venablc's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Help for PDA

  How can I create any help documentation for PDA device Something as *.chm for destop Windows. Hi, there is an article here on devbuzz about authoring help files. I personally use FastHelp , and have written a review of it here HTH Pete ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development XP Style in C# IE Toolbar

  Hi, I've made a toolbar using the BandObjects article on Code Project : http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/BandObjects20.asp select=1819328&df=100&forumid=306921&exp=0 Unfortunately, the only way I have found of having theme styles activated is to supply an iexplore.exe.manifest in IE installation folder, which is not ideal for deployment... The google toolbar and other toolbars do have the XP style, without any manifest in IE folder! I have found articles saying that I could just supply a manifest for my dll , but I didn't manage to make it work. Here's such an article: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ms761394.aspx . I didn't manage to fill the manifest correctly, I guess In particular, I didn't know what to put as th ...Show All

• Windows Forms VB .NET DataSet adding unknown number of DataTables

  I am trying to load from another class unknown number of datatables into one dataset. VB .NET dim dsTmpSet as dataset for i = 0 to count -1 Dim dtTmp as datatable = new datatable(i) dtTmp = a data table returned by another class dsTmpSet.tables.add(i) next This just crashes the for loop. What would be correct way to read my tables to the dataset. What is the return type for the function Is it a custom class with a member of type datatable - member name value "Object reference set to and instance of an object" means somewhere a variable of type x is not instantiated - or the return type of the function is Object and the value member does not exist. Dim ds as dataset() ds.tables(0). ...Show All

• SQL Server Newbie report problem

  Hi, I've created a report which contains a Datetime field. When this is displayed on the report, there is a problem because if it is empty, I want to display "null". So in the expression for the value, I have: =iif(fields!TimeEntered.Value = "" , "null" , fields!TimeEntered.Value) This shows #error if the time is filled. I have also tried putting .ToString() on the end of .Value="", but no luck. Can anybody help please Thanks =IIF(Fields!TimeEntered.Value IS Nothing , "NULL" ,Fields!TimeEntered.Value) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Dreaded "document opened in multiple windows" error

  I know it's normal for the task pane to disappear when users hit F7 to launch spellcheck. My problem is if a user manually runs spellcheck and the first error encountered is in the text of a comment, Word turns on the comment preview pane on the bottom of the document, and this error appears just before the task pane disappears: You are currently viewing this document in multiple windows. To attach an XML expansion pack, you must first close all additional windows so that you are viewing the document in only one window. This error is overlaying the spellcheck dialog. When I click OK, the following exception appears: An unhandled exception occurred in your application. Contact your administrator or the author of this document for further ...Show All

• Visual C# distributed compiler

  A while ago I worked (briefly) on a product called BuilderBooster. This program is an addon for Borland's C++ Builder which has the ability to share the building of projects across a group of networked machines by sending source files securely over a local network connection to another borland compiler. On most projects this was able to speed up build times significantly (we got one project down from around 30 mins to 15 secs). The big question is, does anybody know of an existing solution for doing the same sort of thing with a Microsoft compiler for C# code BuilderBooster can be found at www.builderbooster.com ...Show All

• Visual Basic property as combobox in VB.NET

  Hello I'm trying to add property as combo box in my user control Everything works but i don't know where i could add items to this combo box or maybe i do it wrong way Any advices please <Browsable( True )> _ Public Property GrowLimit() As ComboBox Get End Get Set ( ByVal value As ComboBox) End Set End Property well you would just add them through the designer or the constructor programmatically of your user control. Ive never made/used a custom control so I could be wrong - I apologize :-) maybe this will help http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/PropertyEditor.asp ...Show All

• SQL Server tablediff utility bug?!?

  In my transactional push replication I had differences, which were reported correctly by the utility tbalediff. I created with the tablediff utility all necessary statements to correct them. Afterwards I ran tablediff again to check if everything is ok. It wasn't, I got a lot of mismatches. The reason for those mismatches are columns from type "float". It looks like that float values are not generated correctly in insert statements. We had differences in the values and from that point on we have mismatches. Does anyone has an idea how to get rid of those reported mismatches ! ! I will report this also as a bug. Regards Norbert Peng Song, thank you for your ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Hints on implementing a custom control for histogram needed

  I want to create a custom control that just displays a histogram and has events when I move the mouse over it in order to display the value in a tooltip or in a status bar. So I need some advise as what would be the best way to do this At the moment I have a class derived from Control (to use it in the main window xaml file and for easy databinding of the real histogram) that contains a child that is derived from FrameworkElement which then contains the VisualCollection with the histogram lines. Is this OK I think I need a canvas in my control so do I put the canvas in the XAML template of the control or create it completely in the code behind file As the histogram can contain up to 4096 columns I wonder if I can just put so many lines the ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server dumping continuously after running SSIS package

  My problem is the following: I've created a SSIS package that will run without any problems in my development environment, but when I move the databases and SSIS packages to another testenvironment it will trigger the SQL Server to dump on every sub-sequent command. The chain of events: Create the SSIS package and databases in my development environment. Run tests wich has no problems. Move the SSIS package and create backups of the database from my development environment and restore the database in the testenvironment which is in an different AD using an AD-account from that AD. I run the SSIS package without any problems. But when I look in the SQL Server logs I can see that the SQL Server is dumping on what I pr ...Show All

• SQL Server Replicating structure only not data

  I have a SQL 2005 database that I am using with a website. This basic website will be sold to other companies and ran on their servers with different URLs. Since, All of these databases will store different data, I'm not sure how I can make updates to original database and replicate those structure changes to the other DBs without changing the data also. Is there a way to automate the replication of structural DB changes without replicating the data along with it Thanks, Kirk You can enable @replicate_dll at publication level, which will push the schema change to your subscriber. And you can set all the ins/upd/del commands to NONE for all of your articles, which will ignore all the data changes tha ...Show All

• Windows Forms Understanding Binding Syntax help

  I am trying to bind textbox control's text property to property of the object the datasource is a collection (i.e. objectCollection) What's difference between TextBox1.DataBindings.Add("Text", CollectionOfObject, "Propertyofobject") TextBox1.DataBindings.Add( New Binding ("Text", CollectionOfObject, "PropertyofObject")) The advantage to using a binding is you can handle the binding's format and parse events . ...Show All

• SQL Server XML Configuration Files -- BIDS vs. dtexec

  Hoping someone can help me out quickly on this. I have a package with package configurations enabled.  I have an XML file specified for a configuration, with the connection string being loaded from the configuration.  After configuring this, the package knows that the connection string for the connection should be loaded from the XML file.  When I run the package within BIDS, it finds the XML file at the specified path, grabs the connection string, and runs fine.  Assume for the minute that the XML file is located at c:\config\datasources.dtsConfig. Now, I want to run the package using dtexec and I thought I could specify a different location for the XML file using the /config command-line parameter.  Assume I have ...Show All

• SQL Server Error while importing Text file using Import Export Wizard

  Hi all i have text file where i can import it to excel to access or sql2000 without problem but when i import it using (sql2005 pro) i get this error message during the import O peration stopped... - Initializing Data Flow Task (Success) - Initializing Connections (Success) - Setting SQL Command (Success) - Setting Source Connection (Success) - Setting Destination Connection (Success) - Validating (Success) - Prepare for Execute (Success) - Pre-execute (Success) Messages Information 0x402090dc: Data Flow Task: The processing of file "C:\Documents and Settings\Wail\Desktop\All_Alarm5.txt" has started. (SQL Server Import and Export Wizard) - Executing (Error) Messages Error 0xc02020a1: Data Flow Ta ...Show All

• Windows Forms ToolStripComboBox DataSource

  I am using a dataset table to bind to a toolstripComboBox. The table has 20 rows in it. After binding the toolstripComboBox to the table it has an item count of 20. But nothing shows up in it. I am stumped. There are four columns in the table. I use one for the ValueMember and one for the DisplayMember. I'm sure this problem is something simple. Can someone help me out Thanks! Curt Thanks again for you assistance. I tried it and The dropdown extends down and the count says 20 but nothing is displayed nor can I select anything. Curt ...Show All