Bob Lafleur's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Express F1 Help and tool for reporting bugs?

  Hi.. just realized that the F1 help within C++ express does NOT bring up the correct information.  For example.. if I press F1 on the keyword ::GetMessage(), it brings me to this *online* help.. ServiceDescriptionCollection.GetMessage Method <-- .NET Framework doc, which is not what I'm looking for.  (I'm looking for the Win32 API doc/help) I'm realising (as I type) this that it might be caused by the fact that I installed C# and W ...Show All

• Visual Studio FormatDateTime expression

  I'm trying to use the expression editor to show just the date component of a date/time field. This is the expression that shows the whole date/time: =Fields!OrderDate.Value So I tried =FormatDateTime(Fields!RequiredDate.Value,"MM/dd/yyyy") which returns ##error. Ok, so I tried DateFormat.ShortDate, which won't compile. I tried it in quotes. I've tried just about everything. What does work is setting the format property ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Updating a combo box

  I am new to VB express and have what is probably a basic question that I just can't seem to find an answer to. I have a Vendor form which has several bound combo boxes on it. These controls display data from a parent Vendor table and a few related tables such as City. I can get the form to display, add, edit and save information for these vendors but I can not seem to figure out how to update the look up tables (or combo boxes). An example (the ...Show All

• Windows Forms Best practice when passing values between forms

  Hi, I want to pass values between forms using public properties. e.g. I want to pass "Supplier Name" from form 'A' and display it in a text box on form 'B' What's the best practise for setting the value on form 'B' Do i set the value directly from within the property or do i use the form load event to display the recieved property value Like so: Public Property SupplierReference() As String Get Return ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Filter ????

  I could filter the data in “Datagrid” by a textbox when “Dataview” tool was present in “VS.NET 2003” . I was using the following code (DVPerson.RowFilter = “Name like” & txtSearch. Text & “%”) Using this code, when I typed a letter in “txtSearch”, names starting with the letter I entered would be automatically displayed in “datagrid”. But I can’t use this code this code in VS.NET 2005 because there is no “DataV ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Programs

  Many programs that were relied on to provide security simply cannot be installed in Vista. At least not yet. Zone Alarm and Diskeeper to name a couple. Hopefully they will have updates out for them to be used with Vista. TTFN. This has pretty much happened with each version of Windows ... since security software by nature needs to be tightly coupled to the O/S (and hardware itself in some cases), they must be rewritten for each versio ...Show All

• SQL Server WITH NAMESPACES in SQL function is causing error

  Hi All, I'm getting the following compliation error when i try to execute the following function. I need your expert opinion on how i can solve this. ALTER FUNCTION [dbo] . [GetOrgChildHierarchyXML] ( @HierID int , @fiscalyear int ) RETURNS XML WITH RETURNS NULL ON NULL INPUT BEGIN RETURN ( WITH XMLNAMESPACES ( 'uri' as i ) SELECT OrganizationHierarchyId as "ID" , OrganizationHiera ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Howto: exclude .Net Framework 2.0 from VS 2005 Team Foundation Server Beta 2

  Hi, I'm trying to install VS 2005 Team Foundation Server Beta 2 on a clean virtual machine (VM) but, an error message advises that an existing .NET Framework 2.0 and an Active Directory is located and therefore is unable to complete the installation process. This maybe a result of an application incompatibility, I dont know but here's what i have installed: Operating Windows 2003 Server ASP.NET has been enabled Installed VSS 20 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Newbie needs sample "clean-build" script to study and run

  Are there any samples of "clean build" scripts that I can run prior to allowing code check in (The code needs, at least, to compile withtout errors or it can't go into source control). I was unable to locate this type of script on the TFS RC disk. Also, where is the script language used documented TIA, Barkingdog There are no samples for this yet. We are comtemplating one but it will take t ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Uninstall_Init() and Uninstall_Exit()

  can some one teach me how to use Uninstall_Init() and Uninstall_Exit() in .net compact framwork. My system will save some data into ppc registry, i want to delete those data when user uninstall my system. Can someone teach me how to do that You can not, setup DLL needs to be native. You can delete registry entries without setup DLL though. To do so add these registry entries to your CAB (e.g. with default va ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Global variable for all different web test

  Is there a way to store a global variable for all web tests I am trying to figure out a way to pass the argument among different web tests. For example, i created a new user ID and I want to use the same user ID for all web test. Probably the best way is to create a singleton object that holds the shared data you want, and then access that object from each of the coded web tests (I'm assuming you're using coded web tests; if not, it is stil ...Show All

• Visual Basic focus on command button not allowing KeyPress event to fire

  HI, I have the following problem: I have program that does come calculations. To enter the numbers to be calculated you can either click on command buttons that represent 1, 2, 3, +, -, =, etc. . .. or press them on the keyboard. The problem is if I have CLICKED one of the buttons THEN press the ENTER key next to the number pad on the keyboard, the last CLICKED button that has focus is fired (hope that's the correct word) instead of the Keypr ...Show All

• .NET Development Unable to compile asp.net code behind file using dos vbc command

  I get compiler errors when I try to compile my vb code behind file using the DOS command:   vbc /t:library /r:system.dll,system.web.dll  <filename.aspx.vb> Most of the compiler errors were references to string functions such as Mid$, Format$, Right$, Instr, etc not declared, and OLEDBError not found. Below is a part of the compiler error messages: C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\CEAProduction\CEAPremiumRenter.aspx.vb(5) : error BC30466: Names ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Deployment prerequisites question

  I am following this guide http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx pull=/library/en-us/odc_vsto2005_ta/html/OfficeVSTOWindowsInstallerWalkthrough.asp and get to this stage: To add the prerequisites In Solution Explorer, right-click the ExcelApplicationSetup node. Click Properties . In the Property Pages dialog box, click the Prerequisites button. In the list of prerequisites, select Microsoft Office 2003 Primary Interop Asse ...Show All

• Visual C# Generics & Type Casting

  I'm trying to write a generic method to sort 2-dimensional arrays. I'm converting each row in the array to a delimited string, which I then add to an ArrayList and then use the ArrayList.Sort() method. The problem I'm having is in then casting the objects in the sorted ArrayList back to the original type. This is the code: Type type = typeof(T); sortedArray[rowIndex, columnIndex] = (type) delimitedFields[columnIndex]; I'm getting ...Show All