Nick Porter's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Hosting a FolderView?

  Has anyone ever managed to host a FolderView object (the one used in Windows Explorer) in .NET This is one of the features I was really looking for in .NET 2, because any implementation of a folderView I have tried didn't have the required features, for example: ShellContextMenu (Yes, with the Send To menu populated aswell) Columns (Just like in Windows Explorer) Do I even need to continue I really don't want to reinvent th ...Show All

• Windows Forms Error when closing a Form

  Hi all, On one thread, is a timer that refreshes the strongly-typed dataset that drives the application. On another thread, I have a main form that creates another form (not an MDI) and displays it to the user.  When the user is done with  ...Show All

• Windows Forms datagridview delete removes bound datarow instead of marking it as deleted

  Hi, I've bound a datatable to datagridview. When i delete a row (select row, press <del>) the corresponding row is removed out of my datatable. I would like to have it marked as "deleted" instead of being removed so i can manually update the db using the datatable. What am I doing wrong Thanks, Nick Found it! It seems to work when i set the readonly property in my column proper ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Studio 2005 Activation Key - How?

  I have installed the VC 2005 Express Beta Release five days ago. I have made the registration and received an e-mail. But the links on this e-mail leads me only to sign in again. There was no 'activation key'. Now I get this message every time I start the studio: "You have not yet activated your copy of Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition Beta. This product will run for 25 more days before you will be required to activate it. For more information, ...Show All

• Visual Studio COMReference - How to include in CSC Task

  I have a project which needs a COM reference.  I'm using MSBuild and a CSC task.  I see the COMReference in the csproj file but how do I pass this to the CSC task Thanks, Hi, I have a Problem with the ItemGroup < COMReference/>. Don't no how to import it in my Target. This is an example of my Projectfile: < ItemGroup > < COMReference Include = " AxNETCTLS " > < Guid > {B389A2 ...Show All

• SQL Server Restore to a previous version

  Is it possible at all to restore back up from SQL 2005 onto SQL 2000 If not, what is the bast way to transfer database stucture and data from SQL 2005 onto SQL 2000. Two machines are not on the same network... No, it is not possible to restore a SQL 2005 server on SQL 2000.  You can script the database to a file and then apply to SQL 2000.  Since your servers are not on the same network, the bes ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Event Viewer Strange Event

  Hi There! I was taking a walk through event viewer and noticed this <Information > message: Process Details: Process Name: w3wp Process Id: 1888 Thread Id: 4500 Account name: VISABEIRA\tfsservice Detailed Message: Unable to obtain registration data for application VersionControl. Exception Message: TF30055: Visual Studio could not find or read the Team Foundation Server server name in the configuration file. Contac ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't get Connection String to work in File Connection Manager

  "\\bs-10ss\\users$\\mydir\\output.txt" + (DT_WSTR,15)(DT_DBDATE)GETDATE() + "_" + (DT_WSTR, 15)(DT_DBTIME)GETDATE() + ".txt" This throws an error when pasting it into the ConnectionString property of my Flat File Connection Manager.  All I want to accomplish is to throw in the date of the file created and so far, I have been unsuccessful.  It doesn't like any of the syntax I've put in there other than using the browse button to spe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Sound

  Hi im making a VB Program in Visual Basic 2005 Team SUite the problem is ow can I add sound to my prog http://www.google.com.au/search hl=en&q=windows+media+player+sdk&meta = ...Show All

• Windows Forms Support for paging in datagridview

  Is there any support for paging in datagridview   For ex. I´ve got a dataTable with 500 rows in response from some datastorage (not SQL Svr).  and wants to display only 20 rows at a time in my datagridview..  In the web-datagrid there  ...Show All

• Visual C++ error when using a mixed mode dll in a windows service

  under the dot net 2.0 framework I get the following error when i use a mixed mode dll with in a vb.net windows service. System.BadImageFormatException: Invalid access to memory location. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800703E6). This dll works fine if used in a vb.net standalone application. Any ideas what may be the cause Hi, I had similar sittuation, the trick was to add the nonmanaged dll to the system PATH. ...Show All

• SQL Server Transactional Replicating hanging SQL Server 2005

  Hi, It appears that every 5 or so days, my transactional replication is hanging.  I see that I have a couple thousand undistributed commands and this number keeps growing.  It forces me to generate a snapshot in order to sync up.  When generating the snapshot, I will get frequent messages like "waiting for a response from server...".  So I will keep stopping and starting syncronization.  Eventually the snapshot will g ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro please interprete this error

  I opened up VFP9err.log file and found a few messages. They are infrequent, I get them about twice a month. They are all the same. What does it mean I think it talks about an OLEdrag. What kind of drag is it Could you explain in detail. Many thanks. Fatal error: Exception code=C0000005 @ 01/11/06 03:21:54 PM. Error log file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9\vfp9err.log Called from - toolbox.o_1ph0wtk58.otoolcontainer.o_1ph0wtk8t.cmd ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can not receive animals

  Hello , I am new to Terrarium . when I run terrarium , I got some infomation below "The Terrarium server is experiencing temporary difficulties.     This is probably why you aren't receiving any animals.        please bear with u ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System New Team Build Type Creation Wizard fails

  Here's the situation...    I initially created a team build type using the "New Team Build Type Creation Wizard" which didn't work out quite right.  Deciding to try again, I deleted the build type and wanted to start over. In which case I have no build types showing. Bad idea.  Cause now I can't create a new build type.   Here are the steps I'm using to create a new build type... 1) From the VS menu.... Bu ...Show All