Ahmed Ismaiel's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Release Numbers

  For Tasks, bugs, scenarios etc. where is the best place to stick release numbers Somtimes we will have 50 issues in our current product tracker that spans the next 7 releases. Would these be best put into the Iteration field for easier searching Maybe it's better idea just keep a link on them to the changeset in which they are done or repaired, anyway it will depend on your organization, maybe it's not bad idea keep it on iteration if you're not using it, maybe even customize the template and add a new field for it. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Question about cloning menus

  I have an item in the main menu and I want the subitems of this item to be duplicated in a context menu. I clone the subitems as it is described in MSDN. When I do something with a subitem in the main menu nothing happens to the corresponding subitem in the context menu.   For example, when I disable a subitem in the main menu the&n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to Create a New Data File?

  I have an application that uses an Access database to store program data. If I want the user to be able to create a new data file, how would I implement this If I deploy a blank database with the app, is there some way to allow the user to create a named copy of it in any location he chooses Would this situation be better served if I stored the data in an XML file Thanks in advance. Hi, Yes you could include a blank database. You can let the user specify the location, then use the basic file functions to copy the file to a specified location. Then you could connect ther by your OleDbConnection.... &nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Message Box

  Hi Im trying to generate a message box, which I can do, but I want it to print out the information in one of the text box cells. If Finish_DateDateTimePicker.Value.Date = MonthCalendar1.SelectionStart Then MessageBox.Show( "This Task Is Due" & Me .Task_NameTextBox.Text) End If As you can see from the code I have compared two values and when the values are the same it will give me a message say that This task is due, but it will not indicate which task is due. Please help Hi Noreen, I am not sure what the outside loop looks like but If I were getting your results, this is ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Double click button not work

  The double click event not work in following code: Public Class frmPannSeg Private Sub btnExit_DoubleClick( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnExit.DoubleClick Me .Hide() End Sub End class How to enable the double click event Please write the complete code only to copy (i am a principiant). Thanks for your aid. If it's a button Don't you just want the single click intead of a double click. Most people don't double click on a button. ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Enhancement Request: Ability to pass cursors as parameters

  The ability to pass a cursor to a method of an object belonging to another data session would be a great addition for a future versions of VFP. Today, we have to resort to arrays, which is kind of a kludge, or CursorToXML/XMLToCursor, which is way too slow for large data sets. If cursor could be passed between data sessions, n-tier apps would benefit greatly. Any thoughts Eyvind.   Craig Berntson wrote: It's actually very easy. Look at CURSORTOXML() and XMLTOCURSOR(). I have just done a quick test with that and it works very nicely. The OP stated it is slow with large data sets but I have nev ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) LINQ and SQL Server Permissions

  Hi, I have one reservation about jumping into LINQ for an enterprise application: Security. It seems (and correct me if im wrong) that to be able to use DLinq to perform insert/updates on the database, you would have to allow the database user you connect as, to have insert/update permissions on the tables in the database. This is not considered good practise at the company I work for, where we only give the user execute permissions for stored procedures (Obviously to prevent attacks like SQL Injection). I know one way around this is to override the default insert/update actions in DLinq to use stored procedures, but this takes away th ...Show All

• .NET Development Is the IFrame javascript code correct?

  Hi, Is the javascript code used to create an IFrame correct The script is typed in a seperate javascript file and asp.net(vb) code will call the javascript method. The script below is supposed to display an IFrame on the webpage when the webpage loads. <script language = "javascript"> function showIFrame() { var iframe = document.createElement("iframe"); iframe.id = "testiframe"; iframe.name = "testiframe"; iframe.frameborder = 1; iframe.style.top = 100; iframe.style.left = 100; iframe.height = 185; iframe.width = 175; iframe.style.position = "absolute"; ...Show All

• Windows Forms Startup for no new instance

  Hello, I have a startup form (View Welcome Form) that the user types a case number into, hits a button, the startup form closes and the main form shows the results of the corresponding query. I'd like to be able to have a main_menu item that says, View Welcome Form, and when its activated, the Welcome Form shows up again.  We have the Welcome ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Bluetooth communication using Winsock

  Hi, Presently I’m working on Win CE for Pocket PC and I’m trying to do some enhancements to an existing Win CE application. The application has originally support for USB and Acitve Sync and other connectiviry mediums and right now I’m working on the Bluetooth connectivity mechanism.   The win CE application should connect to a host application that resides on a PC (windows XP). On Win CE side I’m trying to use Microsoft stack and on the PC side I’m using widcomm stack.   I’m trying winsock over Bluetooth but I’m not sure if my approach is correct as it is new to me. J   These are the steps I’m ...Show All

• Visual C++ slow tools menu

  I recently upgraded to visual studio 2005 professional ed, and everytime I click on the tools menu, the application hangs for ~30 seconds. If I bring up the task manager, the Idle Process is running 99% during the hang, so it can't be blamed on a slow computer. All other menus respond instantly. You don't have any addons to VS installed do you You might also try posting in the Visual Studio General forum: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx ForumID=25&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions oledb connection in C# expression edition

  I'm trying to connect an access database into my c# application. But I'm having trouble to Drag and drop the data connection on the Form to create an OleDbConnection object. I used to use the Visual Studio 2005 and this works, but now I'm using the C# express and I'm not able to drag and drop the data connection. Can someone help me Cheers! Claudia On the data menu, click Show Data Sources. Choose an available data source or add a new one. When you add a new data source, a dialog box enables you to select OleDbConnection. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Trying to force installer to use VSTOR.exe RC1 build from a file share. Setup can't find it.

  I'm trying to force my Outlook VSTO installer to use the VSTOR from the RC1 build instead of the B2 version pointed to in the product.xml file, but get an error if I try to use the Properties/Prerequisites/"Download prereuisites from the following location" option. Error    6    The install location for prerequisites has not been set to 'component vendor's web site' and the file 'vstor\vstor.exe' in item 'Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Redistributable' can not be located on disk. See Help for more information.    C:\Documents and Settings\Bobx\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Pro ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to deserialize a webresponse to object using a custom extraction rule

  Hi, I want to deserialize a webresponse to object using a custom extraction rule. What should i do. Web request is: POST /WebSite1/Service.asmx HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: length SOAPAction: "http://tempuri.org/HelloGoal" < xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" > <soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">   <soap:Body>     <HelloGoal xmlns="http://tempuri.org/" />   </soap:Body> </soap:Envelope> My web rep ...Show All

• Windows Forms Show a txt file in a Textbox

  How can I show a text file in a textbox I mean for example if I have a textbox in my program and I have a txt file in my computer and in the txt file writes "Hello" . I want a person to see "Hello" in my program's textbox when he/she opens my program. Here's a function to read text from a file for your toolkit. You use it like this if you want to put text in your textbox: TextBox1.Text = ReadTextFile("c:\test.txt"); using System.IO; public static string ReadTextFile( String mFile) { if ( File .Exists(mFile)) { using ( FileStream fs = new ...Show All