John Minker's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions msvcp80d.dll debug problem

  Hi, im just installing and testing the new visual C++ express, but when i try to run my aplication(debbuging mode), i got this error "the application can start because msvcp80d.dll wasnt found" (i have winXP in spanish language). If i try to run it in release it works. I have WinXP Home Edition SP2 fresh install up to date (have all patches) and visual estudio .net 2003 installed. How can i fix this . ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Where is my cursor?

  I have developed and outlook add-in that contains a custom task pane hosting a windows form user control inside it. The user control had a textbox and a button. The button has an event handler attached to it. When the end user enter some text in the textbox while compposing a new email and click the button, I want to insert the text from textbox into the body section of the email. The problem is that how can I identify where my cursor is current ...Show All

• Windows Forms Unbelievable!!!

  Using Visual Studio 2003. Creating a C# Windows Form application. I have created a main form with various controls to include tab control, textboxes, buttons, etc. Set the isMDIContainer property to TRUE. Then created a simple child form with a textbox&n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook integration using redemption - crashing

  Hi I am trying to build an app using VS2005 to monitor incoming emails. When certain criteria is satisfied, strip out the body and save it on a db. I'd like to use VSTO to solve the problem (as an Add-in), but can't aford it. Instead, I have built a service that uses the Outlook COM object model. At first, I was getting lots of breaks because of the Outlook Security Upgrade, so I converted over to use Redemption. This worked well for my te ...Show All

• Visual C# Allow Null In Combo Box

  I have a combo box, that has its datasouce, valuemember, and display members set. I need to allow the user to leave the null. I need the combo box to be null when the form loads, and allow nulls if the user does not wish to select anything. It is for a search criteria form. Does anyone have any suggestions Thanks why not add a listitem with value "" and a space in it. Listitem i = new ListItem; i.Value = ""; i.Te ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Server & IIS Log files

  The beta 2 install of VSTS seems to be causing IIS to generate 8MB of log files/day, even when no one's using the system...does anyone know why this would be happening, or how we can stop it (aside from just turning off logging for that web site). Jonas Services such as the warehouse and the work item user sync are still running even when you aren't "using" the system.  You can change IIS not to log success ...Show All

• SQL Server PerfMon questions

  [reposted from the NG] 1. What's the difference between a buffer, a flat buffer and a private buffer 2. I assume that the number of buffers used to store data-flow data can be calculated by: [Data flow buffers] = [Buffer in use] - [Private buffers in use] Is that correct 3. Buffer memory is described as: "The amount of memory buffers, of all types, in use" Would that not be better as "The amount of memory in use by all [types of] buffers" Its ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) 3D+2D=non interactive?

  How I can understand,Avalon dosen't support composition of 3D and 2D with preserving full functionality of latter.I'm not talking about VisualBrush or something like that,I need some kind of mapping 2D CONTROLS to 3D surface.I this possible Are you planning to add this feaure in the future Because without it 3D is simply nice picture still nothing more. Thanks. You are correct, avalon provides no built-in ...Show All

• .NET Development Getting Computer Name

  Hello, I want to get information about Computer Name, User Name etc. I used function known from VBA, which was quite simple: Private Declare Function apiGetComputerName Lib "kernel32" Alias _ "GetComputerNameA" ( ByVal lpBuffer As String , ByVal nSize As Long ) As Long Function Machine_Name() As String 'Returns the computername Dim lngLen As Integer , lngx As Lo ...Show All

• Visual Basic InvalidEnumArgumentException was unhandled

  InvalidEnumArgumentException was unhandled The value of argument 'searchType' (-1) is invalid for Enum type 'SearchOption'. Parameter name: searchType Option Strict Off Public Class Form1 Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load For Each MusicFile As String In My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFiles(My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.MyMusic, True, "*.wma") Dim M ...Show All

• Visual C# Problem in DB

  Hi. In a simple applicatin(Phone Book), I have 2 tables in my DB(SQLServer or Access). A table for id,name,family and another for personID and tel. now when I want to add a person, I must add record to both tables (name and phone), but I don't know how can do it with C# !! (with one command add to two tables ) I'm beginner in DB !! Hi, The following may help you. format two insert query, one for each table. set the first query to ...Show All

• Visual C++ native members of managed classes?

  Hi jedediah! What's the preferred way to effectively have a native class as a member of a managed class What do you mean class NativeClass { }; public ref class ManagedClass {   protected private:     NativeClass *_pNativeMember; };   jedediah wrote: It's the C#/VB monkies I'm worried about. C++/CLI seems to do the ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS2005 RC winFX runtime Install Fails

  From what I understand the Winfx system will not run with the .Net framework that is shipped with the RC. To use the Winfx Runtime or SDK you need to use the beta 2 version of the framework. You can not install your version of WinFX with the RC version of VS on the same machine because WinFX is using the Beta 2 framework. ...Show All

• Visual Basic microsoft vb 2005 express edition beta (how do i make it so my "menustrip" will ...

  in microsoft vb 2005 express edition beta ( in the Menus and toolbars the "menuStrip", i made a buttom with copy how do i make it Copy) i know that you have to click it 2 times and wright in the code. If you want to copy a textbox contents then you can use My.Computer.Clipboard.SetText(Textbox1.text) Then you are simply copying the text. When you retrieve it you can Ctype it to integer.   ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Adding to a report.

  Ok, i have a report that is in foxpro that came with a software called DataTrac. I can open the report and using a table list add fields to the report. The fields are labeled like following. Existing Report Field names: loan_amt borr_phone New Report fields names: gen.loan_amt gen.borr.phone So when the gen.loan_amt fields are added to the reports that for some reason dont need the xxx. part they show the same figure of every reco ...Show All