tris111's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Recommendation needed for list box with thousands of items

  In our application we may have very large data sets with 50,000 items or more in them.  Although we try to not have the user interface present lists with all of that content, sometimes they are necessary. In the Nov CTP, creating a very simple set of 50,000 Customer objects in memory with two strings Name and Phone Number costs about 2MB of memory (40 bytes each), which seems reasonable. Assigning an ObservableCollection<Customer&g ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Web Test recording unreliable - help!

  I've just installed the release version of VisualStudio Team Suite 2005, to use the web testing tools. (I had previously used beta 2 on a different PC). I go through the standard process of recording a web test. However not all the posts are recorded. In more detail:  - Start recording - OK  - Type in the URL of our logon page (we use our own authentication) - OK  - Enter the logon credentials and press Logon - OK  - We do a ...Show All

• Windows Forms Performance and Many Child Controls

  Hi, I have the need for a ListView like control (used in Details mode) that can contain one of several different child controls in each cell. I am using 9Rays FlyGrid as the ListView-like control, and placing a myriad of child controls into this FlyGrid and painting them over the specific cells they "belong" to. My problem is that the scrolling performance of this ListView window is horrendous. I have located the slowdown to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions unable to install visual c# 2005 express edition - mscrorsvw.exe - Unable To Locate DLL

  while installing, message appears - The dynamic link library MSVCR80.dll could not found in te specified path. I found that there is no file named MSVCR80.dll in c:\winnt\system32 (os - windows 2000) Can anyone please help me... Martyn, Finally! This is exactly the answer I wanted (and expected) but needed someone with a bit more smarts than me to confirm. I had already sent email to Symantec about this issue in November and have ...Show All

• Visual C++ File Comparison Question - What is wrong in my code

  All, I've to compare two text files & output the results to a text file. Two input text files have file names in it, one input file was generated last week from a database & other was generated this week. The comparison utility that I want should return what's same, what's changed & what's deleted. Sample: First Input File(old): @DB/AAF33012/001 @DB/AAF33023/007 @DB/1L110145/008 @DB/11516573/001 @DB/11516836/002 @DB/15 ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Error when I try to instantiate Graphics object with DataGrid Handle

  I am using VS.Net 2005 and programming an application for Widows Mobile 5.0 in C# I am trying to use the autosize function found here on syncfusion: http://www.syncfusion.com/FAQ/WindowsForms/FAQ_c44c.aspx#q1076q Every time I try to instantiate my Graphics object using the DataGrid handle as a parameter: Graphics g = Graphics.FromHdc(this.valveLineupSelectionDataGrid.Handle); I get the following error: "value does not fall within expecte ...Show All

• SQL Server Merge join problem

  I don't know if anyone is having this issue with merge join. I built a custom SCD to handle insert, update and delete records. So far I am having success with the delete but after I do a union all combining the updated and new rows, I merge them with the source. My proble is that is I have 10 records coming from the flow and I have say 30 records from the source, it will only load about half of these records. IBy the way, I am doing inner join. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Shortcut key

  I have an application in VB.NET 2005 and I would like to assign it a shortcut key to open it. As when you r-click on an executable. for example, if you r-click on iexplore.exe, you will see that there's a way to assign shortcut keys to start the application. How can you do that on VB.NET 2005 Thank you very much ...Show All

• Visual C# web Synchronisation

  i have done Merge Replication using web Synchronisation, Web synchronisation is working if my client pc or notepad is on the same domain , is there any way to do web synchronisation with out using RMO without adding the client to domain, since we want our clients to just install the software and perform synchronisation using internet with adding their notepad to our domain.. thank you... ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem with query using SQL Server 2005 September CTP

  To SQL Server 2005 Team:   This query works fine on SQL Server 2000:   select    top 10 aename as EscrowOfficer,aomon,aoday,aoyeary2k,                               aemon,aeday,aeyeary2k,aprice,aescr#,aprpt#,abra#,arecmn, arecdy,arecyry2k,Source,absct,asrep1,asrep2,asre ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Not able to view the load test report

  Hi, I am getting following error while tring to look at the reports tab after exceution of my Load test: "Can not access reporting service"http://hydhtc43047/ReportServer/ReportService.asmx"(ListChildren web service method name is not valid)" Can anyone please suggest where is the problem and what could be the solution Thanks, Joshna Unfortunately the load test reports don't work even in Beta 3.  They are the last of the reports remai ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Rendering (exporting) to bitmap (PNG,JPG)

  Is there any possibility to save Window content or other Visuals to bitmap I want to compose something in XAML (using StackPanels etc.), display it on screen and then save to PNG or other format. Thanks Vojta This only works if you don't have {Binding} in xaml ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS Error Branching... SQL Error 8152 ...String or binary data would be truncated...

  I've put about 5GB worth of data into TFS. Had problems with some paths exceeding the 260 character path limit of the windows shell & #define's etc. (I think NTFS has a 4k limit on paths or something...) Anyway, managed to remove offending directories during check-in, & all was fine. At some point, I did a branch & all was fine. Earlier today, I went to do another branch & it complained about: SQL Error 8152 ... ...Show All

• SQL Server How to change a field's type?

  Hi, How could I change the field type through T-SQL I have tried Using the ALTER:          ALTER TABLE tblName ALTER COLUMN myID int It didn't work... And also, how could you rename a fieldname cheers, Paul June A. Domag Hi, Sad to say, it didn't work. I searched the BOL of SQLServerCE and the IDENTITY_INSERT switch isn't available. Guess, I'll have to find other means to solve this problem ...Show All

• SQL Server Pre-Execute Phase

  What happens during the pre-execute phase Is there anything I can do to optimize it's execution I have a package that takes data from 2 SQL Server sources, unions them, and writes to a sql table. The pre-execute takes 20 minutes, and the execution takes 45 seconds. Thanks BobP Are you sure there are no other components in your data flow (Lookups ). Do you have another data flow in the package Give us a picture about the ...Show All