Daguza's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Removing Code and Action Pane from Excel

  How can I save an existing excel workbook that has code and action pane as a normal excel workbook with no code nor action pane. I can't see how "removecustomization" is useful. because i want to do that when the user presses a button from within the workbook lets say a submit btn. when pressed the workbook should deliver data to an external database and be saved as a normal workbook with no code nor action pane. how can i accomplish t ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Can eVC++ applications also run in desktop WindowsOS's?

  Hello all, I am porting a series of PalmOS applications (primarily GUI's) to CE.NET using the eVC++ SDK. Is there anyway I can rebuild these app's into .exe's which will also run on Win9x/XP/etc. These are simple GUI's with COM1 serial I/O. thanks If you mean "same EXE which runs on CE and desktop", then no, you can not. You'd have to use managed code for that. If you mean "recompile C++ sources with desktop C++ compiler so ...Show All

• Architecture Advantages of OOP ?

  Hello, Im a fun of OOP designs. I design my bussiness classes when I start a new project. Then maybe I will write mapper classes for bussiness classes to map DB tables or using an O/RM tool or an ODBMS . Think that this project is big one and it has long deadline. You will develop it 2 or 3 years. Requirements will be changed. To develop this project with OOP designs and n-Tier application design is good idea. But I am asking myself ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Using Team Explorer outside VS 2005 Team Suite.

  Hi, is it possible to use the 'light weight' Team Explorer client app outside of VS 2005 - I'm using Beta 2. The scenario is; I'm developing in both VB6 and VS 2005. I want to migrate the old VB6 source code in to Team Server. I know I will loose what VSS integration I had in VB6, so I need someway of checking out files when I'm not in VS 2005. Does that make sense I have tried installing the Client part of Team Foundation on my dev machine whi ...Show All

• Visual C++ problems with cstdlib + stdlib.h?

  These errors are stumping me. There seems to be a problem with cstdlib and/or stdlib.h. Has anyone seen these types of errors before I am using Visual Studio 2005. Error 47 error C2873: 'realloc' : symbol cannot be used in a using-declaration c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\cstdlib 26 Error 45 error C2873: 'malloc' : symbol cannot be used in a using-declaration c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\cstdlib ...Show All

• Windows Forms Accessing SetStyle from Outside the Control

  I am developing a two-dimensional game engine using the .NET framework, Managed DirectX(TM) and C#. I am currently working on the Device and Control (in this case a Form) manager and need public access to the SetStyle method. I was wondering why this method was not made public and instead was kept protected Are there any known work-arounds to getting at this method I am using a Direct3D Device and it is necessary to call SetS ...Show All

• Visual C++ How can I active VC without connect the internet at home ?

  could do I active in this case Thanks Uka Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition Beta 2 requires an Internet connection from the machine where you are using the product in order to activate. A high speed connection is not required; dial-up is sufficient. ...Show All

• Visual Basic "Ambiguous Namespace" problems in VB.NET 2003

  I am writing a public class called StaffPost which sits within a namespace called Davnet (the name of the DB these classes control).  Under this class are several public sub classes such as Post, People & OrgStructure. I'm pulling my hair out over this because it all works fine then suddenly gives me major grief.  I tried adding a form to the class (as it was originally a class module) but changed it to a windows app, added the for ...Show All

• .NET Development Working directory problems

  Is there any way to automaticlly set the working directory to the directory where the exe file was started Can't find any way to do this. Thanks in advance. You'll have to use System,Diagnostic.Process class. if your exe in dir1 but you want it to start in dir2. all you have to do is create an entry exe in dir that just start the real exe in dir2.        ProcessSt ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Pre/Post Operation Invokation Extensibility

  I am looking for a way to set up some state in thread local storage immediately before operations are invoked and then to clean it up immediately after they have completed. (i.e. the pre/post operation code must run on the thread used to service the request). What would be the best way to do this Thanks. Frank, The IOperationBehavior and IOperationInvoker interfaces will do it for you. The followin ...Show All

• Windows Forms Nullable Int - Databinding to TextBox vs. UserControl

  Hi, I somehow don't get it and hopefully somebody can explain this to me and/or a solution. I got a "smart" data source class which implements INotifyPropertyChange and IDataErrorInfo. Just for this test I have two values in this class, an int and an int . I validate these values, they cannot be 0 and also not null in the latter case. So i got several questions now: 1. - If I do not enable formatting on the DataBinding t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions inserted/updated data vanishing when tried to view data from the table through data explorer!

  i am preparing an application that inserts and updates data into the SQL database. when i close the running application, and re run it, there is no problem with the stored data. (i have taken care of 'copy if newer' option issue of the mdf file) but, when i try to view the data from the data explorer (in the vb IDE), all the new data gets deleted. the data that was originally added through this data view interface alone stays! i'm total ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions ClickOnce Install Problem

  I have created a program on my Windows XP SP2 Machine using VBEE and I used ClickOnce to install it to a network share. I have already installed the dotnet framework on the pc (a Windows 2000 SP4 machine) and when I ran the install I got an error that the application was improperly formatted, yet I can install it onto my machine (and another windows XP SP2 Machine) perfectly. Below are the details. I am in desperate need of help with this ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VSSConverter for TFS Beta3

  Hi, I am trying to convert a VSS database to TFS Beta3 using VSSConverter but I'm stuck on the settings.xml file. Can anyone give me an example settings xml file that will work with TFS Beta 3 I have tried several things as suggested here http://blogs.msdn.com/akashmaheshwari/articles/386062.aspx  but I can't get the format right!! Regards Graham For deleting team project issues, see post http://forums.micro ...Show All

• SQL Server How do I install a new instance of the 2005 engine?

  I need to be able to add a new instance, we use to use svrnetcn with 2000. To add an instance you need to run setup and choose a named instance to install. Svrnetcn.exe is (quoting BOL 2000) “The Server Network utility is used to manage the server Net-Libraries”. On SQL 2005 similar functionality is provided by SQL Server Configuration Manager: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms174212.aspx ...Show All