kblackwell's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Why isn't transparent, transparent?

  Can anyone answer why choosing transparent as the backcolor attribute of any box object paints it with the main window's backcolor, instead of making it actually transparent Barring an answer to that, is there a decent way in VB Express to void out the backcolor and make an object transparent I'm dealing with handbuilt screenbuttons (they are cast as label objects with embedded images) on a screen that includes a watermark style splash background. setting lbl_btn1.backcolor = color.transparent leaves the portions of the label rectangle not painted with the image filled in by the parent window's native backcolor. I could change the entire button rectangle to include the portion of the splash image th ...Show All

• Visual C# Global access to arrays

  Hi, I am a beginner at C# and am probably trying to run before I can walk! However, I need to build an application which has several Forms. I was brought up on the concept of only writing code once and using it everywhere. So, What I need to be able to do is to: Hold data arrays in one piece of code, say MyData.CS and access it from all of my Forms. Hold pieces of code,( like subs in VB ) which perform specific tasks and which are, again, accessible from all my forms. these may access the API or just do general stuff. I can write the code, but I just can't access it. So far, I have been able to handle single point variables in this way, but I don't seem to be able to do the same with arrays. Also, I can never access my 'g ...Show All

• SQL Server Negative Numbers from Calculation

  I am trying to get this calculation to work, but it keeps coming back with a negative number. I think its something to do with making the Column 1 & 2 are numeric figures then i calcating the datediff with another numeric figure. but i keep getting a negative answer Any ideas Sum (( isnull ( [Column1] , 0 )) * (( isnull ( [Column2] , 0 )) - cast ( DATEDIFF ( d ,( isnull ( [date1] , 0 )),( isnull ( [date2] , 0 ))) as float )/ 365.00 )) as New Column Can't seem to get this to work. Keep getting syntax error. Incorrect syntax near ')'. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office does visual studio tools for Microsoft Office......

  hi, this is srichand. does Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office provides add-in plugins for outlook.... i have VSTO(SE) up on installing it i got an error regarding the registry key where can i find solution for that.. thanx one and all... srichand but sir they have provided the provision for outlook 2003 also sir in that... sir i will send you in detail the pictures regarding this.. if u dont mind would u give me ur mail id sir...... srichand ...Show All

• Commerce Server Making Commerce Site multilingual

  Hi, I'd like to make my site multilingual. I already use localized text resources for my asp Pages and that works correctly. But now if i open a product detail page i still get the data for the product of the default langugage. What do I have to do so that the correct data gets loaded Another problem is, that i use an extern DLL like the CommeceComponents of the StarterSite. What can I do, that this DLL loads the Correct Resources, Thanks for your help hi, When you get your catalog you should use this function: GetCatalog(catalogname,language); instead: GetCatalog(catalogname); - this always returns catalog in default language. Don't know how the startersite is build. Currently I'm working on my custom c ...Show All

• .NET Development Can be a bug from M$?

  I think this it's very... My code... Dim myClient As New WebClient Dim uri As Uri = New Uri("ftp://localhost/imagem/matlab1.iso") AddHandler myClient.DownloadProgressChanged, AddressOf UploadProgressCallback myClient.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential("user", "senha") myClient.DownloadFileAsync(uri, "D:\matlab1.iso") End Sub Public Sub UploadProgressCallback(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As DownloadProgressChangedEventArgs) bar.Value = e.ProgressPercentage (always comeback 0) End Sub So... why always comeback 0 Sorry if my English it's so bad.. I'm from Brazil ;) Joao Mello You can find the example in th ...Show All

• .NET Development 407 Proxy Authentication Required

  Hi, I've recently started dabbling with VB.NET and I'm using Microsoft Screen Saver starter kit to produce a screen saver using an RSS feed. This works fine from home but when I come to using it on our company network the application is unable to connect to the internet. Stepping through the code reveals that my application is unable to authenticate with our proxy. How do I pass my windows credentials to the proxy. My current code is outlined below:- Thanks in anticipation Public Shared Function FromUri( ByVal uri As String ) As RssFeed Dim wClient As New WebClient() Dim textReader As StreamReader Dim reader As XmlTextReader Dim xmlDoc As New XmlDocument() Using rssStream As Stream ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Windows Vista other versions.

  Hi, I downloaded windows vista RC2 build (v5744-16384) from microsoft connect site and installed in my PC. It is installed only Windows Vista Ultimate Version. Is there any option for installing other versions like Home Basic, Home Premium etc., Note: I downloaded Windows Vista (v5744-16384) FAQ document also from microsoft connect site. In that document, they have mentioned about all the versions of windows vista available in the v5744 build. But, i am not able to find any other versions. Thanks in Advance. Regards, dotnetsekar. Hi Kitzo, I followed the steps from Mike Danes reply on my question. I can able to install the following version of Windows Vista RC2, Windows Vista Business Windows V ...Show All

• SQL Server DTExecUI - Package Execution Utility Error

  Hi, when i deploy my package using the DTExecUI thru the Package Execution Utility.when we execute the package . we are getting the following error. The Product Levelis insufficient for component "Flat File Source(1)" the package design is FlatFileSource ----> OlEDBDestination what could be the solution for this Thanks Jegan You need to install SSIS on this machine. Most likely you've installed Workstation Components, but to run packages outside of designer environment you need to install SSIS (separate checkbox on one of first setup pages). ...Show All

• SQL Server Performance problem: 2000 vs. 2005

  I copied a 2000 database onto 2005 on another box. Running the exact same SELECT query, with 7 tables joined, is running in less than 2 minutes on 2000 and almost 3 hours on 2005. The 2005 box is "bigger and better". I've compared the sp_configure output. There are differences in max worker threads, cost threshold for parallelism, and priority boost. I don't think any one of these is significant. I checked the server properties and the database properties and, again, I did not see what I would consider any significant differences. The 2005 instance has 4GB memory, as opposed to 2GB, but not using that much. In fact, the Total Server Memory (KB) for the instance indicates around 1,230,000 for some reason. We need to reso ...Show All

• .NET Development problems importing data from XML

  Hello, Sorry not having written a more detail Subject for this topic, but i dont know how to explain it in so few words! I'm developing a pocket pc application, which is using a database also used on the desktop computer, and both apps exchange data using export and import functionalities. I've done this once with no problems, but this time there is a different person developing the desktop application, and i'm having problems reading the xml from the exported file. Taking a quick look at xml file i'm trying to read, i can only see one cause for this problem: Instead of specifying the various elements like <table> <row1> <atr1> <atr2> <row2> etc.... its is ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to disable Visual Studio Commands?

  I'd like to disable specific Visual Studio commands. More precisely the commands for starting the building or rebuilding a Visual Studio project should be disabled programmatically. How can I do this I tried it using the IMenuCommandService, but there seems no way of determining the CommandID for the build/rebuild commands. Yes, other approach once you have the command is to capture the BeforeExecute event and cancel it (CancelDefault parameter). See some code here: BUG: Command events fired only to last addin loaded in Visual Studio .NET http://www.mztools.com/articles/2004/MZ010.htm ...Show All

• Visual C# error CS0016

  I'm trying to run the csc command on a server. One user works, but I can't get any other user to work. I've tried giving the other users admistrative rights, but still no luck. The user that does work logs in against the machine and not against the company domain. I can not find any other differences. Why can't any user run this The command is like csc.exe /target:library /out:D:\DEVTEST\cc_keys.dll /reference:D:\DEVTEST\library.dll cc\src\Class1.cs Microsoft (R) Visual C# 2005 Compiler version 8.00.50727.42 for Microsoft (R) Windows (R) 2005 Framework version 2.0.50727 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 2001-2005. All rights reserved. error CS0016: Could not write to output 'd:\devtest\cc_keys.dll' -- 'The direct ...Show All

• Windows Forms Disabling datagridview column

  I want to disable a datagridview column so that no focus by the mouse, keyboard or arrows keys can access it. but other adjoining columns have focus. any ideas Hi Damion may be you can try follow code can avoid user select and edit the specified column, private void dataGridView1_CellBeginEdit( object sender, DataGridViewCellCancelEventArgs e) { if ((( DataGridView )sender).CurrentCell.ColumnIndex == 1) e.Cancel = true ; } private void dataGridView1_CellEnter( object sender, DataGridViewCellEventArgs e) { if ( this .dataGridView1.CurrentCell.ColumnIndex==1) this .dataGridView1.CurrentCell.Selected = false ; } ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Projects wont debug and I get no error message

  I just recently installed and started working with VB express about 2 weeks ago for one of my classes. Everything was working fine until one time when I tried to debug my program and nothing happened. I hit F5 and all the windows got pushed over like they normally do, except my .exe never popped up.  After about a second, it moves everything back to how it is before I hit debug. I've reinstalled the program and I even got rid of .Net framework and then reinstalled it which actually fixed the problem; but it started happening again this morning. I also went into the bin folder in my project directory and tried to open the .exe file directly but nothing happens. This happens on all of my projects including new ones that I just try to de ...Show All