Kevin Lew's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Upgrade VSS from 2005 Beta 2 to 2005 release

  Hello, Is it possible to "softly" upgrade Visual Source Safe 2005 from its Beta2 version to the last released one I mean: Is there a program that will assume the upgrade or do I have to Archive all Projects Uninstall Beta2 Install Release Restore Projects In the last case, is there any special recommandation My IDE is Visual Studio 2003. Thanks for any help Check th ...Show All

• Visual C# Default value on value-types

  I have implemented a value type that use a string value as value container. I need to initialize this string with a "" value insead of null. Is it possible to explicitly initialize a value type Is there a way to run a default parameterless constructor Thanks, Felice R. There is always a parameterless constructor for value types, and it only ever sets the fields to the default values for the ...Show All

• Windows Forms Passing a Parameter in a DataGrid ButtonColumn

  Greetings, I am using a DataGrid to display advertisements on a ad board. All works great, except on day 2, the links that were visited show visited today. The culprit is that the control links that are really a ButtonColumn are rendered with; href=__doPostBack('DataGrid1$_ctl7$_ctl0','')" and the next day there are mor of these same links. Ideally I would like to set the eventArgument parameter, to a unique ID to have something like... href ...Show All

• Visual C++ cant find file?

  #include <iostream> int main() { std::cout<< "hello" ; return (0); } I turned off the precompiled header i get this error. -------------------------- Build Log     Build started: Project: test3, Configuration: Debug|Win32 Command Lines     Creating temporary file "c:\Documents and Settings\1\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\test3\test3\Debug\RSP00000640442460.rs ...Show All

• .NET Development Connection String problem with MSDAORA.1

  Hi. I have two connection strings for my application, one using Microsoft ODBC Driver for oracle, and another using Oracle ODBC Driver. I am getting "Object not found error( ASP)" when I use MSDAORA.1. I am using oracle 8i. Thanks. Sandeep Chanda wrote: Hi Paul, Its every line which has a CreateObject call. I'm sorry but that isn't enough information. What object are you trying to create ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Do not expose generic lists: performance of Collection<T> vs. List<T>

  I understand the reasoning behind the generic list rule, but one of the primary reasons for using List<T> is performance. If one replaces a perfomance-critical instance of List<T> (passed as a parameter, for example) with Collection<T>, won't this impact performance I thought one of the reasons for the improved performance of List<T> was due to its lack of virtual methods. A bit of a step backwards to use Collection< ...Show All

• SQL Server Non-Default SQL Server Port

  Using Visual Studio .NET 2005 and I cannot make a database connection in sever explorer to a SQL server that listens on a non-default port. I can do this with VS .NET 2003, but not 2005. Please assist. What is the version of the SQL Server   Does the SQL Server and the connection application run on the same machine or on two different machines   What protocols are enabled on the SQL Server   What connection string do ...Show All

• Windows Forms using datagird, datasets etc..

  hello people im using vb2005 and heres my problem i have 3 tables, companys, employes, and company-employes o want to show the company-employes on a grid, usind a adapter and this table contains, date, idcompany and idemploye, so i need to go to the other tables using inner join not to show only the ids but the names from those ids i want to put this on a grid where im going to have on the grid the followind fields. date, idem ...Show All

• .NET Development Drawing images with transparency

  Is there a way with the Graphics object to draw a semi-transparent image ie. I want to load up an image from a .png or .bmp file, and be able to draw the entire thing at an arbitrary transparency level. But I can't seem to find an Opacity property or anything of the like. Does anyone know how to do this DrawImage method of Graphics class has some overloads that take a parameter of type ImageAttributes. Amon ...Show All

• Windows Forms Great article, but a question to David Guyer

  Read this rticle on sql express and Click once it should be an anouncement i believe http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnsse/html/EmSQLExCustApp.asp I believe you did not write that article but maybe you can answer this question: assume that on version 1.0.1 i publish the application and the user install it and create the db as in the article. Then i publish a version 1.0.2 with db changes, but the user ...Show All

• SQL Server How to generate SP scripts

  Hi ... there was a cool feature in sql 2k for exporting scripts for stored procedures. i.e for eg if I had 3 procedures. prc_proc1 prc_proc2 prc_proc3   and if I want 2 export the script of these sp's to 3 individual files rather than one single file then I was able to chose in SQL2000 i.e I was able to create 3 files with the same name as the sp's prc_proc1.sql prc_proc2.sql prc_proc3.sql   Now I wa ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to connect VB.net 2005 express with SQL Server 2000?

  How to connect VB.net 2005 express with SQL Server 2000 Please help as soon as possible Shifaz Hi, here is a video: http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/2/4/6247616D-A0C7-4552-B622-3F0450DE2462/08VB.wmv Here something written: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbtskCreatingConnectionToSQLServer.asp ...Show All

• Windows Forms Win XP style in designer window of VS.Net 2003

  I've read many solutions how to get xp style controls in my programs by using a manifest file, but is there anyway of viewing them in the designer as well, so that i can see what my form will look like in the designer, and not having to run it each time to see what its going to look like Cheers Thanks. Lazy as I am, I looked around for a VS.Net 2003 devenv.exe.manifest and found a couple. None of them worked. Es ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MSF 4.0 Executive Whitepapers

  Do we have any whatepapers that discuss the Team System benefits at an executive level   I have an executive that would like to see a whitepaper on the enefits of the MSF 4.0 Process.  They want to see how the work streams work so that they can understand the full project lifecycle.  All of this information is in the HTML MSF Agile process, do we have the same inforamtion in a whitepaper format We do have such white papers u ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Does the file can be rendered while it was opened for write?

  I am using CreateFile((LPTSTR) TempFile, GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE,0,NULL,CREATE_ALWAYS,FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL) to create a temp file then Using InternetReadFile() to read the video file from internet and and using WriteFile() to save the video file to the temp file. I want to play the temp file (using Directshow) while it's downloading. but RenderFile(TempFile, NULL) output an error message says : ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION. Is there any w ...Show All