Ben Taylor's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Displaymember by valuemember

  Hi all, I there a way to get the displaymember value by a valuemember  in a combobox So for instance i know the valuemeber(id) of a combo is 10 , is there a way 2 get the displaymember(descrition) value I know i can loop in the objectlist& ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX viewer

  Hi all how can i write a code in C# and Managed directX that can makes me import *.X files and move them like the same way directX viewer do, i am already now can import the *.x files , but the difficult thing for me is move them like that way directX viewr did thx all :) The complete source code to the C++ viewer is there. Look at that and the source to samples like the Progressive Mesh sample to understand how to create a C# version o ...Show All

• Visual Studio Installing IE7 works but..

  Thought I'd start a new thread, since I'm using Visual C# Express, rather than full VS2005. Windows XP Pro SP2, Visual Studio 2003 Pro, SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition, Visual C# Express, Visual Web Developer Express, SQL Express 2005, MSDE. I also have Virtual Server 2005 SP1 beta installed. Problem just started this weekend. Whenever I click on any topic in the Index, Document Explorer crashes. I've tried Repair on Visual C# Express, Visual ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is there a bug list?

  Is there a bug tracking site for the Database Professionals version Dale Remember that the Database Professionals is based on the exact same Visual Studio 2005 core as all of the other versions from Express on up to Team Suite, as such there is no specific bug repository for the Database Professionals version, instead you should use the newly launched feedback site on Microsoft Connect for Visual Studio and t ...Show All

• Smart Device Development smartphone 2003 emulator really slow, really!

  I am using the smartphone 2003 emaulator with embedded vc++4 to do some development, but the emulator is really very slow, i have tried increasing the memory for the emulator from 48 MB to 256 MB, i have a reasonablly fast machine, p4 HT 3 GHZ 1 GB RAM etc, but still the emulator is slower then my 286 computer can any one please help me over here thanks. Sorry, This forum is for Device Emulator released with Visual Studio 2005 and a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Office Pro Small Business Edition & VSTO

  Does anyone know if VSTO works with Office Professional for Small Buisness The 'Professional' moniker makes me think that it should, but you never know with scaled versions of software. Thanks in advance. --MikeH Thanks for the reply, Harry My support people had told me this was the edition of office that a client had.  Guess I could have answered the question had I just confirmed the name of the editio ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to best 'upgrade' vs 2003 with a new vs 2005?

  I was running vs 2003 academic, which has no upgrade path to vs 2005, so I bought the full standard vs 2005. I don't want or need to run 2003 and 2005 side by side...I just want to proceed with 2005 from here on. So...before I install 2005, should I uninstall 2003 If it doesn't matter, then is it OK to uninstall 2003 Will doing so delete or harm my 2003 projects in any way VS 2005 and 2003 work si ...Show All

• Windows Forms Keyevent F5

  Hallo, I am trying to capture the Keyeevnt F5 in the application.However the event does'nt gets captured. The code i use is... private void captureKeyPress(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs e) { try { switch (e.KeyChar){ case (char)Keys.F5: e.Handled = true; break; } }catch (Exception e){ MessageBox.Show(e.ToString()); } } Is it not possible to capture thes ...Show All

• SQL Server Embedded code

  Is it possible use a dataset from the embedded code Thanks! What I mean is: Is it possible that from within a report (through the embedded code) get a hold of another dataset and make a query with the data from a specific cell as parameters Please answer! Thanks again ...Show All

• Windows Forms Visual Studio 2003 Locks Up After Building with No Error Messages

  When I compile a project in Visual Studio 2003 Visual Basic .NET the IDE will lock up or freeze and I cannot see my application.  If I press control alt delete I can see that the program has been built but I cannot see it. & ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB The usual sql update data row problem

  Hello everyone! Ive seen many differnent answers and solutions for this question, but mine is a little different... What I have is 2 different variables (1 string & 1 integer)... I want to place those two variables as data in an existing datarow in my sql db. I can add them as another row no problem... but i have a row of data already partially filled and want to add these two values into the two NULL parts of that existing data row ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions (Newbie) Listbox.SelectedIndex problem

  Hi EDITED post: changed question. This is the very last thing I need to do to complete my first project. I have found that to select an item from a Listbox, the user needs to use the up/down control and then click to highlight anthe item before a call to ListBox.SelectedIndex will return the correct item in the list. Even if a different item is showing in the Listbox, the return is always the last item that was 'selected', How d ...Show All

• Windows Forms Set forms-start

  hi, Can anybody help me how to start a second form added to a project as the start form when the project is executed  . Thanks, Varun It doesn't really matter where it is defined.  The compiler basically seaches the assembly for a& ...Show All

• SQL Server Distinct count MDX question

  I am trying to get the distinct number of accounts that have subscribed to recieve emails about cruises, have had a past trip between 2004 and 2006, and have flown out of either the Seattle or Houston airports. My MDX is given below. It is returning the number of accounts but not the number of distinct accounts. Could anyone give me some insite on how to change this query to return distinct accounts Thanks. -- Nedra SELECT NON EMPTY ...Show All

• Windows Forms Form generates MouseEvent upon Showing?

  It appears that when a Form is created (or perhaps "Show"n), it generates a MouseEvent. Is this correct If so, is there a way to disable this feature/nuisance I checked the MSDN Library, but I did not see any solutions. Thanks. You don't need any bool values to determine when the Form has been shown. Show event will tell you this, so you just need to handle Show. ~Bogdan ...Show All