Rocket Rick's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms "Terrarium is experience some server problems"

  Hello, so... I created a couple of creatures, which live quite happily in my own private terrarium. When  try to put them into the ecosystem the following error message is displayed: "Terrarium is experience (sic!) some server problems. Please try a ...Show All

• Visual C# How to handle events of Buttons created at run time

  Hi, I am creating buttons at the form load event of a form, Caption and ID of these buttons come from a database, I want to handle events of different buttons where each button perfirms different operation. Thanks and regards, kapil... Check out this MSDN Link, hope so this might help you http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbtskCreatingEventHandlersAtRunt ...Show All

• Windows Forms Stored Procedure Failure

  I have the following stored procedure to insert new users into a database. CREATE PROCEDURE spWebUsersInsert @strUserID char(10), @strPassword char (10), @strDescription varchar (50), @strAccessLevel varchar(20) AS INSERT INTO WebUsers Values(@strUserID       ,@strPassword       ,@st ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Cannot activate express products

  Hi everyone, When I click on the "Register now" link in the Help->Activate Product... menu for both Visual Web Developer Express and Visual C# Express nothing happens.  IE is my only installed browser. Is there a link on the Express product web sites that would allow me to actiavte my 2 products   Or any idea on why clicking that link would not take me into my IE Thanks, Mike Hatfield When are ...Show All

• Visual C# Dispose Method Error

  Hi guys I need help. on the following code: protected override void Dispose( bool disposing) { if (disposing && (components != null )) { components.Dispose(); } base .Dispose(disposing); } I am receiving an error like this: Error 1 'Web.Form1.Dispose(bool)': no suitable method found to override Can anyone please help I don't believe that a web form impliments ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) MSDN Chat: DLinq, February 9th @ 1pm Pacific Time

  This is our first official DLinq chat. We're still early in the planning and development stage, so we can react to your feedback much more easily. People from the C# and DLinq teams will be there; show up and tell them what's on your mind! The official chat schedule entry . Add a reminder to your calendar. The chatroom itself . All upcoming developer chats . Have some time zone questions Check chats category on my blog for t ...Show All

• .NET Development Trying to create a generic shell context menu extension

  Hi, I'm developing a small file encryption program, and I was able to add a shell extension to decrypt files, as the installation package (within VS2005) offered the option to create a filetype, with associated icon and command ( launches the application, with the /d (decrypt) parameter, and the filename). Nice. But, what I would like to do, is create a shell extension, that displays for any file (except .s5 ones, if possible) - I guess u ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to give value to parameter in a query of dataset in C#.net2005?

  I am in C#.net2005 I have a listbox bound to a dataset, in the dataset, I built a new query: SELECT ServiceID, ProductDetails, ServiceNotes, ServiceCharge,  DeliveredDate, CustomerName FROM [Freedom Scooter Service Reminder] WHERE CustomerName = "@CNAME" AND DeliveredDate IS NULL in Code, I want to give value to this parameter "@CNAME" , so that the listbox will show the records with given CustomerName. by the way, the value of ...Show All

• Visual C++ VCBuild and project level settings

  I'm building a VS.NET 2005 solution that contains only C++ projects. At the moment I'm running VCBuild from the command line, but later I'd like to incorporate it into an MSBuild script. It seems that VCBuild isn't picking up project-level properties. We have Additional Include Directories on some projects, and they fail because the headers can't be found. They compile in the IDE. I am using the /useenv switch, but I thought it only affected ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System user defined port - asp.net applications

  is there a way how i can choose the port used by the internal visual studio 2005 web server i don't want that there's always another port used. I would like to assign 1 port to this asp.net application for testing. thanks for any advices Please post this question on the ASP.NET forum here: http://forums.asp.net/ Regards, Vikram ...Show All

• Visual Studio optimistic lock vs. pessimistic lock

  I have been using WinCVS for sometime but got no experience with SourceSafe.  I'm wondering if SourceSafe supports optimistic lock.  That is, does SourceSafe allow two people to edit the same file at the same time In CVS, two people can edit the same file at the same time.  The conflict will be resolved when the edited file is committed into the repository.  CVS will do the merging as far as it can.  It only notify the ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I call a static function for a generic class?

  I have a class SwatchPanel which takes Swatch as a parameter type. How can I call a static function within the Swatch class For example the code below fails on TSwatch.Exists. How can I get the call to work Suggestions would be very welcome. Thanks, Steve public class SwatchPanel <TSwatch> : System.Windows.Forms. Panel where TSwatch : Swatch {     protected virtual bool SetOkButtonState()  &n ...Show All

• Windows Forms Shared objects in DesignTime

  Got a problem, simply: A.dll with class CA with shared function GetS B.dll contains a control with a property 'E' that when set calls the GetS function C.dll contains several forms which use the control from B.dll D.dll contains several forms which use the&nb ...Show All

• Windows Forms Sample Code: TreeGridView - collapsing/expanding DataGridView

  I've just started a blog and the first main post is a sample that I wrote to customize the DataGridView to support collapsing and expanding. I call it a TreeGridView: http://blogs.msdn.com/markrideout/archive/2006/01/08/510700.aspx   Let me know what you think!   -mark DataGridView Program Manager Microsoft This post is provided "as-is"   Fantastic code Mark ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Custom Service loading from a different client request

  When I receive a web service request to the existing workflow instance, it can't find the service that I created earlier. I wonder if I need to add my service to the web config file that when the request came, it can load and execute that service. Any ideas Correct, in case of web service, the workflow services should be specified in web.config. When the workflow runtime is running worklfow services cannot ...Show All