Matthijs van Kesteren's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums Migrating from MapPoint to Virtual Earth. Missing features!

  I'm looking to migrate an existing commercial application that uses MapPoint to Virtual Earth but there seems to be a couple of key features that are not supported in Virtual Earth. 1. We need geocode addresses on the server side using FindService.Find(). Virtual Earth only seems to support find with a 'what' and 'where' and only client side. 2. We also batch geocode hundreds of addresses at a time each week using the MapPoint CSS upload/download features. There doesn't seem to be any support for this in Virtual Earth. 3. We also rely on push-pin collision avoidance heavily because our push pins tend to be densly packed. I can't fin ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Error 2 and 183 while registering a windowe class and creatinga window.

  Hi all when i try to register a new Window Class, I get the Errors no 2 and 183 Error 2: The system cannot find the file specified. Error 183 : Cannot create a file when that file already exists. Following is the Code thats creatting these errors: LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc ( HWND hwnd , UINT iMsg , WPARAM wParam , LPARAM lParam ) { switch ( iMsg ) { } return 0; }   int APIENTRY WinMain ( HINSTANCE hInstance , HINSTANCE hPrevInstance , LPSTR lpCmdLine , int nCmdShow ) {   WNDCLASS wndclass ; HMODULE hmod = GetModuleHandle ( NULL ); wndclass . style = 0; wndclass . lpfnWndProc = WndPro ; wndclass ...Show All

• SQL Server Date string conversion similar to Excel's Date(year,month,day)

  Hi all, Is it possible to have a SQL function create a Datetime value from seperate date elements. eg: if I have a field for Year, one for month and one for Day is it possible to create a datetime value for this. I've used Date(year,month,day) in Excel which does this fine, but I'm looking for a way to do this in SQL. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Steve You could simply append the columns to each other and perform a convert on the concatenated string, something like this: select cast ( ltrim ( rtrim (year_column )) + '-' + ltrim ( rtrim (month_column )) + '-' ...Show All

• .NET Development Active window

  Trying to make a windows form on top of all over forms that will always have focus untill its closed. For example like the "About Internet Explorer" window on IE, how you cant set focus away from it. Ive done this before but tottaly forgot what I had done :P You need to mark the form window as modal. Form form1 = new Form(); form1.ShowDialog();   Thi should do the trick. Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemWindowsFormsFormClassModalTopic.asp  for more details ...Show All

• Windows Forms Deployment of VB.NET Application Fails

  I am developing on at home and trying to deploy my application and sql database to another computer, totally different location, which is being used as a server and client. I am working with SQL 2005 and VS 2005 Pro. I've tried everything from xcopy to clickonce. I obviously have no clue as to what I am doing. My goal is to develop the software and database on computer and then deploy to this other computer. Please help this simple minded moron. Thanks If your application will work if you basically copy the files to the target machine, then you can install it using ClickOnce. If you also need to mak ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Passing data between multiple forms? urgent help needed

  Scenario I have Form1 consisting of a listView control I have Form2 consisting of a chunk of code, that reads items from a folder and lists them in the listView control, belonging to 'Form1'; only i can not get it to work. On Form1, when i click 'Show Form2' i have: Form2 Child= new Form2(); Child.Parent = this; Child.Show(); On the Child form, when it pops up, i want to add items to the ListView control on Form1. how on earth do i do this I can't seem to use. Form1.ListView1 etc... or this.Owner etc... Am i missing something i tried setting the listView in question to 'Public' in the Form1.Designer code with no luck. PLEASE help me ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Implicit constraints, Pre-defined constraints, User-defined constraints

  Please could someone explain to me the differnece between the following: Implicit constraints Pre-defined constraints User-defined constraints As I understand it, Implicit Constraints seem to be those that come with an object when you drag it onto the designer.  There is a list of implicit constraints, somewhere e.g. SupportsASPNET, SupportsASPWebApplications, SupportsStaticContent, AuthenticationModeConstraint.  Where in the system do I find these objects Pre-defined constraints - these are pre-defined in what sense   User-defined - these are User-defined in what sense Why is there a node named User-defined on t ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Aero effect in Vista build 5270

  Hello, I have a Radeon GeForce 6800 LE. I've just installed build 5270 and I'm seeing what may be two related effects. The first is that while the AeroGlass effect is there, it doesn't seem to be as pronounced as in Beta 1 - the window title bars aren't as transparent as I remember in Beta 1. The second is that my desktop icons have a semi-transparent (rather than a fully transparent) background when selected. I've made sure that the standard "Aero" colour option has been selected in the "Colour Schemes" options, and that intensity is at a minimum. Any thoughts/suggestions appreciated. Thanks Robert ...Show All

• .NET Development How do i obtain an MCSD

  I was interested in obtaining my certification in Software Developing and was wondering how could i get started on this particular event Hi Vikram, Can you please give the differences between MCAD and new generation certs like MCTS,MCPD. I think in MCAD or MCAD we have develop some applications using visual studio, is this the same case with with MCTS and MCPD Thanks in Advance Regards, Sri Harsha ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Estimating Project Size/Cost

  I've read the MSF white papers on how to estimate project size. The MSF way is to estimate it bottom-up. I've come to a problem where I need to estimate the project size as early as possible. Do you guys have any experience with this kind of problem I'm not targeting for a 99% accuracy, just a range for low-high limits. Thanks! You can try to estimate project cost/schedule with any Cocomo II tool. Start from here to obtain more information: http://sunset.usc.edu/research/COCOMOII/ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System NUnit Category Equivalent

  From what i understand, there is not a TS Test Attribute the equivalent of the NUnit Category . Am i correct Has someone added a custom add on for this What i want to do is flag each test with a category (something word looking as opposed to using "priority"), e.g. "always", "nightly", "weekly" to enable a class of test runs. I want to be able to access these tests from the mstest.exe command line and interactively by the 'Group By ' OR is the alternative to have a convention in your test description and use the "Filter Text" option under the "Group By" TAB to achie ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to make a design view of a workflow execution easily ?

  Hi all, i have to make a design view of a sequential workflow execution. The user have to see the executed activities, those who are currently run, and those who are not reached. Is there a sample of this I dont see an answer in this forum and in the HOL. Thank you. (sorry for my poor english.) Hi, There is a sample installed with Beta1 entitled "Workflow Monitor."  This should be exactly what you are looking for. Thanks, Angel ...Show All

• .NET Development Is it impossible to send Nothing in an integer input parameter?

  A third party webservice wants null / Nothing values for certain optional integer input parameters. I understand that the integer datatype cannot hold a null/nothing, but is there anyway to force this Can I manually do it somehow   Tracy     Yes, thank you, I WAS able to talk the web service provider into making a modification to interpret 0 as a null value. I count my self very lucky, however, for many providers would not consider modifying their service to suit a single client. I tried modifying the proxy class, and using an IIF() to force a Nothing down the throat of the Invoke method, b ...Show All

• Visual Studio Disappointed by the limited functionality

  I doubt this is the right place to complain, but I want others to know when they have the same question. The report controls are nice but are a big disappointment.  When using local reports they don't provide parameter prompting and they don't grab the data from the datasource for me like the Sql Server Reporting Services reports do.  This means I have to work with and develop two seperate reporting mechanisms.  I was hoping to use the same reports for both the Reporting Services and the Reporting Control based on the database the client uses (some clients will travel with MSDE and want access to all of their reports on the r ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Foudation Crash after Install

  I'm working on a fresh copy of windows server 2003 (no SP1), just installed to test the TFS, installation has been compled without errors, but when we try to connect to the TFS server we get the following two errors in our Eventlog: A crash report is being prepared for Microsoft using the Watson Crash Reporting Mechanism. The prepared report will be queued when ready and may be sent to Microsoft through administrator control. followed by: EventType teamfoundationue, P1 1.0.0.0, P2 tfs, P3 v2.0.50215, P4 8.0.0.0, P5 elead, P6 7fdb7fd2, P7 499f38b1, P8 761ad54b, P9 NIL, P10 NIL. Anyone can help Follws the complete event viewer entry: ...Show All