Michael Andy Poulsen's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Where should file <Addin name>.addin be copied to when deploying VS 2005 Addin?

  Documentation says that copy the .addin file as follows: The path is <drive>:\Document and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\Addins or<drive>:\Document and Settings\yourusername\Application Data\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\Addins depending on whether the add-in will be made available to other users. I have discovered that the Addin setup wizard seems to copy it to:  <drive>:\My Documents\Visual ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Internet Explorer in C# - what about default mail client ?

  Hello, First of all, I am very thankful for these forums and I am glad you guys are here to help! Anyway, I have Visual Studio 2005 Express C# Edition and I am working on a program and let me explain what I need to do. Okay, so I am working on this program. I was talking to the head manager on this and he said here is what we need. We need to have one text box and one button to load a website. Inside the text box the user will type the URL in ...Show All

• Visual Basic jitDebugging

  I have a VB.Net application that I have built in VS2005. I built a Setup deployment project and when I run the application on another machine I get an exception Dialog Box that says I must enable jitDebugging in the .config file. In my VB.Net application Tools Options menu under Debugging and Just-In-Time, I have Enabled the check boxes for Managed, Native and Script. Why isn't this sufficient to trigger JIT Debugging on the target machine ...Show All

• Visual C++ Linker problem in C++ Express 2005 Final Rel.

  Hi i recently got a hold of msvc++ express 2005 final version from work and i seem to have a problem here. When i try to compile a project i made in the beta2 version it seems to get stuck in the linking stage. I am compiling a win32 app btw. here is the output: ---------------------------- Linking... Generating code Finished generating code ---------------------------- and here the linker goes upp to 90% of the cpu usage and gets stuc ...Show All

• .NET Development State of SqlConnection

  I've created an SqlConnection to SQL database. conn = new SqlConnection (connString); conn.Open(); After that I've created a timer, which checks state: if (conn.State == ConnectionState .Open)    textBoxOut.AppendText( "Opened" + "\r\n" ); else    textBoxOut.AppendText( "Closed" + "\r\n" ); This performs every 5 seconds. Then I've started this connection. TextBox shows "Opened". After that from SQL Q ...Show All

• Windows Forms Graphics question

  Ok my problem is with Graphics class //------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ private void Form1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e) { Graphics g = e.Graphics; g.DrawLine(new Pen(Color.Black), new Point(30, 30), new Point(30, 100)); g.Dispose(); } you see i declare Graphics g=e.Graphics where 'e' is the PaintEventArgs and then draw a line //--------------- ...Show All

• Windows Forms Ideas for Fotovision

  First of all, Ralph, thank you for this great application! I love it (well designed, well coded, well.... just great :) I'm thinking of three improvements to use Fotovision as my photogallery:  1. replacing the listview by a treeview to allow subdirector ...Show All

• Visual C# Outlook-esque minimize control

  hey howzit. i am looking for a control that mimics the functionality of Outlook 2003. When you are viewing emails in inbox, one can minimize the previous days emails. Where can I find such a countrol Take a look at some of these controls, i don't know a exact control like it but you can modify these controls: Adding XP Themes to Custom .NET Controls .NET ExplorerBar Control Windows XP style Collapsible Panel Bar Themed Windows XP s ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to access database server from business server using WCF?

  We use netTcpBinding binding in a NT service on the business server to access database server with Windows trusted connection only. Impersonation of user calls is OK on the business server using ImpersonationOption.Required, but just cannot access the database server. Code like this dosn't work either. We have WCF Feb CTR. using ( ServiceSecurityContext .Current.WindowsIdentity.Impersonate()) { Database pDB = DatabaseFactory .Create ...Show All

• Visual Basic Encrypt A String

  I want a simple code to use system.cryptography to encrypt or decrypt a single string.   Have a look at the following sample: http://www.obviex.com/samples/Sample.aspx Source=EncryptionWithSaltVB&Title=Encryption%20With%20Salt&Lang=VB.NET%23 ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Geometry.BoxBoundProbe not working as intended?

  Hi, yesterday I was writing the collision detection code, and I had a really pain, figuring why the code: Geometry.BoxBoundProbe(BoundingMin, BoundingMax, Position, Direction); isn't the same as: if(BoundingMin.X<(Position.X + Direction.X) && (Position.X + Direction.X)<BoundingMax.X)    if(BoundingMin.Y<(Position.Y + Direction.Y) && (Position.Y + Direction.Y)<BoundingMax.Y)      ...Show All

• SQL Server System::SourceID

  Hello, If I am using many packages that are called using "Execute Package Task" is there any guarantee that System::SourceID will be unique for all containers across all of the packages Slightly similarly...all packages that are created from the same package template have the same package ID. This is BAD. Does it need raising as a bug   Thanks Jamie   It's weird because even variables and connection managers hav ...Show All

• .NET Development how to add arraylist to string[].

  Greetings All, can anybody pls help me to complete the following. i am having a sting array and i want to add arraylist to string array. string [] vaOutput = new string [4]; System.Collections.ArrayList arsList = (System.Collections.ArrayList)ars0.GetValue(0); vaOutput[0] = "E" + Information.Err().Number; for ( i = 0; i <arsList.Count - 1; i++) { vaOutput[1] = arsList.ToString(); } vaOu ...Show All

• SQL Server 'provider not found or it may not be installed properly error' in analysis services

  hi, i am new to olap services.. i am getting an error 'provider not found or it may not be installed properly error' while doing the browse data option on cubes.can any body tell what exactly is the error. is it the analysis services is not installed properly. thanx in advance... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MSF Version 3 at a glance

  Hi,     Our office has an A3 poster labelled 'MSF at a glance', which contains a one page summary of the .  Is this a Microsoft document and if so is this available on line.  I would like to provide copies to all staff within the IT department. We are in the process of implementing this Methodology and the document would be usefull for communicating to the Team. Many Thanks Jason you can send me your mailing ad ...Show All