Phoenixsuper's Q&A profile

• Architecture Two Controllers sharing one model

  Hi, really hoping that a) I've posted this in the right forum, b) that someone can help me out. I'm implementing a MVC pattern that contains two controllers that both need to access the same instance of a model. I'm having problems trying to work out how to get the controllers to share one instance of an model. The model can't be a singleton object and each instance of the model contains it's own data, so the data cannot be static across all model instances. I'm thinking of using a third controller that contains the model instance and the other two now child controllers. All events raised by the views notify the child controllers that ...Show All

• Windows Forms Might be a stupid question but...

  I just can't seem to wrap my brain around this one. (Yes I'm a Newbei, lol) I just don't understand how to click on a list item and get it to do what I want. I've got a listview control that shows "*.url" files and I'd like the user to click on the list item (*.url) and get it to open in the WebBrowser control that's on the same form. How would I go about doing that. I'm using VS.Net 2003. Hi CommonGenius, Thanks for your help. Would you be able to give me an example of how to do this I think I understand what you are saying about the select part but I'm not quite sure about how to get the url file to read it. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System SharePoint 2003 Mistake

  why a mistake A database with the given name already exists on the specified database server   SharePoint  portal 2003     This looks like a message that is given by SharePoint when attempting to extend a site that has already been extended. Can you provide some background information to help us understand what the conditions were when you encountered this error    Did you see this message when installing the TFS Application Tier components   Had the installation failed one or more times before you saw this error ...Show All

• Visual C++ Strange bug-thread accesses wrong pointer under heavy loads.

  Hi, I have a wierd bug on my hands. It's C code compiled with version 7. There are 2 threads running which just happen to have a custom Timer declared in each file with the same name and type. The MyTimerStruct is just a structure with a bunch of variable declarations. The TimerStart function uses that data passed in to start a multimedia timer for the thread. The bug is that sometimes thread 1 calls TimerStart but passes thread 2's Timer pointer to TimerStart instead of it's own for some reason. This only ocurrs under very heavy load. The solution was to change the declarion for the 2 Timers to STATIC. But I don't undertand why. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do i use embedded mp3 file.

  I have this class that plays mp3 files, however i would like to embed and use an mp3 file. How can i do that. Also i would like to embed font files and use them in forms, how do i do that I suppose you know how to add mp3 file to project resource (right click on the project -> Properties -> Resources tab -> On Add resource tab click Add existing file). After you added, for example tada.wav (C:\Windows\Media\tada.wav), to project resources you can type this code for example to Form_Load event: Stream str = Properties.Resources.tada; SoundPlayer snd = new SoundPlay ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions UserControls/Design Time Property Grid

  I'm designing and UserControl with a lot of properties.  I would like to place some of the porperties in sub catagories.  Similar to the way the X,Y properties are displayed for the Location property under the Layout catagory.  Can someone help me emulate this behavior.  Thanks Robert Sure... you can supply a TypeConverter attribute to a property. The TypeConverter will convert your datatype to a string a vice versa. This is the string that is displayed next to your property. A typeconverter can also tell the propertygrid what properties are available for editing. That's where th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Gibberish on "Activation Key" Email

  Hi, I'm trying to register Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Beta and the Activation Key email comes to me as gibberish. My email client is Outlook 2002. I also tried pasting it into MS Word (as suggested by FAQ #16 at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/register/faq/default.aspx ) but the same problem occurs. I tried to request the email again but even the second email comes as gibberish. What do I do now Thanks for your help! In the email there is a link which will allow you to verify your email address and obtain your activation key.  Select that link to continue the pro ...Show All

• SQL Server Failed Install of SQL Server 2005 SP1 CTP

  Hello, We are attempting to install the CTP for SQL Server 2005 SP1 and receive the following error message in the log: The following exception occurred: Unable to install Windows Installer MSP file  Date: 03/24/2006 14:19:40.562  File: \depot\sqlvault\stable\setupmainl1\setup\sqlse\sqlsedll\copyengine.cpp  Line: 856 This is then followed by this failure with the Database Services: Product: Database Services Database Services (RTM 1399 ENU) - Failure Details: Unable to install Windows Installer MSP file I also found the following entry in the SQL9_Hotfix_KB913090_sqlrun_sqlmsp.log file: Sq ...Show All

• .NET Development WebMethod with business objects

  I'm using VS2005 July CTP, I've a web service which has some methods to return business object , and some update methods to accept business object as parameter. And I've a winform application consume the web service. When I add it as a web reference in VS2005, in the proxy class it generated, all my business object type is replaced to DataSet. I opened Refernce.cs and replaced all line with DataSet with my buiness object type in order to pass my object between web service and winform application. But, Refernce.cs is updated everytime the web refernece is updated, I'm required to edit it again.... And it is very time consuming ...Show All

• SQL Server YAIP (Yet Another Install Problem)

  Problems getting SQL Express June CTP to install. When I run the setup I get: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SQL Server 2005 CTP Setup has detected incompatible beta components from Visual Studio or SQL Server. You must run the build cleanup wizard from the CDE to remove previous SQL Server components and .NET Framework components, and then run SQL Server 2005 CTP Setup again. For detailed instructions on uninstalling SQL Server builds, see the SQL Server 2005 CTP readme file. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- So I run the sqlbuw.exe to clean things up and I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problems after moving TFS to new server

  Thanks to Buck, I can now connect to my new TFS server after moving the databases using the posted procedure. Just a couple problems remain: The Reports folder in Team Explorer displays a red X.  I can manually browse to the report server and see/run reports without a problem. Choosing "Show project portal" from the context menu for a team project results in "The system cannot find the file specified".  I can manually browse to the sharepoint sites without a problem. As a part of getting the client to connect again, I ran devenv /resetuserdata.  Could some setting that I need to restore have been reset One st ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions DataBinding

  I am going through the Learning Resources by Bab Tabor.  Lesson 9 is about databinding.  The culmination of the whole lesson developing a simple application where you can use a form to change data in the original SQL database.  When I build my own program based on the specific example outlined in the lesson, the changes I make in the form are never updated into the original database.  So, I go and download the solution and the same thing happens, the data in the original database (in the example MyCompany) is never updated.  Any guidance Thank you Jonsey! I have been stuck on this ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Command Button Problem

  I have recently downloaded Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition and I need to add a "command button" for a simple project. In all of my toolbox, I could not find one, however I found "button" and named it cmdBeep. When I added it to my form, switched to the code view and tried to select it so i could add Beep (to make button beep), it automatically changed back to frmFirstCode, the name of my form. Im not sure what the problem is, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks hi, here its some nice tutorials http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS 2005 starting problem

  Hi, today i get my new VS 2005 version (german version). I install it on my computer (Xp with SP2) without any problem. On the same computer VS6 and VS 2003 are installed. When i start VS 2005 i can see the splash screen. Then the splash screen closed and i'm back on the desktop. I ask the support. They mail me that i should check it into the safed mode. So i test it but with the same result. So i ask if somebody can help me. Thanks Ulrich Hi, i find a solution of my problem. By the installation of VS 2005 the installed addins will be integrated into VS 2005. I haven't updated one addin long time ago, so it ...Show All

• Visual Basic label wont update text

  I have a group of dynamic label controls hosted in a groupbox. I have created event handlers  for dbl click which pops up a dialog box to alter the text property of the control.For some strange reason the change only occurs if I minimise and then maximise the form. ANy ideas cheers Hi kiwicoder2, thanks for ur post.. tell me what is the role of invokepaint what does it actually do what i have done now is to update a control, i write me.controls.removeat(indexnoofthecontrol) and then create a new at the same location.. but i am still looking for an optimized method.. Rajesh ...Show All