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• Visual Basic Base Class Events

  Is there going to be support in 2005 for a MustOverride Event in VB.NET or maybe RaiseEvent MyBase.EventName As it is now, you cannot raise a base class event in the form of MyBase.EventName. I know the workaround is maybe to add a method in the base class that raises the event but that doesnt make too much sense to me. Especially when you have an abstract base class but you also have these non virtual/virtual methods thrown in there t ...Show All

• Visual C# data retrieving from a database....

  Hi Im very new to this .Net world......i would appreciate if anyone can just tell me/ provide me code snippet as to how to retrieve data from a SQL Server 2005 database with a front end say C#.NET 2005.. I mean i should be able to select,delete,insert,update records from both, i.e. the database and also from frontend ,C#. I appreciate if i can get a code sample to achieve the above..... Thanks, Jeff I'm not sure what ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Windows Form Designer Generated Code

  I've created a number of forms and got the Generated Code, but now I don't seem to be getting the Generated Code with new forms.  What am I missing Thanks, jerryk I'm in the free VB Express Edition 2005/2008 but there's no plus sign to expand in any of my projects What to do Thanks. Newbie ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem adding files to deployment project.

  I am having problems adding text files (xml) to a deployment project. I check out the deployment project and try to add a file (from both the File System View and the Solution Explorer). I select the desired file from the Add File dialog and click Open. The Add File dialog closes and nothing happens. In the past I found when I observed this behavior I had to make sure the file I was trying to add was writable so I would check it out from the sou ...Show All

• Windows Forms Form-like Control Not Visible

  I am trying to make a custom control that function similar to a Form, it displays and things can be added to it. The problem I'm having is that the Created property is false so that my program exits its main loop prematurely. Could I have& ...Show All

• Visual C++ Problem overloading and using ostream operator << for my own classes

  I have several problems to declare, define, and use the following operator in many .cpp files : std::ostream & operator << (std::ostream &, const MyClassA &); I succeed to declare and define this operator for my class MyClassA, defined in MyClassA.cpp. I declared my class as following :    // MyClassA.h    class MyClassA;    std::ostream & operator << (std::ostream &, c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions how to import Bookmarks favorites file to treeview

  hi i'm export my favorites links from internet explorer as html file now i want to import this ( html ) file to tree view on my form i can read form this file and get folder name and URL but i cann't make it as tree it's now in on level only i want to read from this file and make tree view in many level can you help me if you want to explanation pls tell me   i'm also search for this code but i have an wxample it's s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF Workspace command-line

  Hi I am trying to use a HTML applciation and calling the "VS2005 command-line batch file" and the "tf workspace" command using wscript.run. I run into issues when I use "tf workspace /new aaatest ....." without the "/noprompt" option. Is it a bug in the command line that I have to use this option Is there a workaround where I can use this command with the "Add workspace" window ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) When will DLinq for Oracle be available?

  I want to use DLinq in our project, but it depends on Oracle database. When will it be available Thanks!   We are currently investigating supporting a pluggable provider model which would allow others to develop database vendor specific translation/execution engines (as we have done for SQL Server) and use them with DLinq. There are however no current plans to develop an Oracle provider - the idea is that with a provider model o ...Show All

• Smart Device Development VS2005 resets the size of my WinCE GUI project window

  I want my Windows CE GUI project window to be a certain size. The same size as it is on my WinCE device. Every now and then when 1. I double-click on the file in solution explorer to show the GUI designer view, or 2. click on the tab for the file, or 3. right-click in the solution explorer and choose view designer, VS2005 resizes my GUI. Is there any way of avoiding this The only available FormFactor is & ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Extending LinksControl with the WI state field

  Hi all,   I have a question about extending LinksControl with the WI state field. We are missing this field a lot in the list of related items. Is there any possibility how to extend this control with the WI state field in Visual Studio 2005 TE for Developers Do you plan to enable modifications by XML definition in the future   Thanks, In v1, it is not possible to extend the linkscontrol and have it in the worki ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Object Reference Problem, Why doesn't this work?

  Hello All, I am really stuck here and I could use some help in figuring out why this code does not work in .Net. I am converting/rewriting a VB6 app. The VB6 code does what it is supposed to do. The .Net code is syntatically correct as far as I can see but does not function as expected. What is supposed to be happening is that clsApp.Mainform is supposed to be getting set to frmMain which is the central form of the application, thus allowing ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do I save to a EXE?

  I am running Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Eddition Beta 2 and i am wondering how I save my project to a EXE. I click build and nothing happenes I hit publish and it makes something wierd. help Your build output should be put in the ProjectFolder\Bin\Release directory. if there is nothing there, look at the error list after the build. Dustin. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions HELP!!!!!! With directory's

  When i go to the directory option in the options menu (You where you can change the include and libary directory's) i can't see the list with the directory's. I read the other thread about this and the solution they give doesnt work for me so can anyboy help mee cause i need this program. Please, Charlie I have also been looking for a way to make the 'edit V CProjectEngine.dll.express.config' trick work and no ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Code compilation problem in VS .NET C++ 2005o

  Hello, I have the following code which executes perfectly on "MS Visual Studio C++ 6.0". Recently, I downloaded "MS Visual Studio .NET C++ 2005 Express Edition". When I execute the same code it fails. For example, it complains that it can't recognize "cout". Can you please help me with this #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { cout << "Hello World!\n"; return ...Show All