Sayed Zeeshan's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista ActivityDesignerTheme and VS restart

  In general, I've noticed that the WF designer in VS2005 works very well, particularly in that it immediately takes into effect changes made to activity libraries you are referencing in your workflow project (when using project references). However, there is one minor thing I've noticed doesn't quite work: If you either apply, or change the internal definition of an ActivityDesignerTheme (say, just changing the value of a property or the construc ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can Visual Basic Express be used with MS access

  I own Ms access and I formerly dabbled with vb 5. I'd like to update my simple programs that have ms access databases to vb express can this be done Thanks, Glo yes that can be done but i would recoment to have a backup or another copy from your projects b4 conversion, because in some cases conversion doesn't work properly, actualy in most cases so you have to know vb.net to be able to fix the c ...Show All

• Windows Forms form close reason

  Hi! I would like my form to be hidden when the use clicks on the window close button (the X button on the top-right corner). The e.CloseReason does not provide a value to determine that this particular button is the reason that is closing the form. This was very simple in VB6: Private Sub Form_QueryUnload(Cancel As Integer , UnloadMode As Integer )     If UnloadMode = vbFormControlMenu Then       ...Show All

• Visual Basic Passing a value from form to form

  What is the best way to pass a value from form to form Do I use a global variable or is there a parameter style way to do it Is there some other way Thanks for helping a newbie. Hmm...tell a little more about your problem. Do you close the first form (the one that contains the information) or do you have two forms and just want to share information between them ...Show All

• Visual Basic Prevent form of stealing focus

  Hi There, I'm currently building a application where i'm in need to show a alert message (a popup). Now i have made a little form that will do this for me. But when the form comes up, it draws the focus right to it. This isn't nessecery becasue it just a message no respone on it is needed. Is it possible to disable a form to take the focus. In VB6 there where a api i can call, in 2005 i can't get the api to work. Can anyone help me ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Getting frustrated with red "X" on documents folder

  I am at a loss as to why the Documents folder insists on displaying a red "X" in the Beta 3 Refresh. I have granted myself admin privilages but it seems to have done no good. Anyone know what would cause this I'm sorry to hear you are having problems. Several bugs have been fixed in this area in the RC, hopefully it will fix your problem. One thing to check: Open the project portal and make s ...Show All

• Visual Basic Splash Screen

  Vb .net if I create a spash screen and load a new form - when I dispose of the splash screen it kills the entire application. Any ideas or better methods to doing this rich I added it to the form closing event and it worked awesome!  Thanks for your help... rich ...Show All

• .NET Development Problems with Serialisation

  Hello, I have written a package for the construction industry that involves the creation of a multitude of graphics objects, the instances of which draw a range of graphics shapes eg a door draws a rectangle as per g.DrawRectangle. Each graphics class is quite complex and has numerous private,public and protected members. I have designed and implemented a graphics class heirarchy in which such graphics classes reside and this hierarchy ...Show All

• Visual Basic custom instance void

  can someone please explain to me what that means in the context of a class example: .custom instance void [mscorlib]System.Runtime.InteropServices.ClassInterfaceAttribute::.ctor(valuetype [mscorlib]System.Runtime.InteropServices.ClassInterfaceType) = ( 01 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 ) cheers david Hi, This is the attribute we added in the class. Please compare the IL code below. 1. Imports S ...Show All

• .NET Development ApplicationHost for hosting ASP.NET without IIS

  At this moment we have a simple web server for NET Framework V1.1. This web service host 40 Web Services on 40 different virtual directories. So for every Web Service a ApplicationHost is created. The startup of this server takes about +/- 30 seconds and uses +/- 60 MB of memory at startup. For the performance improvements and some new features we switched to Framework V2.0. Therefor we converted everything to NET Framework 2.0. The con ...Show All

• SQL Server Programmatically Evaluate Expression

  I would like to evaluate expressions from within my execute function in a custom task. I saw this post from about 8 months ago detailing how it would be possible: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=117564&SiteID=1 Is there an updated response (or more detailed example) to the question Am I really risking a lot by using this undocumented feature Thanks! Hi David, To quote Kirk ...Show All

• SQL Server Install issue with Express w/ Advanced Services - AGTACCOUNT

  I'm just running the install directly from the executable thats downloaded from the microsoft site and get the following warning which then causes the install to exit (gracefully). Is this something that needs to be set before installing I can't find any documentation on it. Regards Richard TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Setup ------------------------------ SQL Server Setup has determined that the following account properties ar ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Basic Problems Using DirectX 8.0

  ok, What I really would like is to download visual basic 6.0, but I cant find anywhere to do that.. My problem with visual Basic express edition, is I cant seem to get my reference to Directx 8 to work, I have reinstalled directx 8 and VB but it still wont work for me, any ideas> I am programming in BASIC and am very new at it... if anybody could help me I'd be very thankfull, you can contact me by emailing me at Lukeskiwalker@b ...Show All

• .NET Development Error generating reference file?

  I was trying to convert my .Net 2003 verion application to .Net 2005 when I got this error: The type or namespace name 'ConfigurationManager' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Configuration' (are you missing an assembly reference ) My application woks fine under Visual Studio .Net 2003. But I don't know what is wrong when trying to compile it using Visual Studio .Net 2005. Any idea Thanks. Have you&nb ...Show All

• .NET Development FQDN

  Hello, how may I obtain the fully qualified domain name of the computer on which the ASP.NET application is running, in string format I need to email a link to the webserver to people using my application. Thanks for any help Simple: Use this code to get the full path (including port number) to the current server string serverPath = Request.Url.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Authority);   Hope this helps! ...Show All