zeOlivier's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Need setup help for C++ Express HELP!

  Definitely am requesting some assistance here. I downloaded the iso file and also downloaded Isobuster 1.9 to extract it. I followed the instructions off of Microsoft's downloading page but I cannot open my "setup.exe" file. When I run that file, an error window pops-up and says "Cannot initialize resources" I don't know what has happened and would appreciate any info I can get. Thanks You may email me directly at cbmasterskier@yahoo.com or just reply. http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/b/6/7b6abd84-7841-4978-96f5-bd58df02efa2/winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel_21.exe That's the tool I use to mount an iso as a driv ...Show All

• Visual C++ ATL80.DLL from VS2005 RTM won't start on NT4

  If an attempt is made to load the RTM ATL80.DLL on NT4, an error message is shown complaining that the import GetLongPathNameW could not be found in KERNEL32.DLL and as such, the process cannot start. As the MSDN docs for GetLongPathName() show, it's very simple to work-around this problem in source-code (ie static library) by including NewAPIs.h.  However when linking with ATL80.DLL this solution is not possible, since ATL80.DLL does not do this, and I can't make it do it without re-compiling the DLL. So why not just link with ATL statically   Well, I have just added support for ActiveX control containment to my app, which ru ...Show All

• .NET Development Strings

  Hi folks, I'm just wondering if .NET impliments the + operator for its String class As well, does it have any (for example) ToInt(), ToFloat(), FromInt(), FromFloat() members -Zero For converting you have the convert class http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/system.convert.aspx You also have Parse/TryParse methods on most numerics, if not all. The + operator will concatenate strings in VB.NET and C# compilers. I am not sure if the C++ compiler does it. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Drop down menu on a button ?

  I inherited a windows forms 2003 app which showed the paint tools in a pane, using a toolbar. I continued this approach, but I've been asked by the client one time too many for changes that you just can't do in a toolbar, so I've removed it and added a button for each tool. My problem now is that standard buttons don't seem to offer a drop down menu, only a context menu. Am I right in thinking this If so, what's my best option 1 - an owner drawn combo box 2 - write my own control 3 - trawl the web and assume that someone else must have written this before me If you want to avoid the right-click context menu, you can simp ...Show All

• SQL Server changing XML values

  If I use the REPLACE feature to change only a part of the XML document, does this require the whole document be reinserted and/or parsed, or just that bit of the XML that I changed Since its shredded out from the XML, it seems to me that I should be fine and not take this performance hit. Just trying to figure out the performance impact of our application updating the XML that already exists. Thanks. The chunk of the document that you are going to insert into the existing document will need to be reparsed, but the existing document will not need to be reparsed since it is in the shredded form, it will just ha ...Show All

• Visual Studio Invalid drive or drive not ready: Error when checking in using shadow folders

  We have a VSS 2005 installation running on a Win 2003 Server box. Everything works well execpt the shadow folders. When checking in a file under a project that is setup with a shadow folder we recieve the error 'Invalid drive or drive not ready' in the VSS client. Using Visual Studio there is no error but the shadow files are not updated. When creating the shadow for the first time, all the files and folders are copied over successfully. We have tried setting the shadow folder under different directories to check permissions but even giving all permissions doesnt seem to work. Any ideas Thanks Rich What is ...Show All

• SQL Server Tx replication works in 2000 but not in 2005?

  Hello, I've got a simple transactional replication set up. I have a separate publisher, distributor, and subscriber with 76 articles (tables only) being pushed from the distributor. I have this exact setup with the same tables and data working in the SQL 2000 environment. I am testing replication on our SQL 2005 test servers before moving to production, however when the distributor attempts to push out the initial snapshot I keep getting this error. Error messages: Incorrect syntax near ')'. (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 102) Get help: http://help/102 Incorrect syntax near ')'. (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 10 ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Go-Live Runtime

  Hi there Just a short question: Are the WF Designer Controls part of the WWF Go-Live Runtime or are they just part of the Visual Studio Extensions Thanks, Sebastian Hi Sebastian, I take it you mean the Workflow Activities when you say Designer Control. All the activities that ship Out of the Box appear on the Toolbox in Visual Studio when you use the Workflow Designer and will execute fine. Thanks Devinder ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MSDN Subcription

  This is probably not the best place to ask, but I haven't been able to get an answer from the MSDN folks... Any idea if we will be able to transition our existing subscriptions over to VSTS for DP when it is available I currently subscribe to VSTS Dev. Not being an expert on licensing, but the Team System license model is either based on seperate SKU's like Developer, Test or Architect; or you are have a Suite license which includes today Developer, Test and Architect. When VSTE DB will be released this will be the fourth SKU in the Suite. If you can not transfer VSTE Dev in to VSTE Test today, I do ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office please suggest me

  hello everyone my name is pradeep(student) what else do i need to develop the excel application apart from vs2005 team system and office 2003 my next doubt is do u suggest a detailed book for visual studio 2005 tools for office specially excel Hi Pradeep, Actually you don't need VS2005 Team System, you can also use Visual Studio Tools for Office edition of VS . I don't know the book for Excel VSTO programming but I would suggest you the book from Eric Carter and Eric Lippert - the Visual Studio Tools for Office: Using C# with Excel, Word, Outlook and InfoPath . ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Feb CTP, XAML error in new project

  I just installed the February CTP of WinFX and Windows SDK. The optional of the Visual Studio "Orcas" CTP. Try to create a new WindowApplication with XAML and visual studio 2005 RTM keep saying the type 'Application', 'Application Resources', 'Grid' cound not be found Does anyone know what's this issue about. I have the same problem. On top of that, it seems that everything related to resizing causes problems. Could you do me a favor and try starting one of your apps (with atleast one control in a window) and resize that windows I get a crash almost immediately. Would be nice to know if others ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to create folders with separated folder names?

  Windows enables you to create a new folder and rename it with a separated name like 'Business contacts folder'. How does one create a folder and name it so in visual C++.net So far, I'm creating folders using system("mkdir <directoryname>"). Is there an alternate and more efficient to do this Please forgive me if it sounds amateurish. I'm still a novice programmer. Thanks! Found the answer! I used _mkdir() function instead of the system() variant. U'd have to include all std io first. Anyone with this problem can look up _mkdir() in the msdn library. Its under mkdir functions. Thanks everyon ...Show All

• Visual C++ Problem in MFC AppWizard(exe)

  my code is like this: void CRrDlg::OnGetText() { CString kk; int f; CRrDlg* pEdit=(CRrDlg*)GetDlgItem(IDC_EDIT7); { f=22; kk=f; pEdit->SetWindowText(kk); } } I cant show 22 as output and i don't want to use kk.Format() to display. Is there any way to put variable f as variable kk how to convert int to a char string And, how to use SetDlgItemInt I can't use Format because everytime i use it,it will overwrite the previous data. ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView twice as slow in Final Release compared to Beta 2

  We filed a bug a while back in regards to slowness in DataGridView.  The bug was fixed in Beta 2 but now with the Final Release it's slow again.  It is a real shame because Microsoft has put serious effort into improving DataGridView in Beta 2. We have now reopened the bug because it is crucial to us to have a fast grid. If you have the chance, please vote for the bug . I retract what I have posted.  DataGridView is actually faster in release than in Beta 2.  The comparison tests we had run were incorrectly executed.  The grid is actually 30% faster in release than in Beta 2.&nbs ...Show All

• Windows Forms Create the app_name.exe.config file during runtime

  Greetings forum inmates Consider the following scenario: You have created your application and you want to deploy it either via click once or xcopy - emphasis goes on xcopy for my case though. Normally you should include an app_name.exe.config file within the download so that the settings are included and loaded when the application starts. But what if you may have a different set of settings attributes on each deployment situation One solution is ofcourse to provide in the download a .config file with <appsettings> for each and every thing that can be changed. The other solution is to create an app_name.exe.config file programma ...Show All