Fdooch's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms FlatStyle = Popup (Button)

  I am setting the FlatStyle property of a command button on my windows form to Popup.  This gives me the behavior I am looking for, with the exception of the border around the button when the mouse cursor is NOT hovering over it.  My button consists of an image only, no text. Two questions:  1.  How do I prevent the border from  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Lost version control mapping in Team Explorer tool window

  I created a team project called Foo.  Then I created a workspace via the command line called Main that mapped $/ to C:\Projects\Foo.  It turns out that mapped the root of the repository which I discovered after I added some directory not to $/Foo but to $/.  So I remapped $/Foo to C:\Projects\Foo.  Then I wanted to move the dirs from $/ to under $/Foo.  Well now I had to map $/ to C:\Projects (that seemed to remove the $/Foo to C:\Projects\Foo mapping).  I got the directories moved and then I unmapped $/ to C:\Projects.  Then I tried to reset up $/Foo to C:\Project\Foo but it said it didn't know which works ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How do I incorporate a VS project word document using VS tools for office

  How do I incorporate a VS project word document using VS tools for office into an existing VS project NOTE: I am using VSTOOLS 2003 and not 2005 I have completed a tutorial at: http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/071002-1.2.aspx This tutorial called "Grocer To Go", creates project that allows you to update fields in a database I have created another visual studio project that created a word document with bookmarked fields. The bookmarked fields will be where I want the updates to be entered.Is there a way that this document can be incorporated into my "Grocer To Go" project the bookmarks be populated wit ...Show All

• Visual Basic After saving text, doesnt work!

  In form 1 there is a Button1 In form 2 there is a textbox1 Button1 is supposed to run the process stated in textbox1 Code: Process.Start(Form2.Textbox1.text) This code is run and the appliction has no errors until: Textbox1.text is saved and when form 2 loads again, the saved text is in textbox1 again Code: Textchanged SaveSetting("Startitup", "Textboxes", "Textbox1.Text", TextBox1.Text) Form2 Load TextBox1.Text = GetSetting("Startitup", "Textboxes", "Textbox1.Text", TextBox1.Text) After i input this save code my button does not run the process in textbox1. I get this error message: InvalidOperationException was Unhandled Cannot start ...Show All

• Visual C# RichTextBox : Text color

  hi.. i have a richtextbox in which im displaying some messages, i want to change the color of some text . is there any way to that thanx Hi, yes you can, select the text and use the SelectionFont and/or SelectionColor property: richtextbox.SelectionFont = new Font("Verdana", 10, FontStyle.Regular); richtextbox.SelectionColor = Color.Blue; ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Framework approach to building a C# -MDX Level Editor-type app?

  Greetings! There have been a few posts/replies that touch on this subject, but I wanted to provide a thread that captured as much of this knowledge and ideas as possible. I want to build a multi-window winForms app with lots of controls (menus, treeviews, splitters, tabs, etc...) and be able to render 3D to different sections of the screen (tabbed windows, etc..).  Possibly have a model viewer in one window and a scene view in a different window.  I would like to be able to click on the model and spin it around.. or go to the scene window and fly a camera through it. When I review the samples of 3D model viewers, etc..  t ...Show All

• SQL Server Migrating Reporting services from SQL 2005 CTP (April) to SQL 2005 Enterprise

  Hi, We were trialing SQL 2005 with their CTP edition from April. The trial was a success hence we have purchased SQL 2005 Enterprise edition and would like to migrate all reports/models created in the CTP edition to the new enterprise edition. Has anyone successfully done this as there is lots of info about upgrading from SQL 2000 RS to SQL 2005 RS just none about Beta to Full version as we havent managed yet We have tried coping a back from the CTP version to the live but this doesnt work properly. I have performed a DB compare and there are differences with the reportserver database schemas from CTP April (9.00.1116) to the ...Show All

• .NET Development Updating a Web Service

  I created my first vs2005 web service in iis.   It works fine.  Now I am confused about being able to update it.  I start vs and open my web site project from the iis location, make my changes, save all, rebuild and then call my web service from IE.   None of the changes show up.  What am I missing.   Thanks, Fred Herring Did you try starting it from the VS itself Try that.... And also, Is your IE referencing to Cache Check that out.       ...Show All

• Visual C# use win32 in c#

  im trying to use a win32 dll in my project so do i need to add a reference to the dll till now i wrote-   [DllImport("DLLName")] public static extern void methodName( int t); i put the dll in the directory of the project and in main i tried to run a method --> methodName(2); and im getting the exception -  Expected class, delegate, enum, interface, or struct what im missing what else i need to do thanks in advanced i tried that 2 but im still getting that error (and the "void" in the methos signature is signed in red) what can it be ...Show All

• Visual C# Adding link buttons to a Browser menu strip.

  I am very new to c# and am working on my first real program. A web Browser. I have everything done but now I want to add some buttons to the menue strip that I can click and go to a specified web page. I know how to add the buttons to the form and then click them to get the click event. But what do I add for code to make them open the web url in the browser. private void fRTHomePageToolStripMenuItem_Click( object sender, EventArgs e) { //* What do I put here to go to www.a-web-page.com } the browser object has a navigate method:   yourbrowserObject.Navigate(" http://www ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Determine correct activity instance during Activity Tracking

  I have written a custom persistence and tracking service. When I track that a new activity instance has been initialized, I write a new record a database. What I want to do is add the record ID as User Data to the activity so it can be used during processing. I know the root activity, the context guid and the qualified name for the current activity. But how do I use this information to get the correct activity instance Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Nate Local service is the right way to get data into the workflow. EventHandlers can be used to handle an event raised on the loca ...Show All

• Smart Device Development how can i deny opening start button and close the this minue when opened ?

  Hi .. i want deny a start button openning when my application is running Is there a methode or way to do like this , please cheers >> Hi first off all .. thanks but the user is still can easily press and use the keypad of the device to launch the start menu .. how can i prevent the sart menu from appearing ...Show All

• .NET Development Detecting SQL Server database existance

  I'm a beginner at using Visual Studio 2005 pro & SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and have just learned how to create a database file by issuing SQL Server commands through C# programming. I just want to find out what is the best way to detect if a database already exists on the system. My application currently creates my database, but I want to add in the ability to check if it is already present so that I can bypass the creation of the database. Can someone help here please, either in text description or a code snippet Thanks, Sean Hi Frederik. Thanks for your reply. I guessed that wa ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Setting "CreatedBy" field programatically

  Hello, I'm writting an application for migrating items from our old defect tracking system (PVCS Tracker) to TFS Work Item. I'm using the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client namespace for that. I have an issue with the WorkItem.CreatedBy property since it is read-only. Indeed, we want to migrate the "author" value to this property. How could I solve this issue Thanks I'm working on a similar project to import work items from Quality Center and have ran into the same issue. I have not found a way at this time to import the "Created By" field so I have just programmat ...Show All

• .NET Development RegEx Question

  I've been at it for 3 hours and I am going out of my mind trying to get a regular expression to work.  This is the first time I've used regular expressions and I simply can't take it anymore.  Here's the deal:  I have a string that I'm pulling from an app.config file such as " .xml;.jpg;.log ".  The string can contain any number of file extensions separated by semicolons.  My C# app will put each file extension into an ArrayList but first I want to use a regular expression to extract each file extension from the larger string and I do NOT want to include the potential trailing semicolon, whic ...Show All