phil_johnson38's Q&A profile

• Visual C# good and cheap DBGrid for C#

  hi, can anyone recommend and good and cheap DBGrid for C# application. The most important for me is to assign an ID (e.g. Primary Key) for each row instead for adding it as a column but hide it which i feel it's stupid way... Many Thanks, Jassim Rahma Why don't you use a DataGrid or other existing control These are easy to use and well documented. Wish things do you miss with the existing controls ...Show All

• Visual Studio Debugger Hangs Delay Notification

  The problem happens while debugging when I try look at the details of "this". It happens every time. In the "Locals" pane I try to expand the entry "this" by clicking on the "+". I get an internal error after which Visual Studio won't do anything else and pops up a dialog named "Delay Notification" when ever I try to interact with it. I must use task manager to exit it. I was having the same problem when I first installed Visual Studio Beta 2. I ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Error:"Currently selected property has a wrong type"

  I was working on a WF project and all of the sudden I started receiving the following error message when using the WF Designer in Beta 2.2: ''Currently selected property has a wrong type 'WF.wfEventArgs instead of 'WF.wfEventArgs' Here's the fun thing. The types are the EXACT SAME TYPE. It is expecting what I provide it and it fails. Has anyone experienced this Thanks. Peter, Did you upgrade from ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider Beta 2 Now Available (Feb 20, 20006)

  The Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider Beta 2 is now available here . IMPORTANT:   Beta 2 is not strongly signed, so you'll need to disable strong name validation as mentioned in the README.  You can find details at http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2006/02/21/536260.aspx . New in this beta: Support for Visual Studio 2003 and Fox Pro in addition to the already supported VB6 and VC6. Integrated Checki ...Show All

• .NET Development SignedCms in VS.2005 is very slow, signed data is not compatible with CAPICOM 2

  Hello, Did some body used VS 2005(c#) to sign data or verify signature functions I tried sign a data and verify signature sample on MSDN ( Signing a Message by One Signer  ), it seems this sample is very slow, I used CAPICOM SignedData function to sign 10M string, it used 1 second on my computer, but SignedCms (convert to byte[]), it used 29 seconds. also the signature I get from this function can not be verified (conve ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Change the PictureBox size to fit the image

  Hi there, I have a general question to ask. Is it possible to change the picturebox attributes to fit the image size The reason I ask is this: I would like to show an image in its original size, yet all images I have are different sizes. (I'm using scrollbars right now to view the image) Thanks, Martina SpeBeeTo wrote: Is it possible to change the picturebox attributes to fit the imag ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VS Team Crashes with no error message.

  I have installed the Team System on my system and it has worked great for the past month or so. However, over the last week it has been crashing with no message or warning. It has happened on a second machine in our office on several occasions and another machine two times. I have re-installed .Net Framework V2. I am about to re-install Team System. I just dont want to have to do this over and over.... Has anyone got any ideas The followin ...Show All

• SQL Server PLEASE HELP ME WITH ANN PROBLEM

  Hi Guys, I kindly ask for your help with regards to my DM project. I am working on a project that is related to the field of agriculture and that has as an objective to find the "optimal values" of the operating conditions that affect the outcome (the amount of meat produced i.e. the weight) of an animal production (chicken broilers in my case). To do so, I have to use historical data of previous productions as my training d ...Show All

• Windows Forms Any build-in feature to memorize datagridview setting?

  My winform application has a datagridview which let users to set columns' width and height freely. Is there any build-in functionality to store the setting of the datagridview(such as column's width, row's height .etc) so that the users don't need to set them everytime the application is started Thanks. Hello. There isn't anything built-in but I don't think this would be very difficult to create. You would realy just need to persist ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System December CTP of VSTS has removed all support for Artifact linking????

  I noticed that our code will not compile with the new December CTP of VSTS b/c classes like Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Artifact have been removed.  Is the plan not to include linking of custom artifacts   Thanks, Nick Clarification:  Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server.Artifact no longer exists.  So the question is... will linking of custom artifacts be supported ...Show All

• Visual Studio Open Website from Source Control takes long time

  I have built up a project in VSS 2005 via internet and VS 2005. It works great in the project I created, I can check out, modify, check in etc. Now when I go to open a new website from source control it takes a very long time. So far 45 minutes and not open. The project has about 1,500 files I was getting timeouts when opening the project at first, but added: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\SourceSafe] "Timeout"=dword ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Handling events in a multi-form application

  I'm trying to write a .NET CF 2.0 application that behaves a little like the built-in Calendar application, in that the main form has multiple views with very different contents. In fact, in my application the four views are so different that I'd like to implement them as four different forms, so that I can use the Visual Studio designer to layout and script each one separately. This also allows me to completely close the forms I'm not using so ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Hosting xbap in a non-asp.net web site?

  Since it's a client technology, it seems viable that a xbap could be host in a non-asp.net (such as FreeBSD host)web site only if I added the MIME types. Is this true How can I do this Thanks! rather than using the exe extention, use the .deploy file type for executables on publish. This should resolve your issues. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Running a very simple Win32 app on a comp without VC++ 2005 Express

  Hi! I have installed VC++ 2005 Express and the Platform SDK according to the instructions on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/default.aspx Compiling and running the following program on the dev computer works like a charm: http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/simple_window.html I then changed to release-mode, turned off debugging in the project properties and copied the .exe to another computer without VC++ 2005 Exp ...Show All

• Visual C++ ReadFile()?

  Hi! I'm programming an aplication to connect with a machine by Serial Port. I would like to show the answer that this machine give me (I read it with ReadFile() ). For example, If I read: HANDLE Comm; CString COM = "COM1"; BOOL Read; DWORD iBytesRead; char sBuffer[128]; char msg[255]; Read = ReadFile(Comm, &sBuffer, 1, &iBytesRead, NULL); sprintf(msg , "Response:%s", sBuffer); m_ctlRecvd.AddStri ...Show All