AdelinoAraujo's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio New add-in: trailing whitespace, convert line endings, custom mouse bindings, and more

  I wrote an extension for Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 that addresses a few issues I had. It adds the following abilities: Auto-trim trailing whitespace Always use a certain kind of line endings (Unix, DOS, or Mac) Ctrl+MouseWheel does page up/page down. Trust me, once you try this you'll never go back. ;) Block copy and paste work as they should. I HIGHLY recommend you spend some time learning how to ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Canvas, Rectangles, ClipToBounds slowness

  We are thinking about starting a new moderately complex graphical application in WPF. But before committing to the platform, we are testing features to see if WPF can handle it. >:) One test application so far has a Canvas with ~800 Rectangles (added with C# using “canvas.Children.Add(..)”. These rectangles are movable by dragging them… implemented with Canvas.SetLeft(rect, newLeft) and Canvas.SetTop(..) from the MouseMove handl ...Show All

• Visual C++ Notification on Text change for Windows Control

  Hello, I have a question in SDK windows programming. I have a window control, implemented as an editable control for user to enter text. User can add text in the window control either by typing through keypad or copy/paste using mouse. I call GetWindowText() to read text from the control. I want to display a message while user is entering text or copying a value, if the text exceeds a certain length. I am aware that I can trap keyboard a ...Show All

• Visual Basic Debugging: Immediate Window Global Variables

  Is there any way to have access to a variable or two in the Immediate and possibly the Watch windows What I often would like to do is something like alternating bewtween these two lines:     CStr(aDv(j)(0) + ", " +  CStr(aDv(j)(1) + ", " + CStr(aDv(j)(2)     j = j + 1 I could then toggle between these lines to see a set of results. In C#, it would be a single line: aDv(j)(0).ToString() ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problems installing the platform SDK

  I am having problems running the windows installer. (in order to extract the SDK) The steps I took were: 1)Download x86. version from web. Using web install. (I have a cable internet connection) 2)Go to the installed file and double click on it. 3)It opens and brings up windows installer. 4)Windows installer never opens. (I left my computer for about 20 min to see if it was opening slow).   That is the problem. In the e ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is using this.object (C#) or me.object (Vb)more efficient?

  Just wondering whether more explicit code:  this.object.Property=true; is more efficient than using just:    object.Property=true; Many thanks in advance, I don't use 'this' because the VS wizards use 'this'.  That way I know if I or one of&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio How can I archive a project from the Command Line options

  Anybody knows how to archive a project from the command line options There is no problem with the wizard option but I have to create backups of my project every day and I need to automatize this task. The help contents says that in previous version of SourceSafe the only way of archive a project was by command line options. So I think this option should be possible in version 6.0. Anyone can help me Thanks ...Show All

• Windows Forms Tabindex order

  Hello People. I have a form with serveral item on it. I want that order five text boxes so that the focus is always moved to the next one once the user presses the tab key. I have tried to set the tabindex but nothing seems to help, the focus is moved all over the form...:-( Thanks for any help. hello, i have a problem. I tried to override my TabIndex function at runtime but the values that are set on the property menu takes over -- e ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Defining GridViewColumn's CellTemplate inline

  Is there anyway to define a DataTemplate for a GridView column inline instead of adding it to the parent control's Resources and referencing it So far the only way to get this to work is to do this: <GridViewColumn Header="Amount">   <GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>     <HierarchicalDataTemplate>       <TextBlock TextAlignment="Right" Text="{Binding Path=Amount, Converter={StaticR ...Show All

• Visual Basic DataView sort

  If i put the dataview as a datasource of a datagrid the sorting works fine. If i load the records one by one from the dataview the position of these records is the same as before the sort. How can i avoid this Further to Doug's remarks, the DataView is a collection of DataRowView objects. The order and availabilty of DataRowView objects in the DataView depends on the Sort, RowFilter, and/or RowStateFilter ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. October 2005 DirectX SDK is available!

  The DirectXR Team is pleased to announce the release of the DirectX 9.0 SDK October 2005 Update! The October Update includes the first public release of the XInput SDK.  This SDK will allow game developers to fully support Xbox 360 Controller for Windows.  To download or learn more about this release please visit http://msdn.com/directx/sdk .   Features added in the October 2005 DirectX SDK update - XInput XInput is an API that ...Show All

• .NET Development How do I design my own interface to use in Visual Studio?

  Im designing a media player in C# for my project and was wondering if anyone knew any good tools to design my own interface and buttons. I have a very definite idea of what I want my interface to look like and the next step is to design it. Help much appreciated, Thanks. Hello, Depending on the type of designer you are looking for, there are a few options: 1) Visual Studio supports a Windows Forms desi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Best practices when working disconnected from SCC

  It is a relative common thing to do: Either work on a plane, at home or wherever you're out of range of some network connections. How does one go about to have the changes, which are done when disconnected, picked up by VS/Team system When I am disconnected I am prompted to work "temporary disconnected", but when I am connected again TS does not find that anything is changed. The only solution that comes to mind is to Check out the whole source ...Show All

• Windows Forms Mac OSx Aqua Look & Feel

  Does anyone know of any windows forms samples using a look & feel similar to 'Aqua' as used for the Mac OSx   Cheers James I found a project on codesine that has the aqua button - but it doesn't work too great, it loc ...Show All

• Windows Forms Address DataGridView via ColunName

  I have a bound DataGridView I can't address the columns via ColumnName. For example this fails: dgv("Last_Update_Date", 10).Value="test" Shouldn't that work assuming the cell can accept text dgv(2,10).Value="test" ' works The 2nd and 3rd fails also although s contains the proper string. Dim s As String = dgv.Columns(2).HeaderText Debug.Print(dgv.Columns(s).HeaderText) Debug.Print(dgv.Col ...Show All