Alex Coppola's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System How to annotate a valid input range to supress SA warning

  I have the following function: const CVector& CMatrix::GetVecRow( int ivec) const { ASSERT(0 <= ivec && ivec < GET_SIZE(_rgvecRow)); return _rgvecRow[ivec]; } This function generates the following SA warning: matrix.h(45) : warning C6385: Invalid data: accessing '_rgvecRow', the readable size is '72' bytes, but '-48' bytes might be read: Lines: 45 I have looked in the MSDN docs about SA annot ...Show All

• Visual Studio Please help-----Unable to debug: The binding handle is invalid

  In Visual Studio 2005 when I try to debug ASP.NET 2.0 project I get the error " Unable to debug: The binding handle is invalid ". In Windows Form projects I can suppress this error temporarily by disabling the hosting process in the project properties. How to do it in the ASP.NET projects. Also If I try to attach to the running managed application I get the same error. Any workaround for this Thanks in advance   This thread topi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help with MDI Form.

  How can i get like a taskbar sort of thing where you click on the button and it shows that form like in this example http://www.winmxunlimited.net/pic11.png The parent form has an MdiChildren property that is an array of Form references to the child forms. You can use that to access members of the child forms like Text and Focus. It's not really necessary though because the MainMenu and MenuStrip classes can automatically put a list of ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problems with Mpeg4s Decoder DMO

  I have a compressing video capture card that provides an MP4s stream from an analog camera. The capture card SDK contains a DirectShow filter and I can easily construct a graph in DirectX SDK's GraphEdit tool. The graph is simply card->Mpeg4s Decoder DMO->Video Renderer and it all works nicely. This filter is used to capture streams from the card. The actual usage for the stream is such that it is first captured and stored as a ...Show All

• SQL Server How to run parallely/sequentially

   I am having different packages under one project. Each package is having one one control flow, which internally contains one data flow. I want to run these data/control flows in one sequence. I am not able to drag all of these data/control flows into one sequence container. Could anyone tell how to do this in SSIS I would create a controller a package, and use Execute Package Tasks to call the existing wo ...Show All

• Visual C++ Complier error C2666

  I am porting an app from VC6.0. The VC++ 2005 compiler doesn't seem able to disambiguate between the following overloads (I've shown an explicit cast at the call site for emphasis): class Y { public : void foo( bool b) const { return ;}; void foo( double v) { return ;}; }; int _tmain( int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) { Y y; bool b = true; y.foo(( bool )b ); return 0; } However, if I remo ...Show All

• Windows Forms Uninstalling SQL Express with application setup

  I am using VS 2005 Professional Ed. I was able to create and successfully run an application setup that installs a SQL Server Express instance as part of application pre-requisites. When I run the setup again and take the remove option, I expect everything installed by the setup to be uninstalled. However, the setup does not (even try to) remove the SQL Server Express instance. Am I doing something wrong Is there any way to automate the instance ...Show All

• SQL Server Vis. Studio.Net 2K3 + BI Reports

  Hi All, Having a problem installing the BI side of things into Visual Studio. I've installed it onto my laptop fine, but trying to get the BI reports to install on my desktop is turning into a nightmare. I've made sure all the Pre-Req's are there, .NET Framework, Local IIS, etc, but what ever I do, I cant get the BI reports to appear, even with doing an uninstall and full install. Does anyone have any suggestions Cheers Steve ...Show All

• Visual Basic Trouble reading bits.

  I am trying to read a byte from a certain address in a file. But, I am trying to read the byte in bit format (bits 0-7). I have tried to use the BitConverter and the BitArray classes but I cannot figure it out. I am pretty sure that BitArray is the one I need but there are no methods that look like they would do anything I want. Maybe I am just missing it. I checked the help section but the examples there were not what I am trying to do. Any ...Show All

• Visual Studio PowerToys for the Visual Studio 2005 Class Designer and Distributed System Designers

  We’ve published a set of set of add-ins which augments existing functionality in the Visual Studio 2005 Class Designer and the Distributed Systems Designers. The Design Tools Enhancements add-in provides a common set of features that can be used by both the Class Designer and the Distributed System Designers , such as pan/zoom window and rich formatting commands. The Class Designer Enhancements add-in provides additional functionality for the ...Show All

• Windows Forms Hierarchical DataGridView?

  Hello. I have two sample tables: company             company_id(pk)             name             location employee             employee_id(pk)           &nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Office Document Customization in not available Excel 2003

  I get the above message when I tried to launch my excel 2003 project, that was built in .net. I am not sure how it happened; I had made some code changes during the day. I checked it into Source Safe to update my project. Then when I tried to check it back out it gave me the about message. I had not deleted anything form the project. Help... I don’t want to have to re-create my project, my excel sheets have too may ...Show All

• Visual C++ Justification for forcing 'virtual' for overridden virtual functions

  Since C++ does not force a programmer to specify the 'virtual' keyword when overriding a virtual function in a base class, what was the justification for forcing not only 'virtual' but also an after the parameter list 'override' when overriding virtual functions of a base ref class or interface class. For normal C++ programmers this bifurcation from C++ seems both a PITA and absolutely unnecessary. There must have been some practical reason for ...Show All

• Windows Forms distributing application with SQL Server Express and .net framework

  I am distributing a commercial application but I need to include the .net framework 2.0 and SQL Server Express with it, even configure SQL Server Express for using remote conections, all of it totally transparent to the user. I read about using the "bootstrap" or something but I need to know what this is and how it works. Perhaps some "How-to" website or MSDN article might help also... I've searched but didn't find anything.. ...Show All

• SQL Server Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server

  I am trying to create an SQLExpress database file (mdf) in VS2005 but I get the following error: "Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to a failure in making a connection to the user interface. The connection will be closed.” I also get this same error if I try to open an existing database from the VS samples. Any Ideas Thanks, Dave T Ok got this much figured out, still having other problems, b ...Show All