Aruntc's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Follow up to my previous post "Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation"

  This is a follow up to my previous post at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1177659&SiteID=1 I am having some wierd problems here. I am using VB2005, with SP1, winforms. Currently I have a solution file, that contains 5or 6 projects (maybe more) within the solution file. I add an existing project to my solution file, do a clean build (of the solution), then do a build (of the solution), and then do a "rebuild the solution". Should that process create the required assemblies of the projects within my solution Or do I have to manually create the assemblies, every time I add an existing project to my solution Whenever I get an error message that reads "Exception has been thrown by the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System CTP5 - Writing updates to a DB project

  I have downloaded the CTP5 and used it to a certain extent. I am happy to see some of the improvements as compared to CTP4. The 'Import Script' feature is very useful. As we all know that we can compare two databases by selecting one as the 'source' and another one as the 'target' . Once the comparison is done and the differences are selected, we can 'Write Updates' to the target to make it same as the source. However, I would like to suggest the development team to provide 'Write Updates' feature for the database project also. The most common scenario is when a developer creates new tables, strored procs, triggers or other objects on his local database, the developer should be able to compare his local database with the database projec ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VB.NET 2005 EXPRESS EDITION SERVICE PACK

  I understand that a service pack is being prepared for Visual Studio 2005. Will this service pack also apply to VB.Net 2005 Express Edition If not, is there an intention to provide a service pack well its currently in beta. I believe you may need to register/sign up for it on http://connect.microsoft.com ...Show All

• SQL Server Rich Text field

  I currently have a simple project where we need to store paragraphs for letters that will be automatically printed and then mailed to cusomters. These letters will be created based on certain criteria. I have the SQL database set up with two fields...the paragraphCode (which is the key) and then the paragraph. These paragraphs were originally created in Word and some of these paragraphs contain bulleting and other rich text features. I have built a small utility in ASP (using VB .Net) for our intranet to view / insert / edit these paragraphs. If a user is copying and pasting the paragraph from a Word document, what should this paragraph field's datatype be declare as It is currently NVARCHAR(MAX). Thanks for the information ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Does anyone know how to use the OlkInfoBar to display a message from VSTO code?

  Does anyone know how to use the OlkInfoBar to display a message from VSTO code The OlkInfoBar only has two properties (MouseIcon and MousePointer) and raises only Mouse events. There is no Caption or Text property. How is it intended to be used Some sample code would be appreciated. Unfortunately you can’t set the text on the OlkInfoBar control. The control is designed only to be a place holder for the Outlook information bar, which is not directly extensible. The only way to add text to the InfoBar programmatically is by setting the FlagRequest property for MailItem, and even then it probably won’t work the way you are expecting. If you are working with another item, there is no way to set any text on the info bar. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Third Party tool for .NETCF Controls

  HI, I'm trying to design Good and colourful GUI in Compact Framework. As we all know, Many properties are missing in .NETCF. Specifically color of buttons and so on. Now i'm looking for good third party tools for those missing controls.I never used before. So I don't have much idea abt it.Can anyone suggest me good one If u know related links, kindly mention it. If anyone used third party tools before in CF, kindly share your experience. Thank You I'm not sure what buttons you are planning on using, but if you are building the app for a wm 5.0 device, you may want to consider using the menu instead of putting buttons on the forms. The reason is because this allows you to operate the pda without a ...Show All

• SQL Server modeling a table with FK

  I am having a problem when modeling a Foreign Key in an "Operations" table. This table holds all information on customers ’s applications and withdrawals. Here is the structure: CustomerID int, SourceID int, Value decimal (16,2), OperationDate datetime Well the problem is that SourceID sometimes might be NULL depending on how the record was inserted. So its kind of cumbersome to define it as an FK, since it can be null...To get things worse, this SourceID might point to more than 1 table (depending on the CustomerType it will point to SourceA table or SourceB table)... How should this be modeled What is sourceId It sounds like you need to do a bit more normalization here and have a source table. source ...Show All

• Windows Forms Datatype Mismatch- VB.Net or VS 2005?

  Hi I have a filed (ID) in a table and its datatype is number (long integer). I have select command in 'windows form' and textbox (TextBox1)control in the windows form, will be populated by the filed (ID) from the 'access 'database. If I change the datatype of ID field in table from Number to Text its works. But if the field ID's datatype is number I am getting 'datatype mismatch'. Could anyone please tell me how do I change the datatype in the windows form or any other way to solve this. When do you get this error message exactly This should not be to hard to change a type 1) edit the table 2) edit the dataset (if you are using one) (re-configure "Fill" query) 3) edit code you wrote yourself in your project. D ...Show All

• Community Chat More converting numbers to text

  Hello All. After a thoroughly enyoyable investigation with OmegaMan into the relative merits of different ways of converting a numeric value into its literal text representation, featuring his string-parse code and my old Basic digit-parse code, I managed to catch a pretty bad case of "feature fever," and decided to update and expand the cababilities of my old routine. So, here it is.  This .zip file contains the following files: NumberWriters.dll The Library NumberWriters.htm The ReadMe file NumberWriters.xml The XML comments for Intellisense NumberWritersDemo.exe A short Windows Forms demo application Basically, this library contains classes which expose methods to convert n ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Bullet Hell Tactics - Shoot'em'up game created with XNA (video and screensots)

  Hey! For the last couple of months (5 to be exact) I have been working on a shoot'em'up (shmup) game with XNA and have now come to point where I can show what it will look like and how it will play. I have screenshots and a gameplay video that can be found at http://shmup.blogspot.com . (Remember that this is work in progress, and a lot of stuff is missing). Here you can also read about the development and progress of the game. I don't yet have a playable demo for download (sorry). Later on I will have a beta for download for those of you that wish to try it. It has been a WHOLE lot of work to get this thing play (I know maybe it doesnt look like much work when you see it but trust me - it is!) Almost all the gameplay element ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problems with basic Hello World program.

  I am using the following code.... #include "stdafx.h" #include <iostream> int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) { std::cout << "Hello, world!\n"; return 0; } And I am getting the following error... Error 1 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) class std::basic_ostream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> > & __cdecl std::operator<<<char,struct std::char_traits<char> >(class std::basic_ostream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> > &,char const *)" (__imp_ $ 6DU $char_traits@D@std@@@std@@YAAAV $basic_ostream@DU $char_traits@D@std@@@0@AAV10@PBD@Z) referenced in function _wmain test4.obj I don't know why but V C++ EE ins ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Getting list of workspaces and solutions under Team Project

  Hi, How to get the list of workspaces and list of solutions under a given Team Project programatically Please help me with some pointers. Hi, How to get the list of workspaces and list of solutions of a given Team Project programatically Please provide some pointers. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) When will the NET 3.0 final version be available?

  Sorry if this something that it's answered somewhere else, but I didn't find it. I've been reading everywhere that Vista will include Net 3.0. Then again I read that Microsoft is going RTM with Vista the next days. This means that Net 3.0 must be nearly finished now! If this is the case, when will we be able to download it Thanks in advance for any answers Raul Raul, Thanks for your post. The latest information on the release date (guidance) is included here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=812396&SiteID=1 Also, recent articles on this and other topics are indexed here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/windowsvista/default.mspx Thanks, Ford Mc ...Show All

• Visual C# Error message about string

  if (comboBox1.SelectedItem.ToString() == "Circle") thats the errenous code this is the error Possible unintended reference comparison; to get a value comparison, cast the left hand side to type 'string I originally had just selected item, so I thought the fix would be .ToString(), but as I found out, apparently not.. Okay, the thing about Visual C# is that it doesnt update the errors until you debug.... In Visual VB.NET it does... Thats an error in the IDE There was no error in the program i was building but now i have a diff problem.. The name 'textbox1' does not exist in the current context for textbox1.Text == "N/A" ...Show All

• Visual Studio Remove empty table cell at end of report

  At the very end of my report table is an empty cell with a width of 100%. It is causing about three inches of white space to appear to the right of the report, which causes an unwanted horizonal scrollbar to appear. Does anyone know how to get rid of this empty table cell <TD WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="0"></TD></TR><TR><TD WIDTH="0" HEIGHT="100%"></TD></TR> I have SizeToReportContent="true" AsyncRendering="false" I want the report to appear like a normal inline table would, as opposed to an iframe with independent scrollbars. SQL Server 2005, ASP.NET 2.0, ReportViewer control. Thank you. I was lo ...Show All