Northwester's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Localization - Resource file links/sharing ?

  Is it possible to use other resource files than the form localizable resource files to binds its properties, or to link some of its resource file entries to another resource file The goal is to reuse and share common resource files for text labels among applications such as Windows Forms and ASP.NET in Design mode, not in the code behind . - I'm using VS 2005 Beta 2 Thanks In fact, what I want to achieve is not to modify the designer code at all. I'd like to be able to set the bindings in design mode. This is possible with ASP.NET 2.0 when specifying an expression. That generates the following code: <asp:Button ID="Button ...Show All

• SQL Server Gettint error "product level is insufficient" - did full re-install of SQL 2005 Standard Edition

  Installed SQL Server 2005 Workgroup Edition on a new server for testing. Installed SQL Server 2005 Management Studio on local PC. Created a database with a single table. Trying to run SSIS and export the database to a flat file. Get the error 0xc007470fe: Data Flow Task: The product level is insufficient for component "Destination - dbexport_txt [25]" I then installed SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition on the server as an upgrade of the existing instance and got the same error. Thinking this might be an upgrade issue, I completely uninstalled SQL Server 2005, rebooted the server, and then did a clean install of SQL Server 2005 Standard Editio ...Show All

• Windows Forms Radiobutton Databinding Driving Me Nuts

  I'm two days into trying to solve issues with databinding radiobuttons and I'm really hoping someone (anyone) can help.  As a newcomer to VB, this is proving to be the most challenging issue I've come across. Hopefully it's an easy fix for the more experienced.  Here's my problem: I have two radiobuttons on a form.  One radiobutton is labeled "Yes" and the other "No".  I databound the checked property of the "Yes" radiobutton to a column (char data type) of a table in my SQL Express database.  When I click on the "Yes" radiobutton, the database is appropriately updated and the radiobutton is checked.  Howev ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Merging an entire branch

  Hi, we have a project in source control that is quite large. We have created a branch on this project that is being used to code some demo functionality. We want to reuse this branch for another demo once we have finished with the current demo. Is there a quick way to re-synch the main branch on top of the demo branch, effectively re-create the branch We don't need the code that was in there!! I thought about using source Code explorer to merge the main branch on to the demo branch but won't this cause loads of conflicts that I don't really care about Thanks for your help Graham If you create ...Show All

• Visual Basic Security Error in VB.NET Console App with System.IO

  For this code: Imports System.IO Module Module1     Sub Main()         'System.Console.WriteLine("Hello!!")         Dim file As New IO.FileInfo("c:\mnt_input.txt")         Dim filefs As New IO.FileStream(file.FullName, IO.FileMode.Open)         Dim reader As New IO.StreamReader(filefs)         Dim counter As Integer = 0         Dim CurrentFS As IO.FileStream         Dim CurrentWriter As IO.StreamWriter         While Not reader.Peek < 0           ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Express and Templates

  In SQL Server Express, whenever I setup a Stored Procedure, a template appears, which is wonderful. Can these templates be modified (for example, additional information added) and if so, where is this documented Regards, Flavelle Hi Flavelle, Yes, you can modify template as well as delete them and create new ones. This is all available on the context menu inside the Template Explorer. Just right-click on the template you want to modify and click Edit. Regards, Mike ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridViewCell - ForeColor based on cell value

  Hi, I have an unbound DataGridView and I need cells that contain double values to change their ForeColor based on a specific value in the cell. So, naturally, I'm inheriting my own cell from DataGridViewCell, add a couple properties and override GetFormattedValue. So, whenever GetFormattedValue is called, I check the value and give appropriate ForeColor. This works fine, except when I want to use a custom DefaultCellStyle.Format for my own DataGridViewColumns. This format is lost when I override GetFormattedValue, because for some reason, GetFormattedValue only works when I return a string (Why is that When I just return the double object, ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Animation in directX continue

  I'm DirectX begginer, trying to animate flying bird. I'm exporting the bird object from 3d max8. I don't undestand if animation is done by DirectX (and how), or I have to do it in 3d max before export to DirectX. The animation is done in 3dsMax (or similar package) using skinning, then exported to an .X file, which is opened in the sample and played using D3DX animation classes. BTW, there's a lot of info around this sample in the net, so you can at least take a look over the code and see how people deal with it... ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Creating a simulation using Direct3D

  Hello, I am working on a project to create a simluation of a football (or soccer ball) flight after it has been kicked. This includes velocity, spin, etc in 2D and then 3D. The software that this needs to intergrate with is written in VC++. Thus the sim needs to be able to access some data/variables from this software.The simulation needs to be embedded within the control software (running on XP Tablet) and automatically displayed rather than a seperate executable. I have programming experience, but not in Directx, so I am trying to find out whether using Directx is the best option. Does anyone have any opinions on this Or other ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Socket Application help

  Hi all! I have created a simple socket (TCP/IP) application in c# in order to connect to a server on certain IP address and Port No. and send data strings i.e hello. I have created the app in Visual Studio 2005 and when I run and deploy it through USB to my device it works perfect! However when I use it without being connected to my laptop and just use the handset, when I try to send data nothing happens! Its like theres no instruction to the handset to start connecting to 3G/GPRS I am attaching the code that I have used! Is there a simple modification needed Or is it a setting on the phone (XDA Exec with windows mobile 5.0) Im not ...Show All

• Visual Studio SSL

  We've recently gotten our SS2005 system running over our intranet using both the Lan and Remote Access Http services. The HTTP service was initally setup without SSL as recommended in the following article... http://alinconstantin.dtdns.net/WebDocs/SCC/_VSS_Internet.htm During our initial attempts to setup SSL (as described in Setting up SourceSafe and VisualStudio for Secure Internet access (HTTPS / SSL) in the article above), Internet Explorer kept prompting us with a security alert dialog every time we navigated to the https address - https://vesta.companyname.ca:81/SourceSafe/VssService.asmx even though it said we had installed th ...Show All

• Windows Forms Hiding items in StatusStrip inadvertently hides other items

  Easy to reproduce. Make an empty form, add a StatusStrip, embed it in ToolStripContainer and add the following items to it (layed out from left to right): 1. Label with some text 2. Label with no text, set Spring to true 3. Progressbar 4. Label, set IsLink to true 5. Label with some text 6. Label with some text Now add a button to the form and in the click handler set Visible to false for items 3 and 4. Notice how items 5 and 6 disappear too. Now while still running the app, resize it a bit (randomly). All of the sudden, items 5 and 6 should appear. Is there any workaround for this behavior I tried playing with SuspendLayout, ResumeLayout, R ...Show All

• Windows Forms Looking for a non-MDI strategy

  Are there any strategies for developing a .Net application where some of the user interfaces are broken into smaller peices and can be re-joined at runtime The purpose of this is so multiple developers can each work on a peice or section of the user interface without having to wait for someone else to finish. One idea we have is to use a tab control with multiple pages, but not sure about how to dynamically insert those pages into the tab control at runtime. Any ideas MDI is out of the question. Our usability testing has shown users really hate to "drill down" in MDI applications. Have them d ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Web Recordings not getting inserted in script

  This may be a FAQ. I have just installed the release version VS2005 Team Tester and am trying to record a web test script. I press record (and also tried "add recording") IE pops up and I record a short series of URLs (yahoo, google) and press "Stop Recording" but nothing gets inserted into the test script. Seems to be a disconnect between IE and getting the steps back into the web test script. Is there something obvious I am missing, should have done during the install to get the recording function to work. Running on windows XP SP2. No - just see the top of the webtest transaction te ...Show All

• .NET Development System.Web.Mail Help Please...

  Hello, I've tried searching and searching, but I've had no real luck. I'm working on sending an email via an external SMTP server (I'm trying to use Gmail.com, could this be a problem ) and then send to another email, which also happens to be a Gmail.com address. Now, before posting my code, I'd like to say, what I'm developing this for is basically a plugin for a program based on .NET 1.1, so I don't believe that System.Net.SmtpClient is an option, so therefore I'm stuck with System.Web.Mail. Try adding the SMTP server as follows: SmtpMail.SmtpServer.Insert( 0, " smtp.gmail.com") If that does not solve the issue then try ...Show All