Simba's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Gradient colored menus&toolbars

  how can i have gradient colored menus and toolbars Thankyou Set the MenuItem.OwnerDraw property to true. Override MesureItem event & DrawItem event. Set the MesureItemEventArgs properties. Draw your menu on DrawItem event using DrawItemEventArgs and a GradientBrush. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Error on Visual Studio Tools for Office "v3" install

  Hi everyone!!! I was really excited with the release of the "v3" June CTP, and i directly go to download it, follow the instructions and then an error raised saying this: "Error 1937.An error occurred during the installation of assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Contract,Version="8.0.0.0",PublicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a",Culture="neutral",FileVersion="8.0.50727.146",P ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to create an auto-hide, dockable toolbar like Studio 2005?

  Hi, I would like to have a 'toolbar' window that acts pretty much exactly like the 'Toolbar' in Visual Studio 2005 (at least the C# Express Edition I have). That is, it 'docks', it can 'auto-hide', and it puts a litle 'tab' horizontally on the side of the window while it's hiding (so I can easily see it's available). If I can't get all that, I would like to just split my main window with a vertical splitter. The left part of the splitte ...Show All

• Visual C# Usage of Custom Attributes

  Could Any Body Let me clear where should I use Custom attribute. I Know I can declare some metadat information to a type let say method or class or ineterface and get that information at runtime using reflection.I find it's one use in O/R mapping. But Why should i declare a attribute For example I have to declare a field for O/R mapping of a field in a table tblEmployee.I make a class Employee and in it make a property EmployeeID.In th ...Show All

• Windows Forms antenna sample flaws

  I want to use the antenna feature... Setting an antenna state is easy.  How can I read it on an animal that I have in my target list - the objects that are returned via scan() Sounds like you may be using an ol ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Ann: New Content on www.DeepWinFX.com

  New content has been posted on http://www.DeepWinFX.com http://www.deepwinfx.com/Articles/ContentPropertyOfWPFButton.aspx http://www.deepwinfx.com/Articles/AnimationWithWindowsPresentationFoundation.aspx http://www.deepwinfx.com/Articles/WCFOverview.aspx ...Show All

• SQL Server Mirroring and orphaned users

  Hi there! There is still a problem with mirrored (mapped) SQL Users. If you mirror a database where an application connects with an sql user, the mapping (login / user) will be lost on the mirror server. After a failover occurs, it it not possible to log onto the new principal database because the database use will be an orphaned user and has to be remapped to the login (using sp_change_users_login 'update_one', 'user', 'user' ). Is th ...Show All

• Windows Forms Formdesigner doesn't display controls

  Hi, I have a problem with the form designer in VS2005 professional. My Form holds two TabControls, one in the other (placed ond a tabPage). The one on the TabPage again has a couple of TabPages. One of them holds a SplitContainer in which I placed a ToolStrip and a DataGridView. The Problem now is, that if I click on the tabpage holding the splitcontainer the tabpage doesn't show any controls any more. If I close my project and reope ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Question about RSS Feeder/Aggregator

  Hello, I would like to know if there is a simple example of an RSS Feeder/Aggregator out there. I did some research and found PocketFeed, but I cannot seem to be able to open up the sln in Visual Studio. What I would like to do is this: I eventually would like to offer people updates and news about the simple programs I am creating. Does anyone have experience or comments about this Any input would be appreciated. You all have helped ...Show All

• Visual C# Has anyone been able to make a COM DLL from VS 2005

  Hello Nerds.   I’m trying to make a COM DLL in VS 2005 but without much lock. I have tried doing it manually in C# setting “Make assembly COM-visible” and “Register for COM interop” and signing the assembly using a strong name key file in properties for the project, as described in the examples I found on the Net. Just for testing I made a simple peace of code:   using System; using System.Collections.Ge ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Permission to change bug status

  How to set the permission to change bug status For example, only developers can change a bug from "active" to "resolved", and only QA can close a bug. There is also an Admin, who can change a bug in any status. So how can I create some groups and give them different permissions See Tony Edwards' response in the following thread. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=259 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to use TFS best as a code-reviewer

  Hello, we are using Beta 3 Refresh of TFS along with VS2005 and the Team-Explorer. 1) I should be able to do a weekly codereview. Is there a specialized view for this Getting the whole history, opening each history-element, comparing the version with the previous version takes way too long. 2) I am missing an information: We got two branches. We merge from one branch to the other. When I do my review I would like to be able to see, whet ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Can SmartTag recognize a Excel Cell's Formula instead of Text/Value2?

  Just think of a strange question suddenly, is it possible for me to create smart tag but recognize a cell's " Formula " :) For example, in my SmartTag class file: this.Expression.Add(new ....); The "expression" correspond to Formula instead of Text Thanks, Hey Peter, Yes you can do that. I am assuming you have already created VSTO smart tags. Details on creating VSTO smarttags: http://b ...Show All

• Visual C# is there an HTML Validator plugin?

  Hi all. I would like to be able to take a string from a textbox in a standalone c# program and test if the html tags in it are valid (like if the tags are closed, etc...). Is there a plugin to do this i saw some validator of html.but they are not done in c#. i think the best valodator is at www.w3.org but like i said not i c# Why not make it your self shouldn`t be so hard you jusy need to know the sintax of ht ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Getting Previous Activity

     I am trying to get the activity that was the previous activity (or last called) of the current activity.  How would I go about doing this   base.parent just return the parent container. Calling out the exact ID will not work because the context of the current activity could have arrived from many different activities. Thanks, Mardo Any suggestions here   Basically I need this so I can make activities assign ...Show All