paulconstantine's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Estimating time and assigning scenarios...

  1- Isn't a scenario always broken down into one or more tasks for developers to impelement 2- If the above statement is true, then why do we assign scenarios to individuals Why do we assign scenarios to anyone at all, since implementing the scenario would actually mean implementing each of its individual tasks 3- Is it correct to estimate a time for a whole scenario Shouldn't we actually estimate the time for each task requried to be done to acomplish this scenario 4- Isn't a scenario just another name for a use case (with alternative courses, exceptions and all) or am I confused Thank you, Sammy Hi Sammy, ...Show All

• Visual C# Complex numbers class or struct in C#

  Does anybody have a class or struct file for complex number arithmetic in C# If so, can I get it Otherwise, where can I get it from Many thanks... Hi, searching for: c# complex numbers in google i got lots of pages with examples. Try this one for example: http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/1/Cmplx.num.cls.asp ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Please we need an expert in this thread!!!!

  Hi - I have tried to install the 5308 build on a (older) PC (AMD Thunderbird/512MB/ATI 9000) that I use as a test machine but I keep getting an error message immediately after entering the license key. The error dialog says "An internal Setup Error occurred while displaying the image selection wizard". After a while the setup program will abort and display another dialog "Exception Unknown Exception 0xe0000100 occurred at memory location 0x77e4028b. Other postings of a similar problem suggested that there was an ISO image download/DVD buring issue. I have reburned at 1x speed. I have re-downloaded the Checked build. I have ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problems with some links

  I am having problems accessing some links in the Help System installed on my pc. Some links don't make the mouse pointer turn to a hand and are unclickable, this occurs in both the Visual Studio 2003 and Express help systems.  The last time I only reinstalled the MSDN Library, although before that I reinstalled VC++2003 and the MSDN Library. ...Show All

• Windows Forms The v2 DatePicker doesn't support null databinding (bug?)

  The following code (which is a simple test windows form - visual studio team 2005 system beta 3 refresh) demonstrates what I believe is a bug in the DatePicker control. When a datepicker is bound to a binding source set to an object, properties of type DateTime that are null are not updated when the user (at runtime) changes the date. This is a real pain; and, frankly, makes the date picker useless to bind to database-derived datatables which could contain dbnull. Thank you in advance for your help. (also: why is it called datetime picker when it does not pick the time ) Correct. The DateTime picker does not support null ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to manipulate forms/objects from sub programs in modules

  Hi at all, I have read "Working with Multiple Forms in Visual Basic.NEt but it don't really helps, maybe I'm rather to old for all this stuff. :-( I'm not able to find a real solution within the forum and the documentation so I try to post my problem and hope someone has a solution for this I have 2 forms - Form1 and Form2 and a module Module1. Form1 has 1 label, Label1, and 2 buttons, button1 and button2 . Form2 has 1 label, Label1, and 1 button, button1. *-------Source Code---------------- Public Class Form1 Private Sub Button1_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Ha ...Show All

• Visual Basic Build Complete Notification Sounds

  I just upgraded to Visual Studio 2005 from VS6.0  and I cannot find any documentation for Visual Studio sounds schemes.  In VS6.0 I could have seperate sounds for "BuildComplete", "BuildError", and "BuildWarning".  In Visual Studio I can only create a sound for VS_BreakpointHit  Are any of the others available The three I mentioned in my post BuildComplete, BuildWarrning, and BuildError.  I found I didn't need notification for every warning or error durning the build, but an all done sound was very usefull.  Some sounds when doing a "Find in Files" would be nice as well. &nb ...Show All

• Visual C++ MFC project with WinXP style menus and toolbars?

  Hi. I asked this in a previous reply already, but the subject changed, and I wanted more people to see it. In VS2005, is it possible to create an MFC application that uses the WinXP sytle menus and toolbars   What I would like is the steps to create a new MFC project that when I build and run it, it displays with the same "look" as a VS2005 forms application. I've been directed to use the manifest through which I can make other MFC controls render in their new style (by using version 6 of ComCtl32.dll), but I can't get the menus or the toolbars to display in the WinXP style. Can someone point me to the the procedure for doin ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to instance a class in the current project

  Hey NG So, the subject says everything - I think. I have a MDI-Application. In one of my ChildForms I have some UserControls. By changing the CheckedEvent of a RadioButton(in the Form), my class enables or disables all TextBoxes of the UserControls. - Therefor I use ReadOnly Property to access the status. But I do need the status also in the UserControls. I don't want to check the RadioButton - I don't think that is the correct way.  - Because maybe I use the class in some other forms too - and then I would like to have the same code. THX - Hope you know what I mean Hey Stephen & Ralph So first of a ...Show All

• Windows Forms Dynamically adding Template field to GridView vb.net

  Hello Eveyone, I am trying to add the Template field in code behind file (dynamically) however; in my stored procedure i created built in column with asp:textbox tag init and then from the dataset i am trying to read the column value and just bind the dataset to the gridview but some reason within the gridview it shows the built in text box tag rather than the actul text box control. So my question is how do i convert this dataset column value that has the asp:textbox tag into textbox control in the code behind file and display the the texbox on the gridview Code Example: Me .GridView3.DataSource = dsPurchaseIdEntry Me .GridView3.DataBin ...Show All

• Windows Forms ToolStripTextBox and Painting

  Hi folks, I have a ToolStripTextBox on my application's toolbar that I'm using as a search box (inspired by the search box in Vista). When the text box isn't focused, and has no text, I want to paint the word "Search" in gray text on it. I realise that I could kludge it by actually setting the text to "Search" and changing the font, etc, but to me it seems more elegant to simply override the Paint event and draw the word onto the TextBox's background. However, I don't seem to be able to paint on the text box itself. The best I can do is paint on the small margin around the text box, which is no good at all. Is this by design Is it possible f ...Show All

• Windows Forms Changing Keyboard Layout ???

  Hi for all I have samll problem but need your help My Keyboard Language is ar-EG (Arabic Egypt) O.K programmatically I want to change the keyboard layout at MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/intl/nls_238z.asp ar-EG ID is 0x0c01 Using LoadKeyboardLayout API Function and giving it this ID I can not switch the keyboard layout Why any advice to solve plz thanks You need to use ActivateKeyboardLayout to activate that keyboard. If this didn't work please provide the code snippet. ...Show All

• SQL Server Win CE 4.2 and Smart Dev Application question

  I'm a bit stuck with this one... hope someone can help. I'm trying to develop an application that will run on a pocket PC with Windows CE 4.2 I'm using .Net 2003 and the application is in VB.Net. I can run the application on the pocket pc fine (ie. form paints, buttons work) , until I need to connect to Sql DB on the server. When I try to create a connection object ( Dim dbconnection As New SqlClient.SqlConnection) I get an error stating .. "This application (test.exe) requires a newer version of .Net Compact Framework than the one installed on the device" .... "could not load System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnecti ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Snapin VersionControl.Common.Integration & EventFilter give error

    When running the items related to the below trace a sql exception related to Updating Identity occurs--   any insight is appreciated.     00000399 9:23:45 AM [4764] [CS] [Info, PID 4764, TID 5644, 14:23:45.714] Snapin Loader Examining file C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server\Web Services\Services\bin\Plugins\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Common.dll   00000400 9:23:45 AM [4764] [CS] [Info, PID 4764, TID 5644, 14:23:45.824] Snapin Loader Examining file C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server\Web Services\Services\bin\ ...Show All

• .NET Development how to encrypt and decrypt data on dataset??

  hi all, i just want to ask one problem that i face how to encrypt and decrypt data on dataset i have client and server application, on client i use C# desktop application to invoke data on server. when server get a request from client, server invoke data from data base on dataset form. after that, server encrypt the dataset before send encrypted data toclient, and on client encrypted data must decrypt first before client get the information from server.. n i have problem to encrypt and decrypt data on dataset form i need your help,...PLEASE.. Just remember that my example above is still not 100% secure: ...Show All