klacounte's Q&A profile

• Visual C# Generic comparison to null broken in July CTP

  Everyone knows that one cannot ordinarily use ==/!= on generic types because these operators might be undefined. However, up to Whidbey June CTP it was possible to write (x == null) or (x != null) when x was a generic type. After all, the documentation explicitly states that null comparisons are possible (and will return false if typeof(x) is a value type). Now I've installed the July CTP, and suddenly compilation gives an error on such null comparisons! Um, how am I supposed to compare variables of unrestricted generic types to null now Is that a bug in the CTP Please don't tell me we're actually supposed to write Object.Equals(x, null)... ...Show All

• .NET Development Active Content of Chat Room window

  Hi I am interested in analysis on-line chat room conversations for research in on line group work in Project Management Training. How can I obtain a direct ouput of text from a Chat room or MSN What is the best programming language to search large amounts of text and to help analysis Thanks, Regards, Graham You might look into IRC (Internet Relay Chat) to see public chat in action. The results vary depending on the network you connect to. You can obtain a windows client at www.mirc.com , the client will have a list of networks.  A good network will have 30k-90k clients connected. Mirc will also do logging to text fi ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to resign a manifest file.

  Hi To ALL, what are various ways are there to resign a manifest file. plz xplain in a brief manner or suggest me a good link. i know we can do this by mageui.exe(but dont know how to do). because my requirement is. during install i get the servername from the user and then i wnat change the deployementprovider with that servername. then i want to resign that manifest how can i do that. Thanx in advance with regards Amjath I am modifying the <<appname>>.exe.config.deploy after publishing (doing this through an msi installer), meaning the hash changes Question : Will only re-signing the Applic ...Show All

• Windows Forms DefaultCellStyle.Format for an unbound row doesn't work.

  I add a DataGridView to a form and use the IDE to set the DefaultCellStyle.Format for one of the columns to "C2".  When I run the form, I can enter any value of any type and nothing gets formatted or validated. I tried setting the value in the form's constructor as well, but the results are the same.  Why doesn't this work     I finally realized that there is problem with ValueType property. I've set it to DateTime and when I checked it it was string :-(, so creating custom columd that exposes this property to design time doesn't work. The only solution I've found was creating c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions C Question

  i was wondering is it c99 compatible if not is there a way to convert it to c99 if so how cause i heard vsc++ is only c90 compatible and i don't want c90 only c99 Take a look at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=333319&SiteID=1 Hope this is helpful! Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System biztalk server 2006 server administration

  When I click on biztalk server 2006 server administration from the biztalk server 2006. i get the following error snap-in failed to initialize Class id :{9a77c670...... I uninstalled and installed atleast 3 times. But this error seems not to go away. Its so frustruating.. Please help. let me know if u need any more info. Hello You should post this to one of the biztalk newsgroups. http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx dg=microsoft.public.biztalk.server&lang=en&cr=US Thanks Brian [MSFT] Microsoft Developer Support This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and ...Show All

• Windows Forms Data Grid tree view

  Hello,    when a user wants to see data in a datagrid at run time they need to expand the datagrid tree view to the data table.  I use:        dataGrid1.Expand(-1); dataGrid1.NavigateTo(0, "DataTable"); at design time to do this for the user only, it will work just once. Well the dataGrid1.NaviateTo will only work once.  Is there something I need to reset or an attribute I am unaware of so that the data is just displayed and the user doesn't have to deal with expanding or navigation to the data Any suggestion is appriciated. Thanks Shawn ...Show All

• Visual Studio AddIn simply doesn't work after being generated by wizard

  Hi! I'm making my first steps writing VS 2005 add-ins as a preparation for porting my GhostDoc add-in from VS.Net 2003 to VS 2005. Unfortunately I have hit a road block and I'm completely cluesless: The addin created by the wizard (C# addin, VS only, entry in Tools menu, run at startup) produces an addin that does not work at all. When I hit F5, the second Visual Studio instance is started, but the addin does not appear in the addin manager, there's no entry in the the Tools menu and none of my breakpoints are hit. Anybody else with this problem My environment: VS 2005 version 8.0.50727.26 (the version I got at the PDC) WinXP inside ...Show All

• SQL Server Data regions

  Greetings, Can someone explain the rationale as to why nested data regions are restricted to use the same dataset Craig We didn't have time so far to implement hierarchical data source support in our processing engine - but it is under consideration for a future release. Anyway, there are a few options available today to achieve similar results: * join the datasets already in the query (e.g. by using linked server functionality) * use subreports for the "nested data region" - but this is usually not very efficient * use SQL Server 2005 Integration Services to join the datasets in the query (t ...Show All

• Visual Basic What's wrong with this code?

  I had this code that i am supposed to use for my current project...Using Crystal Report, I want to sort the record by entering the two dates (dtpFrom, dtpTo), the name of the company(FINAL2.COMPANY), the description(FINAL2.Description) Private Sub ConfigureCrystalReports() Dim mySelectFormula As String = "{FINAL2.Order_Date} >= #"" & dtpFrom & "#" & " and {FINAL2.Order_Date} <= #"" & dtpTo & "#"" & " {FINAL2.COMPANY} > Maxicare " _ & "AND Mid({FINAL2.Description}, 1, 1) = ""C"" " myCry ...Show All

• Visual Studio Add new local reports, without changing application ?

  When using local reports, is it possible to a dd new reports to an existing application, without any change to the application e.g. perhaps by placing new report files into a directory, which are then loaded dynamically at run-time Thanks. Andy. Your application can load RDLC files from anywhere and supply it to the ReportViewer control as a stream. Note that RDLC files contain the schema of data expected by the report, but do not specify where/how to get the data. If your application loads arbitrary RDLC files from the file system then your application has to know how to supply data expected ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) can't generate proxy classes for WCF SDK samples with svcutil

  Hi, I tried to generate a proxy class for GettingStarted service yesterday with FEB CTP svcutil.exe on FEB CTP Vista. But svcutil failed after reporting a few warning messages. The GettingStarted Service was running OK and I didn't modify it in any way. Does anyone know what is it I've read some known issues concerning FEB CTP svcutil. They do not seem to be relevant to the case. Can you send the error message/warnings etc Thanks! Scott ...Show All

• .NET Development How do I check if object locked?

  Is there a way to access the list of locked objects kept by System.Threading.Monitor The purpose being, I have a function that I only want called if the sync object in the class is in a locked state.  If the sync object is not locked, I want the function to throw an error, but how do I check if the sync object is locked Thanks. and the maintenence programmer should not have the code to LockingObjectBase available to him, that should be frozen. all he should have is the dll. and thinking about it, ObjectLockedMethod shouldnt be a public delegate but a full fledged method - Am I going to have to exp ...Show All

• SQL Server sys.objects vs. sysobjects in master..sp_ stored procs

  use master go create procedure sp_GetObjects as select * from sysobjects ; calling this procedure from different databases will return different results (behavior similar to 2000). use master go create procedure sp_GetObjects as select * from sys.objects ; calling this procedure from different databases will return results for master db only...  (ditto for all other sys. catalog views) how can I create database agnostic stored procedures using the new catalog views thanks!   Clifford Dibble wrote: BTW - In SQL 2005 you can GRANT/DENY/REVOKE at different levels of scope.  This can be an ...Show All

• Visual C# How to execute an operation at console application after specified time?

  How to execute an operation at console application after for example 2 seconds Edit: I want to get something like that: void Main() { Console.WriteLine("Something..."); Console.WriteLine("Write it after 2 seconds after writing 'Something'"); }   How to do that OK, I think that's better idea to use shorter code ;) Thanks again. ...Show All