pst_grant's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms DataGridView -- deny user ability to resize column headers?

  I'm amazed I even have to ask this question, but try as I might I can not find a way to make it so that the column headers are not resizable. Is this possible Currently the user can click and drag the lower edge of the column header and make it any size they want. I do not allow the user to resize regular rows, apparently this does not apply to the column header row though. Hello All. MattGreer88: If you want the columns themselves to be fixed, in the DGV's Property page, set AllowUserToResizeColumns to false. If you want the row header "column" to be fixed, set the RowHeadersWidthSizeMode to DisableResizing. HTH. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Using custom fonts on windows mobile devices

  hello, We are developing an winforms application for win mobile devices. We need to target win mobile smart phones 5.0 and 2003, also win mobile ppc 2003 and 5.0. What we should do if we want our own custom fonts for the application. can we use and install a particular true type font  on all of the devices above second option is going for our own bitmap fontstrings but in that case how can we use them in managed application where controls like textboxes,listviews does not support these fonts  we are developing managed application with c#., and as much as possible want to leverage on rich controls provided by .net., Only hurdle here is fonts, please suggest us suitable solution urgently. ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies BI portal - drillthrough problem

  When I try to drillthrough in new window in Enterprise Business Inteligence Portal, I' am getting blank new window with text "Getting detail information. Please wait...", but nothings happend. When I try to drillthrough in the same window everything is working fine. I' am using Enterprise Business Inteligence Portal version 2.1.7, and Internet Explorer version 6.0. Can anyone hepl me Sasha ...Show All

• .NET Development Security when Hosting CLR

  I have an unmanaged application that hosts the CLR. This application may be located in a location that does not have full trust for managed applications (on a network share, or on a locked down machine). The unmanaged application obviously has full access to machine resources. However, any functionality in managed code is limited by the security settings for where the assemblies are located. Is there a way (since I'm hosting the CLR) to give the managed code I am running full trust access, even if they are located on a network share, for example. No, security in .NET based upon evidence defined by the administrator of the computer. If the user running your unmanaged app. has administrative rights, conc ...Show All

• SQL Server How to do Type Casting in the Derived Column Expressions Field

  Hi: I have a Derived Column, called Column1, which has a value "PS" in the Expression field of the editor. SSIS detects it as a Unicode string[DT WSTR] in the Data Type property. In the source table, the column is a char datatype with the lenght of 4. How should I cast this in the expression field, so its converted to char(4). I would need the syntax for it, so I can use it in my Expression area. By the way, i am setting a constant value for this derived column, so in your example, pls use the value instead of column name. I would like to see, how it would be coded And also, is there a reference for the expression language somewhere for newbies thanks a bunch. MA In that UI, expand "Type Casts", yo ...Show All

• .NET Development Events with COM Interop & VB6.0 for C++

  Greetings, I appologize if this is in the wrong forum but this looks like the most applicable for my issue. I've written in VS 2005 C++ COM visible classes and these work great from VB 6.0 applications. My only problem surrounds events/callbacks. I've replaced a native ActiveX component with a .NET/COM visible one and everything works, except a simple event it needs. Under no circumstances have I been able to get VB 6.0 to reference a .NET class with the "WithEvents" keyword nor be able to install an event handler/callback. I need a very simplistic event or callback, which is a simple single-argument "TimeOut" handler for asynchronously processing data in the .NET assembly. It simply needs to call a given VB6.0 function ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How does one Control the Quick Launch Toolbar?

  Is there a way to determine whether the Quick Launch toolbar is visible There is CLSID_QuickLinks, but this is for web links toolbar, not Quick Launch. In the Windows Vista SDK, I see no documentation for CLSID for Quick Launch. As someone else pointed out, the documentation does refer to IShellFolderBand and that Quick Launch is mentioned to be a folder band - but I see no mention of how to control Quick Launch! Thank You But what if the user wants to stop the Quick Launch shortcut behavior because they want to use the Win + n (1-0) shortcuts for something else Do you know how to disable the shortcut behavior in the Quick Launch Toolbar ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) DataContract vs persistence model - Guidance needed

  Hi forum I really need some architectural guidance on the above subject. Here's the scene and how I chose to implement it so far: I have layered server, which host WCF services. These are the layers: - WCF Layer - Business layer - Persistence layer The persistence layer is not the database, but merely a repository of method, which operates on the persistence model. The persistence model is exposed with a OR mapper (Vanatec OpenAccess) and is highly navigable in respect to associations between persistent classes. The WCF layer is the transaction boundary, which has the role of calling the right methods (in the right order) in the business layer. So you can say that the WCF service methods controls the steps involved in each "business t ...Show All

• Windows Forms I want open a specfic powerpoint doc from vb.net

  Ok I know how to open another Process.Start("MyOtherApp.exe") I want to have the user click a button and open the following c:\\myapp\mypowerpoint.ppt ok i added a new folder it went into my images folder ie \images\docs when I try to put \images\docs\myfile.ppt the path I see is really strange(this the path I get after I did the install on my computer) using the one step install cdocuments and settings\myname\local settings\apps\2.0\cerhkmoc.jog\cvbbkuer.z3a\open..tion+1e694584-0001.000_834098358\image\docs\myfile.ppt. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Tutorial Site

  Hey all, Yesterday(just yesterday) i started a XNA tutorial site(it will have some of my blender models on it too and some other things but that isn't much help here...or is it )so far it has one tutorial on it for getting mouse button input and right now i'm working on mouse coordinates tutorial. My Site Ok hope this helps someone! xna3der P.S and if you like or dislike it goto telepathy page there and please leave me a comment or suggestion. Just few comments : Several of your links are unreadable (dark blue text on a dark grey background). In tutorial 1, you get the mouse window handle, but don't do anything with it, which makes it unnecessary. Same thing in Tutorial 2. In tutorial 3, y ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Making an entire viewport transparent

  I have a game where your in a maze And I want to display the map in a second viewport that display on top of the game screen. That works fine. But, I need to make this map overlay like 35% transparent. Does anyone know how to make an entire viewport transparent Thanks, Nick The backBuffer variable stores the current back buffer, so that you have a reference to it later. After you finish rendering, you save the texture. You can then render the texture, or manipulate it in some way (such as transparency), then render it onto the main screen. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development CE 6 and iostream

  Apologies if i'm directing this at the wrong forum. I want to use <iostream> in WINCE 6. I create a new OSDesign (targetting the emulator), build it, and add a sub-application. The new app doesn't see the standard iostream include file. It works fine when i use Windows Mobile 5 in VS2005. Thanks for any help Simon The OSDesign Subprojects and the generated SDK do do only support for the features included in the base Windows Embedded CE OS. The additional features you get when using the SDK ship with Visual Studio. These features are independant of the SDK used. You will not find the <iostream> header in the SDKs include file directory; you'll find it in here: <VS2005 Root>\VC\ce\incl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problems after installation

  I had installed the trial edition of Team System and everything was working well. After the trial expired I uninstalled it and opted for Team Test Edition. I just installed this today and I have no options to create a new project. On my File Menu it says New File and Open File. Why are there no options to create or open a solution I'm going to go ahead and move this thread to the appropriate forum... but you can try this link: http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/articles/492809.aspx Go to Visual Studio 2005 uninstall instructions and see if that helps Thanks, David Gorena Elizondo [MSFT] VSTS ...Show All

• Visual Basic ActiveX components

  Are ActiveX controls lost and gone forever I have a project where I need to access client side system data and I would LOVE to have them simply access a web site with an ActiveX control to do this, but Im wondering if I'll need to lean on a Windows Form App instead... You can use activex controls in .NET asp or winforms....see if this helps: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/actxctrlswinforms.asp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to search listbox for "Full Name" using lastname/firstname

  I'm using vbexpress with MSAccess backend on WINXP sp2. I want to be able to search a listbox which is pre-populated with "lastname + firstname". I want to type my search string in a textbox and have the listbox select the first occurence of a match. I know about the "findstring" method but my quest is slightly more complicated. I want my search string to be a combination of lastname and firstname with a de-limiter. For eg: Listbox contains: Bloggs Joseph; Blocks Jim; Bloggs Joe; My search string may be "Blo / Ji" where forward slash is the delimiter between the lastname and firstname. This should have "Blocks Jim" automatically selected by the listbox. NB: The delimiter can be anythin ...Show All