sheikh78's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista 'Sealed' Sequence or Designable CompositeActivity

  I want to create an activity with several child activities. I do not want the child activities to be modified and I do not want other activities added. I could start with System.Workflow.Activities.Sequence and set each of the child items Visible property to False . But when my activity is placed in the workflow, someone can still drop additional activities onto my own because it derives from Sequence . I want this activity to appear as a logica ...Show All

• Visual C++ How do I build binary with debug information?

  How do I build binary with debug information So that I can debug the program using the debugger Changing the build configuration (the bit in the toolbar that says Release) from release to debug should work. Did you make this project from scratch, or are you reusing someone else's project ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Please help with creating buttons!

  I'm using Interactive Designer and need some help with the basic concept of making buttons. Also...I'm a designer (not a developer), so I need simple explanations and no XAML;) What I'm trying to do: Create a button with a blue background, white text, and an aqua highlight across the top. When clicked, the background turns yellow, the text turns black, and the aqua highlight stays the same. So...I can do everything mentioned above, except ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Beta 3 Setup Error: Windows SharePoint Services is not configured as recommended by Team Foundation Server

  I am trying to install Team Foundation Server Beta 3 as single server installation and installed all required software components. However, during the installation, it gives me "Windows SharePoint Services is not configured as recommended by Team Foundation Server" error under "Recommened Components" dialog box. I exactly have followed an instruction specified in setup guide for Team Foundation Server Beta 3 for SharePoint services installation. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Template Wizards -- Does SCRIPT_PATH really work???

  I'm struggling to create a wizard, so all help is SINCERELY appreciated!  I started by copying an existing wizard (granted third party, but working) and then reading more to try to understand what is really required... I'm trying to develop wizards for use developing modules for DotNetNuke (DNN), an open source portal system.  One of the Core Team members for DNN (VMasanas) published a good set of templates that nest under Visual Studi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Keyboard input in Form

  I'd like a Form to handle keyboard input.  However, I do not want it to clash with other controls that use keyboard input, such as ComboBox, PropertyGrid, etc. Is there a way I can find the Control that has the keyboard focus and query it to see if it (is one of the known ) text entry Controls.  This way I could prevent multiple controls from handling the same input.  This particular application needs global level input due to its ...Show All

• Visual Basic entering the time and date on a form

  How do I put in the time and date on a form in VB.NET I did what my book has told me but all it shows up as is 01/01/2000 on the date and the time reads 12:01:01 and doesn't change. So how do I make it show the correct time and date There is another part in my book that explains how to put it in the status bar but I don't want to put them in the status bar. Please help me! you can give your users more control over the format of the time if ...Show All

• Visual C# Typedef-equivalent in C#?

  I pass integer IDs to a variety of functions. I want to create a type for each ID so the compiler can check I am passing the right type. In C I would do this with typedefs. E.g.: typedef int personID; typedef int addressID; void DoSomething(personID p, addressID a) { ... } How can I do this in C# Creating an entire class seems like a lot of overhead. Apparently, it's the using statement./ using pe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Whose "Two letter acronyms should be upper-cased" convention is?

  Hello, Can you say, whose convention is it "Two letter acronyms should be upper-cased. For example, use System.IO instead of System.Io. ..." I found it in MS Design Rules, but is is not explained why it is done in this way (most of other rules are well-explained). I need more facts to ask IT leaders to change our company's naming conventions. Is it standatized thing by some standatization comitee, or just someone sad ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS DB2 Binary to Character conversion

  The problem I have is I'm pulling data from an as400/db2 server using the ms ole db 2 driver. I specify in my connection string to have the driver convert CCSID columns of 65535 to character as they come through. I worked with one of the premier support guys for db2 to do this. We verified that the driver was providing the data properly to ssis. I'm using the sql 2k5 version of the driver as well. When I do a straight data column copy of columns ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Package Load Failure

  Hello there, I have uninstalled all Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 components as described, none were listed. I installed VC# 2005 Express edition today, and when loading it i get the following message: Package Load Failure Package 'Visual Studio Explorers and Designers Package' has failed to load properly (GUID ={8D8529D3-625D-4496-8354-3DA6630Ecc1B}). Please contact package vendor for assistance. This also shos up for Visual Studio Common IDE Packa ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Inserting Page numbers into Excel

  Hi, I could not find a better area to post this thread than here but I am developing a shared addin in VS 2005 (not using VSTO) and I am trying to insert page numbers in the format "Page X of Y" into the Center Header. I can do this within Word using Autotext but I don't think Excel supports autotext (does it ) Any help would be great or please point me to an area where my post would be more suitable. Best regards, P ...Show All

• .NET Development Exception: DataTable internal index is corrupted: '5'. on ...

  Hi, I have a problem with bindingsource component in framework 2.0. I have a combobox bound to a bindingsource which is also bound to a dataset with 2 related tables and a datagridview bound to the same bindingsource. What I want to do is : When the selectedindex property of my combobox changes, the corresponding cell value must be changed in the datagridview. But although the value in bindingsource changes, datagridview does not displa ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Compatible Video Cards

  Is there anywhere that I can find a list of compatible video cards for Windows Vista Vista compatible video cards are listed on Nvidia and ATI's web sites... http://www.nvidia.com/page/technology_vista_home.html http://www.ati.com/technology/windowsvista/index.html cheers Pete ...Show All

• .NET Development SSL connection by SOAP Client

  I want build a soap client that connect it to a asp net webservice. I imported the wsdl file via the Viual studio 2003 plugin. (Add webreference) My question is: Is the SSL support by the created classes enabeld   If the web sevice you are calling is at a https address then SSL will be used by the underlying HttpWebRequest object. You can verify this by using System.Net tracing or netmon: see ...Show All