W. Shawn Boone's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ Tips for speeding up debugging (stepping through code)?

  I've got one particular large C++ project that, in VC 2005, when stepping through code in the debugger, it takes approximately 2 seconds for each hit of the F10 key (i.e. each line of code) to be executed. I've tried many things to attempt to speed it up: disable intellisense, renaming feacp.dll, removing all additional output windows, watch, breakpoints, etc, removing navigation bar from text editor window, disabling anti-virus on the machine ...Show All

• Visual Basic Richtextbox right click popup menu?

  I am looking for code to insert into the Richtextbox1_mousedown event that will check to see if the right mouse button was clicked, and if so popup a menu. Just like in VB6: PopupMenu mnuEdit I can't seem to find it. Please help. You can email me at dkpctek@hotmail.com, thank you. If e . Button = Windows . Forms . MouseButtons . Right ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Removing references to TFS Server

  In visual studio I've added a connection to a Team Foundation Server. That server is now unavailable (this is a testing environment and I'm trying to get things to work, so I'm creating and destroying servers all the time). Now, in VS2005, if I try and connect to a server I get an error saying that old server is not-reachable, and then nothing. So I don't get the explorer window and I can find no way of removing the old server reference. It mean ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Do you know how to play video with AxMediaPlayer Class?

  Dear everyone, I have a problem and hope you could help. Thank you. AxMediaPlayer is a class which plays video using Windows Media Player. I could play the video with AxMediaPlayer. But I also want to play video of certain time slot. For example, I want to play it only from second 5 to second 12 (not playing the entire video) after open the media file. Then, how could I do this with this class Do you know Regards, David ...Show All

• SQL Server DDL Trigger for lost Connection

  Hello, I would like to use a trigger on my SqlServer that gets executed whenever a connection is lost. So far I have not found an event for connection loss. Does anyone know if an event exists, or, if there is another way to get notified when a connection is closed/lost Best regards, Max ...Show All

• Windows Forms \field command are deleting in RichTextBox

  I want use a RichTextBox to allow users to edit and modify complex report. I need to insert at runtime many optional fields wich comes from a database. I have think "well I will use the rtf command \field !" but this command does work  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS MSSCCI Provider Final fails to install

  I have downloaded the latest MSSCCI provider for Team Foundation Server that was published today. The .MSI is about 1.06mb. I am able to complete most of the installation but during the last few percent a message appears with the following error: "The cabinet file '_DE4122DA27BBE897D870DBB37A5A532C' required for this installation is corrupt and cannot be used. This could indicate a network error, an error reading from the CD-ROM, or a probl ...Show All

• Windows Forms Winform standards for UI Design? Help.

  Hi there - we are doing the switch from ASP.NET to Winform/Smart Client development.  The main thing we are struggling with is the proper ways to design the user interface...i.e. standards for design, layout, etc. Can anyone help with this....I know that 2.0 will have some new design features, but we want best practices - guidelines. Thank you Kelley Bryant Is there a similar article, but for Web ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Branch or second workspace?

  I have a simple problem I'm trying to solve, but I'm hung up on the workflow best practices with TFS version control. I'm accustomed to using copy project to move applications from my machine up to a web server. Now with things stored in the repository it's unclear the best way to move them (promote them) through the rest of the life-cycle. Suppose I have a new team project....I've added my solution everything works fine. I checkout some files, ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS 2003 with VSS 6.0d after installing Beta 2.0 of VS 2005

  I previously was developing with VS 2003 and VSS 6.0d, then I tried installing Beta 2.0.  I realized that my VS 2003 is now using VSS 2005 (integrated with it) and as a result, I am having a number of problems with my previous project under source control.  Show differences produces a number of exceptions which I have found in the newsgroups (for previous versions of VSS) is a result of having 2 versions. What should I do to rever ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Problems creating an office project

  I'm trying to create an Excel and Word Projects in VS 2005 Beta 2 and always got this error, "The type initializer for 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Application.Hosting.VCG' threw an exception." in a error dialog, and the creation is uncomplete. then suddenly this error stopt coming and I was able to finish the creation of the project. But then another problem came, if I tried to run the project it always crashed. It's an empty excel project... ...Show All

• Visual C++ My First Line....

  Hello, I have this code and I am very confused with it, The online resources say that this code should work but it does NOT on Visual Basic C++ Express Beta 2 My .ccp is named DEDLOC.cpp and so are other project names... This is the Code: for stdafx.cpp: _______________________________________________________________________ // stdafx.cpp : source file that includes just the standard includes // DEDLOC.pch will the the pre-compiled head ...Show All

• .NET Development .net estate agent project

  Hi if anyone could offer me any help with this problem i would be very grateful. This bit is the tasks of my project:- I have to set up a website, www.housebuyers.com . People who want to sell their houses will register the property details on the website, and people wishing to buy will enter their requirements (price band, desired location, features such as garage, garden etc.). The software will match requirements to properties registe ...Show All

• .NET Development Advice on Parameter problem with Odbc call returning multiple result sets

  Hi all, I need some help with a problem regarding parameters to a stored proc please. To set the scene, I have a C# app that gets data from a database. To do this it calls a stored proc "getData". getData is called through a Microsoft.Data.Odbc.OdbcCommand object that I have. The stored proc returns two result sets, I read all of the data in the first one by using IDataReader results  While (results.Read()) and I move on ...Show All

• SQL Server generate the insert script from table of SQL Server

  Dear All, I would like to generate the insert scripts of the 500 records for the later software initialization. Could you suggest some software to do this Thanks. Alex For information the environment are SQL Server 2000 Try Squirrel. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci1165699,00.html ...Show All