NightFlight's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to I create a login form with visual basic express editions and mysql

  Hi everyone, I need some help here, I'm new with visual basic express. How to I create a login form with visual basic express editions and mysql. Anyone can help me For example : After I submit my Login ID and Password at "Form1". How to I connect it to mysql and pass the posted value into the mysql query to checked whether is a valid member or not. If is a valid member how to I create a SESSION to store the member details like "user ...Show All

• .NET Development SettingsProvider base.Name always null, thows error on instantiation

  I've created a custom Settings provider. It doesn't do much right now but I can't even use it at all (expected an erro when the SetPropertyValues was called because I haven't implimented it yet.)  But instead immediately after the constructor is called an error is thrown saying that the base.Name property is null and it must be set.  The property of course is read-only and if I call Initilize (I've only added a constructor to see what ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Is the D3DXFragmentLinker going away?

  I have been hearing talk about this feature going away in D3D10 and that uber shaders will be preferred instead. So just to confirm, is this true Hello, I am a developer who has been using the fragment linker quite extensively recently and this news saddens me a bit but also raises my curiosity. I was wondering if you can provide more detail on the optimizations that take place in the effect interfac ...Show All

• Visual Basic Enabling f8 (debugging) in vs2005 beta1

  Hi there, I looked everywhere but i cannot seem to find a way to enable f8 to debug in vs2005. In vs2003 you could choose your profile. Can you do the same in vs2005 thanks The following link should give you what you need: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/hthab0h8(en-us,vs.80).aspx ...Show All

• Windows Forms Open a child from a child but also from the parent

  Hi Guys, I have a problem opening a child window within a parent window when passing  a variable between two child windows. I have the parent window setup with two menuitems. The first calls Form2 and  the second calls Form3 The code follows:-   Pri ...Show All

• Visual C++ C++ /CLI ASP .NET Web Project Template

  Is there a web project template for developing an ASP .NET web application using C++ /CLI as the code behind I have begun using C++ /CLI for my windows forms applications and web services, but I would like to be able to start a web project the same way I do in C#. If this does not exist, are there plans to put one together in the future Thanks. No. (well not one produced by microsoft). If you need to acc ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums VBA for Powerpoint

  Hi, I have been asked to modify a powerpoint presentation so that from a series of jpg files, one appears on the screen and then after a specific time period disappears and is replaced by another; this being a continuous loop on one slide only - like a photo tour. I have the following code, but need to get it up and running. Any suggestions: Sub ImportABunch() Dim strTemp As String Dim strFileSpec As String Dim oSld As Slide Dim oPic As S ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error You are not a valid account when accessing a team project

  Hello, We have just set up a Team Foundation Server, it appears that all the users have been setup correctly, but when I try to access a team project from my local machine using my windows login I receive the error "you are not a valid account", so although things look ok they are probably not.  I would appreicate any suggestions or assistanct in resolving this issue.  Thanks!   Catherine Hello Bruce, Thanks for your reply, ...Show All

• Visual C# How can i know where instance of class was created?

  Hi, i have my own Exception class, i want to add to error message source class which create  instance of exception.     public class Konektor_Exception : Exception     {                public string Message_Konektor;         public Konektor_Exception(string paMessage):base(source_class)      &nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Insert record into a table with an identity column

  OK, I am trying to insert a record into a table. One of the columns is an identity table - which means the dataBASE SHOULD AUTOGENERATE A VALUE FOR ME. so the question is what value whould I set the identity column to when I try the insert If I try Nothing I get an error, if I leave it out completely I get an error.... Here is a sample of code... dim dr as dataset.ContentRow dim dt as dataset.Content dr = dt.NewContentRow() 'so now set the value ...Show All

• Visual Basic ClickOnce: Application identity is not set.

  I am trying to create a simple ClickOnce program that checks for updates programmatically. I have succesfully published a program using the built in functionallity of the IDE, but this does not give me what I want. Firstly, how do you debug such a program, as when I run the program, it falls over when I try to get the CurrentDeployment object with an error: The application is not installed. Secondly, I created a setup project and installed ...Show All

• Visual Studio Viewing image from xml to CR

  I need to load the image into a CR 9. Image(binary data) should be coming from an XML file. I've tried loading this image into a PictureBox and it works. It's just so odd I can't view this image in the report. Please help me. hi guys , i am still new in this field , and need little help Rinoa can you post the code that let you display the binary data from XML to picture box (Image) on win form. this is what ...Show All

• Windows Forms assigning a ListBox.DataMember & ValueMember from ArrayList...

  Hello, I'm trying to generate a listbox using an ArrayList as a DataSource and binding the DataMember and ValueMember to the object in the ArrayList and it is giving me a weird error. CLASS: "ProductOrderName" 2 Properties (type String): "ProductName"&nb ...Show All

• SQL Server Old Excel files after SQL2000 > SQL2005 migration

  Hello there! We are having some problems over here after our SQL2005 upgrade. If we try to use an excel file that previously accessed the SQL2000 database (same DSN name and credentials), and then try to refresh the data after the 2005 upgrade, we get the errormessage "[Microsoft][SQL Native Client][SQL Server]User 'DOMAIN\username' does not have permission to run DBCC TRACEON." We have tried to delete and recreate the DSN fil ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO crash :)

  VSTO crashes after i try the above code : this .sendThread = null ; this .sendThread = new Thread ( new ThreadStart ( this .SendThread)); this .sendThread.Start(); // in the SendThread function i try to ......     1 add the range to the sheet rangeAddress = "=Sheet1!$A$1" rngName      ...Show All