JohnE5's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Expanding a ListItemCollection

  How can I resize an existing ListItemCollection I have a listview that I wan't to populate using ListItemCollection.Insert(). I am using Insert the Instead method of the Add method because I wan't to control where the item is inserted. I get an exception when I try to add an item at an index that is beyond the size of the ListItemCollection. How can I expand the ListItemCollection before I call Insert I am missing a Resize method. Do you have any suggestions Thanks, Bo Did you mean ListBox.Items ListBox.Items.Count is read-only, so, use ListBox.Items.Insert() or ListBox.Items.Add() ... ...Show All

• .NET Development Dual Processor

  Hi, We're building a Windows App on .NET 2.0 with a distributred architecture using .NET Remoting. I have the followign queries. 1. If the Application server is a dual processor, Do we have to write code to leverage the advantages of the dual processor (as in write code to handle heavy load calls to increase performance) or does .NET handle (asking for a little bit more eh :) ) it on its own. 2. If we do have to write code to take advantage of the dual processor how do I go about doing it. What are the things to be kept in mind. 3. If code has to written, then will it work for a Single Processor We are just exploring the possi ...Show All

• Visual C++ Problem in CCheckListBox

  Hi, I have a Dialog based - MFC application in VC 8.0. There is a check ListBox (having property Owner Draw = Fixed and Has Strings = True) in the dialog. We have added some elements in the list box( The number of items in the list box should be less than the visible height of the list box without the vertical scroll). If we select one item and click mouse outside of the list box or in empty area of the list box then selection remain at the same item but the focus autometically sets at the last element of the List box. But it should not set the focus to the last element of the list box becuase now,If we press the space bar the la ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) The long term goal of Cider vs.XAML

  Is the long term goal of Cider to replace direct XAML editing Or is XAML too rich to be fully expressed by Cider Steve Hi Steve, We don't pretend that we'll ever achieve designer coverage for the full fidelity and expressiveness of XAML, nor do we believe it's interesting to do so. We do, however, want to make sure that useful capabilities and constructs of WPF are exposed in the designer. One of Cider's goals is to elminate the need to understand, edit, and troubleshoot XAML for certain scenarios . So for example, we'll have some basic things covered in the first release, e.g. control creation, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Difficulties in testing webservices

  Dear All, I am using vs2005 beta 2. I write a webservice that inherits some class and overrides one of its protected method. Now I want to test the methods written in that web service. By Right Clicking on code and clicking on 'Create Tests' I created a test project that contains test class of that webservice. After customizing the testing code i executed the unit test. The following error appears: The web site for page 'http://localhost:1783/Webservices' is not properly configured for testing. Check that Visual Studio Team Test tools are installed on the web server. How can I move forward by removing this error ...Show All

• .NET Development .Net 2.0, SQL Server 2005 and VS.Net 2005

  Where can I find more complete materials about .Net 2.0, SQL Server 2005 and VS.net 2005 I need to start studying for certification. Hi, There has been no certification exams announced yet for these technologies. I think the Beta exams would be announced some months after the release of the product. You need to also take care that the Product is in Release Candidate and most of the documentation available would be based on Beta 2 or earlier versions of the Product - so the information may not be very accurate when you compare it with the final product. The most comprehensive single place would be the MSDN documentation. Al ...Show All

• SQL Server Calendar Control for SmallDateTime fields

  I have to filter a report based on smalldatetime. Is it possible to display the calendar control for these fields. I know you can do it if the fields are defined as datetime in db. I tried converting the smalldatetime to datetime fields in the query but has no effect. Pls advise ...Show All

• Visual J# Acquiring Installer/Deployment templates

  I am trying to publish my project, but when I run the installer it dies because the the project has been improperly formatted. I have been unable to find any references to formatting during publishing, or even system requirements for the published version. If you have an easy solution or if you can point me in the direction of reference material for this that would be great. Thanks. Hi, Yes, Visual Studio Team System is not freely available. Again, what I understand from deployment is that you want to create a .msi for you J# projects. That is not supported in Express SKUs. Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Combobox with changed items style

  I'm trying to build a custom control that inherits from the ComboBox control. I've tried to change the style used in the items rendering with no success. I've set my style in the generic.xaml file in the Control's assemply (after creating a control library project in VS2005). Is there a sample of this Or could you give me some pointers Does it have to do with ItemsPresenter or ComboBoxItem How Thanks a lot. :) Answering to myself. :) I found the way to do this. But, I don't know how to bind to current item value in its template. Any ideas Here goes the code: < Style TargetType = " {x:Type local:Col ...Show All

• SQL Server GUID

  Hello, I'm working on a smart client app that has an offline sql express store and needs to work with several types of central databases (support for multiple products - ms sql, DB2 etc) While trying to put together some offline functionality that needs the user to create records on the offline sql express data store, we've run into the need of being able to uniquely identify records so replicating the data in the offline store back into the primary database should not be a problem. The data created offline spans many tables and involves several tables with relation ships - FK etc...Clearly not a simple case of store and forward. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problems when uploading a process template in queries task

  Hi, I'm having that problem when trying to upload my process template to the server and I don't know how t solve it. Here is the error message Event Description: TF30162: Task "Queries" from Group "WorkItemTracking" failed Exception Type: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.PcwException Exception Message: Expecting SELECT. Here is my workitems.xml file: < xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" > <tasks> <task id="WITs" name="WorkItemType definitions" plugin="Microsoft.ProjectCreationWizard.WorkItemTracking" completionMessage="WorkItemTypes created&quo ...Show All

• Windows Forms PropertyGrid & TypeConverter

  I have a PropertyGrid and a list of person in my application. When the user clicks on a person from the list, the properties from that object populate in the PropertyGrid. I got a variable in this object that is CarOwned, which is a Car object. I want the PropertyGrid to show a ComboBox so that the user can specify a car from a list (CarCollection). This list will never be the same, depending of the person. I know I have to derive from TypeConverter, but I’m having problem passing a CarCollection to be populated in the ComboBox. I think I need to convert it to a string array and convert it back again to a Car object. http://www.code ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Beta 3

  OK, so I keep hearing that there may be a Beta 3 released for VSTS. Could someone please confirm or deny this If this is is true, when will it be released the dates here aren't exactly right.  Yes, The client editions of VSTS have RTM'd and are commercially avalibale, but the TFS RTM is not 12/02, but is slated for Q1 CY06.  We will post exact RTM date very early in the new year thanks Michael ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Upgrade record

  How can i upgrade record from excel to db table (msaccess), when i use vsto dataset merged into excel spreadsheet Have you a sample please Thank you Carlo Cantoni Hi Carlo, Yes, you should be able to use the same code within a Microsoft Word VSTO project to update the underlying data source. You would obviously need to change the code slightly such as: Globals.ThisDocument.CustomersTableAdapter.Update(Globals.ThisDocument.NorthwindDataSet.Customers) Regards, Ken Laws MSFT This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. For more information regarding Visual Stud ...Show All

• SQL Server Model Designer - ODBC Data Source

  I want to create a Model against an ODBC data source. This is not possible in the June CTP. Will this facility be available in a future release Thanks, Joe Unfortunately the chaps from Partner Tech Support were misinformed. This is a reply from MSAS newsgroup : AS2005 is not going to support ODBC data source. However, you can try to create a data source in SSIS project. Then, add the data source into new AS project. You should be able to create DSV, cube and dimension, etc. However, since this feature is not supported. Believe that this area has not been tested enough and this may break engine or not workin ...Show All