Saranga Amarasinghe's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Unknown Messages Handling

  Hi, I'm using "MsmqIntegrationBinding" endpoint and self-hosted service. Everything works fine, when I "feed" the monitored queue with valid messages (that conform data contract). Now I deliberately send invalid message to the queue and expect "UnknownMessageReceived" to be fired in the host, but it didn't happen. The message has been read from the queue (I see him in the journal) and lost somewhere ...Show All

• Windows Forms Outlook 2003 Messages Listview Control

  Hi all, ive just a couple of hours trawling the net for a control that replicates the look and feel of the listview control in Outlook 2003 that displays your emails grouped by date etc.  I want a control that looks pretty much identi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problems with Downloading Registration Benefits

  There have been several reports of problems with accessing and downloading registration benefits.  We have investigated the issue and have news to report.  This sticky thread will be updated with additional information as it becomes available over the next few days. Background In order to negotiate deals with partners and authors to provide the highest value benefits, we must must be able to guarantee a secure download center that li ...Show All

• Visual Basic Hiding Parent from the grid ??

  Dear Team   beside the parent in the grid there is a "+" if it is pressed the details will be   shown   At the top right of the caption there is 2 small buttons, 1 to goback to parent, 2   to hide parent   HOW to make the grid shows only the details directly without doing this steps      any idea     Thank you very much Mr Huyn    Thank you very very much &nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Source Control Binding issues

  I am getting the following errors after installing 2005 Beta. I alrady have 2003 on the same machine. I cant access sourcesafe anymore as all the SourceSafe menu options are disabled. Please help. "The solution appears to be under source control, but its bunding information cannot be found. It is possible that the MSSCCPRJ.SCC or another item that holds the source control settings for the solution, has been deleted. Because it is not pos ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Need help setting up NavigateUri property of an Hyperlink instance

  The following code throws an exception: Hyperlink link = new Hyperlink(); link .NavigateUri = new Uri(" Page2.xaml "); because it can't convert " Page2.xaml " - which is part of the project - to a Uri. But it's confusing because the following XAML works: <Hyperlink NavigateUri="Page2.xaml">Here</Hyperlink> What kind of magic is the XAML compiler doing And how can I acomplish the same in C# ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridColumnStyle questions...

  Hi, 1. I have made my own class (C#) derived from DataGridColumnStyle to display a comboBox instead of a TextBox.  I have it working great now except that when i tab into the column the focus leaves the column immediately.. if i move into& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Policy Override Reports

  Hi All, I want to create a report for showing all the policy overrides comments. Unfortunately, I donot find the override comments data in TFSWarehouse database. Is there any way I can port this data to the TFSWarehouse database everytime the warehouse is updated with data. Or any other suggestions for creating such a report will be helpful. I donot want to create a report that reads from TfsVersionControl database. Thanks, Sarat ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums MSN PROBLEM

  ive recently bought a brand new laptop and installed msn messenger ( from the msn site). When i go to sign in it really lags alot, and it never actually signs in... Sometimes i get a error message 80040111 and sometimes it just asks me to try again. Ive tried uninstalling and reinstalling it hundreds of times not to mention deleting any addons or patches. Ive tried to update that DLL file aswell but still get the same message. Windows messenger ...Show All

• .NET Development DataSet Usage - Not saving to file

  Ok, my knowledge of the DataSet object is elementary at best, but I'll try to make some sense. I've added a MS Access .mdb file to my VC# project using the New Data Source wizard. Incase it's pertinent, here's the connection string (sorta): Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=|DataDirectory|\db000.mdb;Persist Security Info=True;Jet OLEDB:Database Password=xxxxxxxxx Now, I want my program to count validate that there's at le ...Show All

• .NET Development How to measure the memory pressure?

  I am designing a .Net component that relies some on a quite elaborate cache system. The cache can be regenerated at any time but at great CPU/IO expense. The WeakReference is not enough my own needs because (for example) it cannot take into account the regeneration costs that may vary from a WeakReference to an other. I would like to know how the memory pressure that applies on the current process can be measured in .Net I have seen the method ...Show All

• .NET Development Sending a html page as an e-mail using Net.Mail.MailMessage

  I have a .net page that sends an email but i want it to send a html page as the body. Is there anyone that knows how to do this in VB Hello, I am trying to do this but sending current page as an e-mail body. This is a web form that users will fill some fields and send form with the information thery entered. Is this possible Thanks, Gus G. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Mixing DirectX and windows forms

  I am working on an application that requires directx for drawing but also has quite a bit of GUI (it's similar to a game). Due to the amount of GUI involved I want to use windows forms and controls with a panel that a directx device renders to. I also need the app to be fullscreen. I have managed to make a fullscreen form that contains windows controls (doing little more than creating a fullscreen device). I have also managed to make a window ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System OverflowException when analyzing performance data

  I'm running the RTM version of VSTS on a dual-core AMD64 processor and XP SP2. I'm attempting to profile an application I'm working on, and I've made great strides in improving performance using the VSTS SD profiler. However, lately, I've been seeing a message box that says, "Value is either too large or too small for an Int64" whenever I attempt to open the results of an instrumented run. The problem goes away if I reduce my scenar ...Show All

• .NET Development Generic List's AddRange/InsertRange

  Hello, I have a class that inherits from List(Of <custom>); what I want to know, is in this class, I have: public class MyClass    Inherits List(Of MyObject)    public shadows sub Add(item as MyObject)    end sub    public shadows sub Insert(index as Integer, item as MyObject)    end sub End Class What I want to know is, in the AddRange/InsertRange implement ...Show All