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Is there a way to expose classes belonging to a web-service without referencing the dll?
Every time I add the web-service as regular web reference then I lose the ability to access all the classes belonging to the web-service. Currently the only Web Methods I have access to are located in the service.asmx file. If I could access the classes belonging to the web service then I could use it to pass strongly typed collections and keep my functions grouped accordingly. Thanks so much!
- Paul
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Hi members, I've written a prog that enables the user to move controls around on the form using the mouse at runtime. I would like to know how to save the position of these controls so that their positions are the same as they left them, when they're loaded up again.
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You will have to save the position information in an external location (config file, registry, database, etc.). Generally you would load the settings when the form loads and save the settings upon closing of the form.
Mike Lasseter
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Cheers Mike, but any idea how I would go about doing this? Any help at all is helpful.
EvSott
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Here is some code that might work for you.
This is about the simplest way I know to do this, and I do mean simple.
It uses a local xml file.
I threw this together and tested it and it works, but that's about it.
I wouldn't call it production grade, but...
Create a new Windows project and put two buttons on it named btnSave and btnLoad.
Put a textbox, combobox, picturebox and a listbox on it.
Set their Tag properties to "SETTABLE".
Set the backcolor of the picturebox to red or something you can see.
You can play with adding 50 or 100 or so to the positional propertyValues in the Load section, so you can easily tell what it's doing.
Give it a shot.
If you don't have multiple users, and won't need to use the operator key, you can just set it to 0.
Also, you will likely want to change it to use your available RDBMS (SQL Server(/Express), Access, mySQL) as the storage medium. Then you can just store the xml in a text field.
(Also, you really should change the bang notation ("!") to something more substantial, preferably a strongly-typed dataset table. I just used it for speed and don't recommend using it in production.)
There are many other ways to do this, (key/value pair strings, dictionaries, serialization and such), but this oughta give you some ideas and get you going. Good luck.
Public Class Form1
Private ds As DataSet
Private m_dt As DataTable
Private dr As DataRow
Private OperatorKey As String
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
'Code to retrieve operator key
OperatorKey = "42"
End Sub
Private Sub btnSave_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSave.Click
SaveSettings(Me, m_dt, OperatorKey)
End Sub
Private Sub btnLoad_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnLoad.Click
LoadSettings(OperatorKey)
End Sub
Private Sub SaveSettings(ByVal pControl As Control, ByVal pDataTable As DataTable, ByVal operKey As Object)
Dim dt As DataTable
Dim dr As DataRow
If pDataTable Is Nothing Then
dt = New DataTable("ControlSettings")
dt.Columns.Add("formName", GetType(String))
dt.Columns.Add("operatorKey", GetType(String))
dt.Columns.Add("controlName", GetType(String))
dt.Columns.Add("propertyName", GetType(String))
dt.Columns.Add("propertyValue", GetType(String))
Else
dt = pDataTable
End If
For Each ctl As Control In pControl.Controls
'SaveSettings(ctl, dt, oprkey)... you could call this procedure recursively if you want to do so ... have fun
If ctl.Tag IsNot Nothing Then
If CStr(ctl.Tag) = "SETTABLE" Then 'you set this
'Store the control's location properties - Top, Left, Height, and Width
dr = dt.NewRow
dr!formName = Me.Name
dr!operatorKey = operKey.ToString
dr!controlName = ctl.Name
dr!propertyName = "Top"
dr!propertyValue = ctl.Top.ToString
dt.Rows.Add(dr)
dr = dt.NewRow
dr!formName = Me.Name
dr!operatorKey = operKey.ToString
dr!controlName = ctl.Name
dr!propertyName = "Left"
dr!propertyValue = ctl.Left.ToString
dt.Rows.Add(dr)
dr = dt.NewRow
dr!formName = Me.Name
dr!operatorKey = operKey.ToString
dr!controlName = ctl.Name
dr!propertyName = "Width"
dr!propertyValue = ctl.Width.ToString
dt.Rows.Add(dr)
dr = dt.NewRow
dr!formName = Me.Name
dr!operatorKey = operKey.ToString
dr!controlName = ctl.Name
dr!propertyName = "Height"
dr!propertyValue = ctl.Height.ToString
dt.Rows.Add(dr)
dt.AcceptChanges()
End If
End If
Next
dt.WriteXml("TestControlSettings.xml", XmlWriteMode.WriteSchema)
End Sub
Private Sub LoadSettings(ByVal operKey As String)
Dim dt As New DataTable
Dim dv As DataView
Dim drv As DataRowView
Dim arrDR As DataRow()
Try
dt.ReadXml("TestControlSettings.xml")
Catch ex As Exception
'Not there yet.
Exit Sub
End Try
dv = dt.DefaultView
dv.RowFilter = ("operatorKey = '" & operKey.ToString & "' AND formName = '" & Me.Name & "'")
For Each drv In dv
If CStr(drv!formName) = Me.Name And CStr(drv!operatorKey) = operKey Then
Select Case CStr(drv!propertyName)
Case "Top"
CType(Me.Controls(CStr(drv!controlName)), Control).Top = CType(drv!propertyValue, Int32)
Case "Left"
CType(Me.Controls(CStr(drv!controlName)), Control).Left = CType(drv!propertyValue, Int32)
Case "Width"
CType(Me.Controls(CStr(drv!controlName)), Control).Width = CType(drv!propertyValue, Int32)
Case "Height"
CType(Me.Controls(CStr(drv!controlName)), Control).Height = CType(drv!propertyValue, Int32)
Case Else
'Big Problem - get bigger hammer
End Select
End If
Next
'Delete this operator's old rows
arrDR = dt.Select(dv.RowFilter)
For Each dr In arrDR
dr.Delete()
Next
dt.AcceptChanges()
'Save the table for later
m_dt = dt
End Sub
End Class
-- modified at 1:31 Saturday 28th October, 2006
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Can't you just use the applicationsettings - propertybindings - location controls from the properties menu of the button?
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I didn't even think about that...
Yup. Sure looks like ya could.
(We use the other approach at work, and store it all in Sql Server, cuz there's 300 forms and 50-500 operators per site, and some of em are terminal server... space and permissions issues and all that.)
Good catch.
Dave
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I have a program that puts data into a DataGridView. When the user clicks a button the data is converted into a .csv file and saved. Then my program will open the .csv file in Excel. I've done this by adding a reference to the Microsoft Excel 8.0 Object Library and using the following code:
Dim xlTmp As Excel.Application<br />
xlTmp = New Excel.Application<br />
xlTmp.Visible = True<br />
xlTmp.Workbooks.Open(strCSVLocation)
This code works fine, unless the user does not have Excel installed on their machine. I know I could require that the user have Excel before installation, but my program must work for users without Excel too. Basically if a user HAS Excel it should open it for the user. If the user does NOT have Excel, it should just save the file. I thought I could accomplish this by putting the Excel.Application code into a try-catch block, but I'm still getting an unhandled exception as soon as I hit the button to save the csv and open Excel.
How can I check programmatically if a user has Excel or not?
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check for the existance of the registry key for excel.applicaion:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{00024500-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
before calling the code to create the Excel.Application object.
If the key is present, it should beok to open exel, if not just skip.
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Need to write VB code to save application DataBases (Access) to another location of the users choice. Need help coding using SaveFileDialog control. Thanks.
Gib5531
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Help, i face this error message
System.Data.OleDb.OelDbException:IErrorInfo.GetDescription failed with E_FAIL(0x80004005) at system.Data.OleDbCommand.ExecuteCommandTextErrorHandling(Int32hr)....
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Means nothing to me. What were you doing at the time?
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i have rename the tablename name and attribute name in the database.When the function call the database then it prompt out the error message.
i totaly no idea about it.
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Without seeing the code that throws this error and knowing which line it fails on, it's pretty much impossible to tell you what happened.
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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The error show at the code that i have bold it.
Dim dsSession As New DataSet
Dim sqlQuery As String = "SELECT * FROM Session ORDER BY SessionID"
Try
Dim adpStudent As New OleDbDataAdapter(sqlQuery, Connection)
adpStudent.Fill(dsSession, "StuTable")
If dsSession.Tables("StuTable").Rows.Count > 0 Then
Dim dsRow As DataRow
'clear the array list Students.clear()
For Each dsRow In dsSession.Tables("StuTable").Rows
SessionID = dsRow("SessionID")
SessionName = dsRow("SessionName")
SessionCategory = dsRow("Category")
SessionFee = dsRow("Fee")
aSession = New Session(SessionID, SessionName, SessionCategory, SessionFee)
Sessions.Add(aSession)
Next
Else
MsgBox("No record in database")
End If
dsSession = Nothing
Catch ex As Exception
MsgBox(ex.ToString)
End Try
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There doesn't appear to be anything wrong with the code, but you left off the code that opens the connection to the database, including the connection string.
Other than that, it would appear that you have a problem with the database itself. Either you don't have the appropriate permissions to database objects required to fill this SELECT request, or the database is corrupt, which if it's an Access database is entirely possible (not so much for an SQL Server database).
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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yes,i'm using access. i have rename the one table inside it, i think this cause the error. thanks, i will check for my database.
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Your code didn't say anything about renaming a table. If you renamed the table in the database, but didn't update the code to get it's information from the table using its new name, then of course your code is going to fail! 
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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thanks, i have check my access database. Yup it is the database problem.
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dont ask stupid questions
Mohamad A. Flefel
C#.net Developer
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good advice 
Tamimi - Code
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I am currently working on a data import application that will write a file to a SQL database table. I need to write a function that will pass two parameters: partnumber and format style to format the partnumber. Need ASAP!
jds1207
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jds1207 wrote: I am currently working on a data import application that will write a file to a SQL database table. I need to write a function that will pass two parameters: partnumber and format style to format the partnumber. Need ASAP!
If I were you I would start writing it, then. The sooner you start, the sooner you'll finish.
If you run into any problems with it, you are very welcome to post a question here in the message board.
Good luck. 
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jds1207 wrote: I need to write a function that will pass two parameters: partnumber and format style to format the partnumber.
A function to do what?
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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