PGolini's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problem with TransactionScope when running Unit Tests

  Hello, we are having a bit of a problem here. Three of us are running Unit tests daily. One of us have installed an English OS and the tests are running excellent. Two of us have Swedish OS and frequently run into this exception: Failed Test method UnitTest.CompanyTest.UpdateCompanyTest threw exception: System.Transactions.TransactionManagerCommunicationException: Communication with the underlying transaction manager has failed. ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.. Could anyone help us out here Cheers, Chris ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do I determine which system.collecion.xxx to use

  I am trying to understand collection programing a little more. I am not sure which method to use. I would like to know how many textboxes are on my form. And, I would like to create a myPointLoadCollection to keep track of point loads added at run time. What kind of information is stored in the collection Is it 1 element, textbox1, and what is actually stored A ref to the control, the name, ect. Can't find any good reading. MSDN has lots of information but not very clear on how to use it. For the most time, List(Of T) will be your best bet. Like your points collection would be a List(Of Point). If the type stored in the list ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Is there a place to download the MSDN Beta Library?

  The library failed to install properly when installing Web Developer Express, C# Express and SQL 2005.  It has some of the information in it but not all of it. Derek I followed the Express edition uninstall on three machines now and after the install of Web Developer from the Internet Download option, I have no ASP.NET classes in the Class Reference section of the MSDN library.  At this point I'm using the online version until I can get the time to download, burn and reinstall the applications.  Unfortunately the uninstall/install process is at best a half day operation so its not like I can do that repeatedly just to se ...Show All

• Windows Forms Control Display after Form is Loaded

  After the form is loaded there is a brief but noticible period during which the form is visible but the controls are transparent. Presumably this is while the child controls are being painted. Oddly when one control is filled (no longer transparent) the others are filled too. It seems to be a all or nothing thing.  My question is how can I ha ...Show All

• Windows Forms Comunication between two forms

  Hi at all,    i need to set the DataSource of my grid situated in FormA from FormB. How can I do Is it possible thanks i'm a newbie mikunos Yes its possible to pass values between 2 forms. There are many ways to acheive the same, depending upon your scenerio Are Form A and Form B part of the the same application If they are you can write a new Event on Form A and Fire It when the user selects a new data source. Form B would subscribe to this Event and in the event handling method it would receive the new Data Source and use it to refresh the Grid. Other way would be if you open Form B from Form A, then in the co ...Show All

• Visual Studio VSS Internet Access authentication issue

  I have Visual Studio and VSS setup on Home network (not in a domain) on windows XP. VSS is setup and works fine using internet access on the home network. I have an adsl modem/router with fixed ip address and port forwarding setup to the pc with VSS web service and am now trying to access remotely, but am having problems. On the remote pc when I try to establish a connection it prompts me to login using the the login id static-ipaddress/user and prompts for the password. So I cannot login. If I change the login name to the machinename/user it just reverts to the static ip address/user and login fails. does anyone have any information on se ...Show All

• Windows Forms Custom Actions - sourcepath not saved when vdproj is opned from new location

  I have created a "Custon action" to call a vbs file and included the file in the setup project(in the same folder as the location of vdproj file). If I get all the source files and vdproj files to a new folder and run devenv to build the solution file, then I get the error - ERROR: Unable to build custom action named '<vbs filename>' because it references an object that has been removed from the project. 1. Is there a way I can reference the file from the setup folder itself 2. how to avoid this error Any solution to this Thanks Basically, the algorithm is that if the file is stored under the direc ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Updating to memo fields in Foxpro through ODBC using PHP

  Hi everyone, In advance I wanted to thank you for your time in replying to my post.  My company is trying to integrate their current foxpro databases with PHP.  I am using ADODB on the PHP server and connecting using an Visual Foxpro ODBC driver. We are running into an issue where foxpro doesn't allow us to update to memo fields over 255 characters.  I ran across a link , but since I am working in PHP I'm not sure if it applies to what I'm doing. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I think your problem is in that VFP doesn't accept any literals over 255 in length. ie: insert i ...Show All

• Windows Forms Application Focus OnLoad

  I have a couple of Windows Forms projects which when run hide behind all other open windows. Is there a way to set focus on the application after it has loaded so that it is displayed in the forefront of the screen thanks - will look into that. Sorry for the delayed reply - for some reason i was not subscribed to threa ...Show All

• Visual C++ About my screen shot

  Hi, I am writing a screen shot program with CImage object. I created a CImage object with Create() where I set the cx,cy, and bpp (bit per pixel) as the parameters. I set the cx=428, cy=302, and 24 for bpp for my CImage object. After taking a screen shot with my program, I saved it. Then, I opened the screen shot with Paint Shop Pro and check it on the resize window (through "Image | Resize" menu command) in Paint Shop Pro. In Actual/print size setting on the resize window of Paint Shop Pro, I found the resolution of my screen shots are only 72 pixels/inch. By using my program, I like to take screen shots having 160 p ...Show All

• Visual Basic SQL Table "Default Value'

  I have a program that connect to a SQL2000 DB, when I create the datasource, the table relationships are created (from SQL diagram) but the default field values that are defined in SQL are not pulled into VB. Is this a bug or am I missing something. Thanks David Davis I think 'default' in this instance means something different than what you expect. The default value is simply the value that is used when no value is specified for a column upon the insert of a row in the table. In order to retrieve default values you would have to query the schema information for the column of the table you are u ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to create a sort of login?

  Hello I want to make a program for certain people and I want it so that they need to enter a code the first time they run the program. The codes would need to be programmed into the program and a certain code would need to show certain info in the program ( for example: if someone entered code 12345 on the first startup the program would show 'welcome name'). If you need some extra explenation just ask. I would like to know how to do this. Bye and thanks in advance. You have a login form dialog as a template form type. So add one to you project. You need to instantiate an instance of this log ...Show All

• Visual C++ msoftconf

  Hi, I am a relatively new c++ user. I have created a project in Visual C++ Express Ed. and in one of my c++ files, I have #include "msoftcon.h" However, the compiler cannot find the file. I searched my computer for a file with that name but nothing there. Could anyone please tell me how I can get my app to work TIA Hi Guys, If any one of u need to download "msoftcon.h"...You can download it from this link.. http://octosoft0.tripod.com/downloads/msoftcon.zip Best Regards, Moussa El-tayeb mossa_eltaieb@hotmail.com ...Show All

• Visual Studio unsafe code in asp.net site

  Hi Guys     I met a problem in building an ASP.NET web site that includes an unsafe function.     The error said:"Unsafe code may only appear if compiling with /unsafe" I tried to find where I can modify the build switch, but failed. Can you help me Thanks Jemmy, MSBuild isn't used yet to build ASP.NET websites. I'd suggest asking your question over in the ASP.NET forums. Someone there should be able to assist. You can find the ASP.NET forums at http://www.asp.net/forums/. Neil ...Show All

• SQL Server USE [DBName] fails if DB created just before calling it

  (SQL 2005) I'm obviously missing something simple: why doesn't this work USE MASTER ; if exists( select name from sys.databases where name = 'MLMS' ) DROP DATABASE [MLMS] ; CREATE DATABASE [MLMS] ; USE MASTER ; -- misc cmds USE [MLMS] ; This works if MLMS exists, but fails if it doesn't.  In that case, syntax checking returns an error indicating MLMS doesn't exist: Msg 911, Level 16, State 1, Line 7 Could not locate entry in sysdatabases for database 'MLMS'. No entry found with that name. Make sure that the name is entered correctly. Thanks in advance. ...Show All