of the framework, new menu bar new buttons bar, woow amazing, and i have a question, AND THE ICONS where is the "moujou" VS2005ImageLibrary.zip does it ONLY comes with the complete visual studio 2005 for a few icons, i have to get the complete thing if they give away all the components, even a express version for you to do ...Show All

• Visual Basic text formating

  Hi, i would like to ask whether can i format the text in textbox in such a way that whenever there is a bullet, it will display it in a newline. the textbox data is retrieve from a database in the same column. Try using a RichTextBox. You'll need to generate text in the RTF format if it is not already in that format in the database. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. loading mesh like mesh viewer

  is there a way and if so how can one load mesh files like the mesh viewer loads them, I took just for kicks the tiger sample and loaded a mesh that a friend made and it dident load right, rotates right off the screen, I dont really understand VC++ much to find my way through the mesh viwer code I am using C#, and help would be great. I did both of those and maybe its not my lights, let me explain whats happening. ...Show All

• .NET Development XML serialization

  Hi, From the following code public abstract class Vehicle {     public string licenseNumber; } public class Car : Vehicle {    public string name; } ... Car c= new Car(); c.licenseNumber="Lic001"; c.name= "Fiesta"; what is the simplest way to get  the following serialized XML output <Vehicle licenceNumber="Lic001">     <Car name="Fiesta">     &l ...Show All

• SQL Server create tables and insert data in sql server mobile on dekstop

  Hello (sorry my bad english, im brazilian) I was using Visual Studio 2003 and SQL Server CE 2.0 for C# mobile applications. The .sdf database were created in the emulator or in the mobile device itself using Query Analizer. The application developed need some initial data to run, and this data is obtained executing one service that reads a postgree database, and insert the data in the SQL CE database of the mobile device. But, given the si ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to start an animation in the code that was created in the xaml?

  Hi, I've created an application with two animations. Making screen bigger, and smaller. Now I've also created a button and when it's clicked, the screen should get bigger or smaller, depending his current state. The animation where created in the xaml. <Storyboard x:Key="OpenAssetsGrid" d:StoryboardName="OpenAssetsGrid"> <DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames BeginTime="00:00:00" Storyboard.TargetProperty=&quo ...Show All

• Visual C# Web Application - Desktop Application

  How can I send a command from a web page to a desktop application... Example: I have a txtbox in the webpage, then i type some text (ex.: Hello) when I click submit my desktop application calls a function to show a MessageBox with the hello Thanks U can't directly communicate from a web application to desktop application. I will suggest you before starting read the architecture of ASP.net and how its work. There is an alternat ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System (Some) Team System TechEd Webcasts Available

  [UPDATE:  As of today at least, only some of these are sessions from TechEd.  The others (including the VSTS ones) are simply older related webasts.  -Chris] Just FYI that many of the sessions from TechEd are available online as on-demand webcasts: http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/teched2005.mspx Here are the Team System related sessions: MSDN Webcast: Building Secure Applications with Visual C++ and Visual Studio T ...Show All

• Visual Basic Identifying Offset

  How do you have it so wehn you open a file in OpenFileDialog1 that the files hex offset appears on a label or some type of text   It's not clear what you are asking. I think you are asking how to determine a filespecification's filename offset in a pathstring  as expressed in hex for display dim a as string = "c:\temp\foo.txt" label1.text = hex(a.lastindexof(System.IO.Path.DirectorySeparatorC ...Show All