SpoonsJTD's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions installing express editions on same computer as full editions

  This refers to the final products.  Can we have visual web developer express and sqlserver express alongside vs stuidio 2005 and sqlserver 2005 developer edition Any issues dennist685 Hi, Yes, Visual C++ 2005 Express can be installed alongside your present environment. Visual Studio 2005 is designed to work side by side with Visual Studio .NET and Visual Studio .NET 2003. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Creating a control with no interface - how?

  I've created several controls for ASP.NET, but this is my first attempt (need) in creating a Windows Forms control, and it is a slightly different experience for me.  I have a class that we'd like to make a little more "portable" by m ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to use Generic List in T3

  This fails at run time because Entities is unknown despite it is part of my GAT project. Any idea Thanks in advance, Philippe <#@ Template Language="C#" #/> <#@ Using Namespace="System" #/> <#@ Using Namespace="System.ComponentModel" #/> <#@ Using Namespace="System.Collections.Generic" #/> <# /* Retrieve parameters for use in the template */  System.ComponentModel.Design.IDictionaryService svc = (System.Component ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Changing the Build Quality default "unexamined"

  Hello all! Using VSTS RC1 and we changed some of the values of the "Build Quality" dropdown. We removed a couple and added new ones. (unfortunately we can't edit them...maybe in the RTM realease) We've created a standard such as: B - Ignored B - QA Approved B - PM Approved ... SS - Ignored SS - QA Approved SS - PM Approved (B) stands for Build (SS) stands for Shelveset Build When we've reached the "unexamined", we can't remove/rename it to follo ...Show All

• Visual C# Unloading an Assembly

  Hello, I read in one of the Blogs that an Assembly cannot be unloaded. It has to be loaded into a AppDomain and then unloaded. I have tried that. Take a look at the following code. AppDomain newDomain = AppDomain.CreateDomain("NewDomain"); Assembly myAssembly = newDomain.Load(AssemblyName.GetAssemblyName(assemblyPath); After doing Reflection on myAssembly, I used ...Show All

• Smart Device Development ControlBox

  How would I execute code when the user clicks the controlbox (little x in the upper-right corner). for an example, if i wanted to display a form that prompts im the user really wants to exit when the x is pressed; or if i wanted to end the program instead of just closing the form when its pressed Well, you haven't specified a language. Are you using the compact framework, or is this in the wrong forum The e ...Show All

• .NET Development UDP.Send exception issue / TCP Error 11004 Maybe

  Hi, This hopefully is extremely easy, but here we must have a mental block or something as we are battling a recurring Exception issue in the system Dll on this one line of simple code that sends UDP messages We only use UDP and no TCP/IP calls We only recently noticed this exeption as these were not being caught in the Application error handler in the application, but rather in the System.dll. Each time we send a UDP message we gener ...Show All

• Windows Forms What's the best desktop db for a windows forms app?

  Does anyone have a recommendation for a database for a windows forms (c#-ado.net) application.  I'd prefer not to use MSDE, MySql, Postgres since the app will only have one user - kind of like Quicken or Money.  Also, my channel will be&nb ...Show All

• .NET Development Events and Delegates in a multithreading environment

  Hello I'm using events and delegates to notify observer classes from within multiple threads. My application crashes and I guess the reason is that the standard event in the framework is not thread safe. While one thread calls the event, the method Invoke is looping through all added delegates. What happens when a second thread is calling the same event while the first thread is still in progress Is my suspicion correct that this ...Show All

• .NET Development What happened to [Form Editor]->Toolbox->Data->SqlDataAdapter?

  Hi, I am developing a winform application by using VS2005 beta2. What happened to [Form Editor]->Toolbox->Data->SqlDataAdapter I hope developer team are not going ti miss it! Thank you, Alan Alan, This was a conscious choice by the Visual Studio team.  If I remember correctly, you should still be able to add the items manually to the Toolbox by right-clicking on the Toolbox and clicking "Choo ...Show All

• Visual Basic Displaying a childform in Visual Basic 2005

  ; Create a new MDI Form ; Create a menu and paste this code. ChildForm.MdiParent = MDIForm(Parent) ChildForm.Show() ; I'm not 100% sure what your question is, but if you're trying to open a mdiChild from the mdiParent form the syntax is: ChildForm.MdiParent=Me ChildForm.Show() Cathal ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Blinking Vertical Line hard to see in a textbox

  I have converted a Clipper application to VFP 8.0 and all interface occurs in the main window (_SCREEN) of Foxpro.   The following command is used for data entry:  @ 21, 15 say "Enter new Order Number " get cNewNum read The data entry shape that is blinking in the textbox is very difficult to see. It is a very narrow vertical line and therefore is hard to pick up. Is there any way to change the shape from a vertica ...Show All

• Windows Forms Outlook Express 6.0

  I am using windows 98 and when I am on a certain website and want to e-mail the customer service department, I click on the "contact us" option on the website but cant use it. I click on "contact us" and I get an error message saying "The OUTLIBB.DLL file is linked to missing export MAPI32.DLL:239. I think I deleted some files that had to do with my outlook express 6.0. How can I get these files back I tried to reinstall Outlook Express but ...Show All

• Windows Forms CPU goes 100% when moving labels on a form

  Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong In VB6 this was no problem! http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx feedbackid=b42db66e-3abb-4620-9324-80046b70069a Can somebody smart help me ...Show All

• Visual C++ overloading operator == in a value class

  Hi,   I am not sure what is the proper syntax for overloading operator == in a value class. I wrote the following code: public value class MyClass { private:  String^ m_value; public:  MyClass(String^ value): m_value(value)  {  }   // First syntax   static bool operator!=(const MyClass% left, const MyClass% right)  {   return left.m_value != right.m_value;  }  // second synta ...Show All