gotelin's Q&A profile

• Visual C# Can I use "Virtual Space" in Visual C# 2005 Express Ed?

  There is no option to set "Enable Virtual Space" in the texteditor of Visual C# 2005 Express Ed. This setting was in Visual c#. NET 2003 and I am used to it. When this option is set you can move the cursor up and down and it doesn't go the last character of each row. Is there any solution for it any setting in the registry , or anything please help I'm blind. Yes, You are right. That was the solution. THANKS! ...Show All

• Visual Basic "runtime error '94', invalid use of null" error

  hi all, I have an app that uses ADO to connect to an Access database and let me access the the tables within. I have written an EDIT form which lets the user bring up all the values for a record in the recordset, the user can then edit these values and save them. Some of the entries in the recordset are blank and these seem to be giving me problems when i try to copy them into the text boxes on my form, I keep getting the error "runtime error ' ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is using this.object (C#) or me.object (Vb)more efficient?

  Just wondering whether more explicit code:  this.object.Property=true; is more efficient than using just:    object.Property=true; Many thanks in advance, I don't use 'this' because the VS wizards use 'this'.  That way I know if I or one of&nbs ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista ASP.net and workflowaborted

  Hi, I have a state machine which works fine until it reaches the Completed State. At this point, it doesn't complete, but the runtime raises the workflowaborted event after a long period. Where's the problem I use SqlPersistenceService for persistence. Thanks Here is how I usually debug problems like this. Run the workflow in the debugger - but before do Ctrl-Alt-E - this brings up the exceptions di ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System keyword / tag / whatever expansion

  Does VSTS support the concept of "keyword expansion" as has been in use since Tichy invented RCS I've checked in some files and when I check them back out none of the $Author$ $Date$ etc things have been altered. What's up is there some setting we have to do like in VSS <super YUCK> and tell VSTS which files can have expandable keywords in them This is a not a feature in V1 of the product. ...Show All

• SQL Server Prompt for user input in criteria field of view

  In Access, I use [Enter Date] in the Criteria field of the Query. I tried the same thing in SQL Server in the Criteria field of the View and it does not recognize this. Is there a comparable command in SQL to get user input into the Criteria field of a view Hi, you either have to use a procedure with an input parameter or have to put a condition on the query with querying the view with: Select * from So ...Show All

• Visual Studio Determine location of common folders?

  Does MSBuild provide any way to discover the location of common folders on the current system I'm specifically thinking of the "Program Files" directory which has different names in different localized versions of Windows. NAnt has a convenient <sysinfo/> tasks that loads all sorts of local system information into predefined properties, including the name of "Program Files". Anything like that in MSBuild ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to use an animated gif?

  I was wondering if there was a way to play an animated gif I tried setting the source of an image to a gif file but it only loads the first frame of the gif and that's it. Unfortunately for V1, we have not automatic way of animating a GIF. This is something we are looking at fixing for the next version. One workaround would be animate the different frames manually. ...Show All

• Visual Studio report viewer newbie

   hi, i'm a newbie in using report viewer and having a tough time now building a web app in c# and asp.net.. hope someone can help me on this. i'm using VS2005 and RS2005. i've tried looking at the sample RssNewsReader but i have problem running it. error message : Could not find type 'RssNewsReader.ChannelInfo'. i think this is because i don't have system.ComponentModel in the reference and i don't have this dll file in my ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem with Asserted Permissions

  I have code that is hosted in IEEXEC. The same code can be run from a local or remote file and it will work. When it runs from IEEXEC it fails because of code access permissions. (The code is trying to use remoting to connect to a host that is other then the one it is loaded from.) The assemblies are strongly named and fully trusted. I found an article that indicates the following line of code will allow code in a fully trusted assembly to do ...Show All

• .NET Development How to get URL querystring value

  Hi, Like Page.Request.Params in Asp.net . What is the equalent in Webmethod to retrieve the parameter values.(framework : .net 1.1) bye murali Huh   .NET webservices don't use query strings. Your web method takes in variables.  So in C#, you'd have something like public string MyMethod(string myString) { string str = "hello " + myString; return str; } To use the webservice in your application ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Setting up Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 for directX

  I just can't get the DirectX samples from the samples browser working (provided with directX), when i try to compile them i get linker errors DXUT.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol DXUTmisc.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol I have installed DirectXSDK(dec.) and Microsoft Platform SDK. I have added the paths in tools->options [Projects and solutions]->[VC++ directories] to both Platform SDK and Directx ...Show All

• Visual C++ Will porting a project from Visual C++ 6.0 to Visual C++ 2003 improve look of GUI?

  We are about to embark on upgrading from 6.0 to 2003 (and possibly 2005 to follow shortly afterwards). We are fairly sure this will give us some nasty headaches through compiler changes, but what we'd like to know is will we get a more XP-like look to our UI through compiling it with the newer libraries - The project uses MFC. No! The GUI isn't part of the libararies (MFC/ATL/CRT) they are bound to the windows v ...Show All

• .NET Development Reg the SQLBulkCopy Class

  Hi for my application, I have to do a bulk transfer of records to my Db(MS SQL). But the Records have to be fetched from different db.May be Oracle,MsAccess. What i was doing was, opening a connection to the db and move the records to a dataset. After that moving the records to my db using for loops. Now i came to know about the SqlBulkCopy class and found it interesting. My Doubt is, if my db is Oracle and i have fetched the reco ...Show All

• SQL Server Limitation on Multiple parameters with Multi-Select and default values

  Dear Anyone, I created 6 parameters in my report. Each of these parameters are multi-select enabled. Each of their available values comes from a data set. Their default values also comes from a data set in order to have the select all check box selected by default. My problem is only the first 2 parameters gets to have the select all selected. And the rest just have blank values. I was wondering if RS parameters have some sort of limitation that ...Show All