MartinGreen's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Menus and Drag and Drop

  I was trying to figure out a way to make a menu that was customizable by clicking on menu items and dragging them to new locations (either in the same menu or a different one). Would this be possible with the Drag and Drop functionality in WPF of is there some other way I tried deriving a class MyMenu from Menu, setting its AllowDrop = true and then having derived MenuItems that implement the logic to allow them to be dragged. The problem is when the drag of the menu item begins the menu it is on disappears, not really the desired behavior. Am I doing something wrong or is this not possible using Drag and Drop Renacer ...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 Assemblies and Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime . Select Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Runtime Language Pack , if any users run your solutions with non—nglish settin ...Show All

• .NET Development Error passing a large variable as a parameter to a remote method

  When passing a large byte array as a parameter to a remote method, I get the following error: System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: The input stream is not a valid binary format. The starting contents (in bytes) are: 53-79-73-74-65-6D-2E-57-65-62-2E-48-74-74-70-45-78 ... Server stack trace: at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.SerializationHeaderRecord.Read(__BinaryParser input)... etc. The largest byte array I can successfully pass across the wire is 4,193,890 elements in size, as soon as I go to 4,193,891 it bombs out with the above exception. I am running the .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2.  The server is ...Show All

• Windows Forms Adding new items but maintaining sort in DataGridView

  Hi, I'm trying to achieve some functionality using the DataGridView and have a few questions I was hoping someone could assist me on. Basically, i'm using the DataGridView to display a list of RSS news items which come from an underlying data source and are constantly being updated (in the sense that new items are being added to the list, as well as existing item info being changed sometimes). I have the following implementation for binding the data to the DataGridView: CustomSortableBindingList => BindingSource.DataSource => DataGridView.DataSource The BindingSource.Sort is set to "DatePublished DESC" at design t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Missing Object Test Bench menu items?

  I have just installed Visual Studio Team System RC and I can not for the life of me find out how to display an object within the Object Test Bench. The help gives the following instructions: In the Class View , right-click the name of the class or struct whose instance you want to create. Click Create Instance to display the public constructors of the class. Select the constructor to display the Create Instance Dialog Box . In the Create Instance dialog box, provide the parameters, and then type the name of the object. The name is not provided by default; you must provide a name. Check the Object Test Bench tool window ...Show All

• Windows Forms Visual Studio.Net Enterprise Architecture CD

  Hello:  Since this is the general question forum and going to state my problem here and I am sorry if I am doing it wrong.   I am a new VB.Net programmer just starting. I used to have the Visual Studio.Net Enterprise Architecture but my computer crashed. Mi problem is that i got it from a friend(you know what that mean) but I don't ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Display the combo box text as a tool tip text...

  in c#.net my combo box has got large text.....can we display the text on mouse over event....in the tooltip text like.... example : in properties window if the text is not is visible area, then it is displayed as tooltip text.... plz help me soon You can use the ToolTip control. If you want the tooltip to be the text of the combobox you can add a tooltip to the form and then in the TextChanged event of the combobox add this. toolTip1.SetToolTip(comboBox1, comboBox1.Text); ...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 this question "Why am I choosing this long way ". I think the advantages of OOP are re-usable and flexible (when there is a new requirement). OOP makes less code behind user-interface. But I dont un ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Formless Application?

  Is there anyway to create an application that (when created) doesn't have a form For example, I would like to create an application that has an icon in the notification bar and have it so that when I double click it a settings form is created. I would prefer not to have the form exist all along and just have it invisible because to my understanding that uses more memory then creating it on demand and the goal of this application is to make it as unobtrusive as possible. Thanks in Advance, Nick Dancer. I'm not sure what this application will be doing but what you're describing sounds like a Wind ...Show All

• Windows Forms Add menu items to all instances of a form in a MDI.

  This is my first project in VB.NET so this may seem like a newbie question, because it is! I have a MDI form.  On this form there are multiple instances of frmA.  frmA has a menu called mnuSendTo.  mnuSendTo will have more items added to it as the program executes.  How can I add items to mnuSendTo so that all of the current&nb ...Show All

• SQL Server How to mimic replmerg.exe in vb.net

  Hello, On an existing Merge Pull Subscription (Subscriber: SQL Express) via websync how can we start replication via vb.net We can use the cmd line replmerge.exe and all works fine however we would like this to be cleaner as it's going to be on demand sync. I saw in BOL about the RMO and how to create pubs/subs but nothing telling me how to actually start the replication process. Is there a sample of how to start the replication process in vb.net for websync Thanks in advance. John Mahesh, are you wanting me to try this using replmerge.exe that currently works. i am having the problem with the vb.ne ...Show All

• .NET Development secure web service without wes3.0

  Can i secure access to a web service without using wse 3.0 by using SSL We are developing with vs 2005       Yes,  just like a web page .... an .asmx uses http / https just the same as any .htm / .asp or other content served up by a web server.   you can use standard SSL from a web cert provider ( godaddy, verisign, gte etc...) or you can run any private ssl server like microsoft certificate server. (part of windows server)   ...Show All

• Visual C# The sbyte type

  Hi, In Learning C# by Jesse Liberty, the author states that the sbyte type can store numbers from -128 to 127. I was wondering whether or not the last bit (8th) is used to store the number's sign. If it does, then how can the remaining 7 bits store a number as large as 128. The largest number that 7 bits can store is 127. So shouldn't the range for the sbyte type be -127 to 127 instead of -128 to 127 as the author has specified. Please clarify this confusion. Thanks, Karim Hemani Yes, the top bit is always used to store the sign. However, bear in mind that this means you have two values for 0, one ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Windows Vista build 5112 Installation

  I am installing Windows Vista (Build 5112) onto virtual pc.  After the initial install it went to a blue screen. Upon rebooting it went in fine, however, its now just looping at this point "Completing installation..." "Do not restart your computer during this time." Any ideas. I'm having the exact same problem! The installation seemed to go fine. I even let that "Completing installation..." screen run overnight and still it won't complete. I'm trying to do a complete reinstallation right now but am worried i'm going to have the same problem. I gave the VPC 768MB ram and a 16GB partition. ...Show All

• SQL Server Migration in SSIS

  Does anyone know about procedure of doing the migration of project in SSIS. We just need to copy the project folder or something else, so that every connection also gets configured on the new server. What is to be done to move the project onto other server Amarpreet, Configurations are the method for doing this in SSIS. Here are some links that may help: Location independant packages - http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/47688/47688.html Easy package configuration - http://www.sqlis.com/ 26 Indirect configurations - http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson/archive/2005/11/02/2342.aspx Dynamicly chan ...Show All