darentan's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ sizeof map

  I have a map to which I keep adding entries. The tnries that I add are objects of a different class whose size is not fixed. How do I find out the size (in memory) of the map at run time. There is no way to find out the complete memory usage of the map. You can iterate to you entries and query them how much memory they consume if you implemented such a property. The map itself uses its own memory and you have no way to make any assumptions ...Show All

• Visual Basic My.Resources in VB2005

  Hey NG I want to use a little Flash Movie in my Programm to show, when the programm is working (like the Cursor.Wait) I put the Flash movie to my resources. - There I can see it in the Resource Window. But how can I bind this File to the Flash OCX The reason, why it should be in the Resource is, because I want to use more than just one Movie. The Reference is set to FlashAccesibility = Flash The Code is Dim Pfadangabe As String = My .Re ...Show All

• .NET Development SingleCall or Singleton?

  Yes, 2 copies of the same program. Have it in two separate folders. Just change the port within the config file for the two EXEs. Regards, Vikram ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Data Base Linking

  I have Created a data base will a list of football player names and i have dysplayed it in grid view and it is able to be edited and updated... my question is how can i get it to dysplay the player names information from the database on a different windows form undernieth each player in the team layout section i have created. whenever i try to bind the source to a text box it dysplays the first name in the database always i cannot figure o ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WWF Case Studies / Samples / Justifications

  Can someone point me in the right direction to find a list of case studies and sample applications (not necessarily source code) for WWF. What I've noticed so far is that every single sample I've seen has said: "This workflow is really too small to be a justification for the use of WWF ... " What I'm looking for are justifications to use WWF, a list of applications that could greatly benefit from integration with WWF. What I've seen ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to set a Custom Color?

  Hi everybody, I' ve got a custom control in my project. No I need a custom color. I have got the RGB values but I dont know how to implement. This isn't the right place to post, but its a office project so well you know. Thanks for the help ! int r, b, g; Color.FromArgb(r, g, b);   ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Explanation

  Would someone please explain the following code to me I'm trying to incorporate it into my programm as part of a protection routine, one of my friends gave it to me from a program he wrote in VB6 but he is off on a back packing holiday for the next two months so I can't ask him for help. Pos% = Len(ln$) While Mid$(ln$, Pos%, 1) <> " " Pos% = Pos% - 1 Wend SerialLo& = HexString(Mid$(ln$, Pos% + 1, 2)) + HexString(Mid$( ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unit tests for methods that return NotImplementedException

  Should one write unit tests for methods that return NotImplementedException If we don't test these methods, then code coverage will not be 100%. If we do unit test them, do we just make them always pass Unfortunately, in real world scenario a 100% code coverage is usually impossible to achieve without filtering the coverage data or injecting code. It is up to your organization to refine the goals for their code coverage. If your method ...Show All

• Visual Basic MultiColumn ComboBox????? - Open for Discussion.

  Hi all; Maybe I am missing something, but given the follow example taken from msdn:     ' Declare comboBox1 as a ComboBox.     Friend WithEvents ComboBox1 As System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox     ' This method initializes the combo box, adding a large string     ' array but limiting the drop-down size to six rows so the combo box     ' doesn't cover other controls when it ex ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Is Indigo a viable choice in this scenario?

  I am really excited to dive into WCF, it looks like a great set of technologies. However, as I am new to it, I am having trouble figuring out whether or not it might make sense in a scenario I am currently looking at, and I am hoping some of you more familiar with it can help steer me in the right direction. What I am looking to do is build a client and a server for hosting online real time auctions. Each individual auction will not be that b ...Show All

• Visual C++ RichTextBox Control

  This is observed when trying to replace the RTB control text content using the "Text property".       MyControlRTB->Text = "...."; PROBLEM: The string if contained a dot "." as the last character, would be inserted properly by examining the Text property of the RTF via the watch window (after insertion), though the displayed string in the control shifts the . to the left of the string. For example the string "29 ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Serial Port Error: COM1: does not exist

  I have a PPC app that I am simply trying to open a serial port for using the SerialPort control in VS2005. As soon as I try to open the port it will give me "Error 57: The port 'COM1:' does not exist. And it does this for COM2, COM3 & COM4 too. This is a Dell Axim x30 with Wifi if that helps at all. Anyway, I cant figure out why it keeps throwing this error. If anybody has any ideas what may be going on I would love to hear em'. ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to make the Leave event fire on a control on dispose

  Here is the scenario: I have a textbox on a form. The user selects the textbox to type something. The textbox then has the focus. Now, the user closes down the form directly. I need the textbox to fire the leave event when this happens. Yet, for some reason, the leave event doesn't fire when the form is disposing. How can I make the textbox fire its leave event on close. Any questions Let me know. Thanks! The lost focus event fire ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to add parsing errors to ErrorList window?

  I am working on a project to create a language service using Managed Package Framework. I want to show the parser errors in the error list window. Using DTE2, I can get a handle of ErrorList Window. EnvDTE80. Window2 window = dte2.Windows.Item(EnvDTE80. WindowKinds .vsWindowKindErrorList); ErrorList myErrorList = CType(window.Object, EnvDTE80. ErrorList ); However myErrorList does not expose Add method on ErrorItems collection. What is ...Show All

• SQL Server [264] An attempt was made to send an email when no email session has been established

  Hi I have go an integration service package which sends email on completion of the package. It is not a notification email. The email is being sent from the integartion service package. The package is being scheduled using SQL Agent Job scheduler. It has few steps each and every step sends a mail on completion and then it moves to the next step. If i run each step seperately. It completes the job and fails when sending the email. Giving ...Show All