Paddy E's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Button Resizes Incorrectly when changing the angle of it's layout

  I grabbed some source off Charles Petzold's website and played around with it. There seems to be a problem that when you rotate the layout of a button in a UniformGrid that at an angle of 45 it shrinks below what is required to show all the text. Is this a bug Copy all the code below to a .xaml file and run it to see the problem: < StackPanel xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation " xmlns:x = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml " TextBlock.FontSize = " 18pt " > < UniformGrid Rows = " 3 " Columns = " 3 " ...Show All

• Visual Basic Visual Studio Is Busy?

    Pentium IV - Northwood 3.5 Ghz - I Gb of Ram. XP SP2 .. all current patches applied. VS2005 RTM Team Suite On occasion while debugging the IDE becomes nonresponsive and I receive a Bubble message informing me that "Visual Studio is busy waiting for an internal operation to complete - If you receive this message often, please inform Micorosoft" After I receive this message the IDE never recovers. All I can do is to delete the process and restart it. Any idea what's occurring ReneeC may be onto something (or not) with the Data Access comment. Everything I write accesses a SQL server in one way or another u ...Show All

• Windows Forms need help in progressbar...

  i really no idea how to use a progressbar... i have a button which when i click it, it will download the html page .....because the file i going to download is big, so i want to use progressbar to show tat the downloading is in progress....how can i do tat help is appreciated... sorry for the late reply.... but i cant find the event downloadprocesschanged and downloadprocesscompleted in the event handler for the progress bar.... p/s: i am using windows application   ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Access Add-In from the OUTSIDE...

  Hi there, I've got a tough question (I think ). I've made a plugin that works quite fine (excluding some deployment problems, but I hope in the future to solve them)...now, I'd like to make an application that can work with plugin from the OUTSIDE...let me explain. What I'd like to do, when running this application is: first, understand if Outlook 2003 and my plugin are installed (but this isn't quite necessary, hoping my users won't be too stupid ;)) second, if Outlook it's not running, make it to run...eventually, I'd like to understand if the plugin was loaded correctly third, I'd like the program to call a function of the Add-in. The la ...Show All

• Windows Forms Perform a databinding manually

  Hello, I have the following situation. A wizard control with a few pages. On the first page there's a slider control and a few textboxes. Data is in a typed dataset. Bindings link the TextBox.Text and TextBox.Visible properties to specific fields in the dataset. When the slider changes I update the rows in the dataset where the Visible information is stored.&nbs ...Show All

• Windows Forms small, simple typeconverter not working...

  Hello, I have a class (called Location) that has three properties and I want to be able to use it as a regular type elsewhere in my code, such as assigning a string to it and getting a string from it. Similar to the following: <b> Dim a as Location a = "112|nyk|new york" </b> I have tried writing a TypeConverter for it (shown below) but whe ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to make a cursor

  hi, i desperately need to make a custom cursor. Would someone help me yeah i dont really get why no ones responding to my post. I know there's a way; I have visual basic express. people said that you need to make a cursor file. I don't understand how to do this. I changed a bitmap to be .cur, but there was an error. I looked for the template 'cursor file' but found nothing. can someone familiar with visual basic express tell me how to make a custom cursor ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System layout designer for Workitem forms

  Hi, Is there a tool which lets one design form for workitems and generate the o/p in XML format as required by the process template I have added some fields to workitems and now I want to show them in the forms too. Thanks, Deepesh Unfortunately there is no designer for workitem forms. Easiest way is to use VS's xml editor for manually editing the form xml. VS provides nice intelisense and autocomplete for tags. Then you can test the form by uploading the process template. You might want to start with the existing workitemtype definitions. Naren. ...Show All

• .NET Development ObjectManager Memory Growth

  I have a multi-process application that passes significant amounts of data between processes using serialization via a binary formatter.  Examining the memory usage via profiling tools such as the CLR Profiler, it apears that the ObjectManager.RegisterFixup() method is calling ObjectHolder.AddDependency(), which is instantiating a large number of arrays (char[], byte[], etc.) that are never garbage collected, and this eventually brings our application to a standstill as memory use grows. As the application runs, the objects that were passed in the past become irrelevant and all references to them in our application are removed, and ...Show All

• Windows Forms Reflection:: Getting Namespaces, Classes & Interfaces names

  I want to fill a combo box with the installed .Net Namespaces and another combo box with The interfaces of a selected Namespace and a combo box for classes in that Namespace too !!! in general how can I get these information from .Net Please I need help in that. Thanks Well, I'd like to know how could I loop through all the assemblies in&n ...Show All

• Windows Forms ChildForm...

  I nedd your help, guys. I've a rather simple win app: main form with simple menu & child form. I want to call child form from menu, do some operations on child form & then I want to change text on main form. So, my 1st attempt was rather simple: on child form I've tried (child form is called from menu item): this.ParentForm.Text = "Re ...Show All

• Visual Basic Listview Listitems not drawing their backcolors ??????

  Hi, I have filled my listview with items, most of which have different backcolors, now this worked fine with .Net 1.1 with VS 2003 but now I have "upgraded" to VS 2005 and .Net 2.0 they are no longer being drawn with there backcolor at run time (both in debug and release)... However, I have a function that will export any listview into excel and this keeps the column widths, row colours and row fonts all in tact, and low and behold the colours are correct in excel, so why are the colours not being draw on the control   Oh, and I have just noticed…. Literally while writing this post, if I resize the window (which forces the l ...Show All

• Windows Forms Intercepting Windows Copy command

  UPDATE: Found a library that meets my needs... http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/NET/Code/Libraries/Windows_Messages/Responding_to_Clipboard_Change_Notifications/article.asp I am currently writing a C# application that should run in the background (well, system tray) and detect any time I execute the Copy (or Cut) command in any application.  I would like to be able to detect Ctrl-C, Edit->Copy, Right Click->Copy, etc. Of course, my application will not have focus...surely there is someway to tie into the OS to do this, though.  Maybe   Any ideas Maybe I should just have a timer that checks to see if the clipboard has ...Show All

• Visual C# how do i prevent "show desktop" or "windows key+m" from minimizing my program?

  hi, i don't want my program to be on "TopMost" but i also don't want it to minimize. Never. even if i disable the minimize feature, the program can still be minimized by clicking on the "show desktop" icon or pressing Windows Key+M. I'd like to prevent that. Can someone tell me a possible way to do it btw, the "show desktop" button doesn't trigger the 'resize' or 'changesize' event in the form. Thanks, For the heck of it...I tried to to do this with Desawares subclassing ocx. (the best I know of) You can stop the minimize event with this....but WinKey m...will always minimize it. Looks like the only way is ...Show All

• Visual Basic Overwriting Data in Text Files

  Hi all, I have an application that writes sets of data to text files when you click the save button. The each set of data has a heading and the data im saving gets placed under this heading. Everytime you click the save button, my code will check through the existing file to see if the current heading exists. If it does it will attempt to overwrite the old data with the newly saved data under that heading. Problem is.. it appends the data to the end of the file instead of overwriting it!. If ive lost you imagine a file with the following data in it. Heading1 A B C Heading2 1 2 3 Now say i want to save s ...Show All