Anthony Desa's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Convert a old VB6 project

  Hy all,  I have a very old VB6 project (a complex one), I need to to convert it to the new .net 2005 platform. I installed VS.2005 and tryed to convert it using the conversion utility, unfortunatly I get several "Error 7: Out of memory" witch I skip and finaly a "The referenced component TXTextControl is missing a design time license" error witch stops my conversion proces.  Anybody has any ideeas on this one.  Have a nice day, ...Show All

• Windows Forms WaitCursor and form disable

  Hi I got an application with a lenghtly task in managed C++. I wish to disable the form to prevent user from doing anything and have a waitcursor (hourglass) when the task is running. this->Cursor = Cursors::WaitCursor; this->Enabled = false; the task this->En ...Show All

• Visual C# Visual Studio to LINUX?

  I'm wondering if the software That I develop in Visual Studio (6.0, .NET 20002 or 2003, 2005) would run in Linux. If it is possible, HOW Tnx. Check out http://www.mono-project.com It's an implementation of the .NET runtime for Linux/MacOS/... ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Search string?

  I get a little problem: all projects on our server are named YY-XXX (06-422, for example). When I search on 06-422, I can' find nothing but unrelated documents. I presume it has something to do with the '-' sign. looks like it plays it '06 but NOT 422'. Searching for "06-422" doesn't help neither. Is there a workaround TIA Hugues Hugues, I've been digging around trying to find ...Show All

• Visual C# How do I iterate over cells in excel?

  I have an excel file, with a bunch of sheets. Each sheet has a table, but there is not certainty of what row the table starts. But I do know the text in the top left cell of the table. So I want to iterate over the cells, until I find that text, then start reading the data. I can't seem to find any documentation for accessing excel document (via excel interop), although I have found tons of snippets, but all doing fairly trivial stuff. So ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Programmatically inserted inline image is dithered in Word 2003

  I am inserting a .tif as an inline image into a Word document. In Word 2003 the image is dithered. Word 2000 Word 2003 (difference in size is due to monitor resolution in Virtual PC) This is how the image is diplayed and printed. Code: 'Logo Dimensions (in inches) Global Const LOGO_HEIGHT As Single = 2 Global Const LOGO_WIDTH As Single = 2 '************************************************************************************** ...Show All

• Windows Forms Default Font Size for Labels

  In VB.NET is there somewhere that the font size for all labels in a project can be set Thanks, Tony From a purely OO point of view, going with Form inheritance as Erik suggests is the way to go.  But that are so many&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB Exit by the X box

  I have written a reasonably complex VB code that when exited by the upper right corner X box, leaves itself in memory. The exit box control I added exits fine. Each time a user exits via the X box an additional copy is left in memory (as viewed by the Task Manager). Am I doning something wrong that is causing this problem The common cause I see for this is when one has created threads of their own to do work and did not set their IsBa ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to make the form to repaint?

  I have the form that opens another form like this: private void btn1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { do somethind 1...   ..............   form2.ShowDialog();   do something2....... } After the form2 gets opend and closed, my form does not get repainted immed ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions candidate function(s) not accessible

  one of my farvorite Error messages, the one kind that doesn't give a hint why!! I wrote a user control, add a public function to it. Now I put the user control on another Form in a other project, compiles fine and shows the conrtol when startet. If i try to access(add the code to access these) these self added public function of that control, it say that: candidate function(s) not accessible. when compiling. Why is that so A ...Show All

• .NET Development Remoting-v-webservices - the prescriptive guidance is nuts ?

  Web-services excel for cross-platform/cross-language communication. However, what about communication for the internal tiers of an app, where it is .NET on both sides It's the endless debate of remoting-v-webservices. Remoting - faster performance and richer type system, versus the lower-performance, lowest common denominator of web-services. The message that I perceive from MS is "use web-services for everything - remoting is only for in- ...Show All

• Windows Forms Beginners trouble

  Just trying my hand at my first Forms application, converting an old VB6 program I did a few years back. My problem is as follows I have 2 forms, the user selects a csv file in form1 and clicks a button, a new form, form2, then l ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Query to see what have changed in last 3 weeks

  I like to run a Query what has been updated in last 3 weeks, here is my project structure: Development Integration QA User Acceptance Production I need to see all the files which was updated in last 3 weeks, we moved from VSS to TF, need to know the status of new files since the Migration. Asny Help will be appreciated akhan@penson.com Do you really need to ...Show All

• Visual Basic list(of).contains and comparing generic class

  My problem is this (albeita bit of a noob question) I have a custom class which is held in a list class But when I try to search the list for the instance of the class with a property of x=1 then the compare never matches .   Help When am I going wrong Example -- Public Class ConnectionClass Private _ConnectionName As String Private _Product As String Public Sub New ( ByVal ConnectionName As ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Which Team System components?

  I'm getting bogged down by all the management-speak on the Team System web pages!! Which components do I need for version control over a distributed area (http accessed ). Is it the 'Foundation server' and the VS 2005 Team Dev version VSS is absolutely *not* an option!! ;) Thanks, John Based on customer feedback (and a lot of discontent in the community), Microsoft has said that they will include Team Foun ...Show All