Larry Cleeton's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WinFx - Convincing Clients to buy into it ?

  Hi, Firstly, many thanks for WinFx, it makes my life easier if only because i can create great looking, easier to use apps and clients love them, which means its easier to sell to them. but... I am finding resistance from my clients to adopt the perceived "Heavy weight" download overhead for WinFx applications, for internal systems i can set them up no problems, its just part of the install. but What about web based currently ...Show All

• Visual C# Multiline comments auto-add "*" is driving me mad!

  Try this: (1) Start a multiline comment by typing /* (2) Press return. (3) Aaaargh! Where did that extra "*" on the new line come from I don't want it! Is there ANY way of turning off this unwelcome behaviour It's seriously trying my patience having to press Ctrl-Z EVERY SINGLE TIME I PRESS ENTER IN A MULTILINE COMMENT! Grrrr! [EDIT] I see from this thread that there's no way to turn this off: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostI ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to change a data row color based on a field value in run time?

  Hi all, I have no idea how to do this, can you give me some idea Let's say one of the field is status of the data, if its value is "OK", then the row is displayed GREEN color in background of the whole row, otherwise it is RED color in background.   Thanks for anyone help. Is there a solution for this in the datagrid .net 2003   tnx Remco ...Show All

• .NET Development New request is not allowed to start because it should come with valid transaction descriptor.

  I have a C# windows service that uses MSMQ, DTC Transactions, SQL server 2005 and Notification services. I am doing the following in the service: OnStart Create the queue set the Peek Complete event call Begin Peek PeekComplete WaitHandle[] waitHandle = new WaitHandle[] { new AutoResetEvent(false) }; ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(ProcessMessage, waitHandle[0]) Call End Peek WaitHandle.WaiteAll(waitHandle) queue.BeginPeek ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Installing both c# express and web developer express

  Is it possible to install both c# express and web developer express The reason I ask is that in the download page it states that all previous editions of visual studio must be uninstalled. This seemingly precludes double installation. It is possible, I have downloaded and installed all express editions. If you read the text on the download page you will see that it mentions beta versions. If you have the rele ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Features in Data Dude

  Are there any addition to supporting diagrams It's so difficult to use either the built-in diagramming feature or Visio to create usable physical diagrams; much less a logical one. Thanks very much. mailto: ttoennies@hotmailc.com For this first release there won't be any new database diagraming tools. Cheers, Brian Randell MCW Technologies ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Newb Question: Opening Forms inside main form

  I'm completely new to programming, my knowledge only goes as far as html, css and light php so I'm way in over my head. :) I've been through the tutorials but all the teach is how to pop open a form in a new window. I need it to display as though it was seamless. I've created Form1 and I want to use that as the main design of everything. What I need to do is open up all other forms created inside of Form1. For instance, if someone clicks on the ...Show All

• Visual C# Application configuration error

  I have written a C++/CLI wrapper around some old C++ code so I can call it from C#, and a VERY simple demo app that calls the code. It works great. I've sent the release builds to the person I write this stuff for, and he gets an error when the code tries to call the C++ DLL : Could not load file or assembly 'HDRLib, version xxxx culture neutral publickeytoken=null. This application has failed to start because the application configuration is in ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Object Inheritance

  Are there any plans to support inheritance within DLinq, and if so what mappings will be available to persist the objects (particularly the derived types) BTW, great work so far, this is going to greatly simplify DB work Cheers, Steve Apparently there is limited support planned for the very near future. At a minimum mapping an inheritance hierarchy to a single table with a descriminator column will be support ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista RuleSet Editor

  The readme for the RuleSet Editor says you're looking for comments. Well, here's what I'd like to see: Visual Studio integration (duh!) References and IntelliSense like the other Visual Studio editors Storing the rules in XML or a database Ability to search for rules and organize them Add to the Rule class an ActiveCondition property of type RuleCondition. If you set it, then getting the Active property evaluates that condition. If you set ...Show All

• SQL Server SSAS 2005 can't release memory

  SSAS occupy about 75M when starting SSAS. After processing or making several MDX query, I found that SSAS occupy 400M memory.  And SSAS always occupy 400M memory until restarting SSAS. It causes SSAS working slowly. Is there anyway for SSAS release memory automatically thanks! Look at the AS Operations Guide at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2000/maintain/anservog.mspx in ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Appending data to a work item field as opposed to COPY

  Hi, I am trying to create the equivalent of the History control but for notes. I would like to have a Notes PlainText field as well as a Notes Log. upon writing in the Notes field, I would like to be able to do the equivalent of a APPEND to Field->NotesLog on a transition for instance. For the moment, only the COPY functionality seems to be available. The reason for this is that in a given workflow, multiple state transitions requ ...Show All

• Smart Device Development keyboard for pocket pc

  hi there, i was developing a pocket pc application, how can i make the keyboard to prompt up when i tab on a text box. can anyone help me You can use the InputPanel component. http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/CompactFramework/doc/inputpanel.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Error 1 Unable to find manifest signing certificate in the certificate store.

  I am getting this error when trying to publish my program: Error 1 Unable to find manifest signing certificate in the certificate store. I went into the SIGNING tab and un-selected the SIGN THE CLICKONCE MANIFESTS but when publishing, it automatically re-selects it and I get that error. Suggestions Brian The following thread has some details which may be relevent about signing your assembly for clicko ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions upload XML file into database table

  I'm trying to create a WEB application that allows the user to upload an xml file. This xml file would then be parsed and loaded into a database. Does anyone know of code samples to get me started Thanks in advance. Well, you need to use a file selection control to upload the file. Then, you'd use an XmlDocument to parse the XML, and depending what database, one of the ADO.NET classes to move the data into the ...Show All