Pivot35's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Welcome to the Visual Basic IDE forum!

  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 Studio Express Editions Linklabels to open files

  Hi, I've got a uni project that needs doing, but I've ran into a bit of a hitch. Basically, I have a linklabel which is needed to start a program and open a file in said program. Opening a program is not a problem, but opening the file is being a pain because the filename will not recognize spaces, eg, it doesn't like the directory 'My Documents' because there is a space in the middle. Any ideas on how I can get around this Thanks, Bort Microsoft sometimes says to use quotations marks around files with blanks in them. Try: """D:\Documents and Settings\Bort\My Documents\address label.doc""" ...Show All

• Windows Forms the program is stuck while processing.

  hi, I have a problem in many of my programs. The problem is that when the programs start processing, it gets stuck so you cannot move the form until the processing is over. I want to be able to move the form while processing. Thanks in advance.   nobugz wrote: Races due to threading are evil too.  And impossible to debug.  Start your processing in the Shown event and implement a FormClosing handler to avoid closing the form while processing and you'll be fine.  If you start it from a Timer or Button, disable the control while processing. Yes, but you can do something about race conditions with multiple threads, you can't always do something about a race condition with DoE ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office deploying add-ins without installing PIA's in Target machines..

  hi all, i ve a seious issue regarding installing addin that i ve created for Outlook 2003 . it will work fine in the machines in which i manually install outlook 2003 PIA.. i dont want to make it an overhead on the users.. or my addin in fail if the user in case uninstalls that thinking that it's not required.. how do i deploy this properly.. i saw many posts asking not to deploy the office 2003 pia's and even asking to exclude them from them from the dependency list.. i m totally confused.. wats the right way to follow ur help is much appeciated.. thnkz in advance.. The articles my blog is pointing to discuss how to create a bootstrapper that will install all the pre-requisites. In this particular article please refer t ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Sum of hours for month following submission date only

  Hi - im a little stuck on one part of my system. Thanks to the help of others i can now get users to enter a submission date into the activity system that then restricts them from editing any activities prior to that submission date ( a field called 'datelastsubmitted'). However on that end of month submission form i also need to show the sum of all hours for the month that is to be submitted next. By this i mean that if a user last submitted on the 31/10/2006 then the next time he comes to submit he will see the sum total of activity hours he /she has entered for November 2006 i.e 01/11/2006 to 30/11/2006. The field is called 'availablehours' and the code i have written does sum up the availablehours for the user but im unsure as to how t ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Dynamic UI using style created in XAML

  I've created a style in XAML that is applied to several buttons. I would like to generate some buttons programmatically, but am having trouble assigning the style that was created in XAML to them. Is this possible What is the syntax for this: Dim b As New Button b.Content = "Test Button" b.Name = "Test01" b.Style = Thanks!! b.Style=FindResource("namedStyle") as Style you have to name the style in your XAML (using the x:Key attribute) and it can be accessed from the scope of the object in which it is a resource. So if your style is declared in a <Window> element's resources, the <Window> is what can see it. Hope this helps. ...Show All

• .NET Development Reading DSN configuration screens

  Is it possible to use C# to read the ODBC Administrators DSN configuration screens in order to pull information from these tabbed screens and save this to a file What .NET Framework classes would be required Any examples would be appreciated. The user DSN tab is retrieved from the following registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ODBC\ODBC.INI\ODBC Data Sources The System DSN tab: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBC.INI\ODBC Data Sources The File DSN tab shows the subfolders of the following folder: %userprofile%\Documents The Drivers tab contains info from the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBCINST.INI\ODBC Drivers The Connection ...Show All

• Visual Basic Custom toolbars lost

  Not sure which forum this belongs in: every time I create or edit a toolbar in VS2005 Pro, the changes are lost between sessions. Any new toolbar is gone; any modifications to the standard toolbars are also lost. Hi, Try SAVE ALL from the FILE menu every time you do any changes in Visual Studio just before you close VisualStudio. Hope this works for you. Regards, S_DS. ...Show All

• SQL Server SSAS KPIs not showing up in Excel 2007

  OK, I realize this isn't an Excel forum, but this is at least somewhat SSAS related. I've defined some KPIs in Analysis Services. However, I can't seem to get them to show up in Excel 2007. All the other measures and dimensions of the cube are there. The KPIs show up in the browser in BI Studio. Is there something I'm missing here It should just work, right Hello. I recommend deploying and processing the Adventure Works cube, sample BI-Project, where you have several KPI:s defined. I have used this cube in Excel 2007 and the KPI:s will show up. When you have established this, that you can see the Adventure Works KPI in Excel 2007, your problem can be about syntax or KPI-bounds that overlap. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Year color in a Date-Time Control

  Hello, How to change the background color of the year in a Date-Time Control. Because I want to show the year for a birthdate control. Thank you, Christophe, Color management in DTP control is possible only with DTM_SETMCCOLOR message. ___________________________________________________ Best regards, Alexander Stoyan    E-mail: alexander.stoyan@gmail.com    MSN: alexander.stoyan@gmail.com    ICQ: 295663150 ...Show All

• Visual C# Write text over images...

  Hi, How can I write a text over a image, defining the position of the text... Like I have a picture of a man holding a whiteboard and inside it I want to write "Enter"... I have the coordinates already... Thanks I have noticed that when I save the image, the image size is reduced by about 1/3rd. So I guess the output image would be distorted. How to write to text without changing the resolution of the original image Any ideas Thanks Srini ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) MDI? Splitter? More Windows?

  I have just started with WPF and want to learn it doing some simple applications with features that I will need later. What I will need for sure is something like Visual Studio IDE. That means something like more “windows” that user can drag and leave floating or stick them to any side of main window or any side of other window and so on... It seems that I will have to handle this somehow with my own system but as I have zero experience with WPF I want to ask some basic questions like: Is there any MDI or multi window application support in WPF To have floating “windows” I need more Window instances Only splitter that WPF has is GridSplitter --- I tried to create 2 Windows and set Owner property of my second window to my m ...Show All

• Visual Basic Formula construction

  I have a big problem here, I am writing an application that requires that the user have the ability to construct their own pricing formula for different items and have managed to store that formula in the database, the problem is... How can I read a resulting formula string as a formula I.e: (BuyingPrice * (100 + VATpercent) + 10) BuyingPrice = 40 VATpercent = 17.5 I can return the string "40/100*(100+17.5)+10" but can't find a way to process it and return the result (57). Any ideas will be greatly appreciated guys. The following is the VB implementation of this code, you'll need to add the reference to Microsoft.jscript.dll and there is a obselete warning which is generated fo ...Show All

• Windows Forms All Controls disappear from [Designer] and more...

  Hi all, Currently i have a problem with the designer, below is my case: I have total 2 projects in a Solution just namely A and B . While i'm focusing on B project, and come back to the A project. I found that all controls in one of the form (occasionally is the main form) [design] in that project (A) did not load. I shocked and found out that some of the A form's properties value also being set to blank or default, such as: Form's Text become blank , Load event value become blank , WindowState value that used to be Maximized also become Normal . I checked the A.Designer.cs . Luckily, everything is still the same (i suppose). Tried to run it, and breakpoint it. The program did go through the A.Designer.cs, but those ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problems Installing VB6 in Vista RTM

  Hi, I'm trying to install VB6 on a clean installation of Vista RTM. After installing it, when it starts loading it shows a message "Component mscomctl.ocx not correctly registered...." I've tried installing the SP6 over it and it still doesn't work. I've tried both as a normal User and right-clicking on the setup icon and choosing "Run as Admin" but it still shows the same message. Thank you so much for your help ...Show All