Wyck's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problems installing the platform SDK

  I am having problems running the windows installer. (in order to extract the SDK) The steps I took were: 1)Download x86. version from web. Using web install. (I have a cable internet connection) 2)Go to the installed file and double click on it. 3)It opens and brings up windows installer. 4)Windows installer never opens. (I left my computer for about 20 min to see if it was opening slow).   That is the problem. In the end i had to abort the installation. Any help is appreciated. I did what you told me to do 1)checked updates and added all updates 2)attempted to run the window ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Insert a blan line

  How can I insert a blank line in a smart document I wan t to insert some text, then insert a blank line an then insert some other text how can i do this Thx Hi Try something like that: object br = WdBreakType .wdLineBreak; Application.Selection.Range.InsertBreak( ref br); Regards ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Bug in Sequence.cs

  The "Average" extension method, for the overload that returns a "decimal ", has a bug. If all elements are null, it throws an EmptySequenceException. It should return null. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System WebTest failt with ISA Server

  Hello, I'm testing a web application in our intranet accessible from my development machine. In Visual Studio .NET 2005 beta I can record the web test but when I run it from the same pc I get an error from ISA (Http error BadGateway): Error Code: 502 Proxy Error. The ISA Server denied the specified Uniform Resource Locator (URL). (12202) I guess the authentication is transmitted from the web test. How can I do it without generating the code Thanks, Pierre Hello Eric, you are right, deleting the proxy I can run the test. I cannot use the IP address since it's a multi-homed site. Thanks for your help. Pierre ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Code Analysis Policy

  I was looking to create a Code Analysis Policy for Checkin but noticed that the docs are still under development. Is there a pointer to a blog anywhere on this slee, Yes, you can indeed sign up for the checkin event using the docs in the extensibility kit.  I don't know for sure, but I would expect there's an example in there. There are couple of forum posts that show subscribing to events, such as this one. http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=11700 Buck ...Show All

• .NET Development Retrieving mehod parameter values using Reflection

  Hi, i want to dinamically retrieve parameter values from method, i founded how to get parameter names and types, but I can not find parameter values, that were passed to method call Here is sample code: public class TestParameter { public int a; public string b; } private void WriteLog( TestParameter test, string m) { string _ExecutionContext = "" ; MethodBase methodInfo = System.Reflection. MethodInfo .GetCurrentMethod(); _ExecutionContext = "Method name: " + methodInfo.Name; foreach ( ParameterInfo piParameter in methodInfo.GetParameters()) { ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How do i create validation to verify that form field is in read only mode ?

  How do i create validation to verify that form field is in read only mode I have page with form on it where some fields are in disabled mode. I know how to use form field validation role to create validation for field name and value, but i would also like to check whether the field is read only or not read-only. For example. Here is te part of html code from my page where some form fields are read only: <TABLE border=0>   <TBODY>   <TR>     <TD>Mana lielisk Pr mija</TD>     <TD><INPUT class=disabledInput id=PolicyPremium readOnly &nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server How to reduce the time when using a variable

  Hi, I have a table with column value like '123 345 678 143 648' like that. What I need to do is I have to take each code value and put it as a new record in another table. So, if I say 'Select substring(column_name,1,3) from table' then it is very fast (fraction of second). But since I need to take each code and the # of codes in each record may vary, I am using a while loop to take each code and so I delclared a variable @i and now my select statement is like this: 'Select substring(column_name,@i,3) from table'. Interesting now this select statement is taking almost 2 mins for each iteration. Why it is like this Is there any way I ca ...Show All

• Visual C++ static initialisation order

  Is it possible to call a global object inside another global object constructor There are techniques which can make this happen(like construct-on first use).But can it work without these techniques I would like to know if the following code make sense which is in an MFC App in constants.h const CString BLANK = ""; in CApp.cpp #include constants.h CApp myApp;//CApp is the MFC global application class CApp::CApp() { m_Str = BLANK; } The code given above is found in an exe which is working fine for years.How is it working What is the technique involved for making sure that BLANK is initialized before myApp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions C++/SDK fails to link empty app

  I've installed Visual C++ express and the SDK as per instructions - everything makes sens, but when i try to do the last stage of the SDK set up - build an empty app - I get link errors such as: test1.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__DispatchMessageW@4 referenced in function _wWinMain@16 All paths look ok in the paths setup, i've tried both the GUI way of putting the SDK paths in and editing the file as well - everything appears to be fine but still it won't build, I've even deleted the local settings/.... file as well all to no avail ... HELP!!! Looks like perhaps its trying ...Show All

• Visual Studio Question: If the ? char is a specified char ?

  Experts,    I wrote a task and pass a parameter in. details as follows: MSBuild file ------------------------------------ <ItemGroup>    <MyItems Include="c:\common3. \*.*"></ADDL_LIB>     <MyItems Include="c:\nodes.600\*.*"></ADDL_LIB> </ItemGroup> <Target Name="MyTask1">     <CopyMyTask      PARAMS=="@(MyItems)"/> </Target>    In my task, I can get the PARAMS parameter. However, MSBuild only pass a member (c:\nodes.600\*.*) to task and the count of PARAMS' member is ...Show All

• Visual Studio 'Unable to find the report in the manifest resources' - Build Action is missing??!

  Hello, I have just upgraded my VS2003 project to VS2005. Had a million things to fix, but I'm finally down to the last few. The biggest remaining problem is my Crystal Reports don't work. The error message is below... On googling it the answer seems to be I have to include the *.rpt's as an embedded resource. However, and this is the really odd bit, the properties that should show up in VS2005 to allow me to do that are simply missing! No matter how I fool around with it, there is no Build Action property when I select a file in the Solution Explorer. I notice that if I create a Windows application in VS, the Build Action property ( ...Show All

• Windows Forms Designer Verbs for Forms

  Is it possible to add designer verbs to forms  I see lost of examples of adding designer verbs to other kinds of controls but not to a form. Thanks. Hello N!Is, I couldn't find any solution too. Because derriving from DocumentDesigner is not a complete one. Thus I did some research and with some time effort I got a clue. Just look at first example here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.designerattribute.aspx As you can see there, they're messing w ...Show All

• Windows Forms datagridview fit to content min size

  I noticed that when size to content is set for the columns, there is still some buffer space between the right edge of the text and right edge of the cell for all cells. What's the best way to size a column so that the longest string has to space to "move" in a cell I could use measurestring but I'm not sure how that takes care of the column that displays the row headers (headertext is offset by some amount I do not know). ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Express Silent Install

  I have been trying to get the SQL Express install to run in silent mode (/qb), but it is failing right after the "System Configuration Check".  It jumps to "Setup Progress" and dies.  If I run it without the /q it works fine. I have also not been able to get the "/l" switch to work as expected.  It is possible that I have been going around and around with so long now that I am just missing something really simple. Here is the command line that I am trying to use: sqlexpr.exe /qb SECURITYMODE=SQL SAPWD=password DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=2 instancename=MSSQLSERVER " It is possible that I hav ...Show All