PatrickInDenver's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Which Language and Why

  Let's Open the Floor for this Discussion: Which language is best for an intranet distributed application, using Windows forms, and why I am about to build one with multiple features from different intranets within our office. Thanks for your input! Gary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Not sure but I don't think a class in VB.NET can i ...Show All

• Visual C++ Corrupt Builds After Cancel

  Our team has a ~50 project solution with a few dlls, lots of libs, and three executables. If I do a build solution, and at any point during the build hit Control-C to cancel it, whatever is being built at the time I hit the button is now corrupt. It looks like it leaves the partially created .obj, .exe, or .dll around and doesn't detect that it only got halfway through. Is this a common symptom Is there some known fix (MSDN and google searches didn't turn up any hits) Our projects and solution are all converted from 2003, if that's any help. Thanks for any info, Chris Jurney Senior Programmer Relic Entertainment ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Automatic e-mail reports

  Is there a way I can setup e-mail reports for everyone in project (team) automatically   I know every user has the option to setup their own report subscription using their client , but each day we would like everyone to automatically receive an e-mail report summarizing the bugs assigned to them. Thanks, Anu   You will have to write a tool that queries the server every morning by using the Work Item Object Model.  Samples on using this object model for Beta 3 will be available as part of the VS SDK mid-October.  In the mean time, you can check out "Work Item Tracking Object Model Samples.zip" from th ...Show All

• Windows Forms Global DataSet - or Sharing Data between Forms

  I'm pretty new in .Net - so it's possible I am thinking all this in a non .Net way. But here it goes: I am trying to share a DataSet between all forms in my App. Actually , I want to bind all instances of the same type of combo in my application (say, all Customers combos) to the same instance of a given DataSet, containing the  ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridViewButtonCell Change Backcolor

  If Visual Styles are enabled, can this be done If so how Thanks Simmy hope this helps http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=407755&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Smart Device Development ARM data misalignment crash

  I'm new to Windows CE development but I'm facing crashes in bugfree code which is a mystery to me. I have some code that compiles on 6 platforms (Win32, Win64, linux on both x86 and amd64, mac os x and solaris) however on pocket pc 2003 it crashes: (The code is part of a binary stream reader) m_lReadTag = ENDIAN(*( UINT32 *) (m_pBuffer + m_lIndex)); The idea is that the reader reads a 32 bit value from a buffer plus index which gets modified into correct endian. Since data is encoded in big endian the ENDIAN function will be active on ARM. However debugging it in VS2005 using a real target I get data misalignment errors. When ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Duplicate Project Names

  I am running TFS Beta 3. I have a situation where I have cancelled the creation of a new project (during the phase of it downloading the templates) and now I can't re-create the project with the same name. It says it already exists, although its not available as an Add Existing Project either. Is there anything I can run on the server that will  validate all existing project data in the database Regards Graham Thanks for the info Michael. Unfortunately in the end I needed this server working as planned so I simple uninstalled TFS and STS, removed their databases and reinstalled. All is working now ;-) G ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista When adding a bitmap to a popup menu the item goes black when selected.

  I added a bitmap to a popup menu as a menu item,  however, when the item is selected the area of the bitmap goes black (instead of blue) while the rest of the menu stays blue. Is this a problem with transperancy Laura Since you haven't provided any more information I had to write my own program. Works for me on Windows Vista exactly the same as on XP; I don't see how this is a peculiarly Windows Vista UI question. Start with the scratch program and add this function: void OnContextMenu(HWND hwnd, HWND hwndContext, UINT xPos, UINT yPos) {  HMENU hmenu = CreatePopupMenu();  if (hmenu) {   static const ...Show All

• Visual Basic Reading from file errors...

  Hi everybody.. This is the problem I have: I have a .txt archive which contains lines for configuring labels, buttons, and other controls of my form. This archive is written in spanish and some letters have an accent. I can read wit no problem the line, but when I assign the value I get (string type) to the text property of the control, the accent letters did not appear at all. Now I tried configuring my regional settings, before I had English (USA) and I tried changing it to Spanish (Mexico) but the accent letters now appear as an " ". In my VB6 app, this was no problem. Checking my .txt is saved with an ANSI encoding. So ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Is there any support for locking

  We're in the process of taking an existing WF application which has multiple people updating documents and I'm interested in using WinFx... Is there any special handling for locking of data (the doc) for a WF step so that an other team member doesn't also try and use that step in the same space in time Hope this makes sense and thanks for the feedback as I learn how to use this interesting enhancement... Bob sure - you could have a class or Activity that provides the roles dynamically - and then have multiple events waiting (probably a statemachine workflow would be appropriate). One even would be a Read event, and the ...Show All

• SQL Server FOR XML in web page- OK what's next

  (1) I need to select records from a SQL database and create a XML document which I then need to write to a users directory. I am using SQL express with VWD 2005. I located the FOR XML and can execute in VWD's SQL graphical tool. I haven't tried in a Web Form yet but I assume it will work ok. But then how do I write the xml results from the SQL query to local user's directory (2) I can execute the FOR XML in the SQL graphical tool but how do i Connect to the DB in the Web Form Use data.sqlClient.Connection and use .SQLcommand to perform the SQL query If ...Show All

• Windows Forms WebBrowser "Save As" command

  I am using the Release Candidate of the VS 2005 IDE.  I'm trying to access a dynamic page created by ASP.NET server controls that I want to persist.  What I'm planning to do is navigate to the page, then call "ExecCommand" on the document of the browser object asking it to perform a "Save As" command as can be done in IE.  Does anyone know the syntax for the command -- specifically the string value of the Save As command code as well as the optional parameter (I assume that is to identify where the document should be saved). Any thoughts I was also trying to use the SaveAs command from execCommand. I could get it to w ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Welcome to the Graphics Forum!

    Welcome to the Windows Game Development forums! The Windows Gaming and Graphics Technology group is delighted to offer you these forums to discuss questions related to Windows-based Game Development.  While we expect the majority of questions to be DirectX-related, we welcome any game development related questions based on our currently-supported or pre-release technologies. This forum is specifically aimed at graphics programming questions.  Shaders, 3D, 2D, texture processing....if you can see it (or can't make it be seen ), this is the place to be! Before posting a question, please take the time to make sure you are u ...Show All

• Visual C# application settings

  Hi, is there in .NET some classes easy to use to retrieve and store user data to XML thank you thanx this is what i need. only few correction was needed to exclude from "application project" and make an dll library useful in c# :) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Publish to TFS via VBA Macro in Project Pro 2003

  I need to write a macro to publish to Team Foundation Server (TFS) from Project Pro 2003. I have to code to publish to Project Server, but I want to create a macro that will publish to the TFS. I have attempted to record this using Project's Macro Recorder, but it fails to record the click event of the "Publish" button from either the Team tool bar or the Team menu bar Thanks in advance. Doug www.cooltimbers.com "Art for your soul" Hi Doug, Yes, a macro recorder won't record the publish button click, it will only record the changes made to the project plan. ...Show All