Dawn Wood's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Panel ClientSize

  The documentation says that the ClientSize is the bounds of the control minus the borders (among other things, but I'm only interested in borders right now).  Why is it then that I can make a panel of 100 x 100 with a FixedSingle bord ...Show All

• Visual C# Problem with Generic Constraints.

  The problem is I’m trying to constrain a Generic type to what a class wide generic type inherits from. So I can convert a list to what it should be down casted to. Here is a simple example of what I am trying to do. public class MyList <T> : List <T> { //Trying to Convert a list to a list of a parent class of T. public List <BaseT> ToBaseList<BaseT>() where T : BaseT { //'MyList< ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System GetLatest "Force" option in the object model?

  I've read James Manning's comments in this post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=236346&SiteID=1 I would like to be able to offer a force behavior, but this code doesn't give me the results I want: GetRequest request = new GetRequest(localPath, RecursionType.Full, VersionSpec.Latest); GetStatus status = this.workSpace.Get(request, GetOptions.Overwrite); Anybody know a better way You're passing the right paramet ...Show All

• SQL Server How to display milliseconds as part of datetime field?

  When I execute the following query: SELECT EntryDate, EntryName, CONVERT(datetime, EntryDate, 121) AS LongEntryDate From Entries ORDER BY EntryDate LongEntry is displayed in the format of "MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS AMPM".  My understanding is that the formatting code 121 (also tried 21 and 113) is suppose to be in the format of "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.MMM". I'm using the June CTP of SQL Server 2005, and executing the query via the Database Explorer ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Web test with multiple data sources

  When using multiple data sources VSTx loops through one data source (assuming you are set up to use a sequential data source), one test for each row. The 2nd data source will also be used with different rows of data for each test. If you want to have one tests for each row in data source 1 time the number of rows in data source 2 There is a simple solution. Rather than use seporate data sources use a Query (If Access) or SPROC (if SQL) that ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Deleting a record from dataset

  I have a table in an Sql database with 2 columns. One column is the record ID and Primary key the other is the information item I am storing. I have a form with a List box that is populated by the dataset and displays the information column from the above table. When a user selects one of the items in the list box and clicks a Delete button I want to delete the record for that item. What I have found is that I can delete the item but someti ...Show All

• Visual C# Looks like .resx files should be versioned. How?

  Back when VS.Net 2003 was called Everett, we moved all our build files out of source directories into versioned dirs, like so: MyHailStormApp/*.cs                              *.sln                       ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGrid: Where Am I?

  I have added a ContextMenu to a DataGrid in the forms designer of VB Express 2005. Having added items to the menu, the functionality I am trying to achieve is to perform one of the menu actions on the current row of the DataGrid. Firstly, which event of the context menu do I trap Click Mouse Up Secondly, how do I find out which row of the DataGrid I was on The event is owned by the ToolStripMenuItem, which is owned by the ContextMenu whic ...Show All

• SQL Server Linked Server

  Hi all, How can I add linked server from SQL Server 2000 database to a SQL Server 2005 without using SQL Server trusted connection. I will use certain credentials. Did you had a look at the BOL sp_addlinkedsrvlogin (Transact-SQL) "Creates or updates a mapping between logins on the local instance of SQL Server and remote logins on the linked server." ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v9/MS.SQLSVR. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) An explicit conversion exists

  Hey! I've tryed to compile the following code: public class QueryService : QueryContract { public void Query(string query) { EndpointAddress replyTo = OperationContext.Current.IncomingMessageHeaders.ReplyTo; System.Xml.UniqueId messageId = OperationContext.Current.IncomingMessageHeaders.MessageId; CustomBinding binding = new CustomBinding(new TextMessageEncodingBindingElement(), new HttpTransportBindingElement()); ...Show All

• Visual C# Accessing a child control from a parent

  I have a WebBrowser Control on a TabPage. The TabPage is created dynamically at runtime. When the Tabpage is created I also add a WebBrowser Control to it. I need to know how to access the WebBrowser Control from my Tab Page. Please keep in mind that both the TabPage and WebBrowser Controls are created at run time. Thank you. Each control, including the main form, has a Controls collection which you can iterate ...Show All

• Visual Studio Class Designer Power Toy MSI + VS 2005 RC1

  I'm trying to install the Modeling Power Toys msi with a new install of VS 2005 RC1 and receive this error: This setup requires the Microsoft Visual J# .NET Redistruibutate package version 2.0.50215. I'm going to try to load up the source and compile myself. FYI - a new build of the PowerToys which works with Visual Studio 2005 final product release is now available from http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/works ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can't add domain user to TFS groups

  When I select "Add Windows Users or Groups", it only shows the local machine, I can't browse to the domain, and can't add user in the form "Domain Name\User Name". The machine has already joined to the domain and the current user is the TFS administrator (also Domain Admin). How can I add domain user to TFS groups Thanks! While this may not specifically be your issue, since you have your dc on the same box as the AT I wanted to make sure y ...Show All

• Windows Forms An item with the same key has already been added

  Hi All, I added a toolstrip control into my application main form. And then I added a toolstripbutton to the toolstrip. Right clicked on the toolstripbutton and clicked on the properties to display the properties for the button. I clicked on the dropdown button of the Image property (so that I can change the image property from the system.drawing.bitmap to a toolbar icon that I already loaded into the resource file) and immediately, I ...Show All

• Visual Basic UIPermission exception when trying to run sample movie application

  I have just installed VS 2005. I have tried running the sample movie application that comes with 2005. When I attempt to run the app I get the following error. I think it must have something to do with security. An error occurred creating the form. See Exception.InnerException for details. The error is: Request for the permission of type 'System.Security.Permissions.UIPermission, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, ....any suggestions ...Show All