Lazarus Darkeyes's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista No integrated help for November WinFX

  I have upgraded from the WinFX September CTP to the November one, and corresponding versions of .NET and VS2005. Unfortunately the WinFX documentation is no longer accessible in VS2005. Does anyone know it there is a way to force the WinFX help documentation to be visible in VS2005, or indeed visible anywhere else Did you install the VS Extensions for WinFX   You need to install that after you install th ...Show All

• .NET Development simple xpath expressions question

  I use C#. This is my XML file. < xml version ="1.0" encoding ="utf-8" > < Schedules > < Schedule Date ="14/12/2005"> < Location > Place1 </ Location > < Time > 12:00 </ Time > < Description > Set mode </ Description > </ Schedule > < Schedule Date ="15/12/2005"> < Location > Place2 </ Location > < Time > 01:00 </ Time ...Show All

• SQL Server Internal error in fresh install of reporting services

  Hi, Im having difficulty getting a report to work with SSRS for SQL server 2005.  The server configuration utility looks fine, but when i try to deploy a report, or access the site, i get: (rsInternalError) heres the log file: <Header>   <Product>Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Version 9.00.1399.00</Product>   <Locale>en-US</Locale>   <TimeZone>New Zealand Daylight Time</Time ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Explanation

  Would someone please explain the following code to me I'm trying to incorporate it into my programm as part of a protection routine, one of my friends gave it to me from a program he wrote in VB6 but he is off on a back packing holiday for the next two months so I can't ask him for help. Pos% = Len(ln$) While Mid$(ln$, Pos%, 1) <> " " Pos% = Pos% - 1 Wend SerialLo& = HexString(Mid$(ln$, Pos% + 1, 2)) + HexString(Mid$( ...Show All

• .NET Development How to extract icon from resx file

  I've a form with an imagelist filled. I just want to access the resx file of the form to get an image from the imagelist in icon format. Can anyone help me This should help: //Load the resource file ResourceManager rm = new ResourceManager("Icon.frmMain", this .GetType().Assembly); //Get the imageStream from the image list ImageListStreamer strm = (ImageListStreamer)rm.GetObject("imgList.Im ...Show All

• .NET Development Trace.Writeline skipped

  Hi I'm creating a web-service and am trying to trace to a listener using Trace.Writeline. However, the trace is not being written to and using the debugger, I see its because the Trace.Writeline() line is being skipped. However, if I change it to Debug.Writeline, it gets written. Can anyone help as to why Trace.Writeline is being 'compiled out' Thanks How do I set this ....I'm used to WinForms where I c ...Show All

• Windows Forms Stop DataGridView from re-drawing itself?

  Hey everyone. I know this is probably a stupid question but it's been bugging me for several days now and I could really use some help. OK. I have a DataGridView on a windows form listing student names, majors, etc. If the user double-clicks on that datagrid, a separate form opens up with the fields for the user to be able to edit that record. Here is the code I use to fill the datagridview (on the main form): Public Sub GetStudentList( ...Show All

• SQL Server Creating a Linked Server to AS400 in SQL Server 2005

  I am trying to create a linked server in SQL Server 2005 to show tables in our AS400. I made the connection, however, the tables are not showing up under the Linked Server name. How do you get the linked tables to display in the Linked Server folder David Are you sure you did provide the right catalog If you don't have access rights to the catalog or to specific objcts you also won't see them in th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to enable code coverage for COM+ server components

  Hi, I have a COM+ server component, a bunch of assemblies and corresponding unit tests for all of it. Code coverage works well except for the COM+ component where coverage is 0% although there are unit tests for it and they pass. Is there a way to enable code coverage for a COM+ server component I know it works in library mode but I would like to stay as close to the target environment as possible. Thanks in advance,   J. ...Show All

• Windows Forms DesignSurface Control Selection problems

  We've implemented a custom designer, using DesignSurface etc. and it's all working OK except for a minor niggle: I drag a control from the toolbox onto the design surface, and the SelectionChanged event is fired, and our handler sets the selection on a PropertyGrid. This all works as expected. The problem is that when I click on my control for the first time, the selection changes to the DesignSurface control. Why If I click on the cont ...Show All

• Visual C++ Getting Process info in UNICODE

  Hi I am unable to enumerate process in unicode build what code should i use for enumerating process info Currently I m unable to get the info with this code, if i run without UNICODE its working perfectly FEnumProcesses = (PFEnumProcesses)::GetProcAddress(PSAPI,( LPCSTR )_T("EnumProcesses")); FEnumProcesses always NULL Regards See my reply to your other post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx Pos ...Show All

• SQL Server MDX calculation

  Not sure if this can be done any help appreciated. first a little background info a "customer" can have multiple "bill types" I create two calculated members Calculated member1 - returns all the customers that have a bill type "A" Calculated member2 - returns all the customers for bill types except "A" I'd like to have a calculated member that returns all customers that have bill type &qu ...Show All

• .NET Development Does ViewState get validated/authenticated when enableviewstate=false?

  I need help. I am a contractor web developer here in CA working at a company where the production environment comprises two web sites located on two separate networks (the first owned by the company, and the second is hosted by a second-party company). The two web sites have the same domain name but different IP addresses on the DNS on the internet, and there is no load balancing mechanism in place, so a request could go to either IP address. An ...Show All

• Visual C# A C# Program Failed to initialize on friends computer, please help

  Hello all, I know this maybe a stupid newbie question, but I need help with it all the same, so please bare with me. I'm a graduate student in psychology who has a BS in computer science. I am currently writing a program in C# that I need to be able to give to other researchers to use. I wrote a beginning sample and when I sent the release .exe off to a colleague to check it out an error appeared when he clicked on it that said the program faile ...Show All

• Windows Forms Forms spawning new Forms

  Maybe I have gone brain dead but I can't seem to figure out one thing so far in C++ Express. How to have a forms button click event load another form that has already been created. I have had no problem pulling this off in VB or VBA, but C++ seems to just seems to hide this ability from me. Maybe I'm a nut and just not seeing the simplicity of the solution or it hasn't been properly presented so that my feeble squirrel brain can understand it. A ...Show All