Dennis Kriek's Q&A profile

• Windows Search Technologies IFilter qustion: Can I customize the display name of current item's parent folder?

  Hello, I'm building a custom IFilter add-in for some private file type. I want to customize the item's parent folder display name, so that user can see user friendly name in search result window and preview pane. In my filter, I returned the following property (as CHUNK_VALUE type, VT_LPWSTR): D5CDD505-2E9C-101B-9397-08002B2CF9AE "DisplayFolder" And I used some value other than of its default ("C:\Documents and Setting ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) SLOW motion when animating 56 and more ellipses...

  in my WPF prog i create 56 ellipses [no full opacity, each on its own canvas] on the fly [out of the resources of a grid] add a storyboard to each ellipse, add the storyboard then to a main storyboard and place them into a 8 x 7 Grid which occupies the whole window size [the window has a linear gradient as a background]. When i then kick off my storyboard the animations come to life BUT the whole thing lags as hell! No, don't have ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do collection items notify a change to control.

  hi, I create a winform control with collection property.The collection property include some type object.But when I modify the object's property in the collection on run-time the control doesn't change.How to notify control to change when object's property change in the collection property What kind of control is it, a UserControl If the display of your control is dependant on the contents of a collectio ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to Implement Super User?

  Pls give me a reference where i can read about the functions of a system super user.. Please read http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=227781&SiteID=1 Your question is not really very descript about what your trying to achieve. A system super user is an admin. This means that have security permissions on the box to make changes such as the registry and installing applications that normal users may not have. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Object reference not set to an instance of an object

  I installed vs2005 team system suite beta 2 over a previous ctp (I follow all the uninstall guidelines) on a w2k3 SP1 server. When I try to create a new item in a web project (either Dataset, xsd, web form, master page...) I get the error on the subject. I tried to reinstall vs2005 but I always get the same problem. I also tried vs2005_beta_cleanup_tool.exe with same behavior. I want to print the out put on a s ...Show All

• Windows Forms Public Shared Members vs. Global Variables

  I've always thought that it's best to use as few global variables as possible since they take up resources. I've also though that declaring type members as <color="red"><u>public shared</u></color> was similar to a global variable and that& ...Show All

• SQL Server how to modify stored procedure to achieve objective

  Can we modify the sp_datatype_info stored procedure to return datatypes >=3 only in sql server 2005 Is it possible with SQL Server 2000. If it is not possible to modify/drop the procedure, is it possible to change the name resolution logic to be able to call the procedure in another (for example dbo) schema Any other possible way to achieve this What is the true objective of what you are trying to accomplis ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VPN Access failing

  I have a single server installation of TFS Workgroup Edition. I am connected through with a VPN. When I try to add the server in Visual Studio, I am prompted for authentication credentials and after inputting a correct set of username/password I receive a TF31002 error. I have added this user, which is a local user account on the server (workgroup, no domain), to the appropriate TFS groups. Everything works locally on the server. Remotely, th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Studio 2003 uninstall

  Hi, I've had Visual Studio 2003 for a while, but have now got Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. I don't have enough space on my system drive, so I need to uninstall Visual Studio 2003. When I try, it says "Setup is unable to determine a valid ordering for the installation. See the error log for further details". I don't know where this error log is. I have tried repairing prior to uninstalling, or uninstalling the components, but I still get the same ...Show All

• Visual C++ Right-click on a ListCtrl

  Hi, I have a ListCtrl (report view) in the main view in my application, and I want to show a popup menu when I right click on the ListCtrl. But it doesn't work, the popup menu only shows when I right click outside the ListCtrl. I want it to appear only when I right click on the ListCtrl. In the CMyView class I have this code: void CMyView::OnRButtonDown(UINT nFlags, CPoint point) { CView::OnRButtonDown(nFlags, point); CMenu menu; VERI ...Show All

• .NET Development sql question

  Ok i have a really big file like 2 Gb.. and i want to insert it into database.. but i want to send chunks of data.. like 10 Mb and my Database has a column Data type image is there a possible way to add to that column i mean i put 10 Mb then add to those 10 Mb another 10 MB Try using the Offset property of the SqlParameter class: "The Offset property is used for client-side chunking of binary and string data. For example, in orde ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to make splesh screen like Adobe Acrobat

  I'm using the VB.NET Hi, here is excatly what you want: http://www.codeproject.com/Purgatory/SplashScreen.asp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Migrate work items from Beta 2 to Beta 3?

  Ok, first of all let me state clearly for the record. I fully realize that MSFT does not officially support work item migration from Beta 2 to Beta 3.  I also realize Beta 2 did not have a GO-LIVE license with it, so I am officially on my own on this one.  Having said that, "un-officially" is there anything I can do to half-way get this to work When my team moved from Beta 1 Refresh -> Beta 2, we exported all of our work item ...Show All

• Visual C++ "Correct" Workerthread Termination

  Hello, I have used worker threads for a long while and yet always had and still have problems with the "correct" way such threads should be killed for premature termination. They may have files open, are in the process of allocating global memory or doing any number of other things. The closest I got to "correct" is to signal the worker thread through it's priority if it's services are not required anymore for terminati ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System "Edited by God" history message.

  We observed "Edited by God" message in history of work item. Is it joke of TFS developers http://photofile.ru/photo/toly/1294760/large/26995834.jpg Sorry to say, but this forum engine doesn`t have an option to upload the file. I guess that this is a joke of Microsoft. 4.05.2006 14:00 - 15:00 we upgraded our RC server to RTM. At this moment database upgrade proccess was initiated.TFS server wa ...Show All