Kobi Reiter's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Add custom viewer to existing expression evaluator for debugging

  Is it possible to add a custom viewer to an existing expression evauator and debug engine In particular, if I create a ProjectFlavor of a Workflow project type, would it be possible to create a custom viewer for the debugger to show customized data at a break point Hi Jim, Thanks for the reply. It turns out that my idea of flavoring the workflow project type will not be possible because WWF does not su ...Show All

• Windows Forms what is the importance of ds.acceptchanges

  hi when i update the dataset using a dataadpter i write da.update(ds) but i see some articales in msdn something like handling concurrency errors article i see after updating the dataset he writes ds.acceptchanges what is the importance of acceptchages now ! thanks in advance. You should look at a dataset as a disconnected image of your database, living on the client. As soon as the client starts modifying data in the datase ...Show All

• Visual Basic Making a picturebox have a transparent background

  I have a picture of a panda with a pink background (panda_down.bmp) and I was wondering: how do I get that pink background to be transparent Draw the image yourself in a paint handler, and use the imageattributes class to make 255/0/255 ( magenta ) transparent. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Just installed VWS and allready problems...as expected!

  I downloaded web matrix two days ago and i just found out that VWS was taking over...so i dloaded VWS. Problems right at the start. I go to create a website from the template they supply and in the directions it states that you have to run the site one time...i did and a name and pass box came up, as expected. Then the directions state that you must go into the asp.net config and create a user. I attempt to create a user but it wi ...Show All

• Visual C++ Duplicatable INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR from forward declarations, Visual C++ / Visual Studio .NET 2003

  I have run into a very annoying problem. You can duplicate this problem as follows: 1. Setup a new empty project 2. Create 3 files: main.cpp, class1.h, class2.h 3. In class1.h setup an empty struct 4. In class2.h setup forward declaration to a "class3" and then setup an struct that is entirely empty except for a single value of type class3 5. main.cpp contains: #include "class1.h" typedef  class1 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Using Windows Control in IE

  Hi I use Visual Studio.Net 2003 to design a windows control, ctlBookList on Windows Server 2003. In this control, I use a DataGrid, dgBookList. In the control's construtor, I use SqlDataAdapter to read data from a database, LibraryDemo:   public ctlBookList() ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions ASP (not ASP.NET)

  OK, here is the deal, short and sweet. I have a godaddy account which supports asp, mysql, access, and frontpage extensions.  I want to create a very simple asp site which includes the following: A Home Page Site Navagation (those links at the top that show you how deep in the page you are) User Registration A Guest Book A Discussion Forum (although it's gonna be hard to be the one are proboards) A resume, which can ...Show All

• Visual Studio Font in Search Results window too small and can not be changed

  When I do a Search in Visual Studio 2005 Help, a Search results window appears.  The font in that window is so small that I have a hard time reading it.  (My eyes are 64 years old.) Ok, no problem, I thought, I'll just change the font size to a larger font.  Oops, there seems to be no way of changing the font size in the search results window!  (In Help windows displaying a help article, you can change the font size, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions .NET 2.0

  Is there any way to use VB 2005 Express to produce programs that don't require .NET 2.0 Say, maybe just .NET 1.x I know its required to install VB 2005 Express, but I'd like to make programs that can run on .NET 1.x; which aren't ready for 2.0 yet. Thanks in advance. :D ...Show All

• SQL Server Transferring LogonUser authentication cookie

  This is my first post request you to please help.... BackGround: The requirements for my project demanded SSRS 2005 to be configured to use custom security extension instead of its default windows authentication. I customized the FormsAuthentication sample that is installed with SQL Server 2005, to make this working. Therefore, in the present state of my SSRS, a login page is open whenever a user reaches Report Server or Report Manager url ...Show All

• SQL Server cant connect

  i am devleoping an ASP.Net website now. i got a problem on connecting. when i try to connect (i manually made thew connection), it wont connect. the error is this: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Cannot open user default database. Login failed. Login failed for user 'MANEC\Batman'. at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) I have other other webpage that us ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to assign std::string object to CString object?

  Hi, In my MFC program, I like to assign the content of std::string object (stdstring) to CString object(mystring), but it is not letting me do it. Do you have any idea for the assignment or conversion Thanks, vcboy std::string has a method called c_str() that returns the underlying char *, so you can do this: CString s(myString.c_str()) CString has GetBuffer to do the same, but with ...Show All

• Windows Forms Automatically scroll to the end of text in a multiline textbox

  Hello, I have a multiline textbox where I add text programmatically. When text was added and the text length exceeds the visible part of the TextBox I want to scroll programmatically to the end of the text. I'm looking for something like the En ...Show All

• Windows Forms Refresh Form Question

  Hello, i am writing a program including file and folder browsing controls. During the time it is running, the user can create or delete files from the folders my program is showing using another program, let's say windows explorer. My question is when,&n ...Show All

• Visual Basic DataTable and MDI form problems in VB.Net 2003

  Hi all, I will be really happy if someone could help me with a problem that has been causing me heartache for about a year. From an MDI parent I want to directly access the contents of a DataTable that is in an MDI child that is only singled out by its caption text. In the parent I figure out which MDI child I want by counting over Me.MdiChildren.Length while comparing its Text with the caption I am looking for. I then find the Ja ...Show All