Jon Woodcock's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System file's and folder's Attribute

  Is there any way - mechanism - to associate files and folders with an attribute ( or property ) , for later on make queries and see those which have common property (attribute) etc... and I mean not just a label There's no way to attach arbitrary meta data to files in folders in version control.  You could use the linking API to create links to particular files, just as you can link work items to source control files.  You c ...Show All

• Visual C# IDE linkage to controls across partial classes

  I have a C# VS05 GUI app which has multiple tabs, with multiple controls on each tab. The code was all contained in a single file: frmACC.cs When clicking on a control in the IDE the editor cursor would go to the method associtated with that control (as one would expect) i.e. Button1_Click. As the file grew large I broke it into partial classes, each associated with a particular tab in the application to make naviagtion and development ...Show All

• .NET Development NullReferenceException when accessing DataTable.Rows

  I feel sure there must be a simple explanation for this that I am missing, but I have searched the help files and Googled for HOURS and I'm at a loss.  So I'm hoping someone out there can see what I'm missing.  I'm trying to get data from a table in a dataset and build a string, which I will later write to a file.  But when I try to access the rows in the table, I keep getting a NullReferenceException.  I've tried several dif ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't uninstall Reporting Services

  I need to reinstall Reporting Services but during uninstall I face the following error: "The setup failed to read IIsMimeMap table. The error code is -2147024893" Nothing seems to help with the problem. Regards, Ksenia I've got the same problem here unstalling the September CTP Reporting services - please do post if you found a solution, Thanks, Mike ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions getting pics from webcam stream

  Hi guys and gals like most people here with a question i am very very new to programming so i thought VB would be the best place to start. after some simple projects no i was thinking about incresing the level so here's the question: is it at all possible to capture a image in msn messanger from a webcamcast of the other person i would like to do this because my wife doesnt realy know how to use a webcam and i am away alot so i can m ...Show All

• Windows Forms Question about CODE tag

  I know we're suppose to use the CODE tag around the code we post... But, I don't see why.  So my question is, should we use it on 5 lines of code   3    Hi, The biggest reason to use the  tag is to pre ...Show All

• Visual Basic Why does dispose() not make second instantiation of an object go away?

  I'm writing a program in VB 2005 Express Beta 2.  The code pasted at the end of this note is a simplified example of a problem I am having in a more complex piece of code.  The simple code does the following: I have a startup form (called Form1) with two buttons on it.  Button1 triggers a loop ranging from 0 to 9 to create 10 new instances of a picturebox (all in a 10-element picturebox array called picbox) by setting al ...Show All

• Visual Basic "Could not find a part of the path" error message when you access a mapped drive

  Hi I'm getting error when I try to access to a mapped drive. I'm using vb.net 2003 and developing a windows service. The service needs to read a file on a mapped drive using the streamreader class. When I run the service on windows XP pro all works perfect, but now when I run the same service on the Windows 2003 server it doesn’t work. The mapped drive exists and I grant access to everyone. I’ve found an article that says the pro ...Show All

• Visual Basic Decent Source Code Site - Visual Basic 2005

  Hi, Want to know if there are any decent Visual Basic 2005 source code sites available yet. Have lookt all over and can only find vb.net (which the conversion does not always do correctly) and allot of vb6 code. I have found that no matter how may tutorials you read and how many books you get none of them cover what you want to to cover. What exactly is it you want to cover Almost all .NET 2003 books are valid for 2005. The ...Show All

• Visual C++ Project creation failed?!

  I just Visual Studio 2005 Standard edition and I'm trying to learn C++.. when I try to create an MFC application, I try to set the Base Class under Generated Classes so I can visually design the form... however the second I click on the dropdown menu, the dialog immediately closes (the list of items in the dropdown doesn't even appear) and the status bar says "Creating project 'MFCTest'... project creation failed." No error message, no ...Show All

• SQL Server cannot install sql server 2005 developer over sql server 2000 desktop edition

  It will not install the database components it refuses to install over the older desktop edition... what are we supposed to do.. we have many registered servers to all the customers and servers we use so we don't want to remove the older one... but we are developers and develop applications that our customers use and need the new version on these machines.... thanks what a pain I had to remove everything.. express edition and sql se ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem with Mdi forms and Show method

  Hi guys, I have a Mdi Container that can be minimized to tray. So when when I click minimized button I Hide the form and I show the notify icon. The problem is that during the mdi parent is not visible, maybe I have to create new  ...Show All

• Windows Forms Accessing overlapping forms in a mdi-app

  If Windows-B-form is in the foreground and Window-A-form  is in the background, the only way I can see to bring Window-A-form  to the foreground is to click on its title bar.  But in VB-6 apps, you could click anywhere on Window-A form  to bring it to the foreground.  Is there a way to do this in vb.net Thanks for any help. Suzanne Haig David: I think I have to do more research on this ...Show All

• Visual Basic VS.net 2005 slow WebSite build times with Visual Basic

  I've recently upgraded to vs.net 2005 and after building a few websites, I've started to notice the lag times when building a solution. In the past, a solution would take at most, 10 seconds to build. Now I'm experiencing 10+ mins to build a project. Has anyone else had problems with this I've read others with this particular problem and they have done various things like delete the registry settings, and other such extreme methods. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Starter Kits are a nice idea - but in reality they are a huge waste of time

  I am the CTO of a large Microsoft-centric tech consulting service. I have spent considerable time over the past month studying and trying out this new starter kit technology. While I must say these starter kits are a great idea, the reality is that they are so poorly supported as to make them worse than useless - they are a waste of time and energy. My take is that they can't be easily installed correctly, as I have attempted installs of eac ...Show All