naomi's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Tab pages- enabling and disabling (or mimicing as seen in C# thread)

  I had a search for this and found something about mimicing the enabling and disabling of tabpages but unfortunately couldn't convert it from C# (im a beginner and only with vb). I have a shared variable called op as a string. It has three states, "Add", "Edit" and "Delete". When i open the form (with three different buttons) it changes the variable as required. I have three tabpages add, edit and delete and i wan ...Show All

• .NET Development Troubles Updating my DataBase, using dataadapter

  Can anyone please help me. I trying to update my database. I'm using Access 2003, and Visual Basic.NET 2003. This is the code i'm using. //////////////////////////////////// passval = txtconfirm.Text         idval = txtid.Text         MsgBox(passval & " " & idval)         Try          &nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio SourceSafe Newbie Question

  I am new to source safe but find myself responsible for managing source code for my company. Here is the scenario. Development source code is managed in one source safe database. This code is routinely checked in and out by developers. When a new version of software is to be compiled for released, I get the latest source from source safe and place on a dedicated build machine at the working folder location. An external process copies selected s ...Show All

• Visual Basic KB915038 doesn't help

  Hi together I'm really surprised that this Hotfix generates so mutch discusion! I allway was thinking I'm the only person on this planet who has a crash problem with the VS2005 VB IDE. Great to here that I'm wrong. I talk about IDE Problems since we use VS2005 see: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx feedbackid=3f637569-a763-48a6-8d11-ce6dbc4b5ecd and http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/ProductFeedback/vie ...Show All

• Visual Studio File Explorer View

  I was wondering how difficult it would be to implement a "File Explorer" to go along with the "Solution Explorer" in DevStudio.  We do development on embedded systems that require all external build & debug tools, but we use VS as our standard IDE.  One that that would help many to convert to VS would be a simple explorer tree instead of always having to update projects. Any pointers (to examples or existing projects) would be ver ...Show All

• Visual C# Changing Permissons of FTP'ed File

  I am very new to .NET and I am trying to create an application that uploads a file to a server via FTP and then changes the permissions of the file once it is on the server. I am FTP'ing the file up to a linux server. I got the FTP part to work fine but i can't seem to find any articles or documentation on how to change file permissions remotely. Any help or guidance on this would be very much appreciated. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Trouble loading Baml using LoadComponent

  Hello, I'm trying to load some baml from resource assemblies using Application.LoadComponent. As a parameter I use Uri that contains full name of assembly with culture: "en". But LoadComponent gives me IOException, that same assembly, but with culture: "neutral", was not found. here is a sample that first loads PresentationFramework Luna baml, and then tries to load mainwindow.baml from Sparkle. Luna baml is loading as ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Interactive Designer XAML Search ?

  hi, I know we have the 2005 IDE for searching, etc. but I really need a search in the XAML view in interactive designer. my eyes hurt.....and its getting to be a large-ish piece of markup ! I just want to search for one string , i can edit, so i should be able to search. thanks for your understanding.... c ...Show All

• Visual Basic Generics: Can derived Class be the type Parameter of it's base Class?

  Hello, will something like this be possible in the final Version Public Class BoatPart ... End Class Public Class SailingBoatPart (Of Part as {BoatPart, New}) Inherits BoatPart ... End Class Public Class Sail Inherits SailingBoatPart(Of Sail) ... End Class Regards, Markus Sure this is possible. Module Module1     Public Class BoatPartSpecific         ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB2005 and webbrowser control

  Hi, I am trying to use the webbrowser control as a list view for viewing files on the disque. My main purpose is to use build-in fonctionnalities like thumnails view withaout having to write code (reinvent the wheel). It works great but I don't know how to programatically control the way the browser display files. I mean, how to control the "view" property (list, details, thumnails, etc) of the web browser. I also would like to remove that menu ...Show All

• Windows Forms toolStripStatusLabel1 is invisible.

  I have an MDI application. I have a statusstrip in my parent form(frmMain). In the child form, I have get the instance of the parents form and set the status control like this. frmMain .GetChildInstance.statusStrip1.Text = "Set from Child"; frmMain .GetChildInstance.statusStrip1.Visible = true ; frmMain .GetChildInstance.toolStripStatusLabel1.Text ="Set from Child"; frmMain .GetChildInstance.toolS ...Show All

• Windows Forms TabControl question...

  just a thought ..but is there any to make individual tabpages use windows XP style icons  [32bit with 8bit alpha] ..a couple of my developers are wanting to use the new style icons on a tab control and i don't really want to write a&n ...Show All

• Visual Basic Trouble reading bits.

  I am trying to read a byte from a certain address in a file. But, I am trying to read the byte in bit format (bits 0-7). I have tried to use the BitConverter and the BitArray classes but I cannot figure it out. I am pretty sure that BitArray is the one I need but there are no methods that look like they would do anything I want. Maybe I am just missing it. I checked the help section but the examples there were not what I am trying to do. Any ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions long interval between StreamReader/StreamWriter processes

  Hello, in my program I am using StreamReaders and StreamWriters, and they work, but if I use the StreamReader or StreamWriter process, it takes long before I can use them again, so now my question is: can I make the process-intervals(sorry if this name doesn't exist) shorter Or should I use an other way to read and write files, and who can be used in faster time-intervals Grtz, Tom. What do you mean by "it takes long before I can u ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot get rid of SQL server 2005 Developer Edition Installation

  I cannot uninstall the SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition.  I have run the uninstall from the control panel for ALL of the SQL Server 2005 components.  They are no longer listed in the installed programs list.  I have done the uninstall with both the Control panel and the command line. When I try to install SQL server Express (Downloaded from the web last night)  It will not install.  The error message is: TITLE: Microsof ...Show All