Golem's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Build Target with parameters

  Hello all ! In my ".proj" file, I am each day deploying the source I have built on two different web servers. And for each of them I have some configuration to do. So currently I have something like : < Target Name = " AfterCompile " > < Web.WebSite.Create Description = " $(WebSiteName) " Path = " $(WebDeployFolder) " HostName = " $(DeploymentMachine) " Port = " $(WebSitePort) " /> < Exec Command = " rd /S /Q $(WebDeployFolder)\$(WebDeployName) " /> < Exec Command = " rd /S /Q $(WebDeployFolder)\ ...Show All

• Visual C# Active Solution

  I have created a button in one of the VS.NET IDE toolbars. What i'm basically lookin for is to be able to display the path of the currently opened solution file in the VS.NET application environment when i click on that button. I've been trying to play with EnvDTE, System.Reflection etc. for quite sometime now, but have basically ended up nowhere. Kindly throw some suggestions my way ! yes i do, but i am having difficulties in referencing the 'DTE' interface. How do i instantiate an object of this interface. could u try and put up a code snippet for the same. I've been stuck with this for quite sometime now. ...Show All

• SQL Server Grabbing DATENAME from date only returns January

  why is the below only giving me January CAST ( DATENAME ( Month , datepart ( month , ph . systemmonth )) AS varchar ( 15 )) What did you expect -Jens Suessmeyer. http://www.sqlserver2005.de ...Show All

• Visual C# Reading from App.Config c# 2.0 console application

  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.configuration.configurationmanager.aspx The above link tells me to use the ConfigurationManager class to read appsetting elements from the app.config. When I do this VS2005 C# 2.0 console application the ConfigurationManager class is not reconised. Can someone please point out this simple command. Syntax used: using System; using System.Collections.Specialized; using System.Collections.ObjectModel; using System.Collections; using System.Text; using System.Configuration; using System.Data; using System.IO; string configValueString ...Show All

• Visual C# Joining Pics

  Hi Im tryinf to make a little util that involes the ability to join two or more picutres together and then saves out the newly joined pictures as one, but i don't know how this is done can some one please help with an example. Thanks Drakx Warning: untested code ahead: public Bitmap JoinBitmaps(Bitmap bm1, Bitmap bm2) { Bitmap ret = new Bitmap(bm1.Width + bm2.Width, Math.Max(bm1.Height, bm2.Height), bm1.PixelFormat); using Graphics gr = Graphics.FromImage(ret) { gr.DrawImageUnscaled(bm1, 0, 0); gr.DrawImageUnscaled(bm2, bm1.Width, 0); } return ret; } ...Show All

• Visual Basic Hooking to find flaswindow in VB.Net

  I just started messing around with API's yesterday. So far things have come easy, well until trying to learn hooking. I have a pretty good grasp on it, I just need to know which hook to use to find when a flashwindow msg is sent to a window. For my expiremental app I am making a msn mesenger notifier. The app scans for open messages ands makes a list of hwnd's for each of the conversations, now how can I place a hook on them to intercept the flashwindow command that is sent to them when a conversation receives a new message I'm thinking something like this, only probably more complicated if hookWH_CALLWNDPROC.message = FlashWindow then 'do s ...Show All

• Visual Basic Search function

  Hi! I need help to make a search function to my program. I want to search after Spyware (my program is an antispyware program) So then i need help with the search thing. I thought that maybe I must make a file or database with all the spyware names in. Then my program reads the names fro the file\database and search after it. Just think about a anti virus program that search after viruses. Could somebody help me with this you have to do some reading and check out some sample projects before starting building you application. Here is a great place to start: http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/winforms/ Among others you will find ho ...Show All

• Windows Forms Where does Windows.Forms implement the control property editor?

  When you have a property on a control of type Button and then edit it in the property window it presents a drop down with a list of all the Button instances on the form for you to choose from. This is great and works for whatever type of control or component the property is defined as. But I want to be able to constrain this presented list to filter out some of the instances for my specific property that is of a control type. Does anyone know what internal class is used to implement this functionality I realise I need to create a UITypeEditor of type DropDown and then give a list of controls the user can choose from. But if I could us ...Show All

• Visual Basic no output visible from debug.print(...)

  Hi I create a simple Windwos Form Application, place one button on the main form which executes debug.print("hello") Pressing the button while running the application in IDE generates no output in the Output window. (neither 'Show output from: Debug' nor 'Show output from: Build' Debug is the active configuration and 'Program Output' and 'Exception Messages' are enabled to show in the Output window. My IDE is: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Version 8.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0.50727 Installed Edition: IDE Standard Does anybody know how to resolve my problem Thanks Reto Are you using ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL installation Error...

  i tried installing sql server 2005 express... but when i came to installing last part, the database server, it gave me this error SQL Server Setup could not connect to the database service for server configuration. The error was: {Microsoft}{SQL Native Client}SSL Provider: The certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted. help anyone If I remember correctly, it was some "3a" patch for MSDE. I actually ended up going with SQL Express 2005 instead of MSDE, but it was having the same problem initially as well. I think the issue was that SQL didn't clean up after its ...Show All

• SQL Server Device error or device off-line ???

  Hi to All when i m trying to execute following code backup database web to disk = 'c:\inetpub\wwwroot\backup\mybakup.bak' with format I m Getting Error like : Server: Msg 3201, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Cannot open backup device 'c:\inetpub\wwwroot\backup\mybakup.bak' . Device error or device off-line. See the SQL Server error log for more details. Server: Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally. This error is Generated only when i m trying to access folders within "wwwroot" but not in any other folders , even command runs success fully for "wwwroot" folder . !! ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums How to handle CLOB Data in VBA for Excel?

  Please, somebody, I need ASAP a solution to handle CLOB Data in VBA. I need to pick a String variable and insert and update it in a CLOB field. I need also, to store whatever is in the CLOB field in a string Variable. Does anyone know how to do it Thanks! per our support engineer: Would you please ask our ISV to check whether the document (below) can resolve the issue How To Use ADO GetChunk/AppendChunk with Oracle for BLOB Data http://support.microsoft.com/ id=185958 And please let our ISV know that the database he used is not our product. We can offer more samples of the S ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Program for editing .x files

  What program should I use to edit .x files Can I import objects from powerful editors like 3D Studio MAX Most of the modern 3d modelling packages allow you to export to x files for directx programming, but I do not know of any that will go from x files to the modeling programs format. There may be some converters out there but generally people use the modeling program to edit the base model then convert it to x files for their program. For a list of modeling programs you can go to www.thezbuffer.com as the zman has a really good list. But I personally use an older version of 3d studio max, blender (Free) or Lightwave... It al ...Show All

• Visual C++ ambiguous symbol

  Trying to compile a C++ WinForms Winsock related project with /clr option I get a few errors after adding #include <winsock2.h> statement. The reference is to a different header file: servprov.h . There is no direct reference in any of my files to this header. I verified it with quick find command. There is no reference to it in winsock2.h either. I do not know where the reference is coming from. Thus my first question is this: how come I get errors (8 total) from a header file that is not a part of my project explicitly. As far as I could determine, serprov.h is being referred via #include <servprov.h> in four other header ...Show All

• Visual C++ CreateEvent Method

  Hello Everyone, If I want to CreateEvent under .NET......how should I do that... In WIn 32 I can do something along these lines... events[READ_EVENT] = CreateEvent(NULL, false , false , NULL); Any suggestions how can I do this in .NET..... ...Show All