Adam Tappis - IMGroup's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development MessageBox menuItems refresh?

  Hi, I'm trying to display a messageBox to ask Yes or No, in order to continue.  But after hitting Yes the menuItems hang around until all the other code after is done.  Is there a way to refresh or clear it   Or is the only solution to restructure it another way somefunction() {     DialogResult result = MessageBox.Show(_,_,..YesNo,..);     if(result == DialogResult.Yes)     {        // do a bunch stuff     } }            <-- the YesNo menuitems remain until I exit here ...Show All

• Visual Studio ASP.NET ReportViewer Examples Lacking

  I would like to see better examples around ASP.NET and the ReportViewer. Primarily, how do you do subreports and drillthru's. There seems to be an abundance of examples, documentation and help for Winforms, but Webforms is lacking. Thank you http://www.gotreportviewer.com/   ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Custom Rules Development

  Okay, okay so I know that any rules I write now will need to be re-written with the next release of Visual Studio, however I write (and maintain my own rules and now I'm stuck) .... I've been tasked to write a rule that checks for multiple return statements in methods, this is to help enforce the structured programming principle of methods having single entry/exit points that some of the junior developers consistently ignore. The problem I have is that with introspection I only get the MSIL, which is of course optimised. The optimisation process [is so good that it] actually restructures the code, eliminating all return opCodes exc ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Activesync service provider in C#

  Hi, I must create an activesync service provider in C# How Can I make it Where can i find documentation or example I use VS2005 professional. Chech the RAPI and the especialy the communication library . ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System public field

  In my API I do some array manipulation. For efficiency purpose I wish to publicly expose some of the array (yes, the user could write whatever (s)he wants in the array! that's the whole point of the exercise!) I do it with a struct like that: public struct Segment { public char[] Array; public int Offset; public int Length; } I don't care if the user change Offset, Length, Array with stupid value, that his/her problem (don't bother the API). Anyway FxCop don't like public field and the documentation say: "don't exclude this rule". Annoying, but let say I write the useless code below instead: public struct Segme ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums API Questions

  I've run into a couple of issues in my development. Both are easy enough to work around but I'd prefer clarification if possible. The first issue is with the response. I seem to be getting a garbage character at the beginning of my response stream. This is preventing me from duming the response directly into the XmlDocument.Load() method. To verify I wrote a console stub and dumped the stream to the screen and it shows as a " " there. I've worked around this by writing the stream to a string then checking for the first occurance of the "<" and passing the substring from there into the .LoadXml() method instead but it feels very hackish ...Show All

• Windows Forms Output in label

  A simple question I know, but decided to play around with C#. Getting the output in a label is easy, but I have to call the label from a seperate class.  The label is in the form class and just can't seem to find the right syntax. Most code removed for easier read for problem. namespace RomanNums { public class Roman : System.Windows.Forms.Form { public Rom ...Show All

• Windows Forms ComponentOne? NetAdvantage?

  Hi, I'm just doing the initial planning and research work on a big project with both Win Forms and ASP.NET clients. I'm looking at the available component libraries, largely for the grid controls, but also the general UI stuff like docking frameworks and toolbars. With Web Forms in the equation, it seems to come down to either ComponentOne or Infragistics N ...Show All

• Visual Basic Strange ListBox.Items IndexOutOfRangeException

  OK.. I'm building a plumbing company's job tracker. On each Job there can be multiple plumbers and each of those plumbers might have one more more invoices attached to a job. I've included the image URLs incase they don't show up correctly First I add a few plumbers and invoices... (http://hillcrestplumbing.com/VBIssues/Step1.JPG) Then I remove one plumber and his attached invoices... (http://hillcrestplumbing.com/VBIssues/Step2.JPG) Then when I try to remove a second plumber...(http://hillcrestplumbing.com/VBIssues/exception.JPG) Should be noted that this is all being declared and fired within the click event of the Remove button on the plu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Recommendation for Office 2007 development tools

  Hello all, I am new to this forum. I have built Access Databases for many years for my company. I recently decided to start building Access solution for the small business community. I know I need ADE for deployment, but am worried that if I fork out the bucks for the 2005 edition of VSTO, I will have to shortly upgrade to the 2007 version. What are your recommendations for purchasing now Is the Access Development Extensions going to be packaged differently for Office 2007 Thanks for any info you can provide. My understanding is that the ADE for Office 2007 will ship with VSTO v3. I would encoura ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to install windows and web application using a single setup file

  Hi, I have two applications. One is a windows application and the other is a web application. I created two msi's for these projects individually. I want to create a setup file, that will combine the installation of these two files together. Also, i want to know, how to modify the config file to change the connection strings for these applications, after getting the user input for these. Also, provide us with some help on how to create a setup file same like that of the SQL Server 2005. (with same installation steps and the screens). Thanks Prasanna Hi pal, you must work with Custom actions. ...Show All

• SQL Server installation failure (just installing database server)

  Hi Everyone, I recently installed Visual Studio .NET 2005 Beta 2 which included SQL 2005 Community Technology Preview. After installing it all, I was no longer able to connect to my SQL 2000 instance in Enterprise Manager. The application opened ok but whenever I tried to browse the server or register it again, it was giving me an error relating to named pipes which really confused me since I was trying to connect to a SQL 2000 database through the SQL 2000 application. I was able to use the 2005 equivalent application (the name eludes me right now) to connect to the \SQLEXPRESS instance. All this time I could still connect to the default i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Regarding the ViewState

  If the form name is "Form1".... can i manually set the view state parameter {{form1.viewstate}} to avoid getting redirected to some other page...or is there any way to set this view state instead of {{$HIDDEN1.viewstate}} as my source code uses javascript. You can change the value of the viewstate parameter from the {{$HIDDEN1.viewstate}} value.  Just click on the parameter in the editor, bring up the property grid and set the value to what you want. Since you want to switch the value, I am guessing the default processing we are using is not working correctly   If you are going to switch the value, you will need to pars ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is it possible to run a sql script as a test or a step inside the test?

  Hi, Is it possible to run a sql script from inside visual studio as one of the tests or a step inside a test This is what I'm trying to do. I have a bunch of web tests that I am running through an ordered test. My tests get executed as follows: Web Test1 Web Test2 Web Test3 ... Web TestN I need to insert some data into the database between Web Test2 and Web Test3. The way I do it now is I have two ordered tests. The first one executes Web Test1 and Web Test2 and the second one executes the rest of the tests. I manually execute my sql script after my ordered test #1 is done. Then, I start ordered test #2. I would like ...Show All

• Visual C++ need good string object reccomentdation

  been using MFC's CString for years. it works great but need something more portable for big new project. seems std::string too clunky. what is a modern powerful string obj with much formatting caps does boost have something that doesn't require downloading the world to use thanks al I would say: Stcuk on CString. The newer versions in VS2003/2005 are templated versions and are capable to be used stand alone withoutthe MFC kernel. I still love them and they are protable... :-) ...Show All