EuroPhilC's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ Program database manager mismatch

  I have been working with vc++ express for about a month, and all my projects were fine but now whenever I compile anythingi get the following error: fatal error C1902: Program database manager mismatch; please check your installation I searched for a solution on Google and MSDN but neither showed anything i could make sense of. Had a very similar problem after fooling around trying to get a parallel make ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Modify the Constructor thats generated from svcutil

  Hi all, is there a way to modify the service on the server, that the Proxy which was with svcutil generated, has own code thanks, Herbert you can modify SVCUTIL generated proxy,typically we don't want to change default svcutil generated code,if you want to add some code to client side proxy(like you want to dispaly message in client side proxy),you can do that EXAMPLE: public partial ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions System.Drawing.Graphics

  There you can draw rectangles, arcs, polygon, bezier,.... I tried all methods "draw", But i can't draw a single pixel. How do i How did you try it Your form has a Paint handler, which you can override.  The PaintEventArgs contains a Graphics object.  This is the object you need to use to draw onto your window. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Custom/Typical Deployment Dialog

  I have created a dialog using the radio button dialog to get from the user custom or typical deployment option.  And because I have a limited number of custom options I can use the checkbox dialog for those.  But how do I get the flow to determine whether or not to display the custom dialog based on the radio check. Basically I want to do what nearly every program deployment does and that is do a typical or custom install and then put ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions First Project

  I have been charged with gathering all incoming faxes, converting them to PDF files and thru keywords (Names Departments etc.) sending them to specific personel using Active Directory. I have a program that will convert to PDF, but I need to know how to search and distribute with (I hope) VB. I am brand new to this so any help would be greatly appreciated. OMG Tally, To what degree is this to be automated ...Show All

• .NET Development error handling

  I would like to catch the sql error that returns from the stored procedure. The SP is written in 2005 with try/catch statement. What should be placed in the catch statement of the SP and how can the .net code i.e vb.net or C# get this error to show to the user Thanks Remember that there is an Errors Collection in the SqlException class that contains all of the errors that are thrown. So it's often useful to ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Form reference in VS2005, pls help

  Hi all, How can I create a form reference in VS2005 In VB6 (see below), I can use keyword "Me" to pass the form as long as I have txtText1 in any form I can call function XXX to display the text into txtText1 box. How to make it work in VS6 Function Form_ load 'Ex. from1 call XXX(Me) End function Function XXX(f as form) ' Function in mod1 f!txtText1.text = "New text here" fucntion end ...Show All

• .NET Development Windows Registries: C# :Need Help Urgent

  Hy, Can any body tell me how to remove or repair invalid registries in windows using C# , what is the logic behind all this (means scanning the registries, APIs and others). if any body knows please tell me i'll be very thankful. Bye I have to admit that I didn't get your question, but in case you want to work with the Windows Registry, check Microsoft.Win32 namespa ...Show All

• Visual C# How come the Use of Properties in C# is against OOP Fundamentals

  Hey Why is the Indiscriminate use of C# Properties contrary to fundamental design principals of OOP cheers QUT lecturer wrote: I hope you have no intention on using these answers in your answer to the reflective questions. LMAO, if only those lecturers teaching I.T. didn't know about that thingy I like to call the "interweb". Nice try though. Is a pickle of a question. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Using IXmlSerializable interface in the ServiceContract

  Hi, I am having a problem with WriteXml writer in my custom serialization object used in the ServiceContract. I can't write my object xml representation as a first child of the <body>. The following sample shows a payload of my ServiceContract for WS-Transfer/Create where channel writer automatically inserted the Create (Action) and request (argument name) elements into the <body> which it will break the WS-Transfer ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot create an ODBC connection to SQl 2000.

  Hi all, I have SQL 2000 enterprise edition(no service pack) installed on a Windows Server 2003 machine. I can remote access into the server and run SQL but I cannot create an ODBC connection to this from my desktop. From some research it looks like installing service packs might correct this but here is the error: --connection failed --sqlstate '01000' --sql server error 10061 --connection failed --sqlstate 08001 --sql serve ...Show All

• .NET Development How to delay a Response.Redirect?

  Do you guys know how to put a 2-3 second delay in the response.redirect method   Or is there another function I should call which has a delay built into it   I'm using this command for an autoforward to another page. Any help would be appreciated. You should use the forums.asp.net site for ASP.NET related questions. I found this thread over there: http://forums.asp.net/448135/ShowPost.aspx ...Show All

• Windows Forms Building a custom cell/column for the DataGridView

  Hey guys, I've been having a lot of fun with the new DataGridView control!  Right now, I'm trying to figure out how to build like a custom column/cell type.  I need a cell that is sort of like a textbox.  I'm bind a guid to it (CustomerID), but I want it to display the customer name.  I also want to add some extra funtionality when the user clicks in the cell an modifiers the text.  Any ideas where to start here W ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Declaring a Variable then Changing it later in a program

  I'm a complete beginner at VB and programming in a general.  So forgive me in this question is a no-brainer.  Basically what I would like to do is have my program start with a variable with an initial value globally available then if the user chooses to a click a button have that variable changed through the input prompt and the returned new value to be carried back out to be available to the entire program. At this point ...Show All

• SQL Server is this possible in SSIS?

  I got a OLE DB source pointing to 1 table and 1 flat file destination. currently this is how i export data from 1 table to 1 flat file. To make things easier, I was wondering whether i can have only 1 OLE DB source pointing to few tables pointing to few file destinations so I dun need to create 1 SIS project for each table data exporting. anyone can help me Unfortunately not because ...Show All