Dave Chamberlain's Q&A profile

• Visual C# C# .NET Naming Conventions

  Does anyone know where I can find a list of naming conventions for UI elements.  I found a bunch of places where they have variable, property, method, event handler, formatting style, etc. conventions.  But I am having a hard time finding naming conventions other than the Visual Basic 6.0 Naming Conventions on Microsoft's website. As the programming world is rapidly moving away from hungarian notation, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Newbie!! TFS requirements

  Hi all, I'm going to install TFS. After reading documentation and resources, of course, not all of them, I wonder if: 1. Is TFS require active directory domain controller 2. May I install everything, active directory domain controller, DNS server, Web server, SQL 2005 server, Sharepoint server on the same box Win2003 Enterprise Edition Server Best Regards, Hi, for Dual Server Installation, AD is necessary. But not to Single Server Install ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Event cannot be delivered

  We have developed a workflow application similar to the order workflow sample we get this error "Event \"RequestApproved\" on interface type \"RequestLocalServices.IRequestService\" for instance id \"8ce3ae0f-a8f5-4c15-826d-59dfbadf2515\" cannot be delivered." Can any one plz help Which build are you using Where are you hosting the workflow Are you using a s ...Show All

• Visual C++ The New Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2

  I have Visual C++.NET Standard, and have used it to successfully build applications for quite some time, maybe a little over a year. I cannot get the Visual Studio 2005 to include .lib files necessary in my solution to compile Direct X Applications, anyone else think this is odd I hope so, I must be missing something, because the old version let me enter the directories for includes and libraries, this new one did not have that option   A ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help! Want to create basic user input form tied to database in VWD

  Hello everybody. I have used VWD (Visual Web Developper) for the past few weeks and love it so far. As a inexperienced ASP.NET developper, I have run into difficulties when trying to design user web form input to populate a database. Indeed, the medical unit I'm working at whishes to create a webpage with simple user forms ( checkboxes, textboxes) - to keep track of patients medical records - that will then fill a database (SQL preferr ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Why can't call custom Activity with parameter In "while Activity"?

  I have a SequentialWorkFlow project. In this project i created a MainWorkFlow and a custom Activity(SequenceActivity). The "MainWorkFlow" can call the "SequenceActivity" with parameter. The structure like this: MainWorkFlow CodeActivity(set parameter) custom SequenceActivity Usually it runs fine. But if i call "SequenceActivity" several times in while activity,the parameter can't be passed curr ...Show All

• SQL Server DTS 2000 Designer Components

  After installing the DTS 2000 designer components from the feature packI get the following error message when trying to open a package: ---------- SQL Server 2000 DTS Designer components are required to edit DTS packages. Install the special Web download, "SQL Server 2000 DTS Designer Components" to use this feature. (Microsoft.SqlServer.DtsObjectExplorerUI) --------- The thing is that I have installed them!! so what's goin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Bug in team build report in beta3??

  I have strange problem with Beta 3 (I have to test it on refresh version also), when I launch a Team Build from Team Explorer, if I keep the "report" Team build generates, code coverage results are not included in that report page, but if I close the page just when it starts to be generated (when it first appears beginning team build), code coverage results are correctly included, it's not big problem for the moment (it's beta I know) but it is ...Show All

• Windows Forms Buttons in form's titlebar

  Hi, I've got this toolbox styled window I want to add a minimize box to its title bar. Any one has any ideas   Check out post: http://www.windowsforms.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx tabIndex=1&tabId=41&PostID=18940 ...Show All

• Windows Forms enabling and disabling toolstrip buttons, based on the "current" object

  hiya, I am using a single 2.0 winform for my app. <layout> forrm -->toolStrip -->tabControl     -->tabPageOne     -->tabPageTwo <\layout> The entity on tabPageONE is a simple entity, therefore I can edit it entrely in a RAD datagridView.As a result, I want to DISABLE all the "edit", "save" toolstripButtons on the toolStrip. The entity on tabPageTWO is a comp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can Anyone Relate To This???

  Hi There http://www.geocities.com/tablizer/oopbad.htm Cheers Bronco Billy "Beer and Fast Women are Ok... No Cigarettes or Hard Liquor Allowed" Hi, we live in a free world where erveryone can express his opnion. I know I like OOP. You should try both worlds and see whats best for you to use. ...Show All

• .NET Development How to set a specific RUNTIME for a library?

  I have used Visual Sturdio 2003 to create a DLL compativle with COM and I want that dll to run in .net 1.1 even if .net 2.0 is installed. Can I set this property in anyway to my library or it will always run with the las .net installed in the machine Hi! If you compile assembly under 1.1 it will always run under 1.1. 2.0 runtime will run only 2.0 compiled versions. .NET will always try to match ve ...Show All

• Visual C# Usercontrol

  I made a user control that has a web browser on it. I then added to a form. during run time i get this error " ActiveX control '8856f961-340a-11d0-a96b-00c04fd705a2' cannot be instantiated because the current thread is not in a single-threaded apartment." how do i change the curent to a single theareded apaartment Cisco You can set it with Thread.SetApartmentState() method . ...Show All

• Visual Basic thanks!

  thank you very much... now, does anyone have an idea on how to make the background of a cursor transparent... i know how to make a picturebox transparent but what would the code for that be uhhh... that was supposed to be a reply to a thread. sorry but does anyone know how to make a .cur file transparent ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error 28703

  Installing Foundation Server Trial Edition in Single Server mode. I am installing under a domain account that has admin rights to the local box, and is also the account that runs all SQL Server 2005 services and is explicitly in the SysAdmin role on the SQL Server Have separate domain level accounts (non-admin) for the Foundation Server Service and Reporting Service. At the end of the installation I get : "Error 28703. Unable to ...Show All