ralbert's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic MSComm32.ocx in VB.Net problem

  Hi everyone. A while ago I wrote a library which helps me simply text operations, serial communications, PLC interaction using OPC Automation, etc... My problem is with the vb6 serial control mscomm32.ocx. In my computer, I can use it with no problem. Everything works fine when testing serial control and my forms can open sucessfully. When I try to run a winform that uses Serial library (mscomm32.ocx) in a computer that doesn't have VB6 installed, I get the error "Common Language Runtime Debugging Services. Application has generated an exception that could not be handled. PRocess id=0xe0 (224). Thread id= 0x6f4 (1780)" I started ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Question About Rules

  In the rules, it says that the participant should "Have created your contest entry yourself." Does that imply that no use of code written by other people is allowed even if the entry itself is written only by you (i.e. the person who's code you are using doesn't have any affiliation with you or your entry and their code acts only as a way to increase development speed and decrease debugging time) For example, in my projects I often use libraries which are distributed free for any use, so that I wouldn't have to "reinvent the wheel". An example of such library might be DHTML abstraction library for some cool effect or some other wid ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Report on field added to new work item type

  Hi, I created a new work item type based on the MSF Agile "Task" work item type. I added a new field called "Customer". < FIELD name = " Customer " refname = " MyCompany.VSTS.Common.Customer " type = " String " reportable = " dimension " > < HELPTEXT > The customer to which this task is attached. </ HELPTEXT > < ALLOWEDVALUES > < GLOBALLIST name = " Customers " /> </ ALLOWEDVALUES > < REQUIRED /> </ FIELD > I would like to be able to modify the standard "Work Items by Owner" report to group by this Customer field. I checked the TFSWarehouse Analysis Services database and this fi ...Show All

• .NET Development Document types

  Hi there, I have this little application that needs to know if a document is a MIME. Is there any method that can tell whether or not it is one I tried FindMimeFromData(...); but it's not exactly what I want to do, since this method does not check for document's validity as a MIME document. Anyone has an idea Thank you, -Jeremiorama ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Applying MSF to non-software projects

  First, let me apologize if this has already been addressed in this forum. We have a customer who wants us to use MSF to implement a number if enterprise IT initiatives (none of which are software development related). With MSF 3.x, it was a fairly simple matter of mapping the appropriate MSF phases, milestones, and deliverables to an infrastructure project. With 4.0's integration with VSTS, I'm lost. We're not likely to use VSTS for our infrastructure projects, so how can we comply with the customer's desire for us to use MSF on their infrastructure projects Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! John Shores, PMP, CCN ...Show All

• Windows Forms multiple part question about the appupdater component.

  I downloaded the component and got the sample to work fine. Excellent component!!!  I do have a few questions, though...  1) Suppose I'm using an N-tiered solution and update some of the DLL's in my middle tier. When I recompile my executable on the top tier, will the component copy over all the updated DLL's that are referenced by the executable  ...Show All

• .NET Development System.net.Sockets.UDPClient

  Hi There,      Hope so everyone's kewl. I was trying to use the udpclient class to check the udp client server model and am facin an issue. it'd be gr8 if someoe can help me out with regards to this issue. Scenario: FrameWork Ver: 1.1 Server: create an instance of the udpclient class. IPEndPoint = new IPEndpoint(my ip address,port#) using UDPClient class UDPClient.send works fine. and returns sucessfully. Client: create an instance of the udpclient class. IPEndPoint = new IPEndpoint(IPAddress.Any,0) using UDPClient class UDPClient.client(ref ipendpoint) throws an exception of invalid argument exception. I tried different ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office set_Style throws error in Arabic OS

  Hi, We are working on word customization using VSTO 2005. As per our functional requirements, we need to format some range of text. In order to reset the already applied style (for ex: Bold, Italic, combination of Bold & Italic etc...), we are using set_Style method to reset the format already applied as like below, Object setStyle; setStyle = "Normal" ; currentRange.set_Style( ref setStyle); The above said is working fine with EN-US, French OS Office versions. If we run our application in Arabic OS the following error is thrown, Message : . Source : Microsoft Word Help link : C:\Prog ...Show All

• Visual Basic Help: Control loops & properties in VB .Net 2005 converted from VB 6.0

  Hi all, I'm using Visual Basic 2005. I would like to loop through the controls and wite or get some properties based on the controls. This is the following piece of code in Visual Basic 6.0 For Each ctl In frm.Controls Set ctl.Font = fnt sCtlType = TypeName(ctl) If sCtlType = "Label" Then ctl.Caption = objLocalizer.GetResourceString(CInt(ctl.Tag)) ElseIf sCtlType = "CommandButton" Then nVal = 0 nVal = Val(ctl.Tag) If nVal > 0 Then ctl.Caption = objLocalizer.GetResourceString(nVal) End If Debug.Print objLocalizer.GetResourceString(nVal) nV ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Studio Beta 2 Install Problem

  Hello Friends, I just attempted to install VS beta 2 and was less than successful, even though I received the success message at the end of the install. When I launched VS, the UI came up and looked fine. However, five instances of a dialog box came up that said Package 'Visual Studio Common IDE Package' has failed to load properly (GUID = {6E87CFAD-4ADF-9CD7-3B7943875B7C}). After clicking away the dialog boxes and selecting "Create Your First Application" a dialog box appeared saying "The operation could not be completed. The RPC server is unavailable." I would appreciate any help in getting this software working. moontube ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to merge and store corrdinates of mouse location?

  Hi Everybody,   What exactly I am doing Is like this. There is a image of say a car and user can point on that part of the image and say a red dot image appears on that part where the user has pointed using mouse and click it and I like to save this image with all the red dot images on the car image. How to save and get exactly the coordinates   There is another problem I like to ask. Together with this image I like to have a signature part where user can sign and store this signature as an image file. How can this be done  I hope there a lots of guys here who knows how to manipulate images. Thanks very much. Code for ge ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System data of the WSS Portal

  Hello, in the directory %program files%/MSSQL$SharePoint/Data is the database of my teamPortal-Project. is there a way to access to the files from the project portal stored in the database I don't want to access to the files over the web frontend. We don't know, sorry.  You may want to find a forum for Sharepoint Portal. ----------------- Visual Studio Team System Beta3 is now available at MSDN Subscriber Downloads   ----------------- This post is provided as is and does not always reflect the views of Microsoft Corporation.   Any code samples contained are not supported. & ...Show All

• SQL Server Package runs fine from BIDS, but same box running from dtexec gives "insufficient product level" error

  Running eval. edition of Sql Server Standard 2005. "Insufficient product level" error is thrown during validation phase of an OleDBCommand data flow task. This task type is not licensed in Sql Server 2005 standard The component runs a very simple sql update statement against a one row table in Sql Server 2005. If it works from BIDS, should it not work from dtexec.exe on the same box Does dtexec run under the security context of the logged in user Thanks, Ken kenambrose wrote: If it works from BIDS, should it not work from dtexec.exe on the same box Not necassarily. You can run packages in BIDS if ...Show All

• Windows Forms ListView Column Order

  I am filling a ListView in Details view. I know I can reorder the ListView columns at runtime, but I would like to be able to save the settings of the revised column order so during subsequent sessions the user can click a button or whatever and the columns will reorder as per the saved settings.  Can anybody help Your help is appreciated. Jody ...Show All

• Windows Forms Setting format of text in textbox

  Hi, I have a textbox and I am passing it a double value TextBox1.Text = (Cstr)dDoubleValue I want the Textbox to always display double value with 4 digits on right side of the decimal 2.1000 even if dDoubleValue = 2.1 only How can I do this any sample Thanks, this should help Dim nOutput As Double = 1.2 txtBox.Text = nOutput.ToString("0.0000") Put that into the Validating event of the text box.   ...Show All