Darren Baldwin's Q&A profile

• .NET Development .NET Coding convention for controls

  Hello all I am using the .NET coding conventions as described in the ECMA 334 and in the MSDN. However I cannot find any conventions regarding the graphical controls. In the MSDN, I have found only the conventions for the Class Libraries. I was used to use the hungarian notation (for controls only). But I would like what you are doing. Indeed Microsoft says that this notation is not to be used (also for graphical controls ) but I found some paradox for using it or not. Any control is a protected field and so should be written in camel Case (ie btnOK or oK or okButton or ...) But when we are using handlers Microsoft says to&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can I get someone to come into my company and demo Team Foundation for us?

  I'm trying to get our company to use Team Foundation, but they would like someone to come in and demo it for them first. We have someone from IBM coming in to demo their solution, so I would really like to get someone, preferably from Microsoft, to come in and really sell this to my boss. Who do I call How do I go about doing this Thanks, Disaia The most direct route is to contact your Microsoft account manager (if you don't know who this is, your boss might). It looks like you might be in Southern California, but there's no specific mention of your location. If you can tell me where you are and what company you w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Patching CR for VS 05

  Can I use the CR 10 SP 4 to patch the version of CR that ships with VS 05 We don't have budget to upgrade and I'm hoping it will cure one nasty bug we have that is stopping us from shipping product. Grrrrr. Thanks I didn't find any patches/hotfixes for CR for VS2005 aswell. Is this available anywhere ...Show All

• Architecture General business object requirements

  For those of you who have worked on medium to large sized projects, or anyone who has an opinion , I would like to know what types of logic an application needs in the business layer. If the objects expose properties and collections, is a simple validation on write all that's needed I guess the objects also have methods that do various things. If anyone feels like offering any insight into the kinds of things their business objects do besides store bits of information that would be greatly appreciated. I'd also like to know what types of exceptions are generally thrown when persisting to a database. What about errors in the middle of bat ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. C++ or C# ??

  I've been programming professionally for 8 years - all web and business programming in ASP, ASP.NET, and Java. I have a very solid knowledge of OO application development but I'm simply not challenged. The apps are all the same - build database, put front end on database to present data, allow data to be edited/updated, allow data to be deleted. Wash-rinse-repeat. I've been a gamer since I was 8 and I still play games like mad (own a PSP, DS, Xbox, and XBox360). It seems to be the only thing that has really stuck with me (I know, pathetic for a 36 year old! ) and I feel like I need to modify my skillset and break into game programming. ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB confused about SQL Server versions ?

  Some months ago I installed beta preview editions of Visual Studio including a copy of SQL Express. Recently, I successfully uninstalled all of these betas using the special purpose uninstall tool available on the Microsoft website. The uninstal completed successfully or so it said. Next I installed Visual Studio 2005 Professional and the installation completed successfully. I also removed SQL Server Express Edition (Autoinstalled with VB) and then successfully installed SQL Server Standard Edition. After all of this VB seemed to operate correctly on its own as did SQL Server but they don't seem to work too well together. When I try to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Enabling WSE Support

  hi, does anyone know how to enable WSE support in Visual C# Express Edition I tried unistalling both the WSE files and Visual C# and re-installing them etc... all to no avail. The readme for WSE 2.0 states that there is a know bug where the WSE Settings 2.0.. option doesn't appear if Visual Studio is not running. is it even possible to add in WSE support to the Express Editions please help! Add-ins are not supported in Visual C# express editions. The lack of responses indicates no one has figured an unsupported way of enabling the WSE addin. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Slow processing for Databound Combobox

  Hi, My application is terribly slow loading. After starting at the top and working my way down to find the bottleneck, I determined the real slowdown is after I retrieve my data and set the datasource for my combobox. Here is the code.    Private Sub LoadStaff()     ' Load the drop down combo box on Task Bar     Dim StaffDBCommand A ...Show All

• Visual C++ Looking for a book: Creating .Net components with C++/CLI that wrap unmanaged code?

  I'm mainly a .Net guy but I've dabbled with C++ on and off over the years. I find myself on occasion needing to wrap some unmanaged code to make a managed library to use. If its simple PInvoke calls I can usually just handle it from .Net, but on occasion I need something more complex or something that just would be better off done in a language that can talk more directly to the unmanaged code. I've browsed lots of C++ books at the store and I've not really found one with any chapters about doing this. I want one that covers the pinning issues getting data between the managed world and the non managed etc. VS2005 of course would be bes ...Show All

• .NET Development Get a Thread by name

  Hi to all,                   I don't know if this the exact forum to make this question. Well, I will do. I have a thread running which I have created, and I save its name. And I would like to know after a certain time, how to get "by name" to that thread and make a certain operation to it. Like abort it. So many thanks to all,                                       & ...Show All

• Visual Basic Saving and Recalling items in a list box

  I am working with visual basic 2005 express edition, and I have a form with a list box on, how would I save items in a list box when the form closes and recall them when the form opens. Thanks Well you have several options. The best one would be to save your list box items into a simple XML file. It should have a structure like this: <items> <item> <value>XYZ</value> <text>dada</text> </item> </items> Then when you close the form you simply write the XML file (Xml namespace) and when you load your form you read the XML and get all the items and add ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Signed WDSQuery.dll that can go into the Global Assembly Cache

  I am creating a library in C# that will go into the Global Assembly Cache.  The library useds the WDSQuery.dll.  Because the WDSQuery.dll is not signed, I get the following error on compilation: error CS1577: Assembly generation failed -- Referenced assembly 'WDSQuery' does not have a strong name Please suggest how I can sign it or please post a signed version of the DLL. Thanks Try: SN.exe myKey.snk TlbImp wdsQuery.tlb /keyfile:myKey.snk You might have to also do /primary to generate a PIA, though I don't know if that's advisable or not (since we're the ones that are supposed to generate the PIA).  Remember, t ...Show All

• .NET Development Rethrowing exceptions from a background worker

  Hi, I'm using a backgroundworker (in VSE2005 for C#) and have the following problem : In the 'dowork' method I have a try/catch that handles exceptions that might occur and then rethrow them for the 'workcompleted' method have aproper error state. The problem is that when an exception occurs, I get an unhandled exception error message pointing to the 'throw ex;' in the catch block (see code below), because of course ex is not being handled, at least not right there. The problem is that in order to test for the error status of you background _dowork method in your 'workcompleted' method you rely on the RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs ...Show All

• SQL Server Pubs not installed?

  Both myself and my tech editor do not have the Pubs database installed as part of SQL Express 2005 in VS 2005 Team System Beta 2 and VB 2005 professional Beta 2.  Is it 1) deliberately left out, 2) just missing in Beta 2 and will be in RC1 or 3) we did dsomwthing wrong and it should be there. Thanks! S The SQL Server Express SKU does not include Books Online or the sample databases. Books Online will be available as a separate download. In the meantime you can download one of the other editions (developer/beta, standard, etc) and install Books Online from that edition. Dan ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro is it possible to implement LDAP using Visual Foxpro?

  Is it possible to implement LDAP using Visual Foxpro 8.0 How Can anyone provide sample Code to autheticate the user using LDAP in Visual Foxpro 8.0   Is it possible to use 'REAL' LDAP instead of the IADsOpenDSObject and the 'LDAP Provider' I need to verify a username and password through an application and it may not necessarily be the logged in user. All I want to do is a simple LDAP bind to verify the user and password, and I can't for the life of me find an already documented way to do it in VFP. I did it in the 90s with C on Win9x and Netware. I did it a couple years ago with PHP on Linux a ...Show All