Alcor38370's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Activating Source Control

  I have Visual Studio.net and Visual source safe 6.0c installed, however when I go to the source control option in visual studio all of the menu options are greyed out I have checked the options setup for source control and all are OK and match another user in the office with the same setup whoes optios for source control are available. Can anyone offer any suggestions as to why this is occuring on about half of the PC's in the office ...Show All

• Windows Forms Visual Styles (Win32API)

  Hi. How to make standard windows control such as pushbutton to use visual style I'm writing in pure c/c++ with win32 api. I searched thought internet but couldn't find any helpfull example or good expanation. Thanks. Maybe this will help http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemwindowsformsapplicationclassenablevisualstylestopic.asp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK for Pocket PC Install Issues

  I can not unistall or repair the Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK for Pocket PC. The msi thinks PPC is intalled but it is not seen by VS 2005. It gives this error when trying to repair the install: A network error occurred while attempting to read form the file: c:\Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK for Pocket PC.msi. I can not remove the install either. How do I manually unistall this product. VS 2005 does not see it and I can not work on existi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Cancel subscription

  I subscription  Visual Studio 2005. It's free from Microsoft finland site, but I want cancel that subscription . How can I do it I didn't find any E-mail adress to told I want cancel it. Pleace give me some e-mail or www-site. Help me! ...Show All

• Visual C++ Mixing C and C++ MFC

  Hello everyone! I am working on this project where I have to implement a decoder/video player. I have a decoder project written in raw C. It takes an encoded file as input and generates a decoded file. I have another project, a video player, which is an MFC implemented in C++. What I have to do is incorporate these two projects together. I have to decode a single frame and play it on the spot. Anyways, this introduction is just to get you guys i ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 4 Beginners!

  Hi, well i read post and post but all of them assumes than we know how to use directx, so I wondering about: Where can i found info, tutorials, about how to get started... In C/C++, or C# oriented to those how never in their lives have contact with DirectX before and their skill in programming are Intermediate... thx PS. Simple kind, because i found one, but in the begining it said.... Create a new project... ok, but in VS.NET 2005 C++ are a ...Show All

• Visual C++ trackBar bug? Visual C++ 2005 Express Beta 2

  Hello, I have set the trackBar to max   10 min   -10 These figures are accepted, the build goes OK and the app runs and I can select trackBar values between -10 and +10. But! On three occasions when making unconnected code changes, I have found that when I ran the app it was not possible to move the trackBar pointer. Have now seen on one of thjose occasions that the -10 figure had changed to 10 ! This seems odd. An ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Get the Windows Live Messenger Beta!

  Would you like early access to the Windows Live Messenger Beta Starting today, November 8 th and running thru 9:00am PST on Monday, November 14 th The first 5 people to submit Activity Apps to the Worlds Best App contest and successfully pass compliance checking will receive an immediate invitation to the Windows Live Messenger Beta! Be one of the first people in the world outside of Microsoft to run with the next version of Windows ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System GetLocalWorkspace Exception

  Hi, I'm having a big problem with TFS regarding builds ;) Until recently I had everything set-up, and everything was running happily. The problem that is now occuring is that builds are failing for a strange reason... Here is the event log: Event Type: Error Event Source: TFS Build Event Category: None Event ID: 3000 Date: 5/3/2006 Time: 10:26:36 AM User: N/A Computer: BUILDMACHINE Description: TF53010: An unexpected condition has ...Show All

• SQL Server "could not open connection to SQL Server"?

  I just installed a new SQL 2005 Server (September CTP - Developer Edition) on Windows Server 2003 (Using Virtual PC). I have created a Data Model to be used for creating reports.  When I tried to deploy the Model, I got an error along the lines of "...SQL Server does not allow remote connections...". I then took a step back and tried to browse the report server ( http://localhost/reportserver ) and I got the message below: An error has occu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Document Explorer Crash

  Every time I change the "Filtered by" combobox the document explorer crashes. Event log entry: AppName: dexplore.exe AppVer: 8.0.50727.42 AppStamp:4333d0b3 ModName: msitss55.dll ModVer: 5.50.50727.42 ModStamp:4333e958 fDebug: 0 Offset: 00001525 Roman: A similar issue has been raised in the MSDN Product Feedback Center. There is more information here that may be of help: http ...Show All

• SQL Server Import from INFORMIX (Cannot get the supported data types)

  Hi! I'm trying to import data from an Informix Database to my SQL Server 2005 database with the import/export wizard. I have an ODBC-connection that works, Access fetches data with no errors.  From the wizard I can only choose to use the IBM Informix OLE DB Provider as datasource. As fare as I know the OLE DB Provider is using settings from the ODBC-driver In SQL Server 2000 there is a posibillity to choose Other(ODBC provider) as dat ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGrid query

  In VisualBasic.net (Windows Forms) I need to be able to search a DataSet by typing a few letters in a textbox. UI has  a textbox, a DataGrid, 3 labels. When the user type the first few letters of the name they are searching for, the&n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Keyed Collection Class Question

  Hello All, I have a question about the Keyed Collection Class. I am using the Keyed Collection Class as the basis for a Collection in my VB application. I chose they Keyed Collection Class because it appears to allow you to store the objects in your Collection with a Key Value that can be used to retrieve remove or find them latter. However when I try to execute the add method of the Key Collection Class it says that I have too many arguement ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView KeyDown?

  (VS2005 - beta 2) Hello, is there anyway to capture a keypress or keydown event in the DataGridView   I know there's events called KeyDown and Keypress, but if the DGV is in edit mode, they never get caught.  My ultimate goal is to make it so pressing enter moves to the Cell to the right, instead of to the next row but I need to know what key is being pressed before I can do that. Thanks -Adam Hi ...Show All