Hong Ju Zhang's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Design-time functionality at run-time

  I am trying to find a way to paint a selection border around a control whenever it is active at run-time.  I would like the border to be as similar as possible to the selection frame that is displayed around a selected control at  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problem installing .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2

  Hello: I hope that I'm posting to the correct area... I'm trying to install Visual C++ 2005 Express Beta 2 and the installation process fails.  The failure occurs after the download is complete and the installation of the .NET framework has commenced.  No error information is displayed, other than the notificaton that the error has occurred.  I've turned off Spybot, for what that's worth.  Any ideas on how to procee ...Show All

• SQL Server Configuration of Database Mail

  Has anyone been able to configure Database Mail and successfully send an email message   I set it up this afternoon, but all my messages are sitting in the sys_mailitems table of the msdb database. We use Novell GroupWise as our email client, but we have not installed GroupWise on this server.  Can I configure the IIS SMTP server to send the email messages These are the steps I have taken thus far: ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks ...Show All

• Visual C++ lnk 2019 error

  hey guys, i was wrapping a native dll inside a managed c++ dll. i was compiling to test how i was going, and it got a weird lnk error. it is the following: error lnk2019 : unresolved external symbol _main referenced in function _mainCRTStartup. so how am i suppose to solve this issue imusing the VS 2003. thx and the way i experienced until now, in order to load or make an object from native dll in managed C++, u ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Quick question on database updates

  My sql mobile database does not update changes to the actual database, only the copy it has in debug mode, not the actual database. How do i fix this The "actual database" is the one on your device. If you have database included in your project, VS would copy it to your device as you deploy the project and that copy will be updated. If you need database in your project updated, please copy updated da ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Add New Webtest Browser Type

  Is is possible to add a new browser type to a web test If so, how Martin Danner Boise, Idaho The browser templates are stored in the following location: \Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\Templates\LoadTest\Browsers Copy an existing browser and modify it to do what you like. Any browser template in this directory will be available use in a load test or when playing back a web test. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System OperatorOverloadsHaveNamedAlternates

  I have an operator like public static implicit operator ClassA(ClassB b); It ask me to implement FromB(ClassB b); But I already have class ClassA { ClassA(ClassB b) {} } isn't that good enough what's wrong Lloyd, OperatorOverloadsHaveNamedAlternates is looking for a static FromB method so that all types work consistantly (this rule enforces the .NET Framework Design Guidelines). However, if you ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Open Office standart

  As we know, new Office provide open stabdart throw XML. Will CLR be supporting some providers for Office files, or we will be must writing stupid code for parsing these files Kirill Are you referring to Office 2003 XML or Office "12"   If Office 2003, then these are just standard XML files. System.XML provides the parsing functinalilty for XML. There is no app-specific object model though exposed by any ...Show All

• Visual C# How To Execute applications?

          In VC++ WinExec() is used to execute any Windows/DOS based application.  Is there any similar class or method in C# . if so please tell me how it can be used in an application Regards Shaji Kumar.V.K Hi, You do as follows: You can use the Arguments property to pass the arguments to the app. using System.Diagnostics; Process newProcess = new Process(); newProcess.StartInfo.FileName = " ...Show All

• Windows Forms Eumerate Sub-Folders

  All, I am trying to write something that you can point it to a directory, ex. c:\library, and it will tell me what the sub-folders are in that directory. The reason that I am doing this would be to create something of a dynamic library. &n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Importing Database Schema

  Hi, I have been tryng to import a database schema to a project which has about 3000 objects (tables, sp's, functions etc) it's taking ages (over 20 minutes and still waiting). The first attempt failed, are there any logs I can look at / switch on to see if there are any problems with the import process. Thanks It's fininshed took about 30 minutes to import, is this the normal kind of performace for this size of DB or is there so ...Show All

• .NET Development How to catch the exception of remote server close down?

  I have a client/server application using remoting. It works fine. But when I close the server, the client will become hanging over in the middle of an exception dialog(view details, continue, quit one) display. Only if I re-start the sever, the exception dialog become clickable and exception contents are displayed. It says the connection to the remote server is closed. The worst is I cannot using try-catch block to catch this exception. Who c ...Show All

• Visual Basic RichTextBox Control - Lack of Span() method

  In previous versions of Visual Basic, such as version 6.0, I have been able to use the RichTextBox control's Span() method to select data. However in Visual Basic .NET 2005 I have not figured out how to do so. Is there a new method equivalent to the Span() method in previous versions of the control, and if so what is it Ok, here you go, you're very own span function....  Note, there's probably a better faster one out there (The ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Build and Alerts problem.

  Hello all, I want to incorporate two features of VSTS namely automated builds and Notification on mails. Both of these are possible when client is vs2005 and TFS as server.   In my case, clients have vs2003 and VSS as repository server. I have one extra machine having TFS server setup. One Solution which I can think of is using scheduled task to get the source from VSS and using MSBuild I build it. But problem is of notificati ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot concatenate parameter to the sql string

  Hi, I am facing this wierd problem while creating a simple report in reporting services. The report is to be created for a CRM application. I have created some parameters for the report and I am trying to concatenate it in my sql string. But when I try to execute or refresh the query, it gives me this error: The datatypes varchar and sql_variant are incompatible in the add operator. I have spent a hell lot of time looking for a solution ...Show All