falconin's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Introducing HelpStudio Lite

  The VS 2005 SDK contains a new tool for authoring Help and integrating it with VS 2005. The tool is called HelpStudio Lite. It is lightweight version of the full HelpStudio product, developed by Innovasys . HelpStudio Lite is recommended for anyone extending VS 2005 - for example, by creating add-ins, controls, or packages. You will likely also want to author and include Help content with your extensions to VS. You can use HelpStudio Lite to ...Show All

• Visual C++ VS .Net 2005, how to disable intellisense...

  Hi I am really frustrated with the performance of VS .Net 2005. This is because I always see at the bottom "updating intellisense..." and it uses 60% to 70% of CPU. How to disable this updating of intellisense... Please this is making Visual studio unusable. Thanks Chandra Try going to Tools menu -> Options ->Text Editor -> C# -> Intellisense and uncheck the option "Intellisense pre-selects most rec ...Show All

• SQL Server Underlay possible?

  I'm converting Crystal reports to RS reports. One of the reports has a group header "underlaid" with the detail rows, with the effect that it appears to actually be on the detail row, like this : Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 -------- -------- -------- xxxxxxx  xxxxxxx  xxxxx xxxxxxx  xxxxxxx  xxxxxxx  xxxxxxx  xxxxxxx  xxxxxxx  xxxxxxx  xxxxxxx&n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions maximum of an array

  Hi! I’m learning C sharp and I am having some trouble with arrays. I wish to find the coordinates of the maximum value of the array I created. For example, if I have the following matrix:       6      8      4       3      9      2       1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Why my form cannot release resources(such as memory)?

  Hey, I have a MDIParentWindow ,and I open a MDIChildWindow from it.This MDIChildWindow is using CrystalReportViewers to show some Crystal report documents.But I noticed after I closed this MDIChildWindow ,the system resources used by this MDIChildWindow were not released.If I open and close this MDIChildWindow again and again,it happenned everytime.Would you please tell me what's the problem Appreciate for any help. In MDIParentWindow I wro ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Deployment items in runconfig file

  Hi Is there any way I can dynamically alter the associated deployment files with my test project so that in the case of a 'debug' build, I can copy files from a debug folder and on a release build, deploy files from a release folder Thanks Great!....I've opted for the post-build step idea. Works a treat. Thanks ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I group listview items under categories created at the design time?

  Hello, I am wondering how can I group listview items under categories created at the design time. Code: listview1.Items[X].Group = XXXXXXXXXX Please help. Thanks. Try the following code. You can't directly specify the listView1.Items[x].Group. The following code should work. ListView lv = new ListView (); ListViewGroup lvg = new ListViewGroup ( "1" , "Hello" ); ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Programmatically setting the DataContext of a control (e.g a grid)

  So I'm busy going through "Programming Windows Presentation Foundation" by Sells and Griffiths. I'm reading the databinding chapter and did the following... Created a 2 by 2 grid and named it g rid Added the Person class from the book samples to Window1.xaml.cs Set myGrid 's DataContext to an instrance of Person In other words, here's the Person class verbatim from the sample     public class Person : INotifyP ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Anti-aliasing in WPF 3D??

  As i blogged about this, anti-aliasing doesn't seem to work in 3D for WPF apps. As you see from here    PIC Link According to Karsten, this shouldn't occur since the 2005 Sept CTP but I still see it in the Feb CTP. (my card is 6600GT). Details here . Anyone has an idea Unfortunately, due to downlevel/XPDM driver problems, we can only enable anti-aliasing in Vista with an LDDM driver :( ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView columns in designer - followup

  I have a problem where the column order on my DataGridView doesn't stay constant. I can set the order to whatever I want in the designer and save, but when I compile, they always reorder themselves to the same thing. The DGV is bound to a BindingSource which is bound to a class. I think I confused things by adding columns to the DGV before I bound it. Then I added a few more columns from the BindingSource via the helper. After compiling, the col ...Show All

• .NET Development Cryptic debugger message

  Hi, I have written a small application that uses interop with kernel32.dll for communication with the serial port. I have having a rather puzzling problem. Whenever the application runs I get then following messages in the debug output window. The application invariably compiles sucessfully however intermittantly totally freezes (in a release build this freeze is replaced with a silent crash). "Managed Debugging Assistant 'InvalidOverlappedToP ...Show All

• SQL Server Package Configurations not so portable?

  I'm still struggling with finding a sound approach to creating configurations that are truly portable.  For instance if you use XML files to store configuration information, the path to the XML file that stores the configuration is baked into the package.  This would require the same file system structure on all machines that could host the package. Store in SQL server - one key thing that is valuable to configure is Data Sources - bu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions quote more than one line in VB.NET?

  in c#.NET "/*" and "*/" are used to quote more than one line of comments. is there a way to quote more than online in VB.NET   thx pclement, but it's not what i am looking for. However, is "single quote" is the only way to quote more than one line in vb.net imagine i wanted to quote 20 lines of comments, 20 single quotes are therefore needed ...Show All

• Visual Basic Splah Screen Hang

  I have been working on my program for a while but when i came to the splash screen, I became frustrated. When I launched my application, the splash screen just stayed there and never went away. How do I set it so that it goes away after a certain amount of time Hi Cory, I'm assuming that you are showing your Splash screen by setting the Splash screen nproperty in the Project designer - if not, you shoul ...Show All

• Windows Forms Commercial apps w/ WinForms

  Have any commercial apps been written using the .NET framework and WinForms   I'm thinking about writing an application using WinForms, but I'm not sure whether users are ready to swallow the .NET framework as part of the install.  I'm also not ...Show All