JMHirst's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Server-side VSTO scalability and licensing

  I want to use VSTO for creating Word and Excel documents in an ASP.NET application. Will this scale, or it will create a Word/Excel instance in the background as the old Excel/Word COM Automation model How is the licensing Do I need one Office 2003 license in the server Thanks If you are needing to create new Word and Excel document on the server then I don't think that the new ServerDocument functionality wi ...Show All

• Visual C# !!! IF MICROSOFT HEAR US!!!

  I just saw another thread with "Can i make a app that doesnt use the .NET.  The framework is too big 23 MB".. SO... Can Microsoft create a .Net Framework just for c# not for asp or j# or visual basic providing only the neccesary dlls Please!!!! This makes me laught! You are kidding, right All the .NET Languages just create MSIL code, so the .NET Framework is allready only for 1 language. But please tell me, what is wrong with a 30 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Repositioning ToolStrip at runtime

  I'm creating a form that has two ToolStrip controls. When the application is running, I'd like to be able to reposition the ToolStrips by dragging them by their grips, including (I believe the term is) "rafting" the ToolStrips into a single row. This seems like it ought to be an easy thing but I'm stumped -- the ToolStrips are fixed in place. The cursor doesn't change to the four-way arrow over the grips either. I've tried putting the ...Show All

• SQL Server Announcing a GUI tool for configuring dialog security and routing

  www.codeplex.com/slm Setting up Service Broker routes, endpoints and security is just too hard. One has to run pages and pages of Transact-SQL code just to get the ‘Hello, world’ example work between two separate SQL Instances and the chances of making a mistake are overwhelming. Well, not anymore! I’ve just uploaded into the Service Broker team code gallery a new GUI tool for doing just that: easily configure two services to be able ...Show All

• Visual Basic VS2.NET 2005 - Release / Debug Mode unavailable

  Hello, I don't have any options which allow me to change from Debug to Release mode or visa-versa in the IDE for a VB.NET project!!!! Right-Clicking on the Solution Explorer followed by Properties and then Selecting the Compile Tab does not show the Configuration or Platform drop downs. The first prompt is "Build output path".  One of my co-workers has the same version installed and it shows up on their end. I just tried re-installing VS.N ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Pocket PC Windows Media Player

  Hello all, I am trying to stream video using windows media encoder over my wireless network to my PDA. When it gets to my pda I get an error message I am told, by a friend that I need to update my Pocket PCs version of WMP, how can i do this I hate to do this to you - but since these forums are about development, you are unlikely to find anyone to help you. I would suggest trying the newsgroups ...Show All

• Visual C++ Is there a Visual C++ 2005 Reference Manual or only MSDN Reference?

  I want to read a hard copy of Visual C++ 2005 Reference Manual, if there is one. I am seeing one for VB, but not  for VC++ 2005 in the internet. Is there a Visual C++ 2005 Reference Manual or only MSDN Reference Guide me which is best book or manual or reference to know more about Visual C++, especially 2005 version. Thanks in advance, Currently, there is msdn2.microsoft.com that is specific for VC2005. Also, soon books are going to b ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Question about "if" and how to move data/info from Form1 to Form2 and so on.

  Just got some questions regardning how to move data/info from one Form/textbox to another Form/textbox. I want to move data/info from one Form, call it Form1, to another Form, call it Form2. When I set up some simple if-sentence(sp correct word ) it will simply not work. Dont really know how to explain this in eng as its not my main language and theres no paint installed on this computer so I cant use that to explain it in pictu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions keyboard special character keys invoke wrong characters

  I may be in the wrong topics forum for this question. While cleaning up a friend's Compaq Presario 5070, I wrote a note using notepad; the keyboard letters worked fine but the special characters did not. ie: left square bracket gave me a double circumflex accent instead ( [ = ^^ ); acute accent gave me a latin small letter C with cedilla ( ' = c ); a solidus gave me a small letter e with grave ( / = e ). Could this be your software working Is ...Show All

• Visual Basic What's the difference between BUILD and REBUILD solution?

  Any pointer to an article Or an explanation of the difference -Clay So, it seems that you could always just use Rebuild. Is there ever a case where you'd NEED to use Build and Rebuild wouldn't be sufficient ...Show All

• SQL Server Using images in database

  We are building mostly read Real estate web site where there are many pictures what users will see from their browers.We have come up with 3 ideas.But we need help,is there any alternatives to these. 1.Put them into the database we are using . 2.Seperate the images to another instance and record images to that instance . 3.Use the filesytem. What is the best way of storing and retreving images for a concurrent web application ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Customizing bug form

  Hi there,     How do I make sure that the group box is only as big as it fills all the controls in it and does not leave any empty area, so that it looks better as well I can utilize maximum area of the form. Basically how do I set/control the height (as I can do for width by percentwidth attribute) of any control or group in form Thanks, Anu Hi Sagar, Do you know how I can make all of my FieldControls the same ...Show All

• Windows Forms Security exceptions running a .NET 2005 application from a mapped network drive

  Hi, Why is it that I'm able to successfully run a .NET 2005 exe from the local hard drive but when I copy the same EXE to the network it fails with a whole lot of security exceptions Regards Michael The problem is that it is running in a different security zone when running on the network share, a much more restricted one than what it runs under on your desktop. One quick way to fix this is to use ...Show All

• Windows Forms TabControl background color

  I would like to set the background color of a  tab control (more precisely the background color of the area next to the tabs).  I guess I have to create a custom class inherited from TabControl where I override the OnPaint method...  Could  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions SQL problems and vs web developer

  Hi People, hope to find some help. I am new to SQL and vs and currently have to develop a web project. Problem 1: I have created a project in vs web developer, connected it to a slq database located in a file system/rather than on the sql server. Initially, I have created my database with the desired fields and tables, however, after I used web tools in vs web develope ...Show All