Nathan Griffiths's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Help still broken

  Just installed the release version of VS2005 standard. Alas, F1 help is still broken. If I position the cursor over a word (for example HANDLE) and hit F1, the following happens: 1. If MSDN is set to use local help only, it always displays the topic-not-found page, even though on the left hand side, the topic is not only present, but selected. A single click on the highlighted item displays the correct information. 2. If MSDN is set to use onlin ...Show All

• .NET Development Windows service and Microsoft Word

  Hi all, I have a windows service which creates an object of MS Word, this service i have installed on my local machine which is a Windows 2000 Professional. This service , creates a word object , opens a document using it and executes all the following code. Now i am trying to install the same on another machine (Windows 200O Server). This machine is newly formatted and i have installed the required software; namely MS.NET and MS Word. The is ...Show All

• Visual Basic WebBrowser control in VB 2005

  Hi all.  This code snippet from .NET 2003 ( http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;en-us;311282  ) handles the opening of a new browser window using a webbrowser control.  This allows me to have the pop-up window of a URL from my "form1" web page to open my "form2" web page, rather than in an independent instance of Internet Explorer. Private Sub AxWebBrowser1_NewWindow2(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As AxSHDocV ...Show All

• Windows Forms MDI form hide - mouse event lost

  Hi, I have a main form and made a child form with main form as MDI parent. I have a listview on the child form with listview mouse leave event. I hide the child form by making the visible=false and then show the child form. Now mouse leave event does not occur for the child form of mdi parent. How do I make this mouse leave event occur after I hide and show the mdi child form Searched a lot but found no answer for htis bug. ...Show All

• SQL Server How to sort table in sql2000 with ipaddress(format x.x.x.x) as column with nvarchar datatype in ascending order

  How to sort table in sql2000 with ipaddress(format x.x.x.x) as column with nvarchar datatype in ascending order without using stored procedure Ex: Table: netComputers(3 rows) Column Name: ipAddress (string data type) ipAddress 0.0.18.1 0.1.1.2 0.0.0.1 Sql query : if I use the query Select ipAddress from netComputers order by cast( replace(ipaddress,'.','') as ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions ClickOnce FireFox Replacement

  Hi, I have discovered that FireFox does not support ClickOnce, rather ClickOnce does not support FireFox at this point in time.  I realized the reason why was in all of FireFox's security it wont even allow the installer to access Windows System information, sometimes a thick thick lead wall can be a bad thing. Anyways, my question is is there anyway, to get around that problem with maybe a different installer   I think the problem com ...Show All

• Visual C# Top Answerers for February

  I just want to say a BIG THANK YOU to those of you who have been sharing your expertise on the C# forums! Here are the top answerers for February. Remember, a post is only considered answered if someone has marked it as answered – so please, if you asked the question, come back and mark it as answered! Moderators are encouraged to be more aggressive in marking questions as answered since this will pull the forum post into the help search result ...Show All

• Visual C# Trouble understanding threading

  I've got an application written in C# 2.0, and am trying to speed up my reporting a bit. On the main form, I have a button that will create a report that can take quite some time. While this report is being created, my main form goes unresponsive. The button doesn't even pop back up while I'm waiting on it. I figured I'd spin off a thread and have it create the report. It worked, but the second the form is loaded, it goes away. How can I get thi ...Show All

• SQL Server Setting Report Data Source Credentials Programmatically?

  Hello, I've been working on an application that uploads an RDL to Reporting Services (through the SOAP webservice method CreateReport) programmatically. I'm having difficulty setting up the data source properties for my uploaded report. In particular the Data Source Credentials property. The datasource for my report doesn't require credentials. By default after I upload the report to Reporting Services, the Data Source Credentials propert ...Show All

• SQL Server Fast loading relational data

  I am searching for a way to fast load relation data. I know how to load data fast but how can i store relation data fast. For example : Table1 ( tabel1Id int identity , name varchar(255) ) Table2 ( tabel2Id int identity , table2Id , name varchar(255)) When i insert 50 records into Table1 i can't get the 50 identity fields back, to insert the related data into Table2. I think one of the solutions could be returning a selection of ...Show All

• Windows Forms Event source in event handler delegate?

  Please help me determine the source of the event that triggered it. In a Windows Forms application, webbowser control, HTMLElement's onclick event is handled by a delegate event handler that has been attached to it by the application. The event handler has the usual parms, source As object and e As System.EventArgs but source is Nothing and e is empty. I know I am missing something but I cannot find what that is, although I have searched MSDN ...Show All

• Visual C# Removing strings in a text file "help"

  I need to know how to remove certain strings in a text file. The text file looks like this below Colt Maximum Steve Entry Cohn Maximum each item is entered an then a new line character is issued. I don't know if a read each one and compare it to the one I want to remove will work. Saying I can compare them how would i go about removing that specific string from the text file Thanks for any responses. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Looking for Random No Generators

  Hii all, I m looking for the defination of lrand48() and drand48() in Micrsoft header files, these functions are present in unix "stdlib.h" file. I couldn't find them in MS  "stdlib.h". Where to find these funtions definations How much a difference is there in C runtime libraries of windows and unix Regards Debugger drand48/lrand48 Ouch! Even by UNIX standards that's deprecated ...Show All

• Windows Forms Deploy Project built in XP won't run on Server 2003

  Hi I am developing in Windows XP, and created a deploy package for a website.  When I try to run the msi (i've tried on 2 different boxes, the one it was built on as well as server 2003), I get the following message: There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A DLL required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. I can do a build on my at work computer (windows serv ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Distorted texture after lost/reset device

  Hi, I'm drawing a textured mesh using DrawIndexedPrimitive, using an effect interface. After a windowed/full screen toggle the texture appears distorted. Interestingly when I draw another mesh in wireframe mode in the same render call the problem doesn't occur. Can somebody help Nico I just dumped the tex coords before rendering the mesh with the undistorted texture and than before rendering the distorted ver ...Show All