Peter Haynes's Q&A profile

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Problem with MS Updates on New Dell

  I have a brand new Dell XPS Fully Loaded and Upgraded, but there is one MS security update that will never load. I have Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. I also have PC-Cillan Micro Trends Antivirus/Firewall Internet Security Protection. Below is the update that I am not able to get as it fails every time. Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework, Version 1.1 Service Pack 1 (KB886903) Failed to install The other issue I have: ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Creation of AreaRootNode/IterationRootNode

  Hi, I am trying to create AreaPath nodes through OM API. I can use CommonStructureService.CreateNode method to do it. The question is: how I can create root node What should I supply as parentUri to CreateNode for root nodes Or may be there is other special function to do it Thanks, Leon Hi Allen, I understand that. What I meant was "How I can create node located directly under Area or Iteration ". What would be its p ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO v3 on international VS 2005 editions?

  Hi, has anybody installed the march CTP of VSTO v3 on a non english version of VS 2005 I installed the CTP but the project templates won't show up. I am using the German version of VS 2005 Pro, Windows XP Sp2, WinFX runtime etc. Regards, Peter Peter, Support for international versions is certainly beyond the scope of this CTP. We never even tested it, so your observations are actually not surprising - it can certainl ...Show All

• Visual C# Append text in the first line of files

  is there any functions/methods to append text lines (2 lines) in the first line of .txt files ex: i got a txt files contains 3 lines and i want to append 2 lines above the first line I think the easiest way is to read the File using the System.IO.StreamReader and read it into a string and add the initial two lines to the string by concatenation. Then close the StreamReader and open the file using the ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista DirectShow libraries

  Hi, I've been trying to make strmbase/d.lib but makefile gives me all kind of errors (platform XP, DirectX December 2005, Platform SDK for 2003 SP1). Does anybody have these libraries I know the last version of DirectShow (from DirectX) used to have a DEBUG_UNICODE directory under BaseClasses, but this one is no longer available - can I get it somehow Thanks You have the right tools, you just might have p ...Show All

• Windows Forms Progress Bar Query

  Hi There, I know how the progressbar control works in regards to showing progress in the bar but how do I have this related to a process i.e the progress bar moves really quick when I relate it to a quick process or it gradually shows progress when I relate it to a long process....if y'know what I mean Having some problems with this. Thanks Hopefully this helps: As an example if the progress bar was sh ...Show All

• Visual Studio Walkthroughs for Visual Studio 2005

  I am new to (currently using Dreamweaver) VS and have installed it on my machine (including MSDN Oct 2005). Searched through the MSDN for website related walkthroughs but it seams that the walkthroughs are based on VS 2003. Are there any decent walktroughs (web site related) available anywhere fot VS 2005   ralphg wrote: Hi, here are some resources: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/easytolearn/ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Visual Studio blocked if the TFS is busy

  Our TFS was busy running at 100% processor usage because of the problem described in http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=177068&SiteID=1 . If you start the VS client, during this time, it gets unresponsive. If it were waiting for a little while (like 10-30 seconds), the way it would do if there were connectivity problems and came up with a error message, it would be OK. The problem was that even after 1 ...Show All

• Visual Basic Pasing a string to a textbox

  Hello All, I have a small issue with passing a string to a textbox.. the senario is as follow: Form1 is opened with textbox1 and button1 When pressing button1, form2 opens to allow searching in a database. Results of form2 search are listed in listview1. selecting the required reslt is by clicking the desired item in listview1. Now.. I need to pass the result to textbox1 in form1 that is already opened. How Paul, Thank you it worked with ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Workflow as a navigation map for websites.

  We have been doing some related work and maybe you can help us with something. Our goal is to use a workflow as a navigation map for a website. In a given page of this website, the workflow should tell what other pages the user can go, and after the user clicks on some link, the workflow receives some data, makes some queries, etc, and then gives the website the URL of the next webpage. The workflow type we have chosen is a state machine becaus ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Windows 2000 freeze with ACTIVEsync 3.8 & DeviceEmulator

  Hi My Problem is, the computer freezes when trying to to connect over active sync I start ActiveSync, I start the Emulator then I start the device manager and tell him to "cradle" the device ActiveSync gehts a connection shortly after this -> Freeze! On which plattforms runs the Emulator (We have w2000 with SP 3) Do I need XP regards Norbert Thanks for the answer I simple gave up using the emulator on this particular PC Rega ...Show All

• .NET Development Can't get a TCPClient Connection working

  I've been working on this same thing for quite some time now. I'm trying to make an admin console to manage my IRC server, but I can't get past the beginning stages of establishing and maintaining a connection. I finally copied the code out of the project and made a new one with just a textbox, trying to just dump every bit of data I'm sent into that box, but even that isn't doing anything now. I've looked into IRC communication, so I know I'm u ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Convert from Microsoft Visual C # 2005 Express Editions to Borland C++ builder

  My program should not use .net framework so I should convert it from Microsoft Visual C # 2005 Express Editions to Borland C++ builder how can I do this convert hi, i don't know how but there are some programs for that , but this will cost you some money google for convert from C# to C++ hope this helps ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Test manager Error

  Test manager is not including all of my tests. It only shows 3 of my tests, but there are 4 in the project. It is not including a coded webtest. Any ideas Hello, I was able to repro your scenario, this is definitely a bug and I will report it so that it is fixed for our next version. As a workaround, I suggest not re-generating web tests with the same name as one that already exists, or just doing what yo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Student-Developer-Hobbyist

  Hello out there! I'm excited to have received a copy of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Express! I have had previous experience with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, as a student. I continue to be a student, as well as a hobbyist, and, hopefully, some day, a professional software product developer! To this end, I would like to, if at all possible, obtain a downloadable copy of Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Express Manual - so that I cou ...Show All