John Land's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Controls Not Working When Published

  Hi Using the Visiual Web Developers Express Edition I have created pages with various controls including some bound to an AcessData Control. When I publish this to my service provider non of the controls are visible (bound or otherwise) exept labels. The service provider supports FrontPage extensions and asp and other asp pages developed with FrontPage 2003 work fine. What am I missing Regards Rob Smith ...Show All

• Windows Forms Click Event

  Can someone tell me what the code for opening a link is.   Like Process.Start(" www.microsoft.com ")  for Visual Basic .net.   Also could someone tell me where to put the code. I don't understand - if you mean a URL link, that is the code. Put the code where-ever you want to open a URL. I suspect you're asking something else, but it's not clear to me. Do you mean a link button I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Support for generics in code model

  I have a problem with getting information about generics from code model, e.g. how can I obtain information about generic parameters from CodeClass2 Any ideas How are generics supported by code model (I have found only isGeneric method in CodeClass2/CodeInterface2/...) I think that ther should (an probably there is) better support. I have been looking for it in EnvDTE80 namespace, but I have not found any interesting classes/methods... Thanks f ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Solution problems with RC and Beta 3

  Maybe it's just me, but can you no longer add a solution to source code control when creating the solution (or project) Did something break with the beta 3     Awesome. This fixed it. For some reason I just expected the Team Suite to default to a given provider. I never even though to look here. Thanks for your help! Jeff ...Show All

• .NET Development ODBC .Net Data provider Is it still an Add-in for 2005?

  In the previous version of Visual Studio, one had to download the .Net data provider for ODBC. Is that still the case for VS 2005 I haven't been able to find documentation concerning that...the ODBC connection class documentation mentions the data provider, but doesn't say of it is the .net version or not.... advTHANKSance The Oracle client is not included with the .NET Framework. This is Oracle software. ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums I am not able to sign in on MSN messenger Please help anyone!

    Recently i have been having porbelms with signing in on MSN, i think it is due to me agreeing to download the latest MSN. From this moment i am not able to sign in. I clicked on troubleshoot (80048883) and it showed 'Your gateway appears to be offline' which i dont know what it means. Then i went on on the Tools menu, click Options , and then click Connection, to check my connection and it showed 'You are currently NOT connected t ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) missing directive using var type

  Hi, I try Excersice 1 of hand on labs. I receive the compiler error about missing a directive. "The type or namespace name 'var' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference )" I appreciate any help -gabriel     ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Missing permissions "Team Foundation Server" web site

  I was having a problem after a fresh TFS installation on a single server where non-local administrators could not connect to the TFS using Team Explorer. The problem was with the security permissions of the Team Foundation Server Web site. Only 3 groups were added (administrators, IIS_WPG and System). I had to manually add the "Authenticated Users" group to the permissions for the TFS site. Any reason why I installed the TFS in a different fo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions 'NullReferenceException' with blank picture boxes

  Whenever a picture box is blank (contains no image) and it is used in an If statement, it comes up with a NullReferenceException error. How can this be resolved Example 1 : Checks to see if the picture box is blank: For temp = 1 To 116 If Form1.Pile(temp).Image.Equals(Form1.Blank.Image) Then 'Form1.Blank is a picture box with no image. If Form1.Pile(temp) is blank , then the error pops up GoTo 200 End If Next ...Show All

• Visual Studio Running SQL scripts against multiple database backends

  I have to run a series of sql scripts from a specified directory against sql server, oracle, and access. The scripts need to be run in a particular order. I see that there is a Sql.Execute task in the SDC tasks but it looks specific to sql server I checked out the latest source from the svn repository for the community tasks project and the SqlExecute task is also sql specific. If i use either of these (just for sql server for now) they ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Excel macro to send email not running

  We have an excel macro that finishes with sending the file as an email. This is working on most people's PCs, but one of our users has Excel just hangs up during this process. We tried uninstalling any office programs, making sure the program files folder was empty and reinstalling the programs. We use Excel 2002 and Outlook 2003. This has worked in the past. I tried logging into my user's PC as myself and ran into the same issue. So ...Show All

• SQL Server retreiving connection strings from machine.config

  Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to retreive connection strings from the machine.config instead of storing the conn strings in a *.dtsconfig file. The reason that I'm trying to use the machine.config is for the simple reason that I'll be able to manage all of the conn strings in one location on each server. (Instead of mutliple dtsconfig files.) Is it posible to utilize the machine.config in SSIS If so, could someone explain how, or better ...Show All

• Windows Forms Justify values within a datagrid

  Does anyone know how to justify (right or left) a value in a cell from within a Windows Form datagrid Thanks, Bill....... Glad you got it worked out. You should be able to accomplish the same thing using the Properties window (which&n ...Show All

• SQL Server how to encrypt and decypt as a IUSR with read and write only rights

  How to decrypt or encrypt without making user a db_owner. It is for a web application and I do not want make the web user a db_owner. Is there a way to make this work without making the user a db_owner. Currently the user is a db_datareader and db_datawriter. I created an asymmetric key for encryption by password. I am not using a master key because I want to keep the password seperately on the web server, so a hacker cannot get access to ...Show All

• Windows Forms Viewing a word doc within a Windows Forms Application

  I would like to display a word document within my windows form application. Currently I am using the IE activeX control and passing it the word doc location. There must be a more elegant solution. This is something that will be added in 2.0:  http://www.windowsforms.net/WhidbeyFeatures/default.aspx PageID=2&ItemID=12&Cat=Controls&tabindex=4 ...Show All