bryanchardy's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Unable to use Books Online search function

  I am unable to use the search feature in Books Online.  Every time I click the "Search" button, I get this error message: Package "Visual Studio Common IDE Package" failed to load Anyone have any ideas on what might be causing this error Hmm, this is strange. I know that you have already gone through an uninstall/repair/install cycle and I am sorry for the trouble it has caused. Is it possible to uninstall Books Online again and send me the registry entries that are left behind under the following registry key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\MSDN\8.0 For speedier communication and resolution of this issue, y ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Cab installer 262 file count limit

  I'm building a Smart Device CAB file targeted for WM5, using Visual Studio 2005. I've noticed that if I include more than 262 files in total, I get the CabWiz error "File <Temp_wiz_inf_file> contains DirIDs, which are not supported." <Temp_wiz_inf_file> is a file like wizfa8.inf under my Temp folder and I found out that it's really just a copy of the project's inf file. I verified this by using FileMon and diffing the files (they're identical). I get the same error message whether I build using VS 2005 or with CabWiz.exe from the command-line. Is this 262 file count a known limit for CabWiz If yes, is there a way to ge ...Show All

• Windows Forms Notepad to Image

  What I want to do is to write a standard txt file- a notepad file without wordwrap and create an image.  This needs to be exact because it is a COLD extract file from a mainframe that will be used with an overlay.  I can do it very cleanly with a third party PDF library but I want to do it with a tiff file.  I&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Report using project name

  I am trying to set up a report that shows for a project who is working on which work items. In the query builder, I am able to find almost all the fields I need. Only the project part is still unclear. I found the field AreaID which seems to relate to the project name. But, where do I find the project name. In the CurrituckDB I can't a find a table with both the AreaID and ProjectName. COuld somebody point me in the right direction Thanks for your reply. I can't find a column named System.TeamProject nor a column TeamProject. I looked in WorkitemsAre and in WorkitemsLatest. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Multi-column TreeView. Bug with TreeViewItem layout.

  Hello, I found problem with TreeViewItem layout. It can not be stretched to the whole TreeView width. Sometimes, when I use some combination of properties, the TreeViewItem behavior seems to be strange. I try to implement multi-column TreeView (similar to one shown on this picture: http://www.lischke-online.de/images/SmartInspect.png ). TreeView should have 3 resizable columns. Here is the sample implementation: <TreeView Width="600"> <TreeViewItem>   <TreeViewItem.Header>     <DockPanel LastChildFill="True">       <TextBlock DockPanel.Dock="Right" Width="120 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Difficulty setting ReportParameter

  I am running into issues with setting the ReportParameter method. I am dynamcially setting an ObjectDataSource that is connected to a class object, and dynamically setting a ReportViewer Object. I am running into issues setting the parameters for the report dynamicallly. Here is my code: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ public partial class ProductReport : System.Web.UI. Page { protected ReportViewer reportViewer = new ReportViewer (); protected ObjectDataSource objDataSource = new ObjectDataSource (); protected System.Web.UI.HtmlControls. HtmlTableCell tdRptViewer = new ...Show All

• Smart Device Development The device simulator has a japanese version

      Hi,recently I download the device simulator preview,it is a wonderful tool,but my application will be deployed to a window CE of japanese version,is there a jap version thanks You can download the localized WM5.0 images from the web.  The pocket pc version are at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=EEC33AE3-C129-4C25-ABAA-18E8E842178F&displaylang=en and here are the smartphone images: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=52FED581-8F8D-4C46-9966-4832098191B7&displaylang=en The localized Windows Mobile 2003 images are not available yet on the we ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Visual Basic vs Visual C++

  This is a question that has long lingered about my mind - Which language is better for DirectX, Visual Basic or Visual C++ I have been using Visual Basic for a long time now so that is the language that I am used to. I have dabbled some in Visual C++, but it was Version 3.1, so in all fairness, I haven't really learned Visual C++. As far as Visual Basic is concerned, I'm running version 6.0 Professional. The problem is that there aren't many resources that I can find for Visual Basic and DirectX. I even checked out a book at the library and it has the same flow as the rest of the resources I had to scour for. It goes something like thi ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums how to Develop a bot?

  hi, i want to write a bot for msn messenger using c#, should i write msn messenger from a to z like yahoo or is there any easier way to do so i'm asking this because i saw this option in msn, its not bot for ads nor for flooding its kind bot something like answer machine but not in english language is there a way to do so if i have to write the entire messenger where can i find the protocol details, or at least API for it thx in advance I'm a student from University of Seville, Spain, and I'm going to give a conference about that in my University. If you want the documentation, email me: penyaskito at gmail dot com EDITED ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Network Applications with VB2005 Express a few simple questions????

  Hi There, I know that this might sound like a foolish question but... I'm new to this programming so please bear with me  Here Goes... If I want to develop a client/Server application, like say a front end to look at a large database and deploy it out to many clients across a LAN (not an Internet solution) then can I do this with VB 2005 Express edition I know that the SQL Express edition cannot be deployed on the network server but If I were to develop the APP in VB Express could I then use SQL 2005 Standard edition or would I have to rewrite my code to connect this app up... or to put it another way,&nb ...Show All

• Visual C# Detecting if a program is running on Terminal Services

  I am writing an application which will be run on Terminal Services. Is it possible to get the name of the remote system running the application via TS So far the only luck I've had is getting the name of the TS server. Have a look at the post in this same thread by Gorm. He shows a Win32 API that you can call to retrieve this. Simply use the DllImportAttribute to call this method. If you have found some VB code to do this, it is very easy to convert VB -> C#, they are very similar. ...Show All

• Windows Forms converting image in a clipboard to memory stream

  suppose i have copied an image to clipboard and then pasted it onto a picturebox. using: IDataObject iDataObj=Clipboard.GetDataObject(); //determine the format of data if (iDataObj.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Bitmap)) { pictureBox1.Image=(Image)iDataObj.GetData(DataFormats.Bitmap); } in order to save this image to database. i would then have to convert the contnts of the clipboard to a memory stream object and then serialize to byte[] object. how do we do that. i figured it ou. the problem was with the memory stream. the problem was created when saving multiple images to the clipboard and the memory stream was filled with m ...Show All

• Visual Basic Validating within a User Class

  I need to populate a container with an indeterminate number of label/textbox pairs for input. Since it is indeterminate at design time, I thought I'd create a user class with both a label and at text box in a pair so I could create them at run time and populate the labels appropriately from a data file. I need to validate each text box for numeric value. Then, I need to use that value to build up a subtotal on the form...sort of like this: Account Amount 1-1100 37.00 2-0000 90.00 .... Total 127.00 Can I code a validation event handler into the class at design time I know I can use the same handler for all the instances ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) XamlReader + StaticResource data binding + RenderTargetBitmap problem

  I have the following XAML which I got from samples: <StackPanel> <StackPanel.Resources> <DataTemplate DataType="Hero"> <TextBlock Text="{Binding XPath=@Name }" Foreground="Cyan"/> </DataTemplate> <XmlDataProvider x:Key="GreekHeroesData" XPath="GreekHeroes/Hero"> <x:XData> <GreekHeroes xmlns=""> <Hero Name="Jason" /> <Hero Name="Hercules" /> <Hero Name="Perseus" /> </GreekHeroes> </x:XData> </XmlDataProvider> ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Build and MSBuild order

  Hi, I have a team build type setup that will build several solutions in my team. I have one solutions however that consistantly fails when automatically build using Team Build. It appears that running msbuild on the tfsbuild.proj file that is created somehow calls project targets in the wrong order for this one solution file. If I build the solution file separately (still using the command prompt and msbuild) it is ok, but when build from the tfsbuild file it fails. Looking at the build output, it is clear that the order is wrong, but I can't workout what the order is. It doesn't seems to relate to the sln file!! Can anyone help Regard ...Show All