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Windows Forms Opening a form from another Form
Hey there, This might be an obvious question but it has me stumped. I have a windows forms called OpeningForm that is the entry point of my application. Which I call using Application::Run(new OpeningForm()); From this form, the user then chooses the direction&nbs ...Show All
Windows Forms What to use...
If I want an information rectangle to pop up after hovering over a stationary target for x amount of seconds, what should I use for the information rectangle A form or what Thanks, Devin Sounds like a tooltip to me. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbcontooltipcontroloverview.asp ...Show All
Visual Studio Team System Special caracters in workitems
How do I use special caracters (caoae) within workitems I've tried to use them directly or through HTML encode (çã) but neither way worked. I was getting the same problem with ProcessTemplate.xml but I added the encoding="ISO-8859-1" and it passed. The workitem definition files doesn't have the <XML> tag, so I can not change the encode. Thks, Max Andrade More info: I got load it ...Show All
Windows Forms Simple Toobar question ? perhaps not....
Hi Guys, I am writing an application that has a number of toolbar buttons along the top. At the end of these buttons I want to position a panel control (that has info in). I have two test machines. One running XP Home and the other Win2000 professional. On the XP Machine I use the designer to position the panel directly after the last toolbar button. Compile and transfer to the other test machine. When I run the applicati ...Show All
Visual Basic Fax Service Extended COM API
hai , how can i get reference to the "Fax Service Extended COM API" functions programmatically. Clearly i would like to invoke the functions like FaxgetJob and the types in that API. Thanks in advance. Sorry I did not check Windows 2000. From this MSDN article http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/fax/faxlegacy_9lf4.asp , i ...Show All
Visual Studio Express Editions Populating a Combobox (with values)
Hi all, I'm pretty new to programming with vb.net. I'm stuck on a problem: I need to populate a combobox with items and a value for each item. for example if it were for countries: Item - Value Canada - U France - E Egypt - A and such... I was able to do such things with ASP, but with .net it doesn't seem the same. I tried: Combobox1.Items.Add("Canada", "U"), but it didn't work. Any help would be appreciated. T ...Show All
Smart Device Development Very strange about Timer
Hi, I am working on a project that uses the timer control, but very strangely when i create a timer, i try to double click on it to write its code (as VS.net 2003) but it does nothing, i don't know where to write the code!!!! however i tried to access it from the dropdown menu at the top of the code window of the form but it leads me to a part of the auto-generated code (which is generated by the form). Please HELP, i don't know where ...Show All
SQL Server Unattended SRS Install & VS.NET 2003
I am using the following for my unattended install script: USERNAME=XX COMPANYNAME=XX PIDKEY=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx INSTALLDIR=%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft SQL Server\ ADDLOCAL=RS_Server,RS_Manager,RS_Admin_Tools,RS_BooksOnline_EN RSACCOUNT=mydomain\myaccount RSPASSWORD=pass RSAUTOSTART=1 RSVIRTUALDIRECTORYSERVER=ReportServer RSVIRTUALDIRECTORYMANAGER=Reports RSREDIRECTTOMANAGER=0 RSUSESSL=0 RSDATABASESERVER=mymachine\mssqlserver ...Show All
Visual Studio Fatal Error HXC2064: Unable to initialize the full-text index engine. Reason code 205.
Hi, I cannot compile Help 2.0 files anymore. Whether I use NDoc or HelpStudio, I got the following message : Fatal Error HXC2064 : Unable to initialize the full-text index engine. Reason code 205. I have found this FAQ http://helpware.net/mshelp2/h2faq.htm#HXC2064 and tried to register the listed dlls without success. The targeted assembly is small and do not contain tons of comments. Any ideas Gildas Hello Gildas ...Show All
.NET Development user license
Each user is using the .net application to connect and work with the data in the sql server database. All the database handling code (i.e calling the stored procedures) is in a project which is inside a .sln. One of the projects in the .sln is for the UI i.e. forms. So, we have, one .sln which contains two projects (one for UI and the other for calling the stored procedures.) I think at present it means that we need ...Show All
Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Word 2000 section page numbering bug? Any workaround?
Hi, In a Word template macro I need to renumber page numbers of section 1 of the active document. Code is as follows: With ActiveDocument.Sections(1).Headers(1).PageNumbers .NumberStyle = wdPageNumberStyleLowercaseRoman .HeadingLevelForChapter = 0 .IncludeChapterNumber = False &nbs ...Show All
.NET Development Using Web Services with C++ ?
Forgive what may seem an obvious question, but how do I go about using WSE2 (web services extensions) with Visual C++ I have tried a #import on Microsoft.Web.Services2.dll but that does not work, so I am rather confused as how I can use the WSE2 features with C++. The reason for C++ by the way, is that our web server engine is built using C++ and it needs to talk to another web servers using secure SOAP. I can create a HTTPS soap link but I real ...Show All
Software Development for Windows Vista Seperation of System Sounds from Music
The new Vista Volume Control allows you to control system sounds seperately from any other application playing sound. Check it out by clicking the volume icon in the system tray and selecting "mixer". ...Show All
Visual Basic Child form???
Excuse me guys. Could someone please tell me how to create what I’m assuming is called a child form (a form that when open takes priority over the main form so I can't access the main form until I’ve closed the child form). Thanks in advance!!! System.Windows.Forms.Form class has a property called ShowInTaskbar. To stop your new dialog from showing up in Taskbar, myForm.ShowInTaskbar = ...Show All
Visual Studio graphic setting
I am using the VSIP wizards to create a new add-in. What is the magic to get new graphics into the VSIP project I simply changed the current bitmaps and they do not appear. I can change the index and they will eventually get in the VS IDE. What is the magic that ties in images_24.bmp and images_32.bmp Is that a hard coded name required by VS I have walked from the ctc through the conatans and #defines and thought I had a handle on it but still ...Show All