kweicht's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Installing C# Express Edition After VS2003/VS2005

  I waited till the last minute to install C# Express, but I wanted to point out that the download page is potentially confusing. Yes, it says beta versions must be uninstalled, but immediately following it says that any previous versions of SQL Server 2005, VS2005 need to be uninstalled. The good news is that it will install without issue, but I wanted to post this as a recommendation to change the text. Uninstall beta versions Before installing, you must uninstall any previous versions of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and the .NET Framework 2.0 (this includes Tech Preview, Beta, or CTP versions). It's pretty much automatic for me to uninstall any previous beta versions of anything. I guess once you're been doing i ...Show All

• SQL Server Shrinking databases or files

  Hi, I have some doubts about Shrinking databases or files. while shrinking a file, I learned that we are alllowed to shrink more than the minimum size of the file, does not it bring damage to the data in that file Hi Derek, I understood what you mean finally. When we apply shrinking to our files, we make the growing process start in order to activate the unused spaces(rows). So growing process requires too much performance which shows the inefficiency of shrinking. Besides, heavy shrinking, which is also called that trying to make a file very and very small, is really dangerous for datas in the files. This is the another disadvantages of shrinking. As you said before, we should only apply this method(shrinking) when we drop huge ta ...Show All

• Windows Forms Control visiblilty of main form component after the close of pop-up win form

  Dear All, My problem here is that first I have a combo box. Upon selecting a value of the combo box its visible set to false. Then at the same location the visible value of a text box is set to visible=true. The problem is that if the value which is keyed in the texbox is below a certain range then a pop dialog or winform will appear for confirmation of acceptance of the lower value. Upon making the confirmation via the pop-up win form the control gets back to the main form. Now I want the combo box to be visible=true and textbox visible=false when the control is pass back from the pop up winform to the main winform. Thanks. Why I'm assuming you're using the ShowDialog method to show your pop-up ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Setting Chart Title through VBA sometimes works sometimes doesn't.

  Hello folks, Wonder if anyone has the solution to the following problem. Got an Excel addin that the user can use to generate Charts. The users are very lazy and want the addin to set the titles for the chart as well as for the axis. When I tested the code everything works fine and the charts including it's titles are set. Everyone is happy. However in certain spreadsheets the code throws an error. Method 'HasTitle' of object '_Chart' failed. Here's the code that causes the error Dim chrt As Chart Set chrt = ActiveWorkbook.Charts.Add chrt.ChartType = xlXYScatterSmoothNoMarkers chrt.HasTitle = True 'error here chrt.ChartTitle.Text = Me.State.ChartTitle 'chart has one s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Can you get an excel range object from the clipboard?

  Is there away to get data off the clipboard when it is pasted on from excel in a range object Hi Brady Thank you for the additional information :-) If it's a Windows form app, it's not VSTO. When you have general questions about using Excel (or another Office application), it's best to try asking in one of the newsgroups listed in Mike Hernandez's "Please read first" post at the top of this forum http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=174275&SiteID=1 In this case, the Excel programming forum would be best. But no, I don't believe it's possible to retrieve a Range object from the Clipboard, at least, not directly. The reason I say "not directly" is that, when ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to create a help file

  Hi, I am trying to create a help file in VB 2005 Pro (or any language in VS) and I can't figure out where in the IDE it is. I read in the MSDN documentation that it is created when you start a new program by a wizard but I can't find it. Is there such a thing Or, if not, how else does one accomplish the same Thanks in advance for help.   See the following http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa405731(VS.80).aspx The Help Project type is no longer supported in Visual Studio 2005. You can use HelpStudio Lite to provide Help content. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa404464(VS.80).aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) how to apply Animation to image on click of button?

  Hi I am not able to apply animation to image on click of button in XAMl but i am able to do this in c#. Following is the code I am writting; <Button Name="myButton" Width="75" Height="25" /> <Image Source="c:\images\a.jpg" Height="400" Width="400" > <Image.RenderTransform> <TranslateTransform X="100" Y="100" x:Name="myImageTranslate" /> </Image.RenderTransform> <Image.Triggers> <EventTrigger RoutedEvent="Button.Click" SourceName="myButton" > <EventTrigger.Actions> <BeginStoryboard> <Storyboard> <DoubleAnimation To=&q ...Show All

• Windows Forms how could i work with data in a form?

  Hello to all experts... i have a form with already had a button for ADD/EDIT/DELETE & NAVIGATION BUTTONS for browsing next record,previous record,top of records & bottom of records...and also i already attached a table from a data source using ODBC from an MS SQL server2000 database my problem is how do i make a code for adding a new record in add button, a command for saving the record, delete a certain record , browsing next record,previous, top to bottom. thanks for any help...sorry for this questions i am new to this language and doesn't know where to start, and doesn't know how could i make things easier for me to start with.. thanks...and any help deeply appreciated Take a look at this download: 101 Visual Basic and ...Show All

• SQL Server Full software requirements for XP Home

  Hi! I am a student teacher who wants to futuristically create dynamic websites featuring communication and information for both students and parents, which link to my teacher records (grades and student portfolio evidence documents) . I am an absolute beginner to Dynamic Websites . I am able to create static webpages in Dreamweaver MX together with multimedia, rollovers, tables, buttons etc (I have the basic suite - not ColdFusion). I have XP Home SP2 and all current updates, which appears to include .Net Framework 1.1 sp1. I am running Trend 2007 firewall. I do have basic (but old) database knowledge and can create strings in Excel to manipulate cell data. Other than that I learned to program in BASIC about 25 years ago (I ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Can not see Microsoft.WindowsMobile namespace

  I open a project as a C# Window Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Device application. I have Compact Framework 2.0 SP1 Under Microsoft name space I have only Win32. (Microsoft.Win32) Why i do not see Microsoft.WindowsMobile namespace ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums unembedding Excel in Internet Explorer

  I have an Excel file that acts as a front-end for an Access database. I have written few VB codes to export some of the sheets and charts to a new excel file. This was required because the main Excel file cannot be distributed or emailed to other locations as it is the front-end and has a ADODB link to the Access database. So I used the following code to export just the required sheets to a new plain Excel file without any ADODB links. Sheets(Array("Sheet1", "Chart1")).Copy This code works great and Sheet1 and Chart1 are copied to a new Workbook and the user has the option to save it and distribute the file as per his needs. But the problem that I am facing is that, the main excel file is posted in the company' ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Requesting Admin Rights without COM

  I have been trying to read over many of the articles concerning elevated priviledges in an application, but am a bit lost.  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/ietechcol/dnwebgen/protectedmode.asp http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms679687.aspx Those two of the main articles I have been trying to understand.  I know I can create a COM class that is defined in the registry and set it's elevation values there, then create it through CreateInstance.  The first article I am almost completely lost on (maybe it doesn't have anything to do with what I want ). Here's my situtation, I have a program that wants to write to registry, save files, etc, but can't do it without ad ...Show All

• SQL Server merge agent not started - Start Synchronizing disabled

  i'm running a SQL Server 2000 SP42000.8.00.2039, developer. i'm trying to setup a merge replication between the default istance and a named one of the same machine, using the same domain account for both publisher and subscriber. when it comes to "start synchronizing" (right click on the subscriber merge agent), i found it disabled, just like it is running, but it is not (the icon shows a stop sign, even refreshing.) The state is "disactivated". When i stop sync and start it again things don't change. If i setup a "pull" subscription, i get a sequence of a message like "interface not supported" (a translation from italian "Interfaccia non supportata"): after 10 attempts, it stops. i cannot ...Show All

• .NET Development BC2017: could not find library

  Asp.net 2 sqlserver 2005 MS Visual studio 2005 I keep getting the following message when trying to browse to the website I am building. Ayone have any ideas as to how to resolve this BC2017: could not find library 'C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\6acb8b87\f5bfb61a\App_Web_a8shcvd0.dll' I checked the path and on my machine and there is no root directory it goes this far only C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\ and the file 'App_Web_a8shcvd0.dll' does not exist anywhere in the Microsoft.net directory. Deleting contents of asp.net temp directory and rebooting dev server give short term fix, but when ever I adjust the ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) AssertNotDisposed Blows Chunks

  ADO Orcas Team: It really sucks that you added invocations of AssertNotDisposed in ObjectContext. I don't remember anything implicit in the Dispose pattern that suggests that access to members of disposed objects should be restricted. Are you re-interpreting the idiomatic expectations of the semantics of the Dispose pattern by putting in arbitrary restrictions to state access on disposed instances of ObjectContext I can understand that you might wanna do something special for objects on the finalization queue, but the current implementation seems like a bit of overkill. It looks like more safety measures for clumsy people. It would be much nicer if you would simply let the chips fall where they may in regards to accessing state on a di ...Show All