toodie44's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Transparent TabControl

  Hi i have a picture box and a tabcontrol inside it, i need ro make the tabcontrol transparent so that the image of the picturebox can be seen through it. can you help me please. thanx TabControlEX can be set to Transparent (not really transparent but implements the same pseudo transparency as other controls). This is a modified version of System.Windows.Forms.TabControl. It's a lot of work to do it yourself. http://www.dotnetrix.co.uk/controls.html ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataBinding - Thread Safety

  I made some tests allready and it seems to work, just how thread safe is Databinding My current tests look like: class Class1 : INotifyPropertyChanged with two properties Text1, Text2, which raise the PropertyChanged event in the set. class Class1List : BindingList<Class1> I inserted one instance of Class1 into an instance of Class1List. Bound the Text1 and Text2 to two TextBoxes and the Class1List to a DataGridView. Now I started two background workers which update the Text1 and Text2 property with a lock on the object instance. Are there any problems that would come up in a scenario like this because of the DataBinding I ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to load client print control

  When you display a SQL Reporting Services report to the screen in the header there is a Printer Icon displayed. When we click this icon we get an error message "Unable to load client print control ". Does anyone know what we need to load or what we need to do to resolve this so that we can print the report directly to teh printer, rather than having ot prinnt the web page, which also prints all the Web headre information The Client Print Control is an Active X object. You need to be able to download and install the control. In Internet Explorer\Tools\Internet Options\Security\Custom Level you c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Setup is the pickiest program!

  Can anyone tell me why I cannot install TFS using a SQL Server that has reporting services installed I have a very large and powerful SQL Server cluster that I cannot use for TFS since it has Reporting Services installed (and no, I am not going to remove them). I understand that TFS wants Reporting Services on the application server but it should not install just because I have them on my SQL Server. You can use the single server configuration of TFS to keep Reporting Services on your SQL box. BTW, if you do move Reporting Services to the application tier, it's only moving the RS application tier - the RS databases are still on ...Show All

• Visual C# How to free up memory in C# apps?

  hi.. In my application so many variables and XML files are used .. eventhough after finishing off the work with the file, im closing that. It works fine with few number of files but when i uses more than 50 files the application crashes... So. is there any way to resolve this by clearing the memory. need help !!! You need to make sure you call Dispose on any variable that has that method, before it goes out of scope. But, the garbage collector should ensure that your app never crashes from lack of memory. ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Running as a service

  Is it possible to have Windows Desktop Search index when the user is logged out ie. have it run as a service Will the desktop search be written to run as a service for XP at some time in the future, please Thank you, Jace ...Show All

• .NET Development does winfx (avalon) work under x64?

  I've installed vs2005 and all the winfx parts (jan ctp) on my athlon 64bit. I am experiencing an unworkable situation where doing the slightest manipulation crashes vs2005. I do not have that on my 32bit station. Can somebody confirm that they can use avalon without problems on a 64bit cpu I run the newest bits(January) on my 64bit athlon. I aswell run 64bit windows xp. Works just smooth, beside the small issues it contains. I really think you should try and write on the Avalon forum: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx ForumID=119&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions CD Label Design?

  Would it be possible for Microsoft to provide the CD label designs for the Express CD ISOs. I've downloaded and burnt the ISOs, but the discs look very plain and are not very "eye-catching" when trying to find! Would Microsoft be able to provide a label design for all of the Express CDs Thank you Bruce. These type of questions and suggestions should be logged in the product feedback system . Doing this will help to improve the products. ...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 C# VS 8 Performance makes it unuseable

  Hi, We have converted a large c# solution with 12 projects and about 60 Mb of code from VS7 to VS8 and find that working in the IDE is impossibly slow. We are running on a P4 3.2 Ghz 1 Mb RAM with Windows XP SP2 (clean install). It seems slow in all areas of development. The only area where perfomance is as good or better is in running the release code. So far it's a major backwards step when compared to VS 7. Is anyone else experiencing this or does anyone have any advice on how to make developing large projects in the IDE at least as efficient as it was in VS 7 Regards Steve Crabb I complained ...Show All

• Visual C++ Tracking Reference (%), value, ref??

  For a while now I have been reading the documentation, for Visual C++ 2005, in an attempt to migrate from native code to managed. I find it hard to understand how to use the different types, and what the equvivalent in native code is. Look at this code: ref class rc{}; value class vc{}; f1(rc^ c1){} f2(rc^% c1){} is rc^ myrc = gcnew rc; equvivalent to rc * myrcN = new rc; in native code And is " Handle to Object on Managed Heap " the same as " Pointer to Object " What is the difference of ref and value If i want a object on managed heap do I use the "ref" keyword, and value keyword if I want it on ...Show All

• .NET Development Disappearing updates in local SQL Server Express database

  Hi, I created a SQL Server Express database and added it to my project by using "Project|Add New Item" and selecting "SQL Database". I then added a single table to the database and added a single text column to the table. I dragged the table to an empty form which prompted the UI to automatically add a datagridview, a binding source and a dataset, configured and ready to go. When I run the program, I can add data to the dataset (apparently), but the next time I run the program, the data from the previous session is gone. I have tried all sorts of things including adding an "update" button to invoke the &qu ...Show All

• SQL Server How connect SQL server 2000 with c#.net .....?

  Hello masters, help me yaar i am using dotnet 2003 and SqL SERVER 2000. BUT UNABLE TO CONNECT DATABASE using dataAdaptor(design time ) or sqlconnection any can help me gs whats the error lets see the connection string. make an empty text file called "c:\test.udl" - double click it and try to build a SQL Ole Db Provider datalink. . . can you get that to work Are the TCP protocols enabled in your machines client network settings and in the servers network settings ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is there a way to give new line in Tool tips?

  Hi there,     I want to add very verbose and informative tool tips for each of the fields in my customized bug form. For example for Priority I would prefer showing details of each (0,1,2,3) priorities and when they should be used etc. I want to explain each of these priorities in new line, but I'm not able to add new line for that in HelpText node for such field also the size seems to be really less to give better tool tips. Is there a way to increase the size limit for ToolTips in HelpText node of any or every field in workItem forms. Thanks, Anu You can use newline characters in helptext - just put something like ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Security and Users

  So, there are settings for IIS on the server, settings for the SharePoint site for project, and finally, settings via the Team Explorer. I want to know where I have to add "MYDOMAIN\someuser" in each.   So on the server, do I need to add this account anywhere On the sharepoint site, do I need to add this user someplace On the VS IDE, do I also have to add this user someplace I just want them to be able to see the first screen of a project with all of the nice bug/build reports...but can't seem to get it all working...anyone Can anyone at least tell me what I shouldn't have to do   Any help, please! & ...Show All