fkmfkm's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Source control.... repository design

  How does your team go about designing your Source Safe trunks Personally, we're having issues figuring out how to properly model a project in VSS to allow for "snapshot" views yet allow us to continue building towards releases. For example, how would Microsoft setup a VSS design around a product like Windows I mean, you've got 5,000 developers all hitting the same repository in theory and all working in the same "version ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How do I modify web.config when using [AspNetDevelopmentServer] ?

  I have unit tests for a web service.  We use the [AspNetDevelopmentServer] attribute to launch the web service locally when running the unit tests.  There are a few settings in the web.config for the web service that I would like to modify at the start of the test run.  How can I access the web.config programmatically to change the settings from the MyClassInitialize() method There isn't a comple ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Text Drawing Error! Please Help!!

  When trying to run this code, i get the error: System.NullReferenceException was unhandled. My Code (Very Simple): Public Class form1 Dim paints As System.Drawing.Graphics Dim afont As New System.Drawing.Font( "Arial" , 22, FontStyle.Regular) Dim x As Integer = 10 Dim y As Integer = 10 Private Sub form1_Load( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) H ...Show All

• Visual C# Exe file remaining the memory

  I am working on real time project which involves with timer object.But when I exit from application project exe file still remaining in the memory. Before exiting I disable timer and also I use Dispose() method to totally remove it from memory. But after all these I have same problem. Any body van help me! Thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2005 specifications and performance documentation

  Does anyone know the links to doucments showing the SQL 2005 specifications and performance data for the various versions of SQL 2005 including SQL Express Not sure if you mean the system requirements If so, that's here: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/sysreqs/default.mspx If you mean data on different benchmarks for performance, scalability, etc., if so, just head to the SQL Server home page and browse the variety of white pa ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Screenshot / signature capture no longer working

    I am running Windows CE 4.2 and I am upgrading my devices to Windows CE 5.0 .  I am also using .net 1.0 .  I have a program that captures a signature on a control and sends the captured data to a receipt printer.  The program works just fine in Windows CE 4.2.  However, the signature bitmap data is not being stripped from DIBSection in Windows.  The funny part is that BITMAPINFOHEADER is is coming throu ...Show All

• .NET Development XmlSerializer or custom serialization?

  Hi! I'm currently not sure whether I should use XmlSerializer to save the properties of a class to an xml file or if should just write the file manually with XmlTextWriter. The problem hereby lies in the speed of deserialization. My program will load an undefined number of such files and create instances of the corresponding class at startup. Thus the deserialization operation should take as few time as possible, even if that means writing more ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Dynamic Update to a Workflow Created from a XOML

  Hi I have seen the dynamic updating of a workflow by adding/removing the activities in terms of class objects. Now i am creating a workflow from a XOML and i will have a new XOML with the changes in the workflow. HOw can i update the existing workflow with the modifications from the new XOML. this is how i am instantiating a workflow from xoml. string [] xomlFiles = { @"Workflow2.xoml" }; WorkflowCompilerResults ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to deploy an application

  My question is this:    I have my main app called MainApp.exe, it uses a dll called MyDLL.dll, let's say that MyDLL.dll has a method that does a sum of a+b.  I deploy my application and everything is fine, a few days later I  ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 / 2000 compatibility

  Can I upgrade my SQL Server instance to 2005, but keep one of the databases in a 2000-compatible format We want to upgrade, but we have vendor software that is not 2005-supported. (Might work, but we'd be on our own.) Would need more information, but you would need to run two servers and the apps would have to reference which one they needed.  I am working on mirgating two of my apps to SQL Server 2005 and still support 2000 versions. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Monitor Program For Crashes

  HI all, I have written a program that trades Forex for me that connects to my broker via an API interface. As the program can run for days at a time un monitoried I need to know if the program crashes and if it does restart it. I know this is band aid fix and I should just fix why it crashes. The thing is I can not find out why it crashes every now and then and until i do I want to use the band aid. It is a multi threaded app and fro ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problems with Drag and Drop of VWD 2005 Express on Vista 5342

  I've installed the VWD 2005 Express and I ca't drag and drop a ASP.NET controle to the Web Form. Is there a solution ...Show All

• .NET Development Windows App Not working over Network

  I've got a windows app that connects to a DB and copies a few files from a network share to the local PC. The app is ran on the network share because everybody in our company uses it and when modifications are made, we don't want to have to redistribute 50 or so copies of the .exe. Every time I run the program from the network, I get a standard Windows error and Microsoft wants me to send them the information, it doesn't get too involved oth ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies WDS Query from VBScript or COM

  I'm looking at integrating WDS functionality with an existing application and have been trying to call the ExecuteQuery from VB6 but am having problems. Does anyone else have some example code that they've managed to get working I've worked out that passing empty strings seems to case issues and am passing null references instead but am getting some errors raised ("Inv. Proc. Call"). This is for a small quick research project ...Show All

• Windows Forms Force user account to get disabled ..

  We're running Windows 2000 Server with Service Pack 4 (SP4). Our corporate security policy mandates that we disable Active Directory (AD) user accounts after 45 days if the user does not change his/her password. Can anybody please provide some guidance how can I achieve that Also I like to know a way how to warn the user that his domain password is going to expire within XX days thanks in advance Not a best forum to get your ques ...Show All