deltaspecops99's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic FontSyles?

  How do you get a multiple fontstyle i.e Bold and Italic and Underlined all at the same time. I have 4 Checkboxes each with a different style, if I click ckbBold then I get a Bold font in my textbox but if I then click ckbItalic nothing happens until I uncheck ckbBold, so I only ever get one style. Any ideas or pointers Does this help   Me.theTextBox.Font = new Font(Me.theTextBox.Font, FontStyle.Bold OR FontStyle.Underline)   the fontstyle can be combined by using the OR operator ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. WOW!! Difference between running the EXE and from within GSE

  I've just been playing round writing my sprite class. I already had what was effectively a parallax star field using textures that were 151x68 (some old rockets from when I did Dexters Lab on the GBA) using a custom class but I wanted to try my new generic classes. Each rocket was scaled by speed value to push the slower ones into the distance and each one was tinted to make the distant ones darker. So that's scaling and colour transformations at the same time. The whole lot was sorted by speed to make sure the faster ones appeared on top. Nothing fancy but it was doing quite a bit of donkey work. I decided to start pushing the code to see just how many it would move. From within the GSE, at 200 it was jerky and not very pleasant. I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Issue manipulating numeric values in textboxes

  I am building a program which has many text boxes most of which are user inputs and a few which output results based on the user inputs However i noticed that I cant do something like this; textbox1.text = textbox2.text + textbox3.text because the resault will turn out to be "textbox2textbox3" This only happens when i try to add some values from textboxes but it seems that the other operators work fine doing it the same way The only way that ive found to get the "+" operator working like the others is to define a variable and assign it to the value in the textbox, like this; Dim value2 as Double = textbox2 Dim value3 as Double = textbox3 textbox1 = value2 + value3 but this way seems pr ...Show All

• SQL Server modeling a table with FK

  I am having a problem when modeling a Foreign Key in an "Operations" table. This table holds all information on customers ’s applications and withdrawals. Here is the structure: CustomerID int, SourceID int, Value decimal (16,2), OperationDate datetime Well the problem is that SourceID sometimes might be NULL depending on how the record was inserted. So its kind of cumbersome to define it as an FK, since it can be null...To get things worse, this SourceID might point to more than 1 table (depending on the CustomerType it will point to SourceA table or SourceB table)... How should this be modeled What is sourceId It sounds like you need to do a bit more normalization here and have a source table. source ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions A retired newbe

  Ive followed MS try it to create a database. No problems Added a table also no problems and filled in some data. Ive opened a second project to connect to the first database and followed the Try it procedure. However when I update data and save it, it saves in my second project but does not update my database. My question is should it update my database and if not why do I need it. Balsoft Do you have statements in your code to update the database This is normally something like: theAdapter.Update(theDataset) Your program's Dataset is essentially a piece of "scratch paper" where you've temporarily written your data, and possibly make changes. The database itself will ...Show All

• Windows Forms Flickering ToolTip on Vista

  Why the tooltip on any control with Vista always flickers without stop when the mouse move over the control,such as button control ,label control , checkbox control and textbox control etc . All of controls run on Vista appear flickering issue in despite of .net framework 1.1 or 2.0. But that would be ok on earlier windows OS. This seems to be rendering issue with windows vista. Detail Steps: 1) Drag a button control and a tooltip control on form 2) Use the button MouseMove event 3) add some code like the below private void button1_MouseMove(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e) { this.toolTip1.SetToolTip(button1,"Flickering ToolTip on Button!"); } Run the winform , move mous ...Show All

• Visual C# generics in constructors

  Hello, I have a question about generics in constructors. Assume I have two constructors, e.g.: public Constructor1(string param1, string param2) { ... } public Constructor2(T param1, string param2) { ... } This will compile without problems (by contrast, I'd get a compile error if I had "public Constructor2(string param1, string param2)" because there would be two constructors with "string, string"). However, if at runtime I call Constructor2 with the generic parameter as a string, I get runtime problems (because Constructor1 and Constructor2 cannot be distinguished). Does anyone know how to deal with this in a clean way I know that I could, for example, change Constructor2 to something like "Constructor2(T param1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Setting for URL in Reporting services

  Hello, When viewing the project portal and drilling down into the Work Items report, the ID links href is not showing the fully qualified URL. It links to: http:<servername>:8080/WorkItemTracking/Workitem.aspx artifactMoniker=xxx instead of http:<servername>.ucr.edu:8080/WorkItemTracking/Workitem.aspx artifactMoniker=xxx I have looked all over the server in XML and config files, Sharepoint and Report Server configuration, the database tables, and in the registry, but can't find where this value is being set. I have run TFSAdminUtil activateat, and that hasn't fixed it. Does anyone know where else I can look Thanks, James Ok, making that change causes a new ...Show All

• Visual Basic color chart at desighn time

  Where can I get a color chart that shows the VS KnownColors, to use at design time I want to define a set of color schemes, with colors that I can select visually. I have found some stuff on the internet that gives the RGB values, but I need the VB KnownColor names. Thanks in advance. The ColorEditor may fit your needs. If not, could you please elaborate a bit on what you are trying to do; how/from where would you select a color, and how would you get the type name into your code I'm not sure I 100% understand what you are trying to do here... Best regards, Johan Stenberg ...Show All

• SQL Server User initiated backups

  During the month end close the accontants want to have their SQL2000 databases backed up before they run certain processes. We (IT) run the backups using the SQL management console when they call. Is there a way we can allow the users to start a backup without giving them access to the SQL management console We already have end of day backups scheduled automatically. The requirement here is to backup the database whenever the accountants have completed certain procedures during the close so I can't have them run on a seet schedule. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Adding a macro to excel using C# in asp.net

  I am creating a customized excel report for my company using a webpage. Part of the excel file is a macro to handle printing though, and I can't seem to get it to work correctly. The code works... The page building the report impersonates a user that has access to Excel. Excel files can be created but, when I attempt to add the print macro I recieve this error: Programmatic access to Visual Basic Project is not trusted The user being impersonated has the security setting in excel set to: Trust access to Visual Basic Project I discovered on accident that if the impersonated user is actually logged in on the server that the code executes as expected, every time. If you have any idea how to correct this problem please let me ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions reading a file...

  How to read a powerpoint file I would like to read the title of each slide in the powerpoint file. So how to read the powerpoint file Plz someone help me in this. Thank u for ur reply.... You are going to have to automate power point for this. Here is link to how to automate power point example. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions coding textbox control back colour

  Hi, I have a textbox with the backcolor property set to 192,255,255, light cyan colour What is the syntax to set this value in code eg: me.textbox1.backcolor= Ron ...Show All

• Visual Basic signer's certificate is not valid

  I have programmed succesfully with VB 4.0 for years and have recently started to "Update" myself with Visual Basic 2005. I tried to build an application to distribute via CD. I received the following error: Error 2 SignTool reported an error 'Failed to sign bin\Release\Counting Stewards data entry.publish\\setup.exe. SignTool Error: ISignedCode::Sign returned error: 0x80880253 The signer's certificate is not valid for signing. SignTool Error: An error occurred while attempting to sign: bin\Release\Counting Stewards data entry.publish\\setup.exe '. CSDE I am totally "out to lunch." I have no clue of what this is about and cannot find anything in my references which address it. I have found no code on line ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Have microsoft provided any API to develop Office Communicator?

  I want to add some personal function in the Office Communicator. Seems like the tab function in msn live. Anyone know where can i get this information Thanks, Raymond I'm only aware of the information I have provided you ... currently the VSTO does not directly support Communicator. You may want to check out the CTP Orcas to see what's available. ...Show All