Cameron Black's Q&A profile

• Visual C# the filename, directory name or volume label syntax is incorrect.

  I have been trying to start a new project in Visual C# Studio 2005 Express and keep getting the error:  the filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007B) I have checked my volume label (WINXP) and the directory (E:\VS2005\) and even the filename that i have entered (MyProject) and can find no invalid characters or syntax in any of these.  Yet each time I try to create a new project, I get this error.  I have even changed the directory in the Options (from the default, much longer directory to the one above and several other alternatives) and no effect.  I downloaded t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Uninstalling -- I have version VB.NET 2005 Beta -- no uninstaller

  Bit complicated question... I had VB.NET 2005 BETA during testing last year. I created a backup of my harddrive with it installed (full drive and registers) and since then I uninstalled the beta. Then, last month my computer crashed, and I restored the files and registers, and it overlapped with some files I still had on disk. I wasn't able to run it for some reason and couldn't get that installer since beta is finished, so I uninstalled it using add/remove software. However, some files still exist and it still exists partially in registry and in file. Before I begin, do I need to uninstall everything manually now Or is what was removed enou ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions com and microcontroler

  I’m a beginner with Visual Basic. My final faculty project (assembly hardware and software) consists of driving microcontroller from PC. I have choused visual basic 2005 express edition to make graphic interface ( supervising controlling and data acquisition ) Argument: I ‘m using serial COM port for connection between devices. I my see lateral (ascii) on Hyper terminal; I have programmed my microcontroler to send me that data. And at first I would like to see number sent from microcontroller in TextBox tool. I have added serialport from toolbox to F ...Show All

• Visual Basic BUG: debugger losing variable values

  over the weekend I had occasion to write a line of code that added two random byte values.  I made the mistake of not contemplating the case where the resulting sum produced a result that was too large for the underlying data type to hold -- this turned out to be a nightmare to debug because VS 2005 beta 2 would lose the values of the variables involved when the exception was thrown. here is a sketch of the code that caused that issue: at the class level these variables are defined: Private Const STATE_LENGTH_M1 As Integer = 256 - 1 Private _state(STATE_LENGTH_M1) As Byte within an instance method, something like the f ...Show All

• Windows Forms Client Area

  Why is it that with Windows.Forms controls, we only have access to the Size of the Client Area but not the Top, Left offset  I've been trying to subclass a TextBox and add a Button on the Left and Right side of the text, but there it does not work for the left button which is ALWAYS rendered over the displayed text of the TextBox. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. rendering meshes in c#

  hi! i've made a mesh picture_1: http://toomaniac.com/kopi/blender/object_mode _solid .gif even on actually flat faces there are a lot of triangles i.e. many different faces picture_2: http://toomaniac.com/kopi/blender/edit_mode.gif when i view the mesh in the meshview - that one that comes with the sdk - it looks like that picture_3: http://toomaniac.com/kopi/blender/directx.gif and when i load the mesh to my device it looks like that too why does the mesh don't look like on the first picture are there any parameters or renderstates settings i've to make here you can find my code: http://toomaniac.com/kopi/blende ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to Change the Workflow Name in Lab 10?

  When you change the "Name" property in the designer,it prompts that "The service 'System.Workflow.ComponentModel.Design.IMemberCreationService' must be installed for this operation to succeed. Ensure that this service is available." _vihang : Or you may provide some useful examples or teaching material  for me about designer application. Thanks again. ...Show All

• Windows Forms unload a dll

  I know you can load a (unknown) like this: Dim asm As [Assembly] = [Assembly].LoadFrom(FullPAthAsmToLoad) How do you unload a dll Remco According to the .NET Framework documentation, you should use application domains for the separately (un)loadable units of code. In your case, create a new AppDomain  using System.AppDomain.CreateDomain() ; load the assembly into it using System.AppDomain.Load() ; when you are finished, get rid of the domain (not the assembly) using System.AppDomain.Unload() . Read the documentation for details. Good luck! Jordan Jossifov ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB express 2005 install

  Is it possbile to choose not to install sql express I did not see that option and the install of sql express end up inerror anyway for windows 2003 Hi, In express Beta 2, I could choose the components to install by choosing a custom installation. There, you can check or uncheck the SqlExpress to install it or not... cheers, Paul June A. Domag ...Show All

• Visual C++ Is there any thing equivalent to NotOverridable in C++?

  Hi guys, My problem is this. class Base {    public:        void  OneFunction()       {           cout<<"Base";         } }; class Derived:public Base {    public:              //overriden, I don't want this to happen.        void OneFunction()       {          cout<<"Base cl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Controls Not Working When Published

  Hi Using the Visiual Web Developers Express Edition I have created pages with various controls including some bound to an AcessData Control. When I publish this to my service provider non of the controls are visible (bound or otherwise) exept labels. The service provider supports FrontPage extensions and asp and other asp pages developed with FrontPage 2003 work fine. What am I missing Regards Rob Smith Hi The database definitely contains data - otherwise it would not all work perfectly in a local environment. The path to the database on the server might be wrong but the address is relative A ...Show All

• .NET Development Enabling SSL on IIS 6.0 Problem

  Hi, I'm encountering an issue enabling SSL on IIS 6.0 - The setup is as follows: 1x Windows 2003 PC running alone (on the net with a Fully Qualified Domain Name), with Visual Studio 2005, Visual Sourcesafe 2005 & IIS 6 installed with Certification Authority Services. 2x Remote Users running Visual Studio 2005 On the windows 2003 PC I have installed Certification Authority component. When I installed it, I made the CA the same as the FQDN of the machine, in this case: devnet.mynetwork.com. I then proceeded through and let the wizard stop IIS and add the Certification Authority web components. Upon completion, I fired up the webpag ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Not authorized to view page

  I followed the installation for workgroup on a single server on a brand new server and get the error: "Not authorized to view page - HTTP Error 403" when attempting to browse http://server:8080 . I checked the forums without any useful insights. In WSS adminstration I see that the Team Foundation Site is not extended. I thought TFS extends the site - the reason for not provisioning WSS during install. NTLM authentication is on the server. SQL Reporting services is working. I see the TFS entries in Windows Firewall. Any troubleshooting assistance will be greatly appreciated. I see several other people had a similar problem, but n ...Show All

• Windows Forms dragging only the outline of a form

  how do i code my forms so that only a thin outline of the form is visable during the drag of the form; the form repaints (fills in) when the drag has been completed Great work! I found a few things in the code here I hadn't seen before. Thanks.  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Hide the team project name screen during a new team project setup

  Hi there! I'm working on a PCW plug-in to integrate TFS with proprietary tools. One of the requirements is that the name of the new team project should come from one of those tools. I added a new screen right after the name selection and I'm changing the context.PublicData[ PublicDataKeys .ProjectName] attribute to match the desired name. That worked fine, but I would like to ask: is this ok, or I may get into some problem doing that If ok, is it possible to hide that first screen where you define de project name since it became useless Thanks in advance! Regards, Max Max, ...Show All