Drew Burlingame's Q&A profile

• Visual C# Casting when type to cast to is only known at runtime

  Lets say I have 2 types - TypeA and TypeB.  There are times that I need to handle these types generically as objects so I can cast to an object no problem.  However when I need to cast back to a specific type from an object I have some issues.  I can do the following OK if I know at design time the type of the object: (TypeA)SomeObject However, if I only know the type of the object at runtime, how do I define the cast at design time.  If  I want to cast back to the actual object type which I can get from Type t = SomeObject.GetType() how can I declare the cast to t in my code   (t)SomeObject fails at compile ...Show All

• Visual Studio Viewer Group Numeric Format

  I'm using CR 10 with VS 2005 Beta 2.  A report is being grouped by a formula field: Year({vwVibAnalysisReport.Date}).  When browsing the report, the years are formatted as: 1,999.00.  I've tried using Fix, Truncate, Cstr, adding a leading or trailing space, etc. and I can not get the year to print as 1999.  (Some of these attempts work while previewing the report in VS.)  Is there somewhere that the format for the group-by can be set   Possibly a default numerical format for the report   Any other workarounds Thank you, Andrew Keith, Grouping by the field and s ...Show All

• Windows Forms Which project to use?

  If I want to create a windows user control with no visual form - just properties and methods like the timer control. Which project should I use so I do not get the visual form. Thanks, Frank Daniel, Yes, you are right.. it is a component. Works !! Thanks, Frank ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Multiple clients interacting with a workflow instance using web services.

  I will start by thanking you for the outstanding job the team is doing with the Windows Workflow Foundation and apologize for the length of this post (requires a little bit of background information). Solution Overview: We are creating a series of activities to use when creating workflows (document approval, review, and routing activities).  These activities will be used in our workflows that are published to a central web server.  The workflows that are published to this server will use these activities to coordinate the flow of documents and data across multiple smart clients around the world.  To m ...Show All

• .NET Development Datagrid with check box

  hi I have created a datagrid with DatagridBoolcolumn as 1st item. How to write code for user interaction At present the user can select/deselect check box, but it wont reflect when user moves to another column.. Hope someone can help me Regards         hi frnds... i have finally found the solution for the problem.... my databse is Oracle..and there is no boolean database type... in that case datagridboolcolumn is confused ... im adding the code below.. Dim dtcCheck As New DataColumn("CHKVAL") dtcCheck.DataType = System.Type.GetType("System.Boolean") ...Show All

• Smart Device Development tap and hold

  hi, i want to implement tap and hold behaviour in list box. but i can't use CListBox to get the GN_CONTEXTMENU, because what i found in CListCtrl, we can implement WM_LBUTTONDOWN to get the behaviour of tap and hold. i have tried to use LBN_SELCHANGE, but it can't capture the event of tap and hold. any idea of what message should i implement in CListBox to get tap and hold behaviour Thank you very much... Thanks Joao for replying my problem. I have looked through that link you gave me, but that is for a list box which derived from CListCtrl, then what i am looking for is CListBox. Because ...Show All

• Windows Forms AutoScroll in Panel

    In Windows Forms App, I use a Panel with the AutoScroll property to presents a PictureBox.  MouseWheel acts on VScroll. But I would like to use MouseWheel to change the cursor without acting on VScroll .  I can change the cursor but not stop VScroll. How to do this in VB.NET Many thanks   i think you need to resort to PINVOKE here. you need to subclass the panel and listen to the appropriate window messages and do your custom message processing.. ...Show All

• .NET Development Is the NET framework 2 the final version or beta?

  Is the NET framework 2 the final version or beta My hosting provider is running NET Framework 1.1 and I hope for an upgrade… It has just been announced that Visual Studio will be released on November 7th: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml articleID=164301022&tid=13692 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Including a font in distribution

  How do I include a TTF file so that the font I have set in a control is definitely available on the end user's PC   I want to use click-once publishing to my web server. Thanks Gareth ...Show All

• .NET Development XML & XSL Presentation

  I've been writing a WYSIWYG editor for XML and XSL, and I've stumbled upon a problem.. http://dotnet2411.combell.net/biglist.xml http://dotnet2411.combell.net/biglist.xsl The XSL file contains the lay-out etc for the XML file, it works perfectly in firefox, but not in IE. Could some one review these files and perhaps explain what I can do to make it IE compatible or even better, check if the works in your browser. If it works, then the text should be different color and different font, if it doesn't, it will be black and standard times new roman font. Thanks in advance. There have been reports that firefox breaks IE. You might try r ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DrawImage(img, pts)

  Sorry if this is the wrong place for this question but it it related to 3D games programming... I have noticed that Graphics.DrawImage(img, pts) accepts an array of 3 Point objects in the second argument.  In the spirit of adventure I passed in an array of 4 to see what would happen (I was hoping it would render an image inside an uneven quad).  It did not work but it did throw an exception indicating tht this functionality had not yet been implemented. Does this mean that in future releases of the framework, the Graphics object will have the ability to render images stretched to fit a quad Cheers Wossy Yeah I resolve ...Show All

• Visual Basic Copying data from one listbox to another

  Does anyone have idea the best way to copy the data that is in one listbox to another one Hi there, Well the .Items property of a list box is read-only so you can't do something like: ListBox2.Items = ListBox1.Items Whenever I have to do this a loop seems the easiest way: Dim iter As Integer For iter = 0 To (ListBox1.Items.Count - 1) ListBox2.Items.Add(ListBox1.Items.Item(iter)) Next I'm sure one of the gurus around here knows a better way though. Hope that helps a bit, but sorry if it doesn't. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System No process is associated with this object

  I created a new Testing project for my solution and when I go to run the tests they all abort.  When click on the "Test Run Error"  I get 0/2 tests passed, 2 failed, 0 skiped.  In the "More Info" section I get "No process is associated with this object."  I can't figure what is going on with this error.  I've deleted and recreated the testing project in the solution several times and always have the same result.  Please help!! Anson Goldade Hi Anson, A couple of suggestions: 1. Can you post the entire contents of the Test Results window It may help. 2. You may want to review ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System counter set

  Hello, I added "local" as the "add computer " for count set during the Load test wizard since I am going to watch the result in my local system, and I added a plug in. I got error message "Error occured running test.(Computer 0109) could not run load test 'LoadTest1' on agent '0109':LoadTest abourted by LoadTest Plugin" Could any one pls give some clue how to fix this error The Loadtest1 passed when removing the plugin file. Thanks, Jasmine Did the load test collect counters for the local computer after you removed the plugin   If yes, then the counter collection should be fine. Can you paste the code for the load test plugin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Slow Performance

  Hi,      Recently I experience a slow performance from Crystal Report. I just updated my VS2003 to latest VS2005 last week.  One of my reports was very slow to load since then. So I created a new small project. It only has one CR with 26 tables, 45 formula fields and several empty sub-reports on the main report. The attached codes show how I call my new Crystal Report.      First I set the text of all 45 formula fields. Then I changed table's logoninfo by using ApplyLogonInfo in a FOR-loop. Somehow it took 16 or 17 seconds to change all tables(26) connection at run-time. So I can see that ApplyLogOnInfo ...Show All