Guido Schrage's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Controlling activeChild form from MdiParent

  I am developing a MDI application where I would like to be able to control the activeChild form from buttons on the MdiParent toolbar. For example navigate through records in the dataset of the activeChild form.  I would like to use the same&nb ...Show All

• SQL Server Users in limbo

  SQL Server Management Studio Express CTP Nov 9.00.1399 I create a user called "appx" (uses SQL Server Authentication). I attach a database (created with SQL 2000), that contains a user called appx. I get "cannot open database. the login failed" when I try to connect to the database from a client app. Note: I can connect as "sa". When I use the Management Studio Express to see the user's properties for the database, the user name ...Show All

• Visual Basic Issuing commands through a console program (cmd.exe or telnet.exe)

  I can open a console program (cmd.exe) through VB.NET. Now how do I enter text based commands to that console I would assume that I have to take control of STDIN and STDOUT. I also need to capture the responses from the console to parse the result. Don't need lots of detail, just point me in the right direction. Ya, that was the first thing I tried. Doesn't work for me. Here is a snippet that I tested with. ...Show All

• SQL Server ReportViewer control

  trying to build a test page with a single ReportViewer control < rsweb : ReportViewer ID ="ReportViewer1" ProcessingMode ="remote" runat ="server"> < ServerReport DisplayName ="VSTestReport" ReportPath ="MyReports/VSTestReport" ReportServerUrl ="http: //pugrs/reportserver"/> </ rsweb : ReportViewer >   build fails with 401: Unauthorized. Not even sure where to begin troubleshooting this one. ...Show All

• .NET Development OleDbDataAdapter query parameter (Oracle)

  (New to VS.) I have a simple query that I am entering into the QueryBuilder. (Oracle backend) SELECT ... FROM... WHERE (emp_last LIKE ) I'm having a problem figuring out the WHERE clause syntax within QueryBuilder/Visual Studio. When I hit the Execute button, the question mark changes to @PARAM1 and the query seems to run within QueryBuilder. When I hit OK and the dialog closes, I get an Oracle error "Ora-00936". I've tried using a colon wi ...Show All

• Visual Basic Passing Class Value

  Hi All, I have create a class called "ShowData", and this class have a windows form attached called "frmData". FrmData has a listview listing all the data. And I create another windows form call "frmDisplayQueue" How do I passing the value from that frmData's Listview back to frmDisplayQueue Try sending the project to christian / dot / graus / at / gmail / dot / com. ( remove the slashes ).  I'll ha ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista Dec CTP on Inspiron 9100 Fails

  Quite a while ago, I installed a version of Vista on this laptop and it "worked" [the OS loaded and booted -- nothing functioned because none of my drivers worked and it bombed after trying to install the XP drivers]. I've since wiped the comp and I just downloaded the new Dec CTP to give it a whirl.... Well, no joy. The install process ran, rebooted the PC and then stopped. I left it for about THREE hours so I am pretty sure it was ...Show All

• .NET Development how to set up SQL connection with Windows authentication using asp.net (VB)

  Hi, I need more help. I have to set up a connection to SQL server with Windows authentication using asp.net (VB) . I am more familiar with SQL authentication but not with Windows authentication How will I configure the following: web.config machine.config Does anyone have a sample code in VB that I could use to connect to SQL with windows authentication. I tried to use sqlconnection(server=sqlserver;database=db;integra ...Show All

• Smart Device Development could .netcf 2.0 serialport component not support windows mobile 5.0 ?

  Hi everybody : I read many articles in forum ; there are many people having this problem. could anyone have solution in this problem What problem Please be very specific, see this: http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2005/03/please-read-before-posting-to-ng.html ...Show All

• Windows Forms Maintaining the selected row after sorting a DataGridView

  Hi, Simple question, hopefully there's a simple answer: How can I maintain the same selected row even after a sort on a DataGridView In other words, after new items have been added to the binding source and a sort has been forcefully been carried out (in the custom BindingList), how can I ensure that the selected row is the same row as the one selected before the sort Bear in mind, I'm doing the sorting in a custom Bin ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums A Important Question about a program

   Recently I was promised a laptop by someone who is associated with microsoft he said it was part of the waterfall charity program. was he feeding me garbage I've done some research on our Intranet and have not found any mention of a "waterfall charity program." Sorry. -brenda (ISV Buddy Team) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Copy the content of the source control from one TFS installation to the other

  Is there a way to copy the content of the source control (TFS Beta 3 Refresh) of a single project or of all projects from one TFS Server to the other Not just a snapshot - certainly that can be done, but the whole history Thanks, Ognjen In v1 we don't have support for moving or copying part of the source control repository from one server to another. I would expect this functionality to be considered for future version ...Show All

• Windows Forms Impersonation - Seems to work but no network file access??

  Hi, For network file access within my application I want only an impersonated account to be able to complete any operations. The impersonated user account seems to log on ok and all the test code runs fine. However, when i try to access the network& ...Show All

• Visual C# Visual C# Communities

  Does anyone know of active Visual C# communities, whether they be a forum, irc, or news group Also check out: http://channel9.msdn.com/ While not C# specific, there is some great content here. One other that has some occasionally good info is: http://forums.apress.com/ HTH. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) VisualBrush + BitmapEffect + Animation = Bug?

  There's an weird issue I've found with using VisualBrush and BitmapEffect at once. As I try to animate an element with BitmapEffect there's no problem. But as I create reflection with VisualBrush in XAML, the animation simply jumps from start to end. Here's the code:      1   < Grid xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation "     2       ...Show All