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Hi, I have a need to create a reusable group control that contains 3 radio buttons. I need to be able to drop this control on any win form, so a user control sounds ideal. The problem is that I need to be able to allow the user to change the text property against the radio buttons. But, I...

Hi, Is it possible to create a grid for a winform that has a different number of columns for a certain row type? If my grid row has 5 columns in total but for certain rows depending on some price of criterai I only want to see 2 and for other rows I need to see all 5. as an example if I had a...

Hi , I wonder if somebody could give me a push in the right direction with this one as I'm pretty new to string manipulation in C#. if I have strings in the following formats ; "2 Feet 6 inches" "12 Feet 11 inches" what's the best way to be able to retrieve the numerical value for the feet...

Hi, I've been looking at the singleton example as detailed on MS patterns and practice webpages ; http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/observerpattern.asp I've been looking at the .NET enhanced version of the singleton pattern and have a quick question...

Hi I wonder if anybody could help me out here ; I have a routine which works fine under SQL server 2000, but when I run it aganst a newly installed version of SQL server 2005 Developers Edition Beta 2 I get a problem when I attempt to add a column default. Here's the code oSQLServer =...

Hi Can somebody tell me if it's possible to declare a strongly typed return value for a class method using the foxpro IDE? Eg In code you can do this kind of thing ; PROCEDURE SomeMethod as String RETURN "SomeString" ENDPROC However I cannot find a way of telling foxpro via the IDE...

Hi, Does anybody know what MS plans for MSDE are? They state that 'SQL Server Express replaces Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (MSDE)' but does this mean that they will stop supporting MSDE? We have a requirement to support pre windows 2000 installations so it would seem MSDE is the only...

Hi, Could somebody give me some clues as to what is the best way to get a newly generated pkey value back from sql server. I'm using a dataset and using the sqlcommandbuilder to automatically generate all my insert, delete and update commands. it looks a little like this : Dim CommandBuilder...

hopefully a really simple one... Can anybody tell me how to set the background colour of the datetimepicker control? I don't mean the calendar itself but the control as it appears as you drop it on the form. I don't see forecolor or backcolor properties on the property sheet as you would with...

Hi, I';m trying to create a series of controls that will act as my base controls in my application, to give a consistant look and feel. I've created my base command button as below :- Public Class BaseTextBox Inherits System.Windows.Forms.TextBox Sub New() Me.Width = 75...

Hopefully this will be a real simple question... if I drop a native instrinsic command button onto a native win form, I can then double click the command button and place code in it's click event eg; Public Class cleanform Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form Private Sub...

Hi, I'm a long time foxpro programmer whos pretty new to vb.net and I'm having a little difficulty when trying to override method code in classes. What I'm attempting to do is to create a class library of user controls for re-use throughout my application. My problem occurs when I try to...

Hi, I'm a former foxpro programmer whos used to using inheritance to create standard forms and controls for re-user throughout an application. I've worked out how to create a standard base form from which all other forms will descend. But, I'm having difficulties trying to create a 'class...

Hi, I've got a win form, which connects to sql server using a dataadapter / dataset / datatable and everything works great. I've noticed that if I try to update a field on a table in sql server with a value that exceeds the field length I get this error ; An unhandled exception of type...

Hi, this is not really a problem just looking for some reassurance that what I'm doing is correct. I've got a win form that is using a dataadapter/dataset and a datatable that returns data from sql server. My controls are bound using the bindmanager and every thing works great, navigation and...

Hi, I've got a pretty strange problem using SQL Server 7.0 sp4 along with Foxpro 6.0 I have a foxpro remote view that includes an index hint, eg ; Select sum(something),SomeidField from table1 inner join table2 (INDEX (MyReqdIndex)) on table1.field1 = table2.field2 where someIdField = 43...

Hi, I wonder if somebody could give me some feedback on this proposed classed design. This class is based around the command button control and the hierarchy looks like this :- FoxproBaseCommandButton | V...

Hi Could anybody give me some guidance as to what type of data access method lends itself best to concurrent multi user access. The type of thing I mean is user 1 changes a record and another user needs to see the latest changes to that record asap. If we have a simple data entry type form ...

Hi, I wonder if somebody could shed some light on a problem i'm having using remote views to connect to a sql server database. I'm seeing a problem where a view is not returning a recordset when it should do, stopping and starting the sql service and re-running my app makes the data show up...

Hi, Newbie to .Net here I have a simple app that has a main mdi form with a menu. In the main application mdi form load event I've placed code to load a password signon screen. However, even though I load the password screen as a modal form using showdialog, the menu options are all enabled...