Nathan Phelps's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Error: "Cannot open project. ..."

  Hi all, could anyone give some clue about the following problem: After fixing an Excel problem by following the instructions of the following page:http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/304424 I cannot open any of the Excel projects that I have created.  I get the following error message for EVERY Excel project: "Cannot open project.  The Excel workbook 'MyProjectName.xls' is missing or corrupted. I tried to create a ...Show All

• SQL Server Management Studio Express CTP regular express replace bug?

  Open a document and try the following regular express replacement. Replace {:i} to \1 bla bla A lot of wrong replacement. (BTW, I do the replace in a selection.) I looked at the steps you did. You may miss one step that is necessary to produce the error: - In the "Look in:" field, you must select "Selection" instead of "Current Document" or "All open document". 1) Have you changed any options in Tools | Option ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions what's wrong with this?

  WebBrowser1.Url = textbox1.text in vb6 i think it would be ok, so what's the prob in the 2005 Express Edition thanks. Shaul.   oh yeah. . . WebBrowser1.Url = new Uri( "http://www.microsoft.com" ) ...Show All

• Architecture Why custom business object's while i can't update my database with them ?

  Hi, i have this big problem in my architecture : i want to build my object model by using the idea of collections, so i have a Customers object, a Customer object, an Orders object, and an Order object, and so on... the Problem is that those custom business objects, hold my data, and of corse, i want to update my database by using the data in those object's, and oop's, the DataAdapter don't accept custome business objects as a parameter !! (o ...Show All

• Windows Forms try catch block

  Hi there, I have a textfield in my Windows Form application which needs to be validated as a number (double) I have on the text changed event a try catch block, which when entered put the application noticible on hold. Can I somehow prevent this. Or is there a better way of checking the value of an input field private void textBoxQueryAmount_TextChanged( object sender, System.EventArgs e) { if (textBoxQueryAmount.Text.Length > 0) ...Show All

• .NET Development Storing UserID and Password

  hi, i have a security problem. I have to store userID and password of the database server in program code.   With using Ildasm :   IL_0024:  ldstr      "ResAdmin" -- OMG   IL_0029:  callvirt   instance void [System.Data]System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnectionStringBuilder::set_UserID(string)   IL_002e:  ldloc.0   IL_002f:  ldstr     ...Show All

• Visual C# Challengeing question about Sockets..

  Is there a way to block a windows socket like firewall does You can take a look to this C++ application and convert it to C# code: An Easy Firewall Application . There is no managed interface to do this, but here is a create .NET article on code project: Packet Filtering in .NET . ...Show All

• Visual C# Call Tree?

  Is there any way to display a solution's call tree in the IDE Thanks, Ray What are the latest plans for making this available with C# and VB I greatly appreciate this feature under C/C++ and I miss it while working in C#. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Weeknumber

  How do i get the weeknumber in Visual Basic 2005 Express edition Thomas Malbeck wrote: I also think that the way of defining the first week of the year differs somewhat in different countries ! which is precisely why ISO 8601 was introduced. DMan - I wasn't particulary trying to be sarcastic, although reading it again maybe it came over that way. The point is that there is a lot of con ...Show All

• SQL Server OUTER JOIN table limit?

  I came across this statement from ASP.NET forum : "..There is a limit to the level for OUTER JOIN ANSI SQL limit is four after that you may get strange results. ..." . I did a little research but without getting clear answer from the SQL92 standard itself. I am wondering whether I can get help about this in SQL Server 2005 implementation here. I put this question in another way, How many tables can we use in OUTER JOIN(or INNER JOIN ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Word document Page count, word count, paragraph count, values.

  Hi, Is it possible to get the genereted word document number pages [ page count value ], paragraph count value, word count values, etc through programming. I would like thank if ony one answer to me. Yes, programatically you can count the number of pages in a word document, number of paragraphs in a word document and so on. Cheers Praveen ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX Issues/Problems

  I don't think this is the right place for this but i can't find any other forum where i might be able to find help.......i am having problems with directX something happened to my directX when my newphew was uninstalling things, now it says the gcdef.dll is old and may casue probelms, and it won't let me reinstall directX 9 or 8 or any other. If anyone can help me with this problem or tell me how to just uninstall directX completly so i can ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Maya exporter problem

  I use microsoft's exporter in Maya 6.5. But when load the mesh, vertexformat in meshData is None. So we cann't compute the vertex normal. How can we solve this problem ...Show All

• Visual C# Unable to update the dependencies of the project

  I have had this error every time I try to check my program into source control after making changes. The project builds and works fine until I check it in and check it back out then it won’t build. I have deleted the setup project and built a new one only to have the same problem after checking it into source control. It also givs me a warning that " Assembly ' FolderName\FileName.exe ' is incorrectly specified as a file. Any suggestions would ...Show All

• Visual Basic BUG: debugger losing variable values

  over the weekend I had occasion to write a line of code that added two random byte values.  I made the mistake of not contemplating the case where the resulting sum produced a result that was too large for the underlying data type to hold -- this turned out to be a nightmare to debug because VS 2005 beta 2 would lose the values of the variables involved when the exception was thrown. here is a sketch of the code that caused that issue: at t ...Show All