hippofear's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Why are the ClientBase<TChannel> ctors protected?

  With the service contract in a separate assembly it is really nice to be able to share the same assembly between the client and service. Then you can create a generic proxy client without the need for svcutil. (The same way you should share an interface for .net remoting). Unfortunately this requires writing a generic helper class that derives from ClientBase<TChannel> because all it's ctors and InnerProxy property are protected! Why oh ...Show All

• Visual Studio How can I get private members of a class in my addin ?

  Hi, I'd like to develop a addin to generate getter/setter like vspropertygenerator. For this addin I need to get the private members of the current class in the IDE. I don't know how can I do this. Could you help me or give me a link to solve my problem Thanks. Best Regards. You have to do it recursively, and not all code elements support the same properties. See: HOWTO: Navigate the code elements of a file from a Visual ...Show All

• Visual Basic Best way to have a class have a value of "Nothing" if the constructor passed in is not valid

  Using .net 2.0 how do I create a class that has a constructor like this simple example: Public Sub New (DriveLetter as string) ' Code to determine if DriveLetter is valid. 'If not class should return nothing. End Sub This can't be done. You can throw a NullReferenceException in you constructor or create a static method in your class: Public Shared Function FromDriveLetter(ByVal dri ...Show All

• Visual C# How to Launch an executable from a hyperlink?

  Is it possible to launch an executable from a hyperlink. Within an application I hope to create a hyperlink to a document, when the user clicks the link I want it to call a hyperlink with \\my.exe ...blah parameters, to open a specified document. Would somebody be kind enough to suggest a way to do this. The application is windows forms application and the .exe will provide a viewer for the document. The document cant be viewed in Internet ...Show All

• Visual C++ free(pointer) in ansi C.

  Hello, I'm using Visual C++ 2003 Standard for C coding. I have a problem with a freeing the pointer. In one place in my program it works, in another not. On gcc all goes well. Here is the code: void basic_pointers(){     int *pointer;     int a=10;     if (pointer == NULL)     {         printf("Out of memory, exiting\n");       &n ...Show All

• .NET Development Can ActiveDirectory provider be used with Login control?

  I would like to use the new Login control to gather a username and pw. I'd then like to make sure that the user exists in ActiveDirectory with that same username/pw. If they exist then I'd like to check for their assigned roles that were set within the Web Site Admin Tool. I'll be using c# and .NET 2.0. In the scenario above would I be using 2 different providers ActiveDirectory to check the input from the Login control and then sqlServer whe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Binding Pictures/Images in Word Documents

  After watching the excellent MSDN webcast "Server Document Generation in Visual Studio Tools for Office" I can see how I can dynamically create a word document on a server pulling the text from a database.  I was wondering though, is it possible using VSTO to insert images (or replace an existing image) in a word document   I can find information on how this can be achieved using WordML but I need to do it using VSTO .  Is this ...Show All

• Windows Forms Panel's border style

  Is there a way to change the border color   thx,  you would think they would include that feature right  border color property. guess not. once again, thx. ...Show All

• Visual Studio VSS 2005 can not show history.

  I'm using VSS 2005 and VS2005, both version are 8.0.50727.42. I'm using VSS Explorer. The "Show History..." does not work. No any results when I choose a long period. I tried to empty "From" and "To" fiels, the result is same. Any idea Thanks in advance. Computer Comfigurations: Windows 2000 Advanced Server sp4 English Dual Monitors VSS in english mode (i think) 80 gig hd 1 gig mem p4 3 ghz Windows XP Pro sp2 same config as above Checke ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System The Team System cube either does not exist or has not been processed

  Hi: I installed the Team Foundation Server July CTP without any errors. Then I created a new team project. I know about the broken report web parts on the project portal so I ran the reports directly through reporting services. I receive the following error: The Team System cube either does not exist or has not been processed. The last time I installed the JULY CTP I was ably to run the reports directly, This doesn't have anything to do with the ...Show All

• Visual Basic Running .NET Apps on a Comp without .NET

  Soo... I built the executable file from my project and copied it to another computer to run.  Except.... the other computer doesn't have the .NET framework installed on it.  The error I get is: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~.NET Framework Initialization Error ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To run this application, you first must install one of the following versions of the .Net Framework:  v2.0.50727  ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Cannot install/re-install MS DeskTop Search (nor toolbar): "cannot remove older version

  I have ALL the problems encountered by some people removing MS DeskTop Search from my computer. I removed it using all the tricks I know + those given by members. Nothing works, I still get the message that the program is already installed on my computer everytime I try to re-install it. Now, all I want is TO REMOVE THAT THING from my computer and not re-install it ever. I'm fed up with this pop ups telling my that I should reinstall the p ...Show All

• SQL Server How to invoke C# code from SSIS? Can we script in C# for Script Task?

  How to invoke C# code from SSIS Can we script in C# for Script Task thanks With the introduction of VSTA which supports C# for scripting, will SSIS support C# i.e. will it upgrade its script engine to VSTA ...Show All

• SQL Server Results displayed in visual studio, but not on website

  I've created a simple report (June CTP) based on a paramaterized stored procedure using integrated windows security.  When I preview the report in the designer, I get results as expected.  Deployment to the web server was successful.  After entering paramaters and clicking [View Report], the page refreshes with no data - just my paramater bar.  I am using the same paramaters as in the designer.  Any ideas ...Show All

• Visual C# Threads and Windows Form UI

  I am having trouble figuring how to asynchronously tell a forms user controls to write to the forms UI. For example, I'd like to take 2 labels on a windows forms and infinitely change their lable.texts property asynchronously while also maintaining the forms functionality such as moving, resizing, minimizing and maximizing. I have tried this process - Start a new windows application Add 2 labels to the form On load, create two threads and a gl ...Show All