Thomas Lau's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Error while generating 'Issues' report

  Hi there,    I'm getting the below error while generating 'Issues' report for my Team projects. Any  idea anyone Thanks, Anu An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted) Query execution failed for data set 'NewDataSet_SQL'. (rsErrorExecutingCommand) Invalid column name 'Issue2_Issue2_Dim_ID'. There are multiple instances of following errors in event log from TFS source... Event Type:&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Sentence recognition.

  The idea is that we are making a piece of work for two of my scholar subjects. My friend and me thougt it would be nice to make a A.I. that can recognize sentence and can process them. The problem is: I dont know how to make a programm analyse a sentence. Please help, Douwe   Dowue, I want to be honest with you. A solution to this problem has eluded computer scientists for numerous decades now. BILLIONS of dollars have been spen ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Using Classes and Structs

  I am confused on using Classes and Structs. Can anyone shed light on what MS has changed about them example this code generates a ton of weird errors #include <windows.h> class CIGECORE { public :     LPSTR sAppTitle;     int iPosX;     int iPosY;     int iWidth;     int iHeight; };   I tried the sample you provi ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista release-candidate?

  Are there a date for release-candidate and release version Does the release version to be slow like Windows Vista Hi Don, WF is licensed as part of Windows. It will release with Windows Vista as part of the WinFX API. It will also release at the same time with the WinFX Runtime Components for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. No additional licensing is required the WF redistributable components or th ...Show All

• .NET Development can not create an SQLConnection object

  I am getting an initialization exception when I instantiate SQLConnection. The exception occurs emediately upon creating an instance and does not depend on whether I supply a connection string for the constructor. The odd thing is that I am not getting this error on my development computer, only when I install it on a different computer. The computer giving the exception has .Net 2.0 installed from the redistributable which I downloaded fr ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums paste values from multiple sheets to another sheet

  Good day, I am brand new to VBA for Excel.I have a workbook with a bunch of different sheets. I have checkbox buttons on one page that will unhide the desired sheets. What I'm having trouble with is getting the code to work that will allow me to: 1) Search specific sheets (most of them - all but 4) for the last row in columns L through O. 2) paste the values in that range to another sheet. 3) on the destination sheet I'd like the ...Show All

• Windows Forms TreeView Bug? Please help...

  I'm using a TreeView to display different sets of data from a SQL database.  The data list is determined by a set of buttons.  When a button is clicked, the data is retrieved from the database, then populated into the TreeView - pretty simple stuff. Here's the problem: If a large list (with scroll bars) is loaded first, then a small list (without scroll bars) is loaded next, the last node of the small list will disappear when selected ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Installing WinFx Developmengt on Vista a Disaster

  Its been pretty frustrating. I had hoped that having installed Vista Beta 2, I would be pretty close to developing WinFx Applications. But there is confusion on whether have to reinstall WinFX runtime, the Windows SDK does not install, because it cannot find a Help file site. So I havn't got as far as loading Orcas extension to VS 2005. My advice, stick with Windows XP, if you intend to develop WinFX, Microsoft have not got their act together ...Show All

• Windows Forms Appupdater Woes......

  I asked my hosting compant to allow file browsing for a specific folder, which they did. When I use the Appupdater component, I get the following error: 7/27/2004 11:26:46 AM:  UPDATE FAILED with the following error message: System.Net.WebException: The remote ser ...Show All

• Visual Basic Would like to know how to fill a textbox when the value of a dropdown list changes.

  Hello, I am working on a webapplication,   I have a dropdown list which is filled up using a dataset.  There is also a textbox right next to it.  The end user should select a value from the dropdownlist, and then I would like the textbox to be filled with a value depending on what item was selected from the dropdown list.   I tried using the SelectedIndexChanged   but it doesnt do anything, and I do not s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Setup freezes when it "installs components".

  Trying tor install vs05b2 , the "setup is loading installation components" bar freezes at 100%. CPU usage is 0%. I must reboot machine to stop setup. I had instated the Feb CTP but I think I uninstalled it. I hoped installing the b2 framework would solve the problem. It did not. I had a successful install on another machine with the same media.    I get the same problem when I try to install Web Express 05b2 . The log file ends with ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to get url from the control ??

  My control is deployed in <object>mydll/object>, in an aspx page. like http://localhost/myproject/default.aspx How can I get the above url (where this object is installed) from inside the mydll object  Thanks, varadhg I have two ways to get this  ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) DataContext Serialization and Distribute Architecture

  Hello, Do you intend to implement a DataContext Serialization... On a distribute Architecture how can we exchange a DataContext Having an explicit management of the ChangeSet will be great: - GetChangeSet() - ApplyChangeSet(...) Do you any commitment with WCF team to get a mapping between DLinq Entity and WCF DataContract. A big picture of DLinq and WCF will be very usefull. Regards Dat ...Show All

• .NET Development Native Image Vs JIT compilation

  Hi all, If JIT compiled programs perform better that Native images,then why does MS ships Native image generator Thanks, Suresh. To improve startup time.  If your application is big it will load faster if it's already been compiled. ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to read *.txt file contents into CString object????

  Hi, I like to read the contents of a txt file into CString object in MFC program. Now, I use ifstream to read the contents, but it can read into char array only. Do you have any ideas Thanks, vcboy What's wrong with reading it into a char array (can the *.txt file contain Unicode characters - if it can then char is not the right choice) and then creating a CString from the array ...Show All