pdonelan's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ I want my ClassWizard....

  Ok so I like a lot of the stuff in VStudio 2005. But why did you guys take away my classwizard Also I want my property pages easily accesible like they used to be. I could click on/ tab to a control and hit alt-enter and boom the property pages would pop up.. now i get this ugly all property view... My 2 cents... Adding new stuff to improve the product is great but taking away stuff just impedes productivity. We really appreciate your input. Could you please log such opinions and sugestions at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/default.aspx . Please describe in details why it is i ...Show All

• Visual C# combobox question

  what am i doing wrong here i have a class with 2 member variables text and value i am putting multiple objects of that class into a combobox like this vtdOfferNumber = new ValueTextSet(); vtOfferNumber.Value =  Convert.ToInt32("123"); vtOfferNumber.Text = "hmmmm"; and then setting the display and value members cbxOfferNumber.DisplayMember = "Text"; cbxOfferNumber.ValueMember = "Value"; The entries are showing up however they look blank. Only the selected ones text is actually showing up. I can select the other ones and then that selected ones text will show up. But none of the deselected ones. I don ...Show All

• Visual Studio Running Document Table

  Can any one please clarify me about the running document table in VSIP. can we extract the values from it One use of the enumerator would be to enumerate all open documents to see if they are dirty.  I did this today for Team Foundation integration.  We iterate through the RDT to see if any documents in hierarchies "of interest" is dirty so that we can prompt the user to save them.  To do this you get the RDT enumerator and then call GetDocumentInfo function to get it's hierarchy, persistance info, etc. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions unable to write to db (vb2005Express to SQLServer2005Express)

  Hi, keywords: vb, visual basic, sql server, 2005, express, write, read, only, readonly, insert, update, delete I'm working through Bob Tabor's excellent VB Tutorial for Absolute Beginners.  I hit a snag on Lesson09.  I can't write to SQL Server 2005 Express. REF: Absolute Beginner’s Video Series at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/learning/ Using my code, Bob's code or auto created code, I can NOT write to the database using any control other than the VB2005Express Database Explorer show table data tool. The controls do populate correctly with data entered via the show table data.  But the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problem with Visual C++ and Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004

  Hi, yesterday I have installed the Visual C++ Express Edition and now my Media Center doesn't work anymore. When I start it there is an error in ehRec.exe and than the Media Center is terminated. How can I corret this error I looked in the product feedback center and it seems it might be a problem with the 2.0 .NET framework, but only the beta. Are you using the beta Look at these cases http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx feedbackid=1824f9fb-acb0-44df-bf4e-80cdaa784248 http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx feedbackid=55c48583-d0ca-4685-b6a7-d31fa7 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Cross-Thread Help, I DONT GET IT!

  I know this has been asked a million times, but I just cant seem to grasp the concept here. Could someone please tell me how I might proceed in resolving the following Cross-Thread situation I am using the SerialPort control on a form, when new data comes in I run a routine that will add a new record to form. The simple problem is that I have BindingNavigator on my form and it will not update it's record counter when I do this. Therefore, I am trying to simply insert a BindingNavigator.Refresh method into the SerialPort DataReceived Event. This is where I get my cross-thread error (as one would expect). I hate to appear so helpless ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro MSComctlLib.TreeCtrl.2 Problem

  Working with the treeView Control I ran into an unexpected problem. It appears to be impossible to collapse a node branch programmatically. Collapse is an event, not a method and when I tried to use it as a method I could not get anywhere. I also tried to employ DblClick with the same negative result--the tree does not budge. Aside from Collapse I will need Expand as a method not event, although I am using it as even already. The expansion perhaps can be best accomplished by THIS . Nodes . Item . EnsureVisible Questions: (1) Is it true that this control has no such capability (collapsing nodes programmatically) or I am doing ...Show All

• Visual C++ Loading Custom Controls or Windows Forms at Runtime

  I am working on a new application architecture in VC++ 2005 and I would like to load my own custom controls dynamically. How do I do this I have attempted several different methods but to no avail. More Information: I have a set of custom controls which I built using the "Windows Forms Control Library" project selection. The controls are stored as DLLs. Normally these controls are linked to through the IDE/project settings and placed onto the form at design time, however, I need to be able to load them dynamically at runtime based on certain events. Basically the contr ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro report labels

  hi all,im making new reports during run time according to users actions.for example he selectes some fields from comboboxes then he puts in a text box a value that is for the "where like.."and i save the results in a temporary table.from that table i create report and the i report form to print the new report..the problem is that the new report has as labels the names of the fields..for example if the field name is costomer_id it shows costomer_id is there a way to change in run time the name of each labe so that when you choose for example costomer_id it will print Identification Of Costomer.. the reason is that if i can change the label i ...Show All

• Visual C++ Newb Question [How do I compile?]

  I'm using Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition, and I can't find out how I compile my .cpp script.  I'd appricate an answer... Thanks First you need to create a project. Try "File > New > Project > Visual C++ > Win32 Console Application". Thanks. ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot in install samples.

  When I try to install the x64 version of the AdventureWorks sample database I get an error indicating that the file is corrupt (data1.cab). Is there another version or somewhere else I can go to download the sample .msi files Currently I am going to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=E719ECF7-9F46-4312-AF89-6AD8702E4E6E&displaylang=en and downloading SqlServerSamples_x64.msi and AdventureWorksDB_x64.msi. Thank you. Kevin Burton rkevinburton@charter.net Hi Kevin, You're right, there is a problem with that .msi file. We're working on a fix this week and should hav ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Undoing a changeset?

  How do you back out of a changeset   I was experimenting with branches and merging and I made on a change on a branch when I intended the change for the trunk version.  BTW, I can see this being a problem because the VS editor MDI tabs only give a filename (not directory) and so does the solution explorer.  It would be nice if there were some visual cue to indicate that a solution you have loaded is not the "primary" version you work with but a branch instead. Brian and Buck - Thanks for the feedback on the feedback :)   I hear ya on it being V1 - and we all know there ain't no V2 unl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System function of SourceLookup

  Hi, I have a question on the function of SourceLookup: For some rules I do not get SourceLookup(file and line) information (all pdb's are available). I have listed the rules concerned below. Is at these rules no SourceLookuppossibly or is this a bug CA1035 ICollection implementations have strongly typed members CA1039 Lists are strongly typed CA1049 Types that own native resources should be disposable CA1051 Do not declare visible instance fields CA1402 Avoid overloads in ComVisible interfaces CA1405 Com visible type base types should be ComVisible CA1711 Identifiers should not have incorrect suffix ...Show All

• Visual C# How to Refer a C# dll over the Network into a VB6 Application

  Hi , I am using a dll created by a C# project in my VB 6.0 Application. I am refering the dll from the Project-> Refrences from the VB 6.0 IDE the dll which i am using is now in the local system say " C:\Project\MyInterface " can any one help in refering this dll from another machine over the network. Thanks and Regards, Suraj you have to register assembly as COM object on local machine for this you must use Regasm.exe http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cptools/html/cpgrfAssemblyRegistrationToolRegasmexe.asp frame=true you probably have to set Security policy as ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista where to get directshow SDK??

  Ok. .. i don't get this. At first, the new directx SDK release didn't have directshow. After about an hour's worth of searching, I find out that it was removed in the April release. So then  i  downloading the Feb.2005 release and it's still missing what's goin on I'm downloading the original sdk to see if it will have it ... also, anyone know where to find directx 8 SDK Can't find it ANYWHERE. I need to develop on hardware which is directx 8 compliant. How to go about this Thanks!   YOU CAN GET HERE ...Show All