Michael _Kidd's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Inherited Extender Property Defaults

  I've created a new extender component which extends a "Participates" property to other controls on a form.  If I drop that on a form (form A) along with a toolbar I'm able to set the toolbar's Participates property - no problem. Both& ...Show All

• .NET Development 1.1 to 2.0

  Hi, I am converting a 1.1 code to 2.0 The line that I would like to convert is System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.SmtpServer = SMTPserverName; P.S. using outlook do you know what should this line be in 2.0 Thanks string server = "server"; System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient client = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient(server); client.Send(from, to, subject, body); Hope this helps. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Parenting a form?

  Hi all ~ am trying to dynamically create a form and display it "inside" a panel on my main form. Am coming from Delphi where similar code would work - what do I need to do in C# TIA, Kai private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { Form f = new Form(); f.Parent = panel2; f.ShowDialog(this); } No, just tried it but it isn't suitable at all since MDI forms have ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Howto: exclude .Net Framework 2.0 from VS 2005 Team Foundation Server Beta 2

  Hi, I'm trying to install VS 2005 Team Foundation Server Beta 2 on a clean virtual machine (VM) but, an error message advises that an existing .NET Framework 2.0 and an Active Directory is located and therefore is unable to complete the installation process. This maybe a result of an application incompatibility, I dont know but here's what i have installed: Operating Windows 2003 Server ASP.NET has been enabled Installed VSS 20 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Progress bar.... multi threading???

  I've often found when I attempt to use a progress bar with rapidly changing information, the bar or window just hangs until the calculations are complete. For example, I'm trying for a bulk insert into database it will take 5-10 minutes.. So i want to give the users a feedback to i ndicate that the data is processing...  how can i do it please help Thanks in advance Anz I had the same problem and had quite a bit of trouble findin ...Show All

• SQL Server Report equivalent of a <BR> or a vbCrLf

  What do I have to embed in my data to get a report cell to line break   If I have: ABC XYZ what do I have to store in the position to get it to look like: ABC XYZ in my report It's faster solving that in the dataset than in the report side. But it's valid too and it's good to know as many ways to solve problem as you can. ...Show All

• .NET Development Is this a bug of ASP.Net 2.0 ? when I use relative paths in SqlXml class!

  Is this a bug of ASP.Net 2.0 when I use relative paths in SqlXml class! I can run Part 1 correctly in ASP.net 2.0, but when I run Part 1, I get the following error, why Is this a bug of ASP.Net 2.0 Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\~\App_Data\InitializeBookmark.xml'.   //--------------Part 1------------------------ DatabaseBase myDatabaseBase = DatabaseHelper.GreateDatabaseOject(); ...Show All

• Windows Forms Dialog Box making

  Hi, I have a custom dialog box in my software which shows the list of few thing in list view when a user double click it should return the Value to the Calling form like an inputbox.  Now how can i make a custome dialog box with ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Book Recommendation to Learn C#

  Hi Everyone, Anyone know of a really good book on learning C# 2005, that is easy to read and understand, without a lot of fluff and page fill Two that I have been looking at are "Learning Visual C#, 2nd Edition, by Jesse Liberty, and the Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Step by Step, by John Sharp. Both about 500 pages. I have the MSPress "Visual C# 2005 Build a Program Now", that the Express CD comes with, but need more informat ...Show All

• Windows Forms ListView SelectedIndexChanged fired more than once

  I know than when in a single selection ListView we change the selected item, the SelectedItemChanged event is fired at most two time, one for unselect the last selected item and one for select the new one.  My problem is: I want to do  ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Moving character against moving world

  Hello, I'm building my first D3D game, a clone of Lander (the user must land off on a specific portion of ground with a maximum speed set instead of crashing) I'm wondering what is the best way : 1. Make the land module center of the world, camera looking at it and moving the ground mesh 2. lock the position of the ground and move both land module and camera accoring the user input. What are pros and cons about these two manners What about other ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Dependency Properties

  Okay, so unless I am missing something in the documentation, I cannot see anything that would really describe what these things -- Dependency Propertys -- are and/or what they do and/or why I would use one (in a custom activity, for example) instead of a regular class property Any help -- /chris check the post http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=361279&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System ? Check in but keep checked out ?

  Is there any way to check-in a changeset, but still keep it checked out That's something I often do with VSS6, but I can't see any way with Source Code Explorer. (There's a few things like this from VSS6 that I'm missing - for example, the ability to find all files with a specific suffix, and then be able to easily check them out without having to painstakingly visit each of them in their source code folder.) I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office getting data from an excel chart

  I am trying to get some form of data from a chart (to redraw it using another program*) - i.e. the source data or the plotted points on the chart. so far I have Excel.SeriesCollection sc= (Excel.SeriesCollection) ExcelApp.ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(Type.Missing); for ( int i=1; i<= sc.Count; i++)                 {       Excel.Series series = (Excel.Serie ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions STL bug in the CRT. fix?

  Hi! ibe read this bug report about std::iostream leaking memory. It sais there that "the issue has been resolved, and will be fixed in the next version of visual studio". Im not quite shure how to understand that. Does it mean that we will have to live with this bug till VC2008 (or 200xx) comes out In very few words, is there an update, fix, patch or whatever to correct this issue in VC2005 express ...Show All