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• Visual Basic Referring form objects

  Hi all, I'm converting a VB 6 exe project to a VB 2005 project. One main functionality in VB 6 that gives errors in VB 2005 project is as follows: In VB6, i have a initial form called frmApplication that loads up. There are two other forms Form1 and Form2. Based on the user settings, frmApplication then loads either Form1 or Form2. Form1 and Form2 differs only by appearance. What i mean, all the controls in both the forms are same including the name except there position of the control on the respective forms. When frmApplication is loaded, it creates a object of Form1 or Form2 depends on the setting and assigns to frmObject. Now in VB6, i access the controls in Form1 or Form2 in runtime using frmObject.lblName.Caption = ...Show All

• Visual C# Is there such a thing as a multidimensional Arraylist or List? If so. Syntax?

  Hi! I'm new to C# (and programming for that matter), so this might be a really dumb question. I want to create a multidimensional array where each item is an arraylist. I have a bunch of data, that fits different criteria, and I want to be able to store these in different rows of a multidimensional array. New data, for each criteria, is being generated, so I need the arrays to be able to resize. What I would like to be able to do is something along the lines of this: List<double>[,] myData = new List<double>[2,2]; Meaning a 2x2 array, containing in each element a List<double>. And then I should be able to add data by a statement like: myData[0,0].Add(moreData); And retrieve data by: myData[0,0][someI ...Show All

• Visual C# Hide '+' sign in DataGrid 2.0

  When displaying in a DatGrid an ArrayList of objects that contains a collection of objects itself, I get a '+' sign in every row that shows the content of the collection. Is there anyway to get rid of the '+' sign, o at least assign a DataGridTableStyle to the dataGrid when it shows the child collection To display the ArrayList in the dataGrid Im assigning it to the property DataSource of the DataGrid. ...Show All

• SQL Server Poor import support Connect vb express to SQL2005 Developer ed?

  Excuse the cross post (to VBexpress fourum) but maybe someone here will have a different take have searched all around can't seem to see how to configure a SQL2005 developer ed so I can use vb express to develop a local front end. keep getting "the user instance login flag is not supported on this version of sql server" I have configured the .net framework via aspnet_regsql.exe. Also I configured the "Machine.config" file. but so far no luck. Selecting sql2005 as the server thru the add new database connection in advanced area yields the error message surely there is away. So far still no joy, While Scotty indicates that the connection to SQL2005 is intentionally hampered other posters indicate that ...Show All

• Visual C++ compiling the "selected" project in dev studio 2005 - behavior change

  Hi, We are currently in the process of moving from VC6 to VC8. We have several projects with houndreds of cpp and h files. One of the biggest complaints we get from the developers is the issue of "build selection" button and F7: Our solution is built from several projects, most are static libraries for the main project (the main project having dependencies to these lib projects). When working on the code, developers generally changes a few cpp's without needing to know which one is related to which lib project and in the end they would always compile the main project by pressing F7 or pressing the build - these would automatically build the 'active' project which was always the main project. all relevant libs related cpp's that had changed ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Any way to use VE with VB or C#

  I'm trying to get VE to display on a form and control it programmatically. Is there a way to do this, or do I have to use the webbrowser control and feed it a custom page You can find an example of this over on ViaVirtualEarth.com ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Problem with changing Navigation Source in Frame Element

  Scenario: I've page1.xaml where i've frame named frame1. I've functions to change the navigation source in Page1.xaml where i will load the Page2.xaml, here i've a function which changes the navigation of frame in page1 to load page3.xaml. The function is thru and is not giving any exceptions but frame is not loading the Page3.xaml Hi Chidu, I'm not sure if your issue has been resolved already but if not, here's my shot at a solution. Have you tried using Frame's Source property or the Navigate method to navigate to any of your XAML pages This is an alternative to explicitly using NavigationService's public static methods/properties -- Frame still uses its own NavigationService to actually perf ...Show All

• Smart Device Development can you help me to access the outlook via mobile

  Asalam 3alykoum: hello, all how are you i wish you r fine. i need help to do the following features of the application : 1- Syncronize the outlook via mobile so that i can (get alarms for schedualed meeting,new mails,...)to my mobile. i want to make sure if i thought well or not: i think the applicationdivided into 3 sides: 1- PC side (get the new posts from the outlook) send the data through the bluetooth to the mobile. 2- blutooth connection. 3- the interface on mobile to recieve the following alarms. i have a question: what tools and languages can be used to implement this application i want to make this application on Nokia S60 mobile not pocket PC. thanks alot thanks for replay. it means it is imposible to ...Show All

• Windows Forms Setting the Value of Items in a ComboBox

  If you manually fill a ComboBox ... Me .ComboBox3.Items.AddRange( New Object () { "Ticket Number" , "Ticket Date" , "Truck" , "Field" , "Inoculant" }) Is there a way to set the value for each item Jeremy   J. Clark wrote: When approaching it this way, the items come up in the combobox as [CA, California] [NY, New York] [WI, Wisconsin] Are you binding to a COMBOBOX here Change one of the line to this: this .comboBox1.DataSource = new BindingSource(dict.Keys, null );   And you get keys, and if you want the values, use dict.Values. Hope this helps. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Rich text box, appending text to existing .rtf document

  I have a rich text box named tbxShiftLog and a document named ShiftLog.rtf. At start of program the file ShiftLog.rtf is loaded into tbxShiftLog. Users are able to view entries from other users on different shifts. The current user can create a new entry to pass on useful information. First, clear tbxShiftLog. Users should not be able to modify existing text of ShiftLog.rtf. Next, allow user access to FontDialog by right mouse click. User creates entry with choice of font and text colors. Last "Submit" entry which should append contents of tbxShiftLog to ShiftLog.rtf. Then Load ShiftLog.rtf into tbxShiftLog. What I can't get to work, append text to ShiftLog.rtf . I have several other rich text boxes that work great with ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to create start up page for application

  i am creating database application, i want to show starp-up page when application starts, just like when C# IDE starts...where i wanna show information about database size, used space etc. i need some help about this issue... thanks for ur reply....i wanted help for this too but here i am really interested in start-up page....html page that is visible inside the application...showing informatinon about the data...stored in database... like owner of DB, size of DB, last edited..etc links u gave were very nice.... ...Show All

• .NET Development Tlbimport problem

  Hi , When I use tlbimport to import a COM component having a method with [in] parameter as BSTR params, it is imported as string @ params. Why is this I have the interface declared in the idl as [ object, uuid(7166ADEC-350B-4210-BA4F-451C0B97ADBC), helpstring("IAnotherClass Interface"), pointer_default(ref), local ] interface IAnotherClass : IUnknown { [helpstring("put BSTR")] HRESULT putBSTR([in] BSTR params); } When I tried creating a fresh component with the same interface specifications it is importing properly as string params. I tried implementing the interface in a C# solution by using the ' Implement Interface Explicitly' menu option when I right-click on the interface declaration in th ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to serialize with TreeView?

  How to serialize with TreeView in .NET 2.0 Serializing is necessary when you want to write the data structure of a class/object to a file or transmitted over a network. Deserializing is the opposite, you have the data structure to populate a class/object from a file or network stream. ...Show All

• .NET Development Critical Finalizers are not called

  Hi, I have tested the new CriticalFinalizer feature of .NET 2.0 to improve reliability. But so far I am less than impressed that if any normal finalizer screws up by throwing an exception the Finalizer thread dies. This behaviour is quite unfortunate when you try to do something in a reliable manner where you expect to be called even if somebody did screw up. More details can be found here: http://geekswithblogs.net/akraus1/archive/2006/10/30/95435.aspx Is there a way to resurrect the finalizer thread or at least handle the exception inside the finalizer thread and continue with the CriticalFinalizer list Yours, Alois Kraus   < TaylorMichaelL@discussions.microsoft.co ...Show All

• Windows Forms Issues displaying information from a string in a multiline textbox

  I am reading information into a string from an XML file. I then want to display this information in a readonly textbox control. The problem I am having is, when I display the string, any newline characters or tabs show up as weird symbols, instead of actually displaying on a newline. For example, if the string looks like this before I put it in the textbox: First line here Second line here Third line here It will appear as something similar to: ( [] is the closest representation of the character I can give!) First line here[]Second Line Here[]Third Line Here Is there any way to make the textbox display it properly ...Show All