Justin Marshall's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio MSBuild dependencies

  Hi, I am new to the .NET world and I am trying to figure how to express assembly dependencies in MSBuild. How to I tell MSBuild to go and get the assembly it need in a certain directory Is there any documentation that explain dependencies management under MSBuild Thanks, -M. you just set up your build script (project file) to use project-to-project references instead of file directly, then the build order will automatically be correct. ...Show All

• Windows Forms What is the fastest way to draw images?

  I am writing an application in .NET that has some very specific requirements for a very rich and sophisticated visual interface. It is similar to a 2D game interface, in some ways. Because of some of the visual techniques that the application requires, I decided that it would not work well to represent each control as a Windows.Forms control. So, what I have done is created my own custom GUI library that is currently "hosted" in a Windows.Forms control. That is, the Windows.Forms control passes keyboard, mouse, and redraw events to objects from my custom GUI library for processing. So far, all is working quite well, but my rende ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions I dont have Deployment Projects !

  Hi every one .. I have VB 2005 Express Ed. , i finished my new App. & when i try to make Deployment Projects i couldent  because i could not see it when i try to add Deployment Project to my project !   Can anybodoy help me with that thanx   Setup and Deployment projects aren't supported in the Express Edition; only ClickOnce deployment is supported. See: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yyb0he31(en-US,VS.80).aspx  to learn more about deploying your Express applications. Steve Hoag Visual Basic Express ...Show All

• SQL Server Transfer data : DTS, replication or Bulk Insert ?

  Hi, I need to copy a table between 2 different SQL servers. There are a lot of different solutions : -DTS -Bulk Insert -Replication ... What are the pros and cons of these solutions How to choose Thanks As you said all three are valid options but used in various context. Here is little about each DTS:In most cases is used to transfer from DBMS to another DBMS as it gives better performance. It CAN be used for data transfer from other sources like flat file or a CSV. BULK INSERT: Usually used for transferring data from flat file to database table. Replication: This is more specializ ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) DataContracts do not transmit properly (Feb CTP)

  Hello, I am building a simple chat client to evaluate the applicability of WCF to our current project. However, I am having a problem where a custom class (Fig. 1) appears to send out the data stored in it just fine, as far as I can step through anyway. But on the receiving side, the class arrives with all data fields nulled. I am using the NetTcpBinding and synchronous messaging. I am also using the SvcUtil tool to generate the metadata and proxies. Figure 1. [ DataContract ] public class ChatMessage { [ DataMember (Name= "AllComputers" ,Order=0)] public bool AllComputers; [ DataMember (Name= "Destinatio ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can't install VB 2005 Express

  Launching setup results in "Error encountered during setup" with no options other than Exit. Can anybody make a suggestion on how to troubleshoot and/or resolve this Thanks. Are you installing from the web install of VB Express or did you download the CD image   Either way, it may be that something was corrupted and you need to download either the Setup for the web install or download the CD Image again. On my main system I installed from the web. No problems. On my laptop, I downloaded the CD Image. The first time I had the same experience you did. So, I downloaded it again and reburned it to CD and e ...Show All

• SQL Server New Guy Question 2: SQL on-the-fly at package runtime?

  Here I go again...thanks for your patience... I'm trying to create a single, all-purpose SSIS package that would move data from a source database table to a matching target database table. The requirement is to create the package such that the SQL statement used by SSIS could be supplied at runtime. This would allow a single package to be used for different SQL statements, representing different tables, rows and columns, etc. as needed. The data movement combinations are highly variable, so I'm hoping to find a flexible one-size-fits-all solution with a single package. I've looked at setting up a string variable for the SQL statement, and p ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System CA1034 NestedTypesShouldNotBeVisible

  The rule documentation shows this example code as an example that should fail, however this example doesnt fail. It only fails when i change internal to public, so mabye the documentation could be updated or the rule ofcourse. using System; namespace DesignLibrary {     internal class ParentType    {        public class NestedType       {           public NestedType()          {          }    &n ...Show All

• .NET Development Enable/Disable network card

  Hi. Is there any possibility to control the network card ( enable/disable) using c# in .NET Framework 1.1 Thanks.Mircea Can you point me to the right direction so I can solve this problem Thanks. Mircea ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista EventQueueName question

  Hello, I have the following questions: 1) the EventQueueName is only related to an activity of type HandleExternalEventActivity (for example in the collection returned by the method GetWorkflowQueueData of an instance). Is this afirmation correct 2) has the DelayActivity a queue item like the one mentioned before (something like DelayQueueName with delay activity data) Thanks, Markus Hey Markus, (1) Yes, the queue(s) and their name(s) are created when the WF arrives at the state. In addition to those, there is the SetState QueueName, so externally we can always SetState where e ...Show All

• Visual Basic unspecified error

  I donno why but whenever i try to pass parameters to the procedure iam calling its giving me an error saying -2147467259 - unspecified error Can anyone tell me what this means The error is when i try to pass parameters oComm.Parameters(0).Value = uHeaderInfo.sProjNumber thanks for the reply cgraus the problem is its giving the same error to all values that iam passing. even in the next module when iam trying to pass the parameters to another procedure. its saying the same. sriksdave ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Compact framework 2.0 for Smart Phone

  Hi, I have installed Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition (licenced version) in my system. Actually what my question is why the compact framework 2.0 template was not installed for Smart Phone The New Project dialog only displays " Device Application (1.0) " for Smart Phone 2003. But both versions (Device Application 1.0 and 2.0) are displayed for Pocket PC 2003. I can develop application for pocket pc by using Device Application 2.0. But I can't develop smart phone application by using version 2.0. What should i do for this problem Kindly please send reply asap. Thanks, GANESAN. M Please install the W ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System the request failed with http status 404

  when I tried to open the team explorer I got the following error the request failed with http status 404 Could you provide more information   Was this Beta 3   A single or dual server install   Did you follow the TFS Installation Guide ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) visual layer programming

  I found one thread, from last month, that talks about how to work with 'visuals'. At the end of the thread, somebody suggests subclassing UIElement and then, inside this class,using VisualOperations.GetChildren(this) to access the 'children' visuals of the UIElement. It looks like VisualOperations has since joined the choir invisible* (VisualOperations replaced by VisualTreeHelper) , so does anyone know how to access the 'visuals' of a UIElement Is this still the right way to draw stuff at the visual layer (*web documentation appears to be still referring to the September CTP, and my local WinFX documentation isnt working, but using re ...Show All

• Visual Studio what are the % and @ operators

  There are quite few details i couldnt find in msdn documentation i see some examples using % operators where can i find details about them espcially scope and operations etc. Also the other information those wont be captured in schema like relation between ItemGroup and Target etcetc Thanks, Sajjad Hi, The @ is used when you need to change a list of items into a single string, where as the % is a transformation that can convert from one list to another. There was a post here a while ago with a good example, When to Use Transforms vs Just Item Metadata . Also there is a small entry on the ...Show All