TomAStraw's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Globalization of special folder names

  I turned on the code checking feature of VSTS - what a mistake At any rate it got me thinking because it was suggesting that I put my strings into resources. Is there a method that will deliver the culture dependent strings for the special folder names, in particular Desktop, My Documents, My Pictures, etc. Rather than displaying file names like C:\Documents and Settings\This user\Desktop\somefile.doc, i'm displaying Desktop\somefile.doc Don't know what the standards say about this, and I know the horrible long path name will be a bit shorter in Vista, but since Windows uses My Documents and Desktop in its dialogs, etc, I think my p ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to make text markable

  Is there any way to make the text on a TextBlock or Label markable with the mouse Thanks! the template would be basically be similar to that of textbox which is readonly and no border. Textbox template: http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/wpf_conceptual/html/aa99130c-43a1-450f-9b46-c40ae0db0cca.asp you might need to modify that to meet your requirements ...Show All

• SQL Server My SQL application on Windows Mobile 5

  Hi My application : On PC : Access application + Access DB On PocketPC : Embedded Visual Basic 3.0 application + PocketAccess DB I synchronise my DBs through ActivSync. It runs good before Windows Mobile 5. My customers asked me for new PocketPC with this application, so I bought some new PocketPCs : but as I see, syncronisation with Access is no more supported. So what are my solutions My customer wait for there PocketPC, so I need a quick solution, I don't want to rewrite all my application now. My application run before WM5, so now I don't want to have to pay for a Visual Studio .Net, some SQL Server, etc .... Please, what are the solut ...Show All

• Visual C# IP Address and C#

  I have coded a small program to display the IP Address of the computer I am running the program on. I have looked at MSDN and used the code from the examples, however upon compilation of the code which seems to run perfectly with no errors - I just can not get the IP Address to display. Any Help would be great. Thanks ... Mat I’m afraid that you will have to be a little more specific with your problem. You say that the code compiles and runs without errors and that the address just isn’t displayed... How are you acquiring the address Can you view the address within a variable when using the debugger You said that you ar ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Control -> Geometry

  Hello, how do I convert control to Geometry In order to perform VisualTreeHelper.HitTest and get an IntersectDetail I need to specify a Geometry, but I I have is just my poor control, which unfortunatly is a template-based one... So I can use any of hardocded geomtries like EllipseGeometry or whatever. So, I'm looking for something: Geomtry g = MyControl.GetGeometry(); :) Thanks. There is no existing service which does this, but you can theoretically implement it yourself: Use VisualTreeHelper to walk the Visual tree of your Control. On each Visual, call GetDrawing() to get the Drawin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Could this be a bit simpler/obvious?

  I have created a new Team Project on my laptop, added a new solution / project, and checked them into source control.  That all worked very nicely. I am now back in my office and I fired up VS2005 B2 on my desktop, connected to my team site.  The next thing I wanted to do was simply check out the solution & files I checked in on my laptop and keep working...and this is where things have fallen apart: I opened the Source Control Explorer and while I can see all my files, I can't actually GET my files.  After struggling for more than an hour, I have determined that you have to find File -> Source Control -> Workspaces. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Dataview for a join of two datatable?

  If i have two datatable, table 1 and table 2, related by a key ID.  Is there a way to derive a dataview that is the join of the above two tables on the ID  a dataview that supports dynamic filtering, and most importantly notification when any of the base table is changed  or anyone knows any class/extension that can do this ...Show All

• .NET Development WSDL schema

  to validate a WSDL is a valid one do i just need 1) WSDL schema - http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/ 2) WSDL document input these 2 document into a XML editor just like validate XML doc with DTD since i never use a XML schema but only DTDs should i cut and paste XML schema into same file as WSDL just like put DTD into \ same file as an XML file any tutorial on the web Thanks Answered in http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=284072&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Thumbnail an html page directly from IE programmatically?

  I would like to grab an HTML page from a WebBrowser control and thumbnail it to a picturebox control.  Anyone out there know how to do this    The only way I can see to do this is to use shareware or a commercial product to convert an html page to a bmp, external to the program,  save it on disk and then use GetThumbnailIm ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Single checkout model, conflict??

  I can't get my team to accept the idea of using the default multiple checkout model of TFS so i was basically forced to setup the source control settings of my tfproject to use the single checkout model. My teammembers fear the word 'conflict' and i thought the single checkout model would prevent this word from ever showing up. Now i discoverd that the singlecheckout model doesn't get the latest version of a file when a user checks out a file which results in conflicts. Why doens't tfs do a get latest version when somebody does a checkout in a single checkout model What's the rationale behind this behavior Is this an error ...Show All

• Visual Studio VSS 6 restore

  Greetings all, I am new to VSS and am not sure how to restore a vss archive file. I have archived the vss file and moved it to another PC...I installed the same version of SourceSafe as the original PC, but can't seem to figure out how to restore the project. Suggestions would sure be appreciated. Thank you. Randude VSS n00b Are you using Source Control plug-in other then Source Safe To switch back to Source Safe try registering ssscc.dll from you SourceSafe install folder regsvr32.exe "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual SourceSafe\ssscc.DLL"   It seems that your source control plug-in is in the disconnected state. To g ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Missed only one think: Code Friendly

  Hi to everone! I'm install VC++ 2k5 express and PSDK, now I'm in the heavens Only few things crashme down to the reality: Why generated code is not friendly and clean (read: partial classes) like VC# 2005 Any forecast to bring up this Irritating refactoring error, basically any alteration leaves fragments of code. You can't rename the main form, in fact, you cannot rename nothing therefore it do not propagate the alteration. But, it are these things, everything is excellent! Could you log all these issues at the prodcut feedback center so that the owners could take a look Please repl ...Show All

• SQL Server Modern_Spanish Vs Latin1_General

  Could anyone tell me what's the difference between a Latin1_General CI AS and a Modern_Spanish CI AS collation I know both use the 1252 character set and thus it confuses me about what could be the difference between them. Thanks a lot ! Best regards, Alan I'm afraid I don't. Some of the rules are fairly obscure, also, such as when two-character combinations are considered a single letter (Hungarian Sz, for example). Sorry! SK AlanK@discussions.microsoft.com wrote: > Thanks a lot Steve. > Do you know if there's a link or help where you can see those "Collation > rules" such as the one you ment ...Show All

• Visual Studio Adding a web form to a class library project

  We have been using class library projects for our web application for several reasons. This means we need to be able to add web forms to class library projects, and we used to do this manually in VS 2003 by creating files outside of VS and then just including them in the project. I was expecting to do this and maybe even improving it by creating a template. I have been able to create a template and am able to add a web form to the project using the IDE, but havent been able  to figure out how to make the .aspx and the .aspx.vb files appear as parent/child in the solution explorer. It looks like when I add the files the . ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Constructing a dynamic query with the 'OR' operator

  I wonder how you could construct dynamically a Dlinq query where you concatenate several Or operators. What I want to do is something like: string query = "SELECT * FROM profiles" ; int i = 0; foreach ( Tag tag in tags) { i++; if (i == 1) query += " WHERE " ; query += "profiles.tagId=" + tag.Id; if (i < tags.Count) query += " OR " ; } I haven't compiled this, so it may not be exactly correct, but you can do what you want with the code like this. Query<Profile> q = ...; ParameterExpre ...Show All