Bryan Miller's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Invoke Property Editor

  Ok This is a simple question I hope. I want to be able to invoke a controls property editor. For example in VS.Net you select the control then select font and it shows the font dialog box.  I want to be able to invoke that controls fo ...Show All

• Visual C++ lnk 2019 error

  hey guys, i was wrapping a native dll inside a managed c++ dll. i was compiling to test how i was going, and it got a weird lnk error. it is the following: error lnk2019 : unresolved external symbol _main referenced in function _mainCRTStartup. so how am i suppose to solve this issue imusing the VS 2003. thx and the way i experienced until now, in order to load or make an object from native dll in managed C++, u ...Show All

• Windows Forms Intercept KeyPress Events

  I've tryed to intercept a KeyPress event in my form.  This is the code:  ***************************  AddHandler Me.KeyPress, New KeyPressEventHandler(AddressOf Me_KeyPress)  Private Sub Me_KeyPress(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As KeyPressEventArgs)      MsgBox("KeyPressd!&qu ...Show All

• Visual C++ msvcr80.dll Problem

  Hi there, can someone possibly tell me why Noton WinDoctor is telling me that 10 executables in the .NET Framework 2.0 cannot access the necessary dll file msvcr80.dll I see that the dll exists in the WinSxS directory and I'm running XP pro. I didn't have this problem until I downloaded the 2.0 framework at windows update. Any advice appreciated. Thanks. Naolin I am having the same problem... I even uninstalled i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Any changes in the shim program?

  Hi; I am using the shim code that I downloaded from MS about 18 months ago. I am now building under VS 2005 instead of 2003. Is there an update to the shim code and does it have anything critical in it Note, my add in is IDTExtensibility2, not VSTO. I'd prefer not to change because I made a bunch of changes in the shim code so that if there is an error loading, that error is displayed to the user instead of it failing silently. thanks - dave ...Show All

• Windows Forms Creating new master record when adding detail via dialog

  My application has master / detail tables - let's say "Product" and "Category" The main form uses databound listboxes to show you categories and products; clicking a category will show the products within that category. I want a dialog box that allows users to enter details of a new product. The "new product" form should have a drop-down list allowing them to select a category. One of the options should be ...Show All

• .NET Development connections over internet

  i have been trying to implement a server and a client little program that will be connecting with each other over the internet. i written the server application to open a port on my computer and listen for tcp connections with tcplistener. the client i used tcp client and gave it to a friend over the net to try and connect to the server on my computer. i gave him my IP address, he putted that in, and the port as well, and tried to connect, ...Show All

• Windows Forms Synchronize 2 DataGrids, at Runtime ?? ? ? ?

  I have 2 datagrids, one is stacked on top of the other, and appears like its header. (the reason for this is I need an editable header, whose update command changes column names in the db).  I have not been able to figure out a&n ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Finally activity?

  In an EventHandlingScopeActivity, how can I do a finally block For example, what is the equivalent of this try { DoWork1(); DoWork2(); ... } catch (Exception1 ex1) { HandleEx1(); throw; } catch (Exception2 ex2) { HandleEx2(); throw; } finally { DoSomething(); } Thanks in advance This is almost right - what about the Cancel sce ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office IIS

  How do I activate IIS in VS.NET The best place to get this question asnwered is on the ASP.NET forums: http://forums.asp.net/ Thanks, Ade ...Show All

• .NET Development loading external assembly with assembly name's code base set

  Hi all, I'm havin a very strange problem. I'm trying to load an external assembly in my application with the following code: foreach ( string moduleTypeName in moduleTypeNames) {    AssemblyName moduleAssemblyName = new AssemblyName (moduleTypeName.Substring(moduleTypeName.IndexOf( ", " ) + 2));     moduleAssemblyName.CodeBase = string . Concat( @"file:///" , modulesDirectory);   &n ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums MSDN Subscription special $375.00 ?????

  Sorry if I'm posting in the incorrect forum, I'm new here......... The following web site link has me wondering if there really is such a legitimate offer from MS concerning MSDN subscriptions. I'm a VS2005 .NET (C#) developer that has paid full price for all my software and would like to purchase the offer below (if it is, in fact, real). I've removed the link otherwise, this post could get rem ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How can a Team architect make diagrams visible for developers

  Hi, When I would buy one SKU team architect and one SKU Team developer, is there a way for the developer to see artifacts created by the architect Does the architect need to export the diagrams to Word to make them visible to the rest of the team, or is there a read-only plug-in available from the other SKU’s And how are the application diagrams synchronized Does the architect need to reopen the diagrams now and then to keep them in sync ...Show All

• SQL Server splitting large table

  can anybody help me, my previous collegue designed the database and created a table with around 100 columns which i feel is uneccesary and want to split , as the database is online, i am afraid to lose data , is there any solution. Not sure what your question is. If you split your table, you may have to update your application to retrieve values from both the tables using a join. Let us know the parameter you are working with and perhaps I ...Show All

• SQL Server How To: Deploy Packages to a subfolder under MSDB using deployment wizard

  Hi , I'm deploying the packages to SQL Server using the deployment utility. It goes through. However i wish to organize the packges into folders on the SSIS Server -> MSDB. I'm able to create folder under the MSDB node. By default "Maintenance Plans" exists. But while deploying the package to the server i'm unable to specify the folder into which the package to be deployed. Is this a known gap in the deployment wizard or am i missing ...Show All