devexpert's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista How much of WWF designer support in VS is managed by the project system?

  Hello, In order to create a new workflow in VS, one normally selects a template from the Workflow node of a C# or VB.NET project type in the New Project dialog.  I tried creating an empty C# project (not of the workflow variety), copying the .cs and .Designer.cs files to this project, changing the namespace, and adding the same references to my empty project system that are present in the one created explicitly from the C ...Show All

• Visual Studio Copy Task - Illegal characters in path

  When I look at the output from this task everything makes sense except the error.  Running the copy command from the command line works properly and there are no obvious security ACL issues.  Any thoughts on what might be triggering the "illegal characters in path" error Task "Copy": Copying file from "C:\Projects\Common\trunk\bin\debug\*.*" to "R:\Common\2.0\45\debug\*.*". Command: copy /y "C:\Projects\Common\trunk\bin ...Show All

• Windows Forms Locking the window behind...

  whenever I open a new form I like to lock down the form that's behind it...  I've seen this feature on Internet Explorer when you open the options form...  If you try to click on the browser window it brings the focus back to&nbs ...Show All

• Visual C++ Dependency checker for 64-bit executables

  Hello, I am adapting a product from 32-bit to 64-bit.  The application is written in C and C++ with MFC and ATL code. At present I am able to execute my 64-bit compiled code on a 64-bit system as long as I have a copy of VS 2005 installed on that server.  I have been trying to help our Installation designer determine which of the VS redistributable merge modules are needed to install on a "clean" (one with out VS installed) system. The ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions 'static binding' with C++/CLI?

  I have a C++/CLI solution I created in VS2005 Express consisting of a windows forms project (the main programm) and a few libraries - now I'd like to create a single executable instead of an executable and a bunch of dll files. As I can't create static C++/CLI libraries (or can I ) how else can I compile them into a single executable Note: this isn't about the installation only, but mainly about the resulting programm being a (very) small tool t ...Show All

• SQL Server dependency relations are different from different mining structures with same mining algorithms?

  Hi, all here.. I got one problem in my data analysis case with SQL Server 2005 data mining algorithms-in the dependency network, the attributes mostly affected the predictive value are different in different mining structures tho. For example, I got a, b,c as input attributes to predict attribute d, in mining structure 1 (with all attributes discretized ), i got a as the attribute which has the strongest relation with predictive attribute ...Show All

• SQL Server Dynamically using different schema names in Oracle

  I want to access some Views in Oracle on machine <M01> with a user <user01>. The views belong to different schemas e.g. user01.view01 and user02.view02. When I transport my package to another machine <M02> I am facing a different situation: The viewnames remain the same but the schemas have changed, e.g. user05.view01 and user06.view02. I have tried to parametrize my Source SQL query but it is restricted to use parameters in th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to get the Root Name of the assemblies

  Hi, How to get the Root Name of the assemblies I can get the Assembly name but I do not know how to get the root name. Regards, Marcelo. If you set a breakpoint in the debugger and take a look at the Assembly object in the Watch window, the members and data values that are reported can be helpful. 8) As noted, AssemblyNode.Location might be what you're after in this case. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Compression

  Does net offer 'compression' capability to go along with the encryption capability.  It would be nice to compress an object prior to encryption to reduce its size. thanks, Fred Herring .NET 2.0 has support for the GZip and Deflate algorithms in System.IO.Compression. You can also use the free SharpZipLib , which offers higher-level methods for working with zip files. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Add text to a text box from a module

  I'm upgrading a program I wrote in VB6 to VB2005 and am having a problem with updating a text box. I have a module that manages serial port communications. When data is received in the serial port buffer, it should update a text box (txtSerialIn) on a form (frmSerialInOut). Here's the code: Public Sub Handler( ByVal strInMessage As String ) frmSerialInOut.txtSerialIn.Text = strRXData & vbCrLf & frmSerialInOut.txtSerialIn. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Help with smart tags

  Hello All. Is it possible to develop some smart tag that will appear when user is working in Microsoft Word 2003 and has pressed Ctrl+Enter (actually the best will be if I could replace default word context menu with my custom written context menu, but I can also use smart tagsto reach my purposes ). Thanks in advance. Thanks again Misha. Looks like I will have to use windows hooks You meantioned that I saw some examples. Can you point m ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Debug and plugin reload with MSN Messenger API

  Hello, I'm creating a MSN plugin using MSN Messenger API and MsgPlus API in C# and there are two things that frustrating me: debug and plugin reload. Is there a way to reload a plugin in C# Although I can reload it making a call to msgplus like this: int msg = RegisterWindowMessage("MessengerPlus_PluginChange"); int retVal = SendMessage(0xffff, msg, 0, 0); but i can never change the plugin.dll file since it's always in use by msnmsgr.exe. (vb.ne ...Show All

• .NET Development "invalid handle", sockets, threads and garbage collector

  Hello, I'm working on two bugs in my app. They seemed unrelated at first glance, but after some testing and searching the web for clues I am now sure they are somehow connected. The two pieces of code execute frequently, at regular intervals (this is a monitoring app) and sometimes - just sometimes, and I do mean seldom:) - exceptions are thrown. 1. Invalid handle problem I have a typical unmanaged resource wrapper class which handles serial co ...Show All

• Visual Basic Save user data

  I'm certain that my relative inexperience with .net will become apparent with this question, but here goes. 1. What is the best way to persist user data between instances of an application I am using vb for some simple hardware control and need some setup values to be retained between instances of the application, and between different users. From what I have found, my options are as follows - but each carries a disadvantage. a: ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Renaming a directory whose statis is add pending

  If I decide to change the directory name that is "add" pending, it seems that I have to check it in before I can rename it.  Is this correct   If so, that seems a bit clunky.  Renaming a folder with pending add in the UI is now supported. You can use the Source Control Explorer (View > Other Windows > Source Control Explorer). Select the folder with the pending add and either right ...Show All