Mike Becker's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual C# Express 2005 - Activation Key - Page cannot be displayed

  Hello, I've got a problem. I downloaded the visual c# express edition and tried to register for an activation key, but it tells me that the page cannot be displayed . So what can I do to get an activation key, since I want to use this product a bit longer than 30 days (27 - still counting).... The reason that this happend was a strong configured firewall - so the solution is to lower the security level of your firewall! ...Show All

• Windows Forms always on top

  What code do I use in VB5 to make an application always on top Thank you, Fred Jones Why the double post This is a forum dedicated to Windows Forms, which is the set of tools for buildings graphical clients using the .NET Framework.  You may find someone with VB5 knowledge here to answer your question, but it would only be by h ...Show All

• Visual C# instantiation

  Hello All, i have few questions. 1. which one is better, instantiation on form_load or just when needed private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { class1 obj1 = new class1(); obj1.Do(); } or, just when needed : private void cmdOk_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { class1 obj1 = new class1(); obj1.Do(); } 2. Will an object clean up by GC if it has been out from an event/procedure private void cmdOk_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { class1 obj1 = new class1(); obj1.Do(); } will obj1 be clean up when the event has finished Thank You for the help. Waiting for your reply. 1 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Forms docking

     Does anyone know how to dock a form relative to the Screen I am trying to have my help form imitate the help form that is used by Office applications so I need for the form to fill the right side of the screen and not allow itself to be resized or moved. Thank you for your time.    Sincerely,       Matt crockett HI, As I see it, office applications help doen't actually dock on the screen. It actually resizes the form to fit on the screen... ( To make a docking effect ) To do this you must get the screen width and height so that your application c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Will there be Beta3 Extensibility kit coming out soon

  Hi there,       Is it true that Object model of Wrok Items etc. is diffirent in Beta3 than Beta2 To be able to use object model for accessing WorkItems etc. will there be Beta3 Extensibility kit coming out soon with Samples Thanks, Anu Yes, the object model has changed between Beta 2 and Beta 3 although not dramatically.  Most of the changes were to improve consistency and increase integration between the various peices.  Yes, an updated SDK will be available in the next week or two. ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Moving Mail Items from Outlook through VBA to PST files

  Can anyone help me to move mail item (from Inbox) to PST files using VBA Can this be achived Per our support engineer: This Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) example uses GetDefaultFolder to return the MAPIFolder object that represents the default folder. It then uses the Find and FindNext methods to find all messages sent by Dan Wilson and uses the Move method to move all e-mail messages sent by Dan Wilson from the default Inbox folder to the Personal Mail folder. To run this example without any errors, replace 'Dan Wilson' with a vaid sender name and make sure there's a folder under Inbox called 'Person ...Show All

• Windows Forms playing avi files on C# form

  Hi, i need help on how to play an .avi file on my C# form. I have a panel on it that should be the owner (panel1) and a button that should play the movie. Please help me with the code and if it requires any References, please copy their name here. I am a C# newbie and i need some help. Thanks. ok, but the FILEMOVE.AVI in C:\Arquivos de programas\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Graphics\videos hav a pink color, what code to set tranparent for this....... ...Show All

• Visual Basic Command Buttons

  I have recently upgraded from Visual Studio 6 to Visual Studio 2005. The problem that I am having is that I after entering the code that I usually used to open a form with a command button, it seems that they syntax won't work. For example if I wanted to open frmCustomer. The code that I used to use would be something like this.' open frmCustomer', however, this does not work. Any recommendations. Ras Buy a book :-) VB6 and VB.NET are totally different. In this case. frmCustomer.ShowDialog() is probably what you want. However, overall, you are going to have this trouble time and again unles ...Show All

• Visual Studio Report Viewer Export Feature

  does anyone know of anyway to execute the export to PDF feature of the reportviewer in code i was thinking i could use reflection to do it but have not been able to. any ideas RenRen, Nice post. Here I am find the same issue with Open option. Save option is working fine. I get " file not found" error. I cleared the Temperory internet files too. any ideas ...Show All

• Visual Studio Build Result - Success or failed?

  In my addin I need to know in the BuildEvents_OnBuildDone event whether the build succeeded or not. How do I go about doing this Thanks & Regards Pradeep Kumar SolutionBuild.LastBuildInfo returns the number of projects that failed to build. If LastBuildInfo == 0, then all projects built successfully. Craig ...Show All

• SQL Server group rpt hdgs not appearing on all pgs

  Hello, Both my table and group headings in my table data region are not appearing on all pages of my report however I have the "repeat group header on all pages" option selected at the group level as well as at the table level. Any suggestions Which renderer are you using If it's HTML, these headers should appear on each page where the table/group is on. If it's PDF or Image, there might be cases where we have to drop these headers in order to fit the table or group contents since we are bound by the physical page size. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Intellisense not showing Enumerator List If ParamArray is used

  I Have defined a procedure like this :- Public Sub SetBordersOn( ByVal ParamArray BordersOn() As Excel.XlBordersIndex) but intellisense is not showing Enumerator List, if this is defined withour ParamArray i.e. as a single parameter then it shows the values. kindly note that this has been reported as a bug on this link :- http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx feedbackid=6404e03b-719f-4f39-b930-515f333cbace Pls note this is not just excel problem but if you define any Enumerators with ParamArray Option it is not showing available enumerators in ...Show All

• Visual C++ MFC extension DLL project with /clr option causes link error on _DllMain

  I get link errors mfcs80ud.lib(dllmodul.obj) : error LNK2005: __pRawDllMain already defined in DllMain.obj mfcs80ud.lib(dllmodul.obj) : error LNK2005: _DllMain@12 already defined in DllMain.obj The project options are MFC extension DLL /clr option (except the source file with my DllMain implementation) UNICODE character set   I am using VS 2005 Std Ed. and after building a couple of times started getting the following error: Error 2 error LNK2005: _DllMain@12 already defined in MSVCRTD.lib(dllmain.obj) mfcs80ud.lib  Which seems related to earlier in this thread as a bug in ...Show All

• .NET Development Auto incrementing the version #'s

  I have a .net application in 2.0 I'm trying to auto inc the FileVersion. In 2003 you could do AssemblyFileVersion("1.0.*.*") and VS would inc when you compiled. Doing this in 2005 generates a warning and no auto inc. Any ideas Hi, Please go through the following blog post for more information on this topic: http://weblogs.asp.net/bradleyb/archive/2005/12/02/432150.aspx Regards, Vikram ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Video series: Visual Web Developer for Beginners query

  Hi there does the Video Series: Visual Web Developer for Beginners, show you how to work with classes and methods Also can I run the Visual Web Developer side by side with visuall studio 2003 Thank fc. hi, not the vwd but the visual basic video series that shows you how to work with classes and methods in lessons 5 and 6 regarding to your second question i don't know the answer you might ask that in the express installation forum, at the top of this forum click visual studio express and you will find it one more thing if you are interested in web developing you can find a helpfull stuff in http://forums.asp.net is microsoft ...Show All