John123's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Printform anything better???

  I am trying to develop a reusable method of printing various forms. I've toiled with printform but it seems to restrictive i.e many times I need to be able to print "Duplex" or set the printer resolution to its highest 600 DPI.. printform to the best of my knowledge can't handle this. I would like to have a method I could use to print forms (sometimes many forms) to fill a standard 8.5x11 page even if the form utilizes a scrollbar. Printing using "PictureBox" seems to be what everyone recommends but no one has developed a common source code. Everyone has their own ideas which is good but confusing Any help would be appreciated Greatly!!!! Mitch5713   Oh yes I'm using Vb 5.0     ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Download Issues

  First off, I'm sorry if this is in the wrong forum, but I can't find another one that suits it better. Anyway... I can't download this file, or anything from download.microsoft.com for that matter. I've had this problem in the past, but it is now coming back to haunt me. I'm considering just having a friend burn the express edition to CD for me, but that wouldn't fix the problem, would it Just to let you know, I've done some checking, and it's not an IPv6 or proxy error. My connection is just acting like the server doesn't exist at all. Does anyone have an idea for a fix (I'm using Firefox 2.0, but IE isn't working either.) Did you see if anything here works for you http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/render.aspx displaylang=en&c ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to create a web service that enable to comunicate with an exisitng window appliacation

  Hey Guys How can we convert a html report to an xml format with values.Is it possible Thanks. Ok, I apprieciate the effort, but this doesn't really help... What does that HTML report look like What does the XML document need to look like You should probably start by reading up on the System.XML namespace and learn how to first create an XML file. How difficult the HTML report will be to parse depends on how it is formatted. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Availability of the Premier Partner Edition CD

  How does one obtain or purchase the Premier Partner Edition CD that provides a Vs2005 Ide "shell" that you can customize. Hi John, You'll want to fill out the partner engagement form at http://affiliate.vsipmembers.com/partnerengagement.aspx , and someone on our VSIP management team, will follow up with you. Sincerely, ...Show All

• SQL Server Custom Semi-Transparent bar charts?

  I know that SSRS 2005 has a built-in semi-transparent color chart palette, but I'd like to define my own custom color semi-transparent palette. Brian Welker's blog ( https://blogs.msdn.com/bwelcker/archive/2005/05/20/420349.aspx) has a terrific post on how to create your own custom color palette, but it generates solid colors. How can it be tweaked to create semi-transparent colors Is there another function that needs to be created to define the transparency of the color palette Thanks in advance, Pete Hello Thor: Interesting... I'm a little confused, though. Is your code affecting the Dundas charting component or are you suggesting a way to create charting transparency in reporting services w ...Show All

• .NET Development x64 driver programming

  Hi, For as far as I know you need the Windows server 2003 DDK and just install this and link some paths in Visual Studio to it, and you can programm x64 drivers. Well for some reason or another, the install of WS 2003 DDK tells me: The procedure entry point ... could not be located in the dynamic link library msvcrt.dll; can anyone tell me what this means and how I can install it, plz ! I'm using a AMD 64 bit processor, with Windows XP Pro x64 on it and MS Visual Studio 2005 Could you copy and paste the full error message.  Knowing exactly which entry point it is refering too may help.   Thanks, Kang Su Gatlin Visual C++ Program Manager ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista XPS and StartDoc

  I was trying my application on the latest Beta 2 release of Vista and found some weird features when writing out to XPS. In my application the user has the option of going into a print layout window. This layout window allows the user to place the desired application related objects on pages for printing. When the user goes into the dialog, I go create a printerDC based on the default printer and hang on to that DC until the user closes the layout window or changes to a different printer. While in this dialog, the user can change how the objects are layed out and print at any time. Inside I call startDoc with just the application name and when saving to an XPS the first time, the XPS file is generated successfully. If I write to a di ...Show All

• SQL Server Need Tutorial for SQL Server Reporting Tool

  Hi I need good tutorial for Sql Server Reporting Service . I m a beginner ...... Regards Niroshan Free training CD ROMs http://www.appdev.com/promo/freecd.asp PC=SN00031 Videos http://content.ricksql.com/content/ Google http://www.google.ca/search q=reporting+services+filetype%3Adoc+rendering&hl=en http://www.google.ca/search hl=en&q=reporting+services+filetype%3Adoc+handson&meta = cheers, Andrew ...Show All

• SQL Server Setting Local Report Data Source

  I am a college professor and am updating my undergraduate database course to use Reporting Services as the reporting tool. The student labs cannot run IIS so I assume that using server-based reports is out and am looking at using local reports and the VB ReportViewer control. For several reasons (waaayyy too long to list here) I do not wish to use the drag-and-drop datasets that seem to be the core of the ADO.Net 2005 architecture. Instead I prefer to create connections, commands, and datasets in code and to set data binding and manage data updates in code. All command objects map to SQL Server stored procedures. I need to be able to do the same thing with reporting services local reports but have run into a brick wall in getting the ...Show All

• .NET Development ado.net table read

  Hi, I have a simple question to ask. I can't find it thru the search in the forums, so I post a new thread, sorry. I want to connect to the database, and much of my queries would be simple table read, like read a single record by key, or read multiple records from the same table (single). Should I use stored procedure, or just use tabledirect, or inline sql. I would mostly use MS Access, and sometimes SQL Server for larger data requirement. Eugene Again, it depends on your needs. You could pass some conditional parameters into stored procedures and then, based on those parameters, decide if you need to chose one or multiple records or records based on values passed into SP. There is no standard for t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Textbox Validation

  How do you validate a "year" txtbox to enter the year as "19xx" Create a MaskedTextBox instead of a normal TextBox object on your form. Then set the Mask property to \1\999 which would be the mask you need for "19xx" if you wanted "20xx" it would be \2\099 Hope this helps ...Show All

• Visual Studio Use DExplore to show help of .NET Framework 2.0 SDK, FAIL

  Hi all, I want to use DExplore to show the help for classes in the framework or members of these classes when my customer install .NET framework SDK. I have implement it with .NET Framework 1.1. But after changing to .NET Framework 2.0, it fails. In framework SDK 1.1, the URL is quit simple. e.g.: ms-help://MS.NETFrameworkSDKv1.1/cpref/html/frlrf SystemObjectClass Topic.htm is URL for System.Object . But in framework SDK 2.0, the format of URL is changed. :( e.g.: ms-help://MS.NETFramework.v20.en/ cpref2 /html/ T_System_Object .htm is URL for System.Object . Oh, yes, I can build the URL. But the hard problem is: Please compare the following cases: ms-help://MS.NETFramework.v20.en/ cpref2 /html/T_System_Object.htm ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions application reaction to dll broken reference

  I have created a class library which i include as a reference in another project , when I run my application from an exe file and the dll is missig, on an error prompt there is an option to continue despite the mising dll. I would like the application to shut down when the dll is missing without the possibility to continue , how should I do that Hi, I've browsed through the web and bumbped through this sample. http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/addrefvsnet.asp This sample code has a CheckReference with it. It checks if a reference exists. Maybe you can use that to check if all of your references are present upon loading your project... cheers, Paul June A. Domag ...Show All

• Windows Forms pasing message between forms

  Hi, I am designing an application where I have a main form.Before I show the main Form, the user sees a form for connections, which in turn may load another form for a new connection. The problem is: While I am loading the form for connections, I may encounter an exception/or I will need to pass information to the main form. I need to know how I can do this in a simple manner Any help is very much appreciated! Hi, The try catch will be helpful in case of errors but when everything is going fine then the second form needs to inform the main form of the various connections and display of controls on the form. I am still sorting that part out :-) Thanks for the help ! ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista HandleExternalEventActivity - XAML only

  Hi, I am writing a xaml only workflow. xaml file looks like this: <ns0:SampleWorkflow x:Name="SampleWorkflow1" xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/workflow " xmlns:x=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml " xmlns:ns0="clr-namespace:CustomActivityBinding;Assembly=CustomActivity, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null"> <ns0:CustomActivity1 x:Name="print1" NameToPrint="{ActivityBind Name=SampleWorkflow1, Path=NameToPrint}" /> <ns0:CustomActivity2 x:Name="print2" NameToPrint="{ActivityBind Name=print1, Path=NameToPrint}" /> <HandleExternalEventActivity x:Name= "ChildWFCompleted" EventN ...Show All