N. Feldman's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums Intranet integrated to MSN Messenger

  Team, I need some help with MSN integration. Can I integrated an intranet (web based, asp ou .net) with MSN Messenger so that logged (*) members on the intranet could communicate thru a custom intranet interface with others directly via intranet Like a developed chat application... Exemple: 1. the intranet would ask users MSN name and password upon register (this will be used by the intranet to log the user on MSN network when he enters the intranet). 2. a page on the intranet shows the user contacts (same as MSN does) 3. the user could choose one contact, click it and start a conversation (the contact must be logged ...Show All

• Visual Basic String Enums

  Is there any way to create a string enum instread of the default integer enum For example change Private Enum bcSet bcDest = 0 bcSource = 1 End Enum into Private Enum bcSet bcDest = "1" bcSource = "2" End Enum I've also see people using constants to simulate string enums: Class MyStrings Public Const APersonalName as String = "John" Public Const ALastName as String = "Smith" Public Const SaySomethingAnything as String = "42!" End Class Haven't dedicated much though to whether it's a good idea or not. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System AdminProjectRights problem

  While trying to lock a branch down, I changed the permissions for a branch. I unchecked the 'Inherit Security Settings' box, and changed the contributors to only having Read rights. I didnt realize unchecking this box would remove all rights for every other group. Now, I dont have rights to change any other rights. I get an error saying my user needs AdminProjectRights. My user is both Team Administrator and Project Administrator, yet I dont have permission to change this project. How can this be resolved Thanks in advance. MikeH You didn't read my blog entry entitled " Don't Do That " did ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Web test relative paths

  With unit tests I can use relative paths (even go so far as to adding them to the config file) Can I do something simular with webtests Since a web test is simply an XML file I assume I could open the web test and edit it, but would like to hear if there is an easier way.   Thanks, TomK Sorry about the poor documentation. (It made sense to me, I knew what I wanted) My web test is data driven. With Unit tests if they are data driven it is easy to change the data source to be relative. It appears that if I edit the web test file I can make it relative fairly easily, but I want to know if there is a sugges ...Show All

• SQL Server creating a server instance on SQL server 2005 enterprise

  I got sql 2000 installed on my machine. I got a sql 2000 database instance on my computer and I installed sql 2005 server enterprise but I have got no server instance from sql 2005 like what i have in sql 2000 when i first install, i can have an own server instance on my computer. is it becos when i have a previous sql 2000 server instance on my computer Your SQL server 2000 is probably installed as the 'default' instance. You can keep the default instance at version 2000, and install a 'named' instance for 2005. Or upgrade your default instance to 2005. Look for the screen during setup that ...Show All

• Visual C# Form Container

  How (or where) can I get a form container like I want to place one or two forms on a master form Anything that can host any other control is a container, such as: panel1.Controls tabControl.Controls form1.Controls and so on.  You definitively can host any kind of controls in a MDI form that is the parent container.  So you can stuff or host any control (eg. such as any of the above 3) inside any other. If I understand the issue presented by Jassim is one of encapsulation so once you place a control all internal controls should be protected and the controls collection behave as a single unit. I do favor the cr ...Show All

• Smart Device Development configuring pocket pc 2003 second edition in vs 2005 to test mobile web applications

  Does somebody know how to configure the pocket pc 2003 second edition emulator that ship with visual studio 2005 to test mobile web applications. I keep getting the following error message:requested url not found Here is the url I use:http://localhost/jotali (jotali is the name of my application folder in IIS under wwwroot) Thanks in advance Please check that you have done following things 1. You have to give the computer name in place of the localhost Eg, if ur web service is http://localhost/WebService1/Service1.asmx here replace localhost with your computer name. 2. Cradle t ...Show All

• SQL Server Urgent help please!!!!! Error trying to uninstall RS sql 2k5

  Hello, One of our lovely NA's decided to remove IIS and the reinstall it while RS was installed before trying to uninstall RS. So RS broke. We then tried to uninstall RS to start over and get this error: The setup failed to read IIsMimeMap table. The error code is -2147024893 Anyone have a work around to get us to uninstall RS This way we can install IIS 6.0 from scratch and try to install RS afterwards. Thanks. Okay I recommend backing up your system before attempting this. There is a way to trick Windows into thinking an application is not installed, thus allowing you to install it fresh aga ...Show All

• Windows Forms DateTimePicker column

  Does anyone know if Microsoft will be including a DateTimePicker column in the DataGridView  (for underlying date values) The current article says "TextBox, Image, CheckBox, ComboBox, Link, and Button column and cell types" will be included.  I'm hoping for a DateTimePicker one as well... From: http://www.windowsforms.net/WhidbeyFeatures/default.aspx PageID=2&ItemID=13&Cat=Runtime&tabindex=5 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Editting (making bold) certain characters in a TextBox Control.

  Hi all, I have a TextBox Control of which I want to make bold the first couple of Characters. Is this at all possible, or will the Bold style be applied to the whole of the text within the TextBox Control The following is the code I have so far... txtSnagListLocation.Font = new Font(FontFamily.GenericSansSerif, 12.0F, FontStyle.Bold); Thanks Tryst not sure that you can do this with a textbox. I think you can only set the font on the entire textbox. But there is a RichTextBox class which I'm sure you can do it with. Regards Jero ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System migrate code analysis policy settings to PART of the solution ?

  Hi Using the "Migrate Code analysis policy setting to solution" it alters all the solution's projects settings if the Code analysis policy is stricter than the individual projects. Is it at all possible to migrate this to part of the solution. Say that maybe my test projects should have different settings. When you have 50 + projects it is a nuisance editing each and every one of them... I have also noticed that it is possible to set-up several code analysis policies. Why is this possible Can I refer to a specific policy when I run team build Instead of Default, Always and Never can I specify "Use policy 2" ...Show All

• Windows Forms Printing Multiline Textboxes

  Hello I am developing smart client application and I have a problem with printing out textboxes output. I have two columns of the multiline textboxes on a panel. They have word wrap set to true. The panel is my main working area and the content of the panel is printed on the A4 format. In Print_Page function I am iterating through the panels collection of the controls. Then I cast control to TextBox type and print out their text property using DrawString method of the Graphics object. The problem is that I am not able to wrap the text of the textboxes when printing out. The text of the textboxes is always outputted as a single line and pa ...Show All

• Windows Forms Opening a 2nd .net app from within the first, without loading the CLR a second time

  Ive got a bunch of rather small, simple apps, that often would be running at the same time. To help implement this, ive created a 'master' app which is a system tray icon, with a menu that starts the other component apps. So far im simply using process.start() to do this, but this seems to load the CLR every time. I'm not sure what the&n ...Show All

• .NET Development VS2005 C++ - System generated TableAdapter fetching @@Identy following update

  I have created an Express Database with 1 table containing 2 fields Field 1 : Idx <int> Identity Primary Index Field 2: Name <String> VS2005 created a table adapter for this DB that I use to update the table I can update the the table using the following code. this ->ATableAdapter->Fill( this ->XPressionDataSet->BPatch); this ->ATableAdapter->Insert("Some String Data"); this ->ATableAdapter->Update( this ->XPressionDataSet->BPatch); This works fine, Idx auto increments, name has a value set I need to retrieve the current value of Idx. So I added a second query to the Tab ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to use the IAMCrossbar interface

  Hi everybody: can you provide me a sample to describe the use of IAMCrossbar interface. thanks a lot ICaptureGraphBuilder2 is the recommended way to add a crossbar. Even if you build the rest of the graph manually, you can call ICaptureGraphBuilder::FindInterface to insert the crossbar filter (if needed) and get the IAMCrossbarFilter pointer. By the way, crossbar filters are only required for some hardware. If the hardware doesn't require a crossbar filter, there is no need to insert one. There is no sample code in the SDK for adding crossbar filters without using ICaptureGraphBuilder2, but here is some information: http:/ ...Show All