Madisn's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ Visual C code to change parent process of new created process

  Hi All, I have a problem while working in Visual C. I want to change the parent of a newly created process by my own code. E.g: " I am opening a notepad.exe by using CreateProcess API in Visual Basic 6.0 and another Visual C application is also runing that need to track the newly created process (notepad.exe) . The parent process of newly created process (notepad.exe) is visual basic application from which the notepad.exe in initiated. Wha ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Create Excel Project Problem

  I am having trouble to create new Excel projects. I can create Word projects but not Excel projects. Products I have: VS 2005 VSTO Microsoft Office 2003 SP2   Installation sequence: Installed Office 2003 first Installed VS 2005 Installed VSTO. I checked another thread about almost the same problem but none of the solutions can be applied to my case. I installed all the programming components of Office 200 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Does windows User Control have similar thing like readproperties?

  I have developed a windows form user control just like vb6 activex control.  In our vb6 version, the control use UserControl_Readproperties  sub to read paramters from html page in <param> tag.  Does windows User Control have similar thing like&nbs ...Show All

• Windows Forms Minimizing to tray... have it working but have a problem

  Ok when I minimize my app I capture the Resize Form event and hide my main form... this is good and all but it also fires when a user hits the Show Desktop button in the Quick Launch toolbar. I'd like it not to... is there anything I can do Much thanks! -Chad You cant prevent the event from firing. I was trying to find a better event you could use, but there doesnt appear to be one. However, I would think you could check the WindowState ...Show All

• Windows Forms Tabbed MDI Manager control

  Is Whidbey going to ship or give a sample for a Tabbed MDI Manager control It would be good if I could use a control from Microsoft for controlling my layout of child windows forms in a MDI application. Thanks I was under the impression that tabbed mdi would just be a part of mdi in .NET 2   Eg if you set up your app to use mdi then check tabbed mdi in a property window somewhere then you'd get tabbed mdi... ...Show All

• SQL Server Set values to Variable, use SELECT or SET?

  Hi all, I created a stored proc that has local variables declared in it. For these local variables, I use SET to set a value to that particular variable. When I look through other places and tutorials, I saw they use SELECT instead of SET. I tried using SELECT instead of SET and it works perfectly. Does anyone know the difference between both of them, when should I use SET and when shoud I use SELECT Thanks in advance. Daren ...Show All

• Smart Device Development HELP! Basic Signature Capture on a PDA for a newbie

  Hi, I've been thrust back into the world of development head first and I'm trying to get my head around vb.net 2005 as the last bit of dev I did was in VB6 nearly 3 years ago. I've been asked to put together an app that will allow a user to enter data on a PDA which will then store the information on an SQL database, but, of course, they require a signature field at the end. I've searched MSDN and the web for code and examples but most see ...Show All

• SQL Server BUG? Extracting Data Stored in Multiple Languages

  Hi, I have an access database that is storing text in english and chinese characters. I am importing the data using SSIS and it is putting a 'square' character in place of all the chinese characters. Can I associate multiple code pages to a control If this is not possible, I would just like to Extract the data and Load it into a table, and i will just handle the errors and write the key fields to an error log. The problem is that the error ha ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Avalon Custom Components

  Hi, I am having a lot of trouble creating a custom component for XAML. The component does not seem to work with XAML, it does not add itself to the toolbox, but it works fine for a Form Windows Project. I used component as the base class, and no I did not use any Windows.Forms controls on the component. Can any one tell me how you should create a custom component for XAML Seeing as creating a WinFX project you do have XAML components in the ...Show All

• SQL Server Copy and past report, update links

  I created a new report within my current ReportProject in VS 2005. I copied and pasted my tables, lables, etc. into this new report. I then recreated the same datasets as the other report except to name them different. All my fields though in my table object are still referencing Fields!. I think I need to change it to reference the new dataset name but having to go through the expression of every darn field to do so. How can I tell all my fi ...Show All

• .NET Development __w64

  I am trying to port an application from 32-bit to 64-bit windows environment. There are a lot of warnings like these when i compile my code on 64-bit :- mbtext.cxx(2249) : warning C4244: 'argument' : conversion from '__w64 int' to 'int', possible loss of data mbtext.cxx(2354) : warning C4244: 'argument' : conversion from '__w64 int' to 'int', possible loss of data This warning is at lot of places. "__w64" : Not much help is available to kno ...Show All

• SQL Server DB Restored to New Server, ODBC Says Database is Not Valid

  I'm setting up a replacement server for SQL 2000 and have restored a DB from old server to new server using backup/restore. All seems to work, DB listed in Enterprise Manager, I can see data. When I try to setup an ODBC connection on same server, however, the DB is not listed in drop-down list and if I enter the name, it responds with "the database entered is not valid". What is left to do ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Automatic retrieval of latest version on checkout?

  Hi, Since I could not get the latest version automatically with the old SourceSafe (VS 2003), I hoped this was 'solved' with Team System. However, when I tried to get this done, I could not manage it. The problem I have to deal with is that my colleagues and I work together on the same source (I think that is what has to be done with SourceSafe/TS ). Whenever we change something and check in our source, the new source has to be used. When I che ...Show All

• Visual Basic when true isnt really true

  A feature I think would be the best way to describe this... or at least it doesnt behave how I would expect... Try the following: debug.print(true) I would expect a boolean value of -1 to be returned.... true being defined in the VB docs as being a boolean value of -1 with false being a boolean value of 0. What I actually get is a string value of "True" Ah well.... How did I discover this Well I was pre-populating a check ...Show All

• Windows Forms ClickOnce deployment

  ClickOnce works great from the development computer. It is failing from a third (user) computer!   the appliction uses a Web Service on the deploying server. The application is installed but when I try to run the application I get a message saying the "target machine actively refused it." "System.Net.WebException: Unable to connect to the remote server ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: NO connection could be made because ...Show All