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• Windows Forms Drawing Strings with fixed-size fonts in pixels

  Hello out there, I was wondering if anyone had managed to find a way to draw strings with fixed sized in pixels. I know I know, you're all thinking easy, all you have to do is create a font a new font fixing the height property to&nbs ...Show All

• Visual C# Password?

  Is it possible to password protect a program For the average computer user, you can protect a program with a password. A simple one is just create a simple dialog form where it asks for a password and if the password entered is correct, then show another form, otherwise ask for the password or exit. For an advanced user, he can check your code with tools available for that (e.g.: reflector) and recompile it or ...Show All

• SQL Server Synchronize data between servers

  What is the easiest way to synchronize all data and database objects between my development machine and hosting server Is there any SSIS free script I can use Hi, my hosting provider does not support replication nor transfer database. The only option may be to write a script. It used to be easy in SQL 2000, I used to run a wizard, however now it does not work for some reasons... Is there a free script I could use ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System First time Single-server install of TFS

  I have not yet installed TFS but I have read the CHM fle. For a single-server install, server in a workgroup, can I substitute the <machine name>\Administrator account for the three accounts they mention  Or is that going to get me into trouble TIA, Bill     For a single tier setup you can use local accounts instead of domain accounts (see "User Accounts Required for Team Founda ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions [VB-Xpress 2005] Flickering while loading MDI child forms

  I AM USING Visual Basic Express 2005 i have 3 forms and a module i want to maintian my frm on the left side and open respective forms on the right from the lable (or link label) form1<----frm_Right_1 form2<----frm_Right_2 form3 <---frm_left module--mod_TRy... [VBCODE]Public frm_Rg As System.Windows.Forms.Form[/VBCODE] in mod_Try code in frm_left [VBCODE] Private Sub LinkLabel1_LinkClicked() frm_Right_2.Show() End Sub Priv ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Delete Custom Work Item Type

  Hi I have added my own Work Item Type (WIT) "BuildBugs" using the WITImport.exe file. Now I want to delete my WIT from the "Team" - "Add Work Item" menu. How can I do this Thanks It is not possible in v1. This question came up recently and Bill Essary gave the following guidance for mitigating the problem: Here are a few things that you can do: 1) Change the name of the type to somethin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Slow screen redraw

  I am in inexperienced programmer who has an application that displays many (50-60) controls on a form. The application is a production planning system, that requires many controls displayed on screen (1 for each job qued on individual machines) Whenever the form is re-draw, it is painfully slow, I have set the doublebuffer ControlStyles etc, but are unable to fix the issue. This issue is running on a P4 2.8GHZ / 500MB PC. Can anyone ...Show All

• Visual C++ vector crashes on method use on debug but not release

  The std::vector class is throwing an exception when I try do add something to it by using vector::push_back(). I have declared my vector as: std::vector<MyTreeCLass *> mNodes; Actually, it doesn't just do it for that, even if I did this: // At the beginning of the class, before I add elements if(!mNodes.empty()) // it throws an exception here, but I don't even know which one it is {    // foo } When I run it in the debu ...Show All

• Windows Forms installing printer

  i have a printer driver that i want to install with my application. is there a possible way of doing this. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Workflow state not persisting on Suspending

  I have added Sqlworkflowpersistance service to my windows host. But am not able to persist the state on Suspend() so on Resume() it is not able to fetch the workflow instance. State is not persisted when workflow is suspended. You can handle the WorkflowSuspended event and try to unload the workflow in the handler. However state is persisted automatically if workflow is Idle and you have set the flag UnloadOnIdle to true in the ...Show All

• SQL Server Latest information acquisition place

  Where can I obtain the latest information on a Data Mining function Books on line has a lot of information.  You can also find a lot of information at www.sqlserverdatamining.com .  Later this month (9/26) the book "Data Mining with SQL Server 2005" by Zhaohui Tang and me will be released as well. Thanks -Jamie MacLennan SQL Server Data Mining SQL Server Analysis Services ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2000 Publisher and SQL 2005 Suscriber

  Where can I found information on how its works and how to do it I tried to do it but I always received an error message Check out the following topic in SQL 2005 BOL: Using Multiple Versions of SQL Server in a Replication Topology (ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v9/MS.SQLSVR.v9.en/rpldata9/html/45154b65-b46f-4aad-82e4-261376a7e9d4.htm) The general rule of thumb for replication topologies involving multiple versio ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error when opening existing schema project

  Hello, I created a schema project tied to a SQL Server 2005 database. I then added all of the SQL scripts to my TFS Source Control. I closed the project and re-opened it, when attempting to open the existing project the following error occurs everytime and my project cannot be loaded. Exception of type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamSystem.Data.Schema.InvalidIdentifierCriteriaException' was thrown. Has anyone else encountered this Found ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Getting XPath expression for an XMLNode

  Is there an easy way to determine or get the applicable XPath expression from a Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.XMLNode instance at runtime   Or do I have to navigate through the XMLNodes and build the XPath string myself I have some C++ code that we use in VSTO to build the XPath for XMLNode which validates against schema etc. It is not an exact sample code that you are looking for. I will do this one t ...Show All

• Visual C# Abort a Thread

  hello, i have a problem that i really dont understand !!,, i cant abort a thread, my app get frozen... i have this function: socket is my Socket tcpListeer is a TcpListener listening is a bool listen is a Thread private void StartListening() { socket = null ; tcpListener = null ; tcpListener = new TcpListener(IPAddress.Any, port); try { tcpListener.Start(); listening = true ; lb ...Show All