Richard_Wolf's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio multiple reports

  Hi Anyone know how i can print multiple reports. I have a webform report that I need to print for multiple clients, presently it renders to the screen nicely in pdf format, from where it can be printed, however it means I must print it one at a time. I have set up the the emf format example to print directly to the printer which would be excellent, if i could get it to print to the client printer and not the server printer. Any help appreciated Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I into Sleep mode by VC 6.0

  I would like to into sleep state after program executed 5 secs later. I know the sleep modes are include 6 states that S0~S5. The simple information of these modes are show as below. S1 (POS) ==> Stop HDD and monitor power, but CPU and memory still alive. S3 (Suspend) ==> Stop CPU and HDD. Store data to RAM. S4 (Hibernate) ==> Stop CPU, memory, HDD. Store data to HDD. Now, I can control my program into S3 and S4 by "SetSystemPowerState". But I don't know how I can into S1 mode. Could you please give me some hint If SetSystemPowerState() or any APIs does not into S1 mode, could you please help me to close monitor and stop HDD Thanks, Rabin Open ...Show All

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

  Can I create games using Visual Basic 2005 I have ben reading up on everything and i can not find out how to make games in c++,c# or vb i dont know even where to start but im trying to make a chess game i dont know if i need to make the board and pieces in paint and put that in the code or anything like could someone plz help me i need serious help with this. ...Show All

• SQL Server Setting the OLEDB connection properties at runtime

  I used to do this in DTS but wondered how to do it in SSIS. I have a For Each ADO recordset loop that reads these four columns into variables: DataSource Name, Name(for a WHERE clause), user and password. For each "Building" there is a new server to connect to, with identical tables. I have 10 tables in the loop to pump from one database to a SQL 2005 database (i.e. 10 dataflows). I want to set the source connection information with the variables. My questions: 1. How do I set the connection information for the source connections Do I just set the properties for the connection manager and then it sets for all the sources What property do I set--do I need a script task 2. How do I use the values from the "Name&qu ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to cast to the parametrized type?

  In my application, I have got a subroutine, which should retrieve the active window, check its type and return it in case of success. I wrote it with the generics syntax: Private Function ActiveWindow( Of T)() As T Dim f As Form = Me .ActiveMdiChild If TypeOf f Is T Then Return DirectCast (f, T) Else Return Nothing End If End Function But compiler says that System.Windows.Forms.Form cannot be converted to the type T. As you can see from this code, f can always be converted to the type T. I have found out really weird thing about that. If we modify the code in the following way, everything works: Private Function ActiveWindow( Of T)() As T Dim f As Form = Me ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Cannot find a menu-generation program

  I am currently switching from OS to OS back and forth for a reason that I want to find out the best platform for my apps. It happens ONLY in XP but not in Win2K. While trying "build" to exe/com I get an error that fox cannot find a menu-generation program. The build is aborted. What is it all about What's the program name Thanks. The default program is GenMenu but you'd be better off with the improved replacement (free) GenMenuX (by Andrew McNeill [MVP]): http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll Fox~GenMenuX http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dv_foxhelp9/html/0dc945c3-e161-4c3a-8e2c-d82d68f27f94.asp     ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Custom Installer and MSI Installer

  Hello Everyone, I created MSI Installer and in that installer asked the user to enter the IP Address for the web service.I am able to get the value entered by the user while installing the application in the custom installer class by using Context.Parameteres collection.The problem is, I want to pass this value from my custom installer to my actual PDA project so that users of this application will be connecting to the webservice with the IP Address entered by them while installing the application. Currently we include a .config file which contains static IP Address for the web service.If the user wants to point to a different server he will change the config file in the desktop and copy it over to PDA.but they want the entered IP Ad ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. What percentage of computers out there will support this ?

  Hi there Have an online application with ten-thousands of users... Currently we use DirectX7 2D, but have rewritten to DirectX9 3D. For the new engine we just use: 1) err = itsD3D->CreateDevice( D3DADAPTER_DEFAULT, D3DDEVTYPE_HAL, hwndApp,D3DCREATE_SOFTWARE_VERTEXPROCESSING,&d3dpp, &its3dDevice ); 2) err = D3DXCreateSprite(its3dDevice,&itsSprite); 3) Draw(Texture,&srcRect,NULL,NULL,D3DCOLOR_ARGB(transparency,red,green,blue)); So 'nothing special' ... We require and check for DirectX9.0c (Win98, Win2K, WinXP), and now the question is: What percentage of machines out there will support the above You might try asking in the indiegamer forums. There are a lot of folk there wh ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Moving Pictures

  How can you move objects (X,Y). And How can I have it do something when I press one of the arrows on the keyboard. Hi Mega_x, do you want to learn to fish, or do you want folk to give you fishes You should be able to get the concepts from the vb example, and apply it to c# or any other language. If you plug away at the c# help contents/index you will pick up clues to trapping the keyboard event, or whatever it may be called. It used to be, to move objects you XOR'ed them with the background. Best wishes, Ray ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office oExcel.Workbooks.Open

  Excel 2003 (11.803.8036) SP2   Can anyone please tell me why my worksheet opens as "Read-Only" when I issue the following statement(s): Object oMissing = System.Reflection.Missing.Value; oBook = oExcel.Workbooks.Open(openFileDialog1.FileName,                     oMissing, false , oMissing, oMissing, oMissing, oMissing, oMissing, oMissing, oMissing, oMissing, oMissing, oMissing, oMissing, oMissing); I'm afraid you don't provide enough information. I take it this isn't a VSTO project, but automation. In that case, this isn't an appropriate place to ask. Your question really belongs in the office.developer.automation newsgroup. When you ask there, don't forget to include ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Basic security problems - VBScripts - Shortcuts

  I need some major help. This is what I need to do: I am on a Windows Server 2003 network working for a school system. I wrote a program using Visual Basic Express that does a search and replace on a VBScript. Then i run a proccess.start on the VBScript to install things like install printers. My problem lies in a security policy message. It reads: Application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policty. To grant this applicatoin the required permission, contact your system administrator, or use thee Microsoft .NET Framework Configuation tool. See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** Syste ...Show All

• Visual Basic efficiency question.

  There are various mechanisms for evaluating a decision tree in vb. e.g If .. else if .., Select case, etc. Aside from programming convenience is there any effeciency difference between these options or do they all compile down to the same low level code, leaving aside the issue of whether or not all test expressions are evaluated Im having some trouble with Case is, The select case is only comparing the first sentence. dim var as integer = 2 Select Case Var case is > 1 Price.text ="1" Case 2 Price.Text = "50" Case 3 Price.Text = "60" Case Else Price.Text = "0" End Select in ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to customize permission

  Can I ask is there possible to customize the permissions that created by TFS Absolutely :) You can modify permissions for users that connect to TFS in a variety of ways. I will give you some examples - but these are not the only ways: To modify server level data (create/delete global groups, add members to groups etc) Connect to your TFS via Team Explorer Right click on the server name For membership management, go to 'Team Foundation Server Settings -> Group Membership' For permissions management, go to ''Team Foundation Server Settings -> Security' To modify project level data Connect to your TFS via Team Explorer and open your TFS Project Right click on the pr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Several Item Templates in Single Zip

  I have about 8 item templates for Visual Studio 2005 that I would like to be able to stuff in a single .zip file. I have tried making a directory structure in the zip for each item but they dont appear in the New Item dialog. Any help Thanks, Keith Hi Keith, Did you try run devenv.exe /installvstemplates to re-install newly copied tempaltes (or the same with parameter /rootsuffix Exp for experimental hive)   ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Permission Denied?

  I have noticed something weird and I can't find any other posts about this but for some reason my map loads correctly on some computers and not others...I get a permission denied error when the page loads - after displaying the default map of the US, it then won't zoom into DC with my GeoRSS xml feed of pushpins. My map: var map = null; var layerid=1; function GetMap() { map = new VEMap('myMap'); map.LoadMap(); var veLayerSpec = new VELayerSpecification(); veLayerSpec.Type = VELayerType.GeoRSS; veLayerSpec.ID = "CourseMap"; veLayerSpec.LayerSource = "xxx"; veLayerSpec.IconUrl = "xxx"; veLayerSpec.Method = 'get'; veLayerSpec.FnCallback = onFeedLoad; map.AddLayer(veLayerSpec); laye ...Show All