Agostinho Teixeira's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions how to test snippets of code

  hi, I'm new to VC++ express edition. I just want to know that, if I have a snippet of code and I want to compile it and run it. How can I do it with out making a full project. is there any way to compile and test short programs. This is not possbile through the VS2005. Nevertheless, that is something that we are considering and currently investigating. Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• Visual Basic Designing cells for spreadsheet program

  I am going to develop a spreadsheet program. For now, it will only accept string data into cells, save them to and open them from file. My question is, what approach should I take to display the cells Should I use common controls like TextBox for each cell or should I store the contents, size and location of the cell in an object and use GDI to display them I have this confusion because, either approach has its own advantages and disadvantages ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Adding image to commandbarbutton

  According to the following example ( sample ) I tried to add my own images to a custom toolbar.  Only when I call the ' ConvertImage.ImageToIPicture _             (MyForm.PictureBox1.Image)' I get the error 'HRESULT E_FAIL' (I added the images to my project, changed also the build action to embedded resource, and also added my images to an imagelist) Does someone have an id ...Show All

• Visual Basic Add connection wizard fails with Access database

  I have the RTM version installed. I am quite puzzled at this wizard. It works fine with SqlClient. But for Access databases, this wizard completely fails. In this wizard, I only have one option to do - setting the ConnectionString. I set it to Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=D:\path\abc.mdb, which works fine in my code. But when I click OK, it complains: --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- ...Show All

• Windows Forms using ToolStrip in visual basics .NET 2003??

   I was wondering if it is possible to use the toolstrip control in visual studio .net 2003, Visual basic standalone version The only version i have found is for visual studio 2005 If it's for a big project and you have the budget and you really need the toolstrip functionality, there are several third-party libraries that implement it, and much better than it's in .NET 2.0. See here for some free and com ...Show All

• Visual Studio Error re-installing Beta1 Refresh after removing Feb CTP

  I made the mistake of testing Feb CTP on my main PC and am now stuck where neither version will install.  After removing all of Feb CTP, when I re-install Beta 1 Refresh (the only stable version I have seen), the install completes, but when I start the IDE, I get an error "Cannot find entry point in MSRCV80.DLL".  I cannot find that DLL on any system with any version of VS.  I cannot find any mention of that filename in Google. An ...Show All

• Windows Forms FindControl.

  Hi everyone, Does anyone know what would be the similar of FindControl method from Web library to from Windows.Forms library I need to get what controls do I have inside a panel, like TextBox, etc. Thanks in advancing. Doria Hi Doria, I see that you want change the value of a property. I use the following code to do this: PropertyDescriptorCollection props; PropertyDescriptor propParent; QPictureBackGro ...Show All

• Windows Forms UnHendleException?

  Sometimes i receive UnHendleException and cause the application to crash, but doesn't crash at the point the exception happened. to find that point  i sat up Exceptions to*space space*into debugger in Exception dialog ( via main menu --> Debug/Exceptions/Break& ...Show All

• Visual C# How to add an application into a form?

  I have a vendor application (exe) and I like to add it into my application. Something like a MDI application holding other application. I found System.Diagnostics.Process class, but I can't add the app into my app. Thanks in advance You can't add another application to your application unless that application is exposing a API to integrate with it. What you can do from your application is that , you can open another application ...Show All

• Visual Basic Communication Between Objects? Is it possible without creating a new object

  Hello, I'm a beginning programmer, and I have a problem that involves object oriented programming. I'm making a game and in this game there is a form and another class called "ship". So when the form runs it makes a ship to be "myship" Public MyShip As New Ship( ByVal vbobject As StarGame.Main ) Now in the object ship there is a method called MoveTo(ByRef x as integer, ByRef y as integer). In the code it step ...Show All

• Windows Forms Installation Error

  I am getting a very interesting error when I attempt to install Terrarium on my system XP Pro, AMD XP 2000+, 512Mb RAM I installed the SDK Package, then the Redist Package (It told me I had to) then When I went to install Terrarium I  ...Show All

• Windows Forms adding app.config from other projects?

  I have 5 projects in my solution and three of them have app.config files. When I create a clickonce package it only includes my window form app.config and not other ones (class libraries projects). How can i add those I set the build action property to content also but still didnt show up. Can somebody help me ...Show All

• SQL Server Encrypted password in DB and reused later

    Hi guys... My question.... I built an vb.net app that set some parameters and runs a store proc. Besides, the vb.net app creates an user with admin rights, his credentials: username and password are stored in DB. I thouth to encrypt password with hash + salt method. The problem.... Hashing password means that they are not decrypted ...only compared ..and here the problem....I would like to reuse this password to be u ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to make linklabel control work fine properly ?

  Hi there I am pretty new for windows form, if anyone can help me, I would be very appreciate. I created a panel and set the panel autoscroll property to true, and then add serveral linklabel controls. all linklabel controls fire the same event  ...Show All

• SQL Server Advenced select

  Hi, I have 3 tables. 1. TableValues with MainID, FieldID and value 2. TableFields with FieldID, FieldName, FieldTypeID 3. TableFieldsTypes with FieldTypeID, TypeName I want to create select that returns me columns as fields names and values taken from TableValues and types taken from TableFieldsTypes. How can I do this Thank's Alexei Select tf.FieldName         tft.fieldType,   &n ...Show All