Dan Haywood's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Crystal report in vb 2005 express

  Hi everyone, I would like to ask assistant from your community on how to use crystal report XI in Visual Basic 2005 express edition..specifically about where will I load the namespace used in generating the report and how.What dll I need to load. I read some articles and they all assume that the dll libraries of crystal report is already in their references..hope to hear from anyone of you as soon as possible....thanks..... Hi, Two thi ...Show All

• Windows Forms UserControl basics

  I have an windows application in vb.net. Main is the main form Login is a usercontrol Phonelog is a usercontrol I have 2 user controls a login and phonelog. When I run the application I want to load the login and after authentication of the user is ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How do I bind a non-frameworkelement dependencyproperty in code?

  I am trying to create a binding to a PathFigure.StartPoint, which is a dependency property. The binding must be created in code, not XAML, and I have no idea how to do it. The PathFigure is not a frameworkelement, so there is no SetBinding method. Can someone help me Hi Malmer, The universal way of setting a binding is the SetBinding method of BindingOperations. You will have to pass as parameters the target ...Show All

• Windows Forms System.NullReferenceException

  I installed and compiled the source  on my server at work and everything works fine if I install the downloadable client msi and change the cfg file to point to my server . If however I compile the client source into a client setup&nb ...Show All

• Visual Basic Problem VB6 to VB 2005 conversion

  I used to do this with VB6. Type Record STat As String * 4 PkID As Integer SID As Integer SName As String * 35 Msg As String * 100 End Type Dim Rec As Record Rec.SID = Val(lblTo.Tag) Rec.STat = "M" Rec.SName = lblTo.Caption Open filename & ".log" For Random Shared As #1 Len = Len(Rec) Dim Pos% Put #1, getPos(1, "M"), Rec Close #1 I searched a lot and am unsuccessful. I don't know ex ...Show All

• SQL Server Index not showing up on receiving database after DTS

  We have a DTS package from an MS ACCESS database to a SQL Server 2000 database.  One of the tables ENGR_ITEM had an index on it in ACCESS, but you can't see it in the object list in Enterprise Manager.  The only way you know the index is there is if you try to create a primary key on the table and then save it.  It won't let you save it because it says it already has a primary key from the index.  You would think you wou ...Show All

• Windows Forms giving bordercolor for richtextbox

  i have a custom richtextbox and i want to have a property as BoderColor by i can set a different border colors for this richtextbox control.   Hi,   You can do that by following steps… Add a user control Inherit it from panel Declare a RichTextBox in the user control Add RichTextBox to the user controls collection and set dock style to fill   Your user control c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Debugger & Forms Designer in Beta 2 fails

  I was using C# Express Beta 1 for long time, today I installed C# Express Beta 2 but after that I can not create WindowsForms project or open WinForms/Project Settings/Resources When I try to create new WinForms project I get warning as follows Package "Visual studio Settings and Project Designers package" has failed to load properly ( GUID = xxxxx) .... Would you like to disable loading of this package in future ..... <Yes> <No> ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System automate build with beta 3

  this is what i wrote and it complaint team foundation can't start the build when i try to run it. localhost.BuildContoller bc = new localhost.BuildContoller(); bc.URL = @ http://localhost:8080/Build/v1.0/BuildController.asmx ; bc.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials; localhost.BuildParameters bp = new localhost.BuildParameters(); bp.TeamFoundationServer = "VSTSBETA3"; bp.TeamProject = "myteamprojectname"; bp.BuildType = "m ...Show All

• .NET Development About Singleton and queed requests

  Hi, I have one query regarding performance. I have an remoting application which is using IIS as host. I am using the singleton objects. What i want to ask is, if I send say some 10 request for the same object (e.g starting the same screen by some 10 users at same time), thus my 10 requests will get queued or it will be served at same time If it is getting queued, what is the best solution to sort out the issue This is causing the grea ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Vb in acces : hide input data

  hello, anybody got an idea how to make text entered in an inputbox become visible as **** thx Hi TnTico, I would have said look for a PasswordChar property of the text box but there doesn't seem to be one. Use the Input Mask property instead. I've just checked and there is a input mask setting for password input. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development BackColor not setting correctly

  Hey Everyone I am developing a custom control for use on a Windows Mobile device. One of the things that I need to do is set the backcolor property at control initialization. So here is kind of what I am doing public class MyControl:Control { public MyControl() { this.BackColor=SystemColors.Control; } } Now for reasons that I am unable to explain or understand when I create an intance of the contro ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can't design control inherited from generic control

  I created a control, the QuestionPanel, with generic type parameters, and now I want to inherit another control from it. However, when I try to do so, I get this error in the form designer: The designer could not be shown for this file because none of the classes within it can be designed. The designer inspected the following classes in the file: TrueFalseQuestionPanel --- The base class 'Survey.UI.QuestionPanel' could not be loaded. Ens ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Question about the Caller Interface

  Hi, have somebody ideas to redesign the Caller Interface on the WM 5.0 phone edition like the picture above: WM 5.0 Dialer Skin The Question is how to resize or relocate the buttons and the picture. Thanks for your help Patrick Eisel If your intention is to re-write the Caller Interface using C# or VB.NET, you will be able to create the UI as you choose.  I do not believe there is anyway to modify this specific form. ...Show All

• .NET Development 64-bit beginner can't get 32- or 64-bit .NET apps to run on 64-bit machine

  Hi, Please forgive this dumb question, but I *just* got my 64-bit (AMD Athlon X2) machine two days ago and am trying to test .NET apps under it.  I've gone to Windows Update and installed all available updates.  I'm running Windows xp Professional x64 Edition. The problems I have are this: I used Visual Studio 2005 Release Candidate on my other, 32-bit machine to build 32-bit and 64-bit binaries of a little app that does nothing but sh ...Show All