Toddap_MS's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista VS2005 RTM and WWF Beta1

  Does anyone know if it is possible and safe to install WWF Beta1 with Visual Studio 2005 RTM, version 50727 I don't want to trash my VS / .NET2 install ! OK. I just seen the other posts! I will wait for the RTM compatible version of WWF. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Delete Work Item Type from project?

  I was playing around with custom work item types in some projects.  Now I want to delete some of the types I created.  How can I delete Work Item Types from a pre-existing project without having to create a brand new project (I apologize for all the questions at once, been saving them up for a while). Unfortunately, there's no way to delete work item types without deleting all the contents of the pare ...Show All

• Windows Forms Printing An .EPL File to Eltron Thermal Printer

  I have an .EPL file stored locally (I am retrieving it via Web Services from a remote server), and I need to print it out. I am having a great deal of difficulty finding resources on printing files within .NET Forms applications.  The file ...Show All

• Visual Studio Text Lines OverLaps in the Help Menus Display Window

  Hi, When i am crusing the help files I keep running into sections of text that have overlaped in the display.  Is it just me (MyVidCard) or has anyone else come across this, or do you know the fix Thanks in advance for any help. Steve Somebody else reported this recently. I don't think we've had a chance to debug it yet. Can you tell us what video card you have and what driver you're using You can get this information from the Adv ...Show All

• Windows Forms Master-Detail Comobox Databinding woes!

  Hi, Im having a problem with a master-detail pair of comboboxes that are bound to a dataset. Let me explain further.... the master combobox allows a user to select a city the detail combobox then displays all suburbs within that city and the user should select one of those. both of these combo's are bound to a single dataset containing the city and suburb tables which have a datarelation. this works fine the thing which has me stumped is that I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VC++ noobie questions

    hi. I have just downloaded VC++ Express edition. I have earlyer some experience with good'ol qbasic,been digging around in assembler on the amiga, and and now recently working with Flash and actionscirpt. good fun, but... But now i want to learn VC++ Where should i start I have no C++ experience, So what i really need is a hello world start, and a good free online book. soo... can any one help me out   Cheers! ...Show All

• .NET Development ASP html retrieval

  I want to store the html as a text blob before it is sent as the httpresponse object. Is there a way to retrieve it at generation time before it is sent This may solve your problem: Override the render method in your aspx.cs code like this ... protected override void Render( HtmlTextWriter writer) { System.IO. StringWriter stringWriter = new System.IO. StringWriter (); HtmlTextWriter myWriter = new HtmlT ...Show All

• Visual C++ PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE and the CLR -- debugging issues

  Hi -- I just compiled a C++ app with the CLR flag for the first time that I had previously only compiled to the native code platform. I did this so I could write debug information to the Output window, but I will want more extensive interaction with the managed environment in the future. In my app I allocate a piece of memory with VirtualAlloc with the PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE flag set and then proceed to generate some intel code to that memory ...Show All

• Visual Studio Class Details window (MSDN bug ID: FDBK24857)

  I'm having a problem with the Class Details window. Click on the following link to see the corresponding bug details: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/ProductFeedback/viewFeedback.aspx feedbackid=914d3c3f-efdd-41ed-8c6c-da5ed91f48db When I click on a class in the Class Designer, the Class Details window shows up, docked at the bottom of the screen. But when I click inside the Class Details window, it dissapears! Every time. I tried to&n ...Show All

• SQL Server Avoiding deadlock

  I have a stored procedure spUpdateClient, which takes as params a number of properties of a client application that wants to register its existence with the database. The sp just needs to add a new row or update an existing row with this data. I tried to accomplish this with code somethign like this. (The table I'm updating is called Client, and its primary key is ClientId, which is a value passed into the sp from the client.) IF (SELEC ...Show All

• Visual Basic What's wrong with this code?

  I had this code that i am supposed to use for my current project...Using Crystal Report, I want to sort the record by entering the two dates (dtpFrom, dtpTo), the name of the company(FINAL2.COMPANY), the description(FINAL2.Description) Private Sub ConfigureCrystalReports() Dim mySelectFormula As String = "{FINAL2.Order_Date} >= #"" & dtpFrom & "#" & " and {FINAL2.Order_Date} <= # ...Show All

• Visual Studio What can be created with DSL?

  Is DSL just for structural design or processes could also be designed How DSL development is different from developing a framework from extensibility point of view and by aplying changes How constraints are implemented are there any relations with OCL Could DSL be used for Data modelling (keys, trigers, constraints) Dear MS DSL Team, I am really impressed by what you have come up with so far. But wh ...Show All

• Visual C# app.TaskVisible = false

  How is this done with my main form with C# app.TaskVisible = false The D wrote: If what you are trying to do is make your main form not show up in task bar... About half way into this article is some info: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dncscol/html/csharp06102002.asp --- Excerpt { --- That now means that I can make the main form disappear. The first two steps to do this are easy. You set the Sh ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Adding Default web part fails

  Using: TFS RC on W23K SP1 with VS2005 on a Single Server Deployment, Sharepoint Services SP1 I've created a MSF for Agile Software Development and I'm trying to add a Web Part from the sites gallery. However this fails each time, irrespective of the webpart I select (e.g. Events, Contacts etc) The error I get tells me that 'An unexpected error has occurred'. I've Googled as much as I could and found one post about upgrading the web.co ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to program with a tape driver through ASPI in MFC?

  I have been looking for some supports for programing with ASPI in MFC for a long time, but still can find nothing. Or the documents were too difficult to understand without examples. I want to control a AIT SCSI tape driver, such as reading, writing and sending command. But how to do this Than just goolge for "ASPI interface" Note that there are no standard ASPI drivers in Window NT, 2000, XP and 2003. You always need to third pa ...Show All