James F's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms How to implement two form control Interaction hosting in IE?

     Is it possible to implement two form control Interaction hosting in IE Someone can give some clue one form control hosting in IE get actvie reference with another form control     I want to implement one form control act as Data Sender, another form control act as Data Recevier, the .net control that Data Recevier get Data Sender object with one way like com way with IE container Interface.  & ...Show All

• .NET Development comdlg32.ocx error

  what is it and what can i do to fix it In what context are you getting this erro and what does the error say This ActiveX control shipped in Visual Studio 6.0/Visual Basic 6.0 and is used for showing common dialogs (open/save).  You should be able to find this control in your windows\system32 directory.  Perhaps you just need to re-register it by typing "regsvr32 comdlg32.ocx" from the command line ...Show All

• .NET Development Parsing optional blocks with RegEx

  I have to parse data contaning blocks that are not always present. Here's example <block id="aaa"> aaa data </block> <block id="bbb"> bbb data <block > xxx data </block> </block> <block id="ccc"> ccc data </block> I want to catch each (aaa, bbb and ccc) blocks in corresponding variables. The problem is that some blocks can be omitted. I tried this regex: " ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Where is it?

  Hi all! I received the Visual Studio Team Suite CD Set and I realized that the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server is not on the CDs. I could see that we are still on beta, don't we If so, when it will become RTM If not, on which disc I can install it on the W2003 Server See ya and thank you for your help! Chila! Hello, The actual RTM date hasn't been announced, but will likely be in a few months from now. You can try ...Show All

• Visual C++ Porting-to-Unicode Issues

  Hello, I recently installed Visual Studio .NET 2005 Beta 2, and was very quickly very pleased with the IDE. As a step to test the new IDE, I import an old project I did, including a String class I developed. When I tried to build however (with Unicode enabled, as it is by default), I got about 70 errors from various header files, such as atlbase.h, atlconv.h, and statreg.h .  When turn off Unicode support, all the errors disappear, and all ...Show All

• SQL Server sp_changedbowner bug?

  in studio sqlserver 2005 beta 2 press button new query, use adventureworks entry text: sp_changedbowner 'sa' press execute - result ok entry text: create procedure anyproc .... go  sp_changedbowner 'sa' script  ending  only if press stop button entry text: sp_changedbowner 'sa' script  ending  only if press stop button   bug.vbs: set adoconn1 = createobject("AD ...Show All

• Visual Studio Error reading from file

  Rizwan (owangecounty), I think your problem may have been that your names.dat was corrupt or completely missing. "Analyze -f" probably did its best to recover the names, but may have failed. It's a bit strange that all files appear with empty names - normally when long names from names.dat are lost, analyze should be able to recover at least 31 characters from the real filenames (because names truncated to 31 characters are also stored in the da ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to add to the base class library?

  Suppose I have a simple class that I use so frequently that I don't want to have to add a referency to it for each new project, but wrather have it act as if it were part of the base class library. Is there a way to do this I realize that I could create a code snippet but I would wrather not have to see the code in my projects. Thanks, SteveJ You could create a new project, add the references you use most often, etc., and then sa ...Show All

• Visual Studio Microsoft Document Explorer cannot be shown because the specified help collection 'ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.v80.en' is invalid

  I have installed a RC version of VS Team Suite along with full MSDN installation. After completing installation, I'v got " Microsoft Document Explorer cannot be shown because the specified help collection 'ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.v80.en' is invalid " error when I have tried to access it by doing "Start" -> "All Programs" -> "Microsoft Developer Network" -> "MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005" When I accessed it from VS ...Show All

• .NET Development ConfigurationManager Question

  Hello, I am trying to get started using the System.ConfigurationManager namespace to change my application's app.config file from code. The project is a simple Winforms application run in debug mode. I run the following: // Get the count of the Application Settings. int appStgCnt = ConfigurationManager .AppSettings.Count; string asName = "AppStg" + appStgCnt.ToString(); // Get the configuration fil ...Show All

• Architecture Layered Architecture across Boundaries

  Hi, I would like to know, how separating layered architecture across boundaries can increase performance and scalability. We have a scenario where client insists on the Presentation Layer on a separate machine and the application server on a separate machine and the interaction between them is going to be using Web Services. Web Services are arguably slow and how can the performance improve against having the UI Layer and Business L ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Developing a Distributed Workflow

  Hi group members Hope u be doing gr8 with WWF , well did any body try a distibuted (but tightly coupled , as the complete objects/context may also be needed to be passed) Work Flow in WWF . Like couple of activities run on Machine A then Other on Machine B (see figure below ) Machine A                  Machine B        &n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Where are my web-site graphics and images?

  Hi there, Strange one.  When I publish and access my web-site from the production server all the images/graphics, formatting and lay-out is missing. Works fine on Visual Studio WD Express.  Snap shot from the browser window below....  Yes, all the required graphics are in the respective folders off INetPub.    The files for this site were copied, lock stock and barrel to the production server.  ...Show All

• Visual C# MdiParent Is NULL

  I activated an MDI child using the following code : MyChildForm myChildForm = new MyChildForm(); myChildForm.MdiParent = this; myChildForm.Show(); however, in the childForm thid.MdiParent = null. the Parent form isMdiContainer ... Pls help !!! Maybe you can try this: myChildForm.Show( this );   HTH Bye. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Crystal report from XML

  I have a VB.Net (2003) project that has a simple Crystal Report. The report displays data contained in an .XML file. Using the wizard, I was able to get it to displaty properly. The problem, is that I would like the user to be able to choose an .XML file (of the same format) and have the report dynamically display its contents. I cannot figure out how to change the .xml file that it reports on during runtime. Can anyone help me in t ...Show All