Michael Hogue's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Code Analysis / nested classes / what to do

  I discovered by accident that if I took the stuff I'd normally put in a module and nested it in a class (usually as shared) I really uncluttered the autocompletion lists. (I'm a great one for always typing system.windows.forms.... So seeing less and typing more is in for me!) OTH Code Analysis complains loudly about nested public classes, presumably for a good reason. My question is simple - is there a way of correctly using modules so that a mo ...Show All

• Windows Forms WYSIWYG HTML Editor Control

  There are tons of browserbased WYSIWYG HTML Editor controls. But, i'm building a windows based Content Managment System, and need a HTML Editor for Windows.  Anyone know of a control i could use, or a way to export to HTML  Is there classess&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Build FAILED: A database error occurred (SQL error 8152) ---> String or binary data would be truncated.

  Hi, I'm running Beta 3 Refresh in a single server environment. I've started moving our source code from StarTeam to TF Version Control, but have run into a problem with the build. I started out with a small sample and a simple build file and everything worked fine. Now I've checked a major part of our source code into TFVS and have set up a team build. The build have multiple solutions with multiple projects and several thousand source files. Th ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Debug ATL control in Pocket PC 2003/2005

  Hi, I am kind new in developing ATL control for Pocket PC 2003/2005. I have been able to generate a .dll activeX control and I can deploy it in the device. My question is how can debug it throug Visual studio 2005. When I started debugging, a message "a non-executable project cannot be started directly. Please set a command to use to start debugging this project" pops up. Anybody have an idea about this Do I need to write a prog ...Show All

• Visual C# strange behaviour for GenerateInMemory=true

  Hi everybody, I've got this code: CompilerParameters compilerParameters = new CompilerParameters(); compilerParameters.GenerateInMemory = true; if (compilerResults.PathToAssembly == null)   defaultTraceListener.WriteLine("OK"); else defaultTraceListener.WriteLine(compilerResults.PathToAssembly); if it's running within the VisualStudio debugger (I'm an express edition user) I've got no problem: the PathToAssembly is "null" and - I a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Button is not getting removed after uninstalling the Word add-in

  Hi All, I'm creating and installing a Word Add-in. The add-in creates a button on standard toolbar. When I uninstall the add-in the button is not getting removed. The add-in is the basic add-in from the link http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;en-us;Q302901 as it is. The code in OnBeginShutdown is as follows: public void OnBeginShutdown(ref System.Array custom) { object omissing = System.Reflection.Missing.Value ; System.Wi ...Show All

• Visual Basic Controls Flickering when drawed on the form

  Hello there :) This was a Problem in Visual Basic 2003 when having a Form with about 150 Controls the form simply consists of panels and those panels have Labels and controls beside hem the form itself has a background picture ,,, the Panels also have backimages the Problem is when the form is shown the controls are being drawn really slow ... (the form is 1024*768) that wasn't a Problem at all back in VB6 anyway I saw that Visual Basic 2005 has ...Show All

• SQL Server VS2005/SQL Server 2005 Mobile subscribing to SQL Server 2000 publication

  Hi. I have an upcoming PDA project, and I would like, if possible, to use VS2005 and SQL 2005 Mobile, rather than VS2003 and SQL CE 2.0. However, the back end will be a SQL 2000 publication. If SQL 2005 Mobile subscribes to such a publication, can anyone tell me which (if any) of the new features in SQL 2005 Mobile will be available (In particular, column-level tracking and sync progress status) Thanks. A SQ ...Show All

• Windows Forms MDI child call parent variable/object

  Can MDI child call back parent variable or any object e.g. - frmParent -Public String conn = "abc.mdb"; - frmChild - Public String test = "demo"; - frmChildTest - how can we frmParent.conn - and can we call frmChild.test , too the issue i would like to call parent variable, It would like to create the database connection in parent , so each child only need to call parent connection, and dont need to recreate on each ...Show All

• Windows Forms Adding link label to each row of a datagrid

  Hi Can someone provide me a link or walkthrough to add a link label to each row of a datagrid  Here, I am using the .NET inbuilt datagrid. I am developing a  windows application. The objective is that, assuming I have a link  inside a datagrid, when I click the link i want to show details form please help best regards Anz ...Show All

• SQL Server Drawing line between table rows and columns

  how to insert line between rows and columns in reporting services 2005 ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem with New SQL-NS 2005 Book Chapter 6

  Hey Guys. Just wondering if any of you have the Shyam Pather Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Notification Services book I recently bought this book and so far its been great. However ive gotten up to chapter 6 and have found that the sample solution just doesnt work. So my question is, has anyone else gotten this sample Music Store web, particularly the Chapter 6 Scheduled Subscriptions working As per the examples i have a Subscription class ...Show All

• SQL Server Problems with installing SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition

  Hi, I downloaded SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition (x86) via MSDNAA (the package conatins 2 cd images the download program CRC checked them and all. I'm trying to install it on Windows XP prof. sp2). When I mount the first CD, the installation menu comes up, if from the Install menu I select " Server c omponents, tools, Books Online, and samples " an error message pops up saying: "The application or DLL D:\Setup\set ...Show All

• .NET Development Generic's - Collections

  Hi all, I aint too cluded up on Generics yet, but let me give you a run down on my problem so that you can advise me if Generics is the way for me to go. OK - I have a a couple of collection classes that inherit from CollectionBase. These collection classes all have the same property members that I have overriden,, such as Add, Remove (Overloaded), this, etc etc. I may be going down the wrong route with Generic's here, but could I have one Colle ...Show All

• Visual Studio problem in opening project from VSS

  Hi guys, Iam using Visual Studio Dot net 2002 version and when Im trying to open a project from source control to my local machine its giving "The project you are attempting to open is a source controlled FrontPage Web and cannot be opened directly from source control. Please use the Open Project From Web command instead." I tried many ways but still its giving the problem. If any one got to know the solution. Do let me know. Thanks and in ...Show All