KvRaji's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio VSS sharing help!!!

  Hello, it's me again. I'm having trouble with sharing files in VSS. let me explain. I have 2 projects. both of them have some files that are common. When uploading them to VSS i want to eliminate redundency by putting files that are the same in a "Common" folder. But if a user want to check out one of the project with VS2005, how can the IDE see where the files are located in VSS and also respecting the original structure of the ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView - functionality

  Hi, I have a question to this DataGridView control shown here: click I don't know how to achieve two of these effects: a) "This is custom drawn text" - how can I achieve something like that b) There is for example an image column but one cell hosts a ComboBox ... how is that done Thanks oh ok, I just solved problem b :) Works just like thise: dataGridView1.Rows[2].Cells[0] = new DataGridViewComboBoxCell() ...Show All

• Windows Forms ToolStripRenderer Drawing Problem

  Hey, I started using the ToolStripRenderer class today, to render my own style for my MenuStrip, although I ran into a problem. I created an event handler method to be called when the RenderToolStripBackground event is raised and currently I have a few lines of code in there providing a gradient background. When I did this, I noticed it rendered the same gradient to my menu strip background and all of my menu items backgrounds at the same time. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Access Developer Extensions

  I have bought MS Office Pro 2003 specifically to develop programs in Access. I want to legally be able to distribute it with runtime so I purchased VSTO on my laptop that has XP Home. I can't get it to load!! I tried following the instructions that say to first load VB Prerequites, then VB standard, Then the library etc. etc., but if I put in the Prerequesites CD it then says to reboot and put the VB Standard in. When I put the VB standard in it ...Show All

• Visual C# configuring Windows services

  I have created a background windows service, i am able to configure the "user-name" and "password", but i am not able to configure the recovery actions, i.e., first failure.. second failure.. can any one guide me to configure that programicaticaly or does any one have a sample code to acheive that. thanks, venkat. Take a look at the following code on thecodeproject htt ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem Connecting to MSDE 2000 from VB.NET 2003

  I'm stuck on something and looking for any direction to assist... I am creating a windows application in VB.NET 2003 which connects to an instance of MSDE 2000 Rel A called "MyDatabase". I have a database called TEST on this instance. I can connect via the Server Explorer and also via code. Everything is fine on my developer machine. I use the following connection string: Public Function ConnectToDB() As Boolean Dim C ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Estimating time and assigning scenarios...

  1- Isn't a scenario always broken down into one or more tasks for developers to impelement 2- If the above statement is true, then why do we assign scenarios to individuals Why do we assign scenarios to anyone at all, since implementing the scenario would actually mean implementing each of its individual tasks 3- Is it correct to estimate a time for a whole scenario Shouldn't we actually estimate the time for each task requried to be done to aco ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can't fing the go to last position in VB.NET 2005

  Hello, I am new to the .NET (I work in VB6) and I miss one function from VB6. In VB6, I can press SHIFT + F2 to go to the definition of a procedure. In .NET, it is F12 (I can change it to SHIFT + F2), but I can't find the goto last position (CTRL+SHIFT+F2 in VB6) to go back to the line where I made SHIFT + F2. How can I do it Thank you Marc Hello, Thank you very much, it it exactly what I was looking for Ma ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Connecting to a Remoting Server from an addin

  I have remoting server that publish a singleton object. The object has some primitive objects and another complex object as properties. If I use the remote object from an .exe application i don't have problems. But, If I access to the remote object from the addin (In the same Way!!!) I have problems accesing to some properties. If I try to debug and ask to the Visual Studio to show the value of some properties the IDE hang up... :( The ...Show All

• Visual Studio Help Integration Wizard - How does that really works ?

  Hi When we build a setup project using HIW, I can see by checking the source of the vdproj file, what the setup is making, and I don’t see nothing special, apart from adding some merge modules and the HxS file. I also checked the need for the “CollectionFiles” folder, and specially the “IntegrationWizard” file. So, if we build a setup from scratch, everything works as expected. But if we change it, the setup stops registering the help in VS. W ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS2005 Pro install failure, _2959_... file not found

  Installing VS2005 Pro from CD or hard disk copy gives the following: Error 1311.Source file not found: d:\vs2005\vs\_2959_RTL_x86_enu_VBProjectItems.cab Verify file exists and that you can access it. The file does exist. Running from hard disk as described in section 1.3.6 of the readme has same result. Could this really be a bad .cab file Thank you in advance.   Sounds like it. Tr ...Show All

• Visual C++ I decide to be a VC++ MVP in this new forum.

  //come on, asked me questions.   wrote in message news:3279ecee-5298-4062-afa3-6b97effe360d@discussions.microsoft.com > How to multiply two decimal number and get their result without using > any floating point variables VarDecMul perhaps -- With best wishes, Igor Tandetnik ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Timeout expired exception

  Hi, I have a program in C# that I used to run on Visual Studio 2000 and SQL Server 2000 without any problem. Now I upgrade to VS2005 and SQL Server 2005 and get and exception while insert via SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery(). the insert is after many inserts to the same table by that program. the CommandTimeout is set to 600 (in the 2000 version I never had to change the default value of 30 seconds). the insert is through a connection th ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro How to open the table exclusive for ZAPping?

  Hi Sir, To be able to PACK/ZAP a table it must be open exclusive, such as USE myTable EXCLUSIVE .... My question is, Why there isn't a place in data enviroment (TAB DATA) to stated that myTable should always open EXCLUSIVE so I can pack/zap anytime Please tell me where is the proper place (the way) to open a table exclusively SELECT myTable USE USE myTable EXCLUSIVE thanks Joe If the table is open and you want to use it exclusiv ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can I do MS Charts ?

  My work need to statistic by charts but I don't know how to use it Please give me some lessons about MS charts. Thanks in advance ! A little list with Chart Controls: Cristi Potlog's Chart Control for .NET C# 3D Charting A Charting Custom Control using Microsoft OWC A flexible charting library for .NET I do not recomend using MSChart, because this is old COM stuff you don't want in .NET. Because there are better controls availab ...Show All