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• Windows Forms Windows application user interface design

  Hey there, Really sorry if this is in the wrong place. I am looking for a place that will help me design nicer looking windows applications. I have the code all done & i want it to look a little nicer im runnin xp pro & VS 2005 Thanks SJ There are many commerical vendors that offer suites of user interface controls. People like Infragistics, ComponentOne, Developer Express and so forth. You could try using one of those for updating the front end of your application. There is also a smaller free library called Krypton Toolkit that might be of use. You also try looking at CodeProject as they have many free controls listed. Phil Wright Free user interface controls for Windows.Forms http://www.comp ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Size Form to fit user resolution

  I have several multi-user Access applications. After much time-consuming research I have not been able to find anything that works on this question: How can I get my forms to automatically fit the USER'S screen with their set resolution with the OnLoad event of a form I have already tried me.height, me.width with no success. Anyone have any other suggestions Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! VB6 support can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/ph/2971 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How can I run unit test on different thread?

  How can I run a unit test on different thread I have a unit test that I want to run it in 4 different threads at the same time (Like load test). Please advice! Thanks Hello, You cannot start more than one local run in your machine, so if you want to accomplish running one same unit test 4 times at the same time, you can either use a load test as you mention, or use the controller/agents that come with Visual Studio 2005 Team Test Load Agent. This will enable you to run remotely and be able to run the unit test as many times as you want. More info on VS 2005 Team Test Load Agent here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/teamsystem/products/load/ Thanks, David Gorena Elizondo [MSFT] VSTS ...Show All

• Windows Forms Loading Image (Visual C# 2005)

  Hey, I after these lines of code what should I put to make it load the image into a PictureBox openFileDialog1.DefaultExt = "*.gif" ; openFileDialog1.Filter = "Gif Images (*.gif)|*.gif|JPG Images (*.jpg)|*.jpg|TIF Images (*.tif), (*.tiff)|*.tif|PNG Images (*.png)|*.png|BMP Images (*.bmp)|*.bmp" ; openFileDialog1.InitialDirectory = "MyDocuments" ; openFileDialog1.CheckFileExists = true ; openFileDialog1.CheckPathExists = true ; Thanks :) if openFileDialog1.ShowDialog = DialogResults.OK then   pictureBox1.Image = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(openFileDialog1.Filename) ...Show All

• Windows Forms RightToLefTLayout, custom control and client area issue

  hi, While developing a new custom control from scratch (derived from Control) I have the following issue in trying to display everything for RTL (this is with .net 2.0 under xp sp2): In CreateParams, I setup mirror drawing (like RightToLefTLayout does): cp.ExStyle |= WS_EX_LAYOUTRTL; // 0x00400000 cp.ExStyle &= -28673; In the OnPaint method I simply draw a white background in all the client rectangle. On the design surface, everything paints normally, but at runtime, I have at the far right a one pixel wide vertical black line (where x==0) as if the client area was shifted. When I click on this black line, OnMouseDown is not called. If I click on the first white pixel, it is called with x==1 (which would mean that there is not a shift ...Show All

• Visual Basic Editing Listview subitem contents

  Hi all, Hope someone can help me with this. I have a Listview (details view) with 5 columns. It looks like I can only edit the first column text (with labeledit=true) as the listview control won't let me select the text in the other columns. Is this a limitation in Listview or am I missing something Should I use the DataGridView control instead Thanks in advance. I just did a quick test and changed the column names right in the IDE: (Maybe I missed what you were asking..) Part of the InitializeComponent: Private Sub InitializeComponent()         Me .ListView1 = New System.Windows.Forms.ListView         Me .ColumnH ...Show All

• SQL Server Credentials problem or deployment puzzle or permission problem?

  Hi,All: I had development a reporting service home page for our intranet . And I deployed this home page at "domain.server1" (for example) and my sql server database and reporting service is at another server "domain.server2"(for example). on the "domain.server1" , the Authentication methods is Integrated windows authentication. and on the "domain.server2" , with the reportingservice server properites and home folder, in the "permissions" tab, I had add the "domain.server1$" as system user role. so I can view my report via my home page and it works fine. If I remove the "domain.server1$" from the reporting service, there could be encountered an error "The per ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Accessing workflow instance members from WorkflowInstance (runtime event handlers)

  Hi All, Is there a way to retrieve a strongly typed reference to the actual running workflow from a WorkflowInstance instance More details: I have a runtime event handler (loaded, idled) that receives a WorkflowEventArgs parameter. In that method I would like to access some of the instance properties (DependencyProperties) of my own workflow class. The only object I have in that method is a WorkflowInstance with an InstanceId. So the question is, how can I get a MyWorkflowClass instance if I have an InstanceId Thanks in advance. Shelly, I'm also concerned about lack of access to the workflow instance. I understand why the workflow passivation feature requires that you hide the workflow instance ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Install VSTS with data tier on a Cluster SQL Server

  hi .. I was wondering if someone can send me a link for installing VSTS in a dual server mode. where data tier resides on a clustered SQL Server instance. I am not having any luck with finding such a doc on msdn. thanks You just need to install Tfs data tier on the active node of the cluster, follow carefully this step in the installation guide "Checklist: Team Foundation Server Cluster Deployment" for complete instructions. ...Show All

• SQL Server howt to change ConnectionString in Context

  Hi All i am very new to SQL CLR, I create create an sample stored Procedure and registed the assembly and execute the SP in the query window , its working fine. But my doubt was - 1) In the SQLConnection object ,its like ( "context connection=true") What is the use of this string and can i change this string to like this " Data Source=SystemName\SQLExpress;Initial Catalog=SampleDB;Integrated Security=True " is it possible to change the connection in the SQLConnection constructor with any databse connection 2) Is there any possobility to add configuration file in SQL Server project Please any one help me to know ... Thanks in Advance... Hi, 1) the context connection uses the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office backward compatible ?

  I have developed a COM add-in for outlook 2003 using VSTO. I would like to share this with others who are using outlook 2000 and 2002. If I understand the info in other threads I will not be able to make this VSTO app work in outlook 2000 or 2002. What tools would i need to use to re-write my app to run in Outlook 2000 / 2002 Hi - You can develop addin for Outlook 2000/2002 using shared addin. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302896/en-us/ How To Build an Office COM Add-in by Using Visual Basic .NET HTH, Mei Liang ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This posting is provid ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF60096 error migrating using VssConverter

  I'm trying to migrate a VSS database to TFS and I have more than 1000 TF60096 errors. A small part of the errors are associated with deleted items which were not purged. But I can live with that. But 99.9% percent of the errors are not of this type. 1. The starting error seems to be File or folder $/X version 14 TF60096: Unable to migrate due to Team Foundation Error: The item $/Test/X/Y already exists. where Test is the TFS project where I want to migrate the SS After that there are more than 1000 errors which are refering to some of the files or folders in the $/X/Y like $/X/Y/.../fileName, version vn TF60096: Unable to migrate due to Team Foundation Error: The item $/Test/X/Y/.../fileName could not be found in your wor ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Virtual Earth 3D Map View Issue

  Hi, I found a issue to see Virtual Earth 3D Map on my pc. I have: 1. installed the Virtual Earth 3D software 2. NVIDIA GeForce 6200 LE(NVIDIA) 3. OS: Windows xp Pro sp2 4. 1 GB RAM Still I am unable to see the Virtual Earth 3D map. [even on http://dev.live.com/virtualearth/sdk/] I have writen one application using Virtual Earth SDK and used 3D map. [I tried to see 'Seattle' and other major cities in US, but not succeded ] It will be great to get any help. Thanks & Regards, Mahesh Lambe I can't comment on specific release dates, but it's not far off. I also can't really speculate on the ad revenue model, but commercial customers will certainly be able to disable any built in adv ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Assigning special keyboard keys to buttons

  hi there guys. Im currently designing an app that enables disabled users to put data into controls through the use of an onscreen key board I have created. I have figured out how to assign the values of letters, numbers and special characters onto my onscreen keyboard but i cannot get around assigning values of keyboard keys such as 'Tab', 'Up arrow','Home' etc. Does anyone have any ideas on how to achieve this thanks in advance Matt kasmatt2000 wrote: All i get is a build error. Can you just clarify this a bit more. Thanks That is why I asked what you were doing with your alpha-numeric characters....When the user presses your "A" button for example....Where does i ...Show All

• Windows Forms Changing the data in a datarowview column

  Hi, I have a datagridview that amongst other things displays a date of birth. Is it possible to display this in the view as as age Hi, I'm having a bit of trouble with this one! Am I right in thinking that the cellformatting event is called each time the cells are displayed So all I have to do is add the handler into my form So far I have: Private Sub CleanerInAreaDataGridView_CellFormatting( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewCellFormattingEventArgs) Handles dgPreAllocate.CellFormatting If dgPreAllocate.Columns(e.ColumnIndex).Name = "DOB" Then If e.Value IsNot Nothing Then Try ' Dim dtBirth As DateTime = Conve ...Show All