Richard Meyers's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms changing the default border style of mdi child forms

  Is there any way to change the way a container form displays a mdi child form   In particular I want to eliminate the 3D sunken look that the child form takes on when it is maximized.  I would like the parent and child to be seemless when maximized. Yes, when childform is maximized inside the parent mdi form; it is docked to fill the entire client-area, while the client are of the mdi-parent form has a ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) CommunicationObjectAbortedException

  This is an error I receive while returning an object over a service (net.Tcp binding). The object is an LLBLGenPro EntityCollection. The EntityCollection contains EmployeeEntities. I can successfully return such a collection if the size of the collection is smaller than about 20 entries. But if it is any bigger I get the following error: An error occurred while transmitting data. System.IO.IOException: The read operation failed, see inner excep ...Show All

• Visual Studio Walkthrough distinguish visually between start pages and normal pages

  I was doing the Walkthrough 1 and I tried to put 3 values in the Enumeration called Index_Type . So the final enumeration was Normal, DynamicIndex , MultipleOrdering . And i tried to put another image to represent the end page. But when I select the MultipleOrdering value in the properties page the DynamicIndex   image appears. I`ve checked the whole code. Can anyone help me Example of code. < class > OOHDM.Diagrams.Navi ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Grid share sizing and Column auto width

  I try to use Grid share sizing on 2 grids in StackPanel-scope but get confused with column widths. When Grid.IsSharedSizeScope is set to False, columns with Width="Auto" are rendered corectly. When Grid.IsSharedSizeScope=True, auto width is ignored: 381 < StackPanel Width = " 600 " Height = " 300 " Grid.IsSharedSizeScope = " True " > 382 383 < Grid Margin = " 5 " ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Locbaml strange behaviour

  Hi Guys, While i am using locBaml to generate resource file from csv file, i had the folowing error: Each row must have the 2nd column as the key to the resource. My command for generation is: locbaml /generate AuthoringMain.resource.dll /trans:c:\resource\text1.csv /out:c:\ /cul:zh-CN I do not find anything worng with it Any ideads Thanks! Based on the error message, 2nd colum ...Show All

• Windows Forms Setting a textbox control's focus on Form load

  Hello, This seems like something that should be ultra simple to do, however I'm getting inconsistent results.  How do you configure a textbox control so that it will receive (cursor blinking inside the text area) focus when the Windows Form loads Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Basic Process question

  Is there a way to trap an event relating to trying to start a process when the computer lacks the application.  For instance doing a process.start on a MS Project file when the computer lacks the application.  Now my application just hangs when that occurs. Thanks, Fred your app is hanging because of the never ending loop: While Not proc.HasExited End While   Get rid of the loop and add proc . StartInfo . Erro ...Show All

• Visual C# Checking if a Form is running

  Hi. Could some1 explain to me how to check if an instance of a form is still running...I am doing a program with a lot of timers, and I want to check if one of the forms is running, if it is not I dont't want to open a new instance... Hello By using the following code, you can loop thorugh the instances of the currently opened forms FormCollection fc = Application .OpenForms; ...Show All

• .NET Development What is the difference between

  Directcast and Ctype http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vbtchmicrosoftvisualbasicnetinternals.asp ...Show All

• SQL Server Date Range Validation in RS

  Dear Anyone, Is there a way to validate a date range (2 date parameters) in RS Thanks, Joseph Sorry, this is not natively supported unless you can define a list of valid values for valid dates (e.g. by using cascading parameters and dataset-based valid value list). Other options include: * use a front-end to do all the parameter verification * use the new VS 2005 report viewer controls to build an application which does the ...Show All

• Visual C++ how to change location of executable?

  I'm using Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition. I'd like to be able to change the build options so that the executable gets created in another location (in the directory that contains the input files that it will read). Is there a way to do this (It was easy in the old Visual C/C++ 6.0, but I can't find comparable settings in Visual C++ 2005). ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Server Error in '/' Application. Database cannot be upgraded... ??

    Server Error in '/' Application. Hi! Thanks for asking! I'm a member of the ASP.NET team, and was just popping over here to see what was going on. The best place to ask ASP.NET questions is over on the ASP.NET forums at http://www.asp.net/welcome.aspx tabindex=1&tabid=39 Make sure that Network Service has Full access to the file ASPNETDB.MDF, if that doesn't get you going, try posting over in the ASP.NET forums. HTH, PEte ...Show All

• Visual C# Conversion from VS2003 to VS2005?

  How to use devenv.exe to convert the big project to Vs2005. I mean that one solution contains many sub solutions.And it has many other sln files in one folder.   How to write the batch file to implement it Focus - As Peter said, you should just be able to open your solution in the VS2005 IDE.  This will launch the conversion wizard regardless of how large the solution is. Thanks, Karen ...Show All

• Visual Studio Outlining using the MPF?

  After many moons I can not seem to get Outlining working using the Managed Package Framework. First, I do not get the ParseReason.Check messages. I've verified that the language service OnIdle method is being called periodically and that AutoOutlining = true in language preferences and in the registry. Am I missing something Other messages such as MemberSelect triggered from my lexer appear to work. However, if I try to do a full parse and AddH ...Show All

• Visual Basic do you get Vb 6.0 with Visual Studio. NET? And Can you work with your vb 6.0 code in it?

  Hi, I apologize if my questions sound simplistic. I am new to the .NET and developer world. 1. What exactly comes with visual studio 2005 professional version My programmer says she saw somewhere that VB 6.0 comes with it in addition with VB.NET. I cannot find the answer on the microsoft.com. All it says is that the professional version has "ALL". It is not explicit enough unless I am not finding the right link. 2 ...Show All