Balaam's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Back/Forward buttons don't work in Help (Document Explorer)

  Since installing VS 2005 Beta 2 I have noticed that the back and forwards button on my Logitech MX-1000 mouse do not seem to be recognised in the Help application (Document Explorer). They do work fine everywhere else (in IE, for example). Weird... Just to make sure, does Back/Forward work as you'd expect when you click the Back/Forward items on the toolbar   I'm just making sure it's certain than the mouse forward/back are the o ...Show All

• Visual C# Is it possible to "melt" multiple dlls into 1 large dll?

  Hi, We are developing a class library, and currently the library spans over several Visual Studio projects, both C#, managed C++ and unmanaged C++. This again means that we have several dll-files. When time comes to sell our class library, we would like to sell just 1 large dll-file instead of all the dll-files we have now. Finally, we use a few 3rd-party dlls and some unmanaged C++ dlls, which we also would like to "combine" or "m ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Sql money type and textbox confusion

  I have a table (named mymoney) with three coloumns dept and holding as money type and id. I got another table (name bills) which I enter some bills. Bills table also have a dept, holding and id coloumns. I created a datagridview to enter bills. Then when someone click on save, I want that program gets the sum of dept and holding coloumns and update the mymoney table according to the id. On the datagrid form I used ---Begin Code--- ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. D3D Cg problems

  Dear All, I've experimented D3D Cg shaders for a cross-platform video software. It seems that there are a lot of problems in the current release. The most annoying is that some Cg shaders are working on nVidia but not on ATI. On both cards I compile the Cg shader with profile vs_2_0 and ps_2_0. Reducing a few instructions from the problematic shaders makes it work. I get no error message at compilation time, but when I try to loa ...Show All

• Visual C++ DataGridView in Visual C++

  Hello: What happen with Visual C ++ 2005 and MFC They are going to disappear in the future I see that are many controls advanced and new in C# and VB, but in C++ follow same. For example, I have not been able to insert the DataGridView control in C++ (MFC). It is not compatible there What is necessary to make to use it in C++ Please, help Thanks. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ...Show All

• SQL Server getting primary key out of insert into statement

  Is there a way to get the primary key that is causing a primary key violation when inserting via a insert into with a select statement. This violation is being caught using a try/catch statement. Is there anyway, short of doing yourself via brute force coding, to get what the values are that are causing the error. Basically, I'm doing: begin try insert into TableA select col1, col2, col3 from TableB end try begin cat ...Show All

• Visual Studio Multiple checkouts dont work for me

  i allowed multiple checkouts (SS 8) via sourcesafe administrator. Me and my teammates restarted visual studio (2005), but it seems we cant checkout one file for more than one person. I think it is because of database has been created with default 'Lock-Modify-Unlock' Model which doesnt support multiple checkouts. Hence the question, can i change existing model > it because the file was originally checked out when the archiv ...Show All

• Windows Forms Getting error C2039 while trying to access a __nogc class within the Form1 class

  Hi everyone, I am using visual studio .net 2003 and am coding in C++. I am getting an error "C2039" when I try to access a __nogc class from within the public __gc class Form1. I get the following error C2039: 'TTS' : is not a member of 'KernelControl edit: I also get the following errors error C2501: 'KernelControl::Form1::TTS' : missing storage-class or type specifiers error C2501: 'KernelControl::Form1::test' : missing storage ...Show All

• Visual Studio DSL tools on XP 64 bit

  Hi, I've just installed the DSL tools on VS 2005 .. on XP 64bit. I'm getting the same empty toolbox when I try the walk throughs as a number of others have mentioned. I have tried all the suggestions without success. I'm wondering if it's worth conitnuing on the 64bit platform or to rather revert ot dev-ing on the 32bit ... i.e. is there going to be a lot of issues like this dustyn Hi Gareth, I'm gla ...Show All

• Windows Forms windows form stops responding during non-infinite loop

  Hi,I have a windows form that sends out a monthly opt in newsletter email to all of our community members. The problem is that the list is large, and every time I run the program it sits there appearing to be frozen. I have to watch the program under task manager and watch its resources to see if its running, and checking the queue mail folder for emails. This obviously is not a great way to run the program.In my code I loop thru a sqldatareader ...Show All

• Visual Basic Default Modifier for Visual Basic Controls

  When a TextBox or other control is added to a VB.Net 2005 form, the default modifier is Friend. Is there any way to customize this so that the default becomes Private Hi, This seems to be complex issue, because we need to change the IDE's default behavior. Based on my researching, I did not find such an configuration options in IDE. But I think you may try to post in the group below. Discuss customization ...Show All

• .NET Development Use .net dll in VB6?

  I want use a .net dll in vb6. I have registered dll with resgam. I have generated .tlb file. I have add in references tlb file. But when I run it tak error "File or asembly name xxxx , or one of its components, was not found". Before register with resgam the error was "ActiveX component can't create object". Do you know how use .net dlls in vb6 Thanks _______________ HipHop Directo Foros de musica ...Show All

• Visual Basic Buttons

  Hi, I would like to use round buttons on my forms and wondered if there was a way to do this in Visual Basic Any assistance would be much appreciated. Best regards, Jae http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/RoundButton_csharp.asp Yes, it's in C#, but it's easy to convert, or you can use the class library in VB.NET as it stands. ...Show All

• .NET Development Developing Windows Services using Express Edition of C#

  Hi I've been trying to create a windows service using the express edition of C#. Unfortunately, there are no in-built templates for doing this (like in Pro, and all of the other editions). Is there a way to download the templates Or is it possible to program the service without using the helpers in the IDE. For example, I have managed to create a service by referencing the relevant DLL and inheriting the correct class, but I cannot create the in ...Show All

• SQL Server Need a list of Error Code

  Hi, When we configure a transformation to redirect the error record, SSIS gives 2 columns: 'error code' and 'error column'. In one article, I have seen how to get the error description using the 'error code'. My questions are, Where I can get list of all possible error codes 'error column' gives the id of the column. How to get the name of the 'error column' Thanks. Basically you need to know the metadata of the normal o ...Show All