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• Windows Forms How to launch a .swf file when button clicked?

  I am new to VS.NET C# so bare with me. How do I launch a .swf file within the same directory as the application when a button is clicked Your help is much appreciated. Okay, System.Diagnostic.Processes.Start("filePath") works but how do I specify a relative path For example: I tested: D:\Tutorials\MyApp\Sites\launch.swf and it works I want to have something like this: ~\launch.swf ...Show All

• SQL Server SSRS 2005 Export to PDF Missing Data

  I have a report that has a page header that needs to have the customers name. The report works fine by referring to reportitems!Customer_nm.value where customer_nm is a hidden textbox in the body of the report. Unfortunately, when I select the Export to PDF, this value is blank. It works fine if I export to Excel or just use the native functionality. It appears only to be missing in a PDF. Any ideas Hi Lynn, We are also facing the same problem :( What we have done is inluded the textbox as part of the body and not the header. Anyone any ideas on this Thanks Manish ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do you take in user input (password and username) & check if it is a certian value?

  How do you make an if statement to take in user input (password and username) & check if it is a certian value   (without using a server or database)   Please could you give me a portion of code to do this   thanx polarbear541 well what type of app are you create A Console or Windows app where are you getting the inputs from where is your username/password held if its a winform app and we have 2 textboxes and a button to login we simply do this: private sub cmdLogin_Click(byval sender as object, byval e as EventArgs) handles cmdLogin.Click if Me.txtUserName.Text.Equals( "username ") And Me.txtPassword.Text.Equals(" Password &qu ...Show All

• Windows Forms Export table data in Access Database

  Hi, I need to export a table data in Access Database into a text file using C# interface by a press of a button. I need advise on which method is required to use for this Tks. You should indicate the namespace, for example, to use the StreamWriter and server class, you should add using System.IO; using Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo; ...Show All

• Visual Basic DIRECT DOCS FILES PRINTING FROM VB.NET

  Hi all, I need to execute the windows command "send to printer" on my application. Well, I have some files in a listbox, after I selected some of them I'd like to send the selected items directly to the printer. In this way no printer windows will appear. It should be like when you click on the right button on a file in window (.DOC, .PDF,.TXT etc..etc.. ) and then you select the PRINT function. I think there's a commandline to be executed with the filename... or something like that. TIA for any suggestions about this best regards Dario The low-level method is to look up the extension in the registry, in HKEY_CLASS_ROOT (HKCR). Each extension key has a default value ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. About the fate of DirectX?

  Hi, I'm new here =) Hopefully I'm not asking a question that's been asked a million times before. =) I think I must be missing something important. I read the XNA FAQ, and it sounds to me like they've already deprecated Managed DirectX... does that mean that XNA has/will entirely replace DirectX If I want to write a program using DirectX in .NET, would this then mean that my program will need to be rewritten using XNA in the coming months And what about users who need the common graphics API provided by DirectX but don't have Shader support in their video cards Just curious, because that FAQ about Managed DirectX being deprecated alarmed me a bit (for the reasons expressed above) Depends on the game. If you want to write 360 games ...Show All

• SQL Server Connect problem with DMO and SQL Express

  Hi ! I try using DMO with sqlexpress . I write program in VFP8. osql = CreateObject("SQLDMO.SQLServer") With oSQL .LoginTimeout = 10 .LoginSecure = .f. .Connect("MARIUSZ\SQLEXPRESS","sa","mariza1234") EndWith Metod connect get error message "OLE Idispatch exception code 0 ....(ODBC SQLState :08001):[microsoft]ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBMSLPCN]Invalid connection.[microsoft]DBMSLPCNConnectionOpen (ParseConnectParams))... What is wrong . I install " Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Backward Compatibility Components" and connection to database through odbc run OK. pc_constr="driver="+"{SQL Native Client}"+"; server="+"MARIUSZ\SQLEXPRESS"+"; " + ...Show All

• .NET Development No way to get time changed event as windows service (SystemEvents.TimeChanged)?

  Is there no way for a service running without interacting with the desktop to receive time changed events, such as those generated by SystemEvents.TimeChanged How am I supposed to tell when DST hits Or if the user changes the clock Hmm... I don't think that's going to work. I need an EVENT from the SYSTEM that alerts me to the change in DST, or a user change to the clock. Unless I have a timer that checks a DateTime.Now value against a stored time every couple miliseconds, I'm not going to know when DST hits. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Number commands

  How can I make my program do different things (while running) by using numbers as the link, or so to speak (ie. Make it exit by pressing 3, open a dialog by pressing 4, change the menu by pressing 1 or 2 etc.) Thanks Certainly. Use a TextBox and implement the LostFocus event. The user would type a number and press Tab. However, that is kinda old-school thinking. Why don't you put buttons on the form with a descriptive Text property. The user will have no trouble figuring out what happens when they click the button. As opposed to having to remember what number does what... ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Navigation Window: Can it be Like a web page?

  Navigation Window: Can it be Like a web page can we use a navigation window or any other window (WPF) to be like a web page which is very long and can be scrolled using the mouse wheel (after it gain focus) One can visualize uncompiled XAML as a web page, although with several limitations. You can have the Page element as root and WPF creates an implicit NavigationWindow, providing support for journalling, back/forward navigation etc. As with conventional HTML, you can hook your XAML with other XAML or HTML content using hyperlinks. Your second point is somewhat interesting. One area of WPF where a lot of work has gone is in improving readility. You see evidence of this in the NYT Times Reader apps, ...Show All

• SQL Server Should I use indexes?

  I have a very large table (about 200,000 records), but there are only 2 fields in the table only one populated with data. I need to update the 2nd field with the first field's data. UPDATE Table1 SET field2 = field1 This is taking a really long time to run about 3.5 minutes. Is this normal Can I create an index What can I do to shorten the run time Thanks, Ninel I'd assume that the update would be faster if the index had a low fillfactor... but so as not to merely speculate, I tested on my end...  Turns out, with a clustered index in place, the update is quite a bit faster.  Lower fillfactors are indeed slightly faster, but not much.  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System does microsoft team foundation server require visual studio team system?

  we currently have visual studio professional edition (not team edition) and vss. if we were to purchase microsoft team foundation server, do we need to upgrade our studio version to get full benefit what are the benefit differences between visual studio professional vs. team when using the foundation server secondly, can someone point me towards VSS to VSTS migration information thanks, jason meketa progarmmer/analyst webtrends I don't believe that's true in general. Team build doesn't depend on any VSTS bits for basic operation. I would expect that you need to have Dev or Tester installed on the build machine for your team build to do unit testing, profiling or code coverage. ...Show All

• Visual C# Check admin user in AD

  Hello, How can I check whether the user is an admin user or normal user in active directory. Please give me some hints or sample code in C#. thank you in advance, thaya ...Show All

• Visual Studio RegMon helps

  Hi, I just installed Visual Studio 2005 on Windows x64 and when I open it up it keeps coming up with the error: Class not Registered. Looking for object with CLSID: {00BB2763-6A77-11D0-A535-00C04FD7D062} I've tried doing some searching and it seems thats the AutoComplete class but I'm not sure and I dont know what to do so I'm posting here. Thanks for any help. Actually the Wow6432Node subkey is used for 32-bit applications running in Windows 64-editions. Because Visual Studio is 32-bit it will look for the class id under that subkey on the 64-bit machine. FYI: Registry changes in x64-based versions of Windows Server 2003 and in Windows XP Professional x64 Edition ...Show All

• Visual Studio "Configuration system failed to initialize" - Search option

  Hi there, Every time I try to use Help --> Search I get the error below: "Configuration system failed to initialize" I have tried to repair the VS 2005 and MSDN installation but the same error occurs all the time and I am not able to do any search for code samples anymore. I tried to google it and found a couple of people who had the same problem but they never got any feedback. Anyone have any idea what this error is Thank you Joao On the good machine I have: C:\Documents and Settings\Joao\Application Data\Microsoft\MSDN\8.0\VS Help Data SearchProviders.xml Settings.xml (all TRUE) Filters.xml and on the bad machine I have Filters.xml and Settings.xml (all TRUE). If I copy the SearchProvide ...Show All