MikeLing's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions What about Datarepaeter?

  What about Datarepaeter   Its work on VB 2005 The repeater control only exists for web projects, not Windows Forms projects.  Your best bet is to use a datagrid (some examples: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnwinforms/html/wnf_custdatagrid.asp ) or to utilize third party controls such as those from Infragistics (gallery of some grid controls that may act like a repeater:  http://www.infragistics.com/Products/Gallery/Default.aspx Product=NetAdvantage&Platform=WinForms ). Hope this helps, Josh Lindenmuth ...Show All

• Visual C++ MFC scroll bar control

  I am making an MFC application and I want to have a dialog with a scroll bar.  I have added the scroll bar control from the tool box to my dialog, but it doesn't actually do anything.  Are there any additional things I need to do to make my scroll bar scroll In short words, you've got to deal with the message WM_HSCROLL (or WM_VSCROLL for a vertical scroll bar control). You may refer to Inside Visual C++ 6.0 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Using Display names instead of account names

  I know that for RTM (well anything past Beta 3) Work Item Tracking will use Display names instead of account names (Scott Lee vs slee).  Is this something that will be configurable in future versions I understand why the change was made however it would be nice to be conifgurable in the future... For instance, in my company we pretty much always use account names for everything (hence my nickname slee).  Thanks, ~slee Scott, this is an interesting piece of feedback.  Could you email me at lingbao@microsoft.com.botscan'tspam  with information about your company size and current work item t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Variables values

  How can i see the variable values while program is running cool, i've solved the error problem and in this project the breakpoints worked well and i can use the watch window. i just dont understand why it dont work in the other project thank you cgraus! ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista OTP: i have downoloaded the pirated version

  i have downoloaded pirated version of windows vista but i have downoloaded 3 viruses . the serial number was not valid and i can't activate the product. then i formatted my hdd and install XP i found the pirated version on www.2torrents.com but if you like your PC don't downoload it Sounds like a lesson well learned. However, this forum is only for programming questions. I think it's a good idea for you to find some consumer based forums tho, and let people there know what happens when you download illegal software. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problems installing TFS Beta 3 Refresh

  I'm trying to install the Beta3 refresh and I'm hitting some real roadblocks. I believe I've followed the instructions to the letter and failed three times to get a working system I'm installing the beta 3 refresh into a VMWare VM, here's the setup I have (all in VMWare VMs). W2K3 domain controller. I have several accounts setup on the server: TFSService;TFSSetup and TFSReports. W2K3 PC that is in the domain. I log onto this PC as a local admin (not the TFSSetup account), make sure that IIS is installed with ASP.Net and that FPSE are removed. With the same login install SQL 2005 Enterprise. I install Sharepoint (again on the same login ); ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Q : Exceptions

  hi, i want to ask about try and catch should it be used just for exceptions or i can use it like "if" for example i have a treeview and i want to know if the node has a parent or not so i don't know anymethod to indecate that so i used try and catch like this, Try mylastfolder = mylastfolder.Parent Catch mylastfolder = Nothing End Try or should i use catch nullreferenceexception and endurse it with throw; i saw your post in the other thread about exceptions along with this link http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182137(VS.80).aspx second ex ...Show All

• SQL Server rowid equivalence

  Hi All, Is there any equivalent to Oracle's rowid in sqlserver How do you get the row id - I see it listed in the properties when I hover over a variable in debug mode but it never comes up in the intellisense and doesn't work when I try referencing it. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Multilevel Hierarchial Datagrids

  I am trying to get some help on creating a Multilevel Hierarchial Datagrid.  What I mean is that the Hierarchial level is unknown.  There could be many related records or none.  Also there could be multiple categories.  Hopefully the data below will give some idea. THE "*" ARE PLACE HOLDERS TO DISPLAY DATA PROPERLY IN THIS POST. Here is  ...Show All

• Windows Forms FilesListBox Control

  My FilesListBox control atricale got posted on the CodeProject: http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/FilesListBox.asp its an owner draw ListBox with files in it like the IE. check it out... ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is it possible to generate a single setup file?

  I created a deployment project for deploying to the desktop. The project generates two files: setup.exe and the .msi file. Is it possible to get VS to generate just a single executable file rather than two files Or, would I need to go with a third-party installer A single executable setup file would make distributing the setup via a website easier as the user would only have to download a single file, or not have to deal with unzipping a zip file. TIA, Richard Rosenheim Richard, The setup.exe file is not required. You should be able to deploy just the msi file (that's what we do). Just ...Show All

• SQL Server Developer Edition & Express Edition

  Can you install both of these on the same Windows XP Pro computer If I don't want to install the Express Edition what is the best way to make an application developed with Express Edition work with Developer Edition If someone could point to some articles or documents that explains this in detail I would really appreciate it. Thanks. Express and Developer can install side-by-side. Application should be developed Edition agnostic. However, there is a feature in Express (User Instances) that is not available in other Editions. Keep an eye on MSDN for new content. Dan http://blogs.msdn.com/dtjones ...Show All

• Windows Forms Open a file that is already opened by another app in readonly mode

  I have a vb.net app that imports a csv file created in Excel.  Very often the users forget to close the Excel app and get the following error message in my vb app: An unhandled exception of type 'System.IO.IOException' occurred in mscorlib.dll Additional information: The process cannot access the file "C:\WestBond\import.csv" because it is being used by another& ...Show All

• Windows Forms Deployment Madness !!! (Console App breaks when I try to publish it. Runs fine from IDE)

  My console app was working perfectly in debug mode through the IDE, but when I went to publish it for deployment on the server, out of nowhere I got 2 messages and an error.I am using DAAB 2, and I have the common, data, data.configuration DLLs referenced. I have another app which is a VSTO app, which after much effort works fine. I compared my config files and they virtually identical, so why am I getting the messages on 1 and not the other. (Deployment is a real SOB). Anyway, I I got 2 messages and an error as follows. Any ideas would be extremely helpful. I have also posted the top of my app.config file. Message 1 Could not find sch ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Requests...

  May be it's too late, but I think this requests could be scheduled at least for a SP1 if it's not possible for the RTM. 1) Execute Task without debugger: it would be very nice to be able to execute a single task without going in debugging mode. Just as you would ask "Start Without Debugging CTRL+F5" but for a single task 2) Customize default properties for task and component: when you drag a task on the package you get a default value for the properties that you could want to change; often I need to change the same property in the same way each time (for example I'd like to set the Batch Size for a OLE DB destination to 1000 instead than 0 ...Show All