dshirah's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions IMAP access

  Can you access an IMAP server and get out the size of all the messages in any folder Where would I start to find out what I need to do... ...Show All

• SQL Server Virtual Labs - No Connection message

  A couple of us are trying to use the SQL Server 2005 Virtual labs at http://msdn.microsoft.com/sql/  .  We complete all the prelim steps successfully but when we click on "Start the Lab" we get a blank page with "No Connection" in the middle.  The clock ticks and the system thinks we are doing the lab.  How can we get a connection   or is the server down   or are there no available resources left ...Show All

• .NET Development HTML to Image

  C#, .NET 2.0, Windows App Simple question... open to any ideas... I have an html file on my disk. I want to create an instance of an Image (or Bitmap) object that represents what that HTML looks like when it is rendered in a Browser. I know the size the Image has to be. I know IE7beta does this and also AOL's browser... Any thoughts, ideas Thanks Rob Ultimately I wish to draw a ...Show All

• Visual C# Problem overriding method in a derived class

  Why can't I override a virtual method and return a subclass of the parent type as in the code below. I.e. return ColorSwatch instead of Swatch so that the caller doesn't have to recast the return value. In fact if I don't make the method virtual/override I get the problem that the compiler then complains that the derived class ColorExists needs to use the new keyword because it is hiding the method in the parent class. What gives with this ...Show All

• SQL Server How to control visibility of table columns at runtime?

  Hi all.. Using ReportViewer in an ASPX page, is it possible to hide certain columns of a table at runtime That table is databound to a business object and I'm using local reporting capabilities of Visual Studio 2005. Thanks Jaime I assume you are using a "table" reportitem. In report designer you can select the entire column of a table. In the properties window (F4), you should then see a "Visibility" proper ...Show All

• SQL Server OutputDebugString from script

  May be it's too late, but I think this requests could be scheduled at least for a SP1 if it's not possible for the RTM. 1) Execute Task without debugger: it would be very nice to be able to execute a single task without going in debugging mode. Just as you would ask "Start Without Debugging CTRL+F5" but for a single task 2) Customize default properties for task and component: when you drag a task on the package you get a default value for the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite

  Hi I have installed Visual Studio 2005 Team suite , But I can't find team foundation server with this edition , While it must have team foundation server workgroup edition with Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite ....What should I do --thnx The client to Team Foundation Server (Team Explorer) is shipped on the Team Foundation Server disk. You must install it seperately after installing your choice of Visual Studio 20 ...Show All

• Windows Forms populate combobox

  hi, I would like to populate a comboBox with three text values and assign an ID to each one so that when one of them is selected, then an ID for that text value is used later on ie. combobox1.items.add("value1") combobox1.items.add("value2") combobox1.items.add("value3") tried accountTypeComboBox.Items.Add (new ListItem("Item 1", "0")) accountTypeComboBox.Items.Add (new ListItem("Item 2", "1")) but gives an error on ListItem Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions DataGridView changes not saved?????

  Please help, I'm getting started with VB Express and Win Forms. I have run several examples where I change data in a DataGridView, and fields appear to have changed. Then I exit and restart and nothing was saved to SQL express DB. Then I tried Access mdb's, same thing, the changes don't take in the db. Very strange, no errors no nothing. Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks in advance! hi, i guess this question ...Show All

• Visual C++ VC++ 8 Show-Stopper?

  Hi, I'm seeing a speed hit of around 2X when switching to VC++ 2005. It's so serious and effects even the most  basic programs that I can only think I must be missing something. Please help! Building the same (trivial) program onVS 2003 and VS 2005 I'm seeing around a 2x decrease in speed. I'm building for release and in 2005 also setting D_SECURE_SCL=0. Can someone explain #include "stdafx.h" #include <windows.h> #include <vec ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VB.NET WITH command convert to C#

  Having Finally passed the MSAD exams in C#, i thought that i should start looking to use these new skills in the code behind to programme excel 2003, so I start work on the examples given on the Visual Studio Tools for Office but they are for VB.Net and i come across a problem when trying to convert a section of code that uses the WITH, END WITH command e.g VB.NET With this.Application.CommandBars("Task Pane") .Width =300 .Position ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Formatting / AutoFit

  I created a dataset and then loop it to create a data result set (by setting the xx.Value2 properties throughout the loop), and I'd like to make this result set to become "autofit" so that users can view the correct format (date and numeric), column width, ...etc Thanks, You can use the Range.AutoFormat() method to achieve this. Use a format that has AutoFit turned on and in the AutoFormat method call ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET canvas

  Hi i need to paint and save my image, but i dont found any canvas in .NET. Can you give me some reference Thank you Can you provide more information on what do you mean by "canvas" In .NET we can turn almost any Forms and Controls, Images and Bitmaps to a drawing-area using the Graphics class, and/or with the help of various renderers. Is that's what you mean by "canvas" -chris ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Latest Distributed System Designers

  Am I correct in thinking that the latest evolution of the Distributed System Designers is the Beta 2 So the July CTPs do not include updates to this functionality Many thanks, Tony. ...Show All

• .NET Development Massive Membership changes in RC? How to open a beta 2 website in beta3?

  So I have a project we've started in beta 2, I've just installed the release candidate on a lap top luckily (so we still have a working version) copied the project over, went to compile.  Fixed a few things that the new version doesn't like such as declaring using System.Windows; tried again.  Compiled and I though great.  Only no ..... All the login functionality appears to have changed   For instance the aspnet_Membership ...Show All