mightypeo's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms bind data to combobox makes selected index change

  Why is it that if I have this code: comboBox1.BeginUpdate(); for (int i=0;i<10;i++)     comboBox1.Items.Add(i); comboBox1.EndUpdate(); The selected indexChanged is not fired but with this code it is: comboBox1.BeginUpdate(); DataSet ds = new DataSet(); ds.ReadXml("sites.xml"); comboBox1.DataSour ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem to connect to AD while doing automated tests

  Hello All, I have a very strange behavior while running the tests on my development machines and on the production server. I have posted this thread in the CLR part but you may already have encountered this problem while doing tests. Thanks to have a look ! http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=391203&SiteID=1 Jarod A new element : so I have created a brand new virtual machine with "Team Suite Tr ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to force visuals to get rendered?

  Hi, I’m programmatically creating shapes, like rectangles, and putting them in a canvas. I now want to be able to call functions like VisualTreeHelper.GetDrawing and VisualTreeHelper.GetContentBounds. The problem is that GetDrawing for my rectangle returns null, since it has not been rendered yet. I’m using VisualTreeHelper when I’m writing unit tests, so I somehow need to force WPF to render the visuals, without actually having the canvas rende ...Show All

• Architecture What would prevent GPO from being deployed?

  We have been using GPOs for deploying certain settings to desktops and notebook computers in our local domain. This has been working very well until just recently when I started setting up a new batch of Dell notebooks. When the user logs in, some of the default GPO is deployed, but not all of it. The main parts being deployed are the security settings (such as password rules), Windows firewall settings, and wireless settings. Miscellaneous sett ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot Load SQLSpars.dll

  Hello, I have had numerous problems installing SQL Server 2005 on various machine. Most of those problems are related to insufficient rights to various users. But I am baffled by this one: Setup Failed: Could not load SQLSpars.dll Why would this happen I see this message after beginning the SQL Server 2005 Standard setup and making my installation selections and beginning the install. The process stops after about 30 seconds, and displa ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Allow only rtf files

  I have been thinking for ages but how i can allow only rtf files openFileDialog.Title = "Open a Document"; openFileDialog.InitialDirectory = "MyDocuments"; openFileDialog.CheckFileExists = true; openFileDialog.CheckPathExists = true; richTextBox.LoadFile(openFileDialog.FileName); documentTitle = openFileDialog.FileName; The easy way is to add a filter ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGrid column alignment problems

  1.  The DataGridColumn's Alignment property does not function properly. The header is always left-aligned, no matter what this property is. 2. How is it possible to center-align the header and right-align number-data  The Format property provides only the format&n ...Show All

• SQL Server Use a transform against SQL Server

  My question is derived from the following case: I'm developing a game browser in which I have to store server information in a SQL Server db.  On the game browser (client side), the server information is stored as xml, and the browser will have the ability to filter those servers using xslt.  I want my users to have the ability to apply their filters (xslt) against my list of servers that I have stored in my db.  The problem, is t ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB Dummy

  I have inherited a vacation request form.  In the start and stop dates there is a macro.  Right now when somebody tabs onto the start or stop date a calendar comes up for the year 2000.  You can change it and select any other date you wish but I would like the calendar to pop up with the current date.  I am enclosing the macro below.  Is there any entry I can insert or deltete to make this happen   Thank y ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista What kind of Host Application to use?

  hi I didn't  really get behind this whole thing of persistence, and host application. Therefore I have following question: We are developing a asp.net web application, where order can be made. After defining the order, the workflow should be triggered, and is used to control certain sla (service level agreement) times, in which certain actions should take place. For example: After 8 hours the order is checked if it was given clearance ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Error attaching to process on Microsoft Device Emulator 2.0 beta with VS 2005

  I have a C# app using SqlCe that I can’t always attach to after deploying my solution to the emulator which does imply I can attach sometimes. I can sometimes redeploy multiple times before this issue starts showing and other times I have the issue on first startup of application. I don’t have a real pocket PC yet so don’t know if this reproduces there. And I have not tried this on the 1.0 version of the emulator as of yet. The error I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Manual Tests with Code Coverage for all assemblies

  Heya. I'm not sure I'm doing this the right way so I'll have to ask. I'm using Unit Tests together with Manual Tests and I'd like to view the Code Coverage information on these tests combined. The Unit Tests runs alright with Code Coverage but I'm not sure how I should run the Manual Tests to gather Code Coverage. Today, I just double-click the .exe in the bin/Debug folder but that seems to just collect code coverage information on the .exe, not ...Show All

• Visual C++ Where do I find the MSVCP80D.dll

  When I try to run the debug version of my application it fails with the error MSVCP80D.dll not found. I tried finding it on my machine but failed. Does that come with the Beta 2 of Whidbey  I need this to start debugging my apps. It should be picking it up from the SxS directories. Try locating it in the WinSxS directory at the %windir%\WinSxS directory. See related past post for more details: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/Sho ...Show All

• Windows Forms nudge like MSN Messenger

  Hi I try to make form nudge like MSN Messenger by this code in vb.net            Me .Top = Me .DesktopLocation.Y - 6            Thread.Sleep(30)             Me .Top = Me .DesktopLocation.Y + 6            Thread.Sleep(30)             Me .Left = Me .DesktopLocation.X + 6 &nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to delete a /$folder from Source Control?

  After deleting a team project using the " TFSDeleteProject", although all the work items and sharepoint site and reports are all gone, the source control project is not being deleted. I've tried "TFSDeleteProject" with the "/force" option and also followed the instruction on this discussion forum: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=4809&SiteID=1&PageID=2  with no luck. Is there any way of deleting thi ...Show All