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• Visual Studio Express Editions Could someone recommend a good book for VB 2005?

  I'm new to programming and this is the language I've choosen to start with. Could someone suggest a good book to begin with Myself I can not image anyone Learning this trade without First taking a few Formal Courses in this Area.... But if You are Really Smart(Cgraus) you can Do It..... These are Free Movies Not Books... http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/learning/default.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualCSharp/learning/ Down load all the Movies from each Link and watch all several times... After the Experience You Will be were You want to Go..... The Second Link Will Serve you to Understand the ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How do I disable ListBoxItems?

  Ok here's my situation. I have a custom control that contains a ListBox. On some some screens, I need the ListBox to function normally with it's rollover and selected states. On one screen however, I need the items to not react to mouse input at all. It is contained inside of a Button on this screen and I need to it pass the Click event to the Button. Also I don't want the highlighted states to show on this screen either. Using an ItemsControl works great if you will never need the ListBox functionality. I have tried setting Focusable=False on nearly everything associated with ListBox to no avail. Thanks is advance for any help! Lee ...Show All

• Visual Basic Winsock

  I wonder if anyone can explain how to use Winsock in detail (I use VB express edition). My goal is to build program that close certain ports when they recive instructions from another program i vill try to build. I wonder if this is possible, and if it's then how do i do it ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System web deployment projects in drop location?

  When building a regular 2005 web with Team Build, I get what looks like the contents of the Binaries folder in the drop location i.e. '<BinariesRoot>\Debug\Mixed Platforms\_PublishedWebsites\<WebName>... When using web deployment projects I dont get either. As part of a larger build process the drop location is the area I target for msi generation for example, what do you think is the best way to get the output of all web deployment projects into the drop location without say xcopy of specifically named files/folders thanks Anu. A regression I think you need to use a more capable source con ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Build Report and associated work items

  Hi, if a developer associates some code with a resolved or closed work-item (upon checkin), that item doesn't show up in the Team-Build-Report. Even though I do see the reference and all infos, if I open up that item. This makes it hard for a tester to know exactly which things to test for in a specific build. There was a bug in Beta2 where certain types of associated work items would not show up in the build report. This issue should be fixed in the July CTP. ...Show All

• Visual C# Is it possible to add separators to a StatusStrip using Visual Studio's Designer?

  Hi all, is there a way to add separators to a StatusStrip using Visual Studio's Designer The designer only offers StatusLabel, ProgressBar, DropDownButton and SplitButton to add to the StatusStrip.   However, if I add a ToolStripSeparator manually in the *.designer.cs file, it works fine...     Best Regards Bernd Ritter It should work just fine. StatusStrip derives from ToolStrip . In actuality the status controls that you can drop onto the StatusStrip are actually just ToolStripItem -derived classes. In theory you could drop them on a ToolStrip and have them wor ...Show All

• Visual C# dataTableReader object in C#

  I am working on an app that needs to gather information from a database. Instead of displaying the information in a table it must stay hidden therefore I am using the dataTableReader object to gather information out of the datatable object. I have been having a little trouble using the table reader. My main problem is that I am using a while(tableReader.Read()) loop but the table reader never returns a false value. When it gets to the end of the data it simple returns to the start. I can preview the data before hand and everythign looks right so I do not believe that the itself is repetative. Does anyone know why the tableReader object will ...Show All

• .NET Development Big Problem: "First Chance Exception" with insert Decimal into SQL Table with ADODB

  Hello all, i'am trying to be simple. 1. I've a view on a SQL Server ==> VIEW1 2. I've a table on the same DB ==> TABLE1 ==> The fields match the fields in VIEW 1 3. With ADODB..., i populate TABLE1  with Data from VIEW1 in Visual Basic .Net. One of the fields is a DECIMAL Size=9, Scale=4 and Precision=18... here the definition in Visual Basic .Net     oCmd = New ADODB.Command     oCmd.let_ActiveConnection(o_dbConnection)     oCmd.CommandText = "SELECT * From VIEW1"     oCmd.CommandType = ADODB.CommandTypeEnum.adCmdText     oRs = oCmd.Execute  & ...Show All

• .NET Development XmlSerializer

  Hello, I'm just getting familiar with Xml.  I have used XmlSerializer to serialize my Data class to XML file.  Now I'm trying to append & in some cases delete some data to and from this exisiting XML file .  I can append a single string using XmlDocument & XpathNavigator, but don't know how to append a stream of data. Thanks in advance for you help. DonnyG Using the XmlSerializer, you will serialize (and deserialize) the entire object graph. Just do something like this: A a = new A();   // I'm assuming that B, C, and D          ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Change Domains

  I recently migrated my BETA3 TFS install to a new domain.  Everything went fairly smoothly, but I'm having one problem that I'm unable to fix.  I cannot change the user assigned to the [SERVER]\Service Accounts group.  The group has a single read-only member: the TFSSERVICE user from the domain the server has left. TFS seems to be working okay with this account as is for Source Control.  However, when I try and create a new Team Project, I get an error that I don't have sufficient priveledges to do this.  Unfortunately, I'm writing this post from home so I don't have the exact text of the error message, but I su ...Show All

• Visual C++ performance VC++ 2005 vs. VC++ 2003

  The code below runs in 17 seconds on my machine when compiled under Release mode on VC++ 2005 and in 13 seconds on VC++ 2003. This is an extract of the code so don't worry it does not make much sense. First I though it was because of checked iterators but it does not make a difference if I use #define _SECURE_SCL 0 or not. What else could it be Thanks, Bumbrlik -------------------------- // #define _SECURE_SCL 0 #include <iostream> #include <fstream> #include <vector> #include <string> #include <time.h> using namespace std ; string ReadString(istre ...Show All

• SQL Server Package execution with dtexec and in vs debug differs!

  Hello I have a package that contains a Foreach loop container. Inside teh loop a data flow task uses the loop variable as a parameter for 2 OLE DB sources (same SQL 2005 db, very similar complementary queries see below). When executed in debug mode in VS the quereis always return some rows (as they should) for each value ofthe loop parameter. I have stepped through each iteration with and withou breakpoints and all the queries returned some values. When running the package with dtexec on the exact same sources with no data being modified in the meantime, sometimes (not always at the same iteration) the queries return 0 rows! I have tr ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro how to send control codes via "???" to receipt printer

  Hi All, I am writing a POS system and using a receipt printer (Epson TM-U220D). Unfortunately the printer drivers from Epson didn't work & hence I resorted to using the Windows Generic/Text printer. I am using a series of to output to the printer, which works fine. My problem is that I need to do some form of simple formatting on the receipt, e.g. make company name bold, etc. My question is, how do I send the control codes to achieve the above Thanks all. Another possibility is to include the printer code in curled braces: "Plain text, {27}{69}bold{27}{70}, plain again" This syntax is the reaso ...Show All

• Visual C++ reference binding

  I already submitted a bug on that but nevertheless i want to know if other users met that problem. Although Beta1 was conformant on that point in Beta 2 you can write something like this: struct X{    X(){}    X(X&){} }; int main{    X& ref_to_X=X();    X(X());    return 0; } (etc more detail on the bug report) that is non standard compliant(a rvalue must be bound to a const non volatile ref). I was wondering if it is possible to have both beta1 and beta2 installed to crosstest some code. I don't believe that Beta-1 was confromant with binding temporarie ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Language

  Hi, I tried to analize my code using spanish as the language to use for spelling options but I still get spelling errors for all the words in spanish (and no errors for words in english). Is there any way to get FxCop to recognize spanish words without adding them all to the custom dictionary Thanks Oh that must have been the problem, I thought the project default language applied for the current project too. Maybe it would help if it was labeled "Default language for new projects" to make it clear that it doesn't change the setting for the current project. Thanks a lot, this was very helpful ...Show All