Michael S. Kaplan's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Independent Executable

  How to create a executable file from VB.net Project to remove i t s dependency on .NET-Framework i.e the the application should run on the target system without .NET Framework installed on it. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Add new Novell ODBC Driver to Visual Basic 2005

  I added novell ODBC driver to the ODBC DataSorce Adminstrator/User DSN. After I created a Project I wanted to add novell odbc Driver to my project(Form). But I can not find it at the DataSorce(Add New Data Souce-> Database->New Connection-Change->Change Data Source) How can I set up Visual Basic 2005 for Novell ODBC drvice Thanks, MK ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Continuous doesn't work in ProgressBar

  Just that.. I change the Style property on a ProgressBar and still appear the blocks How can i do for make it work I could be wrong but I think you'll find that that only has an effect if you aren't using visual styles. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Implements Different to VB

  When I create a call such as... Implements Class.Events ...in VB 2005 Express Edition VB displays all the methods and procedures (etc) on the same page it is called. This doesn't seem to happen in VC# 2005 Express Edition (well not that I can see anyway). My question then is how can I have the same methods and procedures appear in VC# Thanks, Ryan Have you tried to write it like this public class MyEnumerableClass : IEnumerable [SHIFT+ALT+F10] This makes MyEnumerableClass implement IEnumerable interface and [SHIFT+ALT+F10] means you should press those keys to bring up a ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) 3d performance - bleargh!

  So Im coming around to the conclusion that WPF 3D performance sucks dead dogs balls. (Note that times are measured using Stopwatch.ElapsedTicks, with 3.6e6 ticks per second, that means that 3600 ticks is a millisecond; there will also be some overhead from using stopwatch itself). A simple example, and Im going to annotate each line with how many ticks it takes to execute. List<Point3D> posistions = new List<Point3D>(3000); // T=150 List<Vector3D> normals = new List<Vector3D>(3000); // T=150 List<Point> coords = new List<Point>(3000); // T=150 List<int> indices= new List<int>(6000); // ...Show All

• SQL Server help with a scalare function

  i wrote a scalare function- select name,id from tableName where function1(id) / function2(id)>100 but sometimes function2 returns zero so im getting a divide by zero exception. how can i solve this problem thanks in advanced. It depends on what do you want for output if function2 returns 0... Here's one way to handle it (return nothing):     select name,id from tableName where     case function2(id)     when 0 then 0     else function1(id) / function2(id)     end & ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Managed C++ (2005) and DirectX - Application Crashes

  Hi, I'm writing this demo DirectX app using VC++ .NET 2005. And my appliction is crashing without any error messages. I managed to figure out the line where it's failing using MessageBox::Show(); commands. Prints only "Mark 1" & Line is marked red. Code - bool StingRay3DGraphics::CreateVertexBuffer(Device^ device) {    try {       vertices = gcnew VertexBuffer(                      CustomVertex::PositionColored:: typeid , // What type of vertices      &nb ...Show All

• Windows Forms Network directorys and FileSystemWatcher

  Any one have any experience with network directories and .NET  Or more specifically setting up a filsystemwatcher to watch a network drive on a LAN   I have a windows service that is supposed to move some files that is dumped in a specific catalogue on a network drive to another machine. My problem is that I get an exception that says that th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Uninstalling VS 2005 RC1

  I have an issue with uninstalling SQL Express Edition CPT as part of uninstalling VS 2005 RC1. I have used both the Add/Remove programs and the vs_uninst.exe tool. In each case, I am leaving some residue of the program which triggers an error which does not allow VS 2005 install to configure SQL Express Edition. Any ideas Thanks. Just the framework. Its under \wcu\dotnetframework on your RC media. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Reports node in Team Explorer sticks at Working...

  I'm running TFS beta 3 refresh in a dual-server installation. I had a lot of problems getting Sharepoint working again (see my other threads) - that may have something to with what I'm seeing now. Per the migration instructions, I went into the report server and manually created all of the reports for my projects.  I made all of the necessary configuration changes and tested every report. In my project portal sites, reports do appear in the report placeholders (although they're all showing no results, but that's probably something else). The thing that's not working is the Reports node in the team explorer.  It sticks a ...Show All

• Visual C++ Draft: How to rebuild the 8.0 CRT Library for use on NT 4.0 SP6

  DRAFT 0.2 - comments welcome  HOW TO REBUILD THE 8.0 CRT LIBRARY FOR USE ON NT 4.0 SP6 The shipping 8.0 C Runtime Library DLL (MSVCR80.DLL) does not support NT 4.0 SP6 for one reason and one reason only: someone at Microsoft added a function call to GetLongPathNameW which does not exist in kernel32.dll on NT 4.0.  You cannot delayload the CRT, therefore there's no way around it.  In order to run on NT 4.0, you must rebuild the MSVCR80.DLL to remove this reference.   Fortunately, very little work needs to be done to rebuild the 8.0 C Runtime Library DLL to support NT 4.0 SP6.  First, let's identify th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VS.NET 2005 RTM - Package Load Failure

  Hello, I have just tried uninstalling and reinstalling VS.NET 2005 RTM, and VS.NET 2005 Team Foundation Client. Both releases are final, but I keep receiving this when opening the VS.NET IDE: Package Load Failure: Package 'ReportDesignerPackage' has failed to load properly.. Package Load Failure: Package 'DataWarehouse VSINtegration layer' has failed to load properly.. Package Load Failure: Package 'MicrosoftDataTransformationServicesDesigner' has failed to load properly... When I attempt to go to Help - About Microsoft Visual Studio: Package Load Failure: Package 'Microsoft Analysis Services Designer' has failed to load properly... Package ...Show All

• Visual C++ Activex control newbie question

  Is there a difference between OCX files (Activex Control) to a DLL component that is created using ATL Which method is better Also, can I package DLL into cab files to embed in HTML Or can I only do this with OCX files On the other hand, this is a Microsoft forum and pointing to third-party solutions is not the best advice.  I'm not a web developer, but I would think that if I liked coding in .NET and wanted to create a website, I would use ASP.NET.  After all, aren't the nice things like MSDN Forums and Windows Live done with .NET technology I think this is the wrong fo ...Show All

• Windows Forms Nested InstanceDescriptors (short)

  I apologize for double-posting, but despite the view count on my previous post, I have a feeling no one is actually reading it because it is too long. So I am trying again, shorter this time. Basically, I want to have a property on my form that is serialized to InitializeComponent like this: myForm.MyProperty = new MyClass(typeof(MyOtherClass), MyOtherClass.FldMyField); where FldMyField is a constant string. MyClass has a TypeConverter that is doing the design-time conversion between string and a MyClass object so it can be shown in the property browser, and that is all working correctly. The same TypeConverter is also converting MyCl ...Show All

• .NET Development 64Bit Compiler?

  According to: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/productinfo/productline/default.aspx It seems like its only Pro version, and up, that has 64bit compiler.. Is this true Will this mean, that if i buys another verison of Visual Studio 2005, a express version for instance, i wont be able to compile to a 64bit I tried compiling to a 32bit application with the beta of Team system, im running right now, it wasn't able to run a 32bit application(Im running Windows xp x64)... So will i have to buy the pro version, to actually use visual studio The question is actually, if i can compile x64 application, using the ...Show All