winterforever's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Multiplatform .NET (or running a .NET app under linux)

  Hi, When I started studying .NET, the first thing we were told was "the .NET framework is multiplatform, you can use it in any OS". I didn't find any obvious way to compile applications for linux, and I was wondering if it is possible If yes, could someone direct me to a guide Thanks in advance, Ameralis Zaiir The exe and dll's created by the .NET compilers contain MSIL code (Microsoft Intermediate Language) that is platform-independent. You can just copy an application compiled with Visual Studio to Linux. All you need is a runtime for Linux, just like you have to install the .NET framework runtime on ...Show All

• Windows Forms Making a spreadsheet. How?

  I am trying to learn C# and shall do an Excel-like program where I can copy cells etc. Should I use the Data Grid class or ListView class Or better still, is there any free data grid classes that suits this purpose Anyone one has any hints I am mostly going to moving around cells and such. Not really doing a spreadsheet. I was thinking about using: http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/csharpgridcontrol.asp Would that suit my purpose, you think ...Show All

• Windows Forms Creating application setup

  HI, I have created a application which has seven different modules, infact 7 different applications, now i want to create a setup similar to VS.net 2005. Like the way we choose to install the required language. Please help me to achive the above. Thanking you, Regards, Prashant you need another one project of type " Setup and deployment project " it is located in VS 2005 File->New->Project and in the box for me is Other project types->Setup and deployment once you are there see posibilities. hope this helps ...Show All

• Visual Studio Office Add-in not work after installation VS 2005

  Hi, i've developed an addin for ms word with VisualStudio 2003 and it work fine. After installation of VisualStudio 2005 my addin in debug mode not start and ms word start and immediately close. any suggestion p.s. you excuse to me for my English. In general its better to ask VSTO related questions on the VSTO related forums, at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/default.aspx forumgroupid=4&siteid=1 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Getting the classes of a project at design time

  Hi all I want to make a usercontrol that has a property that lists all the Classes of the project of the form where the usercontrol is placed on. I know how to create a custom StringConvertor and how to overload the GetStandardValues function, to display a dropdown list. But I'm need to now how I can retrieve the classes at design time of the ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't connect to Report Server via Management Studio

  Hi, I have a local installation of SQL Server 2005 (Developer Edition) on XP Professional SP2, with Reporting Services, Integration Services, and Analysis Server installed. I can connect to Integration Services and Analysis Server via the SQL Server Management Studio, but not to the Report Server. I can access and use the Report Server installation via http://localhost/Reports and http://localhost/ReportServer , and everything checks out on the Reporting Services Configuration tool, so the server appears to be working fine. I've uninstalled/re-formatted/reinstalled the services (with all default options, and services running a ...Show All

• Visual C# Build problems?

  I have a problem with the Visual C# Express Edition Beta. Sometimes when I try to build or debug (which requires building) my project, I get the following error: Error    2    Could not write to output file 'G:\MyProject\obj\Debug\MyProject.exe' -- 'The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. '     Using WhoLockMe says that Visual C# is the process that's using the file. This only happens after I've built or debugged the project before during that session using Visual C#, and doesn't occur all the time. Once it happens once though, it will continue until I c ...Show All

• Visual C# How many threads running from the threadpool in a point of time

  How can I know how many threads are running from the threadpool in a point of time in my app Thanks in advance Try using ThreadPool.GetAvailableThreads() and subtract it from ThreadPool.GetMaxThreads(). Am I missing something ...Show All

• SQL Server Drill Down Not Working on Reporting Services Installation

  I'm running Report Services Standard Edition on my live system (seperate IIS & SQL servers). The 'Adventure Works' sample reports fail to load any detail when drill down is clicked. The server just reloads the same page. Similary reports I have developed successfully in my development environment (Report Services Developer Edition) will not load the detail on clicking drill down Does anyone have any idea how to resolve this ===================== Further info ... the hyperlink on the drill down refers to the local server name, not the domain name. Opening the link in a new browser & changing the server name to the domain name in ...Show All

• Windows Forms WM_ Messages

  I am trying to perform certain opperations depending on which WM_ messages are sent to the WndProc method.  I found on MSDN a listing of all the WM_ messages here:  http://msdn.microsoft.com /library/default.asp url= /library/en-us/vclib/html/_mfc _handlers_for_wm_messages.asp However, I cannot find anywhere that gives a listing of all the WM_ messages integer values.  Is there a listing somewhere that would tell me for example that WM_OnPoint = &HF Thanks in advance. Try http://pinvoke.net   They have most of the values. Alternatively install the platform SDK and crack open the Windows.h file. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development KnownColor in CompactFramework unvailable

  Hi i must have a ColorPicker Box in my Application, i try to programm a ColorPicker Box but i cant enumerate all colors. In Compact Framework no KnownColor have.. Can any Body Help me Regards Roman You can use reflection to get all of the named colors:- http://www.peterfoot.net/NoKnownColorsInNETCF.aspx Peter ...Show All

• Visual Basic question about installation of source safe 6, can it work with visual basic.net 2003?

  I have installed source safe 6.0 on my PC, and I have visual basic.net 2003 version 7.1.3088 installed before. There's no "Source Control" option in the File menu. why I am sure that my installation for source safe 6.0 is correct as I tried to install it to another machine which hace visal studio.net 2003, that one works fine. How can I solve it Just a Thought:(it may be wrong) I think you Installed Visual Source Safe after Visual Studio 2003 and since Visual Source Save 6 is Older than Visual Studio 2003 I think It doesn't change some Settings to let know Visual Studio that it's There In other Words Vi ...Show All

• SQL Server To know how many tables affected by SELECT Query

  hi i want to know how many tables r affected when we run SELECT Query. is there any way to know in C#.net or in MSSQL server itself. plz help me. thanks and regards kavita You can run your query in the Query Analyzer / Management Studio and select show execution plan. Then you can look to the execution plan and it will include all the tables affected as well as many other useful info. ...Show All

• Visual C# Copy Local Fails

  I have a large solution (16 c# dll projects, 1 c# exe project) where the dll projects are project references  of the exe project.  I have set copy local true for all the projects. The problem is on alternating rebuild-all builds one or two of the 16 dll's are not copied into the exe's bin/debug directory.  On the good build, all references are there and on the next build, some of the dll's are missing. Any suggestions SB Hmm.. we have 70 dll projects and 1 exe. Yes, we have sometimes such problems like you desribed it above, but it happens very rarely. Try to close VS, delete all .pdb fil ...Show All

• SQL Server complex SQL (for me)

  Hello, Lets look at this table : CREATE TABLE [dbo].[TableHisto]( [Id] [int] NOT NULL, [Week] [nvarchar](50) COLLATE French_CI_AS NULL, [Project] [int] NOT NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GO EXEC sys.sp_addextendedproperty @name=N'MS_Description', @value=N'Identifiant d''enregistrement' ,@level0type=N'SCHEMA', @level0name=N'dbo', @level1type=N'TABLE', @level1name=N'TableHisto', @level2type=N'COLUMN', @level2name=N'Id' GO EXEC sys.sp_addextendedproperty @name=N'MS_Description', @value=N'Date de l''enregistrement' ,@level0type=N'SCHEMA', @level0name=N'dbo', @level1type=N'TABLE', @level1name=N'TableHisto', @level2type=N'COLUMN', @level2name=N'W ...Show All