Chris Honcoop's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) FrameworkElement.SizeChanged not fired when Visibility changes

  SizeChanged event is not fired when Visibility changes (from Collapsed to Visible). It is not really inconsistent if you considered the event is SizeChanged and not ActualSizeChanged. Size and ActualSize are not necessarily tied together, as ActualSize is a rendered size. I quote msdn: The return value of this property is always the same as any value that was set to it. In contrast, the value of the ActualWidth may vary. The layout may have rejected the suggested size for some reason. Also, the layout system itself works asynchronously relative to the property system set of Width and may not have processed that particular sizing property change yet. And I actually just checked, changing the Vi ...Show All

• Visual Basic Welcome to the Visual Basic IDE forum! For a Free Add-Ins VSIP DVD, see this link.>>

  Hi all, and welcome to the Visual Basic IDE forum .  I'm Paul Yuknewicz - I'm one of the Program Managers on the Visual Basic product team, and starting today, I'll be moderating these forums.  For more info about me, check out my blog .  Note there is a VB Team blog as well.  In this forum we will cover questions and discussions regarding the all things in the Visual Basic IDE (integrated development environment).  This covers Intellisense, debugging, ErrorCorrect, ClickOnce deployment, code snippets, colorization, smart tags, key bindings, Object Browser, Refactor! for Visual Basic 2005 , etc. The team and I look forward to joining you in discussions about VB. Best, Paul ...Show All

• Visual Basic Hotkey

  Hello all, I have made an application and I want my user(s) to access it using a hotkey. How exactly do I go about doing this Do I do this during program installation and have some sorta script install the hotkey into window. or can I include some code into my application Thanks! http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=573928&SiteID=1 hope this helps ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Open projects with?

  From the beginner's guide that includes video's and projects on the website.  You are able to download the videos and the projects.  After downloaded what do you open the projects with so that you can view them properly ... they are practice projects not recently made ones in VB in case anyone is confused. I am not quite sure what kind of file it is, the basic file type description says "file" that is all, i looked in the file's properties and it didn't say anything else besides the author was MSDN... sorry that's all i know, i downloaded it from this site ...Show All

• SQL Server unable to create maintenance plan

  I get an Ole db error while trying to create maintenance plans: An ole db error ox80004005( unable to create client connection)occurred while enumerating packeges. If I make the the sql startup account a local admin, everything works fine. I have checked to see according to the kb article to see that the account has all the necessary windows permissions and the account does have all the necessary rights. Thanks in advance for the help KRSE KRSE wrote: No, Just sp1 so far. Do you have any plans to install SP2 to see if that resolves your issue Paul A. Mestemaker II Program Manager Microsoft SQL Server Manageability http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlrem/ ...Show All

• Visual Basic Apparent bug in cube root function for VB.net

  I have detected what appears to be a serious bug when cube roots are taken of variables containing negative double precision numbers. I presume I'm making a mistake since I can't imagine that this bug has gone unnoticed so far. The below code is used with a form containing one button and three textboxes. X is assigned a value of 4 and Y is assigned a value of -4. Z stores, consecutively, the cube roots of X, -4 and Y which are displayed in the three textboxes. Cube roots of X and -4 are displayed correctly but the cube root of Y (-4) is shown as "NaN". The cube root of -4 using the Windows XP calculator yields the same "NaN" result on my computer. I would very much like to know how to deal with this. Thank y ...Show All

• Visual Studio unistalling Visual Studio 2005 Remote Debugger on a xp machine

  Hi, for some reason Visual Studio 2005 Remote Debugger got installed on a xp machine, dunno with which appliacation it came, because it got installed neither intentionally nor was any Viso Studio 2005 installed. Yet is shows up in the start menu but not in the add/remove panel and I need to get rid of it but dunno how to... Already tried vs_uninst_betas.exe, but it did not work. Appreciate your input. Cheers Hi, had the same thought about MSO 2007, but could not find a respective option there. Anyways, here the list of MS applications installed: .NET framework 1.1 (incl. hotfixes) .NET framework 2 (incl. hotfixes) .NET framework 3 base samrt cryptographic service provider package digital image su ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums [OTP] VBA Using combobox in Excel

  H i there,   I'm working on an engineering spreadsheet (Excel) and need some help in manipulating comboboxes / dropdown list.   Say i have 2 list, where list A has the list of countries and list B has the list of cities for the country chose. If all the data source (i.e. countries and cities) are to be extracted from the Excel spreadsheet, is it possible to make list B dependant on list A (that is to say when user selects a country in list A, list B will automatically gives the respective cities) WITHOUT creating a userform If so, please advise how.   Hope you can understand what i'm trying to ask here. Fyi i have minimum VB knowledge so a "dummyproof" explaination would be really ...Show All

• SQL Server Best SSIS scripting tome?

  Is The Rational Guide to Scripting SQL Server 2005 Integration Services Beta Preview by Donald Farmer the best way to learn how to use scripting in SSIS as of late 2006 I'm not a .NET developer, although I come from a Java and C++ background. I already own Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Server, but that one doesn't cover scripting so much. Thanks in advance. Donald is a frequent poster on this site. However, this question might be hard for him (and me) to answer because of conflict of interest issues. I work with Donald and I can assure you that he is quite knowledgeable in the uses, misuses and intricacies of SSIS. As one of our primary points of contact with customers he also owns a wealth of experience in typical ...Show All

• Windows Forms CheckedListBox DataSource property

  Hello As mentioned in the documentation, it is not recomanded to used the DataSouce, DisplayMember and ValueMember properties. Does anyone have an idea why Thanks, Gil Thanks for your replay I've noticed that it does expose the DataSource, Display and Value member and it seems to be working. My question is why it isn't recommended to use these properties. Thanks, Gil ...Show All

• .NET Development paypal integration???

  i want to integrate widh paypal howwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.... i have merchant account.... and making a shopping ws so needs to integrate paypal for credit card transactions Hmm You are probably trying to gether some Donations :D Lol. Opps Sorry Adnan bhai! I was just joking! There is nothing a big deal in it I think, and you dont even need to do any programming, just write to paypal that you want it on your websites, They'll give you some script, you have to simply put that script in your webpage and that's it! Yes! Please, do not forget to Mark as Answer . I'm not saying this, I just read your signature . Best Regards, Rizwan! ...Show All

• Visual Basic Telnet a system from within VB.net

  Hi, I'm trying to develop a small application which will connect to the company telephone system and send a series of commands via TelNet, giving our system a GUI. I've created a NEW instance of system.Net.Sockets.TcpClient called tcpclient, and defined a System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream. I then do tcpclient.Connect, and give it the IP address of the system and port 23. In the code below, I have put the word "host" for security - Sorry! Dim telnetclient As New Net.Sockets.TcpClient telnetclient.Connect(host, 23) ns = telnetclient.GetStream Dim line As String Dim data(1024) As Byte If ns.DataAvailable = True Then ns.Read(data, 0, 1024) line = data.ToString ...Show All

• SQL Server Floating headers in a matrix

  I added floating headers in a RS matrix and it worked great. I developed another RS matrix and decided I would add floating headers. I went back to the first RS matrix looking to find out how I did it. I couldn't find the location of the Header/ footer section that I checked that said " Header should remain visable when scrolling" Can someone help Well I found it under the column and row heading. It wouldn't let me render a report with a floating header as the matrix is contained in a list. Any Ideas ...Show All

• SQL Server FeedFile Excel Connection Manager --- Concurrency Issue?

  Hi, RE. SSIS (v9.00.1399.00) --- FeedFile Excel Connection Manager --- Concurrency Issue 1. I have 15 completely separate SSIS Packages all of which use the FeedFile Excel Connection Manager to read data from completely separate Excel worksheets. 2. When I invoke, say, 5 of these Packages at the same time then one or more (at random) of them fail with the following error message:- The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager "FeedFile Excel Connection Manager" failed with error code 0xC0202009. 3. When I invoke the failed Packages again then they succeed. So, do you know if there is:- (a) a concurrency issue with the "FeedFile Excel Connection Manager" (b) a read-only optio ...Show All

• SQL Server Another Mysterious issue in SQL 2005 & SSIS

  Explain this: Package runs successfully from BIDS It runs successfully in SSIS store It runs successfully when I manually execute the Job JOB FAILS EVERY FREAKING NIGHT I just dont get it ( I used to think myself as a moderately intelligent guy but MS has really made me feel like a complete dumbass whenever I try to start using their new products - talking about that the Vista RC2 installation just hanged on me the other night with no apparent reason ) 2 jobs and both have issues running automatically: 1st - runs on BIDS, runs on SSIS, runs as Manual job, Automatic Jobs fail 2nd - runs on BIDS, runs on SSIS - jobs (manual and automatic) always fail And in do not have that DTEXEC installed on that machine to troubleshoot it according ...Show All