Mark Arteaga_MVP's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Using windows media player in vs 2005 express???

  Ive tried the AxWindowsMediaPlayer1.URL = "file name"  and the codes ok but any and all of the files i try to play come up with a message that sais " the file you are trying to play has an extension that does not match the file format" and then won't work. what i did find a sort of general reference at (hope this translates): http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/aa472935.aspx there i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Build always checks out most of 'Bin' directory? (VS2005 Team Suite RC1)

  I searched a bit for this, but VS2005 Team Suite has been checking out most of my 'Bin' directory each time I open OR build my solution. Has anyone seen this before Is this simply an option that I have forgotten to turn off or is this a bug fixed in RTM Its a very annoying behavior, because often I just want to build the solution and don't have any pending changes, but because its checking out everything all the time it picks up all the Bin and ...Show All

• Windows Forms Autoscroll problem

  IS there any way i can get hold of the vscrollbar when i use autoscrolling  I need to calculate how much it has scrolled from initial position... Please help! I solved the problem using the AutoscrollPosition property. Needed a litle &q ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Quickly get coordinates of a Range in Word?

  I know this is kind of specific to Word, but I avoided posting this in the vba forum because I'm using VSTO and I think the methods employed are different for VSTO vs. VBA. I'm developing a non-commercial research prototype based on Word, and one task I'm stuck on is getting the coordinates of a Range. It can be relative to either the window or document, doesn't matter. This method works great: range.get_Information(WdInformation.WdHorizontalPos ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Upgrade path from TFS Trial to Full Version

  If you install the TFS Trial, what is the method of converting the installation to the full version We have hardware on order and would like to get TFS running ASAP so we would start with the Trial version. Also, our vendor leaves a lot to be desired and can't find the SKU for the full version. Does anybody know the SKU Is it 125-00001 Thanks in advance. We're currently finishing the documentation for ho ...Show All

• Visual Studio SQL Express does not start. Bad MSSQLSYSTEMRESOURCE files location.

  Hi, I can't install SQL Express, because the setup procedure can't start the SQL Server service. Trying manually to start the service using the following command line:    sqlservr -sSQLEXPRESS I have the following error message: ... 2005-05-14 17:00:38.77 spid4s      Starting up database 'master'. 2005-05-14 17:00:39.15 spid4s      SQL Trace ID 1 was started by login "sa". 2005-05- ...Show All

• Visual C++ preprocessor definition _VC80_UPGRADE=0x0710

  Hi, I noticed that this definition is applied to projects upgraded from VC7.1, but there seems not to be any reference to it on MSDN2. So can anyone tell me what exactly it does I.e. does it also alter any compiler defaults I also searched the source files in the VC install dir, and the only reference there is in VC\atlmfc\include\afxres.h. So Im interested it it has any effect other than in that source file. Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Basic databindings to datagrid

  How do I bind a datarow array (mydatarow()) to a datagrid (mydatagrid) at run time. Something like: mydatagrid.databinding ... HI Atin I think Better you can create a datatable, Put all the Rows in the DataTable. Then you Can Assaign DataTable to DataGrid as usual. ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums How to deal with: Min Players 1 Max Players 2

  Hi, I'm wondering how to approach having a game that can be started with one player, but then hav annother player join. If it is in the (chm) help file, can you tell me how to find it there ;) from what i've read in the MSDN website, I believe its either one or two player, Have you considered creating two areas in the XML file, Im not sure if this would work, but i imagine it would, Just try creating two comp ...Show All

• SQL Server "Current day" MDX

  Hi, is there any "update" on how to do the "current day" as a set in MDX with SQL 2005 based on the actual system date If you don't want to base that on the system date is this still the "best practice" to introduce some "flags" in the time dimension to identifiy the actual day, last week, ... Just the way it was introduced with the BI Accelerator tool... Thanks, It's an interest ...Show All

• Visual C# dropdown item ID

  Hi, I am using this code to populate data into combobox but i was just thinking how can i assign an id to each item in the dropdown list like the primary id for example because i want to save both id and name of the company.. // fill the insurance company; VDBAdapter.SelectCommand = new VistaDBCommand("SELECT account_name AS insurance_account FROM accounts WHERE account_type = 'INSURANCE' ORDER BY account_name", VDBConnection); VDBDatas ...Show All

• SQL Server dynamic report header and detail

  I am building a report which has 7 columns. Mon thru Sun. The header and data columns are dynamic For ex the report looks like Mon    Tue    Wed    Thu    Fri    Sat    Sun ------ ----- ------- ----- ---- ----- ------ 2          2       4 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Improve TableLayoutPanel with large amount of controls

  I'm using the TableLayoutPanel to display a shopping cart list. I need to use 5 label controls to present the information of each items. I need to remove all the controls and then repopulate the panels when a new item is added. The reason is that a new item may affect the price of an existing item. I've no way (or just too complicate) to update a specific label. The problem is when the no. of items grows, the performance of the list drop sign ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Workflow Parameters and Activity Properties in xaml Beta2

  I would like to know if it is possible to declare a workflow parameter and then pass that parameter into a custom activity using xaml. I see that in beta 2 that ParameterDeclaration has been removed so I am unclear if this is possible. This is my current workflow, very simple, i just want to pass in a parameter and assign it to "To" Thanks < SequentialWorkflowActivity x:Class = " Microsoft.Samples.Workflow.SequentialWo ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) ASPnet_RegIIS ?!!

  If i install the IIS after i install .net i would run the aspnet_regiis to register the handlers to handle asmx and aspx files. Same way if i install Winfx and then the IIS. How can i add handlers to handle the .svc files to the IIS Installing this will register .svc in machine.config, web.config, and all the other necessary places for WinFX stuff to work for you: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=F51C4D96-9AE ...Show All