helis's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Unit Testing Bug with xml value in My.Settings

  I am trying to create a visual basic test for testing some functionality with my Mainform.The test must instantiate the mainform and ivoke the load method before executing the following test statements. During the loading of the form I retreive an xml string using My.Settings.ReportMS. The xml string is correctly retreived using My.Settings.ReportMS during normal program execution, but during the execution of the test method the xml string retre ...Show All

• Visual C# What do i need to dispose and how?

  When i close my application I get following error: An unhandled exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException' occurred in WiseDVAppVer1.exe Additional information: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. I tried debugging my code and it seems the code fails to dispose some object. Following part causes the error. in particular it gets stuck at combobox.selectedvalue.tostring(); private void comboBox1_Select ...Show All

• .NET Development How to create XmlTextReader object for a string stored XML content? Many Thanks!

  How to create XmlTextReader object for a string stored XML content Many Thanks!   Normally, we create XmlTextReader object using a filename parameter, such as  XmlTextReader my = new XmlTextReader(@"E:\Temp_WriteXMLToBookmark\1.xml"); but I have stored XML content into a string, how to create XmlTextReader object for the string stored XML content There is a stupid way, that is to save the string as a XML file first,then use XmlTextRea ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do I get the value that is in the {}

  I have a combobox with its datasource bound to an enumeration. Now When I look at it the selecteditem and selected value are objects. I don't need the string I need intgere assignes to that string and it looks like this in the debugger value column under locals RED {1} BLUE {2} GREEN {3} So how do I get the integer. If I do X = comboBox.selectedValue.GethashCode it works but I don't know if that is the right way. Is there a way to ...Show All

• .NET Development Urgent help required--C# equivalent to Java HashMap

  Java HashMap equivalent in C# is HashTable. But in java the HashMap can have a null key ie key is a null reference and there can be duplicate keys ie basically keys with the same name. I want a class that provides the above feature ie 1)stores in key value pairs 2) key can be null 3)Keys with the same name can be added. or if there is another util class that provides the above mentioned features. Please help me with this. Thanks a lot in adva ...Show All

• .NET Development Network Scanning With .Net

  Hi, I want to be able to use .Net to scan a network and find network devices (switches, hubs, routers etc.) and resolve their names. I will only have the ip range and the subnet of which to scan. I am using vb.net but understand that c# is better at things like this, so I can be flexible if anyone has a solution. I also would like to try and avoid third party components if at all possible. If anyone could help I would be extremely grate ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Missing Oracle data source

  Hi, here is what help says: The Add Connection dialog box for Oracle allows you specify settings, such as database file name and passwords, for this connection. This dialog box is available when Oracle Database is selected under Data Source in the Choose/Change Data Source .... where can I find it I can only see Access and SQL server Thanks Martin You're in the correct menu, the issue is that this feature is n ...Show All

• Visual C++ Iam new to vc++.net 2005 but I know the normal c++ coding methods

  Hi, I am an average c++ programmer but I've never used or tried to build an application using MS VC++.NET 2005. I've written a few programs in VB6 but now I want to learn building programs in vc++.net 2005. I have a tutorial book where they explain nothing but console application and those are very basic(understood very well). I've also seen some useless samples using MFC or win32 which i dont understand at all because the author don't explain o ...Show All

• Visual Studio Language Service and IVsEditorFactory?

  Does a Language Service only use the core editor Or can we create our own IVsEditorFactory impl to use in conjunction with the Language Service's colorizer, etc. Do you just want to create your own colorizer   If so, are you using the Managed Package Framework   If so, it should be easy to implement your own colorizer. If you can give me a better idea of what you are trying to do, I can sugges ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Removing junk characters

  Hi, I am reading from a text file into a textbox and then separating items which are separated by a vbCrLf, and adding them to a list box. When I do this, at the end of each item, a box character appears, which then affects my database search as the string has a box in it. Can anyone suggest a way to overcome this Thanks, James Like this: { 'Create an OpenFile dialog if neccessary If fd ...Show All

• Smart Device Development When using "InternetOpen()"...

  I am working on a smartphone 2003 project. I want to use the " InternetOpen " function. What to import Where is it Thanks! Refer to this post for details http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2005/09/14/466579.aspx ...Show All

• Visual C# Missing editor (I think !) for solution properties

  Hi ! I am new to C# (and programming generally) but I enjoyed working with  C# Express 2005 Beta 1, and made some dlls for some software I already have. This required using the properties interface to build and debug. I recently installed Beta 2. The compiler works fine, but when I click the Properties in the solution explorer I just get a message: Package 'Visual Studio Settings and Project Designers Package' has failed to load properly (G ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Hello!

    The concerted work that goes on here in really impressive. I'm also thinking about a mass mailed note I received from S. Somesegar, corporate VP of Microsoft development. He said that MS Engineers were not alone in building VS2005. Customers had a lot  to do with it to make it as neat as it is. Continuing in that vein, I though it may be a contribution to see if we can't put together an FAQ that will take care o ...Show All

• Windows Forms ClickOnce installing in Documents and Settings\{user}\Local Settings\Apps\...

  How do I get this to install in programs/{appname} with ClickOnce You can't. Or at least the application can't. This FAQ says the administrator can change the location of the ClickOnce store. I've never looked into how to do that. http://www.windowsforms.net/FAQs/default.aspx PageID=1&CategoryID=24&tabindex=2 Mike ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Need more information about Security Tools and Fault injection tools.

  Hi all, Need more information about Security Tools and Fault injection tools. I know some of tools are as follows Holodeck Holodeck lite Pagespy Decode HEAT Ethereal Apart from these tools I need information. I need more tools fault injection tools too.. Is there any opensource tools for the fault injection.... For fault injection, you can look at http://research.microsoft.com/sn/detours/ - but ...Show All