Ben Breen's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Monitoring system messages?

  Is there a way in vbExpress to monitor the system messages going between the tcpip input from the net to the displayed windows form I get the data I need now by reading the screen, but it would be much easier and faster if I could instead capture the input to the form before it went to the display. I would very much appreciate any suggestions. Thanks Dick R. Hi Jim W. I really appreciate the input. I have been working on my project for about 6 months and I am a little farther along than you indicate you are. I have the program working for one site and just about two. I am not much of a gambler ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS Verification

  I'm on my third installation of TFS. First time  All went OK bit I couldn't create projects. Second, Wouldn't install at all. Third and this time. Totally rebuilt server and now it's all installed. Before I attempt to create a project can anybody give me a checklist of things that should and shouldn't work. For example at the moment I'm logged on the machine as TFSSETUP who is a member of local admins.  I have Foundation Client installed also. 1. http://localhost/ = Under Construction 2. http://localhost/reports = Reporting server website and I've added our develpment NT group and tfsservice to system administrator role 3. http:// ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Programmatically Creating a Binding to XML and a DataTemplate

  Hello, If you have a DataTemplate thus, <DataTemplate x:Key="DT"> <TextBlock /> </DataTemplate> and an XML document; for instance, <People> <Person> <Name>Bob</Name> </Person> </People> How can you create a Binding between the XML and DataTemplate in C# XmlDocument xml = // ... as above ... Binding b = new Binding(); b.Source = ; b.XPath = ; DataTemplate dt = (DataTemplate)FindResource("DT"); dt.VisualTree.SetBinding(TextBlock.TextProperty, b); such that the TextBlock's Text property display's the Name element Eg, Bob. (I can do this purley in ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Amazon-Enabled Movie Collection

  Hello So far I am unable to find the web Update edition on the movie collection kit. Anyone has the link Thank you Hi SMAL, Glad to hear that you are trying out the Amazon-Enabled Movie Collection!! The kit can be downloaded from the following locations: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/starterkits/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/downloads/starterkits/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/starterkits/ If you already have the old version, then you might want to go ahead and remove the old template first, to avoid confusion. If you had downloaded the kit during one of the beta periods, t ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Does BitmapCreateOptions.PreservePixelFormat support custom pixel formats?

  I wrote a codec to load Dicom images, that have a native pixel format of 12 bit gray scale with 16bpp space for which I also defined a custom pixel format including implementing a converter. When I try to load one of the images with the BitmapCreateOptions.PreservePixelFormat flag I get an System.NotSupportedException. How can I load the images without them being forced to be converted to another pixel format Is the DLL that your codec and format converter live in signed WPF will refuse to loat any extensible components from non-signed DLLs. ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do i use a timer

  How do i use a timer bit of a stupid question but it has puzzled me! I would also like to know how to link VB with databases i am currently working on a project and i need some help. Sure - at the end of the day, the same thing is created. For me, though, putting it in code means having complete control over it, where it is declared, how it is declared, etc. The designer does indeed have that area, and it's obviously so that more and more can be done without writing code, which is fine for some folks, I suppose. ...Show All

• Visual C# Newbie Question

  Okay, I have decided to learn C#, so I created a basic form in Visual Studio C# 2005 (Not Express). What is the code to show Form2 For example Form1 has a button when the user clicks the button in Form1 it shows Form2. What is the code to do that I do something like, FormClassName frmstart = new FormClassName(); frmStart.Show(); Jeff ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is there an example of how to test web services using https with X.509 certificate

  Any examples out there to test web services that require a client-side certificate using https I created the tests on my local machine without ssl and now am trying to enhance them for our larger test system. Can't record as we are using Smart Client WinForms.  Actually, the problem migh not be the certificate but how to add a FormPostParameter with Username and password. Is this the same in Smart Client forms as in IE Thanks, Burkhard WebTestRequest class has a Certificates collection that you can put client-side certs in. You may be better off writing a unit test to test the web services. ...Show All

• .NET Development Is network load balancing improved for TCP remoting in .Net 2.0 ?

  Hi The MSDN TV broadcast for improvements in .Net remoting 2.0 says that the Socket Cache for TCP has been improved to allow for better load balancing. I cant find any other information about this. Does this mean that Network Load Balancing is now viable for .Net Remoting 2.0 using the TCP channel ( some previous posts say that NLB does not work ideally with older .Net remoting TCP connections ) Thanks Hi, Yes - thats correct. The earlier version had a problem with Socket Affinity and NLB did not work with .NET Remoting. The newer version provides options to control the Socket Cache. This can be done by using the properties - socketCa ...Show All

• Windows Forms Missing toolbar icons in print preview dialog

  Hello,  I'm developing a C# application. Initially I had a Windows.Form object with (among other members) a PrintPreviewDialog data member, and this dialog worked just fine: all the toolbar buttons in the print preview dialog displayed the icons correctly. Then I added a Toolbar and an ImageList object to my form, added two .ico files to the ImageList obje ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Connect to Oracle DB

  Is it possible to connect to an Oracle database using Visual Basic Express Edition hi, as far as i know yes you can in that thread you will find usefull links about connection almost to most of databases types http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=174960&SiteID=1 but also i don't think you can deploy your database with your project under express edition i'm not professional but that's what i know till now , if someone has a correction plz do best regards ...Show All

• SQL Server Distribution Agent Error - (Multiple-step OLE DB operation generated errors....)

  Hi, I am getting the following error when i setup a pull subscription on SQL Sever 2005 RC1. The Snapshot agent and Logreader agent are running fine but when the distribution agent runs to synchronise the subscription fro the first time, the following error occur. Its something i haven't seen before. Any ideas what it could be Thanks, Priyanga             Command attempted: execute sp_server_info 18 Error messages: Multiple-step OLE DB operation generated errors. Check each OLE DB status value, if available. No work was done. (Source: MSSQLS ...Show All

• SQL Server Returning results to MSMQ from SSIS Package

  I want my package to return the results to the MSMQ queue. from where it will be picked by another application. How do we do that. Do u suggest using service broker for that. in that case how to connect that application to ssis service broker   Tim Daniels wrote: Well this is confusing me also. Suppose I have a simple flat file, I want to process the file and send each row as a separate message to an MSMQ queue for consumption elsewhere. How do I do that Feels like it should be a MSMQ destination in the dataflow, not an MSMQ task in the control flow; something here I am not understanding. Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Install Testing Tools

  Hi, I installed VS 2005 Beta 2 (not from Team Suite dvd, but from VS 2005 DVD) and then installed Team Foundation Client. I can connect to Team Foundation and make most of the PM tasks, but I don't have the Testing tools. What is necessary to get those tools Thanks a lot For convenience, let's end this thread here and shift to: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=5088   --- Eric Jarvi http://blogs.msdn.com/ejarvi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Using AssemblyInfo task in Team Build

  Hi I've been using the AssemblyInfo task from SDC together with Team Build to update all dll's built by my TFSBuild.proj file. I've also changed the source code for this task slightly to output another property from the task which I want to use to give a number to my installers (very similar to assemblyversion but 3 digits instead of 4) that I also create as part of the Team Build process. Currently I have the assemblyinfo task's target file imported into my tfsbuild.proj file, but what I want to do is somehow pass it into all of my installer.csproj files (there is one for each solution I am building in Team Build). Any ideas appreciated ...Show All