Clay Budin's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums Bonus Challenge

  I have read the e-mail about Bonus Challenge at 18:00. Decided to participate - and to make small, but useful (I hope ) app. At 24:00 I have completed the work. During this 6 hours I had time to drive from work to home, to have dinner, to read the last news, and of course to write code and test it. As a result: 15575 characters of code and 5 images. Extreme programming At 00:30 I have submitted it. BTW, question to admin - I hope it was submit ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Errors in contest entries?

  Some of us who've submitted our entries to the contest may not be aware of bugs in our apps. If you find one, please post it here. We can determine if the problem is in the Activity API or our app's code and then elevate any relevant issues. Please include: The name of the app The exact error message (including line number if displayed) Steps to reproduce the error An objective suggestion to correct the problem By the way, my app is ...Show All

• Visual Studio CONFUSED AS HELL

  my visual basic express 2005 applications cant run under .net 2.0 framework in my other computer what is the problem here in my other pc i installed .net 2.0 i wanted to test out if they worked but they just dont every single one of them failed to work. i dont understand this, why is microsoft providing the .net 2.0 framework which is not compatible with visual basic express 2005 what framework allows vb express applications to run on differ ...Show All

• Windows Forms Why is there no CaptionText in the DataGridView Control?

  Hi Folks, this is a question to Mark Rideout (or anyone from MS): Why was the CaptionText property not migrated from the old DataGrid control to the new DataGridView control Is there a replacement or do we have to create a user control combining a DataGridView and a Label Thanks. We talked with some customers and got the impression that it isn't a needed feature as UI's were getting more graphical and more &q ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows XP and MainMenu control

  My MainMenu control is not rendering correctly on windows xp (with the newer shell controls).  Buttons, status bar, the drop downs themselves all render properly just not the actual main menu bar.  It renders with the control control instead of  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Try to connect to SQL Express or SQL DB Error...Failed to generate a user instance

  When I try to connect to a datasource, any Datasource, I am getting an Error that a User Instance could not be created for the current user... Your question will be best answered in the Visual Studio General forum: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowForum.aspx ForumID=25 When you post your question there, please include additional information, such as: project type programming language installed products ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook VSTO Addin not loaded at startup

  Hi, With VS 2005 BETA 2 and VSTO 2, I'm trying to develop a simple addin for Outlook. But every time I click F5 in VS, Outlook is launched but my addin is not loaded. Even if I use a breadkpoint, I can see that nothing is loaded (a breakpoint on this line is never triggered: this .Startup += new System. EventHandler (ThisApplication_Startup);   ) Do you have any idea Thank. Well, maybe you're rigth I'm just repeating what ...Show All

• Windows Forms Two set of items binded to combo column of datagridview.

  I have a table listing of products binded to a datagridview.  There is a "Color" combobox column which let users choose color for two types of product.  When a product is of type A, combobox items are red, blue, and green. When a product is of type B, combobox items are Black, White. In other words, is it possible to bind two different combobox item objects to datagridcombocolumn according to the val ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Splash Screen Problem

  Good day! I'm going through the VB Express tutorial right now and I'm having problems with adding the splash screen on my application. I tried the following: 1. Create new project 2. Add new form > splash screen 3. In the application properties, I specified "splashscreen1" as the splash screen for the project 4. When I run the app, here's the error: The splash screen shows for a few seconds then instead of showing Form1, the following error ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Question about modifying a workflow

  I custom the workflow persistence service and save the workflow activity in Oracle database. After I modified the workflow design (for example: add a State activity), the Deserialize method fail: 'Load workflow instance failed: Index out of the bound of array'. Is it for the update of the workflow And how can I solve the problem Should I use WorkflowChanges object to modify all the workflow instances in the inside or outside If I have ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) VS 2005 Express & Indigo

  Hi! What do I need to build Indigo services with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express edition released on November 7th Thnx. The latest November CTP works with the released version of Visual Studio 2005 Express versions as I believe you determined based on your previous post. Thanks, - Craig McLuckie ...Show All

• Visual Basic include DLL widthout make reference....

  Hi everyone. I use an external DLL and I want inlay the DLL into my exe program. (I don't want copy the exe program and the dll file, just 1 file!) How can I do that and I can call the dll file in the code Hello! I would recommend embedding the external dll into your assembly and then using reflection to locate and load it. That would allow you to compile it all as one file. There are some fancy linker ...Show All

• SQL Server 2005 SQL Reporting Service XML Data Source (WebService)

  Does anyone know how to ensure a WebService/WebMethod needs to be serialized to ensure is compatible with Reporting Services' new XML Data Source when passing parameters to the report. I have had success on using the Report Server WebService http://localhost/reportserver/reportservice2005.asmx and using the Query designer to pass the SoapAction call <Query><SoapAction>http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2005/06/30/reporting/rep ...Show All

• SQL Server URGENT: sp_repldropcolumn Errors (SQL-2000)

  Environment: - Publisher: SQL 2000 (SP4) - Distributor/Subscriber: SQL 2000 (SP4) - Replication: Transactional/Continual updates Issue: Calls to sp_repldropcolumn are generating the following error: Server: Msg 4932, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN failed because '_column_' is currently replicated. The column in question is a text-blob, so I am unsure if the data ty ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Labels and Owners....

  Hi, Does anyone know if I can create a label that anyone can reapply (move) not just the owner We have a ReadyForRelease label that devs move about to indicate the latest releaseable version of code. But once the label has been created by someone, someone else cannot move it. -> Error The owner of a label cannot be changed. Ideas Thanks Andy You will need to grant your developers the LabelOther permission.&n ...Show All