J.Wright's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Error: Subreport could not be shown

  I am a new one in using ReportViewer in VS 2005. I try to use Main and Sub report to show data from my dataset. It doesn't matter if I use main report only, but the problem is when I use subreport intergrated with the main report. When I run it in browser, it shows:    Error: Subreport could not be shown The main report is ok.Is there any solution to the problem Thank for your help!!!! Hello ...Show All

• .NET Development Sockets and Serialization

  Hi, I'm building a windows forms app that needs to connect to a server farm via the internet. Performance is of the essence. I'm thinking to use .NET remoting but I prefer sockets to avoid the complexity of remoting; the data I need to pass are small in size anyway. For larger data I'll use Web services. I know that sockets connection can pass array of bytes and not objects. Can I pass a serialized object from socket to socket There' ...Show All

• Visual C++ Visual C++ 2005 Beta 2 - can't edit files

  After getting a BSOD my VC++ 2005 project or something else got corrupted. All the source files are Ok, but whenever I open one, the backspace, enter, delete, page up, page down, arrow keys. etc. don't work, but I can type letters. If I try to recompile, eveything suddenly works, until I open another source file. I really don't want to make a new project file, I have many hundreds of files and a big file hierarchy tree, which will take ages to r ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem: How to draw text into bitmap?

  Hi, I need to draw text into the bitmap. Resulting text should be "smooth" (antialiased) and international scripts should be handled properly. In addition, it should be fast. You might think, "That is simple, isn't it " Well, it is not! There are at least two ways to do it: 1. Graphics.DrawString and 2. TextRenderer.DrawText. Problem is that I cannot reach my targets with these two guys (who wou ...Show All

• SQL Server using filters to full text search inside pdf & word documents

  how can pdf, word filters be used to full text search inside pdf, word documents using SQl Server 2005 and how to find what filters are loaded. please give a step by step instruction or direct to a comprehensive tutorial. thanks for reading. Please take a look at topic below: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms142499.aspx You can install the Adobe IFilter on the server and you should be able to leverage it from SQL ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Microsoft visual studio 2005 Express Edition

  hi, I am new to vb, and in the visual studio 2005 express edtion , i am trying to create a deployment project, but i am not seeing add project in my file menu, i need to download something addtion for this, ( actually i am trying to do deployment with visual studio.net) Please help to do this project,, thankx' lal Hello, The people monitoring the Visual Studio Express Editions web forums should be ab ...Show All

• Smart Device Development VS 2005 and Smart Device installation problem

  I have a weird problem with my VS 2005 and Smart Device SDK installation. I'm using the DVDs from the Windows Mobile 5.0 Developer Evaluation Kit given away at the recent MEDC. I want to successfully install the Pocket PC and Smartphone SDKs and compare the IDE etc with that of evC 4.0. I appear to have successfully installed VS2005 however the Smart device SDKs do not appear to installed correctly at all even though I did install them. There s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions add member function

  at full version "add member function" feature is enable at class view. is not it available at express edition You are correct. These wizards are unfortunately not available in VC Express edition. I hope it's not too big of an inconvenience. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office API request: WM_INITMENU event

  Hi; Please consider adding an event that you are about to display a drop down menu from themain menu. You have an equivilent message when the RMB pop-up menu is about to be displayed. thanks - dave ...Show All

• Visual C# Threading - ActiveX Events/Objects

  Hi, I have a threading problem that drives me absolutely nuts and I don't know what to do: I'm using an ActiveX object and subscribe to one of its events. Whenever I execute the method that drives the event, a couple events are triggered. The event response holds an ActiveX object which I need to work with. What happens now is that whenever the event response returns it runs on a different thread. I want to store the event response activex ob ...Show All

• Visual Basic Can reflection do this?

  I wasn't sure if this was the best place to post this question but I figured why not give it a try. What I want to do is write code that can look at the input parameter values that are passed to a method at runtime. I would suspect this is something we can do using reflection but I can't find any way to do it. I know I can look at a specific instance of a class and look at it's property names and values but what about the methods that are being ...Show All

• .NET Development Reflection with TypeBuilder adding duplicate field in a type.

  I have a problem, im trying to dynamically create a type using .Net reflection and c#. Using the the TypeBuilder object i create field in the specified type : TypeBuilder oObjectBuilder = (TypeBuilder)oClassObject; FieldBuilder oFieldBuilder = oObjectBuilder.DefineField(strFieldName,oFieldType,FieldAttributes.Public); My problem is that DefineField does not trow an exception if there is a field already defined with the same name &quo ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Visual Studio 2005 debug

  Hi, I just installed Visual Studio 2005 and I noticed that it comes with Windows Mobile 2003 SDK, but I can't find spdps.exe application. I can't use spdps.exe /create /device so I can't debug the application on device. I made changes at project settings ( Authenticode signing ) in order to have the application signed and I can run the application on the device .but I can't debug. The error message I get is : "Unable to start ...Show All

• Visual Studio New Editor or Not?

  I want to add a new argument to a recipe that will basically present a drop-down panel to a user allowing them to select one or more values from the drop-down panel.  These values would then be used as input in the creation of a new project item.  How would I go about doing this   Would I create a new editor and attach it to the wizard field   Or, is this done through creating a new Value Provider ...Show All

• Visual Basic Visual Basic installed in Windows XP Media Center

  I've just installed VB4.0 on my Windows XP Media Center machine. This is a new machine replacve my older Windows XP machine. When trying to open the Data Manager I get an error, out of memory.    I'm sure I'm just missing a dll or something like that. Does anyone have any suggestions I have both VB4 and VB6 Again, my problem is VB4, the DataBase manage does not work correctly It comes with error w ...Show All