Ravi Rao's Q&A profile

• Visual C# Circular dependency + WinForms depency problem

  Hello everyone. I have a question about an indirect circular dependency caused by some not-so-loose coupling, and I'm looking for options to solve it neatly. The operation is very simple - I wish to split my application into a library of core components and a bootstrapping EXE which contains all the WinForms stuff. This is in aid of writing a Linux GUI, and it is why some of the usual options are closed to me due to needing things in certa ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to avoid stepping into the Enterprise Library when debugging?

  Hi, <<<< Note: I first posted this in the "VB General" forum, but decided it is more appropriate here. Please help! >>>> I'm sure this is an easy question to answer for someone that has a better understanding about how debugging works in Visual Studio (2005). I've been trying to figure out how to avoid stepping into the DAAB (Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block) when debugging. I have "Just my ...Show All

• .NET Development Program exits without throwing exception

  I have a problem that I did not think could occur in the .NET environment. I have a .NET program that when the user clicks on a certain option the program just vanishes. If I run the program inside the debugger it works fine. If I first start the program then attach the debugger to the program then I can reproduce the vanishing behaviour. The problem is that the vanishing occurs randomly depending on where I set breakpoints. I can be stepping ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation RC install Failures, Dr Watson

  Hi, I have been trying for serveral days to try to figure out what the heck is going on with this install. The issues I have ran into was during the install on TFS (RC), I keep getting these watson failures. I am so stumped on why this is doing this. I have everything else working fine such as sharepoint, reporting/SQL. Here is the last line of the error log file. [03/23/06,20:32:24] Setup.exe: GetGlobalCustomProperty({4F8791EE-486F-44B ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problems with Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for WinFX in Vista

  Hi! When I try to install the extensions for WinFX for VS2005, I get an error, that a prerequisite is missing (WinFX Runtime Components). Two issues are strange: - In Vista - according to the MSFT Download Center - the WinFX runtime components are already installed. - When I try to install the components, I get an error message, telling me that a newer version of the components is already installed... What shall I do to get the exten ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System CA1062:ValidateArgumentsOfPublicMethods False Positive?

  I have the following code that gives me the CA1062 warning. Looks to me like a false positive: public static string Format(IFormatProvider provider, string format, params object[] args) { ... int argsLength = args != null args.Length : 0; ... } Regards, Erwin Erwin, I can't reproduce this warning given the above code, however, if you have something like the following: & ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Return a value from a WWF...

  Hi folks, I just started to use the WWF with ASP.NET and want to know how to get a value (etc.) from a WWF. Is this possible I would like to make all ASP.NET Pages to work with WWF. But I need some values to get in example the controls visible or not. See these examples u can get a good idea how to get the value from a WWF, Here's the URL and information about this specific example:  ASP.NET Workflow E ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem with BackgroundWorker

  OK, Here's my scenario: I have an application that includes a Search form for various items.  I have implemented a search algorithm that takes advantage of the BackgroundWorker class to do the search asynchronously on the search form.  My application allows the user to open multiple search forms and search on different criteria. The search form and backgroundworker class work beautifully when only one search form is open.  If the ...Show All

• Smart Device Development VS 2005 beta2 - Referenced package not found

  I have just installed VS 2005 beta2. I created a smartphone application with a simple textbox and when I try to run (F5) using emulator I get a deploy error. The output log shows: SMP1 -> C:\dev\SMP1\SMP1\bin\Debug\SMP1.exe ------ Deploy started: Project: SMP1, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ------ Referenced package not found. ========== Build: 1 succeeded or up-to-date, 0 failed, 0 skipped ========== ========== Deploy: 0 s ...Show All

• SQL Server Where is Service Manager in SQL Server 2005?

  I installed SQL Server 2005 CPT on a new machine running XP.  I do not see SQL Server Service Manager.  Has something changed in 2005 over 2000   There are times when it is necessary to stop the database.  The old way you just clicked on the icon in the lower right of the PC (with the green arrow) and selected stop.  I realize I can go into XP Services, find SQLServer2005, right click and select stop, but is there some ...Show All

• Visual C++ Reg free COM - Problem isolating COM reference

  hm, why was this moved to C++ Forum Hi Tom,  Try posting at http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/topic.aspx url=/MSDN-FILES/028/201/015/topic.xml  where you may find your answer on general COM issues. Thanks,   Ayman Shoukry   VC++ Team ...Show All

• .NET Development how to make my C code managed?

  the existing C code could not be compiled by C++ compiler. I have to use /TC , instead of /TP, in this case, the compiler would not allow #using < mscorlib.dll > Any solution to make managed C code under C compiler thanks managed code is always OO, and strictly so. managed code requires classes, C does not have classes. So, you'd need to write a managed C++ class that acts as a bridge betwee ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Databases!!!

  Hello, I have a problem trying to connect to an Access Database, the problem is that I want to make a working project without thecontrols, I only need the source code to do that. I would like to know about working with databases without using the bindingnavigator, how can i do that. I don't know, please help!!!:D I imagine the code in this article will cover what you want to know, there's lots of similar article ...Show All

• .NET Development I/O to PC Keyboard.. How to output to keyboard

  Hi, I wish to send codes back to a PC keyboard (it has an 'new email has arrived' LED that is activated by sending a character sequence to keyboard). Is this possible from existing framework calls (I/O, streams , ports ) or do I need to write a new keyboad driver thanks, You cannot access I/O ports from user mode so you'll need a driver. Maybe the keyboard already has one but the problem then would be to find out how do you access ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Comparison of Google, Yahoo, MSN APIs

  I'm interested in producing a simple comparison of the web search APIs provided by Google, Yahoo, and MSN.  Maybe some of you can help me get my facts straight.  This is what I have so far: Underlying technology: G: SOAP Y: REST M: SOAP Number of queries available per day: G: 1000 per 24 hours per user ID Y: 5000 per 24 hours per application ID per IP address M: 10,000 per 24 hours per application ID per IP address Getting ...Show All