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I think Wes has effectively answered your questions.
But, a word of advice, it's good to make clear that what you are passing in this case to a function is not a "variable" but the value (in this case a string) contained inside that variable.
When you are ready, you should examine the keywords 'ref, and 'out to understand the possibilities of what may happen when you want a change to a passed in value within some function to affect the variable that was the source of the parameter in the function.
best, Bill
"If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer ?" Stephen Wright
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Thanks everyone that has helped. This is part of a character generator for a D&D type game. I'm just hoping I get it in right I have a couple hours before I have to turn it in so wish me luck lol. If I run into any other problems I will be sure to come back.
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How to add new connection string to the application on deployment of application on any other system using setup ?
Shashank Sagar
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Why "during setup"? Your app can determine where it is installed once it's installed; simply ask the current assembly for it's location. You can then dynamically build a correct connectionstring, based on the circumstances;
Will you be installing Sql Server Express? Will the database be auto-attaching, or always attached under a alias? It'd be preferably to name the instance, if it's not shared; and depending on your security-settings, you might be using Windows authentication or Sql Server authentication.
How the connection-string will ultimately look varies per database; you can find examples here[^].
..and what does it have to do with C#?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
if you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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hi you can use web.config file it will much better
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that is for websites not for windows application.
Shashank Sagar
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Hi guys. I am trying to download images from websites. I found lots of sample codes but they simply implement System.Drawing. I dont have such a header file to implement. Does any one know what happend to my "System.Drawing" header file. I am using visual studio 2010 and C# language.
all the best
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I'm not sure what you mean by "header file" here but you may like to look at the documentation for System.Drawing Namespaces[^].
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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C# doesn't have header-files, you're confused with C. Add the reference to the assembly, and you're good to go. Open the IDE, go to the solution explorer, right-click the "references" node, click "add reference".
System.Drawing is added automagically for WinForms, not Console-applications.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
if you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Thanks. As you said I drawing will only apear in windows form applications. Thanks for your help
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I posted earlier about converting a textbox into textarea. Another problem arose when I switched from a listbox to a textbox. I have many buttons each representing a character and when I click on the button I want the text to be added to the textbox. With a listbox the following did the trick: listbox1.Items.Add("あ");
but the same wont work for a textbox. I want to be able to construct sentences with buttons and then be able to copy and paste. Thanks in advance.
modified 26-Aug-12 13:40pm.
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Try:
myTextBox.Text += "A";
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Worked! Thanks a million.
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You're welcome - does that answer your other question as well?
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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It certainly does ! Should I remove the other one?
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You can't once there is a reply - don't worry about it.
It would be polite to edit them, and add "[SOLVED]" to the subject line though!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Thanks for the info. Still getting the hang of things lol.
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I have a couple of questions regarding this. I'm creating an app that allows me to click on characters that appear in a textbox so they can be copied an pasted with ease.I'm currently using a textbox but everytime I enter a character it doesn't enter it from left to write. On the textbox it appears from top to bottom and my goal is to construct sentences. I want it to read from left to right.
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Would you like to try asking that again?
As it is, I don't have a clue what your problem is.
Remember that we can't see your screen, access your HDD, or read your mind.
Perhaps an example of what you are doing, and what help you need?
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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I apologize for the vagueness of information in my question. I'm currently working on a keyboard (I'll provide a link so you can get an idea) that has buttons with the characters and once they're clicked the character chosen goes into a textbox. The problems I'm encountering are the following: The buttons won't work for a textbox, it was fine when I was using a listbox, but when I switched to a textbox (I want to be able to copy and paste the text constructed) the buttons won't add text.
Another problem I was having was (when using the listbox) the characters wouldn't read from left to right(I think this might of been because of the listbox settings).
My goal is to have an app on my computer that looks and feels very similar to this. In fact it's this same alphabet: http://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/hiragana.htm[^]
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Here's a challenge for you Diego, now that OriginalGriff has answered your questions: add an EventHandler for the TextBox's 'TextChanged Event, and then every time the end-user types in the English-equivalent for one of your Hiragana characters, substitute the Hiragana character.
So, when I type in "kasatanahamaya:" instantly, as I type, those letters are replaced by the Hiragana
Note: that achieving this will involve you suppressing recursion: the moment you convert "ka" to the equivalent Hiragana, the TextChanged event is going to be called again.
mmmm ... too bad CP doesn't have a forum, kind of like Project Euler, for interesting challenges.
best, Bill
"If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer ?" Stephen Wright
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This is out of my league but I'm going to try it out. I finally finished the keyboard and I want to keep improving it so this is not a bad idea. This week looks very busy with school but the weekend is going to be a long one.
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Hi all, it seems what I wanted to do is pretty straight forward but I can't get it to work. What I wanted to do is upload a file called Test.doc to a folder called MyFiles in the Root directory of my Web Server. Then retrieve the file using the following code
<a href="/MyFolders/test.doc">Click here</a>
That's essentially what I wanted to do. However,I want to save the name and extension of Test.doc in a database. Then I want to replace the name Test.doc with a GUID before uploading it to the folder on the server to avoid duplication. I have tried the following to store the file path of Test.doc without success:
string myFileName = Path.GetFileName(FileUpload1.FileName);
string myFilePath = Server.MapPath("~/Documents/");
What code do I use to get the path of Test.doc? Thanks in advance for your help.
modified 25-Aug-12 21:08pm.
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Hi,
You are not getting your file because you may not have uploaded file on server. After selecting your file you need to call FileUpload1.SaveAs method and store it on the server. After storing you can get the path of the file because you need to specify path of the storage location.
Let me know if this is not the case,
Thanks
-Amit Gajjar (MinterProject)
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