Benin's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Combo Box Values

  I am trying to assign values to a combo box. However, when I add the values, I get the correct number of items in the combo box, but I don't get the actual value. I just see a blank. If I select the item, I then see it. ...Show All

• Windows Forms VS 2005 Toolbox Refreshing

  Hi, I have noticed that the toolbox in VS 2005 contains a tab for every projects in my solution that contains a component derived class. During builds of the solutions each of these tabs are being refreshed / rebuild and it can take a little time. Is there anyway of stopping this refresh, or is it a matter of removing the tab from the toolbox Maybe this is a bug that has been fixed post Beta 2 Thanks for your help Graham ...Show All

• Visual Studio Error: "data\rights.dat is already open"

  Hi, I've just installed Visual SourceSafe 2005 on a Windows XP Professional SP2 machine. I'm not sure right off the bat if that's the problem because scouring the web, I've not found any location that lists the system requirements for this software. In fact I can't even find the official Microsoft Page for this program! Is MS downplaying its existence to get people to migrate to TFS Anyway, after creating the SS database, I tried to add a ...Show All

• Visual C# Where is "Add Inherited Form" in Beta 2?

  Hi, all! I've just downloaded and installed Visual C# Express 2005 Beta 2. I can't find "Add Inherited Form" menu which existed in Beta 1. Is it gone now or is it just only my problem Thanks. Sam Anson, I'm using the C# Express Beta 2 and use form inheritance quite a lot. If you intend to build an application framework that is usefull and reusable, form and control inheritance is a must. IMO, it is very annoying to miss the inherited ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions ArrayList Error (arg out of range)

  I am trying to write a simple playing card shuffling routine using the C# ArrayList class. (Yes, I know the conventional swapping routine, but I'm trying to learn this class!) My idea is to create an ArrayList of 52 elements, assigning card values of one to fifty-two (using ints to make it simpler) to each corresponding element. When I need to deal a card, I will generate a random number between one and the number of cards remaining and call ...Show All

• SQL Server SMTP Authentication in Send Mail Task

  Hi I am new to the SSIS package and was trying to figure out how to use SMTP authetication with a 'Send Mail Task' Our company's server requries SMTP authentication for mail. The Send Mail task only allows for Windows authentication. What can I do to get the SMTP authentication to work for the Send Mail Task Regards, James Robb ...Show All

• Windows Forms Invoke or BeginInvoke cannot be called on a control until the window handle has been created.

  This is throwing me for a loop. I have a modeless form open with a richtextobx. I am using FileSystemWatch to monitor changes on a text log file. When changes are found I check to see how much the file has grown, and then read and append the new portion to the RTB. The log watcher form comes up, does its initial paint (which is NOT driven by FSW) all is OK. Some moments later when the log file first changes, and FSW gives the event, I marshal it ...Show All

• Windows Forms Binding.ReadValue() throws NullReferenceException

  binding = new System.Windows.Forms. Binding ("Value", bindingSource, member, true ); DataBindings.Add(binding); binding.ReadValue(); => throws Exception I just want to fill this."Value" with the DataSource content Whats wrong ! Peter This information is too vague. binding.ReadValue could throw an exception because of various reasons: 1. the data source stores values of a different type than the contro ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Programming Languages

  I need to know in what ways are C, C++, Java and C# alike or similiar. Wow - there's a huge question. C is a non object oriented language. C++ was designed by Bjarne Stroustrup to offer OO in C, he'd seen OO in use in smalltalk and other languages. Almost all C programs will compile in C++. Object orientation basically means the ability to create classes, and for classes to hide thier internals. Java was invented by Sun. Java, like ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Can we use Arraylists in CF?

  Hi. I have some images as Byte arrays in my application. Can anyone tell me if it is possible for me to store those images in a Arraylist So that I can just run a for loop and insert those images one by one to the SQL CE database Thanks. Yes, you can. By the way, why could not you just insert them into SQL CE database right away instead of storing them in the list This way you will save some memory a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Sharepoint Permissions default settings from VSTS

  When you set up VSTS, Sharepoint automatically works for anyone with Contributor rights...if you create your own group, you need to then manually add them to Sharepoint...that makes sense...however, I want to take away rights from part of the Sharepoint directory structure from Contributors and only allow architects to see the content...any ideas I believe that you can set the access permissions on folders in a ...Show All

• Visual Basic Is there a faster image loading process?

  Hello, I'm trying to develope a simple image viewer and I'm having a slow down when I try to view many images at a time. The module currently works, but is slow with large numbers of images. Are picture boxes the fastest Would labels, buttons, frames or some other control avoid the slow down Thanks for your help and advice! JED_ This is the module that loads and displays the pictures: Module ShowPics ...Show All

• Windows Forms RichTextBox Length

  Hi! I'm currently programming a text editor that needs to display very large files... The one that I'm testing with is a log file that's about 55 MB. The StreamReader can read the entire file just fine, but I can't seem to get the entire text to enter into the RichTextBox. Here's the code I'm using: Dim openstream As New FileStream(filepath, FileMode.Open) Dim opensr As New StreamReader(openstream, True) Dim NewWin As New ...Show All

• .NET Development passing data from a thread to a control

  Hello! I have a problem concerning data flow between a thread and a windows control e.g a TextBox which was created in a different thread. I've implemented a class which has a method responsible for executing some operations in a seperate thread. In this method I would like to print out some information int the TextBox, but unfortunatelly I get the run-time error that goes like this: An unhandled exception of type 'System.InvalidOperati ...Show All

• Visual Studio nAnt and VSS 2005

    We currently use nAnt to automate nightly builds of our 1.1 framework web appliations that are housed in a 6.0d sourcesafe database.  We are getting ready to upgrade to VSS 2005.  Has any had any issues running nAnt against VSS 2005   I.e. Have the command line executables changed   Thanks in advance!   -Sergio  We do the same thing and we didn't have any problem ...Show All