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Hi, hopefully this is the right place to post this. Whats the best way to handle a many to many relationship in a windows form? The relationsip involves a student having multiple courses and vice verca. However each student would be viewed individually and it would just need to list …

Hi, apologies if this isn't the correct thread for this question! I'm running some web tests on a couple of sites, simple stuff to gauge average page load times etc. However the internet provided here is through a cache and makes the test fail in most cases because the test …

Hi whats the best MS developer certification currently? I've noticed that the MCAD is mostly retired now. thanks!

Can anyone out there recommended a decent piece of software for testing a .net web app? Just need to test simple things like logging in, submitting basic data. Thanks in advance!

Hi I have a c# console app that calls some access 2007 queries. One of these queries throws an error "Undefined function 'MonthName' in expression". I understand that some functions that are available in VBA cant be called from c# and if i comment out the 'monthname' function the call …

Hi, I have inherited a project from a colleague and have an intersting problem. The project attempts to deserialize a type 'Client' into a new 'Client'. [CODE] Client mainClient = null; using ( stream = File.Open(resourceFilePath, FileMode.Open)) { BinaryFormatter bin = new BinaryFormatter(); mainClient = (Client)bin.Deserialize(stream); } [/CODE] this throws …

Hi, I have recently finished a windows desktop application for a client that connects to a sql server database. Throughout development while the server instance was on my local machine the application and server communicated fine with the connection string below [CODE] <add name="myString" connectionString="Data Source=myServerName;Initial Catalog=&quot;myDbName&quot;;Integrated Security=True" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" /> …

Hi, im my c# windows application i have some reports involving currency. However the way to set the format that I've seen "C" sets the currency symbol to the dollar sign instead of the GBP sound which is the one i need. I've checked my systems regional settings and they're …

Im doing some reports on a c# winforms app ive been working on. I want the reports to generate upon a mouseclick (IE not be visible all the time) and the best way i can see to do this is use the mouse click to open a popup form with …

hi, im about to finish a winform app for a client and I was wondering about the most common ways to handle connection strings. I know you can change the path from within appConfig to whatever the path may be on the destination server but are there any established approaches …

Hi, I have a c# windows form app that hanldes memberships. When the user click "new member" a second form pops up where the user can enter in the new data using the details view. When complete the user saves and closes this second form, returning to the original form …

Hi, in my project I need to allow the user (admin user) to have the ability to run custom queries on the database. Ive done this pretty simply whwer the user enters their query and the reults are set to a datagridview. It would also be great however to allow …

Hi, I have a windows form application that is designed to monitor payments made within agreed timescales. Once a timescale has passed any payments that are outstanding will get assigned as arrears. What I need to decide is the best way to handle the task that checks if the due …

Hi, in my windows form application Im using a microsoft report to generate receipts that show amounts, dates and userId's for those that have taken the payments. What I need to do firstly is where the userId's are displayed currently (as a foreign key) i'd like to show instead the …

Hi, is there an accepted emthod to print a selected row in a datagridview? I've done some reading and gotten as far as printing a page via the printform but I wondered can you drill down into certain rows or certain datagridviews? thanks,

Hi i'm using a table adapter.insert() method to add new data to my table and i need to get hold of the id of the inserted row. I've read around and seen that the most popular way to do this is with SELECT @@IDENTITY as Value but im not sure …

Hi, I am trying to disable a button until a condition is met in my program. I have two numeric up down boxes and a button, but I want to have the button disabled until the two numeric up down boxes have a number higher than 0 in both of …

Hi is there an accepted way to calculate the number of times a specific day would come round in a given timespan? For example if we have 32 as a variable that represents the number of weeks I would then need to find out how many times the first of …

Hi, I have a windows form that adds new entries to a dataset via a datagrid using the updateAll method. Im passing in an id from another form and id like to specify this in the sata thats being written to the dataset. So by default the id would already …

Hi, I have a c# windows app with a formTab on one of the forms. What I'm trying to do is pass the id of one datasource into the parameter of the query for another datasource on another tab. So effectively when the row containing the id field is selected …

Hi, I'm looking to find out how to force a refresh on a datagrid in a windows app. On a mainForm the user clicks a button to add a new record. This opens a new window. When the user has entered the data they click save and close which should …