Larry Buerk's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Storing Configuration & Settings

  I am relatively new to the windows forms environment and have recently started on my first significant project in a bid to learn more. My first and most important question is about the preferred/required standards or methods for maintaining the following: 1. Application Configuration Settings(e.g. Preferences, Window Positions etc..) 2. User Data(e.g. Data/Settings relating to the use&n ...Show All

• Visual C++ Localization using C++ and Visual Studio 2003

  I am attempting to localize a small application which has a default language of English. I started by using the "Insert Copy" feature to create a French Canada copy of the String Table. I added a "Release (French Canada)" configuration to compile to that locale which has the Culture set to "French (Canada)(0xc0c). When I compile using this configuration, the application always compiles in English. At one point it compiled in French, but after making French copies of some of the dialog boxes it reverted back to English. I have not been able to get it to compile in French ever since. Does anyone have any ideas on ho ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MSFS - Supporting non Microsoft development languages

  Hi, I know this case might seem a little bit bizarre but please bare with me since I am currently in charge of evaluating MSFS and MSTS for our development department with the intension to replace Rational Tools for our SDLC. Here is the case: 90% of our software solutions are developed using VB.Net , the other 10% use mixed development programming languages such as low level Assembly language, Native C, and Oracle JDeveloper. The dilemma is, if we adopt MSFS can we use it for SDLC for our 10% software. If the answer is yes, then what MSFS and MSTS components are likely to be useful: - Source Control, Version Control Can ...Show All

• .NET Development add resources dynamically

  I develop a visual studio 2005 add-in. When compiling certain projects, I would like some information from the add-in to be embedded in the output file of the project (exe) as a resource. This seemed to me like a simple thing to do, but I didn't find how to just do it right. I tried to build a .resource file using ResourceWriter and embed it in the exe in the post-build, using al.exe /embed or csc.exe /res. However, this replaces the whole exe instead of just adding the resource. I thought that maybe the build can be configured to compile the resource file and embed it in compile-time, but did not find out how to do this. Any ...Show All

• Visual Studio Copy/Paste

  Is it normal that when I selected a shape, the copy/paste operations are disabled I suppose copy and pasting of shape is not supported Is there an easy way to make it work Thanks! Mike Hi Mike, Yes, that's the expected behavior.  We're not planning to enable Copy/Paste by default for V1, although it's not too hard to implement yourself.  Hopefully we'll have a V1 code sample that shows this.  If you're interested in trying this in the meantime, here are a few pointers: Copy: 1.  Add a handler for StandardCommands.Copy to your command set.  2.  Create an ...Show All

• Visual C# tcplistener and services

  Hi, my question is very simple. Is it possible to create more of an TcpListener in the same service I did a service and I need that it's listening to two different port. I think that i only can to create one tcplistener in my service. Is it true What can i do to solve this Thanks a lot. Best regards. No you should be able to create two TCPListeners one for each port. The only "gotcha" would be if you follow examples such as http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/util/srcview.aspx path=/quickstart/howto/samples/net/TCPUDP/dateTimeServer.src&file=CS\dateTimeServer.cs&font= ...Show All

• SQL Server Inserting large amounts of data

  Hello all, My apologies...re-posting from "SQL Data Engine" forum... I am trying to insert large amounts of data into a table using C#.NET. I create a parameterized query, and within a loop, I set each parameter's value and use ExecuteNonQuery to populate the data. Using .NET, I have only been able to achieve 1500 records per second. Using DTS, I can achieve 975,000 records in a little over a minute. I am using SqlCommand and giving the name of a stored procedure and then I set up the parameters: SiteCodeCmd.Parameters.Add( "@Param" , SqlDbType .VarChar); the loop looks like: while (rdr.NextRecord(field ...Show All

• .NET Development .Net Sockets - Client Unable to read what the server sent

  I use .NetSockets in my ASP.NET appliation to connect to the PABX. PABX machine is the server while my application is the client. My software connects to the machine and logs in successfully. It also sends messages which the PABX receives. But my application is unable to read any messages that is being sent back from the server. It stays there in the loop waiting. I have confirmed that the PABX does send information back. I have tried testing my application with a model server, for which I wrote the code and the programs interract quite well with each other even on different pcs. What could be wrong Any thoughts/ideas welcome. I use II ...Show All

• .NET Development extend XSLT IXslProcessor

  Hello at all, this is probably the wrong group/list but I find no other. I have read some article about extending the XSLT with custom objects. Two of them are "EXSLT: Enhancing the Power of XSLT" ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnexxml/html/xml05192003.asp ) and " XsltArgumentList for Stylesheet Parameters and Extension Objects" ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconXsltArgumentListForStylesheetParametersExtensionObjects.asp ) Now I will do an implementation with Delphi/Pascal - so far so good. I do created the application and run ...Show All

• Windows Forms Controls : avoid seeing my controls painting

  Hi, Well, I built my own derived control from the Panel provided by Microsoft. Inside, I added various heavy controls, including graphics, complex grid etc... The matter is that when I update data, which is involving a graphic update, the user can see my child controls painting themselves. I'm looking for a trick in order to hide the painting of all my child controls and printing on the screen the final result. I hope you unterstand my english Thanks, Jerome Have a look at the ControlStyles.DoubleBuffer and ControlStyles.AllPaintingInWmPaint control styles, these will cause all painting to be done off-scree ...Show All

• Windows Forms Diagram Editor

  Hi! I was wondering if anyone can advice me or point me to samples that can help me to build a diagram editor. I'm thinking of something like a simplified version of Visio for my code generator. Any ideas Hmm... shouldn't you divide business components and UI pages  I would think that all your tables can be mapped to business entity& ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to change the backcolor or set backgroud image for tabcontrol

  Anybody know that or bug thank in advance Thank you very much . your information is very wonderful.    wangjin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to test java scripts?

  Our web pages are using java scripts.how can i test them If some customization I have to do pls provide the scripy for that. Thanks Golu The web tests in VSTS do not test client side java script. They test at the http layer. So basically, they simulate the requests which are sent to the server but do not simulate the java script code on the browser. If your java script is sending requests to the server that the web test recorder does not record properly, then you will need to insert those requests into the web test after recording is complete. Please take a look at the following white paper for more in ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Why Sum over Nullable return Nullable in same time as Min over real values throw exceptions for empty collections ?

  This is two related questions: a) Why Sum over  int   return nullable int   not a regular In this example int a = null ; int b = 1; var check = a+b; // Result in null int [] numbers = { a, b}; var numSum = numbers.Sum();  // Result in 1 Value of numSum  is 1 - but value of check is null.  What is a reason to return nullable int in case if null-value never expected   b)  Why it was decided to throw EmptySequenceException for some of agreegate operators like a  Min(this IEnumerable<long> source)  but not for their friends IEnumerable< Nullable& ...Show All

• Visual Basic Urgent Help: How to import dll correctly and use it in VB.Net

  Hi, I am new to VB.Net 2003, and encountering a problem about how to import dll file. I created a dll file from Matlab by using the COM builder. Matlab creates a dll file, say interpUSGS.dll. Then I create a new project under VB. Under the Project menu, I click Add Reference, and browse the location of interpUSGS.dll, adding to the Project Reference. In my VB IDE, I worte the code like this: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Imports System.IO Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic Imports interpUSGS 'then I create a buuton on the main form Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.E ...Show All