Tom v E's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms OnPaint is called for each child?

  Good afternoon, I wanted to do custom drawing on my form, but remarked that the OnPaint routine was called very often, slowing down my application a lot. In fact, it it called for each child when it needs to be repainted. If I put a button on my form, when I'll move my mouse over it, both Form1::OnPaint and Form1::button1->OnPaint will be called, but my form should not change... I don't know if it's normal, and didn't find anything about this. I could verify if a specific button was being repainted by doing something like this: private : System::Void Form1_Paint(System::Object^ sender, System::Windows::Forms::PaintEventArgs^ e) { ...Show All

• Windows Forms Custom TabControl Designer

  I have Inherited form TabControl and added a custom Designer Inherited from ControlDesigner. When TabControl uses this Designer I cannot select the TabControl, in the IDE, by clicking on it. I am monitoring messages, from the Designer, and the Control does not recieve WM_LEFTBUTTON Messages on the main body of the Control. In fact this seems to be a Non&nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS - XML config file

  Hi All, I am looking for help trying to configure an XML dtsconfig file, I am using different connection managers for my Source and Destination Databases, I am also using an XML dtsconfig file to set these parameters dynamically, however I dont want to use userid/password to connect to my source/destination databases and instead use trusted connection or windows authentication, I remember we had an option in earlier DTS where we could set it up as 0 or 1and use windows authentication, I cannot find this in the new SSIS package properties. Appreciate your help in advance. The only property for ...Show All

• Architecture what are available workflow standards

  Hi, I am doind research on workflow applications and tools which help in generating workflows in .net. Can somebody send me a list of workflow standards like BPEL etc. followed now- a-days and which is followed mostly. If you can guide me to some link, that would be of great help. regards bhaskar ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office OPen Excel file to perform a VLOOKUP and close

  Hello VB Folks, and friends, I'd like to try to open an Excel spreadsheet which is a matrix table of fares. I need to perform a VLOOKUP on 2 parameters passed from 2 textboxes, or two lists. (one is coming from, and one is going to)... Then I need to close the file, and show the answer(result) in another textbox. Is this something that can be done without buying Visual Tools For Office Thanks...I hope this is enough description for all of you. If not, say the word...any word! Elgee, In a few minutes, I'm going to move this to the VSTO Forum. (Visual Studio Tools for Office) ...Show All

• Visual Basic Java custom settings registry value

  I have been digging through the IE documentation all day, but can't seem to find a clear answer on which registry value changes the enable "Run unsigned Content" and enable "Run signed Content." You can get there by going: Internet options | Security | Trusted Sites | Custom | Java Custom Settings | enable run unsigned content | enable signed content Any help would be much appreciated! Hi - This is a VB.NET forum and I don't think we have the right folks to answer this question. You might try an IE or ASP.NEt group. Best, Paul ...Show All

• Smart Device Development CAB file for connecting to SQL Express 2005

  Hi, I'm having difficulties trying to connect my smart device(Symbol MC50) to the SQL Server Express 2005. I've earlier deployed my application to SQL Server 2000 and after installing sql.ppc.wce4.armv4 onto the smart device. It was working fine. (It can authenticate via AD, retrieve data from server). When I try to do to the same to another server running SQL Express 2005, i'm unable to connect. Please advise. Regards, crab_era There’s no difference on a client side between SQL Server and SQL Express, but Express need to be properly configured to allow for TCP/IP connection and proper connection string should be us ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Were do i create a menu?

  Were do i create a menu |: tnx In the design view, you drag over a menu from the list of components in the toolbox. Then you just click on menu items and type to add them, and set their properties as you would any other item on a form. ...Show All

• Visual C++ How can I sign ActiveX controls/references in VS2005?

  In VS2003 C++, I can configure strong names for ActiveX control references so I can sign and build my main assembly. This is done from the Project Managed Wrapper Properties. But I cannot find an equivalent for this in VS2005 C++. I see properties for references in Project References, but they are grayed out. Is there a way to sign ActiveX controls/references in VS2005 Thanks I have a project using a WinXP / VS 2003 / .Net Framework 1.1 project which references Interop.SHDocVw.dll. This project was opened and migrated to Vista / VS 2005 / .NET Framework 2.0. When I build the project, I receive an error, ...Show All

• SQL Server checking length and triming the value at ','!

  Hi all! I have a record coming from the database having of F_name,L_name, and M_name being concatenated and separated with comma. In an expression of a textbox control value I would like to check the length of this record and if it is more than 12 only to take the first values till the comma’,’ which appears prior to the 12 th character and truncate the rest. For example: Record from the database= FirstName,LastName,MiddleName 1) GAUTHIER, JEFFREY, Jane     D esired result GAUTHIER, b/c if Last name is added it will be more than 12. 2) Jane, JEFFREY, GAUTHIER D esired result Jane, b/c if Last name and first ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DoEvents vs. OnPaint-Invalidate()

  I was just wondering if the OnPaint-Invalidate() method of creating a render loop is really better than the DoEvents method. I do not come from a directx background but I am forcing myself to do it so that I can help create the next great game (of course!) Anyway, I just saw this method in the Coding4fun articles and it seems to definitely be a more OOP approach in any case. Are there any other benefits A great game loop can be found inside the DirectX Sample Framework. Look for the MainLoop() function in the /common files (of the DX folder). I can't remember the exact name of the file, but it's something like dxutil ... Good ...Show All

• .NET Development RFID Infrastructure

  I am extremely interested in learning more about the latest microsoft rfid infrastructure. Having experience with using various rfid products I wish to get involved (hopefully betas are available ) with the latest platform at this early stage. Does anybody know where I can learn more about this latest initiative. All I can find on the web are press releases which tell me nothing Hi, Here is the MSDN RFID developer center: http://msdn.microsoft.com/canada/rfid/ Regards, Vikram ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to data stuff from an Access Database with VB 2005

  I see other solutions, but have been beating my head trying to get set up to be able to port my vb6 stuff to .net.  I use an Access Database with Many tables and relationships.  Most of all the samples I see are for SqlServer etc.  Where is a good area to go find samples etc for doing Access with VB2005 As an added information.  I have always connected and did the database stuff in code, I never used the Data Environment in VB6.  My programs/Applications I am working with require constant updates to various tables as there are multiple users.  There are Fields that are unique an ...Show All

• SQL Server save unicode data into MSDE SQL

  Dear Expert: I am facing a problem which is after the Asia characters saving to SQL server (MSDE version), value in the field will be showed in all question marks, the develop enviroment which I used is Visual Studio .Net 2003 C# and in Windows XP Sp2, the system is already configured to Unicode, I have also set the field type in database is nVarChart, when I manually key in these Asia characters into the database, it shows the correct word, when through the application, the problem will be happened. Any reply is a very appreciate. Wells. Shouldn't you be using SqlDbType.NVarChar, instead of SqlDbType.VarChar ...Show All

• Visual C# Setting Exchange Master Account SID

  Hi, Can you provide an example of setting the msExchangeMasterSID for a mailbox, in case you want to delete the NT account that owns it I already know how to set Active Directory properties, my problem is where do i get this SID, is it a GUID of another object in the domain etc Thanks Vin Hi Vin, I am just checking to see how this is going. Please drop me a quick note at your convenience to let me know the current status of this issue. If you have any concerns, please do not hesitate to let me know. Thanks, and have a great day! :) Best regards, Peter Huang ...Show All