Siggy's Q&A profile

• .NET Development VS2005 XSLT Debugging with external functions?

  Hi Currently we use visualxslt a plugin that does xslt debugging in vs2003 but from the look of it vs2005's version works a little nicer but.. . We extensively use EXSLT.net, which is a custom xslt processor that inherirts the .net one and adds new functions for xslt. It there anyway to get VS2005 to use this custom assebly to debug with Thanks Brian Norman We will be releasing EXSLT.NET for .NET 2.0 really soon, in a week or so. Then you will be able to debug your stylesheets in VS 2005 for sure. Obviously you would need to start debugging from code, by stepping into Transform() method. ...Show All

• Visual Basic path does not exist or is not a directory

  I am calling shell when i click on a label and opening an explorer on clicking.Its working fine at my end at Windows XP but displaying error at client side with a popup window with this text "The path 'c:\....' does not exist or is not a directory" on clicking the label. I tried this application at many systems and working fine at all. I also tried on Windows 98 and Windows 2000. Can i get the solution for this Looking at your code, I think the problem could be app.path try replacing it with vb.app.path. or if your application is in access try this: strpath will be the path to your access database strpath = Left(Current ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem with Windows Forms Designer...

  I have a custom control called, lets say, SportBillyComboBox, which inherits from ComboBox.  When I add my control from the toolbox, I get an error (System.NullReferenceException : Object not set to an instance of an object) on my form replacing the control, but my newly added SportBillyComboBox is there (even if "you can't see it" - under the Exception) and see ...Show All

• Visual C++ console application Migration to VS 2005 from VS 6.0

  I have a console application developed in Visual Studio 6.0. I can compile and execute from Visual Studio 6.0. I am trying to migrate to Visual Studio 2005. But I get lots of compilation errors like below. Give me some hints on settings for Visual Studio 2005. Thanks, Raj C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Include\utility(81) : warning C4346: '_It::iterator_category' : dependent name is not a type prefix with 'typename' to indicate a type C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Include\utility(84) : see reference to class template instantiation 'std::iterator_traits<_It>' being compiled C:\Program ...Show All

• .NET Development TimeSpan or Stopwatch not as accurate as Environment.TickCount

  Can someone, maybe preferably from Microsoft, confirm a behavior that I'm noticing concerning the lesser accuracy of using TimeSpan and the Stopwatch object to time something in milliseconds versus using Environment.TickCount. Specifically, I'm noticing that in my Ping class that when I use Environment.TickCount to measure how long a host responds to my message, the result in milliseconds is accurate compared to the results when I use Ping.exe from the command prompt.  However, when I measure it using either TimeSpan or the Stopwatch class, the results are off about 100 to 200 milliseconds (more). Here's pseudo code of how I'm ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to get current local time of a remote system

  I want to get the current local time of a remote system connected on LAN network using VC++ MFC. Please help me to solve this problem. Don't post duplicate! http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=425046&SiteID=1 Also this post is OT for this forum! ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums LCS

  My large company is looking at chatting applications, but isn't considering LCS.  Does anyone know if the LCS client is compatible with outside users on windows messanger.  I've used it once in, but i'm not sure if that was not available or just not in use.  I would really rather use LCS, but I think it will be a deal breaker if it won't allow others outside the domain to chat to users in the domain. Per one of our support engineers: According to the post, here is my answer as following:   As far as I know, the LCS does support chatting across the intranet and int ...Show All

• .NET Development Using GetHostEntry. Cannot convert to string..

  Hey guys, my first ever post! I've looked around and i'm loving this website.. I decided i wanted to learn VisualBasic to help build an application to help me in my job, (i support web hosting clients). I've only even touched PHP/MySQL and some bash scripting. Nothing using OO(P). I'm using the new Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition. Which is great, i love it. Nice clean design and works well. Ok, on to my problem. This is/may be really basic. But i just cant fathom it out: One of my daily tasks i find myself doing is looking up IP's from a hostname, and vice versa, now i know there are hundreds of apps/tools out there but i want my own, ...Show All

• Windows Forms OverDrawing Custom Inherited Controls

  Hi, Using VB.NET. I'm a beginner so please be gentle..  I am trying to overdraw most of the windows controls, including Listbox among others, so that they have a solid 3 pixel border. Currently I am doing this by creating a customcontrol inheriting from the specific windows control i.e. CustomListBox, inherits ListBox. CustomTextBox inherits TextBox.. etc.. then han ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to create an Icon image file

  Hi team, I have been trying to create an icon file for my new project. But I have been totally unsuccessful and I am confused. Since I have never done this before I must ask the question that is probably obvious to everyone else. What makes an Icon file an Icon I know that it has an extension of .ico but there is more to it than renaming a 32 x 32 pixel bmp to an .ico. Is it the size Some internal header data When I try and add a resource with the type "Icon", I select my image file but it gets imported into the "Images" area and not the one for Icons. I have tried jpg's, bmp's and gifs to to avail. The form ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do you change the name of projects? How do you edit the projects list that comes up in studio 2005

  I imported a project from VB .NET 2003 to VB 2005 and played with it and had some issues. Meanwhile changes were made in the original VB .NET 2003, so I want to redo the process but not erase the first import. So I figured all I need to do is change the name of the project and everything should be good. I can find no way to change the name of the project and the listing in the list that comes up when you first go into VB 2005 of the available projects. Any body know how to do this in VB 2005. I think you can just right-click on the project in the Solution Explorer (tree view window on ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro VFP 9 Tool Core References problem

  VFP 9 Tool Core References when ran from the menu runs and immediatly exits.  It leaves behind two private data sessions with tables.  Anyone know how to fix it Thanks it worked.  As soon as I got rid of the meta data in the home(7) folder it worked OK. ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro foxpro dos to visual foxpro 9 conversion

  I am trying to convert an existing application I created many years ago in foxpro 2.5 for dos, but when I try to run my programs I get this error: File 'get_last_key.prg' does not exist. Can anyone help me. I'm completely new to visual foxpro any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, bertle I assume you have a function called get_last_key() with some parameter that is treated as a file name by Visual Foxpro. Do a search of your app file for this string and let us know what the code looks like. ...Show All

• SQL Server post SP1 hotfix

  Just curious, I'm reading about the SQL Server 2005 post SP1 hotfix and it looks like you need to install the packages in order: SQL Server Analysis Services Integration Services Notification Services Reporting Services Tools My desktop is configured as an Analysis Services and Integration Services instance, but without the SQL Server proper components installed. What should my install order be Does important note 3 about SMO and SQL-DMO still apply Thanks, Keehan If you didnt install SQL Server relational engine, you should be fine with installing hotfix packges for installed components only. Looks SQL-D ...Show All

• Visual C++ Owner drawn list box(Problem in comparison)

  Hi, I have a problem. I have an owner drawn list box which displays a random list of filled in rectangles. It works fine as long as it is not given the LBS_SORT style. If given the above style it displays all the rectangles in the same color. Can somebody help me This is the code. int CExtremeListBox::CompareItem(LPCOMPAREITEMSTRUCT lpCompareItemStruct){   //the items in the list box is COLORREF type     COLORREF clrFirstItem = (COLORREF)lpCompareItemStruct->itemData1;    COLORREF clrSecondItem = (COLORREF)lpCompareItemStruct->itemData2;    int nRetVal=0;     ...Show All