Marian Andrei's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Windows Forms tip: use Spy++!

  I wanted to share a great little tip with all of you on how to debunk the inner workings of Windows controls. While .NET Windows Forms is a great library that makes creating forms very easy, there are limits to what you can do with Windows Forms. Luckily, it is just a wrapper around ancient technology, and we can still have a lot more control over the controls than you might think at first glance. Windows messages are still in the core of the . ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Books: Recommendations

  My hope is this will become a sticky posting, so everyone can see it, use it and reply to it. I am looking for recommendations on books for Visual Studio 2005 & Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition (if there's a difference). If you know of any good books related to these, could you please post them here This way people will have a resource they can go to so they can find this type of information, especially beginners like me. I thin ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Property Initializers with generics - bug?

  Any reason why this shouldn't compile using System; class Test <T> { T _x; public T X { get { return _x; } set { _x = value ; } } } class Prog { static void Main() { Test < int > test = new Test < int >() { X = 3 }; // Test.cs(10,48): error CS0029: Cannot implicitly convert type 'int' to 'T' ...Show All

• Visual C# textBox and html?

  Hi guys :) I am creating an application (SmtpClient with GUI) and i want to be able to preview what i have written so far, ok. Now, here is the part i am looking for advice on: This program is suposed to support html mails, so how can i preview html mails Please let me know how that is possible. Hi, This problem can be cleared from the Syncfusion's HTMLUI control. You can render the HTML available easily in the control and it is very eff ...Show All

• Windows Forms Database Objects, Datasets, and Datagrids

  Instead of using the visual tools to build datasets, I want to create them in code (as a part of an object).  However, I do want to bind them to datagrids at design time in order to take advantage of the TableStyles editor.  I've ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Beta 3 Setup Error: Windows SharePoint Services is not configured as recommended by Team Foundation Server

  I am trying to install Team Foundation Server Beta 3 as single server installation and installed all required software components. However, during the installation, it gives me "Windows SharePoint Services is not configured as recommended by Team Foundation Server" error under "Recommened Components" dialog box. I exactly have followed an instruction specified in setup guide for Team Foundation Server Beta 3 for SharePoint services installation. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Querying and late bound data providers

  Hi Normally in the projects I work on we use a strict provider based architecture for accessing data. Obviously this is done to avoid having any nasty database or XML or something else dependancies in the logic of the program. The problem on the other hand is that querying such data stores must also be part of the provider meaning that all possible ways of querying data must be covered by the provider which obviously isn't feasible. Now I was ...Show All

• Visual Studio How can I output a comma delimited list of value from multiple records?

  I need to loop through a datatable and output a list of values as a comma delimited string into a textbox. The Table and List controls output the values horizontally. I need the values of a specific field in my DataTable to display like "value1, value2, value3, etc." in a textbox. Is this possible Were you able to figure this out I'm trying to accomplish the exact same thing. Does anyone have any ide ...Show All

• Visual C++ Can't set position of console window.

  I was wondering how to set the position of the console window. I want it to be in the top left position of the screen but can't seem to figure out how to do so. This is what i am trying to do. AllocConsole(); m_hStdout = GetStdHandle( STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE ); SMALL_RECT ConsoleWindow = {0,0,40,60}; COORD coord = {40,60}; if (SetConsoleWindowInfo(m_hStdout, true ,&ConsoleWindow) == 0) { // Show error messag ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL authentication traffic for Mixed mode

  Hello, SQL server 2000 authentication mode has to be set as mixed mode because the application - called Great Plains has to do that way for some legacy reson. I am wondering whether the authentication connection strings destined to SQL server for authentication will be encrypted(not in clear text) because it inclues the user credentials. Thanks for your comments here. certificate configured by a user is the one w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Very large file size for .rpt files

  My application has a couple of simple .rpt files that I have created with the Crystal Reports bundled with Visual Studio 2003.  These reports read from an Access database file and contain a single 12kb image in the header.  My concern is that the .rpt files are 3.5mb in size each and I cannot find an explaination.  Has anybody else encountered this problem before   Any suggestions on how to trim the fat from my report files ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Getting rendered graphics (quickly) from the card

  I had a thread about thins some days back, but for some reason I can not write into it now. I am faced with the task of rendering some graphics with directx and then copying that graphics into another card which generates a video signal. I need to feed it a new frame 25 times a second. The size is 720*576 The rendering does not have to be any faster that this. I have tried two methods of geting the pixels, and both are much too slow. On ...Show All

• Visual Studio I don't know what you're telling me.

  Well, hello there. Hello . I'd like to talk to you today about something rather close to my own heart, the kind of thing that doesn't pop-up real often-like when you're gathered 'round the water cooler in your office. The kind of thing that might be shyly batted around behind closed doors, if you pick up what I'm puttin' down. The kind of thing that you wouldn't find yourself laughing about at a cocktail party over a few dry martinis. Now, mayb ...Show All

• SQL Server Replication Error 28559

  We have a PDA application (Net CF 2.0) which uses sql mobile and synchronises to a SQL Server 2000 database (merge replication). We were using SQL CE 2.0 on the PDA earlier and moved to using SQL mobile recently. Since this move we are getting error 28559 (SQL Server Mobile encountered problems when opening the database - says in the documentation). The error does not happen regularly. When it occurs the device needs a soft reset to re ...Show All

• .NET Development GC hangs with 100% CPU utilization ?

  Dear .NET gurus, I am trying to debug some .NET 1.1 application and and experience a strange behavior - from time to time the process hangs with 100% CPU and has to be killed. The threads in the application that burn the processor time are actually unmanaged threads busy doing the following: WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following frames may be wrong. 09f8ebc8 00aab14e mscorwks!GetCompileInfo+0x1840b 09f8ebcc 09f8ebd ...Show All