Jeff Bramwell's Q&A profile

• Visual C# Summary comments

  If you type /// at the top of a method some XML is inserted for you, this includes a summary, params, and result. On our team we require some other items to be added to the list as well. As I type them in I get some code insight for available node names. My question is: How can I add my custom nodes to the available node names in the code insight window Thanks Wayne Wayne, Are you using one ...Show All

• Visual C++ Windows XP Password character.

  Hi, Dont know if this is the correct forum, but since I didnt get any answers elsewhere, I'm posting it here as well The Problem: On some machines, my password field displays the password character as the "dot" - which is XP standard, and on other machines it dispays small square boxes. Details: We have written a win32 application in C++ with, in which we have a password field.  Inorder to use the XP style of "bulleted" password chars (in ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error creating first team project

  I'm trying to create my first team project on my VSTF server, and I get an error.  The log is below.  Could someone please help   Thanks.  -pb 05-24-2005 09:42:03.075 | Module: ELeadServiceMediator | URL for eLead web service retrieved as " http://pbristow-i2:8080/bisserver/EleadWebService.asmx " from the registration service | Completion time: 0.0156251 seconds 05-24-2005 09:42:03.075 | Module: ELeadServiceMediator | eLea ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Security options reduced when hosted in IIS?

  When self-hosted, one can use ServiceSecuritySettings.SetUserNameAuthentication to specify a custom MembershipProvider or even custom UserNamePasswordTokenAuthenticator for validating users. Similarly, when self-hosted, one can use ServiceSecuritySettings.ThreadPrincipalMode with GenericThreadPrincipalMode to specify a custom RoleProvider or supply a custom ThreadPrincipalMode class. When hosted in IIS, however, these options don’t seem to be av ...Show All

• Visual C# Why does Visual Studio 2005 starts to consume 100% of my CPU?

  Hello, Sometimes Visual Studio 2005 starts to consume 100% of my CPU. I've tried see if it is when I'm doing something specific, but I cannot put my finger on what it is that might trigger it. It is my first solution in VS 2005, so I have no clue if it's specific to this C# solution. I have a Windows Forms project and a Webservice project in my solution, all connected to a SourceSafe 6 database. This far I've always been editing ...Show All

• Visual Basic ENTER key acting as TAB

  I have searched the forums and I know that there are some posts about this, but I did not get a clear answer. I have a form that have three large group boxes for different data entry "zones". Each group box contains about a dozen text box controls. The data entry operators here are used to keying on an AS400 dumb terminal that uses the ENTER key to TAB to the next field. How can I duplicate that behavior on a form I have trie ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do I assign icons to a toolstrip?

  Sorry if this was asked before, but your forum search engine was broken ("an error occured that has been logged"). As simple as it may seem, I can't figure out how to assign icons to a toolstrip in the designer I'm talking about icons litterally -- .ico files, not jpg's, etc. If I click on the "Image" property, and try to import an image, it just gives me options like jpg, gif, and other *image* formats Is there no way to import an *icon* in t ...Show All

• .NET Development Run a method in another thread

  Hi, I'm currently working on a network library that offers an XMPP stream to a server, written in C# (.NET 2.0). After the stream has been initialised, the client can send elements to the server and the server can send elements to the client independently. Now I thought I run a separate thread listening on the stream and put all incoming elements in a queue, member of the XMPP.Stream class, a client could then read from the queue when needed. Ad ...Show All

• Visual C# C# Windows Control

  hey ppl, i am having a problem with a control, my control is a background with a label on it, then when i use my control on my form i use the on click event, and it only happens when u click the control itself and not the label, so i was wondering how can i do that no matter where u click inside the control , fires the click event. pls post me some code :( mig16 thx In your UserControl you are handling the Click ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Using the IDE

  Hi i am new to coding and microsoft visual c++ express. Anyway i already have set it all up right even used the videos to do which you can find here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/learning/vcexpvids/default.aspx Anyway i am using a c++ a beginner's guide se by herbert schildt i have been trying to compile the fist simple program code in chapter one here is the code exactly as the book states. /* This is a simple C++ program. Call this fil ...Show All

• Visual C# Deployment Installer problem

  I was unsure where to post this, so I do apologise if it is in the wrong forum. I have been having a wierd issue, no idea where the problem lies. I have setup launch conditions, my application has some requirements on the target machine. The launch conditions are based on file and registry search. Registry search works fine, and if there is one key/value that doesnt match, installer fails - just want I want :) As for the ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Pocket pc and Smart phone applications

  Hi, I have some questions about pocket pc and smartphone application development with vs.net 2003 These maybe fundamental questions but i am a bit confused plz help.. I am planning to implement a health care website which can be accessed via the computer, the pocket pc and the smartphone.. 1)I need to know wheter i can do all the development and testing using the sdks..will i need to get a pocket pc or smart phone 2) the dat ...Show All

• Visual C++ Can Anyone help me on CSocket memory leakage issue

  Hi All, I'm facing a memory leakage issue when i use CSocket in Visual Studio 6.0 ( VS Service Pack 6) Windows XP Service 2. This problem doesn't appear when i disable the themes service. The below link suggests this fix.. http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php t=370761 But i'm not able to find any information about this in microsoft website. Can anyone please suggest me with the patch for this issue Or point to me a link in ...Show All

• Visual Basic Assembly Information button

  I'm reading Wrox's Professional VB 2005 and it says the following: Selecting the Assembly Information button from within your My Project window opens the Assembly Information dialog box. Within this dialog, shown in Figure 2-5 it is possible to define file properties, such as your company’s name and versioning information, which will be embedded into the operating system’s file attributes for your project’s output. The frame of the assembly file ...Show All

• Windows Forms BackgroundWorker RunCompleted Not Thread Safe?

  I created a StatusStrip using VS.NET 2005 Beta 2. A thread is started to grab data from a database. The StatusStripLabel is updated when a data row is changed/added. I put the codes that changes the StatusStripLabel inside a BackgroundWorker's RunCompleted event. Here's a sample of my codes: [ ... snip ...] private string _StatusMessage = ""; private void StatusChange ( string message ) {     lock (_StatusMessage)    ...Show All