R.J. Archer's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Full MSDN local install for VS 2005 incomplete

  I have recently installed Visual Studio 2005 and am having trouble with the local Help functionality. Local help is missing a host of very basic keywords and functions such as fprintf, #include, #define etc. (although other things are available, such as the STRCONV() function). I can click on a keyword, press F1 and be directed to online help, which always has the information I need. But if I search for the same item in the Index pane of local Help, I get a No Topics for Index Entry error and am told to click on one of the child elements. This occurs even when there are no child elements to click on. And I am not directed to online hel ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is there a way to associate the release version to a work item?

  I have installed TFS Server Beta 3 Refresh and started messing around with it.  Everything seems to be working good (for a beta) for me.  All the main path functionality works. My one question for now is if there is a way to associate a version number with a Work Item(bug).  If I wanted to fix a specific set of bugs for the v3.0 release how is that organized   Right now I just see one big pool of bugs with no way to organize them aside from priority and severity.  Is there a document that explains this Thanks, Adam Yes that is correct.  If you wanted to fix a bug in iteration v3 ...Show All

• Visual C++ CWind::Invalidate Problem

  Hi, I have a dialog box that allows you to enter text, when you press 'ok' the window underneath, from which the dialog box came, is updated with the new text.  Fairly straigh forward stuff.  However when you enter into the dialog box the '&' sign followed by anything else, it removes the & sign and underlines the next character in string upon clicking 'ok'.  To my knowledge the string is not actually altered because when you re-load the dialog box, which will display the stuff you have already written, the & sign is still there and displayed the way it should. I have managed to track the problem down to the i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Using "Windows Media Player Plug-in Wizard" in VS2005

  I've tried to create a "Windows Media Player Plug-in" with the newly installed "Windows Media Player Plug-in Wizard" but for some reason I get "Object expected" when I click finish. Since this is 2005 I made some changes in default.htm to reflect the change: var bVS2003 = wizard.FindSymbol( "VS2003" ); var bVS2005 = wizard.FindSymbol( "VS2005" ); ... if (bVS2003 || bVS2005) a.s.o What else am I to do to make it work / Martin Hi Martin, The Visual Studio Tools for Office forum is for VSTO-specific questions. Please post the qu ...Show All

• Visual C# Aborting and Managing Threads: The Dog or the Cat?

  Newbie here .... thanks in advance for your patience. I'm working w/ C# Visual Studio 2005 I've read up on all the comments about problems w/ aborting and suspending/resuming threads.  Lots of things to consider.  Looks kinda ugly on all fronts.  Note that I'm not thinking of using suspend and resume to synchronize threads.  I would like to just pause and then restart a particular thread from where it left off.  Worst case is to abort the thread. I'm not using a ThreadPool.  This is because some of my operations may take a long time (long running database access routines), may require different prioriti ...Show All

• .NET Development How to import an unmanaged c++ exported function with a struct return value.

  I am trying to do PInvoke of a function which has a structure return value. When I invoke the function it gives a NullReferenceException with an additional comment that "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." The problem can be explained as follows: I have the following exported function in the unmanaged dll. struct __declspec(dllexport) STestStruct { int nValue1; int nValue2; }; class __declspec(dllexport) CTestClassExport { public: STestStruct ClassFunction6(); }; In my managed code in c# I have the following code. [DllImport( "TestClassExport.dll", EntryPoint=" ClassFuncti ...Show All

• Visual Studio Reinstall .net framework 1.1 in windows server 2003

  I had a connectivity problem with TFS and I read in the MSDN forum that I should uninstall the .net 1.1 framework to solve it. I did this and the problem disappeared. The problem now is the editing of portal sites. I think that without .net framework 1.1, I can’t customize the team project SharePoint portal site. So to test this and try to solve this problem, I am trying to reinstall the .net framework 1.1. The problem here is that when I try to run the dotfx install file, I get a error message saying that the .net framework is a part of the windows server 2003 operating system and that I should use the windows update to get the late ...Show All

• Smart Device Development PocketPC Desktop -Synchronizing issue

  Hi, Well ,I am working in PocketPC (eVC++,VC++6.0) I have to Synchronize the PocketPC and DesktopPC . For Synchronizing am using ActiveSync I have a Folder in the desktop for example D:\Temp\ I have a Folder in the PockePC in the Device Root for example: \Temp . I am coping a text File from desktop and placing it in the Device (PocketPC), say for example \Temp\Text.txt in the device. when i do this i create a .dat file (say Test.dat) ,now what happens is, i place both Text.txt and Test.dat in the Temp folder. so the same file (Test.txt) is copied in desktop ( D:\Temp\Test.txt) This for a single file. Suppose I have multiple files and large s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Binding to a stored procedure

  Hi,all. Does anyone know how to bind a web test to a stored procedure I can't see stored procedures in the Choose Tables dialong when creating a data source in my web test. Is it even possible to bind to a stored procedure Thank you. We do not provide a way to do tis through the editor. You can only connect to tables and views. You would have to write your own custom databinding. Checkout this blog post for a way to do that: http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley/archive/2006/04/07/570772.aspx ...Show All

• SQL Server CREATE SUBCUBE Syntax and Example

  Can anyone provide an example of the right syntax for the CREATE SUBCUBE statement   And possibly discuss its use a bit   For example, from a client tool (like Excel), would there be any way to execute a CREATE SUBCUBE statement such that all browsing done within Excel was bound by the scope of the subcube   While perspectives provide a great server-based mechanism for creating scoped sections of a cube, I need a way to do this on the fly, from a client tool like Excel. Thanks, Dave Fackler Hi Dave, Some times it possible to have same result in MDX either by using CREATE SUBCUBE or by usin ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista 2003 Certificate Authority - Custom Policy module

  I made a build of policy module available with Micorsoft Platform SDK Samples for C++ using VC++ IDE. To my surprise, the MS 2003 Server Certificate Authority does not recognize this DLL... But the same dll is recognized by 2000 server CA. Could anyone explain me the reason for this behaviour. Reference from :Microsoft Platform SDK\Samples\Security\CertServices\Policy\C++\Windows2000, and the read me file says, the code is supported for 2k or later. Thanks a lot, i got the reply for my query in Newsgroup: Discussions in security. Regards, Veena ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Wait Cursor

  Hi, I have, a form ver slow. I want insert a wait cursor until the form is load. How can i do it Thanks alessandro.   Cursor.Current = Cursors.WaitCursor // Statement executes Cursor.Current = Cursors.Default Regards, Senthil.   ...Show All

• Windows Forms GDI plus in .net 2.0 advantages

  I have a winforms app in .net 1.1 that extensively uses GDI instead of controls on forms, as there is lot of content. Now, we are migrating to VS 2005 on .net 2.0. What are the features of the GDI+ in .net 2.0 that I should look at leveraging How different is it from the GDI of 1.1 I agree! It goes against all the design principles that Microsoft advocates. Just check the usability video and the rest of the series: http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/programming/classlibraries/apiusability/ ...Show All

• Visual Basic Code Security

  Am I right in assuming that it is easy for hacker software to view source code of compiled .net applications   What then is the difference between compiling a program in "debug" vice "release" mode Thanks, Fred H. wrote > Am I right in assuming that it is easy for hacker software to view > source code of compiled .net applications What then is the difference > between compiling a program in "debug" vice "release" mode You can find the answer for compile modes in the help file: The Debug configuration causes your application to be compiled with full symbolic debug information and no optimization. This results in an as ...Show All

• Visual Basic Problems with OCX used in VB2005 Express

  I am in the process of "playing" with VB2005 as intended by MS when they released Express. I am impressed as it is much more user friendly than VB .NET 2002. However I have a problem with on particular non-MS OCX which only happens intermittently when I open a programme as the design view of the form has been replaced by the error message below Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG)) If I access the Choose Item from the Toolbox and switch to the COM components, I find that the OCX is no longer listed. Re-attaching the OCX, saving, closing the programme and re-opening it cures the pr ...Show All