MrZagami's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic help regarding video files in visual basic

  hey i really need help with this one. i tried playing audio files using media player 10 in visual basic and it worked. however video files dont get played if i use the same method/coding.  can video files even be played in vb with media player or do i need to resort to some other way please let me know . waiting desperately for the solution... You'll want to drop a WindowsMediaPlayer control onto a form. Th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can not run tests on build server

  I get this error on the build server: MSBUILD : warning : Failed to instantiate type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.WebStress.WebTestRunConfig, Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.LoadTest, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a': Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.LoadTest' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. Whats missing /Chris ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to separate a complex Application?

  I'd like to create a WPF-Application. In a more complex application the .xaml-files tends grew very fast, so I like to separate components of the application in different files. Is it possible to include or to refer another component (e.g. Win1.xaml + Win1.xaml.cs) It's not the problem to include a 'StackPanel' or a 'Grid' via the ResourceDictonary. But when the gird contains buttons with click-action it doesn't work. Thanks for ...Show All

• .NET Development Logout user programatically in ASP.NET 2.0

  Hi everyone, I want to logout the user programatically in the code behind file when the session variables get lost. I have a userID Session variable setted when the user logs in that I use to many things site wide but frequetly the value of this variable is null so I want to logout the user to set the variable again. I am using the default ASP.NET way to store session state. Other question is: Do you know why a lost the session varia ...Show All

• Windows Forms designer can't load form. Where is 'more information'?

  after going from beta2 to rc1, the designer all of a sudden cannot load my forms anymore. instead, i get the infamous window with the red top that says some errors may go away building the project, while other need code changes. needles to say: the file compiles fine, the form could be opened with the beta2 and vs2003 designers and obviously doing a rebuild doesn't help at all. now what the additional error message says; Unable to load one or m ...Show All

• Visual Studio Package "Visual Studio Common IDE Package" failed to load

  I have search through this entire thing and nothing can help me. I have Visual Studio 2005 along with the sql server 2005. I have removed and install this EXACTLY 6 TIMES If you have installed it even once, you know how long it can take. Please help. This is what i am getting when i run vs2005 pro Package Load Failure Package 'Visual Studio Common IDE Package' has failed to load or properly ( GUID = {6E87CFAD-6C05-4ADF-9CD7-3B7943875B7C} ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions standard MFC and win32 API under VC++ NET

  hey What'a about with standard MFC and win32 API under VC++ NET why i must write MessageBox::Show("hallo"); instead of MessageBox(); Hi, I think that it has nothing to do with managed C++. The thing is that Show is static method of class MessageBox, thus the sintax. Max ...Show All

• Visual C# How to convert Hex to decima

  I have hex string, such as AA or 3D... I want to convert it to decimal number, when i using this code, it run not OK: string hexString = "AA"; long HR = Convert.ToInt64(hexString, 16) + 300; HR = HR/10; txtHR.Text = HR.ToString(); Is there any code to help me If I want to display var HR as full nuber such as .. 45.7 or 38.9, how can I modify code Becase txtHR.Text = HR.ToString(); alway remove digital after " . " Thank yo ...Show All

• SQL Server Cant modify sp_admessage - Internals Mystery!!! Please Help!!!

  Due to legacy issues we want to modify sp_addmessage. I am able to open it it up change the code I want to add but it wont compile. All I am doing is changing: -- Must be ServerAdmin to manage messages if is_srvrolemember('serveradmin') = 0 begin raiserror(15247,-1,-1) return (1) end To this code: if (not (is_srvrolemember('sysadmin') = 1)) and ((@severity > 18) or (rtrim(upper(@with_log)) = 'TRUE')) begin ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I tell the character casing in the string?

  Hello, I have a string, and I want to go through the string one character at a time and see if it contains at least one capital letter. I see that the only way to do it is to convert to ASCII and compare to the value of the character. Is there a better way Also, I want to do the same thing with the number. See, if there is at least one number in the string. Thank you Why convert to ASCII ! Use ...Show All

• Visual C# VS.NET 2005 RC1 -- Is clipboard ring missing from IDE?

  It used to be one of my favorite features! Formerly, from the C# (for example) code editor in the IDE, open the 'Tool Box' tab, and there was a stack of all the things you'd put on the clipboard while editing.  I can't seem to figure out where it went too...hopefully not the bit bucket... TIA, Howard Hoffman I dont think the feature is completely off the IDE. All you need to do is switch back to Code Edito ...Show All

• Windows Forms Outlook Integration

  Hi, I need to create a form where users can select time and date and click on a button. Is it possible to read all those entries and populate the Microsoft Outlook calendar Is there any sample out there  Is it possible to do Thanks! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Folder compare

  Hi, Does TFS Source Control support folder compare I was suprized that there is no question about this.. Evgeny Evgeny, TFS supports folder compare from the command line via tf diff. Folder compare is not available within Visual Studio. This is a frequently requested feature we are considering for our next release. Ed http://blogs.msdn.com/edhintz ...Show All

• Visual Basic Hide and Show Forms

  In Visual Basic 6.0 it had Whatever.Hide and Whatever.Show commands. In Visual Basic 2005 Beta 2 it does not recognize the .Hide and .Show commands. What is the right commands for this program Hi, I just tried it and it works. Remember the default-instance was re-introduced in VB2005. Unlike in 2003 in which you'll have to create an instance of your form in order to use it: Dim frm1 As New Form1() frm1. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Shape position from a template...

  Hello, 2 related questions... 1) How can I get,from a template, the position of a shape put on the diagram I'd like to obtain the x and y coordinates... 2) What about shape sizes as Width and Height Tnx in advance Paolo Arrigoni Are there nobody for the previous question :( I also need to know how to change formatting property of a shape at run time. What I want to do is to rapresent a window using a shape. In this window i ...Show All