MichaelZhou's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Installing Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 on a standalone machine - Problem

  Hi, I am new to Visual Studio and the whole .net stratedgy. I want to install beta 2 on my home laptop. I am having problems though. It seems like I require the Team Foundation Server to be installed too, which I cannot do due to spec. Is this necessary, or is it just to have .net setup Can someone advise me on what to install and not to install to make it work on a standalone please. I just want to do some coding  & builds etc. (with SQL Server) to have a look at the new functionality :) Many thanks, Iain Hi, I modified my installation and removed the above. The result is that I don' ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to get and/or set IP address?

  Hey, I'm using VB Express 2005 and I'm trying to write a small program to configure remote network devices. In order to do the initial configuration, I need to get the IP address of the local hard-wired ethernet adapter, or set it. One way of doing this, I figured I could set the local hard-wired adapter to DHCP and connect it to the device. Windows would assign an automatic IP address, which I could simply obtain. I would much rather be able to assign a specific IP address, do what I need to, and the re-set the adapter to its previous settings. Finding the correct hard-wired adapter could be as simple and promting the user with a list of ...Show All

• SQL Server Free space information in Management Studio

  In Enterprise Manager, the taskpad view showed me how much space is available in the data and log files. Is this information available anywhere in SSMS For instance, in one database EM shows me that I have 1200MB free in the data file and 400MB free in the log file. It also says, at the top of the taskpad view, that I have 0 free space in the database - I'm not sure how they relate, but in SSMS the only number that I can see is the 0. It also takes several mouse clicks and scrolling over to see the breakdown of the data and log sizes. OK, further research uncovered the following: http://www.sqlservercen ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB6: Application limits

  While creating multiple windows forms with ActiveX Controls is there a limit on number of total controls that are created & Active at one time . If so is there a way to adjust these limits When i was creating a large VB6 application a while back i did hit a limit to the number of controls i could fit on one form (may have been 255 cant remember). I got round this by creating all my label controls as a control array. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista MCMS 2002 and WWF (Architecture Overview)

  Hi to all group members Well one thing that i love about CMS 2002 workflow (yes if you dont know that ,this may be surprising to you ) is that its simple ( 3 step at most ) , secondly we have all the Events with much more authority , for example in contrast to SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Document Libarary Events (Uploading etc ) the events can stop the flow and revert the action something which is not possible SharePoint Portal Server 2003 DOcuemnt Libaray Events (you cant stop them they jsut happen and you are sort of notified!) . Anyways come back to the subject of Workflow , i want to design a workflow for CMS 2002 using WWF (offcours ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Sample of gravity

  Hello friends!! See my sample of gravity on games. It's simple!!!! Release http://br.thespoke.net/MyBlog/shinji/MyBlog_Comments.aspx ID=28172 Source http://br.thespoke.net/MyBlog/shinji/MyBlog_Comments.aspx ID=28071 They comment!!! ...Show All

• SQL Server Default Value of Parameter using expression - ERROR!

  Try to get the parameter from a query not an expression ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Build and Test Config Deployment Item Issue

  When we add a deployment folder to a test config the items will deploy without any issue locally. However, when we use the same test run config in a team build the build fails to deploy the items correctly and the build fails to run the tests. To reproduce this create a solution with a test project and a DB project. Add some files to the Create Scripts folder in the DB project. Add a unit test to the test project that passes. Under Solution Items right click on the test run config and choose properties. Add the Create Scripts folder from the DB project to the deployment items (Note: add the folder not the individual items). Run t ...Show All

• Visual C# Socket Question

  I followed the MSDN example for Asynchronus Sockets. It seems to be working, but I'm having a few issues on how it works. Basically I have two Flash clients that connect to the socket server. I want to be able to send a message from one Flash client to the other. I have been successful in wrtining to the socket and returning the data to the client that sent the message. How do I get the other client to recieve data that is sent to the socket. Is there a way to broadcast to all clients connected to the socket I'm running VS Studio 2003 Enterprise Edition. Thanks... If you have a reference to the socket, you ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB .NET 2003 Form Scrolling Controls

  I have created a form using vb in visual studio 2003 whereby the form is longer than the screen (height 2000) and becomes vertically scrollable. I have placed text boxes throughout the length of the form. The form compiles and debugs with no errors, but when using the form and scrolling to the bottom, then clicking in a text box for focus, the form immediately returns (auto-scrolls) to the top of the form before I can enter any data in the text box. Is there a property that controls this behavior Some minutes later i found the solution, and perhaps it could work for the ini ...Show All

• Visual C# Getting a COM dll's version from it's COM registry entries

  We currently have some code that goes like this: object savePath = null ; // get smartconnect type from prog id of COM component SmartConnect.dll Type smartConnectType = Type . GetTypeFromProgID ( "SmartConnect.CSmartConnect" ); // create instance of smartconnect Object smartConnectObject = Activator . CreateInstance ( smartConnectType ); // get the save path savePath = smartConnectType . InvokeMember ( "GetFullSmartPath" , BindingFlags . InvokeMethod , null , smartConnectObject , new object [] { clientPolicyReference , branchReference , diaryKey }); So ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System File locked by another programmer

  I have a project that has a file locked by another programmer that is no longer working with me and I can't get him to check the file back in.  How do I (as an adiministrator) remove the lock from TFS source control Please add your thoughts to the following blog post.  The tfpt features are certainly high on the list for a VS power toy. http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2005/11/16/493736.aspx Buck ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Grids are readOnly. How do I put text in them?

  Hi there. Kind of embarrassing asking simple question when other people post such advanced requests. I am new here. I got as far as creating a form with two grids and other controls I need. There is a Pageframe that switches between pages and I have each grid on the corresponding page. All the way I am making comparisons with dBASE stuff which I hope soon will be a thing in the past. Anyway, when I run the form all rows in grids appear to be read only. I cannot enter any information in any columns. I want preempt a question about the tables. I did creat a database with two tables I need, made appropriate fields and indexed them. The field na ...Show All

• Visual C# mouse over and show tool tip for line chart

  I would like to show tool tip whenever I mouse over my own custom made line chart. Can any one provide me a clue of how to do it Thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 CTP 64-bit editions: ODBC driver and OLE DB provider?

  Does the x64 version of SQL Server 2005 June CTP contain 64-bit versions of the SQL Server ODBC Driver and the OLE DB Provider   I am not interested in the .NET Managed Provider here, just the legacy ODBC and OLE DB drivers, and only 64-bit versions of those. Thanks, Chuck Where can I download sql server 2005 ctp 64 bit edition or the the latest odbc drivers for sql server 2005 x64 (and what is the latest version #) ...Show All