WernerKossack's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Where are windows forms controls icons stored?

  Hi all... I have a custom control that I want to assign an icon that is similar to the icon of a control already present in VS 2005 toolbox but with a little change so I need to create a copy of it and made the modifications. I was searching for all Windows.Forms DLL's but I couldn't find them. Can you point me to the right file that stores these resources Thanks Jaime Get the reflector: http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Referencing Properties that contain free form XML

  If you have a property group with a property that contains free form XML and you want to reference the value, of say, OutputPath, what is the syntax for doing so $(ConfigOptions) gives you the entire XML string, as you would expect. I'd like to get to the CodePath within $(ConfigOptions). I played around with a few variations, but none seemed to work. Are free form XML properties only intended for logging and tasks that actually know how to par ...Show All

• Smart Device Development sql mobile constraints-dataset designer?

  I am trying to use sql mobile for the first time and I want to setup table relationships. I saw a post that said to use VS2005 dataset designer. Is this really setting the relationships on the database or just creating relationships in a dataset You can use any tools you wish to create the relationships between tables - I personally perfer the old fashion way of writing SQL DDL queries. You can use the data des ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Installing Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 1

  There have been several threads with questions about installing Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 1.  I'm hoping to summarize the installation instructions for anyone else that might be having trouble.   These instructions are also available on the WindowsWorkflow.net community site here .  James Conard Architect Evangelist - Windows Workflow Foundation http://www.WindowsWorkflow.net http://blogs.msdn.com/jamescon ...Show All

• SQL Server Connecting to MSDE from client

  We are using MSDE  as a cheap datastore in our client/server app.  MSDE is installed only on the server and both the server and the clients connect to it from their machines.  When we deploy on Windows XP, we see that our code running on the server can access MSDE, but our code running on a client machine cannot connect to MSDE.  The clients are able to connect on Windows 2000 ... can anyone help me understand this ...Show All

• Windows Forms Checking if a directory exists.

  Hi, I was just wondering if there is a quick way to check whether or not a specified directory exists. I'm having the user add a directory of his/her choice where reports will be stored, but want to default to a directory of MY choice  ...Show All

• SQL Server Updating data

  Hello. Is it possible to somehow update data as it is copied from source to destination using SSIS. Currently I extract data from Database A, load it into database B, then clean/update the data in database B and then load it into database C using DTS on 2000. What I would like to do is extract data from database A, clean/update it, then load it straight into database C without having to load it into database B first. I am unable to c ...Show All

• Windows Forms TaskVision's DataLayer

  Working through TaskVision's code, I see they have a middle tier data layer. On the load of the program, they display a splash page because to instantiate this layer takes a while, this is done by the following :  Dim m_DataLayer as New DataLay ...Show All

• Visual C# exception handling

  hi friends am new to c# and am developing a small app. my question is how can i create global exception handler which displays/handles  error messages whenever there is one. what am i trying at the moment is am using try..catch whereever i think the could b an error .for example conn.ConnectionString = @"Application name=myapp.net;data source=myserver;database=mydb;user id=" + cUid+ ";pwd=" +cPwd; try { conn.Open(); // opening a sq ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums CRM 3.0 doesn’t save my settings

  Hi, I’m having another problem in CRM 3.0. When I change any setting in the CRM system, everytime that I clicked in the OK button it should save my new settings and that’s not happening. How can I solve this Thanks, Per our support engineer: Would you please tell us where you changed the settings that were not saved There are lots of settings in CRM 3.0. So we need to know where is the problem. J Please ...Show All

• Windows Forms Zero touch deployment bug

  We have just developed a system where the client Winforms communicate with a middle tier via .NET remoting.  Everything works fine when running the client from Visual Studio or from a complied exe file.  However, when running the client app via Zero touch deployment we receive strange remoting errors.  The errors seem to be saying that our remoting channel has already been registered.  Why do we only receive this error when u ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista SDK Question

  What languages does WinFX support Hi, WinFX supports English, German and Japanese. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=4a96661c-05fd-430c-bb52-2ba86f02f595&DisplayLang=en Thanks, Chris ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual C# Express Help complaining that I am not online

  I am online and help is configured to use local + online but I keep getting this error message below ---------------------------------------- The information you are trying to access could not be found. Various events could have caused this error. You have chosen to use local Help only, and the topic could not be found in local Help. This error can be caused when local Help has not been installed or only a subset of local Help was installed ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to use TFS best as a code-reviewer

  Hello, we are using Beta 3 Refresh of TFS along with VS2005 and the Team-Explorer. 1) I should be able to do a weekly codereview. Is there a specialized view for this Getting the whole history, opening each history-element, comparing the version with the previous version takes way too long. 2) I am missing an information: We got two branches. We merge from one branch to the other. When I do my review I would like to be able to see, whet ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Copying email contents into Excel Spreadsheet via an Excel Macro

  Hi, I'm trying to automate a contest that I'm in charge of. I get contest submission emails from our website and I've set up outlook to put them into a folder. I tried to write a macro to open the emails (that have a 2 column, 7 row chart with the fields names in the first column and the entrants data in the second column), copy the content and paste it horizontally in an excel file, but can only get the macro to do exactly what i've done. it wo ...Show All