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Reinstalling all that was a complete waste of time, obviously. There's nothing wrong with the development environment.
More than likely, the DataAdapter has an incorrect connection string in it and it can't connect to the database. I know your going to say, "But the string was generated by Visual Studio in the designer!" So what, it doesn't make it right. What your going to have to do is simplify the connection string and make sure that the options are set correctly. Using the designer to generate the database stuff is also an inefficient way of doing it. Your better off coding the data stuff by hand. That way, you'll have much better control over it and a much easier time troubleshooting any problems. You'll also learn a heck of a lot more, faster, than if you were to let the designer generate the code for you.
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Reinstalling VS.NET is not a viable solution; it's not the problem - the .NET Framework is the problem, and VS.NET != .NET. Almost all the designers used by VS.NET is actually defined in the .NET base class libraries (BCL).
Did you actually follow the error message? Build and look for warnings and errors. Fix them, close the designer, and re-open it. This usually fixes the problem. Restarting VS.NET can also help. Creating a new application won't help - the problem is in the first application.
Another solution is to build the typed DataSet first. In VS.NET, right-click on your project (or a sub-folder) and select Add, Add New Item. Select "DataSet", give it a name, and click OK. Add top-level elements (as tables) and their elements (as fields). When you drag and drop a DataAdapter-derivative to your control designer and configure it, you can use a designer to map what would be selected into the typed DataSet you just created. This also gives you more control over column constraints, relationships (which enforces foreign key constraints and provides cascading capabilities), etc.
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Hi to all the printing experts out there  ,
I have to print an image of a PCB(printed circuit board). I got an image of the PCB and it's real width and height. What is the best way to print this image in it's real size?
I haven't done any printing in C# yet; except using Crystal Reports. But I think that Crystal Reports won't be able to print the image correctly, if it's real size is larger than one page.
Best Regards
Bernd R.
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Crystal Reports really isn't suited to this purpose anyway, and it would be overkill to deploy (there's several Merge Modules (if you're using a Windows Installer package) to distribute and you need a developer key).
There's three options when printing anything (including fix-width paragraphs for text): reduce the size of the object; crop the object; display the object on multiple pages.
Obviously the first two options are out since you care about the true size of the PCB and a partial PCB wouldn't be much help.
When you handle the PrintPage event of the PrintDocument, you can query the printable portion of that page by using the PrintPageEventArgs.MarginBounds, which is size of the page minus the margins for each side (these can be changed on a page-by-page basis using the PrintDocument.QueryPageSettings, but the printer has to support that and have the right paper loaded into trays or expect is correctly using a manual feed). When you draw the image, use the PrintPageEventArgs.Graphics property and call DrawImage initially using coordinates of Point(0, 0)</cod> and <code>PrintEventArgs.MarginBounds.Size.
If you do want to scale the image, use a different overload for Graphics.DrawImage call with the appropriate arguments. Several of these will scale the image.
Be sure to read the class documentation for the PrintDocument.PrintPage event in the .NET Framework SDK. It includes an example. There are also articles you could search for and look at here on CodeProject using the search bar just below the CodeProject logo at the top of the page.
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Still trying to wrap my head around this security stuff, I still can't seem to find a simple way to find out if I have the needed permission when running my program before I call the code that would cause the error. What I would like to do is just see if I have access at the begining of my program and if not pop up a message box and exit. I am trying using the Demand but that seems to be the wrong usage, I also tried using the IsUnrestricted() but that doesn't even seem to be true when running locally.
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FileIOPermission canAccess = new FileIOPermission(FileIOPermissionAccess.Write, "C:\\");<br />
try {<br />
canAccess.Demand()<br />
}<br />
catch {<br />
MessageBox.Show "Don't have permissions";<br />
}<br />
Is there another way to go about this?
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You don't need to check, really. An exception will be thrown if you don't have the permission. Also, you can't demand a permission if you don't have it (it's more of a check, really). Such checks are handy when you want to know ahead of time if you can do something or not.
If you need that permission, it must be granted by a code group with an associated permission set (either custom or one of the pre-configured sets, like FullTrust), and the evidence gathered for your assembly must match the membership condition used for that code group (otherwise the code group policy isn't applied and your assembly (/assemblies) aren't granted the permission set you'd expect.
You've got the right idea, though.
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Thats what is getting me confused, The .Demand doesn't throw an exception but when I actually try to modify the file then it throws a security exception.
This is some of the test code I have in my program now (that's to test stuff)
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FileIOPermission canAccess = new FileIOPermission(FileIOPermissionAccess.Write, "C:\\");<br />
try {<br />
canAccess.Demand();<br />
File.Delete(cmdArgs[0]);
}<br />
catch {<br />
}<br />
I would expect the .Demand() call to throw the exception but it doesn't, I get the security error when calling File.Delete, which doesn't make sense... (I also tried replacing Write with AllAccess)
The reason I want to run a "pre-check" like this is the delete/renaming stuff doesn't occur until 15 seconds or so in the program so I don't want to make the user wait 15 seconds just to find out that they can't do anything because the code isn't running with the proper permissions.
P.S. The SecurityException message that is thrown is: "Request for the permission of type System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission, mscorlib, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089 failed."
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That's a good scenario for a "pre-check"! 
The problem is that, as the documentation states, Demand checks callers higher in the stack. While all callers higher in the stack may have the permission, you may not. So, lets say you add this code in an event handler you've assigned to an event defined in the BCL assemblies (like handling Button.Click or something). Invoking the delegate (your handler) happens from the BCL. Those assemblies would have FullTrust permissions, but you might not.
Now, when you simply call File.Delete, you become the caller and don't have that permission, so the SecurityException is thrown.
A simple work-around is to attempt to create a dummy file (and delete it, if successful). If you can't write the file, you won't be able to delete a file (well, at least from the CLR's perspective).
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Hi,
I need to run an Expect script (Expect for Windows of course) from managed code. By "run a script" I mean link (dynamically load) the Tcl and Expect libs (DLLs), create a Tcl_Interp and pass it the script to run.
At a high level what does this involve? Can I load (at runtime) the Tcl and Expect DLLs from "unsafe" code? What's the best way to do this?
TIA,
Matt
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Technically, the CLR loads them. What you can do in C# (or in most managed languages) is P/Invoke the native functions, so long as the Tcl libs are resolvable (i.e., in the current process's current working directory - not the DLL's (though that may be the same as the process's current working directory) - or a directory in the PATH environment variable, the same as all executables in Windows).
See the DllImportAttribute documentation in the .NET Framework SDK, as well as Consuming Unmanaged DLL Functions[^].
When you call a P/Invoke method, the CLR loads the native library, gets the proc, pushes your arguments on the stack, and executes the function. The return value is pushed on the stack (typically; depends on calling convention) and returned by the CLR to your managed code.
So, you'll need to read the API documentation for Tcl. Chances are there'll be a setup function (to initialize the execution environment) and a function that will accept arguments (including the path to the Tcl script you want to execute). Getting the path to the Tcl script is easy: let the user specify it on the command line, using an OpenFileDialog, hard-code it (bad idea usually), or whatever.
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Hey does anybody know how to convert an MPEG file to and AVI file??
By BigBlob202
Dinco Inc.
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Well, he did answer your question.
Converting anything to anything is done using decoders and encoders. Microsoft DirectX does a great job of this and has a managed API for use with .NET. You can find more information about Managed DirectX 9.0b and download the DirectX runtime and managed components from http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx[^].
You chain a decoder for the MPEG (which, keep in mind, there are different codecs for MPEG) to an encoder for an AVI (again, there are many types of encoders and, in fact, AVI does not define a particular codec for either sound (if applicable) or video).
So, to provide you with any examples, it really helps to know exactly what you want to do, because there are so many ways of doing this. Besides, do you really need to write a program to do this? There are tons of free applications on the 'net that already do this, and even the DirectX SDK includes a utility (GraphEdit) that lets you link decoders and encoders (as well as DMOs and other handy utility classes) and do whatever you want (with what's installed on your system).
There are other ways to do this as well, and unless you find a simple unmanaged library that lets you do this with one or two function calls (which you can P/Invoke in C#), they won't be easy to use. .NET is just too high-level to do stuff like this easily (unless you were to write a mixed-mode Managed C++ project that calls native functionality from a managed execution environment which can be used by any other managed language projects, like those in C# and VB.NET).
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Hello, I'm writing a small application in which a draw onto a panel and want to control the painting on the panel with the arrow keys (think of it as a painting program with the keys instead of mouse if you wish..)
Now the thing is, from what I figure the Panel can't gain keyboard focus. So I would need some other way to retrieve the key events. What do I do? Place a dummy control somewher, hide it, give it keyb. focus and then reacts on the events from there?
A better solution? If so please tell me the 'right' way to do it..
/Bjorn
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Is it possible for you to use a UserControl rather than a panel? That would solve your keyboard input problem.
Karl Baum
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Specializing in custom software development.
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Yes it's most certainly possible, thanks for the suggestion. But just out of interest, would there be a way to do it even with a panel control? And if so, how?
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The only thing I can think of is to have the form that the panel is on receive the keyboard events. Then it could call functions that cause your panel to do appropriate things.
Karl Baum
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Hi Guys...
My Name Is Hani And I'm a New Member 2 Code Project..
I'm Planing 2 Develop A Buetooth Application On My PC Wich Can Allocate All The BT Devices Around, Send & Receive text msgs From Them & Catch This txt msg To Work On It.!!
Do Any 1 Knows How To Deal With My (MSI BT USB) connected To My PC In My Code(C#.net Or VB.net)..?
I Need 2 Know How To Start..!
Is There Any SDK To Use..? IF Yes, Where Can I Get It..?
Please Any Pice Of Clear Code And Steps Will Be Helpfull..!!
Thx 4 Listening And I'm Waiting 2 Hear From You ASAP.
Thx Again
Regards 2 u All..  )
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A five second search on MSDN for "bluetooth" netted:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/bluetooth/bluetooth/about_bluetooth.asp
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Posting you messages in multiple forums at the same time is considered very rude, so please don't.
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i want to implement a personal firewall
with packet filtering api's but i dont want
to just filtering packets iwant do some more
works like other firewalls
1-i want to notify the user when
a program try to access to internet do you think
is there any event in .net or in windows for this
purpose and if there is which events
2- i want to see all open ports in mycompuetr
somthing like netstat command in windows but iwant
do this programmatically
3-if i saw a port is open how can i close it
programmatically
koosha
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Most, if not all, firewall programs work by using an NDIS Hook to (in simplified terms) see all the packets fly through the network adapter. They get a chance to examine every packet that passes through and can optionally pass the packet to the network adapter (on the way out) or pass it on to Windows (on the way in). A firewall works by just dropping any packet it doesn't like the look of.
In answer to #3. If you want to close a port then all you need to do in your NDIS Hooked code is to block any packets on that port. As you examine every packet as is passed through, this means that you just don't pass the packed on the ports you want closed.
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