Dario's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Common/Shared Assemblies

  First let me say I'm new to TFS, just got it installed over the weekend. I have a bunch of code that is currently in VSS, and it is currently structured as follows: $\ Projects Project1 Project2 Project3 Common/Shared Assembly1 Assembly2 Assembly3 I get how I should move the projects into TFS, but what about the assemblies Project1 and project2 use assembly 1 and 3, I don't want to duplicate the assembly projects, code, config ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectPlay Alternative Example?

  I was about to get started with learning more about the Managed DirectX 9.0 framework when I learned that the feature I wanted to use most has been deprecated. I have searched for alternatives but am not having much luck finding an easy soultion. Basically what I want to create is a private voice server/client for transmitting voice over the internet to one or multiple people at the same time. So, can anyone point me to a few easy to follow t ...Show All

• Windows Forms Cycling through each cell? Embarassing question...

  I'm sure what I'm trying to do is easy but I'm new to C#/.NET and have been struggling to find the answer. I've got a DataGridView which is filled from an online database(bound in code, not in the designer) and whenever a cell has bee ...Show All

• .NET Development SOA using web service

  I've been trying to develop an application and I've been running into issues when I expose methods from a business layer assembly using a web service. The problem is that when a client references the web service, a new set of data entities are created. What I want to do is to be able to pass the entities from a different assembly through the web service because these would be used by all of the applications that would consume (as well as any 3rd ...Show All

• .NET Development Store SQL BlobColumn as Attachment to MailMessage?

  I'm looking for a way to send an email attachment from the contents of a BlobColumn. We have table with a BlobColum that contains a PDF File. I'd like to be able to send an email with that PDF file as an attachment. Is there a way I can go directly from a variable of type Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.BlobColumn Directly to an Attachment without having to save the file first Thanks,  Scott<- ...Show All

• Visual Basic HTML Editor in Visual Basic - HELP

  Hello everyone and anyone who is reading this. I would like to know how to build an HTML editor in Visual Basic. I really dont know where to start. If anyone could tell me how, or tell me what I need to know, any help would be very appreciated and will not go unrewarded. Thank you. wf.service@sbcglobal.net How detailed of an editor do you need   Do you want something that just allows users to type in HTML and save it to a file (e.g. a ...Show All

• Visual Studio missing mscvr80.dll file

  I seem to be missing my mscvr80.dll file, does anyone know how I can generate/replace this file Thanks, mothballd try: http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/mikehall/archive/2005/12/01/498999.aspx ...Show All

• Windows Forms Beta 2 Publish help needed

  Hi all, I'm a student trying out VS.net C# express beta 2. I had created a simple hello world program. I'm using the "publish" feature that comes with vs.net, however I notice that when it's install on another computer, it takes a long time to install as the setup is downloading the .net framework 2 from the internet. Is there anyway to bypass the internet streaming and instead put in all in a cd-rom for the installation Thanks. Hi, I had ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Any way to e-mail bugs to the server?

  We are currently deciding to go with TF server or not so any help would be appreciated. Our bugs are reported in by e-mail from users and entered into bug tracking sytstem currently in consideration. We are also looking into TF Server and was interested to know whether this can be accomplished without major work. I have tried to see whether this is possible, but I have had no luck. I know you can set the server to e-mail out bugs assigned to a t ...Show All

• SQL Server Server 2003 x64 with SQL Server 2000 64 Bit

  Hi All, We will be looking to build a new server with the above configuration. We wont be moving to SQL 2005 as yet, as we will be waiting until at least SP1. Does anyone have any links to documents, white papers, etc, as where ever I look, I find things which skirt around it, but dont deal with anything directly Had a look on MS, however I can only find info for SQL2005... Cheers, Steve. SQL Ser ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions F1 problem

  When I login to my computer as "administrator" the F1 key works perfectly in Visual Basici Express. Then I logout and login a user with admin right. The F1 Key gives a message server cannot be found. Cannot access the Help files under a user login with admin rights How did you install the product As Administrator If you did and do not have administrator privs then I would suspect this ...Show All

• .NET Development Error: Specified cast is not valid

  Hi, I am retrieving data from access table having one of the column data type as oledb object type. Follwing is the code to retrieve image from the database. I am getting follwing error when i execute the code(Line causing the error is highlighted with yellow color). Regards, Ram Error Information An unhandled exception of type 'System.InvalidCastException' occurred in ReadingWritingBLOBSamp.exe Additional informatio ...Show All

• SQL Server Cursor count

  Hi! How can I get the size of a cursor variable (the number of rows in it) Thank you! Hi, use @@CURSOR_ROWS HTH, jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• .NET Development Drawing white text with black background

  I'm trying to add some text to my picutures before I display them on my website. To make sure the text can be read, I want to write the text in white letter on a black background. At the moment, I first draw a black rectangle (using Graphics.DrawRectangle) and then I add the text in white (using Graphics.DrawString). While this approach works, I always have to draw a large black rectangle to make sure it's large enough to fit the text in. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is it looping the number of record counts times for the table as a DataSource for unit test?.

  While I’m studying “Unit Test” by using VSTS2005, I got some questions below. 1.       This indicates two parameters using DataSource like AddTest Method in Code below. When I test this method, I expect this to run only once but it is looping the number of record counts times for the table. I need to know the reason why this could happen. 2.       In “Unit Test,” can I use “Add ...Show All