Burt Harris's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic VS 2005 RTM Weird Editor Behavior

  I'm using the VB Editor in VS 2005 RTM version and every so often it starts misbehaving and I have to close all editor windows to get working properly again. What happens is that as soon as I type a single letter at the beginning of a line it immediately appends open and close parens. So for example if I want to type an If statement, as soon as I type 'i' it changes it to i(). If I backspace to delete the parens it puts them back in. Hi Zisha, The bug was resolved as No Repro because we have not been able to reproduce this issue, and we don't have sufficient repro steps to help us do so.  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VS C# Express hangs during install

  I have Visual Web Developer Express succesfully installed along with Sql Express, .NET 2.0 Framework & SDK. But when I try and install C# Express it gets about 3/4 through the "Setup is loading installation components, this may take a minute or two" and then just hangs there, no errors or dialogs. Any suggestions on how to diagnose this I have cleared out temp folder and tried to re-install to no avail. Thanks. Thanks Andreas. I was able to download the ISO image from MS support page and burn a CD. The install from the CD worked fine. Thanks for your help. Michael ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Unable to connect Web Services with Pocket PC 2003 Emulator in vs2005RC

  The output window: A first chance exception of type ' System.IO.FileNotFoundException' occurred in Mscorlib.dll A first chance exception of type ' System.Net.WebException' occurred in System.dll A first chance exception of type ' System.Net.WebException' occurred in System.Web.Services.dll Test of the Web Services in IE is good How to resolve this problem Are you facing this problem with emulator only Can you please let us know a little more what you are trying A sample code will be really helpful. -Thanks, Mohit ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions BUG : RightToLeftLayout and BackgroundImage

  hi, i f you set TRUE for RightToLeftLayout of a MDI form and set background for it, it never show backgrond!!! and i think that it is very important bug in vc2005 and specialy vc# Exp edition. what we can do for this problem I have tried to reproduce but I can not. In the designer I do not see the image but when running it is there. If you start from an empty project, can you reproduce this by doing certain steps in order What steps If you can reliably reproduce it you can report it to the product feedback center. http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WASHost?

  Hello, Wondering if anyone has any information on 'WAS Hosting' I've found a sample in the SDK but it doesn't look complete. Is this technology alive yet Thanks, Scott. Is WAS Hosting functionality available in Windows Vista (client) Or, if I am a developer using Vista, how can I test my WCF Services using WAS Host functionality like non-http hosted endpoints Thanks, Scott. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Popup from portal page - "Unable to locate control: ctl00oReportCell"

  Next problem:  The Builds report and Quality Indicators report produce MessageBoxes with the text in the subject. (xposted on your blog entry) Thanks for posting this! Just a couple of points I ran into when doing these steps: When compiling your code above on a clean Beta 2 machine, I get the following errors: Error    1    The type or namespace name 'UI' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Web' (are you missing an assembly reference )    C:\Projects\AmaxoReportViewerHostExtension\AmaxoReportViewerHostExtension\Class1.cs    5    18    ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Where do the web parts like Remaining Work come from?

  I've created my own TFS template and WSS template based on the out-of-the-box TFS Agile templates. I'm testing these two templates by creating projects based on them. So far it's working out fine for the most part. I noticed all the TFS related web parts are not showing up though. I can see there are six web parts in the web part gallery of a WSS site created by the Agile template. Where are these defined in the Agile templates I can't find them in the downloaded MSF Agile template nor in the MSFAgile.stp file. I can't think of anywhere else to look as they are clearly put into WSS by the creation of a TFS team project. ...Show All

• Visual J# Does Vj# allows to get Parent Window of an Iframe

  Hi all    we are now porting the webappplication codes from vj++ to vJ#. In that we are accessing a parent iframe window from its child window ,which was working in vj++.But the same code now ported to vj# seems to be not working.Whether any other things need to work or not.so please provide some ideas to get its parent or its topwindow. the sample code DhWindow botomWindow= this .getWindow().getParent().getParent(); DhWindow leftwinindow = botomWindow.getFrame("dleftframe"); DhDocument cachefram=leftwindow.getFrame("cachecolorframe").getDocument(); here i am geeting an iframe window called bottomwindow from the ...Show All

• Visual Studio UIPAB

  Dear,  Keith mentions on his weblog http://blogs.msdn.com/keith_short/default.aspx that the UIPAB can be used with a recipe. I have been using UIPAB in practice. The UIPAB, however, is rather difficult to explain to novice user. Do you think that a recipe might ease the UIPAB pain for novice users Does there exist a (demo) UIPAB recipe somewhere Do you think that there exists some interest in 'open sourcing' a recipe for UIPAB If this is the case, I can document my UIPAB recipe experience on my weblog. Thank you very much, Bart Hi,   According to a mail from Keith, there was a presentation abou ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS source control storage area

  Is TFS capable of storing versioned source code in encrypted form on disk Alternatively, could I use TrueCrypt to create an encrypted volume, and have TFS check out all my code to that encrypted volume See the following post by Adam Singer for how to do that. http://blogs.msdn.com/adamsinger/archive/2006/03/06/544656.aspx Buck ...Show All

• .NET Development plain text serializer

  Hi there, Suppose I have plain text data in a csv file, sort of CT-3227,50,$280,07/12/1998,John Doe If I know that the entries are separated by commas, I can use a FileReader to scan for commas, create a String with the content and call Parse with the corresponding entry type (which is known in advance).  However, what happens if I encounter a number like 1,500 meaning "one thousand five hundred"   e.g. UInt32.Parse( "1,500" , Globalization.NumberStyles.Float Or Globalization.NumberStyles.AllowThousands, Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) would succeed but the reader never gets that far; it is fed with "1" and the rema ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Several questions

  Hi, I'm new to VB, but have played with some programming just a little. I'm working on a Windows application that retrieves XML weather for any location you specify. I'd like to know how to deal with XML to use the data I want. If either is possible, I have no preference whether I analyze each line as it's downloaded or I dump it all to a file and deal with it there. I'm totally new to this, so I don't know how it works to specify what XML you want to retrieve. I'll post the link to a city so you can see what the XML looks like: http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/USPA1290 cc=*&dayf=5&prod=xoap&par=1017300893&key=26 ...Show All

• Visual C++ ComboBox AddString()

  I used the vc++ resource manager to create a combo box on the program's main form. I would like to use AddString() at run time to fill the combo box with a list of valid selections. But, the AddString() function requires a (CComboBox*). The resource manager created the combo box, but never told me the name of the variable, only the name of the ID (in this case, the ID is IDC_VAR_NAME). How do you make the connection from ID to (CComboBox*) seattleboatguy wrote: I used the vc++ resource manager to create a combo box on the program's main form. I would like to use AddString() at run time to fill the combo box with a list of valid ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS on WS2003 complete configuration tutorial

  Hi I am a VS programmer that was interested in testing TFS. My problem is that I don't know how to configure windows server 2003 (i don't know how to CORRECTLY configure things like AD, DNS etc). I have virtual pc 2004 in my computer, so I created the WS2003 installation in a virtual pc but I really don't know how to proceed from then. Is there a tutorial or a guide to do all these things (configure AD, install SQL Server 2005, TFS, etc) Thanks a lot Thanks for all your help guys that really helped me to get TFS working. And also thanks for the great news that TFS will support workgroups (someone heard my prayer ) ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How reliable is GoLive License of WIndows Workflow foundation?

  I need some info on whether it is a good idea to use Windows Workflow foundation Go Live for a very critical project. MS clearly states that they will not support the version. We have been playing with WF for quite a while and it fits our need, but as an architect, responsible for realizing a very critical project for a Fortune 50 company, I am hesitant to recommend WF and seriously considering alternative route. Any info and thoughts will be appreciated. PS Microsoft can only broadly support released software. The go-live license is an indication to customers that we are very confident about the quality of the softwar ...Show All