Ken Sykora7765's Q&A profile

• SQL Server ReporItems referring to a cell containing a subreport?

  Hi guys, i have a column in a report that must calculate a percentage based on two columns that follow them. I am aware that i can use the ReportItems! collection for this, but one of the columns i need to reference is actually a subreport because its data comes from a different source. It is just a single cell subreport, which makes it appear totally part of the table it is in. Is this possible Just to be clear, what i want is an expression ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to Display a Tooltip at a Different Location than the Mouse Cursor?

  I was wondering if it's possible to display a tooltip at a different location than where the mouse currently is. I'm making a map program, and when I go to a desired intersection, I want the tooltip to popup on top of it to sort of annotate it. If this isn't possible, does anyone know any other way to draw a balloon type message at a specified point on the screen Thanks for any help. Sure, just set the Ba ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do you write a 'login' winform?

  I have a quick question: I have a winform that needs to have a 'login' window.  I would like to show the login window before the main form opens.  If the login fails, the whole thing should close; otherwise, the login window should hi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Panels in the StatusStrip

  Is there any way to add panels to the StatusStrip , like there is with the StatusBar control It seems the StatusStripPanel class from the Beta was removed. I can't find any information regarding why it was removed. Thanx in advance. Hi, We have two beta versions of VS 2005. Many features have changed. StatusStripPanel is also removed. Why you need that Did you have any special request If you still have any concern, please feel free ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can Feature Area path break down be stored somewhere?

  Hi there,      Everytime I create new project, to add the all our Freature Area and component I have to go through Clasification and add them all one by one manually. I was wondering if this information can be actually added by copying and pasting some file ( like in case of customizing Bug form , i can just paste my customized bug.xml file) or if I can automate this process, so that it can save some of my time ...Show All

• Visual Studio The target "GetTargetPath" does not exist

  Hi the following error occurs when i build a solution containing my VSPackage project and a windowsApplication. Error 1 The target "GetTargetPath" does not exist in the project. MyLibrary18.mlproj WindowsApplication1   Please help Thanks kajal Hi, I solved it myself. in the custom project file the following line is required to compile the project and have referenced too as a project reference:- ...Show All

• .NET Development Type Conversion Problems

  I'm having a problem with a program I'm working on, which uses plugins. -The plugin is declared on one Assembly, as a class. -Other plugin assemblies have classes that inherit from this plugin. -The main application loads all assemblies in the root dir, and loads classes with the BaseType name of the plugins name. Now when I try to load the plugins, they can't be converted to the plugin type! It seems that the base type and the plugin type are d ...Show All

• .NET Development Serial Port Communication in C#

  How to get  using System.IO.Ports  I have in VS2003 using System.IO.IsolatedStorage   thats alllll............ how to get access to serial port  .............   plz help Hi, The SerialPort control is a new addition in v2.0 and is not available in earlier version of the .NET Framework. For the earlier versions - here are some good links: 1. http://www.devhood.com/tutorial ...Show All

• .NET Development Creating new string by adding a few strings at a time

  Hello everyone, This is the first time I have worked with strings in VB. I am trying to create a string made up of some characters and strings that I am parsing out of other data. I can get the characters and strings parsed okay. My problem comes when I try to add them to the new string. I feel like I need to allocate the space for the new string, but I don't know how to do it. Here's my code: Dim urnString As String = ""    ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Selection of multiple rows of a column in Grid

  Hi, I am a newbie and using FoxPro 8 in XP. I was wondering if we can select multiple rows of a grid column using the shift key. I have a combo box in one column of a grid. I want to fill several rows at a time with the selected combo item. How can I select multiple rows of a column It should be just like how we select multiple controls at a time in a form to change the font style or size etc. Can any body please give me a hint or source ...Show All

• SQL Server Notifications to Live Communication Server?

  I had this all wired up with version 1.0 of SNS and Exchange Messenger Server -- and have a 3 year absence from this particular problem domain, I have to re-create the solution with the current suite of tools. I am coming up totally blank -- I can't even find the SDK for Live Communication Server.. I  need to ship alerts to Windows Messenger the same way MSN alerts works for traffic, email and stocks. Guy I would recommend ...Show All

• Visual Basic Datagridview Row selection Style

  Hi Is there any way to change the selection curser I have to use a full row selection in my application and now its a blue line and i would like to have something a bit more discret.. I dont know if cursor is the best word.. In vb6 i think it was called the selection fill style. A simple example which I think should show you how to chnage the cell formating. Public Class Form1 Private Sub DataGridV ...Show All

• Visual Basic playing mp3 and mpeg

    hello how i can play mp3 and mpeg with VB is there a free activex   is it possible : playing mp3 with "windows media player" OLE Object   Thanks   This should be a simple process of determining the file that you have selected from the open file dialog and using this to set the URL property of the media player OCX.   You may want to restrict the open file dialog to files that you know media player ...Show All

• Visual Studio jump to url - parameters

  I use navigation/jump to url property to link reports. It works very nicely except that I can't figure out how to pass the report parameters from here. Please help. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions system parameters

  hi guyz, i am a newbie in winapi programming, i am having problem regarding syatemsparametersinfo call. from user32.dll library it's showing that "SPI_* parameter(system parameters) are invalid, in this function i defined it as dim SPI_GETDESKWALLPAPER AS UINT32(WHICH IS ACTUALLY A DWORD) AND THEN I PASSED IT AS   ARGUEMENT,WITHOUT INITIALIZING IT, I UNDERSTOOD THAT PROBLEM THAT BEING UNINITIALIZED IT HAS A JUNK VALUE, BUT I ALSO ...Show All