GreatMinds's Q&A profile

• Visual C# Show an image while its being dragged and dropped

  Hi All, I am coding an image drag-drop from one picture box to another. When the image is being dragged from source to destination, I would like the image to be shown as it is being dragged. How do i do that Currently only the mouse pointer changes when I do a drag-drop.I would like the Image to be seen. Thanks in Advance. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Serious problems with merging files

  We have found serious problems with working on TFS source control with few branches. Many of changes occasionaly lost after merging files. I found exact description of this problem at http://blogs.conchango.com/jamesdawson/archive/2005/12/20/2518.aspx and it looks unbeliveable that TFS have so serious problem. Could be this situation solved in some way For us could be already helpful to switch off automatic merging completely (until fixing th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Type Library Message on VC++ Startup

  I was noodling around a few minutes ago, and I discovered that VC++ is now complaining about a type library when it starts up.  Here's the message: The proper type library could not be found in the system registry. An attempt to repair this condition failed because you do not have the permissions to write to the system registry or because the type library could not be loaded. This can be fixed by a system administrator ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do I display images in my embedded HTML?

  I'm using a web browser control in my Form to display embedded HTML pages. I'm loading the HTML content via a StreamReader, and it all works fine, except that the images on the HTML are not showing. I'm not surprised, since the img tag reflects the design time location: "<img src='MyPic.jpg'> How can I embed the images in my C# app so that they can be found at runtime, and referred to at design time btw - I know how to embed res ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Passing "commands" to other forms

  I have have two forms: form1.vb remoteMove.vb and I have this command in the actions of button1 in RemoteMove form and this is the code: Form1.PosM.X += 5 Form1.PosM.Y -+ 5 and PosM is (in Form1) : Public PosM As Point so the program doesn't have any problem recognizing the variables... but when i press the button, the positions of the object that I am painting on the form doesn't change!... what's wrong with this if you guys want, I can post t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Project Creation Fails with exception "Retrieving MSF methodology failed"

  Hi All,          We managed to setup the a Single Server  Team server installion. Creating a new team project does completes the download process and then it   fails. Detailed log is given below. Please help!!!! 06/27/2005 09:38:16.265 | Module: ELeadServiceMediator | URL for eLead web service retrieved as " http://aztecmsdts:8080/bisserver/EleadWebService.asmx " from the registration service | ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Serious Problem in Loading Workflow

  Hi, I need some help! I use Beta2/VB.NET I have a small Statemachine Workflow, I included SqlWorkflowPersistenceService. Than i close the form and I start my application again with this inst = theWorkflowRuntime.GetWorkflow(arb.WorkflowId) ' WorkflowId = InstanceID inst.Load() smwi = New StateMachineWorkflowInstance(theWorkflowRuntime, inst.InstanceId) Than I raise a event but it seems not to fire By creating a new I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to create a report on Work Item Links?

  I have the Microsoft Report Builder open and am using a model based on the TfsReportDS data source. I see a pile of Entities on the left in the Report Builder model, including one called "Work Item" for example. The Work Item entity has a pile of fields in the box below that which I can use to populate my report. However i the Work Item entity, nor in any other entity after extensive browsing am I able to find any way of reporting on th ...Show All

• Visual C++ Releasing System-Allocated Memory

  In the statements    char * str = "abc";    str = "xyz"; is malloc or one of its relatives used for the memory allocation I assume that there is no memory leak when these statements are executed. Does the system use free(...) before reallocating the memory If one needs to release the allocated memory some time before the execution of the second statement, can one use free((char *) (str-1)); Thanks. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development GPS sample and Windows Mobile 2005

  hi, i found the GPS example on the SDK for Pocket pc for C#. i have no problem deploying it in my pocket pc - MDA PRO. but when i select menu item 'Start gps' it only says 'StartingUp' and does nothing else. my PocketPC is already paired with the GPS receiver. will really appreciate if anyone can help me with this. will also appreciate if anyone can point to some other sample example to connect to bluetooth gps receivers. regards, ...Show All

• Visual C++ VC++ 8 Show-Stopper?

  Hi, I'm seeing a speed hit of around 2X when switching to VC++ 2005. It's so serious and effects even the most  basic programs that I can only think I must be missing something. Please help! Building the same (trivial) program onVS 2003 and VS 2005 I'm seeing around a 2x decrease in speed. I'm building for release and in 2005 also setting D_SECURE_SCL=0. Can someone explain #include "stdafx.h" #include <windows.h> #include <vec ...Show All

• Visual Studio Error 25015 while installing .NET Framework 2.0

  Hi, I have a problem getting NetFX 2.0 installed. While installing the framework with Elevated Rights I get : Error 25015: Failed to install assembly 'C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Microsoft.VisualBasic.Vsa.dll' because of a system eror: Access is denied. If I give the user admin rights the installation works fine. Is there a way to get around the admin rights, I really dont want to get it to all 2000 users on o ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do you convert the selected value from a combobox to a integer?

  I have a combobox set up with some records from a database, it displays string data but the value underneath it is a integer. The items in the combobox are a result from a sql query between to related tables. When i try to run another query to pull some data i get a conversion error, basically its telling me "Conversion from string "System.Data.DataRowView" to type 'Integer' is not valid." Im using VB 2k5, how can i convert t ...Show All

• Visual C++ Embedding an edit control into a tab control

  I want to embed four different edit controls into four different tabs. How do I do that Ted, How do I resize the edit control box in my tab. When I maximize the window, I want the edit box to be resized. I am able to resize the tab with no problem. Thanks, ...Show All

• Visual C++ Compiling VS 2005 Beta2 to a mounted network share

  Hi, I tried to do the following.  Create a simple c++ hello world app over on a mounted network share (lives on a netapp box).  Created the project just fine, but when doing a compile, it fails.  Here is the build log file.  Any idea what is wrong   Clearly I have write permissions to the files. Ok, in writing this query, I decided to try it to a network share on another windows box (our server).  Again mounted as a ...Show All