j42's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms ListBox

  Can someone tell me how to check for duplicate items in my ListBox You can check to see if an object exists in your listbox already by doing: int index = listbox.Items.IndexOf ( itemToCheckFor ) if ( -1 == index ) Item does not exist ...Show All

• Visual C++ online download

  I'm using VS 2003 Pro so I think the code should be just about the same as 2005. You guys dont have a forum for older versions! Now in my program I want my users to be able to type in a url of a picture and have the program download it and put it in there 'My Pictures' folder. I don't know if there is a control needed or if I add a reference or if it just code. But I know it can't be to hard. zbc wro ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Working with code behind

  Hi I have a button in my application, which I have defined using XAML tags. I want to be able to apply a LinearGradientBrush to the background property of my button from code-behind. As of now, I am able to set the background property to a SolidColorBrush. How can I do the same with a LinearColorBrush Thanks in advance! I can achieve the same by instantiating LinearGradientBrush as well. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Need help loading a tree with children and sub children

  Hi, In the code below I have sucssfully loaded a tree with customers , That is if I jsut have the first while loop. Now I have another table with customers who are subsiduaries of the aboce customers that I want to appear as cildren of the first customer . This what I had hoped to do with the second loop, but for some reason it stops at this line: Set newNode = Me!TreeView1.Nodes.Add(rs1![CustomerID], tvwChild, rsSubSidC!CompanyName) and sa ...Show All

• Visual C# C# TAPI ITAddressTranslation

  Hello, I would like to use TAPI 3 to get the dialing format for a phone number, but I don't know how. I guess I have to use ITAddressTranslation:TranslateAddress() function, but I didn't succeed. Can anyone please post an example af how to initialize all the necessary objects and use this function Thank you in advance! I also very interest in TAPI development, but very less TAPI tutorial and ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Need a fix to area bug

  I am running Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Beta 3 Refresh and have discovered that if a user without sufficient permissions tries to create an Area in the Areas & Iterations dialog that an error is given to the user but the Area is still created. It appears that the Area was not completely created though, it shows up in that dialog list, but is not available to be used by work items and it cannot be deleted by anyone. When I (from a g ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Directx 9.0C issues , cant play games anymore.......

  I had a missing system DLL file in my Directx 9.0 C . I tried reinstalling 9.0C but I kept getting the same error over and over , missing system DLL file. So I decided to check with colleagues and on the Internet and Microsoft and found out that I needed to first REINSTALL the original directx 8.1 drivers from my Windows XP Home Edition cd.........but 1 needed file ( d3d8.dll) was not there which i really needed for my UNINSTALL/REINSTALL TOOL ! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System One big team project, or Eight small ones?

  Hi.... I'm just getting my feet wet wtih TFS, and have general questions. We have a small team which work on web applications on eight different internal web sites. Each web site constitutes one project. Everyone involved have the same responsibilities in each of the eight projects. So, while getting things setup (and of course I want to use source control) with TFS, should I make one Team Project, or eight Team Projects If I make it ...Show All

• Visual Basic Error: ResolveComReference task failed, References could not be loaded

  Hi, I recently upgraded my program from VB 6 to VB 2005 Beta 2. After the upgrade completed There was 1 Error and a bunch of warnings. The error was basically this: >Error 75 The "ResolveComReference" task failed unexpectedly. >System.ArgumentException: Invalid Primitive Type: ADODB.ExecuteOptionEnum. >Consider using CodeObjectCreateExpression. I also get a bunch of warnings like these two: >Warning 2 The eleme ...Show All

• Windows Forms .net apps deployment with MySQL Setup

  I will be developing .net application to be use for standalone PC This is application will make use of MySQL, but i do not have any ideal how do i setup the database during the installation, can i create the installer which will include th ...Show All

• Windows Forms Retrieving Images (BLOB) from a Dataset

  Hello all, I have a database (SQL Server) with a couple of tables that I retrieve records from and display on a form.  All records retrieved are dumped into a dataset for easy, quick access.  One field is an image datatype and my prob ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server & client

  We are facing few problems while working with Team Foundation System. We are unable to connect with Team foundation server. We give the steps what we have followed : 1. System with Windows 2003 (TFS Server) On this system, we have installed the following with Microsoft Team Foundation Server Beta 3. a. VS-2005 Team Explorer b. Vs-2005 Team Foundation Server (Build) c. VS-2005 Team Foundation Server (proxy) d. Microsoft Window ...Show All

• Visual Basic Number Only Input

  First of all, Sorry of this is a really simple question. I'm a bit of a noob. Is there anyway to make an input box that will only allow the input of numeric characters Thanks in advance. EDIT: The following code was taken straight out of help and was used to allow only numbers to be entered into a textbox.     ' Boolean flag used to determine when a character other than a number is entered.     Private ...Show All

• SQL Server how to create a DTS package in 2005

  Can anyone give me a quick tutorial on how to create a DTS package in 2005 using Business intelligense studio. I want to import a file from a ftp location and load it into the database as a table. I know how to do it in 2000, but can use some help in 2005. thanks ...Show All

• Windows Forms Non Rectangular

  hi all I was making a non rectangular form in C# using a bitmap with a white background and set the transparency key property of the form to white and it works but when I color quality from the system properties to 32bit it didn't work is there any way to overcome this or is there a different method for drawing a non rectangular form using images   thx for your interest k... check this link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau ...Show All