Jeff Berger's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 setup fails immediately

  Hi, I'm installing Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite from the Beta 2 DVD handed out at one of the recent MEDC events. I have: Windows XP Pro + SP2, 1.6Ghz, 256MB RAM, 4Gb disk space free. No problem with the DVD drive that I am aware of. No previous betas installed. I have VS 2003, eVC++4.0, Embedded Visual Tools 3.0 installed. Following error appears: AppName: setup.exe AppVer: 8.0.50215.44 ModName: setup.exe ModVer: 8.0.50215.44 Offset: 00029002 Any ideas I can send the full error log if you give me an address. Regards, Ade W You could try running FileMon or RegMon and see if they throw up any erro ...Show All

• Windows Forms FindControl.

  Hi everyone, Does anyone know what would be the similar of FindControl method from Web library to from Windows.Forms library I need to get what controls do I have inside a panel, like TextBox, etc. Thanks in advancing. Doria Hi Doria, I see that you want change the value of a property. I use the following code to do this: PropertyDescriptorCollection props; PropertyDescriptor propParent; QPictureBackGround mp_object = new QPictureBackGround(); props = TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(mp_object); propParent = props["PropertyNameToChangeValue"]; propParent.SetValue(mp_object, NewValue); If you look the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Problem while publishing Metadata for IBF< VS2003 - IBF 1.5 >

  Hi Folks, I am trying to publish metadata for an project which access WebService to get the data. [ Customer records from Northwind database - SQL Server ] i have done with all necessary coding. but while i am trying to publish the metadata i am getting following error: "The underlying connection was closed: Unable to connect to the remote server" plz provide me some pointers regarding the solution for this. Thanks, Hemant ...Show All

• Windows Forms event associated to pressing enter (on the keyboard) while I m selecting a row in datagrid

  I wonder about 2 things: 1/ How do I force in the code the cursor (to select or give focus) to the first row in my datagrid. when I do the method: datagrid1.focus() it doesn t select my datagrid it doesn t do anything. 2/ I want to trap the event of selecting the datagrid in my form. the code bellow doesn t doesn t work: Datagrid1_KeyUp( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles DataGrid1.KeyUp If e.KeyData = Keys.Enter Then func2() and when I remove the condition If e.KeyData = Keys.Enter The code executes for all the keys and not only for Enter key P.S: I don t have a problem ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Styling Listbox items with DataTemplate and VisualBrush

  I have a simple object with three string fields. I put instances of the object into an ObservableCollection to databind to three listboxes (each field in one box). My data templates look like this: < DataTemplate x:Key = " FieldATemplate " > < Canvas Width = " 60 " Height = " 70 " > < Border BorderBrush = " Black " BorderThickness = " 2 " > < TextBlock Text = " {Binding Path=FieldA} " /> </ Border > </ Canvas > </ DataTemplate > < DataTemplate x:Key = " FieldBTemplate " > < Ellipse Width = " 50 " Height = " 50 " > < Ellipse.Fill > < VisualBr ...Show All

• SQL Server Update column with 8 digit random number

  How can I replace a field for each row in my table with a Randomly generated 8 number value The field is of type int that I'm updating Hi, try this here: SELECT RIGHT(REPLICATE('0',8) + CONVERT(VARCHAR(100),CAST(RAND() * 100000000 AS INT)),8) HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Issue installing Visual Web Developer 2005 Express

  I am trying to install Visual Web Developer 2005 Express. The setup file and all installation files has been downloaded, but 1/3 into the .NET framework 2.0 the installation freezes. I am running Win XP sp2, Danish version with .NET framework 1.1 installed + Hotfix + Danish language package. After rebooting I have tried to uninstall the .NET framework 1.1 + language package, but that is not possible as it complains over a running installation of .NET framework 2.0. Only the hotfix could be uninstalled. Windows Update suggest, of course, the installation of the hotfix again and when trying to do that, the installation of the .NET 1.1 ho ...Show All

• Visual C# problem with property update...

  using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.Diagnostics; namespace test { public delegate void D (); public interface IA { event D Event; } public struct A : IA { public int i; public event D Event { add { //assign value here i = 123; } remove { } } } public class C <T> where T: IA , new () { public C() { T t = new T(); t.Event += new D (Raise); Debug .Assert((( A )( IA )t).i == 123); } void Raise() { } } class Program { [ STAThread ] static vo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Integration between Currituck and Documents

  Regarding the use of WorkItems and documents on the same project. How is planned the integration between this "sometimes" similar items , for example, what happens if one of the documents of the Methodology enlist all the Requirements of the Application, of course this requirements will be stored in the WorkItems database like Requirements type. So, are there any plans for "living documents", documents that take information from the WorkItem Database Coatl ... ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Using VB Linq in web applications

  How can I use VB linq in a web application I saw a thread with a hack telling to change a csproj file (in c#), but I created a new website and there is no vbproj file for the application. Is there some way to make visual studio use the prototype compiler for VB 9.0 in web applications Are you using the default web site project (app_code, etc), or are you using the 1.x-style Web Application project template that Fabrice provides links to in that thread ...Show All

• Visual C++ MFC of Visual Studio 2003 Profissional on Express Edition

  Hi! I have bought the Visual Studio 2003 Professional and it brings with the MFC library. I would like to know if I can copy and use the mfc libs and headers in the Visual Studio 2005 Express Thanks Victor No! 1. The Express Version has no Resource Editor. 2. You need to recompile the MFC libs because VS 2005 will link against the VC 8.0 CRT. 3. I am not sure if the Eula allows this. Afaik it is only allowed to recompile the MFC Libs under a new name. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Can't get TabControl TabPages click event to work

  I created a Smart Device project in VB 2005. I added a TabControl with 5 TabPages on it. I added various controls in the tab page, but I need to get some code to work and have to test it. I installed a click event on the tab, but it doesn't work since a breakpoint on the code inside the event doesn't catch the click. I've tryed other events as well, but none of them are working either. Can anyone give me an idea as to why this isn't working Thanks. Hi Tony, Did you add the tabcontrol event handler via the VS designer or did you "manually" typed in the event havdler function Doe ...Show All

• Visual Basic How can I create a date control that validates and confirms that the user is entering a valid date

  How can I create a date control that validates and confirms that the user is entering a date in the right format (mm/dd/yyyy). I don t want to create functions that validate the data that he user enters by checking that the first 2 digits are less than 12 (meaning it s a valid month). I guess VB does that automaticaly (I have VB.NET 2003) and am developping VB windows forms (not asp forms) I m glad I m now a memeber of this fabulous forum. Thanks folks R.Tutus rtutus@hotmail.com how can I make it just a "text box control" and not as a "combo control"; without the scroll down arrow just like a text box and when re we supposed to ...Show All

• Windows Forms 2005 Internet Explorer Wrapper

  hi all i have read briefly that there is a wrapper for Internet Explorer in Visual Studio 2005.  has anyone come across information on this, or can anyone point me in the right direction i want to capture the html stream prior to display in IE so that I can filter it.  suggestions more than welcomed as i am new to the subject. thanks Richard I suspect you are talking about the fact the whidbey includes a webbrowser control. This doesn't have anything to do with IE per se. ...Show All

• SQL Server Help with Report Filter on bit field

  I have this filter for my report table : expression                         operator         Value =Cstr(Fields!work.Value)         =                        'True' My report's table isn't returning data, but in preview but if I run the dataset, there is clearly some valid records tha contain 'true' for the f ...Show All