SheilaK1's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic How to Make Form Transparent While Dragging / Out of Focus?

  I was wondering how to make my form turn transparent when I go to move it by dragging it, and then bring it back to opaque once I let go of it. Also, how could I make the form turn transparent while it is out of focus, and turn opaque when it regains focus A solution to either or both of the problems would be appreciated. Thank you. Thanks for the help nobugz. Activate and deactivate worked. Also, I solved the other one as well- I used this code: Private Sub MainForm_ResizeBegin( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me .ResizeBegin Me .Opacity = 0.6 End Sub Private Sub MainForm_ResizeEnd( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.E ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista vista blocks application at startup

  Hi, I'm a software developer and I have a question about Vista. Our application (a .NET 1.1 app) requires Administrator access and we have the "requiresAdministrator" access level defined in the application manifest. That part is working fine. However, our application needs to startup when the computer boots so we have it in the "startup" folder. For some reason (I can't imagine why) Vista puts it in the "blocked startup programs" list and the user needs to manually launch it. This is not acceptable for us. Is there any way to circumvent this problem And by the way, why is there no way for the user to say "I want this app to run every time I reboot so stop blocking it!" On a side note, I not ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System View all checked out files

  I am looking for a way to view all the files that are currently checked out in TFS, either by user or everyone. Equivalent of status search in VSS. So far I’ve not found a way to do this, is there a way Thanks Wayne You can do it from the command line or with the client API. It's not exposed in Source Control Explorer, if that's what you mean. ...Show All

• SQL Server SET IDENTITY_INSERT Question

  I want to use the SET IDENTITY_INSERT ON command so that I can insert a bunch of records and establish the links myself based on the ids i used. I have a table with an identity column which is a FK in another table. I need to insert into table one, then carry that id to table 2 as a fk. There is no unique value for me to tie to so I wanted to ReSeed the identity column to the number above what I am going to insert and then turn off identity insert so I can insert between the present spot and where I reseeded to. This will allow me to know the id's and assign them myslef. My question is two fold. 1. When I set Identity_Insert On does it only affect my batch, or the connection, or the whole server Essentially, when ON can other peopl ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Real time events slow...

  The following is in regard to XP. If this is not the right forum, please advise. (It seems likely though that this behavior also exists in Vista.) I've inspected the tracelog and tracedmp sample projects in the SDK. I'm writing code that needs to receive disk I/O events from the kernel logger in real time. I'm using EVENT_TRACE_REAL_TIME_MODE with OpenTrace, etc. My event callback seems to be called Ok, except that it happens not actually in real time. Instead, it seems that the system is buffering up a bunch of events, and then calling my event callback many times in a row. I need to see these events as they occur, not later when a buffer load of them has accumulated. Is there any way to get these events to be passed to the ca ...Show All

• Windows Forms Download file from URL after login URL form

  Hello, I'm looking for a code in VB.NET or for access 2003 that do the following: 1. Browse to a web page contain form with username and password. 2. submit the username and password 3. download a file from URL How can I do that Generally you should discovere how the username/password are posted to the server. 1) If the GET method is used - you are lucky and it is really simple to create a new URL with querystring and just navigate on it. 2) If the POST method is used it is more difficult. You will have to get the page and store cookies (*). Then you will be able to simulate POST. To do it just start any HTTP sniffer, try to log in to the site "normally" in browser ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Solution naming

  Hi, I have one question I cannot find the answer to. How do I create a Project where the namespace & the project have different identifiers many thanks, yes it works & thank you very much however, is that the right way I only ask because everything I've seen so far has a nice dialog interface, and I was surprised that, if I wanted to create a library [delusions of grandeur here!] I would have one namespace and lots of projects (one for each are in the library) so I would have expected to see a way though dialogs to name namespace & project individually. Thank you again, ...Show All

• .NET Development Anyone know the difference between a Settings file and AppConfig file?

  You can add either one of these to your project from the Add Item menu. I don't see the point of having both. ItchyAshcrackistan wrote: You can add either one of these to your project from the Add Item menu. I don't see the point of having both. One has a UI designer and the other doesn't. The Settings file will generate the app config anyway. You still need the later to add stuff the UI editor doesn't support such as remoting info. ...Show All

• .NET Development SqlException: Data has been modified by another party since it was loaded

  Hi, I wondered if somebody might be able to help me figure out what this error means System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Data has been modified by another party since it was loaded We seem to be getting this error when sending data back to SQL Server, but it only seems to occur when we leave the dataset open for long periods of time. Has anyone got any information on what this actually means and how to stop it I've done the usual google searches but from the results you'd think this Exception doesn't actually exist. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Many Thanks, Jody. See the following: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/acdata/ac_8_con_7a_3 ...Show All

• Visual Studio The binding handle is invalid with Web applications in Visual Studio RTM

  Hi, When I tried to debug the Sample application with RTM, it gives the following error. Unable to attach. The binding handle is invalid To resolve this error I made changes in Administrative Tools a Services a Terminal Services. I had changed the properties of this service that is I had changed Startup Type as Manual and started the service and after that restarted my system. Now Debugging is working perfectly. Hope this helps When I tried to debug the Sample application with RTM, it gives the following error. Unable to attach. The binding handle is invalid but when i searched in this forum , people told to start terminal service automatic.. so on but.. here in my case ...Show All

• Windows Forms OTP folder in win xp

  why can't we ceate a folder named "con" in win xp I'm sorry but these forums are dedicated to Windows programming and not general questions. A quick search for reserved file names in windows would get you an answer . ...Show All

• Windows Forms reading filtered dataview or datatable in another dataview or datatable

  Hi, I am doing a rowfilter on a dataview and a select on a datatable to filter the results. Is there anyway I can read the filtered rows returned by dataview.Rowfilter and datatable.Select into another dataview or datatable so that further row filters are only applied on the already filtered rows.. Thanks, You can use and to add to the filter like this dt.DefaultView.RowFilter = "royalty >= 10" ; dt.DefaultView.RowFilter += " and royalty <20" ; ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. VideoSettings/Threading questions with XNA...

  Scratching my head over this one. Want to set some device/presentation parameters before adding .graphics to the GameComponents, in this case through a form. public Game1() { //create settings form Form f = new frm_DisplaySettings(); //wait for "Start" button clicked on f //pass settings on to Designer to Initialize InitializeComponent(mySettings[]); } //wait for "Start" button clicked on f// is where I am stuck. I've tried spawning threads but not sure how the Game class handles this and not sure how to implement cross-class ManualResetEvents. TIA, lushdog Thanks alot, I appreciate it. I've used this instead as I'm running ...Show All

• Smart Device Development SQLClient and Pocket PC 2003

  Hi again!! I'm developing an application in Pocket PC 2003 to conect into a DB in SQL Server. Im using SQLClient class. when i create a conection string an instances a sqlconnection to connect to my DB it returns me an "SQLException: The source doesn't exists or cannot be accesed" or something like that. The case is that, I use that connection in so many others application and it's not possible it doesn't exist. I use the same Connection String in other application and works perfectly, Someone knows what can be My connection and the string Private sqlcon As SqlConnection Dim cs As String = "Data Source=1 0.0.1.0; Initial Catalog=Prueba;User Id=fadmin;Password=;" sqlcon = New SqlConnec ...Show All

• .NET Development Conversion failed when converting datetime from character string.

  ms visual studio 2005 sql erver 2005 I originally posted this question at experts-exchange without resolution http://www.experts-exchange.com/Databases/Microsoft_SQL_Server/Q_22069012.html http: / / www. experts- exchange. com/ Programming/ Programming_ Languages/ Dot_ Net/ VB_ DOT_ NET/ Q_ 22068922. html I get the following error when trying to insert into db from web app have tried.... txtrequireddate.Text.ToString("dd-MMM-yyyy ") reqrddate = Convert.ToDateTime(txtrequireddate.Text) reqrddate= CDate(txtrequireddate.Text) Server Error in '/' Application. ---------------------------------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Conversion failed when converting datetime from character string. Description: An unhan ...Show All