VBScriptor's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Digital signature

  How can I digitally sign a document either a Word or a PDF file using Visual Studio 2005 How do I assure it's integrity Thanks. Have you considered using the Digital Signature feature of Word In order to assure integrity of the document, you can't use VS. You'll need to use Words signing feature. You can find more information on signing documents here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/CH060839901033.aspx Hope that helps. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Error spawning "Cmd.exe"

  Hi! I wrote this piece of code because I want to use the Graphic Engine OGRE.... In a tutorial I found this piece of sample code: #include "ExampleApplication.h" class TutorialApplication : public ExampleApplication { protected : public : TutorialApplication() { } ~TutorialApplication() { } protected : void createScene( void ) { } }; #if OGRE_PLATFORM == OGRE_PLATFORM_WIN32 #define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN #include "windows.h" INT WINAPI WinMain( HINSTANCE hInst, HINSTANCE, LPSTR strCmdLine, INT ) #else int main(int argc, char **argv) ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Express MDF Shrink

  Hello, I have just installed the express studio management tools and shrunk a databse down from 3.1gb to 1.25gb. The information in the tools says that the freespace available now is 110.98mb. What does this freesapce relate to Hopefully not my database limit Michael Growing a file is expensive, so when you shrink a database, SQL Server doesn't remove all the unused space. It leaves a small amount (specified by the user) for new data. The 110 MB is the amount of free space left in the file before it has to grow again. You can read more about this here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms ...Show All

• Visual Basic textbox selectall not working

  Neither of the two code pieces are working for me... Private Sub TextBox1_GotFocus( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TextBox1.GotFocus TextBox1.SelectionStart = 0 TextBox1.SelectionLength = Len(TextBox1.Text) End Sub -= OR =- Private Sub TextBox1_GotFocus( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TextBox1.GotFocus TextBox1.SelectAll() End Sub When i put text in the textbox, move focus away, and then back again, i would expect the text to be selected, however it is not working for me. Any ideas (Visual Basic 2005 Pro ...Show All

• Windows Forms Textbox as "a required entry" using triangle mark in its right bottom corner

  Hi, anybody help me, please I want create a Textbox which inherits System.Windows.Forms.Textbox but have the ability to indicate that the Textbox is a "required field entry" by giving triangle mark at its right bottom corner. A boolean Required property can be added, allright, but my problem is how to draw the triangle mark when user set the Required property to true Inheriting from System.Windows.Forms.Textbox is another one I needed, because I don't want to lose the default implementation of original Textbox. Thanks. Try this: public class MyTextBox : TextBox {   private bool _required = false ;   public MyTextBox( ...Show All

• Visual Studio How Can Crystal Report Refresh some files, image which was insert to CR by OLE Object?

  Hello Keith , I inserted some object (word, excel, Image) into Crystal report by OLE Object and I set hyperlink to the object to link a file when preview CR I can open the file which was hyperlinked. I modified and save the file but contain of file after saved don't display on report. Can you help me Thanks Starfo Hello Starfo, I believe it has to do with how the OLE Object is updated.  If you are running your app in Visual Studio 2005 as a test then it will hold the OLE Object as the designer has loaded it.  If you run the app as a standalone exe file it will update properly each time the app is loaded.  So in my test c ...Show All

• Smart Device Development CAB/INF, install directory out of control with user selected install volume

  CAB/INF/CeAppMgr together with user selected installation volume. When users let the installation be done on device as suggested by CeAppMgr/Add-Rem-Prog the installation directory is set as described by Installdir in the .inf. When user choose to select another installation volym the suggested (and unchangeble) install directed is no longer the one set in the .inf Now it's generated by two variables in .inf, Provider under [Version] and AppName under [CEStrings] are merged together with a blankspace in between. Details ------- INF: [Version] Signature = "$Windows NT$" Provider   = " MyComp " CESignature = "$Windows CE$" [CEStr ...Show All

• Visual C# Moving a shape with mouse

  i 'm new in C# but i have an old hope to make a program using shapes and figures and moving them with mouse. my problem is : is there a way to restor previous image or background after moving the figure, like a CAD software does !! Thanks X 10000. Howdy, This depends on the scenario you are in, but everything is possible. You need to override the OnPaintBackground method of your form or control and set comment out the base update statement. You should be overriding the OnPaint method at any rate, and its in here that you should be calling the Clear method from your graphics context. So an example might look like the following: ...Show All

• Visual Studio MSBuild file for .Net 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, Compact Framework 1.0 & 2.0 and Mono

  Greetings, Intro: I'm currently working in a library that has to target both .Net 2.0 and .Net Compact Framework 2.0. My initial approach was to have two projects for each assembly. The source code would be all the same, with #if's testing for the compact or the full framework. One of the projects would have all the files, and the other all the files from the first linked. As the number of source files and assemblies growed, this turned into problematic. At some time, I also wanted to test if my code worked in mono, even if it wasn't required. So I thought of using msbuild to customize my build. I started googling, and found msbuild files fr ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to display multiple images in a row in ListView

  Can anyone help me to have multiple images and text together in a row in ListView Control. Without seeing your code, not sure I can offer much. Share the code, or have a look at the list control in SDF from OpenNETCF for an example. Cheers Daniel ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Web test failing RequestFailed: The value of the date string in the header is invalid.

  All webtests I run from VS2005 RTM are failing with a response of: RequestFailed: The value of the date string in the header is invalid. The request looks like this: GET /Angel63/sidebar.asp HTTP/1.1 User-Agent : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Accept : */* Accept-Language : en-US Host : 600m01 Cookie : ASPSESSIONIDSATDSCQA=LMGPKPGDJNEPFDPPJKBKILEP Accept-Encoding : gzip I can successfully run the same test using the beta 2 release of VS2005.  The only thing I can see that is different is that the request is slightly different. Request from VS2005 beta 2: GET /Angel63/sidebar.asp HTTP/1.1 User-Agent : Mozilla/4.0 (com ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Customising WorkflowActivity properties

  I had been working on Workflow since past few months and i found it to be an exiting technology..actually i wanted to know whether one can add customised properties to the existing Workflow activities..for instance if i need to add one more attribute To WebServiceInput activity is that possible..and if yes could you please guide me how to go about it. Thanking you in anticipation Retheesh Vijayan take a look at DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached(). This allows you to register a dependency property that you will use on child objects. For example, the ConditionedActivityGroup uses this ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problem in sending mail through web instead of localhost(Drop)

  I have done HOL 02 of wwf successfully. I want to send mail through web instead of sending it to the Drop folder of Inetpub in the local machine. So I have changed Smtpclient from "localhost" to SMTP Server name as shown in the below code. Then I am getting the following error. " An exception of type 'System.Net.Mail.SmtpException' occurred in System.dll but was not handled in user code Additional information: The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not authenticated. The server response was: Authentication required " MailAddress toAddress = new MailAddress (To); MailAddress ...Show All

• Windows Forms ComboBox bug?

  ComboBox control’s TextChanged event does not fire if selected item is changed using keyboard. Its DropDownStyle is set to DropDownList. Is this a bug or it’s supposed to work this way Any workaround to capture this event Note: This event is fired if selected item is changed using mouse. This event is fired (by keyboard changes) if its DropDownStyle is not DropDownList. .net combobox comes with a lot of bugs. also the datetimepicker, tabcontrol.. etc. . cbo.selectedindex = -1 cbo.selectedindex = -1 i hate workarounds.. Ive been reading the microsoft best practices a lot.. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Reference problem in Beta 2

  We are developing a new VB .Net Beta 2 application.  This application references some DLLs that were developed in VB .Net 2003.  When I build the application, everything works fine.  However, when someone else from the project team gets the latest version of the solution from SourceSafe and rebuilds, he gets an error that says "<The system cannot find the reference specified>".  If he removes the reference and then adds it back, it works fine.  But then if I do a get of the latest version, the same problem happens to me.  The DLLs in question are all located in a folder on our C: drive with the same p ...Show All