bbostic's Q&A profile

• Architecture .NET 2.0 Tools Evaluation (Part II- Update) - DSL, GAT, SQL 2005, Mobile 5, VSTS, Enterprise Library, Reporting Services, etc.

  Here is an update on our progress with the Microsoft products and toolkits that we are considering for use on my current project. The first post is here . It may help if you are considering using the same products and toolkits. Here is the list of products and toolkits we are evaluating: Domain-Specific Language (DSL) Tools Software Factories Guidance Automation Toolkit Composite UI Application Block Enterprise Library .NET 2.0 rele ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System ConnectionPool VS ConnectionPerUser

  Hi, For a LoadTest's "Run Settings" properties, 1. whats the difference between using ConnectionPool and ConnectionPerUser 2. Which setting "DOES NOT" cause any bottle necks on the Agents. Jesudhas With ConnectionPerUser, each virtual user of a web test uses a dedicated connection to the web server, and that connection is closed when the web test session completes.    With a ConnnectionPool, the ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView FAQ! image and Text in same Cell ?

  I've finished writing the first DataGridView FAQ. This isn't just a list of questions, but a comprehensive overview of the DataGridView. Please reply to this thread with addition Q/A questions, corrections, or suggestions for improvement. http://www.windowsclient.net/Samples/Go%20To%20Market/DataGridView/DataGridView%20FAQ.doc There are also a set of DataGridView samples that help with common areas available at http://ww ...Show All

• Visual C++ Edit Box And Timer

  i am makeig a program with mfc and i create a many edit boxs in the formview on of them is a time and i use this code void xxx::OnTimer ( UINT nIDEvent ) { SYSTEMTIME tm ; GetLocalTime (& tm ); strXXX . Format ( _T ( "%02d/%02d/%02d" ), tm . wHour , tm . wMinute , tm . wSecond ); UpdateData ( FALSE ); // CFormView::OnTimer(nIDEvent); } but when i used the timer i cant write anything ...Show All

• Visual C# accessing variable of one window form to another

  Hi, 1. I have defind one variable with some value to one window form and I want to access this variable to variable in another window form. 2. I have defined one dataset (bound with some database) into one function defined into one form. I want this dataset should be accessible with bound data from any point of the application (may be another form). Please assist me. Thank you I agree with Wre ...Show All

• Visual C++ What is the syntax for declaring an event as an argument of a function?

  How do declare FireEvent(...) so I can use it in foo() With previous beta versions, I can just do this FireEvent(EventHandler^ e), but with beta2 compiler, I get C3918. Thanks, hdp. // class that defines events ref class EventSource { public :     event EventHandler^ OnEvent1;      event EventHandler^ OnEvent2;      void FireEvent(...)     {    &n ...Show All

• .NET Development Populating A Combobox

  Well, what should be a simple task is turning out to be a nightmare. I have a simple combobox on my form. I have a simple database with a table in it and some data. All I want to do is populate this combobox, but nothing works. I setup a dataset, the bindingsource, and tableadapter, in preview data comes back, but when the project is run the combo box is always empty. I've tried a bunch of other stuff, but the results are the same. I've searched ...Show All

• Windows Forms Custom Title Bar and Bigger Scrollbar buttons

  An application i'm creating needs to have huge buttons for the user. The first problem i'm having is that the scrollbar's buttons aren't tall enough(vscroll). Is there anyway i can make these buttons taller without changing the system options   A&n ...Show All

• Visual Basic Setup Application With Updatable functionality

  I commended Microsoft for ClickOnce Technology, But I have a question!! Could I Build Setup Up Project For My Project And give it the click Once feature That mean, update this project as a clickOnce way Thank You There are many features are not available in ClickOnce tech. and there are many problems come during heavey applications. ex1. Publish One solution with many projects refrenced together as a One unit. ex2. Cre ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System vssconverter error TF60702

  I was experimenting with vssconverter and importing from a VSS database to TFS source control when a power outage hit. I restarted the import, and got the following message: Initializing... TF60702: Unable to start migration. Manually delete the following workspaces and try again. Converter_WorkSpace0 Converter_WorkSpace1 Converter_WorkSpace2 Converter_WorkSpace3 Converter_WorkSpace4 Converter_WorkSpace5 Converter_WorkSpace6 Converter_Work ...Show All

• Windows Forms Transparent pictureBox

  Hello. I'm trying to develop a transparent pictureBox. My aim is to use several pictureBoxs all with the same location and size. One will have a loaded image, and this pictureBox won't be transparent. The other pictureBoxs will be transparent. With this transparency I expect to see the solid picturebox and each transparent pictureBox has different drawings that are seen over the solid pictureBox. I've been trying several ways to do this but unf ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Find.Execute throws "Command is not available" error

  Hi, we are working on Word 2003 customization using VSTO 2005, attaching a custom schema . One of our application requirement is that we need to block multiple continous spaces in certain tags. To implement this we added a block of code in XMLSelectionChange event, to alter OldXMLNode range using Find.Execute something like below, try { if (! string .IsNullOrEmpty(OldXMLNode.Range.Text)) { while (OldXMLNode.Range.Text.Con ...Show All

• Windows Forms Deploy Multiple Configs

  I have this funny feeling that this subject has already been covered somewhere, but I have searched and searched both these forums and the internet to no avail. So here goes: Using VS 2005 I want to deploy a different config file with my windows application (a windows service to be exact) than the one I use in my development environment. This is because the production environment has an entirely different connection string. This was simple in ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can the test cases in the test project be merged into one document?

  Hi, I have a test project with test cases in VSTS. Is there any way or work around to put them together and have one document to contain all of the test cases I want Thanks, Leon 1.You can add a Query to selcet all test cases what you want put them into one doncument from your Team Project. 2.Then select all and click "View -> Open Selection in Microsoft Excel". After step 2 you will get an excel file and you ...Show All

• Visual Basic Displaying the procedure or sub where a error occurs to a user.

  Is there a way to display the name of the routine where an error occurs in my code using the framework Obviously, I could put the name of each routine in a message and so forth but that is just a bad design. I was hoping that I would be able to use Reflection or Exception handling to do this in a structured way. I have several applications that are monitored by IT professionals internal to the company who need as much information as possibl ...Show All