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• Sorin Sandu No Debug?

  My new installation of the Feb05 CTP VC# Express seems to have come without a debug capability.  I don't recall seeing that as a feature missing from the express editions.  Both the Solution Configurations and Solution Platforms list boxes are blank and disabled.  The Project Configuration tabs have no Debug/Release/All Configurations selection capability.  In short, there appears to be no way of setting up a debug build alth ...Show All

• Ness22 Auto Save (Vb.NET Express Beta 2)

  The change in code was automatically saved each time I made a debug run. Is there an option to disable the auto save function like in VB.NET 2003 Thanks. I don't think so, but as a work around, just close any files you've modified before closing the IDE and you can choose to not save changes. Is there a way to disable the IDE from saving your changes when you ...Show All

• Yogesh Prabhu Changing the desktop bakcground

  Does anyone know how I could change the desktop background in C++ There's a group policy option called Active Desktop Wallpaper. See if you can utilise that. See this thread , or try asking in one of the newsgroups. Is there a way to us that to set an HTM(L) file as the background Anyone ...Show All

• humbara Newbie question: DB Connectivity

  Hi, I'm comming from Delphi world, and learning from 0 the VB 2005 Express. Is it possible to connect this product with DBMSs like PostgreSQL or MySQL, using ODBC or JDBC Thank you, Guillermo Hi, Connecting to MySql DB. Using C# using EID.MySqlClient; MySqlConnection oMySqlConn = new MySqlConnection(); oMySqlConn.ConnectionString = "Data Source=localhost;" + "Database ...Show All

• Jon Woodcock How can you use data from a textbox in a Word document ?

  Hello, I have a problem regarding the text from a textbox. I have a textbox on a form and a database and in C# code I am creating a word document and I want to put in it what I have in my textbox and some fields from a table from my database (SQL Server), which is something else everytime I run the application. Can anyone help me, please Regards, Monika hi, you said you have a problem is the problem in how to do it , or somet ...Show All

• Scott Prugh Failed to start monitoring changes

  i'm not sure if this problem belong to this forum, but it started only after a start to use visual studio express (web developer). when i try to build a website i get the folowing error: "Error 1 An error occurred loading a configuration file: Failed to start monitoring changes to 'Z:\lina\a\pics' because the network BIOS command limit has been reached. For more information on this error, please refer to Microsoft knowledge base a ...Show All

• Amit G Is this possible? Should I use VB or VWD?

  I very happily discovered the launch of the Express editions of Visual Studio last week, and have been toying around with the interface.  I know some HTML/CSS and used to program a bit on Visual Basic 6, but I never got much farther than "newbie".  I, however, am quite independent and pursue projects that look nearly impossible, work on them for months, and investigate almost all of how they're done on books, MSDN or Googling. The poin ...Show All

• lennie How to publish ?

  I want my program to be install in a particular directory, for example c:\program files\abc, I cant see where can I force the publish wizard to do so. Beside that how do I include an external file into the project Like a readme.txt, or a mdb database which has almost nothing to do with my application This cannot be an accident. The "best" IDE ever. No question. deploy...impossible. Why would they do this ...Show All

• Partha Datta How to register

  Greetings,    Could anyone lead to me the link to be able to register my copy of Visual Studio 2005   I purchased Visual Studio 2005 Standard edition and came across this page... http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/regbenefits/ but have no clue on how to actually register my copy. could anyone lead me in the right direction Thanks in advance John It should of asked you to register at the end of the install. If not, you ...Show All

• Kalisurfer STL bug in the CRT. fix?

  Hi! ibe read this bug report about std::iostream leaking memory. It sais there that "the issue has been resolved, and will be fixed in the next version of visual studio". Im not quite shure how to understand that. Does it mean that we will have to live with this bug till VC2008 (or 200xx) comes out In very few words, is there an update, fix, patch or whatever to correct this issue in VC2005 express ...Show All

• AmitDesai Run a program from my program

  What C++ command should I use to run a program from mine. Example open a ".txt" file with notepad when I hit a button in my program. Use the system method. Search for it in msdn at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/_crt_system.2c_._wsystem.asp Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• jbranton Custom MonthCalendar Control

  I want to create a custom monthcalendar in vb express - I need a small image beside each date & the ability to change this image for various dates. I was planning to use a usercontrol with the monthcalenar & picture boxes beside each date then write some code to be able to figure out which picture box is beside each date. Does anyone have any better ideas about how to approach this Steve. So, ...Show All

• Nakrad Finding the highest integer in a set of numbers or string of numbers

  Hello, I have an xml file containing a number of news items each with a unique id field. What i'm trying to do is finish off my add news procedure. So far it creates the new item fine, all that remains is to get the program to make the variable, for the id) one higher than the biggest id already in the xml file. I'll try to explain: xml file has many items e.g.: <item id="4"> <item id="8"> <item id="9"> etc. and i can get ...Show All

• Jan_Alexander Access modifier confusion!

  I'm new to C#.NET and my question may show that! I have a form which I designed visually prior to run-time and it is the main form of the application. I have a simple progress bar on it. From this form I create an instance (call it object X) of another class, and I want this class to show it's progress by updating the progress bar on the main form. How can I reference the progress bar from my object X so that I can update the progress O ...Show All

• Stine Are we going to get an Express RC Release

  Does anyone know if we can expect an RC Release of the Express products Inray - There is an RC release of Visual Studio available on MSDN, but there will not be another public release of Express until launch. Thanks, Luke Hoban Visual C# IDE Program Manager That's too bad. I'm sure that beta users would discover even more bugs before the final release. I would doubt ther ...Show All