Joe Dawson's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions "It's for the children..." drawtext erase remove

  Howdy, New program for the kiddies... This time, I'm creating a small graphics program where the alphabet letters appear, move, resize, recolor, sort, etc. I'm just getting started...I've got the first letter to move around the screen, and using the font size, color etc, I can get the "A" to move along in a path. I'm using: TextRenderer.DrawText(GraphicsFun, "A" , Me .Font, New Point(point1x, point1y), SystemColors.ControlText How is it that I can erase/remove the letter just before or after the new one appears I don't want to clear the screen/form/etc...just the last appearing letter. Thanks in advance...this site has answered what would appear to me to be hundreds of my questions for the two programs t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Dynamic Word Doc based on Params passed.

  This has been bugging me a little, and I am hoping there is an easy way to do this. I have set up a word project in visual studio 2005 as part of a bigger solution that in the main part is a web application. Within this word project I have a template (.dot) and some code behind that gets data from the database and binds it to some bookmark controls in the word document. The problem I am having is I want to be able to load this document from my web application where it will display the data in the doc based on a parameter I pass in. I have this document loading fine if I hard code the parameter but I need it to interface with the web app. I may be going the wrong way around this completely, any pointers or suggestions would be of g ...Show All

• .NET Development WS-I18N, Web Services Internationalization

  Has anyone done any work implementing the WS-I18N header enhancements with an ASP.NET Web Service, or similar Pablo has posted an implementation of it for WCF, you can find the article here: http://www.codeproject.com/winfx/WSI18N.asp I hope it helps. Gabo ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies Persistent Sharepoint Server Error Events

  Hi - I'm running Sharepoint Services 3.0 and am seeing 3 different errors logged every single minute - IDs 6398, 7076, and 6482. Searches on these IDs have shown that other users are seeing them for different reasons. They all have to do with a "lack of storage" somewhere. Below are the pasted contents of 1 of each of these errors: Event Type: Error Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3 Event Category: Timer Event ID: 6398 Date: 1/22/2007 Time: 3:41:17 PM User: N/A Computer: SPNACDEV06 Description: The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ApplicationServerAdministrationServiceJob (ID 929b1b3b-ef23-4379-915f-33e61709a2d3) threw an exception. More information is included below. Not ...Show All

• SQL Server Grouping question...

  Hi, I am migrating some reports from MS Access2003 to SQL 2005 Reporting Services. I have a dataset which contains columns for Sex, Age, Name etc... I firstly display the contents of this dataset in a table and this is fine. I also need to display a table of the breakdown of the age and sex. E.G:- < 16yrs 16yrs-24yrs 25yrs-64yrs 65yrs-74yrs 75yrs-84yrs >=85yrs Male x x x x x x Female x x x x x x Does anyone know if this is possible. I was going to use a DCount function (As found in access) but I can not find it in SRS. What is thet best way to produce this result Thanks in advance for your time ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Important Notice About Playlist Applications and Timings

  I received this in an email this morning. For those who have heavy use of markup, it could be very important. According to the HD DVD specification (Annex Z.2.2), Playlist Applications may not use the title clock. Although the current version of the Toshiba player/emulator does allow this, because the default clock of a timing section is the title clock, not specifying either the application clock or the page clock when authoring results in a disc that will break in future versions of the Toshiba player. Luckily I used page, but this means that different players have slightly different implementations of iHD what could mean that some discs can't be played on all HD DVD players which will irritate ...Show All

• Gadgets Dynamic Height

  Hello to all, this is my first post, i hope you can help me :) I'm creating a gadget for the forum of a my friend. The gadget reads, from a php web page, the title of the latest 3 active topics in the forum, the number of replies, and other info, it writes them in a table, the table is composed by 3 cells, the first and the third are used only for display pictures (the "head" picture and the "end" picture of the gadget), the middle one is where the information read from the php are written. I also add the refresh function and it's work perfectly. The gadget works pretty well but the topics title isn't everytime of the same length, so i can't set a default height for the gadget but i need to set it dinamically, bec ...Show All

• SQL Server Two Parameters question? second parameter should get data based on first parameter selection.

  I have two parameters both are related to each other. second parameter should get filled based on the selection of the first one which is project. the first paramater is project, once the project is selected it should bring the all the contracts related to that project. Please is it possible... Thank you very much for all the helpful info. Hi Adamus, Can you please tell me, where do you write those functions, and also if i first paramater name is @project and how do you pass it. i have @project and @contract. the user will first choose the @project and once it is chosen it has to call those function to populate the second parameter dropdownlist box. please help, thank you very ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Persistent Window state

  I have class working with Windows forms, which keeps window state in the Registry and restores it next time Window is opened. It uses Load event to restore state, Move and Resize events to monitor current state, and Closing event to save state to the Registry. Window properties that are kept are: Left, Top, Width, Height, WindowState. I try to do the same with System.Windows.Window class. Currently I use the following events and properties: Loaded (Too late, there is flickering, When should I set form state ) SizeChanged LocationChanged OnClosing Left Top Width (or ActualWidth ) Height (or ActualHeight ) WindowState. Result is incorrect. What location parameters should I monitor to restore last state, size and location ...Show All

• Windows Forms ClickOnce application read data from cd rom

  I have an app that is meant to run from a CD as I do not want to copy the contents to the users pc. If I use click once to deploy, it checks the prerequisites, which I need it to do, but then runs from the Cache. This causes problems as all the materials I need the app to access are on the CD. How can I tell the app after the click once has run, where it was installed from, so it can read the folders and files on the cd Or is there a better way to run an app from a cd and check that .net is installed!!! ...Show All

• Community Chat Automatic Playlist

  dont really know where i should have posted this but its here now. Wondering if anyone knows a way to create a playlist but make the playlist automaticlly add the new songs that will be in a folder. I want to make a playlist for all my songs and there all kept in my music but becuase my library is always growning with new songs in it i want to know how to make the playlist be able to add these automatically so i dont have to go through and pick out the new songs to add into the playlist. Please help! Luke. Get out of this forum Benjamin78 No advertising here u weirdo ...Show All

• Visual C# Visual C# Associating file types with programs

  I would like to create an application that works similar to microsoft word or the other ms office suite applications. i.e. I would like to create and install my program so it can 1. Associate files i create with a particular extension to my program. 2. when i click on files with my extension they launch my program and open the data similar to a ms word document. Iif anyone may be knowledge of this or knows what the technical name for this time of programming is called i would sincerely be grateful. email: loverboydamion@gmail.com  or reply to this post.   Hi Paul, Thanks for responding. I check out the codes and confirm that it creates the registry entry. But I would rather all this be done at installation. ...Show All

• Visual C++ How does code find correct VTBL?

  I know there are so many questions about virtual funcion.And sorry for this question but i really don't understand how code finds correct VTable(not function) I read here : http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/virtual-functions.html#faq-20.4 t says:"The idea is to change each Der object's v-pointer so it points at its class's v-table. (This is not a second v-pointer; it's the same v-pointer that was defined in the base class, Base; remember, the compiler does not repeat step #2 in class Der" I confused here. How many are vtables created amount of base+derived class.One VTABLE for each.But all of them has one VPTR.IS this right So if there is a VTABLE for each class but one VPTR; How can code find the ...Show All

• Smart Device Development System.Data.SqlServerCE load problem

  I have a CF2.0 app that runs fine on the emulators in VS 2005. I have now installed it on the Palm Treo 700w for final testing. I first installed the CF2.0 from the NETCFSetup2 download of the redistributable CF2.0 files. I have followed the instructions in the Deploying CF Application Sample at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa446504.aspx my install runs but after installation I get this error when the application tries to open a data form. How can I correct my install MyExe. TypeLoadException File or Assembly Name System.Data.SqlServerCe Version 3.0.3600.0 PublicKeyToken = 3BE235DF1C8D2AD3' OR ONE OF IT'S DEPENDENCIES WAS NOT FOUND. I found an earlier post about checking the System.Data.SqlServerCe vers ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to copy part of Excel to another Excel using C#

  I am new to Excel programming using C#. Can someone help me to copy only part of excel sheet to another excel and this has to be run nightly and the data in destination excel can be deleted and updated. Thanks Hi Ankola this forum is specifically for questions about using VSTO technology. The best place to get a discussion about how to do what you need would be the office.developer.automation newsgroup; Excel object-model-specific questions are best directed to the Excel.programming newsgroup. http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx dg=microsoft.public.office.developer.automation&lang=en&cr=US http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx dg=microsoft.public.excel.programming&lang=en& ...Show All