Nancy Hidy Wilson's Q&A profile

• Visual C# object comparison using < or >

  Is it possible to compare two objects using <, >, <= or >= directly   Or any workarounds I'm reading an article in MSDN Magazine AUGUST 2005, Data Binding : Give Your Everyday Custom Collections a Design-Time Makeover by Paul Ballard.  The sample is written in VB.NET.  I'm trynig to rewrite it in C# as an exercise.  But how to convert the following VB function in StudentComparer to C# Private Function CompareSingleProperty( ByVal x As Student, ByVal y As Student, ByVal prop As PropertyDescriptor, ByVal direction As ListSortDirection) As Integer     Dim result As Integer = 0   ...Show All

• Visual C++ MFC ClassWizard from typelib for automation

  I'm trying to use automation in a simple MFC application. I've created a CApplication class from the PowerPoint library. It creates the class fine, but it won't compile. There are various variables renamed and not understood. Here are some examples... c:\work\powerpointautomation\autoproject\autoproject\capplication.h(3) : warning C4278: 'RGB': identifier in type library 'C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\OFFICE11\\msppt.olb' is already a macro; use the 'rename' qualifier c:\work\powerpointautomation\autoproject\autoproject\debug\msppt.tlh(414) : error C2371: 'FontPtr' : redefinition; different basic types c:\program files\mi ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro visionpace website

  Anyone else having trouble reaching the visionpace website http://www.visionpace.com I emailed them and got confirmation the web site was down and they were working on getting it back up. It seems to be back up now. :) Thanks Craig. ...Show All

• Windows Forms mouse_press event ???

  Hi, I want to perform some function repeatedly while mouse right-click or left-click is presed. While (Mouse rightCLick is down or MouseLeftLClick is down)    Do SOmething End while Basically, i am looking for the same functionality as KeyPress event but it seems there is no MousePress event. Thanks, I know these 2 events, but these are raised only once when mouse button is up or down. I want to perform some function repeatedly while mouse button is down and as soon as it comes back up I want to stop performing the function. The problem here is that mouseup and mousedown events are raised onl ...Show All

• Visual C# Generics and "==" or "!="

  I'm using Beta1 and within a generic class I'm attempting to use the != operator on a couple of variables of type T.  The compiler won't let me.  It says "Error 1  Operator '!=' cannot be applied to operands of type 'T' and 'T'...".  Why not   According to the documentation both the '==' and '!=' operators are implemented for all Objects and value types, (although for Objects the default implementation my not be desirable.)  What do I need to do to make the compiler allow the use of '==' and '!='   I'm thinking I should add something like where T : ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Data Binding is not updating the database

  Hi Microsoft Community, I'm a new visual basic developer and am using the visual basic 2005 express edition with sql server 2005 express edition.  I've been going through some lessons and have encountered a situation that I'm hoping someone can identify what the issue is. When creating a form with listbox and textbox components, I first request data from a table called customer.  I'm using a table adapter to manage the connection, request and response from my sql server express database called mycompany.  Upon the return of the data, my intermediate dataset is populated with the requested data.  I'm sure the data has been ...Show All

• Windows Forms Does anyone know where I can get the last stable build of the Terrarium Setup for v1.0 that worked?

  Does anyone know where I can get the last stable build of the Terrarium Setup for v1.0 that worked I wanted to start building in my own sandboxes locally but obviously with the overflow error thats a little impossible. If some one has the latest build before the upgrade to v1.1 I would love to get my hands on it. Thanks. Sent th ...Show All

• .NET Development Very Strange problem in Socket Connection.....

  Hi..Guyss....Please Try to solve this problem Problem is very strange. Please give some solution or openions. I used Async Socket Connection. Its like this.. CLient connects (0) with the server and send data (1) than Recieve Data (2) than process_it (3) than Shutdown (4). it works perfactly 1st time. than 2nd time when it again goes to 0,1 but in step 2 i got the problem.. heres the code... in code connectDone,recieveDone & sendDone are ManualResetEvents client.BeginConnect(remoteEP,new AsyncCallback(ConnectCallback), client); connectDone.WaitOne(); // here it waits..until connectDone is not set()connectDone is ManualR ...Show All

• Windows Forms manual .Net memory Release

  Hi , I want to release the memory used by .Net winform app manually. Is there anything equivalent to C++ delete operator in C# I dont want to force a GC collection using GC.collect. Also what is the maximum process size that a .net application can use in 32 bit windows  thanks vinoth I think I mentioned .Dispose().  setting to null de-refere ...Show All

• SQL Server join results from multiple EXEC calls

  I would like to make inner join with results from different exec %procedureName% calls. thanks. insert into #temp exec Proc1 insert into #temp2 exec Proc2 insert into #temp3 exec Proc3 Then join or union the tables (depending on the data) If the reultsets are the same you can insert into 1 table instead of multiple tables Denis the SQL Menace http://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/ ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can't create SQL Server SP3a tables with Visual Studio 2003

    I'm having a problem creating tables in SQL Server using Visual Studio 2003's Server Explorer. There appears to be something in SQL Server 2k SP3a that prevents Visual Studio 2003 from creating tables (as it works with MSDE). What might it be If I right-click on a table's node in the Data Connections tree in Server Explorer I don't get New Table in the pop-up menu (VS2003, (XP Pro SP2 or W200K) and SS 2000 SP3a). This doesn't appear to be a SQL Server permissions issue as I can access the same database and create tables from the same security context using alternative to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can users add and view work items from the sharepoint portal for the project

  Hello, I have Team foundation installed and running for my team, however I was not able to find any documentation to let my users view, add, and edit work items from the project portal. Can it be done Would appreciate any help. Thanks Mike No, not out-of-the-box; however, there is a third-party solution by devbiz for providing a Web interface, called TeamPlain. I just blogged about it their v1 release: http://blogs.msdn.com/571356.aspx . ...Show All

• Visual Studio Recursive does not get Empty Directories

  When using the following does not return empty directories. <ItemGroup> <DirectorySet Include="$(ThisDir)\**"/> </ItemGroup> My question is why does a call like this not create a collection set off all objects Is there a way to have the collection return the empty directories as well I am trying use collection sets that need to have all the specified files and directories included in them for proper processing whether it be an empty directory or not. The strange thing I noticed is if I do a call something like: <DirectorySet Include="$(ThisDir)"/> It will return that director ...Show All

• Windows Forms Throwing exception in multiple threads

  I have a component that works by spawning a second thread to deal with specific tasks. When the second thread encounters certain situations, it must throw exception to halt the opreation of the entire application. However, due to the operating hierarchy of App object > Component object > > Component thread object Any exception thrown by the second thread only kills that&nb ...Show All

• .NET Development File Upload To A Shared Folder

  Hi ppl, Is there any way to upload a file to a shared folder on our domain network like \\server\folder\  using vb.net+asp.net   Try the FileWebrequest class http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemnetfilewebrequestclasstopic.asp ...Show All