Waquas s's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Properly exit an application that doesnt wanna die

  Been asking a lot of questions lately, but I guess thats what these forums are made for so here goes another one... In my application I have an exit button, and also use the same code for the Form_Close event, incase the user clicks the X instead of my "Exit" button. What do I do to properly exit. If I do "this.close()" it closes, but if I open the Task Manager, I see my application still running, just not visible. If I throw an Application.Exit(); in there, it does the trick. I have read that this is a nasty way to exit an application however. Should I call dispose() first, then app.exit If this.close isnt closing the entire application, ...Show All

• .NET Development What is remoting?

  Please suggest a book or some example   Vikram wrote: Hi, While I agree with Hussein and Nicholas, I would still recommend you read the blog of Matt Tavis where he has some recommendations regarding the usage of .NET Remoting. http://blogs.msdn.com/mattavis/default.aspx Regards, Vikram http://dotnetupdate.blogspot.com/    It should also be noted that remoting is not going to be enhanced beyond 2.0, and that EnterpriseServices has been noted as being the easiest in terms of upgrading to Indigo.  For all intents and purposes, Remoting is now a dead end.         & ...Show All

• Windows Forms Background image resources cause VS error

  I have a few buttons on a Windows Form that I am applying an image to (or a background image). Things look fine in the designer, until I close the tab for that Form or leave it and come back. Then I get the following error message and I cannot view the Form in the designer: One or more errors encountered while loading the designer. The errors are listed below. Some errors can be fixed by rebuilding your project, while others may require code changes. The designer then proceeds to give me an error for every image resource, along the lines of: MyProject.Properties.Resources has no property named ImageName Any idea what's wrong with ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Sparkle Interactive Designer (on Windows XP)

  I am trying to install Sparkle onto my laptop, it is xp (sp2) iwth Office 2007 beta 2, VS2005 and the various .net frameworks and betas including WinFX Runtime Components Beta 2. Everytime I try to install the error asks for me to install "windows presentation foundation 6.0.5295.60113". I am puzzled as I had no problems with Graphic Designer or Web Designer and all 3 betas will install fine onto my desktop Can anyone pinpoint what 6.0.5295.60113 is and how I can either download it or transfer from my deskotp pc Good afternoon Thomas, thank you for looking at this thread. I did have WinFX Runtime Components 3 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Suite 2005 + SQL SERVER 2005 + TEAM FOUNDATION SERVER on one machine?

  I have one spare computer with Windows Server 2003 Enterprise installed.  I would like to have both the Application Tier and Database Tier on this machine.  Is this possible   Can VS.NET Team Suite 2005 Beta 2 exist on the same machine as SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 Team Foundation Beta 2 I have not been able to successfully install all of these products on one machine.  I read somewhere that with Beta 1 the application tier and database tier must be separate, but is this still true for Beta 2 Any help is appreciated. This scenario is completely supported in Beta 2 if you use the April CTP of ...Show All

• Visual C++ how to add dialog events and override functions in vc++2005?

  in vc 2003 i could use the class that was created for a dialog and rigth-click on it to open the add virtual fucntion dialog and select from  a list of virtual functions or open the add message handeller dialog to sellect from a list of message handellers(functions that will respond to the messages). this way has some advantagres: 1- usefull comments and common codes are automaticly added(like the serialize OnCtlColor OnInitDialog). 2- also i do not need to take care of return type and argumants and capital or small letters when i am declaring the function and i do not even need to type them. 3- in case of message hande ...Show All

• .NET Development System Requirements for .Net 2.0 runtime

  What are the target system requirements for .NET runtime 2.0 Thanks Oren, Thanks.  The .NET Framework 2.0 Beta runtime download page had what I was looking for.  As for development, the fastest machine I can lay my hands on is where that will be done. Mike. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions sql express hosting

  Can anyone recommend a hosting provider who can offer sql express db Everyone I find is sql2000 or access. thanks hi, i guess in registeration benefits there are a hosting offer about 30 or 90 days i don't remember i guess this will help you to test, but for sure its not express edition at least its SQLServer 2005 but it will run your database that you creat by express edition, also i think the asp.net forum would have more information about that hope this helps ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Crystal Reports XI Release 2 Developer and Visual Studio Express 2005????

  I understand that Crystal Reports is not INCLUDED with Visual Studio Express 2005. However, I have PURCHASED and installed Crystal Reports XI Release 2 Developer edition on my machine. Is there ANY way to install the Crystal components from the Developer Edition so that I can access them from within Visual Studio Express 2005 Thank you, Mike The good news: You can use crystal reports with Visual Basic Express The Bad news: There are serious limitations with what you can do!!!! The details: I am writting an app that creates monthly reports of sales for all customers of a specif ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MSF presentation help :)

  Hello everyone! I am a student and I have to do a presentation on MSF. I have decided to title is "A different approach to Project Management," I was wondering if you experts here could gimme some pointers, like what are the strong points of MSF and weak points. I have been reading the whitepapers online, but I thought it would be good to ask you people here that have seen it in practise and really do KNOW the real advantages. Any help much appreciated. Thanks, Regards Mike Hi, You can find papers and more content on MSFv4 at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/teamsystem/msf/ ...Show All

• .NET Development Framework 2.0 beta2 breaks IIS 6.

  Hi all, I just installed a fresh copy of Windows 2003 Enterprise RTM x64.  Then I installed VS2005 beta2.  Finally, I installed SQL Server 2005 April 2005 CTP.  Here is the problem.  The framework broke IIS6 completely!  For some reason my application pool is not starting up. Here is the error from the event log: "ISAPI Filter 'C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50215\aspnet_filter.dll' could not be loaded due to a configuration problem. The current configuration only supports loading images built for a x86 processor architecture." Okay, so how to I configure ASP for 64-bit   Any suggestions would ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to select a task pane at startup?

  hi, I have a Windows form application that via menus should open the same VSTO workbook. The workbook should have the ability to present a different task pane at the beginning, depending on the menu action selected by the user on the Windows form. The issue is that I have not found a way to do this: the "tag" property is not accessible from the Windows form, and the "Open" method does not offer the option to pass parameters. Any hint on how to achieve this The reason why I want to use the same workbook is because the logic for the different tasks already exist in it. Thanks for your help Doriak ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Need help with for and pictureboxes

  I'm making a map editor to make maps Every tile is a picurebox. In the menu there is a command "New" wich will load all the default pics into the picturebozes, so you can make a new map i created this for statement dim i as integer For i = 0 To 391 PictureBox(i).image = My.Resources.Image_default Next i But this doesn't work. There is something wrong with the PictureBox(i).image Please help me. I'm using vb2005 Thanks in advance, Radexxion "There is something wrong with the PictureBox(i).image" doesn't really give much idea of the problem you are having. Have you created an Array called ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System New Project, New Web Site menu items missing

  I have just installed the Team Suite. Now, should I be able to use it without the server Under File->New, I only see 'Team Project'. Is that how it is supposed to be If that is the case, I assume I now have to install the server part too. That wouldn`t be good... Thanks Rob. I apologize for not answering earlier, but I never got alerted about your reply. I decided to completely reinstall XP, Visual Studio... Btw, I dont remember choosing any profiles. I think the problem was caused by installing Team Foundation Server before installing Team Suite. Off the topic but... Is there a good tutorial on usi ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX Extensions for Alias Maya 7

  When will the export X for maya 7 be released Or is there a way to convert 6 binary or 6.5 binary too work with 7 Right now, the quickest way to get Maya 7 support in the Maya Preview Pipeline is to compile it yourself (the code is available).  While I haven't tried it, it should compile fine with 7.0 once you set up the paths to the 7.0 version of the Maya SDK. ...Show All