Chaepp's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio What versions of CR can create reports for CR in VS 2005?

  Hello. Sorry if this question has been asked a thousand times before but I could not find an answer. I am creating an ASP.NET web application where I use the crystal reports viewer (in VS .NET 2005). The customer for the application wants to design own reports for use with the web application. Which version of Crystal Reports should the customer use in order to be able to design reports that will work with the VS .NET 2005 crystal reports viewer I have the Crystal reports 10 developer stand-alone version and I made a report using it. The report shows up ok in my ASP.NET application but is only showing the data that was saved with the report in CR 10. Is this a compatibility problem between CR 10 and the VS 2005 CR viewer or am I m ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to read Bluetooth serial port settings?

  Hi All. I want to read the Bluetooth Serial port setting , i.e. Inbound port Number & outbound port number of a PDA using C#. Please help me out. Checkout this post http://www.peterfoot.net/WindowsMobile50BluetoothVirtualSerialPorts.aspx Manav ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem on real hosting

  i have a real problem with my website i have upload my database backup on the real host and start my website from the local host it act very good after uploading the webSite the following error appaer Runtime Error <configuration> <system.web> <customErrors mode="Off"/> </system.web> </configuration> i 've follow the instrictionand tern customErrors mode to the status "Off" but the same error still stand what can i do please help me ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Installer

  Hi, I would like to ask on the way to create installer (multi-cab) for my Compact Framework 1.0 application. I don't use SQLCE. Only used some OpenNETCF libraries. Previously, I have been using ezsetup, but, it does not provide me capabilities to perform some custom action given the installation process. For example, I would like the installer to write in PDA registry about the successful installation (if it is sucess) and copy some files across to PDA once it finish install. Same for uninstaller (delete the registry and files) However, if the installation is being cancelled, the registry will be untouched and the file will not be copied as well. I am aware of NSIS and Inno Setup, but, not sure if they have capalities to wri ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Where to find starter kits

  Does anyone have any web sites to get starter kits from. hi, you can try to search msdn for starter kits http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/starterkit/default.aspx also you can use google hope this helps ...Show All

• .NET Development C# Lookup Local & Network Servers (Oracle & MySQL)

  Hi All! I'm creating a server connection box in C# which can obtain a list of servers on the Local Network (MSSQL, Oracle and MySQL). I've successfully got MSSQL covered, but am still in need of assistance creating lists of the available Oracle/MySQL servers on the network, and have not been able to figure this out thus far. If you're aware of any methods to go about this, I'd sure appreciate your advice! Kind regards Ben In ADO.Net v2.0, we introduced an enumeration class (DbDataSourceEnumerator) that could be obtained from the DbProviderFactory (CreateDataSourceEnumerator method). Unfortunately, the only provider I know of that currently supports this is SqlClient. If you have third-party ...Show All

• Visual C# cannot debug any code once it has changed

  Hi, I have just installed Visual C# 2005 Express Edition and all was well. One day later and I can't debug a new project as I get the error: "The following module was built either with optimizations enabled or without debug information" I can create a new command line project and add the following line of code: Console.WriteLine("Test"); This runs fine...no problem. However when I change that line to: Console.WriteLine("Another Test"); I get the above error. I cannot debug any code once it has changed. I've seen some other posts with the same error but no clear solution. I have worked out that when I delete the .exe file from the bin\debug directory it all works again. The code debugs f ...Show All

• Architecture SmartClient Offline Application Block

  Hi, Is there a version of the offline application bl;ock available for version 2 of the framework, the only one I can find is for 1.1 Cheers The Smart Client Software Factory also incorporates the off-line block http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/scsflp.asp Arnon ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Samples for January Orcas

  Got the January Orcas (VSDec2006CTP) image installed - Yeah Greenbits! But I can't seem to find any Entity framework samples. Am I supposed to download the latest ADO.NET samples from October http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=c14c451d-7043-44f0-87d7-845f1c238d64&displaylang=en Ok, so there are no samples installed by default and .NET 3.0 developer support (project templates and visual designers) are completely missing in this CTP. The October ado.net samples install and run fine. Don't know that is a good thing. Is the API really that stable or has there been no progress since october ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions [VB2005] Reading from serial port, pls help!

  Im currently working on serial port RS232 communication, im able to set configurations thru serial port to my device, but having problems reading from the port. Ive been advised that there're two ways of doing it, which include write the program so that the incoming data is stored inside certain file on computer and data can be extracted straight away from it..well another one, is extracting the data from the computer temporary memory.. but i have doubts regarding those methods and totally have no clue of performing the task, can someone please give me some guidelines of reading data from serial port thanks in advance! Hi Carsten, thanks for your comments and suggestions...Im now still in the process ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Working with Viewport3D

  Hello, I have got some questions about working with a Viewport3D. 1)How to develop a method which converts the view of the Viewport3D to an image file and saves it on the hard disk 2) I have got some spheres in the Viewport3D. How programically make them visible or hidden 3) I want to add some text to the Viewport, for example, on the one of the spheres there could be written "Earth". This sign should always have the same size (it shouldn't scale while I am scaling the spheres), it shouldn't rotate while I am rotating the other content of the Viewport3D. How it can be done 4) If I change the view which appears in a Viewport3D (for egxample, rotate a model or zoom in/out), is it possible to save ...Show All

• SQL Server using alias in a view

  Hi How (if i can) can i use a alias in my view if i have 1 alias total and a alias Moms can't i then have a nother alias there say total+moms Or shall i write all again in another alias Alvin yes i ahve this vare_1 . Pris , vare_1 . Pris * dbo . shoppingcartItems . Antal AS total , vare_1 . Pris * dbo . shoppingcartItems . Antal / 100 * '25' AS moms Then i want to use total and moms in a second alias like: moms+total as medmoms ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development Problem using AJAX with IE7 beta - Rendering problem in Dropdown list items

  Hi, We are using AJAX to implement the population of of 4 dropdowns, each based on the selection of the previous dropdown list. The AJAX works fine on Firefox, Opera and other browsers. However with IE7, we are facing a major issue. Although the dropdown does get populated with the values, however there seems to be a rendering problem. The items of the dropdown are not visible to the end user in IE7. It seems as though the items have been whitened out. We are initializing the XMLHttpRequest object on each call and we are not using any css for rendering, so it seems that there may be some problem with the way IE7 works internally. Any help would be much appreciated. Please find the code snippets that we are using below. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How can I bind a ConverterParameter value ?

  I would like to make a textblock display the remaining time of an operation. The bound object has two properties: ElapsedTime and TotalDuration, both of type TimeSpan. I thought the following should work, but it doesn't because the parameter passed to my custom converter is a Binding object, instead of the result of the binding: <TextBlock Text="{Binding ElapsedTime, Mode=OneWay, ConverterParameter={Binding TotalDuration}, Converter={StaticResource RemainingTimeConverter}}" /> The RemainingTimeConverter is implemented to subtract the "value" from the "parameter" and return a string representation of the resultant TimeSpan value. Why isn't the inner Binding evaluated and its value passed ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Disable Window Mobile screen orientation changes

  Is there anyway to disable the screen orientation changes on wm5 We had to port over an old .Net 2003 application to wm5 pocket PC and we don't want to change the layout of the screen, customer also agree to use only potrait view. but letting user switch the screen orientation to landscape will misleading the user where they will see a lot of garbage we hide on the right side of the screen. Someone from ms tell me to detect the orientation change and force it change back the orientation layout to portract if it is in landscape layout. I can detect the orientation changes, but what is the command to change the orientation Thank you I found something I want but when I run the application and change ...Show All