Bren Besser's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms dataGrid cell shrinks text when entered

  Hi all, When I travel from cell to cell in the dataGrid the cell will highlight the text and it will also slightly shrink the text.  The problem is that the different rows need to stay in alignment so when the user is typing in i ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Events exposed through Activity class

  Hi, I was wondering if it's possible to wire up with event exposed on Activity class (more specifically EventDriveActivity class) obtained through tracking instance on a host </snippet> Code in a Runtime Host Activity currentActivity = memoryTrackingInstance.CurrentState.GetActivityByName("ActionName", true ); if (currentActivity is EventDrivenActivity ) { EventDrivenActivity evtActivity = ( Event ...Show All

• Windows Forms uninstall at end of installation

  I would like to uninstall my application at the end of an installation. The msi installation is for "side-effects" only, and the user should not see a screen saying the product is being uninstalled -- I just do not want the user to deal with uninstalling the product before repeatedly trying another installation. Suggestions RemovePreviousVersions would work for you, if I understand what you're doing. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Converting .vcproj files to msbuild (w/out needing vcbuild)

  As I’ve been reading about msbuild, I’ve noticed articles that mention msbuild’s incapability to natively read .vcproj files. In short, executing msbuild blah.vcproj causes msbuild to invoke vcbuild to perform the actual .vcproj processing. I’ve been working on a tool that converts .vcproj files to msbuild formatted files so, with the appropriate C++ tasks (including cl and link tasks), a user could build his code on the command line without nee ...Show All

• Visual C++ MFC application crashes when running standalone

  Hi all, I'm currently working on an old MFC (made with VS2003) application to run in Visual Studio 2005/Windows XP. After a while most of the code compiled like a charm and the application works when beeing started from inside the IDE. Then i had really strange problems when trying to execute the program standalone (i.e. like copying it to c:\program files\program\name.exe and executing it there directly). I got some MFC memory errors w ...Show All

• Smart Device Development vs2005 compiler is fatally flawed: generates bad code

  In this very simple excerpted code, the compiler fails to do its job.  If you want it recreated, I propose someone there try to recreate it.  I've already got it happening here.  It's as simple as it gets.  From the type of failure, it looks like it's going to happen a lot. r12 is assigned the address of mc.decodePriority only if gDecodeMaxPriority >= 3, yet it, r12, is still used as the store address when it is not &g ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Reporting Services Error in Project Portal in TFS RC

  After creating a new project in TFS RC and doing a Show Project Portal..., I get the error in the IE web page: Reporting Services Error This report requires a default or user-defined value for the report parameter 'IterationParam'. To run or subscribe to this report, you must provide a parameter value. (rsReportParameterValueNotSet) Get Online Help This is in the Remaining Work section of the report.  I can successfully ...Show All

• SQL Server Export Report

    Hi, How can i export a reporting services "report"  without using a report viewer From C# code  NB: i am using SQL server 2005 (RS 2005 too) Thanks Tarek Ghazali SQL Server MVP     have you tried doing it through the url it's pretty straight foward you pass what ever values and then say &rs:Format=HTML4.0(or what ever format you want) here's a l ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to make radio buttons in a groupbox unchecked when form loads?

  The excercise is a small app containing 3 group boxes (2 contain radio buttons, 1 contains check boxes) When the app starts the first group box containing Male & Female radio buttons receives focus,but for some strange reason always checks the Male radio button by default. I am trying to get both radio buttons in this group box unchecked so that the user decides without a default option being used. Any help gratefully received ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Coded Webtest and looping thru a datasource?

  Hello, I am have a little problem and need some help. I have created a webtest which loops thru a datasource. Converted it to a coded webtest to do some validation but can not get it to loop thru the datasource. Is there anything that I am missing Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks Unfortunately, you found a bug.  The 'one run per data source row' works correctly for the non-coded webtests, but ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to upload file using WebBrowser class?

  I want to upload file prorammatically using WebBrowser class WebBrowser.Visible property is set to false, so user cannot see the pages loaded to WebBrowser the code is: private void LoadUploadPageBtn_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {     FileStream fs = new FileStream(Environment.CurrentDirectory + "\\upload_page.htm", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);     byte[] buffer = new byte[fs.Length];    ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VB.NET Sockets

  I want to create a multi-client, single-server Chat (future game) application. I understand the concept, the server will listen to its own IP for connectivity, and then the clients would connect to the server, and chat. I get that, but how can I get it done in VSE, I've done it before in VB6 with winsock, but I can't find the winsock control in VBE (I'm guessing its replaced with the .Net) Anyone care to help me out ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System user defined port - asp.net applications

  is there a way how i can choose the port used by the internal visual studio 2005 web server i don't want that there's always another port used. I would like to assign 1 port to this asp.net application for testing. thanks for any advices Please post this question on the ASP.NET forum here: http://forums.asp.net/ Regards, Vikram ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to set the current cell programatically in datagridview?

  Hi everybody, I tried the following code, but I still need to click on the cell before it is selected. Is there a way to make the a cell the selected... dataGridView.CurrentCell = dataGridView.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[pathIndex]; Any suggestions will be appreciated, Elvia Thanks vkh75, I tried your suggestion. I'm programming in Microsoft Visual C# 2005. With this line dataGridView ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Administrator security issues

  Maybe it's me...  then there are only 7 posts before me on here, so now I am worried there will not be an answer.... Trying to install a simple antivirus program before I really start to test.  I am the administrator account, but I  do not have sufficient rights to write....hence install fails. Anyone else seen this...   Hmm... Do you have UAP enabled And what simple anti virus program are ...Show All