Comments by DanHodgson88 (Top 142 by date)

I don't know who gave you 1 star but your advice worked, I had a nice reading session today, found the problem and its fixed. thank you.

Cheers Christian I will get reading.

I think your right about the web.config, the web host I am using have a default web.config in the root of the application and when I remove it for my own the website simply fails to run. To be honest I am pretty new to asp.net and I am not sure if the web application is set up in the IIS at the app root.

Thank you for your answer Daniele, this wasn't quite what I was looking for, possibly my poorly written question!

In a ListBox a row is selected when a user clicks it, from here you can obviously do whatever you like with the item using something like listbox1.selecteditem.ToString(). I am looking to implement the identical functionality in a listview so basically listview.selecteditem.ToString().

Thanks again.
Dan

Useful read Ahmed but wasn't quite what I was looking for - however thank you for the reply I appreciate your time :)

Apologies Sergey - to be honest I was rushing and didn't even think about including the code which is unusual for me. I have no solved the problem but thank you taking the time to reply even if only to tell me to put more :)

My pleasure a community doesn't work without sharing :)

Thank you for the two links the second helped me out in a big way and I have no completed it :)

Thank you for the reply Kuthuparakkal, I have already used the top link and that doesn't seem to have the answers I am looking for. I will read through the second and see if I can gauge where I have gone wrong.

Thank you again for the reply.

He is saying buy a proxy server....simple.

Yes thank you I have, that is why I asked for GOOD guides not the normal drivel that comes at the top of google.

Thanks for the reply, I worked out the issue. The problem was the image locations, for some reason they were not being included in the project which was causing the nav bar toload incorrectly.

Looks interesting cheers for that

thanks for the reply mate

:) cheers mate

nice resource thanks

oh dear oh dear

nice answer 5*

I must admit that's a funny looking bit of c# code!

cdeing is frustrating at times!

it works mate all that was me being stupid appreciate your reply pal!

I had actually already done that but took it off for some silly reason while I was messing around. I have put them in and it has thrown:

XamlParseException
'Set property
'System.Windows.Controls.GridViewColumn.DisplayMemberBinding' threw an exception.' Line number '58' and line position '18'.

any ideas?? line 58 is the <gridview> line

updated solution

Any idea what kind of hardware would be required mate? like I said atm in the ideas phase! Cheers for the reply!

you are right rob the problem is 3g and GPRS can sometimes be soooo sloww its painful! and a text would send as soon as enough signal is gained. Well in theory!

money's not so much an issue will look into that cheers

That sounds like an idea, I had a similar idea but I though it would be nice if you could write the 4 numbers in a text in the correct order. Then comp pics it up enters them into db. Job Done. Alos with a text, like you suggest, if it is not sent instantly it wold be sent as soon as signal is gained

cheers for that mate didn't realise that!

This is a nice answer 5*

nice answer 5*

Cheers mate, that link would be idea if anyone can find it. When you type"hack" into google its hard to trust anything that comes back without a recomendation at least!

Thanks - now fingers crossed someone can give me a useful answer lol

Totally new question, how difficult is it to implement SQLite or SqlCE into the project I have already created - I have been using SQL server 2008. I am new to c#,WPF and using SQL servers etc, so I am learning as I go along. Any help is appreciated greatly!

Thanks for that John

thanks for that mate will have a look :)

thanks mate I will have a read through - Appreciate your time again mate seem to be my saviour atm!

hey mate sorry slow reply, Just tried it I did need it but throws a dif error now:

"Exception had been thrown by the target of an invocation"

and now this error comes up on build so I know theres a problem somewhere in the laoding of the db data

You need to say what you want to save, where you want to save it, what format you want, what your acctually saving - need to be fa rmore specific

YESSSS YOU GENIUS! Life saver! var Food = (FoodData)item;and pass parameters as Food.FoodName, Food.Calories etc. worked like a charm! Thanks digimanus for spending most your morning trying to help and thanks Prerak for picking up the end pieces!

I wil edit question to include the code

Right ok, so how do you get the value of a 'subitem' so I can place it into the database? This is becoming a pain!

sorry apologies that was when I was messing around with the code and forgot to chnage it back!

Thanks for all your help mate, I will repost a question asking why subitems doesn't seem to want to work and see what I get. After looking at that site like you it looks like it should work I can't see why it won't!

still getting the same thing i'll check out that site and see what it says, I do appreciate your time mate came to a standstill with it!

It says that item does not contain a definition for subitem pal

Will do mate will try it in a couple of mins just got to grab a coffee, codeing can be a tab stressfull when you get stuck!

oh for god sake dodgy format will put it in code block on question

ObservableCollection<fooddata> FoodCollection = new ObservableCollection<fooddata>();

public ObservableCollection<fooddata> _FoodCollection
{get { return FoodCollection;}}

FoodCollection.Add(new FoodData
{
FoodName = foodNameTxt.Text,
Calories = Convert.ToInt16(caloriesNum.Value),
Quantity = Convert.ToInt16(quantityNum.Value),
FatContent = fatNum.Value,
ProteinContent = proteinNum.Value,
CarbsContent = carbsNum.Value});

public class FoodData
{
public string FoodName {get; set}
public int Calories {get; set;}
public int Quantity {get;set;}
public double FatContent {get;set;}
public double ProteinContent {get;set;}
public double CarbsContent {get;set;}
}

The XAML simply binds the columns of the viewlist to each of methods above within the FoodData section so:

<gridviewcolumn displaymemberbinding="{Binding FoodName}">

Hope that's enough info!

Yup be 2 mins - I am on 2 comps so just copying across now - would you like the xaml also or just the code?

I just tried this mate and it didn't work but thanks for your help. Wasn't me who 1 voted by the way.

I think the problem is that I am not looking through the listview for the right things, I am telling it to look through the list of items and for every item insert certain params into the db. But how do you know which params are actually being taken from the item? My item has 7 params as you can see but I don't really understand how it is taking the value from each column of my listview and placeing it in the db. This is deffinetly from a lack of experience and im a bit stuck! Thanks again for you rhelp

Spot on mate, thanks for that :)

I put it in the forum - lost 100 rep points in 30 seconds because someone thought it was spam and down voted me 4 times on my comments wooo!

No problem John I will remove that, I don't mean to cause offence or upset just simply want an opinion on my work so far.

Good shout will add that, I did consider it to start with but wasn't sure if it left the pages to bare. I will try pad it out a bit! The Links was an oversight I must admit thought they opened it same page will fix that!

Where would you suggest putting it Mark, I haven't got a clue where it should go?

With respect since you have helped me before where else would you suggest putting this? Also would you prefer me to just wack up my source code instead and let everyone have a good look, I appreciate as Mark has noted this may be the wrong place to ask for it but spam deffinetly not

:)Thank you very much fro your reply it was much appreciated

That answer is possibly the best reply I have had on this forum since I have joined it. I would like to say a big thank you to you for taking the time out to write this. It is much much appreicated!

Thanks for that, i am sure the limitations won't effect my app. The app is in WPF at the minute 2 litle questions would it be easier to convert it to silverlight or leave as wpf? Also is it only IE that supports WPF or will firfox etc also support it? Thanks again for the reply!

cheers for that, that doesn't look bad at all

Thanks John, I have had a brief look but not fully I must admit. I will have a look at it.

I should have explained it was a windows application however, the 2 style examples are very nice!

what do you mean by the text is selecting?

Simple error wasn't acctually my SQL that was wrong, I had an if statment that could not be executed due to another variable being wrong. I have now changed the query to use parameters though I has total forgot to put them in! Thansk for the replies guys

John, To be honest with you im pretty new at this so using try and catch blocks doesn't come naturally to me yet so me putting it in the wrong place doesn't surprise me! I will alter the code to ensure the sqlconnection and other bits nad bobs are within the try catch :)

spot on mate cheers :)

Thanks :) appreicate your time :)

spot on thanks :)

Thank you very much for testing that :) it was me being niave searching for how to chose one row in sql and not realising that depending on the server it differs. But again thanks for your help :)

Thanks guys its was a combination of all 3! 5* appreciate your time :)

Thanks guys its was a combination of all 3! 5* appreciate your time :)

Thanks guys its was a combination of all 3! 5* appreciate your time :)

argh! something so simple! Thanks very much! 5*

Right so as I understand it, the certificate is to say basically this program does not contain a virus. Do I need to update the cert at all, also will this effect deployment onto another system. Thanks for the reply I do appreciate your time.

Right so as I understand it, the certificate is to say basically this program does not contain a virus. Do I need to update the cert at all, also will this effect deployment onto another system. Thanks for the reply I do appreciate your time.

Cheers for that Christian, I havn't quite got the knowledge to write my own Win32 app but I will deffinetly look into it!

Thanks for that maybe slightly more indepth than I was looking for, but top quality resource! 5*

yeh just the code block's a bit messy lol I like my code to look nice to!

spot on mate thats great thank you!

sorry about the editing, looks shocking when i copied and pasted it in

this.Close(); won't close the excel app, it closes the actually application. But this.dispose() may work will have a try!

Well the multiple openings, I believe, has come from the testing. I hadn't realised that the prog wasnt closing excel properly so ran my app a few times and ended up with loads of excel's open.

I have checked the code and there isn't any multiples in the code. Lol its very frustrating!

cheers, it was the last paragraph I hadn't done I knew you needed to add the reference but then coudn't access the control. Thanks again

5* I would also possible suggest putting the OS on a SSD instead of a standard hard drive the quicker the better

Sounds liek my course, I have done some Java,JSP,C etc but seems at the minute that VC# and WPF are the most popular languages for alot of applications. Thought I best jump on the band wagon, I don't want to get left behind before I even start!

my 5*

very nice 5*

thast great appreciate it :)

will have a look for that cheers :)

cheers for that :)

cheers :) yeh im doing a BSc Computer Science degree however my university doesn't teach Microsoft technologies so I am teaching myself on my gap year! Cheers for the link :)

Thanks, the problem seems to be that my boss has employed me to make it easier(its not a software company its construction) so of course my boss has no real knowledge of software or computers in general! He literally hired meon the basis of I thought I could make it simplier than how they do it now.

Then a month down the line and IT managers get involved (I presumed they would have been consulted first) and it goes a bit belly up!

Yes I have been paid for the month so its not all downhill, just seemed bit of a waste of time and money as I am sure you can appreciate!

again thanks for the reply as I said more frustrating than anything!

basically as far as I can gather, they are concerned when/if I left the company no one other than me could maintain the software if need be. The chap I spoke to told me they only buy software in yet they have hired me as an in house developer :s. It's going to be a long day!

I am an employee. Cheers that might well be the case of the matter absolute joke!

Thank you :)

nice answer

nice didn't know you could do that, found a solution to if you look below but yours is "nicer" than mine :)

Thats great SA much Appreciated :) - Dan

cheers for that :) yeh you are right it was a bit of a "google" question. I had already looked at both your links and still struggled to understand what it does. msdn doesn't really explain it in "English" very well! Appreciate the reply though mate. I think I need to look at the constructor for xlWorkBook.Close for more info. :)

cheers for that :)

cheers thats the one :) thanks for the help

cheers for the reply and the link. I have made simple apps in c# and some more complicated with java. I am pretty familiar with excel(usage on a daily basis for work etc). Right ill have a look appreciate your time bud

cheers for the reply, tried it and unfortunatly get the same result! I have got it to throw me an error messgae now thanx to the guy above i've now got:

A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.)

any suggestions?

cheers for that, thats really helpful :)

When I go into server explorer where do I need to make the connection? At the minute the data is on my local machine, obviously why local connection string works, I have just looked when you mentioned and the connection string is the local one I have shown above. Sorry if Im sounding inexperienced, I am! C# and servers are new to me!

yes bud, but I don't think you can set: Window.WindowStyle = WindowStyle.None; because it isn't a window its a page and doesn't contain the property for this.

Sorry. What I mean to say is. Is it possible to remove the default windows styling from a page such as the back and forward buttons the surrounding windows border and the min/max buttons in the corner? I know you can do it with a window but can't seem to edit the properties on a page. I'm looking to set a custom background to change the shape of the window.

Basically, Im making an application where I want the user to be able to navigate around the application much like you would a web page I guess. At the minute I have been using multiple grid panels and collapsing them, then bringing them back when needed. This is quite obviously not the way to do it so I did abit of digging around online and a few suggestions came up either use this Iswitchable or use something called Magellan.

ISwitchable seems to be using a class that controls all the other pages and allows you to switch between them using buttons to enable multiple pages within the same window. I have only looked at this tonight and it is getting late but it seems the ideal solution if I can build my app based on it.

Here is a link to the site: http://azerdark.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/multi-page-application-in-wpf/[]

Cheers appreciate your time anyway bud

Yeah I know its a massive subject and I need to do some major research and reading into this is there any books you would suggest are a good read? Thanks for the reply :)

lol my 5+

cheers for the reply pal

cheers for the reply pal, never used it before hadn't got a clue what to do with it!!

lol agreed 5+ but maybe a bit to much for me!!

Yes the idea is a nav bar with a details section, On the first click they will be sent to enter there details which once submited is sent to "Overview" page. The overview page will have the ability to edit which will then direct them back to the original details section where they can alter anything they need to. If that makes sense?

cheers for the reply wasn't quite what I was looking for, however that will come handy on another button :D

Thanks very much 5+ :)

:) cheers, just a quickie. I have a button handler that seems to have alot of code in it basically on press it calculates a persons bmi should this calculation really be in there or in a seperate class? Again im not really being strict on the MVC/MVVM architectures but I know when it looks like theres to much code!

Thanks again!

cheers that's brilliant appreciate the reply :) 5+

5+ very useful much appreciated response :)

5+

Just used the links below and there spot on I was doing in completely wrong! Cheers for the replies 5+

cheers for the quick replies guys, I was looking into making my own with custome design etc. I am using a tab control on wpf however I can't seem to find the alignment property at all. One of the website I found suggested that but liek I've said can't seem to find it in a tabcontrol on wpf any suggestion there?

Cheers Kim appreciated again :)

I am a university student in my second year (just finished) and c# is not part of our syllabus, so I am trying to learn it during my summer. For some being told to use a datatable would be enough for them to find the answer themselves but like I say am very new to this language and have no real guide other than a couple of books I have picked up. I have never used a database in code other than with JSP so to me everything to do with linking a database to a GUI is completly new to me. I work mainly by example I find it much easier to see a piece of code that is similar to what I need and work backwords to its understanding than sitting reading books which 99% aren't really in 'English' Mark is deffinetly correct in what he has said but As I've said im new and it's nice to see an example rather than 20 pages of text I struggle to stay awake for when reading it!

Thanks again guys for your input

thank you very much that is perfect :) appreciate the reply and your time

yes I have and with respect pointing to a website or a book would have been appreciated snidy comments aren't

Cheers, literaly just found it the option to change identity to true as I was checking the reply. Appreciate the reply :)

hey sorry for slow reply, I am using sql compact 3.5 at the moment but I am currently downloading the full sql server 2008. I am still stuck with this problem I have been through all the suggestion i.e. changing the protocols to enabled and still getting the same error. Definitely starting to frustrate me now!

The Northwind database exists as far as I know on the local machine server and also within the project itself. I am just checking out the suggested website now.

Thank you for the reply, that is exactly what I am looking for appreciate your reply. Confused the hell out of me I didn't realise that needed to be changed I just presumed that remote connections would be enabled seems to make more sense to me! Then again presume nothing I suppose! Thanks again for the help

Thank you for these links, liek I said I am new to useing databases in c# and much appreciated your time to posts the links I have looked through them and they are/will become very useful!

cheers for the reply just looked at that and makes no difference still get the same error havn't got a clue why!

that website doesnt exist

thank you appreciate the feedback I will have a read

thanks for your reply. I am totaly new to c#, I am a student learning c# as an extra language. The windows forms do seem to be confusing me abit and causing me all sorts of problems. for the application I have briefly explained what kind of structure would you suggest to use. Thanks again for your reply

thanks I appreciate your reply. As you can tell im new to c# and to be honest using visual studio is not helping, there seems to be so many (Wrong) ways to do very similar things. What kind of structure would you suggest for such an application?

thank you very much, that is exactly what I was looking for :) appreciate the reply!