Fingerlickin's Q&A profile

• Internet Explorer Development Moving Interent Explorer Toolbards

  How do you move the tool bars in interent explorer 7. When i try and move the Menu bar up or down nothing happens. Trying to get the Menu Bar on top then the URL bar 2nd and so forth but cant seem to move the toolbars. Help pls! Harry F. Harrison wrote: The registry hack really isn't a good solution either - it simply moves all toolbars above the address bar. Ah, but for me it was a good solution. I'd just gotten used to being able to jump to the menu bar by double tapping the top left corner of my laptop's touch pad. All of a sudden, I wasn't getting there in IE7. As for sarcasm in a forum, it was lost on me. Maybe that tired-frustrated thing factored into my missing it. I guess w ...Show All

• SQL Server Chart in Report Builder

  hi there I am just designing a simple chart in Report Builder - but when trying to drag any field into the value field of the chart (it doesn't change colour and won't accept any field). If I drag a field into the category or series the curser changes and on approaching the chart properties they seem to change colour. Can someone help to what can be wrong thanks Dianne Dianne, You can create a new expression to count the number of calls. Go to the entity that contains CallId. On top of the fields area of the Explorer, you'll find a New Field icon. Click on it. Alternately, go to the Report menu and select New Field. You're defining a new field for your report. Give your new field a ...Show All

• Windows Forms Change Update Location at Client Side

  Hello EveryOne, After installing an application is it possible to change the update location at the client side's application manifest file. The scenario may be by the following.. 1. I'll install the application from cd. And later I'll make the updates from a different location (web server/file server.. etc..) 2. The file server needs to change.. (With Ip, Name, .. ) etc. My assumption is that it should be possible.. Because the application knows where to look for updates at its side. I want to make a form that the user can change the update location, of the manifest file by himself. This is very important for me.. Thanks in advance.. Actually I am using mage to generate the manifest file.. May be ...Show All

• .NET Development DataSet Vs DataReader????

  When using the dataset, is this code snippet the same as when using the SqlDataReader and doing like this while dr.Read() string value = "" Value = dr["database value"].ToString() when using the Dataset Is the code assigning the values to the actual rows of data with all the information that is held within the dataset..So since this Dataset has a collection of tables and rows is it safe to say that u are accessing the data elements like this..... System.Data.DataSet ds = SqlHelper.ExecuteDataset( SqlHelper.ConnectionString, "CustomerNotes_SelectByCustomerNoteId", new object [] {CustomerNoteId }); CustomerNote myCustomerNote = new CustomerNote(); myCustomerNote._CustomerNoteI ...Show All

• Windows Forms Setup and Deployment Project FAQ

  Deployment FAQ   Q: I am now getting the following error when I build: " Unable to update the dependencies of the project. The dependencies for the object ' name.dll ' cannot be determined" A: Workaround :  Try to adjust the order of the Projects in the Solution and leave the Database project to the end. We can either edit the Solution (*.sln) file with notepad OR remove and add the Database Project back in the solution. (This also isn’t a great work-around as the addition of a project later in the development cycle will cause the corruption to re-appear). HotFix :Contact PSS and ask for the Hotfix for KBB917036: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B917036   Q: Is it p ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Newbie: is there something like Action Lists?

  Hi, I'm coming from Delphi world, and learning VB.NET. In Delphi there is component called Action List; every action has properties and events; on properties you can assigns icons, tool tips, the "execute" event, etc. Each action can be assigned to menu items or buttons. Now in VB I have a grid form where "create", "delete", "update" are menu items and buttons with same actions in the tool bar; I would not like to duplicate icons and tool tip text for a menu item and its corresponding button in the tool bar. Is there something similar to Action Lists in VB.NET Express Thank you, Guillermo Events handler routines can have multiple handles. Assign ha ...Show All

• Windows Forms Progress bar

  Hi All, I have a main form and at some point of code,I want to show progressbar..so I created a new form with progressbar and wrote this code to it; this->progressBar1->Minimum=0; this->progressBar1->Maximum=5; this->progressBar1->Value=1; this->progressBar1->Step=1; for(int i=1;i<6;i++) this->progressBar1->PerformStep(); so at some point of code in MainForm, I invoked this form with progressbar..but how to close this window automatically after sometime Thank you I am doing it too.. In my mainform, code is like this ...................... ProgressBar_MainForm^ progressbar1=gcnew(ProgressBar_MainForm); progressbar1->ShowDialog(); .. ...Show All

• Visual C++ __declspec(dllexport) required on function declaration in dll source code?

  With the help of one of the people that posts messages on this website, I was able to get a C++ DLL to work with a VB 6.0 calling program.  The function definition in the .cpp file has the __stdcall decoration on the function name, but it doesn't have the __declspec(dllexport) decoration on it.  It seems to be working fine without it, but is it required for some reason   If so what would that reason be   Does the compiler put it in automatically when you compile it, or is it really required at all   George extern "C" only prevents exporting the symbol using the C++ mangled name. It does not prevent decorating the name accodring to the stdcall convention. ...Show All

• SQL Server Datetime format regardless regional settings

  Hi, in tsql there is a common format for datetime (regardless regional settings) I use : 'mm/dd/yyyy' to access cols in database, but someone says that the right one is: yyyy-mm-dd. Any suggestion about that Thank a lot I believe you want the ISO format -- 112; that is yymmdd. Can somebody double check this Dave ...Show All

• Visual Basic Finding a quoted string

  I am trying to write a macro for Visual Studio that will search my source code and put a bookmark on all quoted strings that the first character is not an underscore (_). I have written many macros but this one is giving me a problem, I cannot get it to escape the " in my search string. I can perform the search manually, but cannot get the macro to work. Any Ideas I am sure it is just a matter of specifying the correct FindWhat string, but I have tried everything I can think of and nothing works. Here is the macro - Sub FindNonConformingStrings() DTE.ExecuteCommand( "Edit.Find" ) DTE.Find.Target = vsFindTarget.vsFindTargetCurrentProject DTE.Find.MatchCase = True DTE.Find.MatchWholeWord = True ...Show All

• Windows Forms Difference between DrawGrid, ShowGrid

  I'm trying implement a custom DesignerOptions and DesignerOptionService class, but ran into some strange problems: 1.) My root component (a UserControl) has some Design properties, such as SnapToGrid, GridSize, and DrawGrid. Strangely enough, the DesignerOptions class contains separate versions of these three properties (SnapToGrid, GridSize, ShowGrid). Since a change in one is not reflected in the other, can someone elaborate on why these exist separately 2.) In the end I'd like to use my DesignerOptionService rather than these properties just because of preference. As a starting point I've essentially replicated the code in the WindowsFormsDesignerOptionService (WFDOS). However, toggling UseSnapLines at design-time has zero effect, and ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help a dude out...please

  Im very new to programming, but I have the passion to learn. I am looking to make a program where you can type in "somthing" and press a button and place/replace that text in a specifyed file. This probably sounds confusing, but my goal is to make a program for a game that lets you easily customize it without trudging through all the files yourself. I know some basics, but if someone could please point me in the right direction that would be great! Thanks, Matt Hey thanks for the help, but I am very new to programing and what you were saying is a little over my head. Where would I insert that code In the button Text box Also...where would I specify the file I want in that code Haha, I feel stupid right now.. ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Problem with 'content ID' while creating directory in 'persistent storage'.

  Hello Everybody.... In the java script for creating a directory (FileIO_createDirectory), do we have to specify the content id also If we don't specify, whether the directory will be created or some exception will be thrown I am giving two examples below, please tell in each case what will happen. 1. FileIO.createDirectory("file:///required/app1",callback_createDirectory); 2. FileIO.createDirectory("file:///required/11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111/app1",callback_createDirectory); Hi, Also, according to the Spec Z 3.1.3 createDirectory API, directory can be created in the persistence storage. But, while creating a directory, a Content ID has to be specified. Who specifies this content ID, the 'Content au ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Beginning Game Development: Part III - DirectX II - Problem with the "Using..."

  Just started the Direct X Part II (Part III) tutorial, and I seem to have an odd problem. I get one error whenever I try to build the solution, Error 1 The type or namespace name 'Device' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference ) C:\Documents and Settings\Doug Ross\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\BattleTank2005\BattleTank2005\GameEngine.cs 68 17 BattleTank2005 Now, I put at the very top of the GameEngine.cs class, right below all the other "using" directives... using Microsoft.Samples.DirectX.UtilityToolkit; So now the "Using" section at the top of the GameEngine.cs looks like... using System; using System.Collections.Generic; us ...Show All

• Visual C++ OleDbCommand needs reference to connection?

  I have created an OleDbConnection object in a function using OleDbConnection connection; instead of using a reference like OleDbConnection^ connection = gcnew OleDbConnection(); because I want it disposed of as soon as it goes out of scope (the function ends). When I create an OleDbCommand object or reference and try to insert my connection, I am informed that command requires a reference to the connection object and wont accept the object itself in the parameter list. How can I go about using the objective connection with a command Thanks :-) These things should work much like in the native world (and some or at least me would prefer the managed world would follow the existing rules even more closely) ...Show All