SonalMS's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Brushes? How do I pass a "Brushes" as a parameter?

  Hi I want to fill a rectangle with a Colour. Graph.FillRectangle(Brushes.AliceBlue, x + 1 , y + 1 , W - 1 , hgt - 1 ) That works fine  so whats my problem Well i don't want to use the same colour all the time so i wrap it in a method and pass the color in as a parameter.  But How i tried something like Dim myBrushes As Brushes myBrushes = Brushes.Aquamarine    'to try and pass this as a parameter ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Windows Vista does not support Compaq Presario BIOS

  I have find out Windows Vista does not support Compaq Presario BIOS,So alot of ya can not install with Compaq computer. Because Compaq have make their own Bios. Vista does not support it. I think all of ya get this error message after the first reboot: Windows Boot Manager Windows did not start correctly. A recent software or hardware change might be the cause. If you have a windows installation disc, insert the disc and restart. Click sy ...Show All

• SQL Server Report Builder only for sql 2005 server?

  Hello, i'm working with SQL Server 2000. And management wants some reports out of the SQL server. Now there is a product called Report Builder with is a tool to easly create reports. My question is where can i download Report Builder for SQL Server 2000 They want there own reports. They have created some excel sheets to show these information. I have found a plugin for excel to read informatie directly ou ...Show All

• SQL Server Maintenance Job not working properly

  Hi, I an new to the forum. I am having some problems where my maintenance job is not backing up the user databases in SQL2000. Unfortunately, I found out the hard way as my payroll in GP did not run properly and I had to do a restore from the BAK file. I am receiving the following error msg in the event log Status: Failed - Invoked on: 2006-04-11 22:00:02 - Message: The job failed. The owner () of job DB Backup Job for DB Maintenance ...Show All

• SQL Server Not able to extract all records from a flat file

  I have a flat file that has over 50,000 records. When I import that file into my table I'm only able to extract 26,612 rows. I'm using a Flat File connection manager The format for this connection is Ragged Right There are about 25 columns, or so My Data Flow Source is a Flat File (Imagine that! ) I appreciate any ideas that you may have. Thanks!! Did you have the error output as i ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB vs C#. How capable is VB compared to C#?

  I need some clarification please. I am learning VB.NET right now and have a co-worker who has a very strong technical background and feels very strongly that learning VB is a "waste of time in all respects" compared to C#. I don't understand this point of view. Since VB is a .NET language does it not posses the same capabilities as C# Am I on the wrong track I really enjoy the VB.NET syntax and am picking it up quickly. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System ImplementIDisposableCorrectly falsely reported for Generic classes

  For the class below, and all other generic classes exposing IDispose in my code, FxCop (1.32) reports that both the finalizer and the Dispose() metod are incorrectly implemented. If I remove the generics specification (<T>) FxCop has no issues with the code. Is this a known problem Regards, Jonas L The reports look like this: Error, Certainty 95, for ImplementIDisposableCorrectly {     Target     & ...Show All

• Windows Forms Prevent the child control is deleted at usercontrol

  I'm making a usercontrol. it has a child as tabcontrol has tabpage. the diffencies between tabcontrol and my usercontrol are 1. my usercontrol has only a child. (this child is also usercontrol and its designer is inherited from ParentControlDesigner) 2. the child must not be deleted. in order to prevent the child from being deleted, I tried to add a logic into IComponentChangeService.ComponentRomoving event like below * ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Search doesn't work.

  When I search for a file or folder, it will search for all of 2 seconds then say that there are no results. I even tryed searching for My Documents and nothing came up. What should I do Hi GiantSonic, Here are some things that may help: 1. Did you recently install Desktop Search If so, WDS may not have finished building the search index yet (this can take a few hours). This is especially true if ...Show All

• Windows Forms Where does Windows.Forms implement the control property editor?

  When you have a property on a control of type Button and then edit it in the property window it presents a drop down with a list of all the Button instances on the form for you to choose from. This is great and works for whatever type of control or component the property is defined as. But I want to be able to constrain this presented list to filter out some of the instances for my specific property that is of a control type. Does anyone know ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Need to check a property of a Windows.Forms.Control

  Hello! Great forum btw! I need to check some properties of a text box on a form, let say the ForeColor. so far, I got the name and the type of the member, but I don't know where to look to get the value of the ForeColor property. Can anyone help me Thanks You can certainly do something like this using Reflection, if you have a valid object instance. In our static checker, however, you don't have an object that ca ...Show All

• Visual Studio Cannot debug as in walkthrough: How to: Create VSPackages (C#)

  Hello, using vs 2005 rtm pro - vsip 2005 dec ctp Clean install. Tried following walkthrough in help titled: -- How to: Create VSPackages (C#) -- Don't know if it is missing a step. Basically says: -- Create new package project in vs, follow wizard, press f5. Result should be: -- vs.net runs under exp hive (ok), should display new command under tools menu. try selecting command. Problem: No command appears. I try to se ...Show All

• Visual Basic Counting Letters in a string

  Hello,  I am trying to get VB to count how many A's B's C's D's E's etc... that are in a  declared string, can someone tell me how to do this. thanks Ray RFeather[AT][NOSPAM]chstaffing.com Just in case you need it. . .  sorted list  add this function to CharacterCount: ==============     Private Function Sort() As Dictionary(Of Char, Int32)  &nbs ...Show All

• .NET Development COM dll info in .NET

  In VB we could use "tlbinf32.dll" to obtain the details of any dll like the Version, GUID etc. I am trying to implement the same in C# using the dll. I could get the version info and GUID. How do we retreive the Threading Model for the DLL. Can we use System.Reflection in C# to get the same including Threading Model Threading Model isn't stored in the typelib, only in the Registry. You can use the Microsoft.Win32.Regis ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Authentication options

  I am looking for documentation, samples, any best practices, personal experiences, etc that would allow me to authenticate for both Intranet / Internet. I will be using WCF hosted in IIS using a .svc file. I know that the SDK ships with examples but they all seem to use x.509 certificates. At this point I don't know if I will have a certificate server available. Just need to explore all the possible options. Any thoughts are appreciated. ...Show All