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• .NET Development Another Reflection Question

  Hi, I am working on using Reflection for a plug-in application, using dlls, the app will be done in C+.NET. I have been able to see the meta-data in the dlls, and that is about it. How can I take a class that is in the dll and create an imstance of it Is there a method within the Reflection class, MethodInfo, that I can use to do that Thanks in Advance Hoop Hi, I finnally got it. Took a cast, BaseModuleClass *pl ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Getting the application name from a sub function in another assembly

  Hi, I have an application which calls into another assembly, and within that assembly I wanted to get to the Process or Application name. ie: Application -> Assembly Function A -> Assembly Function B In the case of doing it in function A then Assembly.GetCallingAssembly() achieves this, but how can I do this in Function B. In this case, getCallingAssembly returns the assembly of function A, and I cant see how to recurse. Jason ...Show All

• SQL Server Database is read-only.

  Hi I have been learning on how to use the new features of the .NET 2.0, and Well I using VS2005 and everything is pretty straight foward. I did a Membership webform where you log in and create users and roles etc. I installed the SQL Server 2005 express as my Data provider and thats where my Tables are. I used the aspnetsql_reg comand to integrate the server to this application. Anyway my problem started when i decided to copy my project to my ...Show All

• Visual C# And 3rd

  Hello.I have 2 question 1) How I can move a button (or picture) in the form.Example: "The user moves a button from the bottom to the top of the form". 2) If I have a form ( 800x600 ) how I can make an animation (with DirectX or something..) with the dimension: 90x30 (for example) in the center or in the bottom of the form 1- One possible solution: // Just a sample rectangle where you can move R ...Show All

• .NET Development How does .NET Data Provider for SQL Server convert varchar data to Unicode?

  When the data provider returns converts the value in a varchar field to a .NET string, how does it determine the encoding conversion to perform My guess is that it's determined by the collation setting on the column, but I'm not sure For example, if the collation is SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS, the Provider converts from code page 1252 to Unicode. Does anyone know for sure the strategy applied here Potts -- ...Show All

• SQL Server Error message

  Hi, I keep getting this error message while creating and deploying my report. I already restart the SQL server services(MSSQLServer) a lot of times, it is still the same. An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted) Cannot create a connection to data source 'AdventureWorks'. (rsErrorOpeningConnection) A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the log ...Show All

• SQL Server XCOPY documentation

  I can't seem to find any documentation for XCOPY. If someone could point me to any documentation that would explain it's syntax and how to use it, I would be grateful. Thanks, jerryk   Are you looking for this http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/xcopy.mspx If not, please elaborate. Regards,   ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Substitution of text during checkin or checkou

  Hi, Is there a way to replace certain key-words in the source-code during checkin or checkout (Checkout would be prefered) Background is source-code-cleaning (remove bad words in comments, developer names etc.) Kind regards, Daniel If you are after keywods substitution.as seen in other VC tools (i.e. $Author: $ to $Author: Daniel $) then this is not supported in V1 of the product. However, it sounds ...Show All

• Visual Studio Common Settings for all the projects in a Solution

  Hi, I have an issue, if you could find time then can you please suggest some opinion Issue: I have a dotnet solution and under that a no. of projects are existing. I want to control project settings(like buid type, Enable/Disable Framepointer etc..) for each project from one common place (may be xml file or anything else). When ask to build solution it should read settings from that file and apply to each project and then it should build. One w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to Populate the value Dynamically in the DropDownList.

  Dear Friends, I developing some infopath Application. I have to populate the Values to DropDownList Dynamically...thats means by coding...By coding I have to connect the Database and retrieve the Value for the DropDownList and populates. I am get the DropDownList from the Design mode like this, IXMLDOMNode ddlCustType = thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("my:myFields/my:ddlCustomerType");   After that I dont know the next steps.. ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to change owner of a process or thread?

  Hi, I have a Windows Service that run with SYSTEM user. When i create a new process in this process (using ShellExecute function) the new process got SYSTEM privilege too. I want it'll run as current user privilege. How can i done Any help Hieu I would try posting at the win32 newsgroups at http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/topic.aspx url=/MSDN-FILES/028/201/015/topic.xml  where you might be able to find answers. Thanks,   Aym ...Show All

• Windows Forms Start default mailprogram with attachment

  Hello, I would like to start the user's defaul mailprogram with an attachment. I have tried something like this: string toEmail = "test@test.com" ; string subject = "Testar" ; string body = "test" ; string message = string .Format( "mailto:{0} subject={1}&body={2}&attach={3}" , "" , subject, body, @"c:\test.txt" ); Process myProcess = new Process (); myProcess.StartInfo.FileName = message; myProcess.Start(); ...Show All

• .NET Development VSTO and assemblies on shared drive

  I created a basic excel spreadsheet that displays a message box to test out an excel doc made in VS 2005. I put the assembly and the .xls out on a shared drive on a server. I then used the NET Framework 2.0 Configuration to set the assembly and xls file to FullTrust. It works for me, but when I log onto another computer I get the error: The customization does not have the required permissions to execute. The pc that gets this error has ...Show All

• Windows Forms User Controls Vs Custom Controls

  Hi, I'm currently using VS 2005 and designing Winforms. We have a need to develop new controls. During this tenure, we are stuck which control to design, either "User Controls" or "Custom Controls" What do you suggest and specific reason for that In other words, which is the best option between User & Custom Controls Any light on this aspect will be highly appreciated. Regards, The difference is in the design. User control can bo des ...Show All

• Windows Forms Auto Generated Columns

  This feature of the DataGridView is really starting to piss me off, I optimize the positioning, labels and other aspects of my DataGridView, run it to make sure everything is ok, and when I come back to it the thing has added back 20 new unformatted columns that are exactly the same as the ones I already had. How can I disable this 'feature' DataGridView.AutoGenerateColumns = False ...Show All