RPaton's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Team Project Creation Fails because of Sharepoint

  OK this one is killing me.  I have done the install about 3 times and keep getting the same error.  When I go to create a new team project, I step through the wizard and click finish.  The wizard then goes on to create the Reporting Services Part, the Source Control part, and when it gets to Share Point it fails on authentication.  Everything is in a domain and I have used service accounts as specified per the install. Here ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) scrollbar style question - urgent

  A while ago, I started styling a scrollbar. When I was finished, I noticed that the thumb starts in the middle of the track when there's overflow. What can I do about this Default scrollbar starts with a large thumb and makes its thumb smaller when there's more overflow. My thumb stays the same and begins in the middle. So I guess I just replaced those 4 horizontal lines in the middle of a default scrollbar. thanks in ad ...Show All

• .NET Development Automatically detect a CD and read CD contents

  Hello all, I am trying to make a module which will do two jobs: 1. Automatically runs when a CD is inserted into the cd rom drive. 2.copies the contents on CD to any location on hard disk. I am usng C#.net 2003. Anyone please help me! Thanks http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/programmersguide/shell_basics/shell_basics_extending/autorun/autoplay_intro.asp http://msdn ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Making A Simple File Manager

  I want to make a simple file manager program my mom is in college and always asking for help with files. Can someone plz help me make a File Manager Program step by step I want to be able to make files,copy files,look up files,print,and look into files with this so plz help I dont think it would be hard if you know wat your doing I want to make it but I need some help so plz if you can make the directions I will give you my e-mail where you can ...Show All

• Visual C++ Optimum Comparisons

  Hi, I am using .NET 1.1 and needing to compare two objects to see if they are equal in the most optimal way possible.. I recieve two Object* pointers. At first I just did: if( pFirstObject == pSecondObject ) but I think that just compares the actual object that the pointers point to, not the values of those objects. So I have written some code that seems to work, but it uses String compares when dealing with Valuetypes, which ...Show All

• Windows Forms GDI+ Error and (JIT) debugging message, help need

  Below is the error message, anyone here know what the problem cause this error how to fix it See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.OutOfMemoryException: Out of memory. at System.Drawing.Graphics.FromHdcInternal(IntPtr hdc) at System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem.WmDrawItem(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmDrawItemM ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to make a column invisible in data grid

  Hi All,  I wanted to make the first column in my data grid as invisible column because it holds the key for the row.  I am trying to use the follwing code . This code poulates my datagrid dgResultType with 3 columns instead of just&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions export from datagrid to excel

  can anyone help with code export from DataGrid to Excel Are you using a web datagrid or a windowsforms datagrid For a web datagrid, this seemed like the most relevant link I could find: http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/DAtaGridExportToExcel.asp Hope this helps, Adam Braden Visual Basic Team ...Show All

• Windows Forms Closing a Windows form from another form

  I am working on a program that has a timeout routine running in the background.  After three minutes of inactivity, a timeout warning window is displayed on the screen.  After an additional 3 minutes, the program times-out and I display the&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Basic Compiler doesn't accept correct syntax

  When I was writing code which should convert an icon into a bitmap, I discovered the following bug: IT's not possible to compile the following line: New Icon("MyIcon.ICO", 16, 16).ToBitmap().Save("MyIcon.bmp", Imaging.ImageFormat.Bmp) must be a bug, doesn't it PS: it works with the with-operator: With New Icon("..\..\Resources\Icons\ViewIcon.ICO", 16, 16)       .ToBitmap.Save("..\..\Resources\Icons\ViewIcon.bmp", Imagin ...Show All

• SQL Server Linked reports lose original layout

  I created a linked report and I see that the original height and width settings which were set for landscape have changed into portrait:    On original report - 11"w x 8.5"h    On linked report - 8.5"w x 11"h Is this a known bug   And what is the fix for this Thanks. We have the same problem (with MS SQL Server 2000 and 2005 too) and it's horrible for us! (We have about 300 reports and a lot o ...Show All

• Visual C++ Where can I get ml.exe

  I've just installed VC++2005 Express, and I couldn't find ml.exe anywhere. Where can I get ml.exe (no need for the rest of Visual Studio) Thanks! Anything happen with this ml.exe is not in 2005 express edition. I'd vote for including it. I'm trying to port some code to windows which requires a library with some assembler. ...Show All

• SQL Server SSMS Express: Create TABLE & INSERT data into table - Error Msgs 102 & 156

  Hi all, I have SQL Server Management Studio Express (SSMS Express) and SQL Server 2005 Express (SS Express) installed in my Windows XP Pro PC that is on Microsoft Windows NT 4 LAN System. My Computer Administrator grants me the Administror Privilege to use my PC. I tried to use SQLQuery.sql (see the code below) to create a table "LabResults" and insert 20 data (values) into the table. I got Error Messages 102 and 156 when I did &quo ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectMusic for Managed DirectX

  Hi, I have a question. Is there any plans to implement DirectMusic for Managed DirectX If so, I would like to know when. I'm a fan of DirectMusic and interactive music is important for games. Final Fantasy VIII (from Square Soft but formly SquareEnix, however, I like calling Square Soft since I don't know about Enix that much) makes use of DirectMusic for DirectX 6.1.   You could start looking at the new beta assemblies and the XAC ...Show All

• .NET Development Creating an Excel file and reading data from excel file in ASP

  Hi, I am working on an ASP application in Win2000 env. My current requirement is as following. There will be a template excel file residing on the server. When the user requests a template the asp page that serves the template will have to query some data from the DB and update the template so that when the user opens that document some macros which was on the excel can process the data which was written to the template and present that ...Show All