alex express's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Packaging applications

  Hi, I have the Microsoft Visual Studio software. I am trying to create an application (looking into msi apps) that when run will unpack a whole bunch of files into a folder and create a shortcut of an executable (which is part of the package) on the users programs list in the start menu. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks Yenan This MSDN resource should help you out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/html/vbconthefilesystemeditor.asp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite

  Hi I have installed Visual Studio 2005 Team suite , But I can't find team foundation server with this edition , While it must have team foundation server workgroup edition with Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite ....What should I do --thnx The client to Team Foundation Server (Team Explorer) is shipped on the Team Foundation Server disk. You must install it seperately after installing your choice of Visual Studio 2005 and it will add the team functionality to it. You can download a 180-day trial via MSDN downloads or here:- http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ LinkId=64135 Hope that helps, Martin. ...Show All

• SQL Server Full Text Search Engine in Chinese Simplied

  contains(name,'" 三"') will not find the row in database with column named "name" and " 三" is sure there,but will find ' 三一'，' 三二' why name column is sure in the fulltext category and data population is finished!   This is due to wordbreaking behaviour in Chinese Simplified wordbreaker. ' 三一' is got broken into ' ' and '三一'. You could try freetext instead of contains to allow some fuzziness into the  query. select * from Table1 where freetext (*, N' 三') ...Show All

• Windows Forms Applying Visual Styles to form When Theme Service is not enabled.

  Hi. I am developing a winform application at my company, and there is one thing that I want to do, but have not found the answer to it. The IT people have setup the Group policy to disable the Theme Service in Windows XP, that is responsible for applying the styles that a Theme has in windows. I hate the way my application looks with square buttons and no mouseover color change. And this is my question: Is there any way to apply XP Visual Styles to controls even if the system itself has the theme service turned off Thanks in advance for your response. The IT Department by some unknown reason ...Show All

• SQL Server execute stored procedure

  I have setup a user which has execute rights on a stored procedure. The sp is owned by dbo. The user can execute the stored procedure, but it fails, because the stored procedure calls other tables and procedures that the user does not have rights to. Is there a way to allow those procedures to execute without allowing access to everything else for the user I setup Thanks! a stored procedure is run under the security  context  of who ran the Sps. When the sp is run it is executed in the context of who ever run the Sps. if you deny the user on the base  table. th sps will fail. how about a v ...Show All

• .NET Development System.dllNotFound Exception

  hi I am using websphere Mq series 5.3 version with ASP.net (VS 2003, Windows XP). i have created a queue manager in this, when i tried to open this queue manager to put a message on request queue , the program is throwing a exception i.e exception: System.dllnotfoundException message: unable to load DLL(mqic32.dll) source: amqmdnet (amqmdnet is a dll which is added as a reference in the project) these dll are from websphere mq series 5.3 version,and located in the bin directory. pls help me in this regard I have tried giving permissions on all the directories to all users including aspnet. Exactly the same code ...Show All

• .NET Development static data at process level (rather than AppDomain level)

  For unit testing purposes, I would like to be able to share some data between AppDomains. More precisely, I would like to achieve the "static" semantic but at the process level (as opposed to AppDomain level). Is there some simple way to do that (simple as opposed to building a whole dedicated remoting architecture for that purpose) Is there an equivalent of the LocalDataStoreSlot at the process level Thanks in advance, Joannes Vermorel Done at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx feedbackid=2222ae9d-e327-4e2a-a5c9-4f236ad12b9b Joannes ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Designer fails: could not load type RuntimeCompatibility from mscorlib

  Hi, When trying to view a workflow designer in VS 2005 Beta 2 with the PDC CTP .NET 2.0 install, I get the following error: Could not load type 'System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeCompatibilityAttribute' from assembly 'mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0.,Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken ...' Any hints on what I can do to solve this   I've reinstalled the .NET 2.0 Beta 2 September CTP bits from the PDC DVD but still no joy.  I have the WinFX Redistributable from the PDC DVD installed as well. Looking in C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50215 the mscorlib.dll is showing with a version 2.0.50215.322. Cheers, Benjamin Mitchell ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. disposing of video when using "RenderToTexture"

  hi, i am using C#, feb2006 sdk and managed directx 1. i am exploring the Video class, especially the render to texture feature. setting the whole thing up was not much of a problem, except for the total lack of documentation of this class. anyways, after some trial and error i got it work quite nicely. the class seems well designed and - once you know how - is easy to use. my problem is, i haven't found a way of safely disposing of the video object. i ALWAYS get an access violation exception when i call Video.Dispose(). mind you: this only applies to the render to texture mode. the normal window output works fine. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Project is not visible if always show solution explorer is unchecked

  Hi, I have created my custom package. Normally It works fine. but the following is the new issue which i m facing these days. 1) Open VS.NET 2005 IDE 2) Create a Custom Project 2) Click on options under tools menu 3) Uncheck the "Always Show Solution" checkbox My custom project becomes invisible Whereas other projects works fine. If anyone knows how to resolve this. please help... Regards Kajal Hi kajal, I am also facing the same problem and also could find the problem after reading your message. I have also tried for "UICONTEXT_SolutionExists" but really dont how to do it. Pulkit ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB.NET Function that acts like T-SQL COALESCE Function

  Is there a VB.Net function/method that acts like T-Sql's COALESCE function COALESCE function Returns the first nonnull expression among its arguments. Syntax COALESCE ( expression [ ,... n ] ) Thanks, Matt Great discussion.  The functions you have written are exactly what T-SQL's Coalesce function implements.  I actually wrote similar VB code to yours to solve my problem. Thanks for your help on this.  If you ever write code in T-SQL, you now know what the Coalesce function does. Matt ...Show All

• Visual Basic reading file LINE by LINE

  I already built a New Character Page that you gill out information like name gender and class that auto-generates stats for the specific character (Stamina, health, mana, strength defence, agaility, and wisdom) and saves each of those stats as individual txt files and puts them in a folder depending on what you put in as your name. Now When I start my game I want to chose what account to play as. I am thinking when I save my character it saves annother textFile called CharacterList.txt and adds a line to that character list for whataver you put in as your name. so if you put in Shredder as your name. it would add a line in the txt file calle ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Backspace in edit control

  Hi Still building an application for Smartphone 2005 in pure Win32. I now have a configuration dialog containing static fields and edit controls. Everything is fine except when I type sthg in the edit controls, I can't clear it. I can only add characters but not delete them with the back key. The back key (which is also used to switch back to older applications) is inactive. Can someone help please Hi, The back key on smartphone plays a special role. It gets used to get back to the main screen, so that use of any application doesn't interfere with the main role of the phone i.e. to make and accept calls. This is the reason it doesn ...Show All

• Visual C# Application.ProductVersion

  Hi I am trying to display productversion in my winform application What i want is to display version information as major.minor.build (1.0.14).  Everytime I recompile I want build to increase by one / or when something changes in the code base and recompile - do not mind which. I have looked at AssemblyVersion and AssemblyFileVersion and have set those as 1.0.* however it seems to have no effect on application.ProductVersion. All I get with productversion is 1.0.2131.56354 - does not seem to make a difference what I do but this number stays the same.  I have tried this with a simple hello world app. I am sure I am doing something s ...Show All

• Windows Forms Converting Forms to TabPages

  I am new to .NET programming. Is there and easy way to convert a previously created Form into a tabpage. set the form toplevel to false and add them to the tabpage like any control Form.TopLevel = False; TabPage.Contols.Add(Form); you should set the borderstyle to none for a better result. ...Show All