bigjefe's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Best way to extend Print Dialog

  I have a requirement to extend the PrintDialog (as is done in word - controls at the bottom of the dialog to give more control over what is printed). System.Windows.Forms. PrintDialog is a sealed class, so I can't extend the control. What is the best way to achieve this - H ost this control in another form <somehow > - Write my own Print Dialog class that uses the Win32 CommonDialog API ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Why doesn't Team Explorer "Reports (working...)" ever complete

  I've had VS running for almost all day and in the Team Explorer the Reports node still says "(working...)".  Permission problems My Reports folder has a red x on the lower right hand corner.  I did have the Source Control Explorer open, but after closing it and then opening VS up again, it is still there.  Is this a related problem Thanks. ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to install Bugfixes for my Apps?

  Hi, Let's say I make a program with Version 1.0 . Someone installs it on a PC. Some days later I find a bug and fix it. Now my Version is V 1.1 . What is the best way to deliver the bugfix  Should I make a new Setup&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Please give us better help files on the Version Control API

  I have been working on a POC that does a Get from the Version Control Repository. I have been heavily scouring the VS 2005 SDK help files, blogs and the Internet at large. I have found limited information on this API and the Help files are all but useless. An example of a help topic for the GetRequest.ItemSpec property is below. This gives me no indication of what this ItemSpec object is or does. Can someone at Microsoft please make it a priorit ...Show All

• Windows Forms XmlTreeView

  I had seen a few people on this forum and various others asking about a TreeView that could have it's nodes persisted and reloaded later so I went ahead and created one (I'd just reply to the person asking the question, but I can't se ...Show All

• Windows Forms Easiest way to work with the KeyBoard??

  Hy! First, sorry, if i'm at the false category.. And now my problem... I have a MainWindow...and on it i put at Runtime...some UserControls. Now i have 4 user controls on it, and want to catch the KeyPress-Event... For Example...if the User press ESC that&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Build: Object reference not set to instance of an object

  We're currently using Beta 3 Refresh. When I build the solution locally I receive no errors, but when running a build through Team Build, I receive 462 "Object reference not set to instance of an object." How can I go back through each project and check that everything is correct if I don't receive errors when I build locally Build started 3/30/2006 9:36:06 AM. __________________________________________________ Project "C:\ARRM ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problem on Sideshow

  I have a problem on using Sideshow. If you know it , please help me. Thank you! I install x32Vista and Feb. CTP WinFX on my PC. I find the Sideshow simulator "VirtualSideShow.exe". However, It only appears for at most one second and then disappears when i click it. Is there someone can help me Thank you!    Before running the SideShow simulator, please run: WindowsSideSho ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System SQL Server collation is not set to one supported by Team Foundation Server

  A very unhelpful error message, since it says nothing about how to change the SQL Server collation, nor which collations are supported by TFS. The collation is in fact set to Latin1_General, as suggested by the TFSInstall guide. How can I proceed Resolved - I uninstalled SQL Server (again) and re-installed and made sure to check the "Accent Sensitive" checkbox like the install guide said... ...Show All

• Windows Forms help trying to automate updating repetitive information on several websites at once.

  What i need to do is set up some sort of way for me to update information on several websites.  First off, each website is different in the way numbers and data are entered. For example, I will log on with my account and update a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Find Changesets

  How do I go about determining which changesets were created between two dates Is there a web service that can supply this information for me Michael, The VersionControlServer object in the client OM exposes the method QueryHistory which returns an array of changesets for the specified item. If you provide $/ as the item and specify the date range, it should return all changesets that were checked in durin ...Show All

• Windows Forms Advice: User controls or not...

  Hi. Iam working on my and my colleagues final exsam (administrative panel, windows app for colleagues web portal administation). I have devided administrative sections with tab pages and for every that section (14 of them) I have bunch a controls on main form and codes for that sections to work as they should. My question is: Is it better to create 14 user controls for each section and just to load them on to the panel (for exsample) Then I'll b ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unshelving error

  When I try to unshelve one of my shelvesets I get: "Error - No changes unshelved."  Any ideas what might cause this First, if I wanted to update my older unshelved file set with what is currently checked into the repository without having to check the files in, how do I do that from VS >> Unshelve your changes, do a get (this will cause a merge), then reshelve your changes. From the pending checkins ...Show All

• Visual C# Getting process count?

  Does anyone know how to obtain the process count from a process control Hi, The using directive is something you add at the top of the source code file before the class and namespace declaration in order to import a namespace. You could also place it within the namespace. If you create a new Windows Form application and open the Form1.cs file which was created and scroll to the top, you will see the using directives placed there for some ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Changing your local path

  Hi all, I've run into a problem on one of our developer machines where the developer accidentially chose the wrong source control path for a team project that he was adding. I've looked all over and I can't figure out how to change the local path in the source control window or in any of the options/settings that I can find. Can someone let me know how this is done Thanks in advance! -Mark In Sour ...Show All