lnielsen's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ Compiling VS 2005 Professional *production release* to a mounted network share

  Good morning. Looking around, I found a reference to the same problem on the Beta2 release here: Compiling VS 2005 Beta2 to a mounted network share   http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=24453&SiteID=1 However, the problem wasn't resolved at all on the VS2005 Professional production release [8.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)]. In this moment, we have the following error on a basic C++ "hello world ...Show All

• Visual C# combox.text

  when assigning text to combobox.text="ddddd" it is not displaying while runing program Check your ComboBox's DropDownStyle property. If it is set to DropDownList then the Text property is readonly , hence you can't change the value from it. Regards, -chris ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Difficulty adding a parameter to a querry

  I am using two MS Access tables in my data source when I create a querry with a literal string everything works fine i.e. Select MyTable * from MyTable where (MyTable.Description Like '%' + 'Anything' + '%' I get the proper results When trying to use a user input field inside the query it doesnt work i.e. Select MyTable * from MyTable where (MyTable.Description Like '%' + @Description + '%' I get an unable ...Show All

• .NET Development Can .NET 2.0 Application use .DLL compiled in .NET 1.1?

  Hi all, If I have a bunch of business objects that where compiled in .NET version 1.1, would it be possible for my application (done in .NET 2.0) to pick up these objects (.dll file) and start to using them (Would be great if some-one could provide some form of documentation on this) Thanks Tryst You definitely can, I don't have links to documentation but try msdn2.microsoft.com which is the .net 2.0 documentation. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How can i create a new work item category?

  Hi for every one, I need some helps, I want to create a some new work items categories, how can i do that in my Team System , I'm tried on MsProject but i don't know how can i imports from MsProject :( to my Team. Any idea TKS! What do you mean by new categories A new work item type, like bug, task, scenario Or one of the fields on a specific work item type ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can I use the menu icons?

  I'd quite like to use the menu icons from Visual Studio in my own project. Is this allowed, and if it is where can I find them Thanks. Turns out that if you hit 'Insert Standard Items' in a MenuStrip's Properties, you get most of the images along with it. With that plus the GlyFX pack, I'm away! :-) ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Tutorial - Lab 4 Ex 1 Tk 4 St 10 & 11

  FYI - I could not get the designer to see Workflow1.OrderEvtArgs (or Workflow1.OrderSender) until I changed the access level from private to public. protected didn't work either. Sound like you have Beta 2.2 installed and the labs you are using were built using Beta 2. There is an upgrade document here that might be helpful for you until the labs are upgraded. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Opacity and child Controls

  Is there a way to make controls not follow their parent form opacity In other words, set different opacity for the Form and it's child controls Thanks   Unfortunately I expected such answer :). Does someone have a suggestion Thanks ...Show All

• .NET Development How do I copy a solution and all its files to another computer?

  I am new to VB.Net but not to VB. I do part of my development on my laptop and part of it on my desktop computer. I need to be able to keep the code on both machines in sync with each other. What I am used to doing with VB6 is to simply copy the entire code directory from one machine to the other using the file manager and by mapping to the remote drive. I just tried that on some code that I have been working on with my laptop. The files all cop ...Show All

• Visual Basic Saving gif files

  Hi people, For a jpg file, you can save the file with the save method of the image object and you can specifiy a quality. code: currentImage.Save(SaveFileDialog1.FileName, _codec, GetQuality()) First parameter is the name of the file. Second is the ImageCodecInfo, here a jpg. Thrid is the quality as encoderparameters. Now I would like to save a .jpg file as a .gif file and I want to set a number of colors that it wants to use ...Show All

• .NET Development Work with *.mdb by VB2005

  How can I work with MSAcess database(*.mdb) with VB2005 Express I used VB6. Its code : Data1.Databasename = "C:\MyData.mdb" Data1.recordsource = "Table1" Data1.refresh How about this code with VB2005 Express http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=96629&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• SQL Server Best way to handle License issues

  Here is the scenario: We are developing an ETL type data load application and we're thinking building a SSIS package to assist with this. The application and data files to be loaded would be on the client Windows XP Workstation. The SQL Server 2005 instance would be on a networked server elsewhere. The XP Workstation would NOT have sql server 2005. What is the best way to handle this Can this be achieved fairly easily Kevin ...Show All

• Visual Basic HOW do you make VS2005 Server Explorer Show Stored Procedure Columns

  VS2005 server explorer only shows stored procedure parameters, no columns. I've searched high and low for a place to turn this on, if that can be done. In VS2003 it was possible to view the columns that a stored procedure returned along with its parameters.  What's up Anybody know how to view the columns. That's a real help when making sure column names in code match their stored proc names. Hello      ...Show All

• Windows Forms Checking if a form is Shown or Hidden

  How can I check if a form is hidden or shown through code Also, how could I use variables in between forms, like have formshown as boolean inside form 1, and use the same variable with its value associated with it inside form 2 here is a small sample, I have created a project with 2 forms, one called ParentForm and the other called ChildForm... Here is the code that has a button and a label on it, whn y ...Show All

• SQL Server Help! Can I control the recursion times of a recursive CTE?

  I have a table describing a hierarchy structure and the number of levels is very large, say 10000. Can I control the recursive CTE to get the first 1000 levels Thanks! Sorry, wrong format in last post. Here's the question: I have a table describing a hierarchy structure and the number of level ...Show All