Pedro Gomes's Q&A profile

• Visual J# VS.NET B2 - Object Test Bench

  Hey, I was using Object test bench on Beta1 and that is really amazin feature. I use Beta2 now and I cant use Object Test Bench. In some project it is working.. but others dont include object test bench. I didnt understand what is wrong Yes, we are considering that. We have plan of supporting OTB for active project (currently selected project) rather than startup project. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Create And Host Custom Designers With

  Is there a sample for WPF like this one http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/03/DesignerHosting/default.aspx I want to make a custom designer for the WPF. One of our goals for the WPF Designer in Visual Studio (Cider) is to enable similar scenarios. However the functionality is not available today. You could look at Mobiform's designer which I believe supports hosting their designer as a control What is the scenario you want to enable mark ...Show All

• Architecture How can I achieve self-documentation AND generality

  Here's the issue I am stuck with, and browsing through a ton of pattern books hasn't provided a solution as best I can tell. I have a problem that requires one of two possible solutions, and I am looking for perhaps a third that I'm not aware of. I have a set of classes that inherit from a base class, and each of these classes does some activity and returns a boolean result. The problem is that each of these classes requires a different number of inputs, from 1 to 5 in order to do their evaluation. These classes also only accept base types as arguments (int32, double, string, boolean, etc) to avoid having them restricted in their usag ...Show All

• Visual J# VjSharp newbie

  I am trying to create a simple form to upload a file - I keep getting the following error Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Here is a portion of the code public class UploadDataRS extends System.Web.UI.Page { protected System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlInputFile File1; protected System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlSelect sYear; protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label Label3; protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label output; protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label Label1; protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label output2; protected System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlInputFile File4; protected Sys ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Create a traceability matrix for work items?

  Is there any way to create a 'traceability' matrix for work items   For example I want to run a report that shows all tasks that have been (or have not been) linked to a requirement (using MSF for CMMI). Thanks, ~slee The Scenario Details report does something very similar to what you would like to get.  If you would like to see the query that is being executed (in the December CTP) there is a report called Work Items with Tasks (this is a hidden report which you can see by going to the http://reportmidtierserver/reports site and clicking on show all items)  the report makes a query agai ...Show All

• Visual C# Can anyone help me to make a shadow for forms

  Hi, As you know, I all menus in XP have a nice transparent shadow in behind, Window Live Messenger BETA has one. Does anyone know how it apears and how to make it My manager always focuses on beauty of program's GUI. It would be nice if i can use it in my forms Hi, Check the article at http://davidkean.net/archive/2004/09/13/151.aspx I have checked and it works, additional it seems that you do not need SecurityPermission attribute mentioned in the article, at least works for me. Max ...Show All

• .NET Development Web service connection problem

  I have a web serice built which works fine when I did testing on my local machine. It also works fine when accessed from different machine within my private network. I asked a friend of mine to access it from his machine. He can access it and works for few seconds then a following problem occurs The underlying connection was closed. Then he has to exit the application and reconnect. Sometimes I have to reset the server. Looks like this problem is related to some proxy settings. Here is the details My friend's IP address starts with 10.x.x.x which seems to be private IP. But when I get a request from his machine the IP which ...Show All

• SQL Server Updating a text field with a sub-query

  I have always avoided text fields because of lack of motivation to learn the ways to work with it...but I can't avoid it with the current project I'm working on. I need to copy information from an old database into one with similar structure...a lot of the information is there, but some things still need to be synch'ed up.  The problem I'm having is copying the description field from the old database to the new one because they are text fields.  If I were doing this with varchars I would use the query below...but since they aren't I get the "can't use text fields in sub-queries" error.  Can anybody explain to me how I would a ...Show All

• Windows Forms Dynamic forms - generated at runtime from xml

  Does anyone know if it's possible with C#/.NET to dynamically create windows forms at runtime.  I plan to read an xml definition of the form (probably into a ADO.NET dataset) then build the form as the xml dictates - where the xml might look something like: <form>  <height>150</height>  <width>250</width>  <controls>    <tabcontrol>     ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office ClickOnce deployment for application-level Smart Tags

  Dear all, I have created an application-level Smart Tag dll using Visual Studio 2005 by implementing ISmartTagRecognizer, ISmartTagRecognizer2 and ISmartTagAction, ISmartTagAction2. I have also successfully created a Windows Installer setup package to check for prerequisites, install the DLLs, create required registry entries and grant CAS trust to the assemblies. However, I would like to make updating of my application painless like ClickOnce-deployed applications (automatically check for the latest pulished version). Is there a way for me to do that Any suggestions are highly recommended. Thanks. HDH. ...Show All

• Visual C# Modfying Part of a String

  Hi, I am trying to change only part of a string with a new value. I have a string with the value "Hello". I want to change it to "Heslo". I am trying to do this: string sal = "Hello"; sal.substring(2, 1) = "s"; This keeps giving me an error "The left hand side of the assigner should be a variable, property, or indexer" How can I accomplish this in C# thanks sal = sal.Substring(0, 2) + "s" + sal.Substring(3, 2); Not sophisticated, but it works. Arnie ...Show All

• Windows Forms Generic Base Control Collection

  Hello, I was wondering if anyone had discovered how to do a generic cast to a (Controls) collection. The challgenge is that there are Control.ControlCollection, Forms.ControlCollection, etc. and none of them seem to cast or covert back to a base type that just lists it's containing controls. Any tips, suggestions would be appreciated. Are you sure about this   Form.ControlCollection derives from Control.ControlCollection so an explicit cast from Form.ControlCollection to Control.ControlCollection shouldn't actually be needed. For example: Form form = new Form(); Form.ControlCollection formControls = (Form.ControlCollection)for ...Show All

• Windows Forms Welcome back Ken

  I haven't seen Ken Getz in a while. Have you been on vacation   8) Hey, thanks! No, I got sidetracked writing for about 8 months. I just didn't make the time to get up here and chat during that time. I am on a lull for a few months, so figured I'd hang out and learn new stuff again. ...Show All

• Visual Studio VSIP integration for J2EE development.. is this a problem

  As I was looking at the distribution license agreement it has the following clause: "Eligible Product(s)" means Your software development tools and products which work in conjunction with Visual Studio .NET Technology and which (i) include the Integration Code, (ii) may include sample code or object code identified in the VSIP-SDK as redistributable; (iii) operate on Microsoft Platforms and (iv) have as a primary purpose creation of applications that operate on Microsoft Platforms. But I have seen VSIP tools out there in the marketplace that are VSIP plugins for creating J2EE applications for Linux, and other Java only envi ...Show All

• SQL Server Permissions in SQLExpress

  Hello.  I have a problem with assigning permissions in SQLExpress.  First a little background.  A couple of weeks ago we upgraded from MSDE to SQLExpress.  The database came over fine, tables, stored procedures, roles and since everything ran ok I am sure that it preserved all the permissions from the roles.  The database has two programs and two distinct groups of users that create and edit data in the database.  Program 1 is a complete program, that is, it has been running for several months using the MSDE and the program never skipped a beat when we switched to SQLExpress. ...Show All