zoubir's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office My Pet Peeve of the day

  When Word goes to load Add-Ins, we really, Really, REALLY need a way for it to tell us what Add-Ins it is loading (the assembly and file location) and if they fail, why they failed. And for the fail, the core error too. For example, saying mscore.dll was unhappy is not very useful. Saying that it failed because assembly X is not strongly named - that IS very very useful (a problem I had many many months ago with my AddIn). thanks - dave ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Error 2 and 183 while registering a windowe class and creatinga window.

  Hi all when i try to register a new Window Class, I get the Errors no 2 and 183 Error 2: The system cannot find the file specified. Error 183 : Cannot create a file when that file already exists. Following is the Code thats creatting these errors: LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc ( HWND hwnd , UINT iMsg , WPARAM wParam , LPARAM lParam ) { switch ( iMsg ) { } return 0; }   int APIENTRY WinMain ( HINSTANCE hInstance , HINSTANC ...Show All

• SQL Server Can we download the DTS Designer?

  I am using SQL Server Express 2005 CPT April, and I would like to use the DTS Designer with it.  I have been looking for a download but have not found it yet.  Does anyone know where I can download it from or if DTS Designer is included in the tools that come with SQL Server Express   I haven't gotten those tools working yet. Thanks If you mean the Integration Services (we rena ...Show All

• Visual C++ Why do I get OutOfMemoryException?

  Why do I get OutOfMemoryException running the following code m_lst = gcnew System::Collections::Generic::List<array<double>^>; for(int i=0; i<10; i++) { m_lst->Add( gcnew array<double>(512*512*100) ); } (Create a WinForm app and insert this code at the end of InitializeComponents) I got the exception when i=5. (that is only ~1GB of memory). I know that is a lot of memory, but my computer has 2.5GB of RAM ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Weird question

  I have a question for all the leval designers out there. Let's just say I'm playing Doom 3 or something..See, Doom 3 or Quake 4 or any other game like that require a lot of visual memory..So let's just say that I'm playing the game and since all of thoes are first person shooters..Here's my master question is..Why don't you just put what you're not looking at in the game in a lower detail or maybe even wireframe But it wouldn't stay in a low det ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error 32000 TFSSetup Application tier

  Hi, I tried to install Team Foundation Server (CTP July) with SQL 2005 (CTP June DEV). The Data-tier installation worked well. There are 3 Windows 2k3 Server participating(DC, App, SQL). All of them are running in a Virtual Server environment. But during install of the application tier I got the following Error: file - dd_vsinstall80.txt: [08/30/05,13:52:37] vs70uimgr: DisplayMessage_START:Error 32000.Failed to execute action. last r ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to get IWin32Window for Show/ShowDialog in Excel

  In my workbook.cs file I am trying to open a form, I need a handle to excel to pass into the Show/ShowDialog method for the IWin32Window parameter so that the dialog doesn't get hidden. I'm not 100% sure on this one, but I think you may be looking for XLMAIN (OpusApp for Word, OMain for Office, PPFrameClass for PowerPoint) - the "parent names" for the application windows. ...Show All

• Visual Studio connecting a report to dataset in asp 2.0

  reporting services will allow a report to populated from a Dataset (contains a tableadapter) making the report creation real simple. I do not seem to be able to do the same in a Crystal report as the database expert does not seem to be able to find the table. I simply created a dataset , populated it with data from any database e.g Northwind (this happens automatically when the one hits the Add New Item .. dataset. With reporting services a new ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Problems with class that creates DirectX9-Surfaces

  I have written a class that uses DirectX9 to create surfaces, but I get linker-errors. The errors seems to be in the CXSurface::LoadFromFile(const char* Path). The source-code comes from the book "DirectX 9 User Interfaces Design and Implementation". Here are the errors: 1>------ Build started: Project: UILib, Configuration: Release Win32 ------ 1>Compiling... 1>main.cpp 1>h:\programmering\visual c++ 2005\uilib\uilib\main.c ...Show All

• Windows Forms VS2005 RTM - grid/guide toggling broken

  I saw another post on the following VS 2005 bug -- but it was for the express edition... It appears grid/guide toggling in the WinForm designer is simply broken in VS2005. The only way to toggle the grid is to go to the Options dialog and change 'LayoutMode' to/from 'SnapToGrid'. Then exit / restart VS2005. The Toggle Grid / Toggle Guides buttons on the Dialog Editor toolbar never become enabled. Similarly, I've added menu items to the For ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Getting list of builds using Object Model

  Can anyone tell me if it is possible, and if so how, to get a list of builds for a project using the object model. I've had a look through the documentation and can't find anything obvious. Thanks, Michael Hi Michael, You need to use the GetListOfBuilds() method on the BuildStore object, as follows: BuildStore store = ( BuildStore ) TeamFoundationServerFactory .GetServer(serverUrl).GetService( typeof ( ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem printing using Generic Printer

  I am using a receipt printer installed as a Generic printer. When I try to print using the DrawString method of the graphics object, I get this error message: "An unhandled exception of type 'System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception' occurred in system.drawing.dll Addition ...Show All

• SQL Server Can Alter (current) Database?

  I have a *.sql script that creates database tables, and I need to modify the database to enable the service broker. In addition, the actual name of the database is not known in advance - it is set per instance of the application. I know I need to do: ALTER DATABASE dbname SET ENABLE_BROKER But I must avoid including the name of the database in the script. I did wonder if this would work: DECLARE @DB varchar(50) SELECT @DB ...Show All

• Visual Basic Making a picturebox have a transparent background

  I have a picture of a panda with a pink background (panda_down.bmp) and I was wondering: how do I get that pink background to be transparent Draw the image yourself in a paint handler, and use the imageattributes class to make 255/0/255 ( magenta ) transparent. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Combobox in a Datagrid -- Good VB.net examples?

  Hi....this is crazy.  I've been searching all day for an article/tutorial on how to include a bound combobox in a datagrid for winforms.  I find alota small posts, but nothing substantial.  And much is for webforms.  Does anyone have a&nbs ...Show All