Michael Ritzcovan MSFT's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Edit Data in a .NET VS2005 Visual Basic ListView Control

  There is a very nice article on the Microsoft WEB site titled: "HOW TO: Use a ComboBox Control to Edit Data in a ListView Control in Visual Basic .NET" Looks like it was last updated July 30, 2003. I would like to apply the concepts listed in this article to an application using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Visual Basic Forms. Is there an updated version of this article that will work with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Thanks. I'm not sure that anything has changed much between the 2003 and 2005 version so you may find that following through this document will work OK. I dont know of an updated d ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView CurrentCell Border

  I'm using a DataGridView and want to control the display of row borders based on special criteria. My stuff is providing satifactory results, however, it seems that the CurrentCell always has a dotted border, regardless of my actions. This border distracts from my changes. Can someone tell me how to suppress the dotted border for the grid's CurrentCell Thanks. The only way to supress the dotted focus rectangle is to handle the RowPrePaint and "and" out the focus PaintParts. Here is how I would do this in C#: e.PaintParts = e.PaintParts & ~DataGridViewPaintParts.Focus;     -mark Program Manager Mic ...Show All

• .NET Development Returning a pdf-file from a webservice

  I am returning a pdf-file from a webservice. I am thinking of just returning it as a byte array, but I am wondering whether there is a better way to return it. Speed is an issue and the pdf-file is quite small, so I have to avoid a solution which requires returning much more data. Treat PDF as binary, i.e., byte array, is the fastest way to get it from web service. If you want faster than web service, you can write a Http handler, ashx, and an ashx client to invoke the ashx, to get it as binary, not base64 string as in SOAP.  Web method uses base64 string for binary data. Base64 encoding turns 3 bytes ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Rounded corners on a StackPanel?

  Greetings, How would I achieve the effect of rounded corners on the background of a StackPanel The Ellipse class has RadiusX and RadiusY properties which are simple enough, but the StackPanel doesn't seem to have anything like this. Thanks, Billy Create a Template for your StackPanel and use a Border in this Template. Border has a CornerRadius which you will need to use to have rounded corners.   HTH   Bye ...Show All

• Windows Forms how can I attach a excel file to an e-mail with Mail.MailMessage

  _I need to send ana attachment in ana email how can I do it in .NET To send an email with an attachment there are 4 things you must do. First, declare an instance of the SmtpClient class (contained within System.Net.Mail):             SmtpClient mailClient = new SmtpClient("mailserveraddress"); Next, create an instance of the MailMessage class and specify the senders address, the recipients address, the message subject and message body.             MailMessage message = new MailMessage(" sender@address.com ", " recipien ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I detect KeyPress?

  I want to make a program that could run in the background and detect any key press even when the program is not in focus. It should be able to respond or at least record the key pressed even when others programs are running in foreground. Does anybody have any idea how i can do it Thanks. You need to use low level Windows hooks.  But seriously, stealing keypresses or evesdropping on keypresses meant for other application isn't a good practice. static int WH_KEYBOARD_LL = 13; [System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("kernel32.dll")] static extern IntPtr GetModuleHandle( string moduleName); [System.Runtime.InteropServic ...Show All

• SQL Server Broker:Corrupted message

  Hello, Has anyone seen this in profiler I have two brokers on different servers with one of them being the initiator. All messages end up sitting in the initiator's transmission queue. Profiler on the target broker's machine displays this for every attempt to send by the initiator: A corrupt message has been received. The End of Conversation and Error flags may not be set in the first sequenced message. This occorred in the message with Conversation ID '...', Initiator: 1, and Message sequence number: 0 In case it's relevant encryption is disabled and endpoints on both servers use windows authentication. Any hints are greatly app ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can I add my custom control the DataSource properties

  Hi 1. How can I add my custom control the properties: DataSource, DisplayMember and ValueMember that will have the DataSource editor and wizard for them and desing-time 2. Is their more general way to add an existing System.Windows.Forms Desinger to my property Thanks to Jelle, I've found the answer: I use the refelctor to check the DataGridView properties and found this row: [ SRDescription ( "DataGridViewDataSourceDescr" ), RefreshProperties ( RefreshProperties . Repaint ), SRCategory ( "CatData" ), DefaultValue (( string ) null ), AttributeProvider ( typeof ( IListSource ))] public ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider Beta 2 Now Available (Feb 20, 20006)

  The Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider Beta 2 is now available here . IMPORTANT:   Beta 2 is not strongly signed, so you'll need to disable strong name validation as mentioned in the README.  You can find details at http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2006/02/21/536260.aspx . New in this beta: Support for Visual Studio 2003 and Fox Pro in addition to the already supported VB6 and VC6. Integrated Checkin - you can now associate/resolve bugs and specify checkin notes with your checkin Improved performance - opening controlled solutions, get, checkout, checkin, and compare/diff are much faster M ...Show All

• Windows Forms .net Remoting events.

  Hi all, When using .net remoting, is it possible for .net remoting clients to listen for events that occur on the .net remoting server side, for example a DataTable defined at the server side, is it possible for the clients connected to the server to listen for ColumnChanged event of the server DataTable. Many Thanks Hi KraGiE, I need to develo ...Show All

• .NET Development How to get 'Not Processed Messages' in MSMQ

  Hi We have have Mobile applciation which sends the messages by using MSMQ. We want to put monitering service in place to know how many messages are not processed. To implement this is there any way to get the message status from 'Out going queue' to find out how many messages are not processed and is there to get the label/boday of the unprocessed messages. Thanks, Ram. 602 405 5913. Ram, diagnosing what is causing that problem is not going to be easy, especially so since you say that the issue is very sporadic. And a lot depends on how your application works, both at the server and client ends ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) CheckBox bug when databound and IsEnabled="False", IsChecked="True"

  Here's the code the replecates the bug I'm seeing... < Window x:Class = " checkboxbug.Window1 " xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation " xmlns:x = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml " Title = " CheckBox Bug " Height = " 300 " Width = " 400 " > < Grid > < Grid.ColumnDefinitions > < ColumnDefinition Width = " 150 " /> < ColumnDefinition Width = " 250 " /> </ Grid.ColumnDefinitions > < ListBox ItemsSource = " {Binding Path=Items} " Dis ...Show All

• SQL Server Attach an aspnet or sql2005 database on a sql2000 server

  Hello I want to attach an ASPNETDB database (generated by the asp.net login wizard system), which is a sql2005 .mdf database I think, to our SQL2000 server. I tried to attach the file directly ; then to attach it to a sql2005 express server, "turning it" into a sql2000 database via the properties, then make a backup, then restore the backup on the 2000 server ; nothing worked out ! One of the method I tried (I don't remember which one) told me it could'nt read the sysindexes table ; of course, because there isn't such table on sql2005 databases. So, is there a way to attach a SQL2005 database (so with no or few system tables) to a ...Show All

• Windows Forms Update DataGrid

  hi, i hope i am in the right place to ask question. i using VB.net n SQL and my question is: i able to fill my datagrid with my table.. but it seems i got trouble updating a new entry, or when i want to delete a entry; because when i insert/delete an entry.. and i refresh it.. it wld prompt me of a error. i think the update&nbs ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista broken link SDK Rearme

  I am not sure where to report this but the link "Installation Instructions" in Microsoft R Windows R SDK Readme for the February 2006 CTP http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/1/c/81c912c1-893b-4603-8c40-bf128444a932/WindowsSDK_Readme_FebCTP.htm is broken Guennadi Vanine This is very strange. I click on the link you posted and it gets me right to the readme. We'll look into it. Thanks for the post. Steve ...Show All