C Dunn's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Advice: User controls or not...

  Hi. Iam working on my and my colleagues final exsam (administrative panel, windows app for colleagues web portal administation). I have devided administrative sections with tab pages and for every that section (14 of them) I have bunch a controls on main form and codes for that sections to work as they should. My question is: Is it better to create 14 user controls for each section and just to load them on to the panel (for exsample) Then I'll b ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Three problems with Team Build: read-only paths, missing include paths and huge checkouts

  Hi, I hope you can help me with this problem: I set up a Team Build-Server. Basically, it works, my small test-project is building fine. But with our real C++-application there are some problems: - Some of our projects are generating libs as output-files and have a common folder set as the folder where the final .lib should be stored. This folder is not under source-control, because it is empty. Now, when one of these projects is built, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions access parent form function

  Hi, I am fairly new to the "Visual" IDE arena. I have a program with a parent window which switches between several child windows, only displaying one at a time. I created a switchPanel method which takes a form variable, closes the current form and sets the new form as the current child. This function works fine as long as I use it in the parent window, but I cannot access it from a child window. I am sure this is some newbie e ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Syntax difference between SQL 2005 Express and SQL 2000

  In SQL Server 2005 Express the following query produces the wrong result: SELECT     CHANNEL, DURATION, STARTTIME FROM         Recordings WHERE     (STARTTIME > '12/27/05 00:00:00') AND (DURATION > '5') ORDER BY STARTTIME DESC  If I replace it with: SELECT     CHANNEL, DURATION, STARTTIME FROM       &n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System New Group remains invisible by WIT system - round 2

  Hi guys, We add new group to TFS (through Visual Studio Team Explorer). When we are trying to use this group in WI type definition, witimport fails. We already have this problem once. It was resolved then by adding permissions and classifications to group. This time everything looking fine: - project level group was created - members added - group defined correctly in classifications - it is not latency (too much time pass) - TFSS ...Show All

• .NET Development Urgent:Add,Edit,Delete,Modify an XML document in vb 6.0 using DOMDocument

  For Example XML document is shown below: <emps> <emp> <ename>Srikanth</ename> <empno>1</empno> <sal>6000</sal> </emp> </emps> The values of ename,empno and sal are displayed in textbox control. Add: If I click on the add button i want to add new node to the xml file. example to add : To add i have written code, this is working fine... Dim objperson As IXMLDOMNo ...Show All

• Windows Forms Cannot get the parent of the menu Item

  Hi , I have a toolstripMenuItem with many children underneath. When I am clicking on the mnuchild i would like to get the name of the parent menu. I have tried everything But i cannot find anything that brings the result. I was expecting  mnuchild.Parent  but there is not such a property/method. any ideas thanks a lot vbjunkie                &nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Enabling specific code analysis rules for web projects

  Hi, I'm using .Net 2.0 VS 2005. I noticed that for web projects there is a right click menu in the solution explorer "Run code analysis on web site", however clicking this does nothing - the error list window and output window do not report anything related to code analysis. Also, when I go to the property pages->Build and enable "Run Code analysis" checkbox and then build the project - the error list window and ou ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

  Error ========== The process cannot access the file 'E:\dotnet\Projects\Questions_Answers\MindMeteo\bin\Debug\DataInsertion\PartOne.txt' because it is being used by another process. When i goback and come to the same page it shows the error in the line File .Delete(rootDir + \\DataInsertion\\PartOne.txt ); as given below. I'm performing some functions with this .txt file after deleting this .txt file. if ( File .Exists( ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista CoCreateInstance failed with E-OUTOFMEMORY return value

  Hi, I implemented a DirectShow transform filter CSampleGrabber , Which is derived from CTransInPlaceFilter & IGrabberSample interface. When I try to use this filter in client application using CoCreateInstance(CLSID), it fails to create the instance and returns E_OUTOFMEMORY error. What could be the problem Thanks Sai kiran Assuming that you are not actually failing to allocate memory, I wo ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Indexing never ends with Norton Protected Recycle Bin

  Running WDS 02.06.5000.5378 and Norton SystemWorks 2002 Indexing keeps searching Recycler\NProtect folder and customise option doesn't show me this folder to allow me to deselect it. How can I get Intexing to complete Quick question.. What do you want to index Just My Documents and Email or other stuff There are a few different policy settings you can make on your system to exclude or include ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to programmly stop a build?

  We are integration our MSBuild-based project into VS2005. One problem we met is that we can't find a way to stop the build programmly in the MSBuild object model. Can some body shed some light on this Thanks. Sorry, there's no way to do that in the current version of MSBuild. If your task is executing inside the build process you can return false from ITask.Execute stopping the build, but you can't do that usi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can't enter project settings

  I can't enter my project settings, in both beta1 and beta2-applications. How can I fix this BTW, my Beta1-projects don't work either. There seems to be problems in the MyApplication.vb... Ok thanks...got it working now..these were the steps and scenario that I have and did... xp pro Uninstalled - Visual Studio.NET Standard Edition (2002 Version I think) Uninstalled everything the list said to...(the list that was on the download section of ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions change the next field jump from tab to enter

  Hi!   Is it posible to change the key to jump to the next field from tab to enter thank you very much Using the Tab key to move from field to field is not a part of .NET, but a part of Windows.  .NET provides facilities to work with the tab order because it is such an inherent part of the Windows interface.  Let me first say that I would generally consider changing this behaviour to be a ...Show All

• Visual Basic reading text from a document and displaying it

  I have TextBox1 (to enter what you want to search), TextBox2 (to display the results), and Button1 (when you press it, it does the whole process thing). I was given this to go by: ================================================================== Theres a couple of steps in a possible approach here. One is to be able to read the contents of a file. If your using VB Express / 2 ...Show All