kdub98's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) i need to download latest makecert.exe & certmgr

  hi there, i dont have makecert.exe in my system can sombody point me to a location so that i can download one.  just the makecert.exe. and certmgr.exe my internet connection is slow so.... thanks prasanth I cannot believe someboyd will post something like this. Here is a bit of information on the history of some of these files: Microsoft first released code signing technology ("Authenticode" in MS terminology) back in 1998. At that time microsoft provided a small (124 KB) self-extract ZIP file by the name "codesigningx86.exe". When opened, this file will produce t ...Show All

• .NET Development __w64

  I am trying to port an application from 32-bit to 64-bit windows environment. There are a lot of warnings like these when i compile my code on 64-bit :- mbtext.cxx(2249) : warning C4244: 'argument' : conversion from '__w64 int' to 'int', possible loss of data mbtext.cxx(2354) : warning C4244: 'argument' : conversion from '__w64 int' to 'int', possible loss of data This warning is at lot of places. "__w64" : Not much help is available to know more about this type. Please suggest appropriate resolution for this warning. Thanks, - Navin __w64 is not a type! __w64 says that in a 64bit envioronment this varia ...Show All

• Windows Forms Graphics question

  Ok my problem is with Graphics class //------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ private void Form1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e) { Graphics g = e.Graphics; g.DrawLine(new Pen(Color.Black), new Point(30, 30), new Point(30, 100)); g.Dispose(); } you see i declare Graphics g=e.Graphics where 'e' is the PaintEventArgs and then draw a line //---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- private void button1_Click_1(object sender, EventArgs e) { Graphics g = CreateGraphics(); g.DrawLine ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Pocket PC 5.0 SDK messed up with my application

  Hello everbody. I recently installed Pocket PC 5.0 SDK, after that all my smart device application forms that were inherited from a main form contataning some topbar controls started behaving unorthodoxly, now the inherited controls do not displays on my child form, whats gone wrong anybody Regards NaUmI Hi, What Project type are you seeing this issue on So to read what you are saying - you have Visual Studio 2005 with a Pocket Pc 2003 Project that did not work after the upgrade to Pocket PC 2005 Did you also do any project upgrade for your projects Have you tried un-installing the Pocket PC 5.0 SDK to see if ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Trouble setting up SQL Database from within Visual Basic Express 2005

  Hello people. I've been experiencing some difficulty in setting up a new MS SQL Express database in a Visual Basic Express 2005 project. When I go to the solution explorer and click on "New Item" it opens the dialogue to add "New SQL Database". No problem. I click this and choose my database name. However, it then freezes for a while and comes back with a timeout error. After this it tries to open the DataSource Configuration Wizard but this doesn't open properly and instead comes back with a timeout error saying: "an error occurred while retrieving the information from the database - the timeout period elapsed prior to the complet ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System InstallationError 32000: in SetupWarehouse.exe (Team Foundation App-Data Tier Beta 2 Setup)

  Hello All, After a lot of installation problems installing Foundation Server I cleaned the Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition and started, allmost desparate, all over again. I checked everything and even started reading the installationmanual. I checked the User (TFSSETUP and TFSSERVICE are local Administrators) and  all the services (Analysis Server, Report Server, SQL Server, SQL Server Agentand Sharepoint) and started the installation Eveything seemed to be fine for a while. Then, almost at the end of the installation, the following Exception occurred: Message on the Screen: Error 32000. The commandline "C:\Program File ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How do I keep TFS services up all the time? Application event 9001 and 9002...

  Hello, I am having problems with Team Foundation services staying up on the server. I show application event logs of these services stopping and starting with no error associated: Team Foundation Core Web Service Application Team Foundation Source Control Server Warehouse Controller Application Work Item Tracking Web Service Application All of these events are 9001 and 9002. This is a single-server installation on a PC with the following specs: Windows Server 2003 Standard with SP1 Pentium 4 processor at 2.6 GHz with Hyper-Threading 2 - 400 GB SATA hard drives running i ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Publish Fails for WPF Application using Jan CTP.

  Hello Everyone, I tried the Click Once Technology with a normal Windows Application. It worked well. But when i try to Publish a WPF Application to the following web site: " http://localhost/ClickOnceTest " , it fails with the Error: "Publish failed with the following error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object." I referred to http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=153765&SiteID=1 and disabled the publish option in properties. The Publish succeeded. But when i try to Open the Url in IE, it does not show up. Gives the following Error: "You are not authoriz ...Show All

• Windows Forms Default Enter and Cancel button C# Winforms?

  Hi In my winform application I have multiple buttons. Of those buttons, I want one to behave as Enter key by default and other as Escape key.  Tried to search for it, but couldn't find a good solution. Please suggest how can I acheive this   Thanks in advance. Pankaj You can have event handlers for your AcceptButton and CancelButton but yo ...Show All

• Visual Basic Recent Bug Fix causes IDE to become unstable!?

  Dear Sir/Madam, I have applied the recent bug fix for Visual Studio VS80-KB915038-X86-ENU but then after working on my project the original system error seemed to vanish, but then the IDE would go into loops and would not let me do anything. I don't know why this is happening The forms in the IDE, seem to be refreshed each time you click on the tab to view the form designer for a given windows form. and after that the IDE just keeps looping through something in the background, and i get the "Visual Studio is busy doing something, wait or switch to", This is rather annoying, and i dont know why its happening Please help me to stop ...Show All

• Smart Device Development New DVD for installation?

  I've recently received a Visual Studio Team Edition CD/DVD that contains corrupt files on it.  Hopefully someone can direct me to a link or email address of the person that can help me "re-obtain" a no corrupt CD/DVD.  Thanks. Venn Have you tried this forum http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowForum.aspx ForumID=26 ...Show All

• Windows Forms ListBox MultiSelect

  Hello, I have a listbox, from where I have say 3 items selected, how can I find which are selected.... for(int i=0;i<myListBox.Items.Count;++i){     if(myListBox.items[ i ].selected == true){           //code to process for each selected item goes here     } } HTH, ...Show All

• Visual Studio VisualStudio.CommandBars

  In Beta2, I am using the following code: Protected Shared mnuAbout As CommandBarControl Public Shared WithEvents mnuAboutHandler As CommandBarEvents 'EnvDTE.CommandBarEvents I get the menu created, but the menu handler event never fires. Private Shared Sub mnuAboutHandler_Click( ByVal CommandBarControl As Object , ByRef handled As Boolean , ByRef CancelDefault As Boolean ) Handles mnuAboutHandler.Click MsgBox( "About what " ) End Sub Can anyone help I wrote this macro to test events and they’re working correctly in VS 2005 50727.42. There was a late breaking bug in this area which w ...Show All

• Smart Device Development System Log - Is there one? Where should I log application data...

  I'd like to log application data/events somewhere.  Is there a log system already for PPC, and if not anyone got any recommendations for FREE prebuilt classes that provide logging functionality such as "maximum file size" etc. Thanks! I'd log directly to a file in the same directory as my executable.   For some links see this: http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2004/11/debugwriteline.html   Cheers Daniel   ...Show All

• Visual Studio MSBuild Task, Compiling web site with project references

  I was testing to use MSBuild from command line for an automated build process, MSBuild Task seem to have an issue compiling website with project references within the same solution. The library, console, windows services and application are all compiling with out any errors but when it comes to compiling websites I am running into issues.  The website has Project references to other library projects within the same solution but the MSbuild does not seem to be copying these referenced assemblies into the website's bin directory after compiling those libraries, because of this the website compilation is failing, i ...Show All