Martyn Lovell's Q&A profile

• Windows Search Technologies %s

  When entering a web address to search I get redirected by the %s that appears in the search bar. This only happens when using MSN. Not when searching from rogersyahoo. Thanks Hi thanks for responding. As an example only, if I search for "westjet" (without the quotations) using Google , which is my search engine in explorer, a window comes up with a list of over 10million web sites that are total ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do you find out the memory used by a recordset

  Hi all, I've got an ADO recordset, and need to know its physical memory size once populated. I know I can itterate through the fields collection, add up all the field.size() values then multiply by the record count, but what do you do for  ...Show All

• Visual Basic Save\Load values as text file

  Hello In VB6, I was able to save and load values as text file, it saves them like this form: "V1","V2","V3" I was using this code: Dim A As String, B As String, Op Op = FreeFile A = "Value1": B = "Value2" Open "D:\File.txt" For Output As Op Write #Op, A, B Close Op How can I do it in VB2005 Thanks & Regards The following code ...Show All

• Visual C++ handling the global static object constructor thrown exception in VC++ Express Edition

  Hi, I am new to VC++ and would like to know how can I handle the exceptions thrown from a constructor of a global static object is to be handlwed in VC++. I tried creating another global static object which sets a handler function using set_terminate method but the control is not going there. Any guidance appretiated in handling the exceptions thrown by the constructors. Thanks and Regards, You run just into more troubles. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista RuleConditionDialog and intellisense

  Hello, in my custom designer I can insert/edit condition rules througth RuleConditionDialog. In order to see the dropped activities I set the TypeProvider with all referenced assemblies and the code compile unit of the current workflow (code beside). Unfortunately I don't see the current workflow components (typing "this.myWorkflow1.") even if the code compile unit contains all activities (fields) declarations. How can I solve th ...Show All

• Windows Forms How Can I make the event of Activate Windows to run only one time?

  In order to make the event of Activate Windows to run only one time, I write the code below this.Activated-=new System.EventHandler(this.Form1_Activated); Is it correct but It certain can work well. but it seems it is not a good code. using System; using System.Drawing; using System.Collections; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Data; namespace WindowsApplication1 {   public class Form1 : Sys ...Show All

• Visual Studio mscorsvw will not stop running

  I installed .net 2.0 beta 2.  After 2 days, mscorsvw continues to dominate the CPU.  Other process such as logon and Oracle DB take about 3 times longer to execute. This is not a bug please read the following blog post http://blogs.msdn.com/davidnotario/archive/2005/04/27/412838.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Custom SDM Application System

  Hi,   I have completed the SDM tutorial and I have the following question. How can I control / enable “Implement Application” behavior of the custom application system Currently when I add it to the ApplicationDiagram I don’t get this option in its context menu.   Thanks, Nel Actually, this behavior is by design. A number of apps can consume from the same provider (i.e. web site, or ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Header Problems

  Hi, I was experimenting with DirectX and the PSDK, when suddenly when I attempted to compile the solution I recieved an error about the compiler complaining about the syntax of one of the PSDK files!! Is this a bug in my code or is there really an error in the PSDK libraries, which i find unlikely. Any ideas Thanks, Mike You probably forgot to include a header file. Shows us the error message a ...Show All

• Windows Forms Virtual DataGridView control

  Hi, I have implemented virtual mode for the DataGridView control with custom made cache (holding 2 pages of data with 100 rows each). The problem I am having is that refresh is too slow when I select the scrollbar and pull-it down far enough to pass the boundary of the cached data. I am using "CellValueNeeded" event to retrieve my elements from the cache which gets invoked the moment I start pulling scroll up or down. So I guess, my questi ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Why doesn't workflowInstance be loaded when the timer expired?

  Hi all, I'm developing a custom persistenceService which is inherited WorkflowPersistenceService.Following code is part of it. The workflowInstance can be unloaded when it is Idle,but the workflowInstance can't be loaded when the timer expired ,and the ReloadWorkflow(object id) method can't be called.Why it happens protected override bool UnloadOnIdle(Activity activity) { return true; } protected override void Save ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) problem with ProgressBar

  in WPF, ProgressBar control, how can we set the interval for increase. Is there any method through which increment can be made, like we use to hav in System.Windows.Forms ProgressBar control. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Custom text markers in VS2005 beta 2

  Hi All, We have a weird problem with custom text markers under VS2005 Beta 2 (8.0.50215.44). <br> Our AddIn registers about 30 custom text marker types. We tested it under VS2005 and, seemingly randomly, some of them work and some do not. What happens is that markers do appear in the editor (tooltips are showing, for example), but they have wrong colors (not what our implementation of IVsPackageDefinedTextMarkerType says they s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Where's requirement management in Team System?

  Hopefully, Team System covers most of Software Development disciplines, like Design, Development, Test, Project Management, Configuration Management and Deployment, but I didn't find anything about Requirement Management. Can we say Work Items are requirements in very detail If yes, do we have requirement coverage besides code coverage during the test cycle How can we freeze requirements Do we have traceability between requirements and ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Windows Vista build 5308 can't shut down ?!

  Everytime when I pressd [Start] and then pressd <u> twice, it just restarted my Windows Vista. This had happened to 5259,5270 and 5308. But beta1 build 5112 is ok. After installed Vista, I just installed wireless_drivers_-_vista_beta_1_for_ 2100.exe which from Intel. My Notebook is CF-W2AW1AXR with 512MB ram. Why did you Microsoft never fix this bug ...Show All