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• .NET Development Where are the ASP.NET 2 Quickstarts?

  Can someone point me to exactly where I can find the downlaod for the ASP .NET 2 quickstarts   The go.microsoft link points to asp.net site, which then doesn't seem to offer too many clues... except that the quickstarts can be consumed from that site. thanks, -s IMHO quickstart are installed by .NET Framework SDK. If you didn't choose this option in VS Installer you won't have them. I can find them in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\QuickStart ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System FxCop.chm download not working

  I downloaded the 3/15/05 FxCop.chm. It comes up but in the right pane it constantly shows the IE "The page cannot be displayed". What is wrong  What do I need to do to make this work Thanks. I developed my own Help project months ago. I tested it and it worked. I just recently came back to test it, and it didn't work. This thread was the problem. I changed MY registry settings to what you said and it fixed it. Thanks so much! Not sure how to intruct a 2000 member customer base how to do the same, though. ...Show All

• Visual C# Using Outlook to send Messages in a LAN

  Hi all, I need to send Instant Messages from one user in the network to another user or group of users. Is it possible to do that with outlook without using the mail. I don't have Mail server in the LAN, I only want to check if outlook can send messages with out the Mail server. Please help. Regards... No.Outlook does not support sending IM.It's a mail client so it needs to connect at an POP3 or SMTP,IMAP etc server to exchange mails. You can write your own IM application for personal use.It's an easy task and there are a lot of tutorials out there, even whole application available to download/modify to mee ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to transition a team to TFS source control, etc.

  Our small team is using VS 2003 and Source Off Site (SOS). We plan to transition to VS 2005 and TFS. The transition is proving to be difficult and we now find ourselve strategizing about how to pull it off. Which course is preferred 1) Install VS 2005 and convert our solution to VS 2005 first while continuing to use SOS; then set up a TFS server later and figure out how to switch over to source control in TFS. 2) Set up TFS first, install VS 2005 for developers, set everyone up with access to TFS source control right away, and then proceed with converting our solution from .NET 1.1. If you need to chan ...Show All

• Windows Forms ComboBox - SelectedIndex Bug when List is in DropDown state

  Hi all, I have noticed a strange bug with the System ComboBox in .NET 1.1. Whenever the ComboBox is in DropDown state, it does not appear to update the SelectedIndex. Here are the steps to reproduce: 1. Add a ComboBox to a form. 2. Add a Button to the form. 3. In the button's click event, show a message box with the ComboBox.SelectedIndex. 4. Make sure the ComboBox.DropDownStyle is set to DropDown. 5. Add items to the ComboBox (doesn't matter if they are added through the Items collection, or by setting the DataSource). 6. Open the form. 7. Click on the drop-down arrow to show the list. 8. Using the arrow keys, or the mouse, select an i ...Show All

• Windows Forms Hosting Windows forms Control in IE

  Hello, I have hosted a Windows fomrs control in IE using the object tag < OBJECT id ="UICtrl" style ="WIDTH: 50%; POSITION: static; TOP: 0pt; HEIGHT: 25%" classid ="FlowCtrl.dll#FlowCtrl.CFlowControl" name ="UICtrl" > </ OBJECT > It works just fine, but if 'Enable Content Expiration' is set to immediately it stops working. It does not work since IE tries to download the assembly into Temporary Internet Files and GAC. Why is a .NET control downloaded to Temporary Internet Files Do I have to turn off 'Enable Content Expiration' for the user control to work Is there a w ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums working with 2 workbooks

  hello, i have a master excel file with a command button which when pressed opens a SLAVE excel file, reads one of the cell entries, closes the excel file, comes back to the master file and writes the data into one of the cells in that. now the reading of the slave file should be done in the background and should not be visible to the user of the master file who clicks the command button. this is what i wrote ... have already done quite a lot of permutations and combinations with the code. Sub open_Click() Dim sSheet As String Dim sMain As String Dim temp As String Dim xlApp As Object ' this is the full path name of the master file wi ...Show All

• .NET Development IE memory problem with my script ? or it's bigger ?

  Hi, I'm Francesco from Italy, and I want to post a technical help request: I use the script above to "callback" a remote .aspx page. My site make larger use of this because I'm trying to develope a RealTime Multiplayer D&D based game, and until now everything goes well. This morning I left IE open on my chat page. When I come back after some hours, a message about "increasing system virtual memory" was displayed by OS. I saw the Task Manager and iexplore.exe process WAS USING 135 MB RAM and 458 MB SWAP file !!!!!! PANIC PANIC !! First I don't belie it was a problem about my website, but then, monitoring minutes per mi ...Show All

• Visual C# Process Kill

  hey ppl how can i know if a process is able to be killed ,.,, for example... the Idle process of windows can never be killed... also some others can not be killed.. is there any way to know wich process can be killed.. and if so kill it but do not try to kill it if its a protected process thx mig16 thx but thats why im posting... there are some protected processes. ,a dn i want to know,, wich are protected and wich are not.. mig16 ...Show All

• Visual C++ high cpu usage!

  I am trying to debug a program to find out why the CPU Usage at certain stages is almost 100%.Thereby it ends in the window disassembly..Has this type of high resource usage anything to do with the landing in disassembly Why does it land in disassembly Is it normal during a debugsession that the code lands in disassembly Does anybody know how to track the CPU usage in the program I am using visual studio.net 2003. Thanks n Regards swingme Thanks Marc for ur detailed reply.I will try it... Regards swingme ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGrid

  hey guys im facing a weird problem, would appreciate sme help: I have created a datagrid that displays user info stored in a Database. The user can also edit his personal info on the datarid right away by clicking on Edit link (this is a button column in the datagrid that ive created, and of course all other columns that contain the info are bound columns that retrieve the data in SQL database. Now I have created this web page in project1 but then i created another project "project2" and chose include this web page in the latter. Weirdly, in the first project everything works fine when testing the web page (i.e the user ca ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. C++ Compiler

  I'm using Borland C++ 5 compiler but can't seem to get the tutorials to compile and run through there. Sofar i've installed the DirectX SDK and installed Tutorial 00. But when i go to run, it tries to compile but gives me errors. I just noticed that the folder contains visual c++ files. Does that mean that I need Visual C++ to run this tutorial If my Borland C++ 5 won't run it at all will Borland C++ Builder 4 run it ...Show All

• Visual Basic Filling A Datagrid On Another Form...

  Hey all, I have a dataset of search results that I want to put into a datagrid on another form, then allow the user to select one row and fill in textboxes on the main form with that row's data. Here's what I have so far...this is the code on the main form for my search button. It works fine filling in the textboxes from the dataset on the form this button is on, I just need to know how to populate the datagrid(grdCustSearch) in the other form(frmCustSearch) with the first two columns of dss: PS - the autoformatter in this forum doesn't understand the ' ' in my SQL statement inside the quotes as being part of a string, so everything after ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Upgrade problem : "TFS sql server exists and their schema doesn't match..."

  Hi upon trying to upgrade to RC I encountered a problem : "TFS sql server exists and their schema doesn't match the version expected by setup" how do I workaround it all the upgrade steps went fine until this one.... 10x, guy Hi, Im'getting exact same error while upgrading from beta3 refresh to RTM. How do i update the Databases. I don't see any steps invloving that in the upgrade User guide. Thanks, ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB6 > .Net Conversion Error: Character Device names?

  Hi At my wits end... I am experiencing a problem when trying to convert a rather large VB6 application into a .Net 2005 application. Everytime I try to convert the project I get the following error: "Upgrade Failed: Exception occurred: Can't use character device names in file names" The weird thing is i have tried to convert the project using .Net 2003 and I do not get the error, it does convert. Can someone point me in the right direction... Many thanks Brad Look for a file in your VB6 project that has a name like the old DOS device names (CON, COMx, LPTx, KBD, NUL, AUX, PRN). R ...Show All