Bill Developer's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Can't Edit and Continue

  I'd like to figure out why I can't use Edit and Continue on my box. I've tried this with a trivial C# Console app that consists of the following: namespace EditAndContinueTest { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { int a = 1; Console.WriteLine(a.ToString()); a = a + 1; Console.WriteLine(a.ToString()); } } } I break on the first Writeline and try to edit the line below to a = a+2; and get the following dialog: "Changes are not allowed when the debugger has been attached to an already running process or the code being debugged is optimized". I'm running in XP Pro ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office About connecting to Oracle

  Hi, I want to know if there is a limit for the length of 'strSQLCommand' for the below statement.    objADORecordSet.Open strSQLCommand, objADOConnection, adOpenStatic as I've got a problem with the long query I created, inside the macro of the Excel file, for retrieving the records from Oracle DB. Here are the codes for the query:     strSQLCommand = "Select rtrim(vessel)||', '||rtrim(voyage)||leg ves_fld, " & _         "shipping_line shp_ln, place_delivery plc_del, booking_reference bk_no, " & _         "allocation_customer cst_c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Strange error when adding CrystalReportViewer control

  I have the latest July CTP installed. When I tried to drag and drop a CrystalReportViewer control to my form, I got the following error messagebox:   --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- Failed to create component 'CrystalReportViewer'.  The error message follows: 'System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'CrystalDecisions.ReportSource.ReportSourceFactory' threw an exception. ---> System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'CrystalDecisions.Shared.SharedUtils' threw an exception. ---> System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for ' ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista What happened to my user profile (Build 5270)

  After setting up my profile (Desktop settings, Outlook, etc.) I reboot the machine and my profile is set back to default. Machine specs.   Dell Inspiron XPS M170 Pentium M 2.26ghz. 2GB RAM 100GB 7200 RPM drive GeForce 7800 GTX Braodcom GB connected in GB Windows 2003 ADS I would love to be able to setup a beta machine with my companies profiles to see if Vista would be a viable upgrade. But that is hard to do when the profiles are set back to default after each reboot.     What gives Yes this is an office PC. Yes there are login Scripts and a Global Polic ...Show All

• Visual Basic GenericIZE This...

  I am betting this is a very hard problem for 99.9995% of programmers. It's supposed to be simple and supposed to be one of the benefits of generics, yet generics will not work with this incredibly simple case. If you can get it to work, I'd love to see it. Take the class below and convert it to accept generic arguments of <int> or <double> or <long> or whatever. You'll find a big surprise when you you get it coded up and try to call IsDataValid because it's going to say that your generic objects don't support the operation you are attempting. Good luck. Public Class X_GreaterThan_Y Private _X As ...Show All

• .NET Development Pragmatic General Multicast

  all, I've posted the following last week but didn't get any replies... Is this the wrong forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Where can I get some c# code samples using the Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) protocol (client\Server) regards -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you to publish the same price updates from a exchange to various price publishers at the same time... so if one fails the others will be up to date and the front ends connected to the one that failed w ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to create a toolbar in the frame window of MDI child window?

  How to create a toolbar in the frame window of MDI child window I am building a MDI application,and I need some specific toolbar for each of my MDI child window.Please tell me how to begin and in which class I  write the statement for the toolbar,CChildFrame or CMainFrame The more details ,the better. Thank you very much for your answer! Just derive you own class from CMDIChildWnd. Place your CToolbar in the class. Create a OnCreate Handler. Create the toolbar in the OnCreate handler. ...Show All

• Visual C# WndProc Msg ID

  Can you please let me know what is the WndProc Msg ID for space key The space key doesn't have a message id.  If you're looking for key down event, WM_KEYDOWN is defined as 0x100.  Once you get that message, you can examine the wParam to check if it's 0x20 (Space key). But you should be able to do all this directly from .Net events without having to fall back on WndProc.  Could you describe your problem a bit, so we can help better ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WorkflowCompiler locking output file

  Hello, I am compiling the xoml and cs files with WorkflowCompiler as described in the sample applications. When I run twice the compilation I get the following error the second time: error CS0016: Could not write to output file 'c:\test.dll' -- 'The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. ' Executing the code from another AppDomain it doesn't solve the problem. How can I solve the problem Thanks, Pierre I am looking for a solution to this problem, too. Does anyone have ideas how to let WorkflowCompiler release the DLL file after the compilation Thanks. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Yet Another Buffer Question

  Well I have another question about buffers i was thinking about setting up a global vertex buffer for my terrain grids, the only thing is they are set up in quadtrees so basically there are vertexbuffers setup for each quadtree leaf. So that is alot of vertexbuffers which in my understanding means bad. So i was wondering how many vertices can i put into a single buffer And if setting up a buffer for a whole gird is a good idea. Vertex buffers can contain a large number of vertices. At least 64k, and possibly a lot more. However, you may not want to create VBs that large. If these are dynamic VBs, you'll want to lock them and fill them - ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Copying and pasting between spreadsheets

  I have an Excel Macro which copies from a Source spreadsheet and pastes on the working copy. The Source spreadsheet is the result of a report gleaned from a non Microsoft database. Usually all works as expected. The problem comes when one of the items in the working copy does not appear in the Source copy. (If no activity occured, instead of displaying a zero, that particular item is excluded from the output. Since the procedure is copying and pasting to a set Range, these instances cause a mismatch on the Master Sheet and incorrect data in the linked cells elsewhere in the Workbook. I know there is a way to have the copy and paste tak ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET Framework 2.0 question

  I appologize in advance if some of my  questions to the forum is a little out of place. I am not a programmer or developer, just a gamer, system builder, and network administrator of a home network. After installing .NET Framework 2.0, Direct X9.0c's Diagnostic shows that one of the two system.dll files is missing. The one that is listed belongs to 1.1, so logic dictates that it is the one for 2.0 that is missing. However it is in the .NET 2.0 folder! Some other symptoms are that logging into .NET sites must be done manually (being signed in with MSN Messenger does no good), and Auto-Scroll function for IntelliPoint 5.2 does no ...Show All

• SQL Server SP1 ships

  Download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/sp1.mspx Thanks, Mark The link for the download on that page goes to the link http://www.microsoft.com/sql/tbd , which doesn't exist, and gives a 404 error. I assume "tbd" means To Be Decided. Has it really been released yet It'd also be good if it was possible to install this via Windows Update, but apparantly the technology doesn't yet exist to do this. See here for details: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=248730&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• SQL Server Error data types do not match

  I have a flatfile source with qty,title and author..i add a lookup and in that i establish relation between title and titel of pubs database..but i am getting an error.. one or more columns do not hav supported data types,or their datatypes do not match..i checked both hav dt_str,and in database pubs title is varchr..so why this eror I think the error is quite clear. Open your lookup and navigate to the olumns tab. Now hover over each column you wish to join on the left and right hand sides. The tooltip will give you the SSIS types concerned. Do they match If not what are they and why do you think they should If they do not match use t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions RS232 (Comm Port) Cant read the line HELP

  Hi, I was trying to read the text from comm poert w/ new SerialPOrt object but for some reson it dosnt work. But I can write everything though. I'm using all defult seetings for the port object. And here is the code that I have. Also when I chnded read timeout, I got an error in time out. Public Class PORTs Private Sub Button1_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click sp.Open() End Sub Private Sub Button2_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click sp.Close() End Sub Private Sub sp_DataR ...Show All