JS26's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Circular dependancies between serializable collection and items

  I have a collection of items which is serializable and I would like to add a property in the contained items that will reference the parent collection. Do you think there will be any problem as far as serialization is concerned When serializing/deserializing a collection to/from xml you need to implement an Add method to add an item to the collection during deserialization (se the documentation for XmlSerializer). In this method you can a ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Installing Multiple Versions of Platform SDK

  the forums categories all appear to be tool-centric, so this question is not precisely on-topic, but... how does one install multiple versions of the platform sdk   each version appears to remove the previous version.  <rant> in theory this should never be necessary as each sdk should be fully backward compatible but in fact some are not backward compatible.  e.g., the libraries with the latest sdk don't work with vb6. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Debugging on VS2005 Standard edition

  I hope this is the correct forum to post as I have a complicated issue! Just loaded VS2005 Standard edition instead of the Express editions. Now I have a problem debugging, my setup is as follows: Main exe is VB.net calling an unmanaged dll in C, I also have a C# dll that is a wrapper for OpenGL. When I want to debug the unmanaged dll (which is in VS2005 C++), I launch with F5, I have the debugging command pointing a ...Show All

• Visual Basic Tabbed Browsing - favicon's, link contextmenu's, copy & paste

  Hi everybody, Question #1: I have struck another problem in my tabbed browsing adventures and now need to develop a way to get the icon that appears in IE (siteroot/favicon.ico) and add it to an image list. I looked in the webbrowser namespace but could only find WebBrowser1.Document.Images(index). Would the favicon be loocated there or would i need to download the favicon from the website first Question #2: When you right ...Show All

• SQL Server Installing SQL 2005 SP1 on an imaged server

  Hi, we have a server that was imaged (and then renamed with NewSID) that fails to install Database and Analysis Services in SP1. We followed the steps to rename the SQL server. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303774/ Here's hotfix.log: 05/02/2006 18:06:53.894 ================================================================================ 05/02/2006 18:06:53.894 Hotfix package launched 05/02/2006 18:06:53.894 Successfully opened registry key: S ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Is SDK download link broken?

  I have been trying to download the January CTP SDK, but looks like the link is broken. The link for WinFx runtime components is fine, it only the SDK link thats giving the problem. Anyone having a similar problem Hi there, not sure which link is the busted one. There are a few up there. We'll find it though. In the interim, you should be able to use the link below for Jan CTP SDK. http://www.microsoft.c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problem getting latest version from label

  Hello I set label 0.8 on an directory with a number of subdirectories. A few days later I set a new label 0.8 on a newer version on one of the subdirectories. After this I focus headdirectory and press get latest from label. This should give me the changes made between the first 0.8 and the second 0.8 for the subdirectory, but I dont. Why is this I use SS v 6.0d , VS 2003 /Regards Which versions are yo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions 2 questions...?

  hi everyone... i got 2 questions: 1) can i display the datagrid in my program in a better way ..cuz what I've seen that it displays it like a table in the database 2) I've used the listbox and i would like to clear the items displayed in it....for an example i have a button search which will search in the database then displays the result in the listbox....and i have a button Clear which should clear the listbox....so how can i Clea ...Show All

• Visual Basic Validation - but from a class or function

  I have numerous textboxes which I wish to validate and I am using If IsNumeric(txtBossAnnualSalary.Text) = False Then ErrorProvider1.SetError(txtBossAnnualSalary, _ "Please enter a numeric value") Else ErrorProvider1.Dispose() End If Rather than typing this code multiple times in each validating event of each field I want to put it in a class or function then just call - ValidateMyTextBox(). I have ...Show All

• SQL Server About SQL Mobile Server

  I need to export(import) data from Pocket PC(SQL Mobile Server) to SQl Server 2005(central data storage) in real time, if anyone knows how it would be better and faster to do...Maybe someone have done something like this... Sorry for my English, I use it at first for last 6 years...))) What's "real time" in your case Also, since you have to have connection at all times for "real time" synchronization, why could not ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to resize controls on my windows form with changing form size

  Hi, In my windows form I have a tab control with a few tab pages. Each tab page has some user controls and some .net controls such as datagrid, labels e.t.c When I resize the windows forms the controls dont change their size and position. So if I reduce the size of window it hides half of the controls on my application. How do I make my application or controls such that they relocate and resize themselves when size of the window changes ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista small problem

  Hi, While exposing a Workflow via Web Service, in the new Web Service Code file, we used to inherit the WorkflowExample.Workflow1_WebService instead of directly  from the WebService base class as shown below. public class Service : WorkflowExample.Workflow1_WebService { } can any one say like "If I want to use two workflows into this Web Service How I have to inherit the Namespaces." In the workflow I am using WebServiceReceive an ...Show All

• Visual Studio Debugging a console app in VS 2005 hangs at startup

  Pretty simple to repro: 1) Create a new VC++ win32 console app. 2) Fill in the "hello world" logic 3) Compile and start a debug session Opens the console window and the status messages show the last dll loaded (user32.dll or whatever) but hangs indefinitely. Doesn't make any difference whether the hello project is on a network device or local. Any help would be greatly appreciated. _N ...Show All

• SQL Server sql express

  well i'm very happy with visual basic 2005 express. but i cannot install sql express. when it begin to install and after a short time nothing is installed and i do not have a error message! on the other hand, when i tried to install sql server ( 180 days trial) and after a period of time i have this message "the WMI of this computer did not allow to install sql properly" Can anyone tell me why i'm having those dificultys to insta ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Workflow with current Sharepoint documents

  I understand WWF will be integrated in the Office 12 version of Sharepoint, to be released in the second half of 2006.  I wish to create document workflows using documents stored in Sharepoint 2003 in the meantime.  Can I do this with WWF Beta   Can you show an example   Any other resources Thank you for any assistance. I'm currently doing this. First I built an activity to upload a ...Show All