Dave Poole's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Relase the Fix for Visual Basic Compiler Error &H8013141e&

  Hi all i just want to know when is going to be released the fix for visual basic compiler error &H8013141e&   this is already reported in the microsoft productfeedback site. i think this is a very urgent patch that must be released asap and please do not repond that i should go back to vs.2003 because i have lots of code developed in VS 2005 to framework 2.0 ..   JSB PS: this error pisses me of, i need to res ...Show All

• SQL Server Error while registering assembly that uses ActiveX wrapper stdole

                 > Hi, > > I wrote a dummy Stored Procedure in C#, registered it as assembly, > called the SP and everthing was fine (VS2005 C# Express) > Then I implemeted functionality into the dummy SP that requires a > third party ActiveX. It is integrated in my project by the reference > to "stdole". After compiling, I got three DLL: > > ...Show All

• .NET Development How to do a programmatic update of table

  Assume a table called Test with three columns and n rows: ID integer identity primary key UpperLimit integer V1 integer Test is part of a SQL Server 2000 database on a server.   I want to read and update the table using the following algorithm   for i = 0 to n-2     test(i).V1 = (test(i).UpperLimit + test(i+1).UpperLimit) / 2 next test(n-1).V1 = (test(0).UpperLimit + test(n-1).UpperLimit) / 2   How w ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to select a control within a control in design-time?

  Hi, I am building a custom control that mimics the MS's outlook bar. It consisits of a panel, which has bands and each band has a button that serves as a caption of the band and a container panel within the band. My question is: In design- ...Show All

• Visual C# :(((((( I dont understand delegates ))))))):

  Please i already read and article about delegate i understand how to use them (a little bit) but i dont understand their scope, all articles talks just a liitle about what they are really ment to for using them... Please can anyone help me And if posible a small example... but more about their scope, and when to use them or when do u need a delegate.. PLEASE DO BE SHORT AT WORDS coz` i am very very noob in delegates and not much in c# Thank you ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Building custom lookless control

  Hi, I'm trying WPF and I want to create a custom control but I'm kinda lost with how to add inner control to my control. What I'm trying to do is to have a control which have a UIElementCollection. These UIElement will be added to a Grid (which will have custom event handler etc... and cannot be styled) which will be the content of my control. The ControlTemplate will be around my inner grid. Anyone has resources on how to do this Thanks, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System File Attachments NOT opening

  We are running TFS Beta 3 Refresh, Single Server. We can attach files (pictures, txt files etc) to a bug or task but when we try to open an attachment Internet Explorer spawns and just sits there forever trying to access a page. I can only get the attachment to display (and even then it only displays inside Internet Explorer and does not spawn the asssociated program to view the attachment) by pushing the stop button then hitting refresh.  ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Live.com section for ISVs

  I'd like to see a section on Live.com where ISVs building software for the ASP.NET platform with Live.com integration can post their product information. Our peer collaboration product is ListRing and is available at http://listring.com . It allows an individual to share custom lists of information (Favorites, Tasks, Contacts, Blog entries, etc) and automatically supports RSS. You can think of it as blogging with data. We are examining opportuni ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Opening a png file and getting its size

  Hi everybody, I'm a novice in c++ programming, so excuse me if I ask a stupid question :-) I have to open a png file in a program, to get its height, width and the color of each pixel. I programmed in Java and there I had the default package imageio (in particular the static class ImageIO) which did everything I need (getWidth(), getHeight() and getRGB() methods): so my question is: is there something like Java imageio package in C++ Th ...Show All

• .NET Development does dataset have Transaction management?

  when we update datasource , Does Dataset maintains implicitly it's own transaction .. commit or rollback - or - do we have to do explicitly I assume you are speaking of using a CommandBuilder along with a DataAdapter to update the database from your DataSet. There are two sides to this approach, the actual data update that occurs on the database, and the data that is in the dataset separated from its source. For the database side: You can ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro DELETE FOR-PACK ON BUFFERED TABLES

  I have a buffered(5-optimistic )tables in vfp 9.0.when i use delete the records arent deleted i use tableupdate but they dont get deleted.i use pack but i get a msg saying table should be in no buffered mode i then change buff to 0 (not programmatically with cursorset.. but from dataenviroment) but is still get the msg! how can i delete a record table must be in buffered mode As you have been told several times. ...Show All

• .NET Development bug in serialport.close() ?

  Hi ! Here is my problem ... I developped in C# a class heriting from SerialPort. It contains functions structured like this : serialPort.open(); ....write....read.... ans so on; serialPort.close(); I use a timer to run theses functions every miliseconds. After a time, the application freeze. When i debug using "break all", i see a green arrow pointing serialPort.close(). When i press F11 to go to the next instruction, i can't see any y ...Show All

• Visual C++ VC++ Express 2005 Intellisense and preprocessor Issue

  I have converted a VC++ 6.0 workspace with 3 projects to Express 2005.  In general, it is working well.  All three projects share some code files and use preprocessor macros to enable/disable some code sections.  It all compiles and works fine in both versions of VC++.  What I noticed is that that intellisense seems to be confused (or I just don't know how to set it up) as to which macro definitions are active ...Show All

• Visual Studio SQL Server 2005 Express April CTP Fails from VSTS DVD

  When installing VS 2005 (Team Suite) the SQL Server Express install fails with an error code 1603. Also tried reinstalling it after VS but still fails with same error code. Anyone else got this problem /Per Salmi This was a clean installation on a new PC. I can't find the installer or the folder you mentioned to do a manual install. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office It works

  Hi everybody, I know I should not run away from my problems. But what else can I do I have an VSTO Word solution. This part works fine. I also installed it on a other pc than my, and it just works perfect. But there is one small thinh that is missing. And this is where my problem starts: When the user starts "Word" for example. There shlould be a button in the "Standard" Menubar. I tired this with a shared add-in. And it also works but only on ...Show All