Knuckles's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio "Start Debugging" vs "Start without Debugging" speed in VS2005

  I experienced extremely slow performance in VS2005, when I "Start Debugging" an application which uses System.Drawing.Bitmap (might be anything that uses interop, but that's just my wild guess). Everything is fast if I "Start withoug Debugging" and it does not matter if I compile a release or a debug version. Please check this little piece of code: namespace ConsoleApplication1 { class Program { static void Main( string [] args) { Syste ...Show All

• Visual Basic Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

  I'm receiving this error: "Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object." In regards to this line of my code: ElseIf Request.Cookies("userid").Value = "" Then and if I comment out that line it also gives me the error in regards to this line: UserID = Request.Cookies("userid").Value Here is my code behind: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Partial Class ...Show All

• Windows Forms Help with the SaveSetting statement in Visual Basic

  Ok here's what im having a problem with. I know how to use the SaveSetting Statement, but it's alwasy saving the data in this folder 'My Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings' folder in the registry, even when my program is comp ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. help me

  i have this program but it has a few debug in it what can i do to configure these debugs to a final retail because i need it to run the games i play online. please give me the link to this so that i can play my game silkroad. it saids i need sdk of direct x and i got it but its a slow version of it. i need something that runs fast not slow. please give me a reply to masalv60616@hotmail.com . You won't get this answered in here, its not a ga ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Why ClassInitialize functions need to be static.

  I'm working in C++.  I'm not sure I understand how the XXXInitialize/Clean attribute is supposed to work. The ClassInitialize method is called before the class is created (the function need to be static).  The TestInitialize is called before each tests.  I need a way to Initialize/Cleanup class member.  When I tried to put this initilization in the class constructor, I discovered the constructor was called many time ( ).&nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server Security context of custom delivery extension

  If I create a custom delivery extension for reporting services 2003 1) Which security context this extension is running under In other word,If I use CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials in this extension for authenticating to a remote web service what is returned 2) Can I deploy this extention to reporting services 2005 Thanks in advance ...Show All

• Windows Forms is there any way to force a control to receive focus?

  i have a custom control inherited from panel and i need to be able to handle Enter/Leave events for it..any idears First off, yes, nested controls should raise Enter and Leave events all the way up the parent hierarchy.  If t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Sharing files across projects?

  I read that sharing of files across projects is no longer supported in Source Control. In the EnterpriseLibrary beta 2 solution they are sharing the GlobalAssemblyInfo.cs file located in the Solution Files area across multiple of the individual application blocks. These shared files have a special icon with the little link arrow on them like a short cut icon. Does anyone know how to establish these shares in VS.Net 2005 Thanks. ...Show All

• .NET Development Slow regexp for first time match

  hello, I have an apllication that have about 3000 regexp compiled using the form regexp = new Regex (expression, RegexOptions .Compiled | RegexOptions .IgnoreCase | RegexOptions .CultureInvariant); when a try to match a string against the 3000 regexp for the first time it take about 2 minutes on a Big machine !! the second time the match goes faster and take only few milliseconds what is going on ...Show All

• .NET Development Mail Problem with outlook account and IIS SMTP Server

  I have developped an application with WWF who send an email to an local outlook account.For this I activated the smtp server of IIS , then I created an outlook account to receive the mail. I set the POP3 and SMTP server as localhost, the problem after sending the mail from the application and when I am trying to synchronize the mail box , operation related with downloading messages failed... I think that I can conclude that the POP3 configur ...Show All

• Visual C++ looking for catopen, catgets, catclose

  Hi, If anyone can point me towards catopen / catgets / catclose for WIN32 (I'm using Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition for C++), I'd appreciate it! thanks, Stan sieler@allegro.com Hi, Thanks...looks interesting. I'll have to research if it is (a) redistributable in binary form with/inside my application, and (b) how to link / merge the catopen/etc in Interix into my application o ...Show All

• .NET Development Web Service display

  Hi All: Does .NET Framework 2.0 change the display mode for Web Services In Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2, I try to take a web reference of ReportService2005.asmx (typed as http://localhost/ReportServer/ReportService2005.asmx ), I got an compilation error said: CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Xml' does not exist in the namespace 'System' (are you missing an assembly reference ) But if I add " wsdl" (typed as http://localhost/ReportServer/Report ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't put an array into an object variable

  Hi, I have the following code in a script task:   Dim items(0) As String   ReDim items(response.HierarchyItems.Length - 1)     For Each item In response.HierarchyItems    items(count) = item.AreaId    count += 1 Next   Dts.Variables( "User::AssetIdMaster" ).Value = items   Which works fine. Then I have this Private Structure ...Show All

• Visual C++ looking for a better book on visual c++

  Ivor Horton's book "Visual C++ 6" is a great book about C++. But, I am finding more and more that it is not a great book on the gory details of Microsoft's VC++ program. In the VC++ programming environment, there are menus within menus within menus that are never mentioned in Mr Horton's book. I would be interested in getting a book with much more detail on navigating the VC++ programming environment; topics like *) using the project ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Preview problem

  I have Microsoft Windows Desktop Search installed on a number of computers but on one the preview is not working. No e-mail, contacts etc are previewed. Only a message saying in Swedish "Det gar inte att visa en forhandsgranskning" (approx "preview can not be shown") is shown. Any ideas what to do Thanks Anders Sneckenborg Hi Anders, Just a few quick questions.. Is Outlook Open while you are trying to ...Show All