Kuang Zhang's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Visual Studio 2005 and SourceSafe 5

  Is it possible to use SourceSafe 5 with Visual Studio 05 B2.  Currently I get a binding error when trying to use it. Thanks, It is likely that official support for VSS 5.0 will end when VSS 2005 is released. Microsoft's standard policy is to support the latest release and the previous release. You may want to consider upgrading to at least 6.0. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development manufacturer identify

  Hi I developing application to scanning barcodes, but the application must work under different platforms and different scanner manufacturer. If i will able to identify manufacturer from .net code i can initialize right scanner. How can i identify manufacturer Thanks for your advice. Each device has a unique serial number, which is a GUID. The last 8 digits of that serial represent the manufacturer (i.e. those digits are the same on ev ...Show All

• Visual Studio Loading a image into Crystal report using dataset (PUSH MODEL)

  I have stored a image in a database as byte[] when i use the pull model and connect directly to the database i can drag and drop the image field into the designer i can see the picture in design time and in runtime. this works ok. But the thing is that i want to use the push model. I make a dataset with the same fields as the table, and when i drag and drop the image field from til dataset i cant see the picture in runtime or desi ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Data binding to runtime properties

  I'm trying to find a way to override the data binding at the point where it retreives data from a property. I'm trying to make this work with data from our propietary quote servers. I have a class that encapsulates the data retreival and updates, but the problem is that I have to map each field to a property of the data item class. There may be properties defined after the app is compiled. What I need is a way to get WPF to call an overrided ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums xp style to vba forms

  hi, i would like to apply the xp theme to my msforms in (excel) vba.  i have not been able to find any information on doing this.  i saw this done in a stand alone xla so i know it works.  any help would be greatly appreciated. -b Per the support engineer: On my side, it is also the same. The reason is that, to  display XP style 1. The display properties on Windows system nee ...Show All

• Windows Forms ComboBoxes and New BindingContext problem

  In a child showdialog form I have two comboboxes: (Code OnLoad child form) ComboBox1.DisplayMember = "Description" ComboBox1.ValueMember = "Id" ComboBox1.DataSource = MyList ComboBox1.DataBindings.Add("SelectedValue", Me.BindingSource, " MyTypeId01 ", True, System.Windows.Forms.DataSourceUpdateMode. OnPropertyChanged )) ---- ComboBox2.BindingContext = New BindingContext() 'Avoid sy ...Show All

• Visual Basic Publishing a program with an Access Database

  Hi, I was working on a program with Access Database and although the program works fine when run on Debug mode from within Visual Studio 2005, when I tried to publish it into an executable setup file, the access databse doesnt seem to be included. Is there any particular additions I have to make to the resources or settings to include the database file before I publish The reason is, when I work with a SQL server database, VB 2005 takes it au ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista State Machine Web Service

  Would it be possible to see a state machine web service sample I would like to see an example how it coule be accomplished. thanks... The hands-on labs contain a state machine workflow lab that has a good demonstration of this scenario. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=5DF74E3B-FB51-4A94-A11D-DFF70288A8BB&displaylang=en -Angel ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions crystal reports in VC# express

  how to display crystal report in VS C# express... there is no report viewer control. Hi, That is one of the limitations of C#. There's no available report tool. You'll have to upgrade to Professional edition or upper to use crystal reports in your apps. cheers, Paul June A. Domag ...Show All

• .NET Development Table Adapter Insert return value

  Hi, I am using the new table adapter in Visual Studio 2005 and C#. Its GREAT! I just can not figure out how to configure the Visual Designer to return an @@Identity value to me from a newly inserted row. My code fragment is OrderDataSetTableAdapters.OrdersTableAdapter orderAdapter   = new OrderDataSetTableAdapters.OrdersTableAdapter(); orderAdapter.InsertOrderHolder (     OrderDS.Orders[0].EmployeeID,     OrderDS.Orders[ ...Show All

• .NET Development Application won't start without Visual Studio

  In our project we made a small application which uses dll-files. The problem is that the application won't work in a computer that has not Windows Visual Studio .NET environment installed. The latest version of .NET Framework has been installed on our environments and on the target computer we are testing with. When starting up the application nothing happens, not one error message. Also, applications made in the same environment without any ...Show All

• Visual C# Converting Small endian to Big Endian using C#(long value)

  Could someone tell me how to write an equivalent code in C# for the following C++ code which would give me a big endian from a small endian Thanking you in Advance.. Function call - ProcessEndian((char*) &longValue, sizeof(long)); void CUtility::ProcessEndian(char * pHostData, int nHostDataLength) { char buffer[10]; int i = 0; char* pChar = NULL; for (i=0; i<nHostDataLength; i++) { pChar = pHostData+i; buffer[ i ] = *(pChar) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System "In" operator in Work Item query doesn't work

  I try to use the "In" operator in a Work Item query in VSTS but it doesn't work!! I do something like this: "Work Item Type In Bug,Feature" But I don't get any results. On the MSDN site the following help info tells that what I try to do is legal. To query several team projects In the first query clause, enter the values shown in the following table: And/Or Field Operator ...Show All

• .NET Development dataadapter doesnt generate update insert commands

  Hi all. Ive a problem with dataAdapter that can't generate delete and update commands with the wizard. First, i have a simple project where im trying to save data to a simple 3 fields table table (CostumerID, Costumer ,Address) , without keys. (access database) I add a new data source with the wizard that makes the connection, i select customer table and vb 2005 (express) creates the dataset. At dataset design view i realize that updat ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Custom SqlPersistenceService

  Hi there How can I set the WorkflowStatus of the Activity (rootActivity param) in the SaveWorkflowInstanceState( Activity rootActivity, bool unlock) method in a custom SqlPersistenceService I have to change the State from Terminated to Suspended to be able to resume broken Workflows. Any ideas Regards, Sebastian You don't want to change the status of the rootActivity. What you need to do f ...Show All