Arto B's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Problem with windows themes and child forms

  Hi, First of all, forgive me if I don't use the correct terms, I'm quite new with windows forms and all (and I'm not english ^^) I have a main windows form. Inside, I want to have 2 other forms. I want those forms to be "cropped" to the main windows (I don't want MDI windows, I want the child forms to stay inside the main form) I somehow managed to do that, but now, I have a weird problem with the windows themes : when a child window i ...Show All

• Visual Basic Remote Registery Access and Windows 2003

  I am trying to write a simple app for connecting to each machine in my domain and pulling particular registery entries. It works fine on Windows 2000 machines but when connecting to windows 2003 machines I am getting   System.UnauthorizedAccessException was unhandled   Message="Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation." All the machines are a member of the same Windows 2003 domain and the app is running as a login that is a ...Show All

• .NET Development Connection to Access Database not registered

  I have made a very simple(!) web application from a dummies book. However, when i attempt to run the site locally, via localhost - i get this message -: The 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0:Data Source=c:\inetpub\wwwroot\a38\data\ClassyDS.mdb' provider is not registered on the local machine. Can anyone help me to understand what this means and how to fix the problem I think your connection string is just not ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions install errors

  Where does the download put the installation file when downloading vb Express beta 2   Have tried twice to install and keep getting install errors.  Tried downloading the vbsetup.exe file again, but figured out it's still looking at the same install file that's already been downloaded previously when I execute it.  It all installs OK on the laptop. Also, on the desktop install, I don't get the .NET beta 2 selection to install.&nbs ...Show All

• .NET Development Member of Group

  Hi, please can you tell me, how I can obtain a user that belongs to the specified group It is a domain user and a domain group. I already connect to the Activ Directory via LDAP. When I found a user he has property called MemberOf that contain a list of groups the user belongs to it. But only some user has filled up this property. Thanks The “memberOf” attribute contains all the groups except the primary group of the object. To get the ...Show All

• Visual C# !!! IF MICROSOFT HEAR US!!!

  I just saw another thread with "Can i make a app that doesnt use the .NET.  The framework is too big 23 MB".. SO... Can Microsoft create a .Net Framework just for c# not for asp or j# or visual basic providing only the neccesary dlls Please!!!! Eh, the framework is for .NET; there are in my opinion no specific dll's for j#, vb.net, etc... The CLR uses IL, and C#, VB.NET, J#, and all other .NET languages are compiled to Intermediate ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista System image lists and sizes

  Is there a reliable way for an app to determine the size of the icons that Vista is displaying on the desktop I'm not sure if this is a bug or, more probably, an opportunity to learn something new. As a developer of icon software, it's frequently important to know the current size of the desktop icons. There are a couple of ways to check this. I like to get a handle to the system image list (SHGFI_LARGEICON) and then query the imagelist for t ...Show All

• SQL Server Datetime Parameters Work in Dataset, Not Preview

  Please forgive me if this is an ignorant question… A couple of datetime parameters @SDBegin and @SDEnd work well as range filters when using them in my dataset query (red !). WHERE [Start Date] BETWEEN @SDBegin AND @SDEnd But when previewing the report, they don’t work for any date (manually entered, or through drop down calendar). I have made sure the parameters were of datetime datatypes. The dataype in the SQL Server D ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Character string

  I have  textbox.how can i select the first letter in it for example if 1st letter in textbox1="a" then messagebox ("ok") thank you all >> I have  textbox.how can i select the first letter in it for example if 1st letter in textbox1="a" then messagebox ("ok") You can use the VALUE property to find this. It depends where you want this code to be though - if it is inside the textbox, put it in the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server Object Model References

  Hello, Can anyone tell me where I find the assemblies for the Team Foundation Server Object Model (e.g. for - using Microsoft.TeamFoundation...) I have both TeamClient as well as the Visual Studio SDK installed and the references do not show up in the reference list within VS 2005. Is there a certain location I need to browse to in order to find these assemblies --- Thanks, Jeff Chad, Thanks for the prompt reply. That will ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Beta 2 can't install MSDN Express Library 2005 problem.

  Hello, there was a periode when i had installed Visual Web Developer 2005 Express . But i have installed it. In my add/remove there is nothing of beta 2005, but when I try to install Microsoft Visual Studio Beta2 = en_vs_2005_std_dvd_beta2, I get the following errors. Setup has detected that  previous version of the following products are currently installed ...... -Microsoft MSDN Express Library 2005 Beta -english. a. how can in find thi ...Show All

• Visual C++ Get key user entered

  I searched in msdn library, but i haven't found anything good... I am actually doing a game, all the code of how it should move is ok, but the only thing I need is to be able to determine where is the mouse and what key did the user press. Example: you press somewhere, it pops a dot at that place Example 2: you press right arrow, the dot moves right... I am ok with the code of displaying the dot, but not with the getkey function or w ...Show All

• .NET Development Comparing two data tables

  I have a form which has two data tables with the same schema. They have the following schema pk_Items  (Primary Key, guid) ItemKey (Integer)  Additional fields I want to remove from the first table any rows that have a matching item key in the second table. How can I do this   Thanks   Run a loop, for all rows in DT2,   Find pk_items   Do a DataTable.Rows.Find on the column that ...Show All

• SQL Server dbnull

  Is there an easy way in Reporting service to handle dbull in dataset I am using the local mode of the new reportviewer control, when I feed the dataset to the report, if there are some dbull column, an exception will be thrown. To those string column, I can set NULLVALUE property to empty, but to other datatype, like integer, datetime, money, what should I do Thanks Hey, you know what, it is very strange. If I use BindingDatasource.datas ...Show All

• SQL Server Versioning Stored Procedures with VSS and Sql Server 2005

  I am wanting to put my stored procs in vss. The configuration that I am looking at is Sql Server 2005 Sql Server Management Studio VSS I have not been able to find anything that gets me going, so if someone has a link or some links, please just redirect me and I will continue digging. What I don't know is what is the best approach for doing this. Do I need to create a new project in management studio for all of my stored procedures Is there a ...Show All