TomPepe's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms convert base64 to image

  Could someone please help me on this, im about to tear my head off.... I am SIMPLY trying to convert a base64 string from an xml file to an image .... I have declared a DataSet object, called the LoadXml.. checked the size of the byte&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problem Installing DSL Tools September 2005

  I've tried downloading and installing the DSL Tools September 2005 release, and when I have unzipped and tried to run setup.exe I always get the following error.  It looks like maybe the zip file has a wrong version - does anyone else get that problem   I've tried it on 2 machines with different operating systems. Setup has detected that the file 'E:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\VSD71.tmp\dotnetfx\WindowsInstaller-KB884016-v2-x ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums your view on product roadmaps

  I'm curious to find out what your views are on product roadmaps... 1. Valuable or not 2. What is more important - being able to see the product integration or the estimated timelines or both 3. If you currently work with a product roadmap, what format do you find most useful - interactive/online, PDF, other Textual display or visual thanks, -brenda (ISV Buddy Team)   pgloor wrote: The same will be true ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot DROP SERVICE

  I'm having trouble dropping a Service Broker Seriver using the DROP SERVICE command. After about 15 minutes, my SQL Server 2005 Standard edition replies with the following message: Msg 701, Level 17, State 171, Line 1 There is insufficient system memory to run this query. Is there another way to remove a service I've tried restarting SQL, but this does not work. DROP SERVICE has to send an END CONVERSATION to e ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Could some one tell how to test mixed c++?

  As MSDN said: A mixed project is a project that uses the /clr compiler option. This kind of a test project provides the ability to test the following production code: Static native libraries Native DLL entry points Standalone .obj files Mixed-mode DLL assemblies with methods that are callable. This does not include executable files because they contain unmanaged code, and unmanaged executable code is generally not re-base address ...Show All

• Windows Forms Circuit design control/framework

  Hi I'm looking for a control, framework, etc... to allow the user to create circuits graphically. And to be able to add new components to a toolbox at runtime. For example, electrical, lan cabling, telco cable network, ... Data to be store in s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Report based on user-defined objects

  HI, Is the version of Crystal Reports bundled in VS2005 Beta2 capable of building a report based on user-defined objects The only way I found of performing this task is that of defining a dataset containing a table where each column corresponds to a property of my object, building the report upon it and filling in the rows of the table at runtime with whichever array of these objects I want to display. Is there a better alternative to ...Show All

• SQL Server Very high transaction log growth in SQL Server 2005 (RTM version)

  We recently upgraded from SQLServer 2005 CTP version to SQL Server 2005 RTM version (Standard edition). With the RTM version, we are finding a very high transaction log growth and at a very rapid rate. A 87MB database has a log file of 325MB, although none of the db operations in that database participates in a transaction. The recovery mode is simple and 'trunc. log. on chkpt.' is enabled. Another database of 5GB, which is frequently updated ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Reporting with VB2005 express?

  Is there any reporting tool built in or addin for reporting with vb2005 express VB6 had one that acting like MS access reports was nice for intermediate develepors. Thanks in advance Hi, Sad to say but there is no available reporting tool in the Express products. You'll have to purchase Professional edition or higher to have a reporting tool (crystal reports) to be included in the IDE... cheers, Paul June A. Domag ...Show All

• Windows Forms Repeating Objects List on a winform

  I am trying to make a list box display a list of my custom user control. My user control has 2 labels and properties to access the labels. I am able to add multiple same type controls to the list box but they are not displaying. 1. Is it possble to view custom user controls in a list box 2. if not, how can this be done in another way and is there an example that i can refer to My basic goal is to have a container that has a list of t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Process Templates

  Hi, I'm writing a little app to add process template using the IProcessTemplates interface from Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server library of TFS beta 3 refresh. I need to pass 5 parameters and I don't know what are the next three parameters : 1 templateData (byte[]) 2 metadata (string) 3 state (string) Could you help me on this Thank you Hello, I have forwarded your question to a Dev in this are ...Show All

• Visual C++ FindWindow() not finding anything

  I'm using FindWindow() in VisualC++ inside a thread before I do a PostMessage() from the thread to the parent window. But, the debugger indicates FindWindow() is not "finding" anything, so the message handler in the parent is never being called. This logic appears in the thread: static char* xxx = "CMh53View"; // HWND zzz = FindWindow(xxx, NULL); // this doesn't work either HWND zzz = ::FindWindow(xxx, NULL); I define ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Bitmap<->BitmapImage conversion

  1. System.Drawing.Bitmap -> System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapImage : Bitmap source; BitmapImage destination; IntPtr hBitmap = source.GetHbitmap(); BitmapSizeOptions sizeOptions = BitmapSizeOptions.FromEmptyOptions(); destination= System.Windows.Interop. Imaging .CreateBitmapSourceFromHBitmap(hBitmap, IntPtr.Zero, Int32Rect.Empty, sizeOptions); Can anybody say how to convert BitmapImage to Bitmap Thanks. ...Show All

• .NET Development navigating to another page on ddl select

  All the page navigation I've done so far has been using hyperlinks. I want the selection from a dropdown list to go to a new page. This is clearly not right: Private Sub ddlUsers_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ddlUsers.SelectedIndexChanged   Session("userID") = ddlUsers.SelectedItem.Value   Server.Transfer("WebMount.aspx", True) End Sub 1] Selecting an item from this ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions numeric data from database always displays as a date???

  Hi, I was wondering if anyone can shed any light on the followong (not sure if it's an Access or Vb problem). I am using an Access database with a field with numbers in in the format 00:00.0 (i.e 01:32.46 ) When I add this field to my form ( I have tried textbox, masked textbox set to 00:00.0, datetimepicker, datagridview) I get a date of 30/12/1899 00:01 displayed all the time. Also when I preview data it displays the same. I've also trie ...Show All