RoyW's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System A Source control question for the product group

  Please correct me if I'm wrong but it seems to me that TFS source control is designed for developers only. In a enterprise setting, there are also a lot of non-developers that need to save their work such as word docs, excel work sheets, etc in a source control. The may not be part a "team" and they really don't care about work items, process guidance, etc. How would these folks use the source control or the TFS source control is a wrong choice for them and they should use something else. Thanks! One option you should explore before adding non-developer files to TFS source control is whether the file format ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Small Team ISV / Micro-Isv

  While the templates out there seem very nice, they don't seem to be a good fit for a small/micro-isv senerio. They seem better suited for larger IT teams. One example are "rolls", they all list more rolls than employees in our company. :) With this in mind I think it best to just build my own template from the ground up. But before I go off an do this, I was wondering if anyone else has already build a workable template (or maybe is building one). Marc, Think of the roles as different perspectives on delivering a solution.  You do not need a person per role, you just need to maintain th ...Show All

• .NET Development JIT Compilation optimizations

  This is a bit of an overkill question I know but it was bugging me.... I just read that the JIT compiler runs a one-time-only optimization on installation based up various factors of the machine is on .. cpu type, memory, OS etc. If, for example, I install a program written in a .Net language and then add some more memory to the machine, would it be best practice to uninstall the program and re-install it so that the JIT compiler takes into account the upgraded memory   Many thanks I believe there is some miscommunication and perhaps misuse of terminology so I'll try and clarify it for you. When you install the .NET ...Show All

• Visual C# ENCRYPTION

  Hi, I need a common encryption algorhythm in C# and PHP. Does anyone know of anything that currently exists that could work I.E. is there some similar API's that will if similar keys are passed in will be compatible Thanks, Karlo Hi, I eventually managed to get this working with TrippleDes. A lot of effort put into this. Nothing up on a web site, but will post the URL for a full example in both PHP and C#, else email me for code. Thanks, Karlo ...Show All

• SQL Server Setting up DotNetNuke am getting 18456 login failure

  I am running Windows server 2003, IIS 6.0, and SQL Server 2005. I am trying to set up dotnetnuke to run on the same machine as both these servers and I am running into an error that the dotnetnuke forum has not been able to help me with. I have set up a user called dnnuser in my windows authentication domain, and have added the user to SQL and given them ownershhip of my new dotnetnuke database. Howeever, when I try to start up DotNetNuke in my browser on the local machine I get a failure to log in. The first messages in theSQL Server log is "Error: 18456, Severity: 14, State: 6" then I get "Login failed for user 'DSD-WIN\dnnu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions What is the difference VS Express vs. Professional?

  hi to everyone What is the difference VS Express vs. Professional I ask only for example VB.NET s > VB.NET How many controls are the more in Prof Is it worth for some Crystal Reports OK, SETUP projects…. WHAT IS THE MORE val Visit : Visual Studio 2005 Product Line Overview (Product Feature Comparisons) . ...Show All

• Visual Basic Bitmaps in Toolstrip buttons

     Why, when I set a bitmap as the Image for a ToolStrip Button in VB.net are the colours all faded out, and how do I prevent this My first project in .Net was a really comprehensive toolbar emulating the old office toolbar. One of the things that has been really impressive about this technology are the alive and vibrant colors. I think there are a couple of secrets. I sort of think of the movement of these images and think of them in software as a hardware bus because the various components they move through such as imagelist controls etc have bit widths associated with them just like a ...Show All

• Visual Basic How insure something runs when form is loaded

  I had a problem today of not being able to make a certain textbox on a winform receive focus at run time. That is, I had code in the Load event something like "textbox.focus", but when the form was loaded the textbox did not receive focus. I figured the problem out (thanks to this forum) and found two different ways of dealing with it. One was to simply change the code from textbox.focus to textbox.select. Another was to put the original textbox.focus code in another event; the shown event. Though the immediate problem is solved it raises another question I have come up against numerous times in VS 2003. I wonder if VS 2005 h ...Show All

• Windows Forms Spurious New Line Characters

  Hi All, I have an app that creates word documents. When I put a vbrclf in my string in VB.NET I end up in Word with a small box and a new line. How do I create new lines without the small box Danny Thanks for the idea but it didnt work. Maybe it's not a new line problem. Here is a screen shot of the symptom: http://www.dreamfree.co.uk/df/newline.html Hopefully someone will know how to stop the boxes appearing. Danny ...Show All

• Windows Forms Datagrid.Cell Backcolor

  is it possible to change the particular cells backcolor  pl'z provide me an example thanks in advance PrasantH You could also check out the following: http://www.syncfusion.com/FAQ/WinForms/FAQ_c44c.asp#q745q Hope this helps. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) CursorSafeHandle is unavailable

  I was reading through: http://www.schanda.co.za/blog/ couldn't find CursorSafeHandle - does anyone know which namespace does it reside in Or at least is there any workaround for that missing type Thanks If you are trying for the drag drop effect, Marcelos blog has the right way of doing it :) msdn.blogs.com\marcelolr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions package "Microsoft Report Designer" has failed to load properly

  When starting Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition the following message appears: package "Microsoft Report Designer" has failed to load properly Any suggestions Hi: Aaron's blog has several things you can try to get rid of package load failures: http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/09/06/461804.aspx Hope that helps! Ravenna ...Show All

• Visual C# How add row to dataset

  I have a WinForm with a grid on it. I would like to add 2 rows to the grid using the dataset. I would like to have this happen when I click a button. Upon adding each row I would like to put a value in a column called InvNum. My dataset is called DSInvoices and the table I am intersted in in this dataset is called Hours. The instance of the dataset on my form is called dSInvoices. Could someone tell me what code do I need in the click event of this button to make this happen Thank you you should you similar code depending on your dataset name NorthwindDataSet.CustomersRow newCustomersR ...Show All

• .NET Development Running Exe from javascript

  Hi, I have a problem, I need to run an exe from javascript. I have successfully done it but had to do some modifications to IIS Services property (check "Allow interaction with desktop" ) and machine.config (change username from default Machine to System in processmodel) file of .net. The problem is this is not acceptable. I need to execute it without the user intervention. Once the web page is downloaded onto the users screen and the user does some action (clicking a button in this case) the exe should execute, without the user making any changes to the system. Any information on this would be helpful. Any sample code would be ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problems databinding a combobox

  Hi, I have a winforms app that binds it's fields at runtime to a dataset.  Basically if the combobox/textbox name matches the field name, it is bound. Here's the code that does the binding.. oBinding = New Binding("SelectedValue", dsToBindTo.Tables(TableName), ctl.Name.ToUpper) cmb.DataBindings.Add(oBinding) Pretty straight-forward eh   BUT, when I run this code, the comboboxes stay on the first row in the dropdown, rather than reflecting what is stored in the database!! What am I doing wrong G Did you set the ValueMember for the ComboBox   If not, you need to in order for this to work ...Show All