Stelios's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Why the reverse German-like syntax?

  Why do the LINQ queries have to look like a SQL query in German   If you are trying to make it easier and are adding SQL-like keywords to the language, at least keep the ordering the same as SQL. The way this is, I have to know C#, SQL for triggers and stored procedures, and LINQ for the in-code queries.  I don't see how this is going to make my life any easier. As I recall from the spec, the queries are purely macro substitutions, without any juggling during compilation.  This makes things much easier to compile, and the sequence of things doesn't change between the query syntax and ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to change disabled textbox fonts color ?

  When the textbox1.enabled = false, the fonts color changed to gray.  Is it possible to change the fonts color to black color when it is disabled Thanks, Terrence You are correct, combobox does not provide a ReadOnly property...  I believe that one of the items on a future feature list somewhere regarding Windows Forms is "more controls with&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Db connection info

  I have a Mysql dB that I develop web apps with,   I would like to tryout working with   ASP but I would need to be able to convert my old sites over to ASP for PHP, but I don’t want to change db to SQL.   Can someone direct me were to go, to get a step by step explanation of what to do, to connect to Mysql for .net Have not done much with MySQL, but you might want to look at the following link, It is a link to a MySQL Provider for the Membership and Roles system in ASP.Net 2.0 Membership and the Membership Provider ====================================== MySQL Membership Providers http://www. ...Show All

• Visual Basic finding files within a zip (compressed) file using Directory.GetFiles & filters

  Hi Com, I'am looking for a way to do a search on all local drives for specified files, lets say '*.txt". Right now I use the 'Directory.Getfiles (sdir, sfile) method, and this works ok for all files, but not for files within a compressed file or folder as a Zip or Rar file. In Windows XP explorer doing the same search on 'my computer' (*.txt) you retrieve all  *.Txt files even those within a compresed file. So.... how can this be done using VB.Net Yet another, but related item: Multi pattern search:  'Directory.Getfiles (sdir, *.txt; *.dll; *.ini), meaning I want the search method to retrieve different file-ty ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Contest Deadline Question

  Hello, I was wondering whether the launches for our applications will count past the 31st, until the winners are announced or will the applications be shut down for public access after the 31st My application should be complete on 27th-28th (before 30th for sure) and I would also like to get a chance to get some feedback (as well as launch points) from visitors and I (as well as most other people who entered this competition a little late) would greatly appreciate if the application launches would still be counted after the submission deadline. Thank you. We'll stop counting launches towards the contest criteria as of the ...Show All

• Visual Studio C++ Support

  When the FAQ for Class Designer states " Class Designer in Visual Studio 2005 does not support C++, but is a top priority for the next release of Visual Studio" -- what constitutes the 'next release' Does this mean a service pack or that C++ developers are left out until Visual Studio 'Orcas' is released Does anyone know what kind of timeframe we're looking at for C++ support in the Class Designer   Ajay Sudan MSFT wrote: C++ support will not be included in the Class Designer until a future release of Visual Studio. Supporting C++ in the CD for our C++ customers remains a top priority and we ...Show All

• Visual Basic Threading.Sleep

  After moving a 1.1 project to the 2.0 platform, my Threading.Sleep no longer works, as far as i can tell it is causing the entire app to sleep. Below is a code snippet, what i'm trying to do is i want the function to wait until the WebBrowser finishes loading, then continue. Is there a different rcomended way of handling this in the 2.0 framework. Private Sub NavComplete(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs) Handles wbMain.DocumentCompleted         WBState = "Complete"     End Sub     Private Sub Navigate(ByVal URL ...Show All

• Windows Forms message box buttons...

  Hi, Is there any way I can change the message box buttons text Thanks Nope.  You'll need to create your own MessageBox replacement. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Tab Key 2.0?

  Ok you could get away with doing this in 1.1 but now in 2.0 its a no go Any help would be great Thanks Joe 'Size Group 5 Leave with Tab Click *** Private Sub cboBU_SizeGroup5_Leave( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cboBU_SizeGroup5.Leave Dim k As Keys If k.Tab Then If cboBU_SizeGroup5.SelectedValue > 0 Then cboBU_SizeGroup5.SelectedValue = cboBU_SizeGroup4.SelectedValue End If End If End Sub That's pretty much the way you have to handle it.  The only missing item here, I think, is no consideration for Shift+Tab.  You co ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem in rule validation for local member variables

  HI,             I have created a Custom rule to check the naming conventions. It works well for the module level variables/controls etc.           when we want to validate the variables of a private function/method . It does the validation for all its varibales. But the rule violation is reported for only one variable. While debugging every thing seems to be proper(it validates all the variables and adds the violations to the Problems collection). It is not reported in the Fxcop rule violations window. for example : private functionTestM ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Web tests recording is disabled.

  VS2005TS RTM. When I start a new webtest VS automatically launches IE and I have to activate IE windows myself. The recorder buttons are all disabled (grayed) and surfing around does not result in anything in the project. If I close IE, VS still report "Recording in progress" and I have to click "Stop recording" but nothing reports to the project. Beta1 did work but I had the same problem with CTP August. Hi, can you let me know if there was a resolution to this   I'm also having this problem. Darren ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Win CE Project (MIPS) under VS5

  Hi all, I developed a MFC application for Windows CE and a MIPS device using eVC 3. I succesfull ported the application to PPC 2003 and Arm devices using VS5. As there a still Mips CE devices in production, I like to compile the binaries with VS5 and get rid of eVC 3. In the solution explorer of VS5 there are only Arm projects for smart devices, so is there a chance to build/compile the project for MIPS/CE under VS5   Greetings to all and a happy new year! Carsten There are no PPC with MIPS anymore, starting with PPC 2002 they all ARM only. There are custom MIPS based devices run ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to detect tab selection changed event in TabControl

  I tried adding handler to handle the click event in the TabControl, it works but only when you use the mouse to select the tab.  Since there are other means to select a tab in a tab control liked using the arrow keys or mouse.  Is there a single event that I can capture for tab selection changed SelectedIndexChanged is  ...Show All

• Visual J# Delegate Functions with Arguments

  Hi, I am trying to get Delegate functions to work with parameters I added "String str" to the Delegate declaration at the top and then to both the functions f1 and f12  -  .  Taking these out and having no arguments allows the code to compile and run ok  -  Trouble is putting these in and the code gets hung up on the Invoke statement  -  I tried changing the Invoke statement in various ways but can not come up with anything to make it work. Is there a way to get functions with arguments to work in this situation Here is the code that I am playing with: import System.*; import System.Collections.ArrayL ...Show All

• Windows Forms Position

  How can i determine the position in the screen e.g. :  we got a form (somewhere) with a panel and on that panel there's a groupbox. on that groupbox there is a button. When you click on the button , a new form wil show right below the button to show the new form i need the coordinates of the button on the screen I could dril up in the hirachie until there is no parent anymore and sum al the top and left values But i suspect there is a elegant methode to do this Regards Remco the framework solution goes like this (in VB):         Dim point As New Point(B ...Show All