Uli F's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Merge and branch in various versions of a software in clients but similar in structure

  I hope you can help me out on this one. My company produces an ERP that is based on visual studio 6 and sql server 2005. We need to implement a control version that assures version control, check in policies etc. TFS is the solution for us but there are some issues that I cannot solve. We have a base application for our clients and each client has our base application modified to their need. So here if we branch the base application we ha ...Show All

• Visual Studio Project gets checked out automatically

  hi. i have a solution with 40+ projects in it. allmost every time i add a new project, check out a file or do a 'get latest version' one of the projects gets checked out automatically. (its allways the same project). the output window has a message that says 'project nameOfProjectHere was checked out automatically for editing'. however, nothing has been done to that project. none of the files in the project have been changed for ages. the projec ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridViewButtonColumn does not render?

  What's the trick to making a DataGridViewButtonColumn render correctly in a DataGridView control I've added the column and set the text property and can even click the cell and cause the cell clicked event to fire but all I see is a blank white cell. Any ideas Thanks. >> Without visual styles the button honors the backcolor of the cell's style. If visual styles are enabled, then where does the button get the foreground and background ...Show All

• Windows Forms Using TabControl

  Hi, Does anyone have explicit instructions on how to use the tab control I find scripts on manipulating the tab control but can't seem to make them work or get them on my form. Any assistance wouild be great. this is for ASP.Net and i'm using Visual Studio 2005. Thanks. First of all this is a windows forms section, try the aspnet forums. Btw: aspnet does not come with a tabcontrol. I've heard that MS init ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Getting started with pages blank in Dec CTP

  Hi, I installed Dec CTP on win XP SP2 and I tried to look at the following pages but they seem to be blank. http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/sdkintro/html/9a2db508-5b77-43f8-afa4-1ca82d24bb83.asp Can someone point to some basic documentation on how to use Win SDK Thanks, Skyblue1 This is actually by design at this point. Since this is a Community Tech Preview ...Show All

• Visual C# Design-Time or Run-Time now ?

  Event Load of User Control works not only in Run-Time but in Design-Time too. For example this event works when I try add my User Control on my form. In Event Load I need to fix Design-Time or Run-Time now How in VS 2005 can I check it Help me please. ...Show All

• Windows Forms implement left, center, right, justify align on richtextbox?

  hello world, i'm just starting out on C#. i hope to have a great time here with you people :) anyway, i have a question about how to implement the text alignment functionalites (left, center, right, justify). i haven't found any built-in methods or properties for the control... i am new to C# and i haven't really explored it a lot due to lack of time, i'd appreciate a lot any help i can receive here. thanks! :) You can use SelectionAlignme ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Pageframe color problem

  I'm having a problem with using a pageframe. The problem is that I can't set the backgroundcolor properties of any of the pages. It defaults to 236.233.216 which is a some kind of pink but it shows as a light grey. I can change it but it stays light grey. I've tried this on a few differant computers. Very wierd. Anyone have any info on this Thanks That's it! I don't know how it got set this way. It was working f ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions rum my app in fullscreen

  hello world  . do you have any idea how to make my application run in fullscreen mode   please help me finnaly... thanks a lot. this work realy nice ...Show All

• Visual Basic Controlling a Timer with an External Input

  Hello, im writing a vb program that is a graphical user interface for a robot. When the robot starts up it sends a command to PC telling the gui to start a timer showing how long the robot has been running. The only problem is that the timer never enables, It goes through the decision statement and says it should execute, but never does ( i put break points in after the hthe line of code where I enable the timer, and it says the timer should be ...Show All

• SQL Server MIRROR database questions

  Hello all. I was reading an article by Rich Heiges called Mirroring - A New Look at HA. It left me with 2 questions (A) Can I change the operating modes of the principal and mirror roles on the fly, or do I have to stop the MirROR process (B) It said that MIRROR supports 32-bit to 64-bit H/W interoperability -- but will it support interoperability between 32-bit and 64-bit instances of the database Thanks! For ...Show All

• Smart Device Development using the serial port class in VB

  Are there any samples around for using the serial port class in the framework for VB All I want to do is read some data off the port..... thanks.... Bruce. I worked on a VS2005  program many months ago to explore and use the com serial class with desktop CF2 (VS2005 Beta 1).  I  developed from a sample I found elsewhere.  It fully exercises the desktop serial class. I then ported it to  ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Memo datatype

  I hope I'm in the right forum I have a simple VB.Net application that records Engineering Change Requests.  Currently I'm using varchar fields to record proposed changes.  I'm using varchar since I don't know what the datatype is equal to the MS Access Memo datatype. I did look in the help files with limited success.  If I remember correctly it said that you can use the Image datatype to store large amounts of data.  When I t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Customize project item context menu

  Hi I have used the below VS 2005 Macro code to successfully add buttons to every context menu _except_ the context menu I am interested in - namely the VS project item context menu (open, open with, refresh, view code etc etc) I am referring to the toolbar as ' Cross Project Project Item' - is this perhaps incorrect Code is below - any help much appreciated Sub AddButton() Dim commands As Commands2 = CType (DTE.Commands, ...Show All

• Visual C# can anyone explain polymorphism

  can anyone explain polymorphism with simple example The main advantage of polymorphism is that you can interact with a group of objects identically, but have different behaviour depending on the type of object. Let's say you have an abstract Window base class with various concrete derived classes such as ScrollableWindow, SplitterWindow, etc. How each window type minimizes itself is different. If you didn' ...Show All