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• SQL Server Report Builder: Date filter, Relative Date

  I have a date filter, and I default it to first day this month and last day this month under relative date, when I run it it givis me error: The Value expression for the report parameter ‘FromDate’ contains an error: [BC30456] 'Date' is not a member of 'Integer'. (rsCompilerErrorInExpression) Can anyone fix this problem But it works for Today or (n)months ago. Thanks. If I remove the Textbox with value: =parameters!FromDate.Value, then it works fine with the From Date : first day this month, To Date: last day this month. But if I add the Textbox back with those value it gives me the above error ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Regarding KB908002 (Shared Add-In Updates)

  Hi, I am going through a very strange problem, i am using InstallShield to deploy one of the VB.NET project (Visual Studio 2005) and it doesn't work at all. I have the same project setup file created by Visual Studio 2005 and the good thing is it works fine. I didn't figure out what and where things are wrong. Onething about KB908002 (Shared Add-In), if you remove this from Add/Remove Control Panel and try to re-install, it seems like it doesnt work even if it was working previously. My Question is, am i missing something which VS 2005 is doing apart from KB908002, because i have added this folder already. But it seems like there is something which is also done by Visual Studio 2005 (Installer Package) because once you un-installe ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How to control level of multisampling ?

  Hi all, I have a question: How can I control the level of multisampling I understood that with graphics.AllowMultiSampling = true the device will be set to use multisampling, if possible. But how can I control the level of multisampling, e.g. if I want to let the user to decide between 2x multisampling and 4x multisampling Another related question: Let's say I have a windowed (not fullscreen) device at a size of, say, 640x480. The device runs fine with multisampling. Now the user resizes that window to a larger size, say 1024x768. Will the device automatically be reset to no multisampling, if using multisampling would exceed the video memory Cheers, Christopher You should be able to hook the ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Transparent listbox

  hi all, Is there any way to have transparent list box coz i want to implement gradient style in that according to the theme selected.please help needed If you're using Windows Mobile 5.0 devices you can use new features of the list view control on these devices. The native List View control support a background image. This can set by sending a LVM_SETBKIMAGE message to the control. If you are using older devices (WM 2003) you'll have to write your own list view control. Hope this helps Michael ...Show All

• Visual C# Unable to find SHObjectProperties

  Hi.. I am using the SHObjectProperties. I have written the code as: public partial class Form1 : Form { [ DllImport ( "shell32.dll" , EntryPoint = "SHObjectProperties" , CharSet = CharSet .Auto)] public static extern bool CallPropDialog( IntPtr hwnd, GetProperties dwType, string szObject, string szPage); public enum GetProperties { SHOP_PRINTERNAME = 0x00000001, // lpObject points to a printer friendly name SHOP_FILEPATH = 0x00000002, // lpObject points to a fully qualified path+file name SHOP_VOLUMEGUID = 0x00000004 // lpObject points to a Volume GUID }; private void Form1_Load( object sender, EventArgs e) { CallPropDialog ( ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Required DLL file are not found

  Hi All: My current .net CF 2.0 application only reference on the .NET DLL files that are in the same directory where the application installed on the device. If I do not put those .NET DLL files in that directory, even .net CF 2.0 runtime is installed on my PDA, when the application, it will throw the error as required DLL file are not found. Moreover I already installed the System_SR_ENU_wm.cab on my device, but my try and catch stamens, I still got the error as optional DLL file is not found, can not display the error message. Please help. Thanks What assemblies are these Are they dlls you built yourself or ones that come with the .Net Compact Framework If the latter, you should check t ...Show All

• Visual Basic Including a COM library into an VB6 application

  hi, i have an COM written in VC++ , to include this COM into an VB application i had included this COM dll using References (Project->References->Browse) into the VB application, my Query is : Is this is the way to include a COM in VB6 Application or is there any other way to include the COM into VB6 Application. my COM Consists of Methods and Properties. Please clarify this issue. Sarvan, The following vbscript code show a method to create COM and hope that can help you: <% Option Explicit Dim objConvert Dim sngFvalue, sngCvaluesngFvalue = 50, sngCvalue = 21 Set objConvert = Server.CreateObject( "ConvertTemp.Scriptlet" )%> <%= sngFvalue %> degrees Fahrenheit is equivalent to ...Show All

• Windows Forms Create Complex GUI

  Hi, I'm working on an agenda which displays Daily Views and Monthly Views, when in Monthly View I draw rectangles and place a label in the right corner with the proper day, the problem I face is that when changing to the daily view layout this labels are no longer useful so I use a foreach to hide these labels: foreach (Control x in this.Controls) { x.Visible = false; } Of course this results in a delay when switching between views because the foreach is done sequentially so you see how each label disappears and then the new layout is formed, what I need is some sort of buffer or another way to switch between views without having this delay, can anyone help me Thanks. It is definitely not your foreach loop. Maki ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Framerate Independent Movement

  Hey all, GameTime gives us ElapsedGameTime and ElapsedRealTime.  I'm used to using real time for my framerate delta values to move objects - but it appears that Update() is locked at 60 frames per second.  So should I be using ElapsedGameTime.TotalMilliseconds as my delta Thanks all. A framerate drop just means that we'll skip calling the Draw method, but will still go on calling Update at 60 fps. The only time the delta gets interesting is if you set the timing parameters on the Game object to run with variable timesteps, rather than the default fixed rate. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Testing dynamic values (ie. DateTime.now)

  I have a method which helps me compose and finalize a byte[] array for TCP transmission. The input to this method is a string[] array of the various items to be encoded. One of the items which this method will need to compose is the DateTime.Now value (formatted very specifically). In my TestMethod is a sample input string[] array; and essentially doing the same thing as my helper method to encode a byte[] array (ie. Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes). However, my helper method will be calling the DateTime.Now method independant of my TestMethod calling this method. My question is this: how can I make the test pass without modifying my helper method interface prototype or are there ways to access this method's private instances after the method ha ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Xml validation

  I greetings to all, threre is an effective way to validate XML in CF I tried to validate it using XmlReaderSettings but it is not effective. So someone knows how to validate an XML Greetings. If you mean validation against schema, validating XML reader is available on NETCF V2 and it works the same way as on desktop. There's no way to validate XML on NETCF V1 unless you do it all yourself. ...Show All

• Visual C# Printer.PaperSource

  Friends, I am trying to print using the "Multi Purpose" tray of my laser printer. The PrintDialog doesn't "remember" that I have selected it and always selects the bottom tray (using C# Express 2005). How can I programatically set the desired paper tray of my printer at run time I have attempted to set the Printer.PaperSource but get a "it's a read-only" message. Thanks, Sir, Thank you for your reply. I am temporarily unable to address my original problem. I am using MS Small Business Accounting and with the latest SP, I had to uninstall .NET 2.0 as MS SBA is not compatible with it (MS SBA won't print invoices)! Until they come out with a "fix" to the "fix" I can't use C# Express 2005. Best Regards, ...Show All

• .NET Development How to validate email address in Windows Application

  Hi I am trying to validate the user's email address in windows forms application. In Web Applications, Regular Expression Validator provides this facility, but in desktop how can I do it hi, gafferuk thank you vary much. you have solved my problem with easy and effective way. thanks a lot. from, harsh ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to display set of appprox( 400-100) images with zooming feature?

  Hi friends, Which control should i use to display a set of (aprrox 400 -1000) images from a folder and give an effect of zooming using slider for zooming all the images displayed in VB .NET. Also i would like the images to re position themself so that they could be displayed on main control without resizing main control size but having a auto scroll bar. similar to how the picasa image software that has the zooming effect of the images in a folder. i tried using imagelist and listview control but i cannot get the effect of zooming effect correctly as soon as change the size of imagelist it loses all images and takes time to load back causing a flickering issue. Thank you for your help i am stuck with this issuse for long time. Tha ...Show All

• .NET Development Folder Integrity

  Hi All I want to performa Folder Integrity check on local machine. I have Several folders to guard on a local machine. I dont want anyone to temper the contents of this folder. I want my program to generate a Hash Code of the folder when copying the folder from the Sync Server. When my programs tries to access the Folder content , it should calculate the Hash again and check it against previous value. Computing Hash value for each file is not required, As a folder may have number of files ranging from 1-10. Any help in this regards will be highly beneficial. Thanks Sumit Hi Thanks for the reply. Please have a look at my earlier reply. Thanks Sumit ...Show All