sl1pm4t's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System What is a minimum install to get code coverage and profiler?

  I am a little confused about what I should install if I want to try code coverage and profiler tools on a single machine. AFAIK VS 2005 Standard that is available for download does not include these tools, they are part of VS Team. But do I need to install Team Foundation Server in order to run code coverage I would like to manage with minimum installation if possible. Thanks in advance Vagif, Mark my original post as an Answer to your question so that other users that ask the same question will be able to find it easily. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Optimizing simple stuff

  I have made a testanimation of the good ol`bouncing ball. Its background is a solid color. Its placed on a pbox. Question: Is it any point in optimizing the painting of this setup Does it matter whether the background is filled with a single color or with something else like a gradient or pattern Does the effect of optimization vary according to what is p ...Show All

• .NET Development Programatically checking whether a type implements a interface?

  How can we find whether a Assembly is already loaded into a AppDomain or not Thanks, Suresh. I would verify that your assembly is correctly named and that the type name is the fully qualified path to your class.  It is possible that either the assembly you are referencing isn't the one containing the type or the type name is not fully qualified.  Either one will cause a problem.  If they are accurate then look at the list of loaded assemblies through the debugger to verify that the assembly you expected was loaded.  If that works then try a direct call to Activator.CreateInstance to see ...Show All

• .NET Development In XML, I can define a tag as either Attribute or Element, which better?

  In XML, I can define a tag as either Attribute or Element, which better In Part 1, I define the Title as a Attribute, and in Part 2, I define the Title as a Element, which better when I use TreeView and GridView control in ASP.Net 2.0, I find it is very advantageous to use Attribute. but I'm not sure when I need to use Attribute, and when I need to use Element!   //---------------------------Part 1----------------------------------------- <Folder xmlns=" http://www.hellocw.com/onlinebookmark " Name="Root" Id="a6dce8fe-749c-4e38-ab2f-3d03d9711b3d">   <Bookmark BId="f8dce8hj-846c-4e38-ab2f-6d03d9711b80"    ...Show All

• Visual Basic Parsing a path

              fname = ofd1.FileName             ffn = fname.Split( CChar ("\"))             w = 0             While True                 If ffn(w) = "" Then 'finding unassigned element of array                     lbl_filename.Text = ffn(w - 1) 'setting second la ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Strange linker warning... can I ignore it?

  Hi, I'm using the VS2005 Team System Eval on a PC that previously had VS2005 B1 and B2.  Both were uninstalled prior to installing the RTM.  I created a simple Smart Device dialog app to be built for a custom CE 5 platform.  If I build the solution without changing it, the following warning happens: MSVCRTD.lib(chandler4.obj) : warning LNK4099: PDB 'libbmtd.pdb' was not found with 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\ce\lib\x86\MSVCRTD.lib' or at 'd:\projects\...\debug\libbmtd.pdb'; linking object as if no debug info Can someone point me in a direction to find out more about this   I googled "libbmtd", ...Show All

• Visual C++ objbase.h

  what happened to the objbase.h file in visual c++, was it replaced with something else or do you not need it as long as you have windows.h included What version and edition of VC++ are you using Is objbase.h in your platformsdk\include directory I can still see some samples for VC++ 2005 that include objbase.h. For example: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/z5aa1ca1(en-us,vs.80).aspx Thanks,   Ayman Shoukry   VC++ Team ...Show All

• Windows Forms HowTo? Application with no main form

  I  don't mean a windows service. Something more like how Netscape or (the older)IE applications used to run with multiple main windows, but the application wouldn't terminate until all of the windows were actually closed. It seems like in my .NET WinForms application, the application context is bound to the lifetime of the ApplicationContext.MainForm, or the lifetime ...Show All

• Windows Forms What is going on behind the scenes for Bitmap objects?

  There is obviously a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes for Bitmaps that isn't discussed very thoroughly in the documentation. My latest problem with this is with an app where I draw a bunch of triangles at different orientations with various pieces of a source image on each triangle.  To do this, I am using a TextureBrush to draw each t ...Show All

• Windows Forms windows forms flicker problem

  Hi I am kind of new to the windows forms, learning, and I would very much appreciate your help on this one as I think it is trivial but I don't seem to have the answer. I have designed a windows form with a background image (800x600 jpeg) and added some label controls (with transparent background). The problem is that every time the form open ...Show All

• Visual C++ Starting Visual C++

  This is embarrassing, but I can't seem to start the program. I downloaded it without any problems, but I cannot start it. Can't even find it. Please help. Don't laugh to hard! Start --> All Programs --> Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 --> Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. I am sure you can work your way with a bit of difference if it is the Express edition. Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Build, exclude a project.

  I have team build successfully building a solution, however, the solution contains a database project (*.dbp) which produces a warning of "*.dbp is not supported by MSBuild and cannot be built".  Is there any way to exclude this from even being attempted to be built in the TFSBuild.proj Hi Anu, Can I do the same thing in VS Pro 2005 I don't see the "Exclude Project" in the context menu. I do find the place to exclude building the project. (Right click solution node -> Configurate Manager). it works fine in VS that it excludes building the project. But when I used MSBuild, it doesn't work. The project is still inc ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Making TextBox handle Numerica values?

  Hi everybody, I am trying to learn visual C++ and this is my first problem in building a Widows application: A textbox control can handle data of Text type only. For example, if I have a form with a TextBox named textBox1, and I have the following code under a button: int x; x = textBox1->text; I woul get the followin error when compiling: error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'System::String ^' to 'int' Now, how can I change the data type of a textbox so that it can take numbers Would appreciate any input. Thank you in advance, Hello maman ...Show All

• .NET Development ArgumentException in WriteXml

  Hi, I'm getting problems when try to create a XML file. It's throwing a System.ArgumentException with the message "The surrogate pair is invalid". I think that it's a bug of XML classes of Framework Class Library, because I tried all possible ways to write this file (I used all possible classes: from DataSet, with XmlDocument). Please, could someone help me Thanks Francisco Amaral Could you please elaborate a little I'm getting this same issue now. I am using : System.IO.StreamWriter xmlSW = new System.IO.StreamWriter("descriptor.xml"); dataSet1.WriteXml(xmlSW, XmlWriteMode.IgnoreSchema); xmlSW.Close(); Is this ...Show All

• .NET Development Insert a Datatimepicker value into DataTime filed in sql

  Hello, everyone, Everytime I'm trying to insert a datetimepicker value into sql table, there will be error like: An unhandled exception of type 'System.InvalidCastException' occurred in system.data.dll Additional information: The SqlParameterCollection only accepts non-null SqlParameter type objects, not DateTime objects.   I've tried several ways to convert the datetimepicker to Date or String, but it just not working! Please...someone, help... yaduo Can you provide the line in your code where the InvalidCastException is thrown You are not trying to add the value of your parameter (i.e. the DateTime-object) to ...Show All