Basils's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Datagrid with a Multiline column

  Hello, I need to make the a Windows form Datagrid column to be able to display multiline text. Any ideas how I can do it  Or Can I use listview instead Madhuri You will have to make a custom column style. though the better question is this, do you want it to show all the time in a bigger box or only when it has fo ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) System.ObjectDisposedException

  After use SubmitChanges() in my Sql Server 2000 database, the application fails and show the next exception:  Unhandled Exception: System.ObjectDisposedException: Cannot access a disposed object. Object name: 'Transaction'. How can i do to resolve this problem.  I use Sql Server 2000 and Windows XP Service Pack 2 Thanks. Keith, since you asked about the source code, I get this exact same error when I just follow the steps in the Visual Designer Walkthrough. When I click the Save button that we are testing in the "Test the Application" section on page 7 of the document, I get this except ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Using InsertXML method?

  Hello all you VSTO gurus, I have been trying to troubleshoot this annoying issue for many hours now and am ready to give up. Here's the issue I am having: I am programtically inserting a string of XML into a document as such: ... sXML = "<author><name>John </name><title>President</title></author><author><name>Mike</name><title>VP</title></author>" ..Range.InsertXML(sXML) ... The XML gets inserted into the document, but the formatting is not how I expected. To be more precise, it is inserting a break after each xml node, so the above looks like this in the ...Show All

• Visual Basic VoIP

  Hello ladies and gents! Short question with a long answer (most likely). I am working on a multiple-client instant messenging application, and I would like to put VoIP into it (Voice over IP). Do I have many weeks of headaches ahead of me or have the nice *cough* people at microsoft put something into VB.NET to make it easy for me I'm using VB.NET2003 (don't ask....) Thank you in advance. There's nothing special about voice over IP, apart from any patents being held by those that have developed compression and transmission algorithms to make it useable. It's just a stream of bytes. VoiceOver IP has been around a loooong time. You ...Show All

• Visual C# Windows Dockable Panes

  Is there anything available for FREE that allows dockable panes, like those of Visual Studio 2005, Eclipse, etc. I know of CodeJock's solution with their Xtreme Toolkit. I want a free solution or to know if there exists a solution for this in VS already and I'm just not seeing it. Any help please phpguru Thanks for the links. I was looking for "Dock Pane" instead of "Dockable Windows". I found Weifen Luo's DockPanel Suite on SourceForge which appears to be very popular and is Open Source. It seems to work for what I need to do! Thanks, phpguru ...Show All

• Windows Forms floating Toolbar (ie IDE)

  Hello everybody! Has anybody some experience with floating toolbars Is there a way to create toolbars like the ones that the IDE uses I wrote a custom control that simulates the same behavior, but it doesn't look as good as the "real" thing (and has still some minor bugs too). Any suggestions TIA Another toolbar control I just stumbled upon i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to turn off Overflow Checks?!?

  Is there any good reason for not having the ability to turn off overflow checks in VB.NET Express I know that this is an "advanced" option, but lots of common code code doing some binary operations will break and not be usable for beginners to run and study . That's pretty bad IMHO. There's the workaround of course by putting the "RemoveIntegerChecks" XML element in the vsproj file manually, but why all this pain, Microsoft, why Thanks for listening! Go ahead and purchase the more advanced IDE: Standard or professional if you really need this feature. VBExpress is a tool designed for beginners, who may n ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to disable the Close Box in a dialog box?

  I'm developing a dialog box that displays when the main application shuts down.  What I want to know is how to disable the Close Box in that dialog box. Brandon Taylor You can find this (and other answers) here: http://www.syncfusion.com/FAQ/WindowsForms/FAQ_c95c.aspx#q744q . Best regards, Johan Stenberg ...Show All

• Visual C# Import outlook contacts

  Hey howzit I would like to import outlook contacts in my C# application.  I have found a handy application on the code project:  http://www.codeproject.com/com/outlookcontacts.asp df=100&forumid=14626&select=1409933&msg=1409933  but it uses C++ and I do not want to use this code...I heard there is code in .NET for doing this...can anyone please help me Regards, You can find a article on code project that shows you how to interact with Outlook, go check it out here . ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Possible to apply shader to DX7 content?

  We are using an existing DirectX 7-based game engine to render 3d content. We do not have the source to the engine. We'd like to apply shaders to some of the objects rendered in this engine. Since it is DirectX 7-based, this seems like a technologically difficult, if not impossible, feat. Is this possible Impossible is a strong word. There is a way to do this but I am sure you want not go it because it is many work. It should be easier to port your game to a newer engine with shader support. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem with the report site.

  On the team project we setup a report site.  For the report site we added TfsOlapReportDS and TfsReportDS.  We then added a couple of reports, Bug Rates and Issues. The Issues report is using the data source TfsReportDS which runs fine with no problems.  When I open the Bug Rates report in Team System, I get the following error message: An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted) Query execution failed for data set 'AreaPathPath1'. (rsErrorExecutingCommand) Incorrect syntax near 'Measures'. Incorrect syntax near 'WorkItemType'. I then added two more reports.  Again the one that used the TfsRe ...Show All

• Windows Forms Expand and display the child table on same screen

  Hi!  I want to expand and dispaly the child records on the same screen while displaying parent records. just like normal Master/Child detailed grids.            Can any one help regarding this Component one has a nice grid that does this. it's called truegrid www.componentone.com Now the other ways to do this would be to cr ...Show All

• Visual C++ Placing tabs on CDialogBar

  Could any one help me with how to place Tabs on a Dialog bar control in an MFC based SDI application Thank you What is the idea behind that Do you want a dockable window that shows more views like the Output dock windoiw in VC6 Or do you just need Tabs for switching views. Tab windows in a dialog bar alone doesn't make much sense to me. Simple buttons would be sufficient, or use use a real CTabCtrl inside the CDialogBar. Even this is possible. ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView selected row color

  I'm so confused on this. After looking at the docs and inherited behavior, etc, I just don't get it. I want to change the selection color to a color that I have prediefined for that row when the user selects it. For example, if the user selects row 1 I want the selection color to be red, if row 2 yellow, etc. Currently, when I add a row to the grid, I am assigning a DataGridViewCellStyle with SelectionBackColor = a color, to each cell in the row. Is this the only way Is this that difficult to do I'm sure I'm missing something that seems so easy to do. Thanks, Scott Check out these samples, they are pretty good. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to add the IMemberCreationService to Lab 10 example?

  In lab 10, when trying to set properties for our custom activities, it reports " IMemberCreationService " is missing. How can we install one. Seems there's no implementation example around yet, please help! Thanks. Alan Hi Alan, A sample having implementation for IMemberCreationService is ready and shall be posted on the community site as early as next week. Thanks, Vihang ...Show All