Glimmerman's Q&A profile

• SharePoint Products and Technologies Changing linked item in a new custom list!

  Hi All, I am creating a number of new WSSv3 'Custom lists', when the customlist is created in the first instance there is a single column heading called 'Title'. This is a 'linked item', in the 'all items' view this is a hyper link item. Q: Once I have created the new Custom list, want to use a modified view to show the ID field, and then assign this to be the 'linked to item' field ( the rasons are left over functionality that I have to incorporate into the new solution. If you understand, some helkp would be greatly appreciated! PS. I am just getting to grips with VS2005 and MS SPD 2k7, so please be gentle! Regards MN_Manager I worked around this by taking a copy of the data that was currently in the column that ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Hackers Guide worthy for VFP 9?

  The Hackers Guide only goes to VFP 7, for those who are in visual foxpro 9 is it still useful Yes. Although it does not cover the newer functionality, I find it very useful as most of it is still relevant. I even have the older one for VFP 6.0 which was a huge and heavy book. It stays on the shelf because it comes with an electronic version!! I use F1 for VFP Help and assigned ALT-F2 to trigger the Hackers Guide help file. The examples still work and the articles are better explained than in MS Help.  My setup configuration file calls a routine that sets the mewnus and environment. This is the relevant portion: * Setup Hacker's guide to Foxpro Define Bar 16 Of _Msystem Key A ...Show All

• .NET Development Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 Beta 2... is it important?

  My computer has this program on it... I have no idea what to do with it. While attempting to install another program (a VB compiler) Microsoft told me to delete the program. Then when I try to delete it my computer warns me that it may be important to other programs. How important is it and would deleting it screw up my computer. Hi, You can safely ingore the warning and uninstall the beta version of the .NET Framework 2.0. I suggest that you use the beta removal tool located at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718704.aspx instead of uninstalling it directly from Add/Remove Programs because the removal tool will remove any other dependent programs in the correct order and prevent any future issues that might be caused by ...Show All

• Visual Basic Show/Hide Properties of form

  I use a form as dialog box for requesting some kind of user input I want to hide all it's properties from other forms and expose only my custom properties I know I can make that by creating a custom control but I dont want to locate the form in an external dll I want it to stay embedded in my program exe how I can do that I use vb2005 Hi Samer, Create a public class MyDialog that does not inherit a form but that has an instance member of type Form. Create an instance of Form when needed - either in the construtor of MyDialog or maybe as late as in a Show method of MyDialog. Now you can add any public methods/properties you want and forward them approprietly to your internal For ...Show All

• SQL Server Got Started But Not Really: SQL Server does not allow remote connections

  I downloaded VS studio express, and created a personal website using the wizard to test drive the thing. When I hit ctr + f5 to run the sample provided, then I get this message: " An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified) " I tried disabling the firewall (Norton's firewall because Windows is disable always). Any suggestions This is a brand-new machine, running XP sp2, just downloaded the VS studio express. I really appreciate your inputs. Regards, Ca ...Show All

• .NET Development Display the live Mjpeg stream from IP camera

  Hello I am using the IP camera from which i get the Mjpeg stream response. I made an application in vb.net which get the response from the camera and then parse it, and find the image from it and then convert that byte array into image and than display it in the picturebox. then again it get the next image from the stream and then display it in picturebox, so this way i am displaying the live vedio in the Picturebox. But in this way i have to convert the byte array into image each time. so this causes the lots of CPU usage. hence, Two consicutive images has not much difference. so if we will impose only the changed part int the next image on our earlier image then it may be faster and less cpu consuming. so can anyone sugges ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Save cemail.vol... how? (WM 5.0)

  Hello Is it possible to backup cemail.vol on WM 5.0 I cannot access it :-( Thanks Sven ...Show All

• .NET Development dummy OracleClient question

  Hello, I have a really, really newbie question: what do I need to download to enable working with OracleClient I think I need the Oracle Client 9.x from Oracle, so I went to http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/oracle9i/htdocs/winsoft.html , but the file size is huge! Why is an Oracle client so big I would think the server is big, but a client should be small. I apologize if I'm asking a dumb question, but I haven't worked with Oracle in 5 years and I just don't remember the setup. Thanks, Tibs Hi, You can better download the Oracle Data Access Components. These include the Oracle Client and the Oracle Data Provider. For version 9, the installer is 80MB. http://www.oracle.com ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Design Question - What is the best way to implement a human readable string mapping for enum values?

  We have various enumerated types in our system and we obviously want to present human readable values that can be easily configured by our UI folks rather than the cryptic identiofiers that we use in the code. Just wondering what facilities are available in .NET 3.0 to accomodate this kind of thing. In the old days, I would use some sort of string resource and a mapping table for the lookup. Anybody got any cool/slick ideas on this Thanks NIK The problem with that approach in my opinion is that it's not at all localizable. A more robust solution would be a custom value converter that looks up the names of the enums as resources in your application's resource file. Similar to Josh's approach, but decouples the strings ...Show All

• Visual Studio Project Subtype

  I have already created a new Project Type to be integrated into the VS Solution Explorer. and it is working well The VS Package for the Project I have developed is in unmanaged code using COM. Would it be possible to extend a VC# or VB project with the functionality I have acheived with the new Project type I have created. I have read about Project subtypes. My question is if I enable my project package to support IVsAggregatableProject and IVsAggregatableProjectFactory, can I aggregate it with a VC# or a VB project. Can all the commands and functionality from my project be integrated. Hi Ed, Thas really is a valuable information for me. So I discard the unmanaged code approach. Sorry I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions how to make a picture box show a websites favicon????

  i dont know how to make a websites favicon, i know hat each website that has one has it stored in their html(php ect.ect.ect.) but as to how to call that to the picturebox i have no idea. any help is apppreciated greated. Josef Stalin ...Show All

• SQL Server Adjusting Report width automatically

  Hi All, We are having a table report which has set of columns where the visibility is made false based on report parameters. It works fine and the table automatically shrinks. But, the page width remains as early and has lot of blank space in it. It also causes printer to print many blank pages. Is there a way to control pagewidth dynamically Thought of adding a custom assembly to control page width - but how to access the page that is getting displayed. "this" will refer to the the assembly class instead of report as such. Any help is highly appreciated. Regards, kart Sizing is one of the few aspects of RS that cannot be controlled using expressions. Column widths are fixed and only row height supports auto siz ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums live messenger becoming increasingly unreliable

  Has anyone else had this problem WLM is losing more and more messages lately. I had a friend over on my local wifi network and we were both messaging each other and nothing was showing up. It never gave us the undelivered warning or anything, just didn't send the message. This is becoming a lot more common too. It's hard to develop with something that I flat out can't count on. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Synchronizing an 'Order'

  Hi, I'm not sure if Synchronization Services can help me but I hope so. Suppose I create a new an Order in the client side. It has header and lines. When I synchronize with the server I need two things: - I need to be sure the header and the lines are inserted in the same transaction. - I need to validate the Order. Even if it was valid in the client side, I need to be sure it's valid before inserting it in the main database. Can this be done with Synchronization Services Thanks Thanks Rafik, Next question. Suppose I have an 'Orders' class, with header and lines, and I want to use that class to persist the changes to the database. I want to use the synchronization framework to know ...Show All

• Visual Studio MSDN for Visual Studio 2005 - Page Cannot Be Displayed

  I've installed the MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005 using the default settings but when I try to use it I get a Page Cannot Be Displayed message no matter what I'm searching for. I also have the MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2003 loaded on my PC and have always had the same exact problem. In MSDN 2005 I've used the settings for Try online first, then local, Try local first, then online, and Try local only, not online, doesn't matter which setting I use. On another workstation I've loaded the MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2003 and can search without a problem. That workstation is running Windows 2000 and the problem PC is running Windows XP Pro x64 Edition. Both PC's have access to the internet. Is there a setting that I need to ...Show All