helen_166's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Drawing on top of WebBrowser Control

  I need to draw some lines and polygons on top of a webbrowser control that is displaying a page with some graphics of its own. I have seen several examples trying to do this but none of them seem to work. The best I see is the idea of drawing a transparent control on top of the WebBrowser and then drawing on it. I tried that but, after much work in creating the transparent control, the WebBrowser paints over it whenever the image of the page in it gets updated. Help on this would be appreciated. It appears that the WebBrowser control does not use standard .NET painting, or any messaging for that matter, but uses Win32 APIs for its functionality. This makes doing anything custom with it very difficult. My best suggestion ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development Nested <div> issue

  I have created a page that contains quite a few nested <div> tags. After a depth of 4 divs nothing is rendered. Can you fix this ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Custom(ish) Build Number.

  TFS Builders, I am looking to implement a custom buildnumber as part of my TFS builds and have sucessfully created and used the sample from: http://blogs.msdn.com/manishagarwal/archive/2005/07/13/438077.aspx However my question is really about how to generate the format of the number. I would like part of the build number to be static (major rev etc) but would also like to retain some of the buildnumber style that comes out of the box, eg build_type_20060627.2 combining the two into something like: build_type_2.3.20060627.1 Whilst writing something like this as part of the custom build number task is very easy I don't really want to re-invent the wheel when it comes to: a) Developing my own way of incrementing t ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Can't Start New Smart Device Projects

  Please Help....anyone... I have just successfully installed MS Visual Studio 2005 version 8.0.50727.42. When I click FILE - NEW - PROJECT - click on any of the Smart Devices - click Device Application and click OK, I expect to begin a new Smart Device project. But instead, I receive the error ..."error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component". I can successfully begin any other New Projects, just not any of the Smart Device projects. Any ideas Do you have any previous versions e.g. VS 2003 or beta products installed Do you see various project types e.g. Device Application, Class Library under Smart Device->Pocket PC 2003 and similarily other platforms a ...Show All

• SQL Server ODBC driver for windows 2003 64bit

  Hi All, I have installed windows 2003 R2 64bit on one of the system, but my devlopment team pointed out that there is no odbc driver available. I check it for odbc driver on OS cd but i do not found any relevant files/packages, can any one tell me from where I can download the ODBC driver for windows 2003 64bit OS. Thanks & Regards Varian Hi, Can you help me with ODBC drivers for MS Excel and MS Access... My organisation needs the same. Regards Ramakrishnan M ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS2005 SP1

  hi to all, I've installed on my desk VS2005 Pro and the SP1 Beta. now that SP1 was finally release, i tried to install but it tell me that my VS2005 version isn't right to apply SP1. I think it's depend from SP1 beta installed, so tried to remove but SP1 beta uninstall required VS2005 DVD and I have not the DVD because I installed it from the ISO downloaded from MSDN. is there any way to uninstall SP1 beta wthout the DVD or is there any way to install SP1 over the SP1 beta thanks What you could try: Reinstall the SP1 Beta if you can't uninstall to begin with (assuming that it is installed) After the installation, immediatly uninstall it or Download and run the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility Loca ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Avoid message boxes during macro?

  I make a macro with several steps, one of them deleting the current worksheet. You get a message window with the question if you really want to delete it. Can you build in the "YES" answer in the macro so the user don't have to click yes everytime he runs the macro thanx! Bart Hi, I've been using this option but do you have any other alternative for the same. I've used it but for one of my module its not working. So can you please give me a way out ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions SQL Express, C# Express, and Web Dev Express...

  Hey, Here's what I would like to do. Have an installation of Visual C# Express, an installation of Visual Web Developer express, and SQL Server express. Here's the problem: 1) If I install SQL Express first, I get SQL to work with no problem... But neither C# nor Web Dev has any options for utilizing it. 2) If I install c# then install Web Dev (opting for the SQL Express install within the C# installer) then Web Dev has options for SQL server, but C# does not. Furthermore, the SQL installation doesn't allow me to login with either windows authentication or Login authentication. So, nothing works as I want it to at that point. So the question would be, can I install all three (four if you count the SQL management tool) separa ...Show All

• Windows Forms Regarding Textbox resizeing in runtime...........

  Hi, my question is ...How to resize a text box in runtime.... can we show the boder line resize frame during runtime... thru which the user can resize a picuturebox or textbox or anything..... Is this possible....!! Thanks, sathyan You could implement your own "designer" so that your form would have a design time look like Visual Studio has. See this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/03/DesignerHosting/ ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Removing Expect 100-Continue header

  Is there a way to alter outgoing HTTP headers in a WCF client Default behavior seems to create a Expect 100-Continue header which is making the device I am talking to unhappy... Thanks for your time. Kevin By using MessageInspector class,we can change outgoing message and i think we can add and remove headers please check this sample http://blogs.msdn.com/madhuponduru/archive/2006/07/19/671922.aspx Note: i didn't try expect-100-continue,i am thinking it is possible,if this solution is not working for you,please let me know ...Show All

• .NET Development DataSet thread safety

  Hello, I’m trying to understand some thread safety issues with DataSet. If I have one thread writing to DataTableA and another writing to DataTableB is that safe or do I have to prevent concurrent writes to different tables If I’m using remoting to transfer the DataSet which marshals by value I assume my remote instance of the DataSet can perform reads and writes concurrent with reads and writes with the local instance of the DataSet. Do I have to lock against local writes when I marshal the DataSet Thanks, Jeff Thanks for the feedback. For #3 basically what I want to know is the act of marshalling considered a read or a write. If a write then I will have to pro ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Basic Express for the web?

  Hello This is my first post to this forum so to start with I want to say hello to everyone. I live in Sweden so hopefully my English is good enough for you to understand. My main question is: Should I / can I use Visual studio express for my application This is my vision: I want to build a program that my users download from my site. The program will send data and receive data from a database on my server. The windows based app will show result from matches and tournament that has been played and also users will add results to the database, which means that it could be many connections open to the database at the same time. As I said can I use VB Express for this And as you have noticed I’m a beginner when it comes to VB so ...Show All

• Visual C# why (Object reference not set to an instance of an object)?

  I am using this code but getting "Object reference not set to an instance of an object.". This is the code and below it is the error message: private void generate_report() { npg_connection = new NpgsqlConnection ( "Server=www.db.2connectbahrain.com;Port=5432;User Id=jassim_rahma;Password=731004167;Database=billing;" ); npg_connection.Open(); // npg_command.CommandText = "Select category_title FROM reports_category ORDER BY category_title"; npg_command.CommandText = "select * from cdr where local_gateway_start_dt between '2006-08-01 00:00:00' and '2006-08-01 23:59:59' and originator_ip = '80.88.247.115' and dest_reg_id = '2connect_pbx' and called_num_e164 in('165 ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista and DOS

  I am interested in knowing whether a DOS-based application can run in VISTA RC1+ (as part of a migration/coexisting strategy during some redevelopment). It is a DOS-application using an Apogee database, 16 bit, and uses expanded memory. The key point is the expanded memory and how/if Vista still supports this capability. Dr. J. I would like to know more about dos box Please can you explain how to get it to run in dos box We have a VB application running with Apogee backend. There are two parts to this application and we have been able to get the most basic and simple part of this application to work. I am haveing a problem with the more complex part of the application. The problem is with VB it makes a ca ...Show All

• .NET Development How to navigate a field in a parent table?

  hi, everyone I have to tables named Depts and Doctors,and both are in a dataset in memory: Depts: DeptId,DeptName,DirectorId Doctors:DoctorId,DoctorName and the datarelation is : DataRelation dr = new DataRelation("dr", Doctors.Columns["DoctorId"], Depts.Columns["DirectorId"]) This time I want to show all the informaion of Dept,but I want to use the DoctorName to replace DirectorId. How to implement this？ I have see many articles about DataRelation, however few are useful. Thank you all very much. If you use databound controls make the doctors name field a drop down...set its datasource = the doctors table...its Di ...Show All