v-mousah's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions remote

  hello I have a haupage remote for my win tv and i was wondering if it would be possible to controll things in my program with it. when i open itunes i can play pause/ other stuff. so could i controll other things in my program with code like turning the caps lock on or off with the play button. thanks average joe what do you mean by interface software, I got the remote along with my wintv card (pci) and i e- ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is there a Non-Databound Grid?

  I'm looking to use a grid to display information. It would work like a list box but would have columns and headers. Surprisingly, I don't see anything I can use in VB.net. Can anyone suggest a control Thanks. The ListView in Detai ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions sorry and...

  hi i need a simple-to-understand tutorial on how to save user settings. I would like to have a textbox on my form that the user types something in, and the text is saved so it'll appear the next time my application is started. thank you Cool I figured out a few things so far. Your help is appreciated! Just to let you know I'm gonna put a little bit of code here to prove I found this on my own and ...Show All

• Windows Forms Some strange behaviour running an Win32 app

  Hi all, I'm developing an Windows Form app, and have an strange behaviour. That is, when i run the app, and say click an Menu item, sometimes (and my concern comes because is "Sometimes"), i go to development environment directly, without the a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Formatting text in formula

  Hello,   I'm trying to find out how I can format parts of a dynamic text. Ex:  @myField = "you must have at least 70% of good answers" How to format the "70%" in bold/red  (of course, it could be a dynamic field value like {Database.GoodAnswersPercent}=70%) thanks, FX If I do that, I must split my dynamic text into small parts, each part is a text object within its specific format. In my example ...Show All

• Visual C# Syntax Error in Update Statement

  Dear All, I had encountered Syntax Error in Update Statement when I execute the following code. private void UpdateNewPwd( string EmpID, string NewPwd) { string strUpdate = "Update Users SET Password = '" + NewPwd + "'" + " where EmployeeID = '" + EmpID + "'" ; string connectionString1 = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" + System.Windows.F ...Show All

• Visual C++ CString assignment operator causes memory exception

  I compiled VC++ 6.0 code with VC++.NET 2003/2005 beta and both causes a memory exception with CString assignment. My code looks like the following: CString szFileName = g_pGlobal->m_szAppPath; where g_pGlobal is a pointer to an object with global scope. The crash occurs if the assignment is done outside of the object instance itself. Quick Watch shows all CString members of that object are Bad Ptrs! I don't get it. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista ACPI Not fully compliant for 5308

  I can't find much info regarding this issue for a M35x-S111 Toshiba Satellite. It gets as far as loading the setup files then imediately it goes to the Blue screen. Any help would totally rule. go to RUN and type dxdiag, click yes. then reply back with info on ur computer. and i'll see if i can help you out ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System ICollectionImplementationsHaveStronglyTpedMembers and DictionaryBase

  FxCop version 1.32. I have a class that inherits from System.Collections.DictionaryBase in Framework version 1.1. FxCop's rule ICollectionImplementationsHaveStronglyTypedMembers is listed for this class for the method CopyTo. However, in the DictionaryBase class CopyTo is declared as NotOverridable. I suggest that the rule be modified to exclude the method CopyTo for classes that inherit from DictionaryBase. Hi D ...Show All

• .NET Development Help with locating a TableCell by access method

  Hi all, I am handling the ItemCommand event thrown by a DataGrid.  In the handler I have: If e.CommandName = "Select" Then ... End If Inside of that block, I want to locate the cell containing the primary key of the represented item.  Something like: e.Item.Cells("user_id") (even though Cells is looking for an integer index). Where "user_id" is the accessor for the underlying data of one of the columns. Does this make sense   If s ...Show All

• Windows Forms Implementing IDesignerSerializationService

  Anyone have a clue how to do this Not many resources out there. Thanks Jamie Based on my research, there is not a working example with IDesignerSerializationService available to the community yet. So it's a great chance for anyone trying to influence and educate the community on this topic, please MVPs, MS Gurus and any experts help... Alan ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VB app memory usage

  I noticed that my VBE apps were consuming a lot of memory so I wrote a test app that consists of nothing more than a form with a single button. When I run the compiled .exe file, Windows Task Manager reports the the process is using over 8 meg of memory. If I minimize the app, memory usage drops to 372K. If I un-minimize the app, memory usage then jumps to approximately 2 meg & stays there with each successive minimize/un-minimize. Can someb ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Is anyone working on an Oracle plugin for DLinq?

  I'd like to use DLinq on Oracle, but there is only support for SQL Server now. Is anyone currently working on an Oracle plugin for DLinq Thanks! AFAIK, the DLinq team is working on it. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Serious Error with VSTO 2005

  Hi, I fell into the serious errors when I follow the points as given below: 1. Click on "Add New DataSource" into Datasource configuration wizard. 2. Choose the "Object" from the options. 3. Select any of the classes from "NameSpace.Entities" dll generated by myself works as dataaccesslayer. Lets suppose class is "XXX.cs", select it & click finish. 4. Open the "Datasource Explorer", Browse the class "XXX.cs" that i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help with my Text Box and colors

  Hello again. I am trying to make a notepad clone but strictly for HTML coding. I want to change the color of the text when you enter in tags like <html> and such. I also want to add the line numbers to the left of the text box (but still inside the box). Thanks Well, I some what figured it out. I got the html tags working with color but my whole text field stays blue (dont want that). Afte ...Show All