adam.connelly's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Tabbed Browsing in VB .Net

  Hi, I have a question regarding tabbed browsing. I am writing my own custom web browser in vb .net studio 2005. I can create, dynamically at runtime, additonal tabs on a tab control, which will - in each - have a dedicated webbrowser control. So what will happen is 5 search engines will be searched and the results be placed in seperate webbrowsers under 5 dynamically-created tabs. The user can then tab throw each set of results. The pro ...Show All

• Visual Basic MDI Children not staying Maximized in Parent

  I have hit the wall and could use some help please.. When I start my Windows Application, using an MDI Parent and Children with the Children being maximized in the parent window using the me.windowstate=maximized bit, and that works fine. When I go from one child to another and back, or the second time a form is displayed, it goes to normal mode. This only happens the second time a form is displayed; third, fourth, fifth, it's fine. Not on ...Show All

• Windows Forms Database question

  I am writing a program that will allow you to create new databases on a SQL server. However, I am getting an error that says the database 'MODEL' is being used, and we can't get an exclusive lock on it. I have no problem creating  ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Frame buffer vs Frame buffer

  I want to read the pixels directly from the frame buffer, i-e whatever is on my screen, I want to read that. Now I have been using glReadPixels, it read pixels from the frame buffer of opengl... i-e whatever I render myself, I can capture it only... I am trying to access the graphics card buffer and read pixels from there using opengl... what should I be doing Just in case, this isn't an OpenGl forum and I doubt that questions from ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO property for hidden Excel sheets

  Is there a property on one of the VSTO classes or interfaces that allows one to determine whether a particular worksheet in the current workbook is hidden I am currently hiding some of my sheets via Format->Sheet->Hide on the main toolbar, and I would like to be able to identify the hidden sheets programmatically. TIA, Nick Keller Software Developer/Analyst Mercury Media You can go through ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problems with validating event; is it a bug?

  I have 3 forms: MainForm (MDIContainer), Form1 and Form2. MainForm has a menu with 2 options: the first opens the Form1, and the second opens the Form2, using code like this: private void menuItem1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) {        F ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Lambdas and type/variable checking

  I would like to use lambdas with a custom object model.  The lambda would be turned into a parse tree and I would execute that against my application object model, much like DLINQ or XLINQ are able to do so.  This requires that somehow the compiler know what are valid properties, operators, types, variables, etc in the expression.  How is this accomplished   Will this be available to the end-user of LINQ.  This would mak ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Massive iostream errors

  Hey, i'm kinda new to Visual C++ Express and i'm having a problem when I include iostream. I've installed Platform SDK and this is what I compile: #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main(){ cout << "Hello" ; return 0; } I get tons of errors from this: ------ Build started: Project: empty_project, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ Compiling... 2.cpp C:\Progra ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Is it a Bug?

  I have used Visual Studio 2005 and workflow foundation beta 1.2, and I met a weird problem. when I used WebServiceReceive Activity and compiled, the VS showed the error message: property 'xxxx' has invalid value, Field type 'xxxxxxxxxxx' doesn't match with the expected type 'xxxxxxxxxxx' . But actually it did match. And the stranger thing is after I unload the project and reload it , it compiled successfully! Why Every time I met the ...Show All

• Visual C++ (MSVCRT) _iob disappeared?

  What can I do to replace the functionality of _iob Seems to be missing in MSVCR7/8 (using VS2005). Error 1 error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _iob main.def In my def, I'm redirecting this export as such: _iob=MSVCR80._iob I also tried: _iob=MSVCRT._iob ...Show All

• .NET Development Connection to Sybase

  Hi, I'm having problems creating a connection string to connect to a Sybase db. I have tried both of these methods... ODBC: CONN_STRING = "driver=Adaptive Server Anywhere 9.0;server=XXX;Database=XXX;uid=xxx;pwd=xxx" Dim xConn As New odbcConnection(CONN_STRING) xConn.Open() and the error I get is "ERROR [08001] [Sybase][ODBC Driver][Adaptive Server Anywhere]Database server not found" OLEDB CONN_STRING = "driver=Adaptive Server Anywhere 9.0; ...Show All

• .NET Development Printing from .Net code called from a VB 6 class that's been called from an ASP page fails

  Hi Guys, First of all, I'm very sorry if I've got the wrong group. My problem spans a few areas so I'm not sure where to post (it'd be great if I've got it wrong if someone could point me right). Anyway, here's my problem... We've got an old ASP web application that we're slowly moving to .Net by writing all new functionality in .Net and using COM interop to call into it. The application is just a single ASP page that does a CreateObject a ...Show All

• SQL Server Problems running SQL Agent Jobs & SSIS Packages

  I'm having some difficulties with the SQL Agent and running my SSIS packages. At present, I have several packages that import data from Oracle, a few that use a JODBC connection and several more that transfer data from other SQL servers (2000) I originally had the SQL Agent log in as a System Account, and although the pacages run fine if I manually right click and execute them, if I add them to a Job they fail with a login error. I then changed ...Show All

• Visual Studio Internet Connection in VS 2005

  Hi,       I just installed VS 2005 on my machine, but my online help cannot be accessed. I keep getting the message: "The request failed with Http Status 407. Proxy authentication required". IE on my machine does have proxy authentication. Is there a fix for this   Thanks, Arshad Hmmm... not really.  We're using HTTP POSTs to make our web service calls.  Are you able to do HTTP POSTs (not ...Show All

• Visual C++ Visual Studio Issues

  Having a bit of problems with the studio after installing it. First, when using C++, I get these "numbers" before each row in the output window when compiling. Eg, 1>------ Rebuild All started: Project: Quicklinks Dll, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ 2>------ Rebuild All started: Project: Tooltips, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ 1>Deleting intermediate and output files for project 'Quicklinks Dll', configuration 'Debug|Win32' 2> ...Show All