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Re: Datagridview not changing size when changed from landscape to porttrait?

13-Mar-10 10:26

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Not Active13-Mar-10 11:42

Re: Datagridview not changing size when changed from landscape to porttrait?

13-Mar-10 11:42

No one is going to read this unformatted garbage. Fix the formatting and only post what is necessary, not all of the code in your app.

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Curtis Underwood13-Mar-10 11:45

Re: Datagridview not changing size when changed from landscape to porttrait?

13-Mar-10 11:45

Since you don't like the way it's posted fix your dam editor I used the code block to insert.
bye will not re post will ask on MSBN

Pete O'Hanlon13-Mar-10 12:27

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13-Mar-10 12:27

You do know that it's not his editor don't you?

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Re: Datagridview not changing size when changed from landscape to porttrait?

Curtis Underwood13-Mar-10 15:07

Re: Datagridview not changing size when changed from landscape to porttrait?

13-Mar-10 15:07

Yes I know its not his editor but he told me several thing such as to not post as much code well ok I won't post any Because without the code that I am using how can he tell where the problem is. I did not post anymore code than I thought was necessary all it contained was the datagridview and the print set up routine. If he did not need that then he should be able to answer the question without the code at all. But I was not thinking of him when I posted it. I was thinking of the beginners that try to follow what is going on, with out the code their lost.
Besides what portion am I supposed to post. The whole thing is interlaced with setup calls. This is a problem that is caused by logic not caused by something that is just not getting the data. To troubleshoot logic you have to have the code.

Not Active13-Mar-10 12:45

Re: Datagridview not changing size when changed from landscape to porttrait?

13-Mar-10 12:45

Curtis Underwood wrote:
will ask on MSBN

I don't think the Minnesota Sports Broadcasting Network[^] will be of much use either.

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Curtis Underwood13-Mar-10 14:50

How do I change application-scoped settings

13-Mar-10 14:50

MSDN Hit wrong key.
But the editor still caused the problem. Since it did not display the code the way it is in Visual Studio. I will not spend two or three days trying to get it to display the code to your liking. I wrapped the code in the pre tags. I don't have the time to try to figure out whats wrong with this editor. This

bobishkindaguy13-Mar-10 8:58

13-Mar-10 8:58

I am currently moving away from using the registry.
Therefore I am using My.Settings, and of course, the user-scoped settings are easy to use.

Before moving on to my question, though, I would like to comment on some undesirable user-scoped setting behaviour: User-scoped settings seem to be disappearing when my customer updates my product to a newer version. (This doesn't happen when using the registry to store settings.) It would be nice to find a way to persist those across version changes.

Anyway, I have at least one Application-scoped setting that I want to generate at runtime - it's a guid to uniquely identify the current computer, and I want to store the setting somewhere so that if more than one user uses this machine, I still know which machine has been involved in whatever user activity. I use it to track that "Joe", using "the computer over by the water cooler" changed the phone number for some customer.

Right now, I use HKLM to store the guid. Any suggestions about how to accomplish that, and besides - what's up with that!?? Doesn't everyone have application scoped settings that they want to change? I can't ask my customer to go and manually edit app.config !!

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Not Active13-Mar-10 9:22

13-Mar-10 9:22

My suggestion would be that this type of audit data should be stored in a database, not in user settings.

The settings are most likely being overwritten because during an update the config is being replaced with the default. You would need to handle this situation during the update and copy the settings.

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bobishkindaguy13-Mar-10 12:35

13-Mar-10 12:35

Yeah, I do actually store most settings in the database. The guid I referred to has to reside on the machine so I can xref it with the database row that contains the plain english description of the computer, e.g. "the computer over by the water cooler".

I suppose I could have the installer generate the guid and put it in the config file as a permanent entry at install time, but I haven't looked into how to do that. Is anyone doing that?

Re: user settings magically toasted on update:
I agree about copying the settings during the update... but that's what I was hoping to avoid... seems like work. 8^D

To do that, I guess I'd have to figure out a temporary store for them... xml I suppose, but haven't looked into the best way to write my own xml files yet. Any suggestions?

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Not Active13-Mar-10 12:49

13-Mar-10 12:49

I wouldn't worry about creating a special GUID to identify the machine, use the MAC address. It will uniquely identify the machine and is less prone to manipulation than an entry ina config file.

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bobishkindaguy13-Mar-10 13:09

13-Mar-10 13:09

Mark Nischalke wrote:
use the MAC address

Excellent suggestion, that's exactly what I will do.

Now what's the laziest way to write a quick xml file? The configuration object? Haven't had a go on that sort of thing yet, always use text files - old school.

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Not Active13-Mar-10 13:20

13-Mar-10 13:20

LINQ to XML[^] Look at the section called "The New Way"

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bobishkindaguy14-Mar-10 16:09

14-Mar-10 16:09

Thanks, Mark
Actually I was able to harvest what I needed from "the old way" because I don't need to reference .Net 3.5 to do it. So far none of my components use that. I've decided to store all my settings, do the update, and restore the settings.

BTW, I noticed a path in My.Settings:
My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.AllUsersApplicationData

I wonder if that might be a handy place to throw temp stuff like this.

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Luc Pattyn14-Mar-10 17:09

Luc Pattyn

14-Mar-10 17:09

Hi,

assuming that is the same as System.Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonApplicationData, normal users won't have write access on modern Windows versions, unless you take special care; see here[^].

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bobishkindaguy15-Mar-10 7:53

15-Mar-10 7:53

Thanks, Luc
Ou merci!

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