Gramm's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Aero Glass effect

  Can somebody tell me something more about the aero glass effect on windows This is possible in WPF, but how can you accomplish it Can you design it with Expression Designer I saw an example of stockwatch and couldn't figure out were the code was that was responsible for the aeroglass look. Please tell me more If Aero is your chosen theme on Windows Vista, then WPF apps running on Vista should show glass and ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problem with VSS Web Access on the Server 2003

  Hi All, I am trying to setup VSS web access using Http on my server. i"m using Windows 2003 server standard edition and VSS version 8.0.50727.42 In VSS Admin tool i enabled SourceSafe Internet for my computer (http) and SourceSafe Internet for my database. in IIS manager i can see SourceSafe virtual folder and upload/download subfolders, the database is shared and have all permission for the user I use (administrator) I am able to access the ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) DLinq Designer Update/Synch Feature?

  When playing with the May 2006 CTP of DLinq, I couldn’t figure out a way to update the DLinq designer classes in Visual Studio with changes made in the database. Just to be clear, I was looking for something along the lines of right-clicking on the design surface, choosing “Update schema from database…”, and then having a dialog box open. The dialog could list each table currently on the design surface with a checkbox to update, along ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB.net

  Hi I want to display as amany lines in Messagebox i.e.,Nameis:sathishAgeis:20 shouldbe as Name is:sathish Age is :20 in asingle message box , how to do this     Sathish Kumar.R wrote: Hi I want to display as a many lines in Messagebox i.e.,Nameis:sathishAgeis:20 shouldbe as Name is:sathish Age is :20 in asingle message box , how to do this   ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro cryptography failure

  I use _cryptapi class of the _CRYPT class library to encrypt limited amount of information: ids and passwords. They are in a table and the table feeds treeview items on demand. Before appearing in treeview the field values are automatically decrypted. Everything has been working fine until I noticed a problem yesterday. I have done most of development on C: drive but recently began moving the whole project to a G: drive since I set a new OS u ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to fill data to datagridview async like SQL2005

  Hi All, I want to display 40000 rows on the datagridview but the speed is slow. How can I fill data to datagridview async using background worker ...Show All

• Visual Basic Send and Receive text via serial port (Vb2005)

  Hi: I connected two laptops via a non-modem serial cable, and drag a serialport and a timer to the form. By using the following code for sending the text: Private Sub Form1_Load( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase .Load SerialPort1.Open() End Sub Private Sub Timer1_Tick( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick SerialPort1.WriteLine( "Hello" ...Show All

• Windows Forms ListView sorting

  hi there, i have a ListView on my form. Its 'View' property is set to 'Details' and it has several Column items in its Column Item Collection. I want the user to be able to click on one of the Column headings and see a little arrow facing down (Sort by ascending order) or an up arrow (Sort by decending) similar to Windows Explorer. How does one make this little 'arrow' visable to the user regards, there is good article on CodeP ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem understanding namespacemanager

  I have an XML file that I need to parse. To get data from xml file I use the XmlDocument class (DOM) and XPath querys. Like this: node = doc.SelectNodes("//T:Alignments", nsmgr); But the only way I have got it work is to use to namespacemanager: nsmgr = new System.Xml.XmlNamespaceManager(doc.NameTable); nsmgr.AddNamespace("T", "http://www.landxml.org/schema/LandXML-1.0"); My problem is..how can I get the namespace http://www.landxml.org ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to backup and restore Source Control folders?

  I need to totally delete my existing team project and recreate one with the same name based on a new template. The only content I need to keep in the existing one is the source control folder. What's the best way to do this I was thinking of backing up and restoring like in VSS but I couldn't find such a function. I don't think there's an officially supported way to backup just Source Control data. Easier way: m ...Show All

• Windows Forms Drawing at a precise x-coordinate

  Hi, I'm trying draw a string so that the left edge of the first character is precisely at a specified x-coordinate. DrawString() starts the string to the right of the given coordinate or left edge of the given rectangle. How do I compensate for this all the best, James if you know the font-size of each character you can caculate the x-coordinate of the last char and you can use the DrawString()method to specify the last character' ...Show All

• Windows Forms WinForm Class Library and AppUpdater component

  Ok I have an app that I put the AppUpdater component on (http://windowsforms.net/articles/appupdater.aspx).  This worked just fine and I'm really happy with the results.  I then decided that I wanted to make a project to display an About Dialog Box.  ...Show All

• .NET Development Loading a remoting host on win2003 server throws BadImageFormatException

  I am trying to set up a minimal remoting host on win2003 server.  When I try to get the host to display the wsdl it shows (in part): System.BadImageFormatException: The format of the file 'TestServer' is invalid. ... Log: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v1.1.4322/Temporary ASP.NET Files/testservice/bf7a26e5/27b5035d/TestServer/TestServer.DLL ... The service is: Public Class TestService   & ...Show All

• Windows Forms Setup Error - Failed to load resources from resource file.

  I am getting following error at random places in my application. "Setup error - Failed to load resources from resource file. Please check your Setup" Application closes if I click on OK button on the message box. Also, it does not happen on development machine, it only happens on client PCs. The client PCs has .NET Framework 1.1 Please help me. If you have a solution or recommendation then please reply. Regards, bmgohil ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) 3D Animation

  When I try to animate the property of a ModelVisual3D I get "Multi-step property paths may not be specified on an object of type 'System.Windows.Media.Media3D.ModelVisual3D'" And this happens with GeometryModel3D too. Is this by design or is it a bug The only way to avoid that is to go up on the tree and use the viewport as the target for the animation. The problem is when ModelVisual3D contains other ModelVisual3Ds ...Show All