Tom Hollander's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms very new and confussed sorry if wrong place to post??

  i have been trying to open a very inmportant document with msword n we are trialing vista i keep getting install the disc i dont have a disk and need to read this document please help sorry again if wrong forum wendy.x Hi there, Well, this is actually a programming forum but you sound so worried No worries - check out this link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=95E24C87-8732-48D5-8689-AB826E7B8FDF&displaylang=en it is a free Word document viewer that should work on Vista as well. I don't seem to be able to find the free viewer for Office 2007, I don't know if it's out yet... Let me know if you need the Office 2007 viewer and I will continue looking. If you need viewers for ot ...Show All

• SQL Server Linked Server B/w two SQL SERVER 05 instances (on differnt pc;s) VERY URGENT

  I created a linked server named CONFUSION (as the machine name with perticular IP say a.b.c.d) TESTED the connection by USE master GO EXEC sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1 GO RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE GO EXEC sp_configure 'xp_cmdshell', 1 GO RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE GO EXEC sp_configure 'show advanced options', 0 GO CREATE TABLE #foo ( pingResult SYSNAME NULL ); INSERT #foo EXEC master..xp_cmdshell 'ping CONFUSION'; IF EXISTS ( SELECT 1 FROM #foo WHERE pingResult LIKE '%TTL%' ) BEGIN PRINT 'Feel free to use linked server.'; END ELSE BEGIN PRINT 'Linked server not available.'; END DROP TABLE #foo; I executed the above code and the result was ::: (13 row(s) affected) Feel ...Show All

• .NET Development How to load datareader result into an arraylist?

  Hi. I need help to accomplish this task. I result from a stored procedure get pulled into the datareader. From the datareader, I need to load it into an arraylist for binding into a datagridview. The thing is, the data coming from the stored procedure can come back with different columns everytime (data is being pivot from the stored procedure). How can I accomplish this Thanks, Rick.. Perhaps use a DataTable instead of an ArrayList. DataTable has a Load method with which you can pass it an object that implements IDataReader. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Displaying thousands of bitmaps (gif/jpg/png)

  I'm tasked with writing a panel that can display up to 200 or so gif/jpg/png thumbnails on screen at once, but should be able to scroll smoothly over an entire library of potentially many thousands of images. To attempt to limit memory usage and get decent performance, I'm using visual layer programming (DrawingContext.DrawImage(ImageSource)), I've written a virtualizing panel, and I have an image cache that uses DispatcherOperations to cache images around the current visual range in the background. However, I'm still not getting the performance I'd like: 1. In experimenting with small jpgs (~8K on disk), it seems that each BitmapImage I cache ups memory usage by about 120K. That's a 15X multiplier, and really limits how much caching I can ...Show All

• Windows Forms Disabling datagridview column

  I want to disable a datagridview column so that no focus by the mouse, keyboard or arrows keys can access it. but other adjoining columns have focus. any ideas Hi Damion may be you can try follow code can avoid user select and edit the specified column, private void dataGridView1_CellBeginEdit( object sender, DataGridViewCellCancelEventArgs e) { if ((( DataGridView )sender).CurrentCell.ColumnIndex == 1) e.Cancel = true ; } private void dataGridView1_CellEnter( object sender, DataGridViewCellEventArgs e) { if ( this .dataGridView1.CurrentCell.ColumnIndex==1) this .dataGridView1.CurrentCell.Selected = false ; } ...Show All

• Windows Forms All Controls disappear from [Designer] and more...

  Hi all, Currently i have a problem with the designer, below is my case: I have total 2 projects in a Solution just namely A and B . While i'm focusing on B project, and come back to the A project. I found that all controls in one of the form (occasionally is the main form) [design] in that project (A) did not load. I shocked and found out that some of the A form's properties value also being set to blank or default, such as: Form's Text become blank , Load event value become blank , WindowState value that used to be Maximized also become Normal . I checked the A.Designer.cs . Luckily, everything is still the same (i suppose). Tried to run it, and breakpoint it. The program did go through the A.Designer.cs, but those ...Show All

• Windows Forms User control-Design time support

  i have created a user control and for this control one property is an object of a class named ControlProperties i have designed a form to accept certain values( essentily the controlproperty class object ) which are added to an hash list for design time support..my problem is i dont know how to assign perssist this object...i am getting this object during design time..but once i run this the object becomes null..i figured out that the object properties is not being included in the intialize compnent method.. here is what id did..to open the form during design time public class DesignSupport : UITypeEditor { public DesignSupport() { // // TODO: Add constructor logic here // } public o ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development Javascript in IE Addon

  Hi, How can I use Javascript in IE Addon What is the best to port a firefox extension to IE7 Addon Thanks in advance. Any idea would be appreciated. Hi, Sample command bar button script.. <script language="javascript"> var win=external.menuArguments; var doc=win.document; alert('Document Title = ' + doc.title); </script> Porting from Firefox..... Try it an see... make coding changes as required... use the external.menuArguments object to reference the browser window. Regards. ...Show All

• SQL Server Can synonyms be used to replace hundreds of lines?

  Hello I'm looking for a way to store a large chunck of text (200 lines) in a variable which can be called in different objects within the database. For example: I have several stored procedures that create the same temp table which exists of 200 column names over and over again. It would have to look like this Import myScript (I keep thinking of Import like used in .NET) and myScript could exist of: CREATE #MyTable( ...) or even some simple text or a part of a sql statement. I'm familiar with synonyms but you can't use that in this scenario. Then I thought of functions. The scalar function returns a result, not what I want here. Table valued function return tables, not what I want. Many thanks in advance! ...Show All

• .NET Development Adding .cs file to dll

  I'm new at c# and .net and the site of dll's leaves me slightly dizzy... The thing is: I have .cs files for datasets (extracted from a BD through xml). I want my application to update a dll, deleting the classes that exist and "appending" my .cs files. The same thing as deleting and then adding existing items in a project but not in visual studio. Is that possible I've been reading about reflection and I understand that I can create classes with Emit. But I can't find anywhere if I can delete existing classes or create new ones based on .cs files on disk... I also came across the csc with the /res... Is that the way to go Can anybody tell me if what I want to do is possible (or if it makes sense) and what should I start looki ...Show All

• Visual Studio Runtime Error in VCExpress.exe after SP1

  Hey guys. I'm running windows 2000 SP4, and After I installed SP1 for VS C++ Express 2005, I get a runtime error on VCExpress.exe after I try to build a solution/project. The patch did say it was successful when I installed it and if I uninstall SP1, everything works fine again. I've even tried reinstalling VS C++ and then the patch right after it and I still get the same results. Thanks for your attention. -Deathstryker Sorry for the misconception. I did indeed install the patch meant for Express edition.I got it from here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=7b0b0339-613a-46e6-ab4d-080d4d4a8c4e&displaylang=en ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Windows Logo testing

  Torwards the end of the install under XP, I get an error stating 'The software you are installing has not passed Windows Logo testing to verify its compatibility with Windows XP. This software will not be installed.'' Whats up with that Could you post the log as a bug using the http://connect.microsoft.com services That way I'll get a chance to look into it. Thanks --Scott ...Show All

• Visual Studio Another problem but solved

  I'm not sure using the right section. If there is a better one, feel free to move this topic. Now my Problem: I can't delete any chars from my Source using Visual Studio 2006 Professional. I can insert code but i can't delete it. I can't insert a line using ENTER. BSP and DEL doesn't work. Coding without this keys is very... complicated. Is there anybody who knows to fix this problem Thanks That solution didn't work for me... I had to delete these files AND the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0 ...Show All

• Windows Forms ListBox question

  If I have a Listbox with data coming from a database, and say the Listbox is showing 'Cowboys, Raven, Eagles' as choices. How do I caputure the information on the Listbox if the user selected 'Raven' Thanks. Label.Text = MyComboBox.Text does not work. label.Text = MyComboBox.SelectedItem.ToString(); gave me System.Data.DataRowView as answer - which made no sense to me. Can you give me some more insight. ...Show All

• Visual C# Trying to write Hex to a file

  Hey, I'm trying to write a program that changes the hex of a file based on what the user enters. Example: User enters C0 program changes header 4000c053 in xyz.exe to C0 It doesn't have to be very complex Im really new to this so.... thanks in advance When you're editing existing exe file, I believe you should replace some bytes with the length of bytes, for example 4000c053 is 8 bytes while C0 is only 2 bytes. Is this what you're really want to do ...Show All