vtortola's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development How to make an installation?

  Hi, I am developing a simple navigation system on PDA. I do not know how to make an installation file (.CAB) so that other users can download it and install it on their own devices. Does the VS2003 provide any installation wizard If not, how can I do it manually Which files should I include in besides the .exe Thanks. Toby Within VS 2005 -- Select Other Projects->Smart Device CAB Project in the New Project dialog and add this project to your solution. Use this project to create the CAB file for your app. Manav ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Manual Update

  anyone got any example code on manually uodating your application without using the clickonce upload installer, this would help me out alot. yeah I did read that thread lol. Renee how do you do, could you help I did try sharewarestarterkit but It wouldn't configure for me. ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Express not updating database

  I recently converted a program I made in C# from Access to Sql Server Express and I noticed something odd. Anytime I update or insert data into the database, it only sticks around until the program closes. I can insert new records but as soon as the program quits, the inserts are gone. Is this a bug or is there something else I need to do Hi, seems that you open a transaction and didn’t commit it. Did you try to check the following: Make chages to your data within your application, meanwhile query the database if the data changes have been reflected on the server. If not you are sticking in an open transaction and you have to close / commit it first. HTH, jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005. ...Show All

• SQL Server INFORMIX ODBC PROTOCOL

  hi all, Happy new year! is anybody here familiar with the different informix ODBC protocol such as Sesoctcp and onsoctcp and the rest of the protocols I think my SSIS design is affected by this protocols i'm having problems with the unicode and non unicode conversion. many many thanks Joey Then I believe you'll have to change the data types in the DataReader Source for each column. Or use a data conversion task. Can you use an Informix OLE DB driver instead of ODBC That would be faster as well. With an OLE DB source, you can force the code page, which would solve your problem. ...Show All

• Windows Forms FlowLayoutPanel FlowDirection not working when adding controls at runtime

  I have a FlowLayout panel to which I am adding a label and linkview controls at runtime. The panel's FlowDirection property is set to TopDown. However, when I call Controls.Add on the panel at runtime, the controls are still added left to right. Why does this happen If I drag controls onto the panel at design-time, they are added top to bottom as required, it's only when adding at runtime that this happens. Hi, I can't reproduce that... The following code seems to work fine: private void Form1_Load( object sender, EventArgs e) {     Label label = new Label ();     label.Text = "Label 1" ;     flowLayoutPanel1.FlowDirection = FlowDirect ...Show All

• Visual C# Send mail

  Hi I want to send an email with the following code: MailMessage mail = new MailMessage(); //set the addresses mail.From = new MailAddress(" me@mycompany.com "); mail.To.Add(" you@yourcompany.com "); //set the content mail.Subject = "This is an email"; mail.Body = "this is the body content of the email."; //send the message SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("127.0.0.1"); //to authenticate we set the username and password properites on the SmtpClient smtp.Send(mail); but it does not work. it will raised this error: The server rejected one or more recipient addresses. The server response was: 550 not local host yahoo.com, not a gateway You can't use a loopb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Influence Destination of Copy Local

  Is it possible to influence the directory that referenced assemblies are copied to during the build process (for references that are flagged as Copy Local) I want to put them into a lib subdirectory rather than them sitting side-by-side with my assemblies. William, I am unaware of any way to change where the IDE places refrenced files. In my company, we have created a local "reference" drive that each dll (and all other output such as pdb and xml files) is copied to after compilation. This is done through an xcopy in the post-build step. We then have additional MSBuild code in our project files that generates a list of folders in our "reference" directory and adds it to the reference ...Show All

• SQL Server Preserving Background Color of hidden field

  Is it possile to keep the BackgroundColor of a field (Textbox) in a table control when it is toggled to hidden I have a column that is colored and in some rows hidding the field on an expand, I then have these transparent cells in the column . . . it does not look very nice. I see your idea, thanks. Still need a little help. The Textbox value would be a space when the toggle item is expanded and a field value when collapsed. I guess you would set this as an expression in the value property . . . then how do you test the state of the ToggleItem ...Show All

• Visual Studio Setting rows-per-page for LocalReport

  How do I set the number of rows to display per page for a LocalReport via RDLC   I've tried setting both the Height element under Body and the PageHeight element under Report.  Neither seem to have any effect -- it looks like I get around 50 rows per page regardless. I had this situation before. It happens when I put the Grouping with GroupExpression inside the Details. I don't know why it only renders 1 row per page with other rows missing. It will be great if someone could explain this. You can find the document about the "Page Breakers" at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms251668(VS.80).aspx . Notice that the grouping needs be put immediately outside the details. Ple ...Show All

• Windows Networking Development Vista - recv / WSAGetLastError never return WSAECONNRESET

  I hope it is ok to post Winsock2 questions in this forum. I have a nonblocking TCP socket which I am calling recv on. After the network cable is pulled out of the back of the machine, the function continues to return -1 & WSAGetLastError returns WSAEWOULDBLOCK for that socket. From looking at how socket communication worked on previous versions of windows, I should get at least 1 WSAECONNRESET from WSAGetLastError. Is this a known bug Any easy workaround I would like to keep changes to this code as small as possible. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to implement bookmark BeforeRightClick or document BeforeRightClick

  I am using VSTO 2005 SE with Word 2007. I have seen information on how to program against the Word host objects bookmark or document using Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.Bookmark and Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.Document. I would like to access the BeforeRightClick event (preferably bookmark but I'll take document if that's not available). I am not able to access these in VSTO SE and Word 2007. Do I need to wait for Orcas to have this functionality w/Word 2007, or is there some way to get a reference to these host objects at runtime using AddHandler Thanks. Hi, First of all, you may program againt Document and Bookmark (Host object) only when you are working on Word application-level ...Show All

• .NET Development Computer not able to read app.config xml with encoding as 'ASCII'.Why?

  Hi, What is the difference between encoding as 'ASCII' and encoding as 'UTF-8' We are creating App.Config.exe xml file with ASCII in the client place while they install our application. But some of the PC could not able to read this xml I will be very thankfull, if any one can provide me the cause for above issue Is your generated xml file saved as ASCII file too xml doesn't support switching from current encoding to specified encoding. Say, your xml file is ASCII encoded, however if you save it as Unicode file, that may cause problem for some parser. By default xml uses unicode (4-byte), that should be used for best compatibility purpose if possible. Also note that "FIX: us-ASCII and ASCII Encoding Are Not Sup ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista DLL registration fails on Windows vista

  Hi, i am in process of upgrading a DLL application from VS 2003(Windows 2003) to VS 2005 on Windows vista platform. There is a post build event for registering the DLL. This fails with error code "0x80070005". When i try to register this DLL through command prompt, it fails with the same error code. With reference to all forum discussions, i disabled UAC on vista and tried registering the DLL through command prompt. This time it fails with the error code "0x800703f2". There is absolutely no way i can find out about this new error code on the net. Can somebody help me resolve this P.S. : i am running VS 2K5 as an administrator and also i have administrative privileges for my login. Thanks in ...Show All

• Windows Forms Looking for best approach for MSMoney Look-A-Like [VB]

  If you're familiar with MS Money; I am developing an application that has the look and feel of Money but different functionality. How do they do it or what is the best approach. I've read several ideas, but before I start I wanted to get additional feedback: The concept: A Customer button that opens a customer "home" page with customer specific tasks located in the spine with the results displayed in the window to the right. A Reports button that opens a Reports "home" page, again functioning the same as above. There will be several of this "pages"... I've thought of using the MDI/Child approach but the number of panes used in each group became difficult to manage. I've thought of the SDI app ...Show All

• SQL Server Site Settings

  I need to place some site settings in my Report Manger.But in my Report Manager there is no Site Settings Icon.Is this installation problem please help me. I am having this same problem. BUT. I am logging in AS the local administrator. Also, it is the account that was used to install RS 2005 and SQL 2005 in the first place! The 'Site Settings' link was there a few weeks ago and now it is not. Could a MS patch have done something The bottom line is that we need to get it back. Does anyone know how Thank you in advance, shaase ...Show All