Peter Ritchie's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Printing offers and bills

  I am coding a application that should create and print offers and bills for a small company. Creating is no problem, but I did not find a solution for printing several data in columns. The table should look like this: Pos    scores  & ...Show All

• Smart Device Development ActiveSync with webAccess

  Hai friends, I have a problem with my smart phone .. When i get connected with ActiveSync and tries to run a webservice it shows an error like web exception ..How can i solve this issue............. Regards Ratheesh Probably you need to configure the proxy for the setting --- Lao K Visit my Blog for Windows Mobile Pocket PC Smartphone Programming Hints and Tips ...Show All

• SQL Server Must I have a wildcard MIME type in order to see images?

  Is there a way to display images rendered by Reporting Services without applying MS KB 326965 on IIS 6   The workaround calls for setup of ".* - application/octet-stream" MIME type in IIS. Any direction is welcomed. Regards, Patrick Sorry, I thought that the hotfix you mentioned was an RS hotfix (which were rolled into SP2). The underlying bug should be fixed in RS 2005. In the meantime, you can add th ...Show All

• Visual C# Code generation from DLLs

  Hi I have accidentally deleted some sources in my project and want to know if there is a way by which I can extract my code from the dll Shantanu Yes, you can use Reflector . It's a good tool that allows you to recover your code, change it into a different language, peep into the framework (quite instructive!) and in other people's code (except you should not). It will also show you why it is a *must* to ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to load image dynamically

  HI all, I am using ASP.net with c# to load crystal report. I would like to know how i can load an image in the Report Header section of the report dynamically from aspx page. thanks pradeep_TP Hello All, I am having the same sort of problems while displaying image using CR.NET and VS.NET 2003. Let me epxlain what I want to do. I have designed reports using CR.NET that I intend to sell to various clients. I ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Linq newbie FK ref question

  Hi, I've started using Linq rather than Nhibernate in some tests/personal apps I'm using. Linq is fantastic and far more natural to use than Nhib, with as much power. c# 3 features allows us to fully utilise these persistable graphs to the most, with interesting set-based processing capabilities. However, in my Unit Tests I retrieve a particular object graph (Customer -> Client) whose FK relation (Customer.ClientID -> Client) is non-null. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista capture audio from microphone

  i am looking out for some help on how to capture audio...i made an application using directShow for video capture but dont know how to insert commands for voice capture..any sites u know..or any help do inform... I expect that your current code enums the video devices and connects the desired device to your output. To capture audio, you do essentially the same thing, except you enumerate audio capture devices. How far have you gotten A ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problem with "The Goods"

  All, I tried to install Windows Vista with Virtual PC last evenning, following Ben's (Virtual PC Guy) instructions.  I however got stuck early on, it asked for my 25 digit activation code to do the install but refused to accept the one I was given in the book accompanying the disks.  Any thoughts E. Will Microsoft make a new Vista CD available Or will Microsoft publish a workaround I tried all po ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions IO exeption when trying to write to or read from a file

  Hello When my program tries to read or write to a file I get the IO exception error, it says the file is in use by another program. This is the code I use (test code). The file gets created and then I get the error. Dim file As System.IO.FileStream file = System.IO.File.Create( "c:\test.txt" ) My .Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText( "c:\test.txt" , "test text" , True ) Dim filereader As St ...Show All

• Windows Forms Launching Word to edit DOT Template file from VB.Net app

  I want to allow my users to select an existing Microsoft Word template file (*.DOT) using the OpenFileDialog control and then open it in edit mode. Whenever it is opened, it defaults to opening a new word document based on the template. This&nb ...Show All

• SQL Server Retreiving TableAdapter data into variables

  SQL database    ID   FName    LName    SSN    Dept   Photo   JobReview   PayGrade me.TableAdapter.GetDataBy(LName) I would like to access the TableAdapter records and read a row into variable to be displayed such as textboxes and picturebox How do I access a row How do I specify each column to read Do I need to convert Photo into grap ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to creat a very custom project

  {edit} I posted before searching...bad.  Anyway this topic is covered in about ten other threads and there seems no current solution.{edit}   I love VS IDE, I would like to be able to use it for all my development endeavors (and they are many and varied).  I am a .net developer during the day and a video game console programmer in my free time ( and occasionally even professionally ).  I do a lot of work writing c ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Pixel and vertex shaders

  hi, im wanting to learn how to use common framework inorder to show off my own vertex and pixel shaders. does anyone know where there might be a tuttorial for creating an evironment using programable shaders thanks in advance Hi, A "Common Framework" is a bit of a holy grail at the moment - it's fuel for an endless number of discussions online Seems that not everyone agrees on all the same thing ...Show All

• .NET Development Saving csv's in SQL Tables

  Using Visual Web Developer 2005 and VB, I have created a web form page with a datagrid that shows the data which is stored in an SQL database Table. Everything shows perfectly but it requires the data to already be in the database. Right now, I am exporting the data as a csv file, clearing the data out of the table in the database, and manually importing the csv file. What I would like is to have an Upload procedure that will automatically clear ...Show All

• Visual C++ How can I change Control Position?(top or bottom)

  Hi I have a Flash Control on my Form(Shockwave Flash Object) and I want to make ComboBox to be on top of the Flash control but it's now visa versa in my project.(Shockwave Flash Ctrl is top of ComboBox) what should I do thank. Try changing the tab order. Alireza_I wrote: Hi I have a Flash Control on my Form(Shockwave Flash Object) and I want to make ComboBox to be on top of the Flash control but it's now visa versa in m ...Show All