Kiwi bloke's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Bizzare problem! IDE won't accept any changes.

  Something very bizzare is happening and I have no clue as to why. Whatever changes I make to a form in the IDE whether it be adding a button, removing a button, or changing the text (title of the form), it will show in the IDE designer. But when I run it, it's as if none of the changes were made. A button I removed is still there and the code behind it still executes although I commented that code out. Saving the files doesn't fix it. Closing the solution and reopening it doesn't fix it. Exiting Visual Studio altogether and restarting it doesn't fix it. And restarting Windows XP doesn't either. It's as if my application is stuck where I left it last night. When I reboot everything, launch Visual Studio, and open the sol ...Show All

• Smart Device Development SQL Ex ,Data conversion failed. [ OLE DB status value (if known) = 2 ] ?

  public void CreateOrderRow(int productid, int quantity) { string identity = "@@identity"; conn = new SqlCeConnection(connstring); cmd = conn.CreateCommand(); cmd.CommandType = System.Data.CommandType.Text; cmd.CommandText = "insert into orderrow (Productid,Orderid,Quantity)values('" + productid + "','" + identity + "','" + quantity + "')"; try { conn.Open(); cmd.ExecuteNonQuery(); } catch (SqlCeException ex) { throw ex; } finally { finallymethod(); } When using this question i get an exception saying: [ OLE DB status value (if known) = 2 ] What is this My b ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Are PrivateFontCollections not usable as regular fonts?

  I thought I had a private font working in a textbox. Turns out that the font was installed on my PC, thats why it worked. Have not been able to get any other private fonts to work in a textbox. They only seem to work in 'paint/drawstring' situations. Is this their limit Imports System.Drawing.Text.FontCollection Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices Public Class Form1 Public privateFontCollection As New Drawing.Text.PrivateFontCollection Public FamilyName As String Private Sub Form1_Load( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me .Load ' ton of free TTFs at http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts.html ' Name embedded resource font file Circu ...Show All

• Visual C++ Importing excel sheet data into spreadsheet

  Any one plz help me in "importing data from excel sheet into a spreadsheet" programatically in vc++. The C++ Language Forum is restricted to questions regarding the C++ Language, as implemented by the VC2005 compiler. It also includes the STL and other standard libraries, but as such not any Microsoft- or third party APIs or SDKs. See http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=789657&SiteID=1 . Please direct this question to one of the automation or office development newsgroups at http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups . Thanks! ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to use Lib file(C++) in .NET

  I have a library file (.lib) which was developed in c++, I need to use this lib file into .net Can I convert the lib file into dll or is there any way to use this lib in .net C++/CLI project can use .lib exactly by the same way as unmanaged C++ project. Add .lib file name to the linker list of additional dependencies, add #include line to C++/CLI .cpp file, and use functions or classes exported from the library. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista batching : IPendingWork.Commit

  MSDN Says : " The workflow runtime engine calls the Commit method when its semantics dictate that the pending work in the work batch should be committed . When it reaches a commit point, the workflow runtime engine calls the Commit method on each IPendingWork object in its work batch; the workflow runtime engine passes the Commit method the collection of items associated with that IPendingWork object. Either all of the work in a batch succeeds or none of it succeeds. You should throw an exception if any of the work items passed to the Commit method in your implementation cannot be committed. Depending on your implementation, you may want to perform some rollback in your Commit method if it cannot commit its work items. If th ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies WDS is very naughty. It doesn't wear pants, and it will not not index my mht files

  Apologies if this question is not appropriate for this forum! My problem is that WDS 3.0 does not seem to index mht files consistently. Sometimes it finds items that are contained in MHT files but most of the time, it does not. The mht files are stored in My Documents, and the entry for mht files in the WDS options is the default: Index Properties and File Contents. The odd thing is that this behavior occurs on two different computers that have similar configurations. Thanks very much for any suggestions!! Darryl Darryl, I've just been digging about this, and I did this in the search window: Clicked 'change preferences' Clicked 'With indexing service' Clicked 'Change indexing service' Se ...Show All

• SQL Server Customizing Toolbar in Reporting Service

  Hi I use SSRS 2005; i have a report with Drill down feature, connecting to another report. when i preview the report in the VS2005; i get a backup button in the RS toolbar to move from the second report to the main report after the drill down. but once i deploy it on the server and when the user views the report on the web i dont get to see the BACK button. Is it possible to do so anybody have tried and seen before.... /chandresh soni There is no back button on the web-based toolbar. We thought that people would get confused with having a back button in the browser along with one on the toolbar. The back button on the browser will generally work except it will include other act ...Show All

• Visual C# Multi Interface inheritance

  Lets say you have two interfaces: interface IA: IComparable { int A {get; set;} } interface IB: IComparable { int B {get; set;} } and a class which implements both IA and IB class C: IA, IB { } class C now has to implement CompareTo, but the problem is that CompareTo should do different things if being used to compare this object to another IA, IB or classC. How do you implement the CompareTo function For instance lets say there is code like this: C c1 = new C(); C c2 = new C(); IA ia = c2; int comp1 = c1.CompareTo(ia); int comp2 = c1.CompareTo(c1); In this case, comp1 should equal 0 if c1.A == c2.A, and comp2 should equal 0 if both c1.A and c1.B are equal to c2.A and c2.B. Since you can only have one CompareTo method on class C how do ...Show All

• .NET Development Reading XML from a file

  Hello All, I have the example XML file here: < xml version="1.0" > <catalog> <book id="bk101"> <author>Gambardella, Matthew</author> <title>XML Developer's Guide</title> <genre>Computer</genre> <price>44.95</price> <publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date> <description>An in-depth look at creating applications with XML.</description> </book> .....<HEAPS MORE BOOKS HERE> All I wish to do is read it into some data structure that maps the TAG . I have been told there are many ways to do this... Ive tried using XmlTextReader and this has been plain confusing - it parses line by line and onl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Office 2007 Add-in permission problem

  Hi, I've written an Outlook 2007 Add-in with VS2005. When I used VS to deploy the add-in, everything was fine. Now I tried to deploy the add-in on a machine where no visual studio is installed. I're read this and I placed the dll file to a folder and got through the granting wizard of .Net 2.0 configuration. But when I tried to add my VSTO add-in via COM add-in browser, I got this message: <myadd-in.dll> is not a valid Outlook add-in. What else should I do Hi, Thanks for the hints, I looked for the original setup project and installed my add-in. However, it was inactivated by Outlook, and I can't find a way to make it active. The program contained no errors so I don't get it why inactivated. The link you gave me says the necess ...Show All

• Windows Forms Finding Software installed or not

  hi, Is there any way to find whether...........windows address book is installed in my PC or not...........i think i shuld use registry functions......can any one come out with specific solution...........its very urgent. Thnx in advance, Sudhakar. You can use a simple if directory exists statement. if (Directory.Exists("directory that it would be in")) { //... Execute your code here } For this you will have to reference the System.IO namespace You can use teh registry as well like so: Registry.GetValue("KeyPath", "ValueName", "defaultValue"); And would have to reference the Microsoft.Win32 namespace There are alot of options you can use to check to see if ...Show All

• Visual J# Binding data to mschart control

  Hi, I couldn't figure out how to bind the data to the mschart control 6.0 in J#! Any suggestion would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance, Harry Please Help!! !! !! ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro crosstab wizard

  hello everybody I use vfp 6.0. Can i select fields from multiple tables in crosstab wizard's  Step No. 1 We can select fields from multiple tables in query wizard. thanx' I don't know what crosstab wizard does (I don't use wizards). But thinking it asks for an alias as you describe answer is yes. Create your cursor before wizard using an SQL querying multiple tables if it doesn't let you do that in wizard. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions file location browsing...

  I'm taking a shot at writing a somewhat simple program using Visual C# Express. I haven't quite explored the IDE a whole lot (and I've never written in C# before, but so far it's easy to get used to). One of the things I would like to do is have a text input box (used to enter a file path) and then a browse button to browse for the desired path, as is common in a ton of programs. Does anyone know if/how I can do this Select the text file in Solution Explorer. In the Properties window, change the Build Action to "Embedded Resource". That will embed the text file into your assembly. To read it, use code similar to this: using System; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Reflection; using Syste ...Show All