tealeh's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Progress Bar Help!

  Guys, i am currently developing a program that has an MDIForm, and this MDIForm contains a status bar with a progress bar... What I wanted to do is whenever i want to load a form.. I want my progressbar to increment its value. Like that of an internet explorer... Did anyone encountered this problem already Yes sir.. I want my toolStripProgressBar to increment its value whenever I want to load a child form. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Virtual ListView detect end of retrieving items?

  Hi, I now use a virtual listview from the dotnet 2.0 in with LargeIcon View. Using OnRetrieveVirtualItem I can update the list as it is needed but what I would like to do is: In OnRetrieveVirtualItem return an item with no imageIndex or only a very small one. AFTER this I would like to catch the event when the last item was retrieved to render the differend icons in a separate thread. I would like to achieve similar functionality to the explore ...Show All

• Windows Forms About arquitecture

  My scenario is the next: I deploy my application to my clients with ClickOnce, but my clients can modify the code of the application (adding new attributes to the classes), and can personalize the user interface. How I can deploy a new version of my application to my clients without breaking the changes of my clients I need help. from what you've described, you can't, unless you save all the users configs ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to use Books Online search function

  I am unable to use the search feature in Books Online.  Every time I click the "Search" button, I get this error message: Package "Visual Studio Common IDE Package" failed to load Anyone have any ideas on what might be causing this error Hmm, this is strange. I know that you have already gone through an uninstall/repair/install cycle and I am sorry for the trouble it has caused. Is it possible to uninstall ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How can I import data from Excel into VB Express?

    Just downloaded VB Express with SQL Server Express....I want to import the current database, which is in Excel spreadsheet format to VB.  Is this possible so I don't have to re-enter the data   Pam Yes, this is possible. Create your new table in Microsoft Visual Basic Express Edition Database Explorer, copy and paste the data from your Excel spreadsheet into your new table. This ...Show All

• SQL Server Excel Destination Error: Column"xx" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types

  Good afternoon Trying out the Excel Destination in SSIS, I ran into the above error. I did try to ignore my 2 varchar fields and then it works fine. Thanks for any inputs. Yes, string fields in Excel are treated as Unicode string fields by the driver. Here is some content written about moving data in the other direction that applies here too: Data types . The Excel driver uses only six data types, which Integra ...Show All

• Windows Forms Export to Excel from Datagrid?

  Hey everyone, this is my first post here, so I'll get right to the point. I need to determine the best way to export data in a datagrid or dataset from a VB.NET Windows Form application directly into Excel. I was able to find reasonable wa ...Show All

• .NET Development Port Address

  Hello, I am new to programming, learning Visual Basic just now. I am working with a software program written in VB and upgraded to Visual Studio.NET. It's using some kind of hexadecimal code for parallel port addresses; does anybody know, how ports are coded in this way and what do the numbers mean I would assume it outputs 8 bits (1 byte) of data to the port. What type of application is this What kind of device are you ...Show All

• .NET Development Databases for Express Editions of VS2005

  Hello, never been using Visual Studio before. Now I decided to _try_ a jump from Delphi to VS as my new toolkit. Got the C# Express Edition installed and running properly. But I do not seem to be able to connect to any database other than SQLServer or Access. Question: is this working as designed for the Express Editions If no, what do I have to do to connect to my recently modernized databases (Firebird). If yes, are those connections allowed/ ...Show All

• Windows Forms Drag & Drop row reordering on Databound DataGridView

  I have been dragging on this problem for more than a week. I hope someone can help. I follow the sample in http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=201079&SiteID=1 to implement the dragdrop function on a databound datagridview. At first, I used myDataTable.Rows.RemoveAt(dragRowIndex) as in the sample code provided by Mark. However I found the RemoveAt command did not do it's work and an extra record was created each time I ...Show All

• Windows Forms togglebutton

  I am looking to add a single toggle button to a windows form that is not part of a toolbar.  Is there a stand alone togglebutton control that can be used (ie not a toolbar button) caroline Using VS05: The checkbox with the appearance set to ...Show All

• .NET Development How do I get a .NET TextBox to implement MY OWN INTERFACE

  This is a tough one.  I know how to use and implement interfaces from my own classes, but how do I take a system.windows.forms.textbox and get it to implement an interface that I designed.  I really don't want to have to inherit a textbox into a usercontrol and then do it from there... isn't there a more direct means to do it    I have tried creating an empty class file and making it look like the following... =============== ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to get the list of valid users in a particular project?

  i would like to get the valid users in my team server (with a particular project) and i will put it in a lets say, dropdown list. so that i can use it in adding workitems with the use of ASP.Net i used the IGroupSecurityService but i can get only the Group Names and not the members inside the group. any ideas Thanks,. (btw, im using ASP.Net-C#) i still cant get it... i dont want to use my alternative way of doing it.. (getting ...Show All

• .NET Development Vertical text in a graphic context.

  Hi all, I have the following code to display a text in vertical. But I have a problem. The text is not displayed... If I comment the line "e.Graphics.Transform = mx", the text is displayed. Font drawFont = new Font ( "Arial" , 16); Matrix mx = new Matrix (); mx.Rotate(90f); e.Graphics.Transform = mx; e.Graphics.DrawString( "toto" , drawFont, Brushes .Black, 0, 0, new StringFormat ()); e.Graphics.Reset ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Installing team foundation on WS2003 with WSUS

  Reading the documentation for team foundation it explains it requires SQL currently i have WSUS installed on a server which im thinking of installing team foundation on. Would this cause any problems with either Also is there a set date for Team foundation server to be released (i.e. not in beta) Thanks Team Foundation requires SQL 2005, and SQL 2005 must use the default instance name (MSSQLSERVER). If you ...Show All