KiranK's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Calling a C# executable from windows explorer shell context menu

  I have written a simple application in C# (2005 Express Edition) / Windows Forms that displays diskspace usage for a given file/folder as a pie chart that I wish to access from the windows explorer context menu. I have managed to add an item to the context menu for all folders using the file types tab in the folder options dialog within windows. This is sufficient for me as I don't intend to distribute this application, it is only for my own ...Show All

• Windows Forms Dynamic loading of UI controls

  Are there any good articles out there on packaging up UI into control library and  dynamically loading them into a main shell. With the main windows being a .NET executable and the UI library a dll. Thanks Pat JCasa  - It will probably& ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro upgrading old foxpro apps

  we currently have foxpro version 5, and a handfull of apps which were developed on it.  the person who developed them has since left us and it has become my job to find a way to upgrade these apps.  the problem is that i don't know the first thing about foxpro - i am a coldfusion guy.  so the biggest thing we want to do is to get the data from the foxpro databases into a sql server database.  if we do this can we still run t ...Show All

• Visual C# link label

  How can i make a link label go to a url or program when it is clicked private void linkLabel1_LinkClicked( object sender, LinkLabelLinkClickedEventArgs e) { System.Diagnostics. Process .Start( "http://www.url.com" ); } ...Show All

• Visual Studio unmanaged addin registration for all users

  What is the recommended way to register an unmanaged vs2005 addin for all users   It appears that the .addin xml file is only for managed addins; is this correct Ok - thanks for that.  So the bug that I filed which was closed as "by design" was closed in error.  That's the point I was trying to understand.  When you say "your bug DB" is that the feedback database that is publicly accessi ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Tutorial for creating Hyperbar

  Hello to all, i want to create a hyperbar in my project,can anyone provide me any assistance or tutorial to create a hyperbar in interactive designer(march 2006 CTP) also please tell me how can i use a project created in Interactive designer in the Visual Studio.Net(ASP.Net website) with all animations. Thanks in advance. you can also use my email address for reply.(sumair_99@hotmail.com) There's already a Hyperbar sample shipped ...Show All

• .NET Development Remoting basic question

  Hi All, I am new to .NET Remoting and have a very basic question regarding it- While creating a remoting application, both the remoting client and the remoting server needs a reference to the remote object library( the dll that contains the remotable object). I don't understand why the client need to have a reference to the remote object library Adding a refernce to the remote object library from the client will copy the remote object dll ...Show All

• Visual C# What is this message telling me?

  I keep getting this error message and haven't been able to locate a solution: An unhandled exception of type 'System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException' occurred in mscorlib.dll Additional information: Could not find a part of the path "J:\DOH SSN MATCH\Unwise\tempFile.txt". The error pops up on the StreamWriter in following code: private void CheckForCrlf () {      string chekText = "" ;     ...Show All

• SQL Server Rendering reports programatically

  I have just migrated all my SSRS 2000 reports to a different server on SSRS 2005. As a quality check I would now like to render all my 2005 and 2000 reports programatically to a directory so I can compare them.  I have a listing of the reports I want to run allong with their parameters (from the execution log). How would I go about rendering them from this list You can use the SOAP endpoints to render the reports. How do you pla ...Show All

• Visual Basic Cycling through textboxes

  Using Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition, I have got a row of textboxes named T1 up to T9, and I am  trying to find a way to cycle through them. So if the starting text box was T1 then the pattern would go T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9 and say if T5 was the starting textbox it would go T6, T7, T8, T9, T1, T2, T3, T4. Is this possible With your code what happens if I have lots of textboxes b ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Hosting WCF Service in IIS ( X509 Keyset does not exist)

  Hi, I host my service in IIS ( machine running XP ) and try it : http://localhost/RentSoftware/Rentsoftware.svc I receive this error : CryptographicException: Keyset does not exist System.Security.Cryptography.Utils.CreateProvHandle(CspParameters parameters, Boolean randomKeyContainer) +1460764 System.Security.Cryptography.Utils.GetKeyPairHelper(CspAlgorithmType keyType, CspParameters parameters, Boolean randomKeyContainer, Int32 d ...Show All

• SQL Server Sql2005 Upgrade fails

  Hi, I was using VS2005Beta2TeamSuite, and upgraded to Vs2005 Pro. I followed instructions (I believed), but when I tried to install Sql2005 it claimed there were residual Beta programs in my machine, and said to remove them through Add\Remove programs. This I did, but still had the error message. I've been left with no real access to Sql, other than that my VS project still uses my original database, however I have been unable to publish m ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) To Display all the Records of a Table in WPF UI.

  Hello Everyone, I am trying to access PostgreSQL database in the WPF Application. I am able to display a single row value to text boxes. I have used dock panel. The Xaml file looks like this: <DockPanel x:Name="dockPanel" Width="250" Height="500"> <StackPanel DockPanel.Dock="Top" Orientation="Vertical"> <TextBlock VerticalAlignment="Center">Roll ...Show All

• Visual Basic Intellisense Problem

  I have a problem with the autocomplete feature of Visual Studio 2005. When I use VS2005 for an extended period of time the code editor starts to behave very strange. When I'm writing code it starts to autocomplete my code when it should not. Example, if I want to write: Dim sName as String it can ends in: d(ims) nameas String Dim s(name) as string Dim sn(ameas) string etc. As it was loosing focus and it autocompletes while I'm writing (I write v ...Show All

• Windows Forms ListViewGroup Expander?

  I am trying to Create an Expander to my groups in a listview. Much like in Outlook there is an expander for if a message was sent a week a month or a day ago. how can i do that There is no good way to detect that click was made on group or to intercept group painting operation. This is what makes it hard to make an expander. So I think you have nothing to do but to simulate groups and expander by yourself. D ...Show All