wabs27's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Visual Basic Templates disappeared from create project?

  Hi,   I am running Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and suddenly today I go to create a new project but the Visual Basics templates were gone (there was everything else but, i.e. C#,C++, Web forms). I can still open up a old Visual Basic Project and when I look at the "About" page it still shows its installed. I even went into the setting on the Start page and reset to Visual Basic initial setting but it didn't work What happened here ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Users can't configure their Project Alerts

  We are using TFS and we've having some issues configuring project alerts. I am the Project Administrator and I was able to configure Project Alerts for myself using Visual Studio 2005. I have checked the option 'My work items are changed by others' and I have specified my own e-mail address in the 'Send To'-field. This works just fine and I do get notified when something changes. However, I have two other users that are Contributors in the pr ...Show All

• Visual C# Any good examples of how to use Applications settings

  Hi, I'm trying to use Application settings to persist the size of a window between sessions in c# Express. I've tried following the help files but it's all way too complex - I can work up to comlpex once I've got something working!  Does anyone know if there is a simple 'how to' anywhere, covering the basics What code do I need to add (to save ) What are the steps in the designer Many Thanks for any help Baffled ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Customizing Bug Form

  Hi there,      I have 3 customized field in Bug form Opened Date , Resolved Date and Closed which I want them to automatically get Clock time when bug is getting opened, resolved or closed and at the same time i want this field to be read only for Users, basically users should not able to edit these fields, so I tried the below option for example for Resolved Date: < FIELD name = " Resolved Date " refname = " Mi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Window Inheritance

  Hi, My name is Tomer. I am having a real big problem with inheriting windows in VS2005. I have a window which i inherit from. a normal data window. My question is ... how can i change the controls properties on the inherited form visually (not programatically). Some controls are locked and cannot be updated visually even when i specified on each control to generate a memeber and that the modifiers are protected or public. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Opening a *.chm file from a windows forms application

  Hi, Can someone tell me how to open a *.chm file from a windows application in visual basic 2005 The necessity is simple. I need the program to open a help file (chm file) when an event is triggered. Any help would be really appreciated. Regards, Arun. The following will open a compiled help file. Process.start("Foo.Chm") ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions change of size of PictureBox? (error in code, or in .NET2.0?)

  Hi, I have a simple project in WinForms (C# Express) .NET 2.0: vo form I have inserted panel (panel1) and in panel there is PictureBox1 Panel1 has property Dock = Fill PictureBox1 has property Dock = Top on Resize event for picturebox I have: /*----------------------------------------------------------------------*/ 1        private void pictureBox1_Resize(object sender, EventArgs e) 2&nb ...Show All

• .NET Development Switching the Authentication type from Form to Windows

  Hi, I am working on two web applications. The first one (WebApp1) will have a link to the second application (WebApp1). The user will login to WebApp1 using form based authentication. But when he clicks on the link to WebApp2 the security context should be changed to Windows Authentication for accessing WebApp2. WebApp2 supports only windows authentication. I tried using the System.Security.Principal namespace for accomplishin ...Show All

• Windows Forms Drag & Drip File From Explorer

  Does anyone have an example of draging & droping a file from Windoew Explorer onto a DataGrid -- all I want to do from there is capture the file name into one of the grid cells Yipppppeeeee it finaly works -- I was&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can ANYONE Program with the sql Server Management sTudio Express

  Hi All, Has anyone been able to actually code in sql Server Management sTudio Express I went into the sql server management studio Express I declared a database and a test table that had the following TestID --->unique identity -- typical config Test --> nvarchar(10) I then opened a new query and types insert into test ( test ) values ( 'testline' ) I clicked on Execute it said command successfully completed. If I go back to the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Profiling with instrumentation errors out when showing results

  I've run a few profiling sessions with Vs.net 2005 both instrumented and sampling. However in my latest round of profiling with instrumentation Vs.net 2005 displays the error below as it completes report analysis. "Value was either too large or too small for an Int64" Looking at the performance output pane I see this error message: "Failed to load view 0 with error 'Value was either too large or too small for an Int64.'.\nComplet ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Serial Port Read Hangs

  G'Day, Trying to read data from a serial port using Microsoft supplied Snippet. Project involves occasional read/writes to a microcontroller on the serial port Have been able to enumerate and write to port no problems. Reading works okay if there is something in the port buffer, but if there isn't anything there, it just hangs at location marked below. Dim buffer As New StringBuilder() Using comPort As SerialPort = My .C ...Show All

• SQL Server Outer Join Issues in Sql 2005

  Hi, The following query works fine in Sql 2000 database, but it throws an error ('Query contains an outer-join request that is not permitted.') while executing the query on Sql 2005 database. We have already set the compatibility level of the Sql 2005 database to 'Sql Server 2000(80)'. But still we are getting the error. select top 2 * from table1 t1, table2 t2 where t2.col8 =* t1.col1 and t2.col9 =* ( select max(t21.col9) from table2 t21 ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView Column Headers Style

  Does the ColumnHeadersDefaultCellStyle property work   Setting it does not seem to affect the displayed grid view.  Nor does setting the cell style manually by accessing the Style property of the HeaderCell property of the column. The DataGridView I am testing is about as simple as it gets.  An unbound grid with two manually created columns (using VS) and data populated using the Rows.Add(object{}) method. ...Show All

• SQL Server Need help with filtering fields with null and more

  Requirements: 1) Cannot have results in which both m.homephone & d.homephone are both null, or both m.workphone & d.workphone are both null in the result set 2) We also do not want to see any combos where one homephone is null and the other has only the char 0....same for workphone...no null & 0 combinations. e.g. m.homephone   d.homephone null           ...Show All