ehanders's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ How to incorporate Web browser in a MFC service tool?

  Hi folks, A very Happy new year to all. This is the first of the ever encountered problems this year. I hope to find somegreat programmers to solve my prob: Here is the problem: I have made a small problem in VC++ 6.0. Used MFC. I am working to create a service for my application and also wish to have my app visible in the tool tray always. I have sucessfully encorporated the later my app is visible in tool tray and the app is wor ...Show All

• Windows Forms Hide certain standard control's properties from designer

  Hi, I created a custom control which inherited from Forms.Button. There's no problems to create & expose custom properties but... I cant find anyway to hide the standard Button's properties... Note that I'm using J# Thanks override the property, apply the Browsable(false) attribute. . . call the base property to access it. this is c#, but the approach should be the same: public partial class ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Enterprise 64-bit does not release memory

  We have implemented a new SQL Server 2005 Enterprise (64-bit) in our environment, and I continually see SQL Server grabbing more and more memory from the server, but never releasing the memory back. I have to stop and restart SQL Server in order for the memroy to return to normal. I know there is a difference between 32-bit and 64-bit environments regarding memory and addressability, but I do not see this on my 32-bit SQL Servers. There are 4 ...Show All

• Visual C# System.Runtime.InteropServices.InvalidComObjectException: COM object that has been separated from its underlying RCW...

  Hi, i'm doing some test using the .NET 2.0 TestTools and Visual Studio 2005. The code below is pseudo code just to demonstrate what i'm doing. Im testing a singleton class that creates an COM Instance somewhere during construction/initialization, so the classes state will be keep the same in all tests. The Problem is, each test runs for itself, running all test will give a strange result - the first test succeeds, all other fail (see below, ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Setting a static ListView background image

  I'm trying to get a static, non scrolling background image into a ListView in C# 2.0. I posted about it in the Windows Forms forum here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/showpost.aspx postid=163999&siteid=1 and was told to ask over here. If anyone has any ideas as to how I could do it, I would appreciate it. Actually, that was what made me think that it was possible. If they can do it, why can't I But I've y ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Reading Page Directive attributes using C#.

  hi, i want to extract page directive attributes value using C#. i will just pass the name of ASPX file and retrieve the directive info. do we have any DLL or API available or any other way of reading page directive info. please help if any body have idea about it. thanks Check out System.Web.RegularExpressions.SimpleDirectiveRegex. This is pretty close to what you're looking for; you can't just pass it the filename but you could read the te ...Show All

• Visual Studio VSS 2005 Mraks all new DLLs as new items

  Hi, VSS2005 shows a strange behavior.   When I compile my web service project, VSS adds all new DLLs to the project and new file. The BIN folder is excluded from project, but VSS keeps adding it the source control project.   This behavior is obviously a bug. Is there any workaround for that   Thank you, Alan Hi Alan, If I understand your situation correctly, you are probabl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Source Safe 6.0 can it be used on Visual Studio 2005?

  Hi. Hope you can help with a question. Can Visual Source Safe 6.0 can it be used on Visual Studio 2005 Thanks. Best Regards Cecilie Hi Cecilie, Yes, VSS 6.0 can be used with VS2005. However, the user experience is better when VS2005 is used with VSS 2005. When using VSS 6.0 with VS2005: - to get new files added in database to web projects you will need to select the web node in SolutionExplorer and do GetLatestVersion; The Get... dial ...Show All

• Visual Studio Shared files are not marked with any special icon

  I noticed that source safe shared files are not marked with any special icon in the solution explorer. This is very inconvinient, since anybody can forget that a file is shared and harm other projects using it! Thanks for reporting this. I opened a suggestion bug for this, but it's unlikely we are going to change this behavior for VS 2005 release. Hopefully we'll fix it in next realease... Thanks, Alin ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to make an uninstall file for deployment

  can any one plz help me on how to make an uninstall file for my installation package  of my project There is no built in support to do that, but here is one idea that might work. 1. Create a shortcut file on your file system with the following command: MSIEXEC /x {ProduceCode}. You can find the product code in the Property Grid after selecting the Project in the solution explorer. 2. Change the shortcut extension from LNK ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Build always checks out most of 'Bin' directory? (VS2005 Team Suite RC1)

  I searched a bit for this, but VS2005 Team Suite has been checking out most of my 'Bin' directory each time I open OR build my solution. Has anyone seen this before Is this simply an option that I have forgotten to turn off or is this a bug fixed in RTM Its a very annoying behavior, because often I just want to build the solution and don't have any pending changes, but because its checking out everything all the time it picks up all the Bin and ...Show All

• Windows Forms Local Network / Webservice Business Layer

  Hi I am developing a windows forms application that is consuming objects from my Business Layer used by web applications I have developed earlier. The windows forms  application is supposed to run locally or off site consuming webservice. I would like to  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office PDS Server Extensions: Error Code 9008

  Hi, I am writing a PDS Extension. When I try to access it through the PDS Webservice, I get a STATUS code of 9008, which is the rsExceptionMain according to the PDS documentation. Can anyone tell me more about this exception Thanks, Adrigo Adrigo, this forums is oriented primarily at VSTO technologies. Please use MS Project oriented news groups for the PDS related questions. Here is a link whe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Testing an outside website and going to an ISA server

  One of our environments (our staging env.) can only be accessed via the Internet. That means if I need to access this site, my request needs to go out through the ISA server on the the Internet to the staging environment. I have no problems recording, but the playback even after I have set the proxy, my id and password is failing. The response header shows: HTTP/1.1 407 Proxy Authentication Required ( The ISA Server requires authoriz ...Show All

• Visual C++ VS .Net 2005, how to disable intellisense...

  Hi I am really frustrated with the performance of VS .Net 2005. This is because I always see at the bottom "updating intellisense..." and it uses 60% to 70% of CPU. How to disable this updating of intellisense... Please this is making Visual studio unusable. Thanks Chandra Traian, We did a lot of work to increase Intellisense precision in VC8 so what you mention seems a little suprising. Could you post a sa ...Show All