dgrigsby's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Small Orginizations [RUP OR MSF]

  What do you people think …For Small Business…organizations having lesser number of people on hand What is the best way to adopt Process Improvement MSF or RUP You might try looking at BSDAgile as a stepping stone to moving to MSF Agile. This is an attempt at producing a minimal process for people doing Extreme Programming and should fit well into small teams. If you're a small team do you really need all the 'heavy' process associated ...Show All

• .NET Development How to read a column's value

  Using VB 2005 Express I have a form that is populated from a Tableadapter. One of the columns is a value that represents a height in cm. I want to use that value to display the corresponding inch value in a textbox on the form. So I want to read that column's value and then convert it to inches and write that into the text box - but I don't know how to identify which is the current row I'm in (when I navigate through the table with the BindingNa ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista workflow persitence

  Using SqlPersistenceService, I can save/restore an runtime workflow to/from SQLServer in running application. Here is my problem: -Run app, save workflow -Turnoff app -Run application again, try to get above workflow but not can Are the any solution for that Tx Kha, There isn't any official documentation around the schemas yet; can I help you regarding any specific tables / fields Arjun ...Show All

• Visual C# GDI+ Multi Thread

  I am using GDI+ to draw to the graphics object when an OnPaint event occurs. However, if you draw lots of things, the form becomes unresponsive until all of the drawing is done. Is there anyway to put the OnPaint event in another thread, so the form can remain responsive while the painting occurs hi, i think this might help you                 &n ...Show All

• Visual C++ Deploying a DLL

  Greetings, I have a DLL that gets loaded from (my) javascript subsystem that executes within the environment of a major, industry stanard, trading application. The DLL was developed using C++ and VS2005. The DLL does NOT use the Common Language Runtime. It uses MSMQ via importing: #import "mqoa.dll" no_namespace The good news is that the DLL works perfectly, on my system. The bad news is that if I send it to ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro richtext control and memo fields

  Is it possible to store full content of RichText.RichTextCtrl.1 in a memo field I tried to define it in a table as Display Class OLEboundControl but it did not help. I do have RTFControls class attached to the form. Thank you. Yes absolutely you can save RTF content in a memo field (and not only you can but you should do that way instead of using General field). You wouldn't use OleBoundControl. Instead you'd directly use RTF active ...Show All

• .NET Development How could I know if I am running a NGEN'ed image?

  After I NGEN'ed my program and run it, I found there is no change on memory cost and running speed. I doubt if I am still running the old version(not NGEN'ed) of my program. How can I run the NGEN'ed image directly Or how can I know if I am running a NGEN'ed image Thanks! The simplest way is to look at the fuslogvw. This would give you details as to which image was used and the reasons as to why the NGEN Image wasn’t used. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Persistence service

  Hello, We have started working with the new framework but few things are still not clear to us. We understand that the persistent service is working in the workflow level , does it mean that every time the workflow is moved to idle and we are using persistence service all the workflow will be saved to database and on Unpersist event all the workflow activities are loaded to the memory again What will happen if my workflow have 100 activities ...Show All

• Visual C# pulling forms out of applications.

  Is there a way to pull out what forms are in a particular application that get's passed in Also does any one know how to find out the name of the exe file that call's the dll Anything would be very helpful. Thanks, Matt In terms of Form-based classes contained in an assembly, you could use reflection to enumerate all the types in an assembly (see Assembly.GetTypes) and see if any derive from For ...Show All

• Windows Forms passing variables to form

  I made my textboxes on form1 public. I was able to access them through my form2, after I made a statement like form1 form2 = new form1();   Problem is, the text boxes are all empty on form2. Is this because I initiated a new form1 and therefore the textboxes are set back to their default as empty How can I access variables stored in form1 from form2 thanks. To have one form talk to another, pass the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is my understanding of the FxCop versions correct

  hi, can you tell me whether my understanding of the FxCop version is correct or not. FxCop 1.32 which has the Compiled on Runtime version 1.1 is compatible for dotnet framework 1.1 FxCop 1.32 which has the Compiled on Runtime version 2.0 is compatible for dotnet framework 2.0 (this is the verison which was released for whidbey) FxCop 1.35 which has the Compiled on Runtime version 2.0 is compatible for dotnet framework 2.0 and 1.0 als ...Show All

• SQL Server Dynamic Login & User Creation

  Hello. I'm trying to create a new login and username inside a trigger using variables. This code works: create login testUserName with password = 'testPassword' The problem comes when I try to use variables for the username and password like this. create login @username with password = @password Does anybody know how to get around this problem BTW, the error message it gives is this, but I really doubt that semic ...Show All

• Visual Basic resx assembly error

  Hello I am trying to open a project given to me by a colleage which was developed in vb.net 2003 I'm using .net 2005 beta 2 I'm getting the following error: Warning 1 ResX file The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040) Line 279, position 4. cannot be parsed.  279 0  What does it mean   - how do I proceed - thanks ...Show All

• .NET Development How to create derived datagrid column?

  Hi All, I am wondering if there is a way to create a derived column in the datagrid control.  For example:  I am creating a datatable from an ODBC data source with a few columns, one of which is a status flag that is a string displaying either "Y" or "N".  I am wanting the datagrid colum to display these values as "Open" or "Closed".  I can easily write a method to do this but how would I apply the return valu ...Show All

• Visual Basic Ordinary users can't update MDB files installed in same directory as app

  I'm using Windows Installer 3.1 to put my VB 2005 application on user machines. The destination folder is C:\Program Files\my company\my app\. The application uses an Access DB that I have been putting in the same folder. The application and data are to be accessible to all users and the DB needs to be able to accept new data and modifications. All is well as long as the user is a power user or administrator. Ordinary users sometimes find tha ...Show All