JoelDKraft's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio need help working out the namespace of the new item added

  I've created my own VS2003 wizard to add c# files. I'm trying to replicate the code in the original that works out the namespace of the file to be added, SAFE_NAMESPACE_NAME. How does this work If I add a file using itemlist.AddFromTemplate(...) how can I work out what the namespace of the added item will be I've tried getting the "DefaultNamespace" of itemlist.ContainingProject but this is only relevant if I'm adding to the root of t ...Show All

• Visual C# Unrecognized configuration section 'connectionStrings'

  Hello ,can someone help me in the following :  I have some pages that have been created with VWD express but when I try to test these pages with Dreamweaver or when I upload these pages on to a Host provider I get the following error message: Configuration Error Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify y ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Inheritance

  Is it possible to change the base class for generated types using the DLinq designer (to MarshalByRefobject for instance) or add attributes(Serializable for example) . If not, how would one expose generated types as well known objects for the purpose of remoting You can do this using partial classes. Just create another code file and declare the class as partial. You can then put attributes on it, specify a base ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Build Ignores Conditional Compilation Symbols

  My individual projects build fine.  My team build fails when including a project that requires a conditional compilation symbol.  i see the symbol in the csproj that is in the build directory but it appears to be ignored. Is this a known bug Chris - Could you please post the project file that you were trying to build This will help us figure out why this failed in the first instance at all. Thanks, Anu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MSF Agile Poster

  I have heard rumors that an MSF Agile poster will be available next month. Could you please confim or deny these rumors My company is adapting to MSF process and I love to get the poster so is good to educate team member. Thanks. Chris C.     ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to Read through a Fixed-Length File

  Hi, I've a text file which has some data written. Records have Starting character as "#2" and Ending character as "#3" in ASCII respectively and the file includes series of records, but not written as Line by Line. The difficulty I'm having is, to how to transfer those data's into a database. The File comes a 7mb file and looping character by character then noting down the Record Starting Character and Record ending Character, and finally s ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to get the latest version using msbuild

  I am trying to develope the application in msbuild which will automatically get the the latest version from vss,compile the code, then use xenocode for obfuscation and finallly to build setups...Can  anyone tell me how to get the latest version from vss using msbuild...... Thanks... one way is to use the SDC tasks from http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx id=b4d6499f-0020-4771-a305- ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Custom "FxCop" rules in VS 2005 Code Analysis?

  I've written several custom FxCop rules that I want to use with VS2005's Code Analysis engine, but I can't find any way to add-in my custom rules assembly. I know Beta 2 doesn't have all the documentation yet, but can someone tell me how to build a custom rules assembly for VS2005 and get it installed for use in a project Thanks! Now I'm not sure if this has changed in Beta 2 but in the CTP versions, you can&nbs ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista ActivityValidator

  Hello, This my first time with custom activity what i want to do is simple am having a property in my custom activity called Text and i want to validate this property  i don't want this property to be empty so i build my validator class [ ActivityValidator ( typeof ( MyValidatory ))] public partial class Activity1 : Activity { public static DependencyProperty TextProperty = DependencyProperty .Register( "T ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to: Webbrowser NewWindow and Navigating equivalent to axWebbrowser

  At first, I enjoyed the new webbrowser control but then I noticed that the args provided by the events NewWindow3 and BeforeNavigate of the axWebBrowser had not been implemented in the new control. Arg. Good news, the guys from Microsoft gave us the a workaround recently in C# and said they will publish a sample soon on MSDN. In the mean time, here is some VB.net code inspired from Microsoft's C# that will give you 2 new events an ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Closing application on a different computer on the same network

  I need to close an application running on a computer in the same workgroup using VBE. I know how to do it when the application is running on the same computer. My reading of the help section leads me to conclude that this is not possible. Can anybody tell me if this can be done and how Thanks, Antonio I'm guessing that it is not possible to close programs on a different comput ...Show All

• Windows Forms Datagridview col headertext change

  Hi Im working with datagridview obj that is binded to DataSet that working with SQL 7.0 In the SQL Database I defined a table with col type: int,  char and datetime. On the datagridview I can change the headertext of col of  type char, but not  ...Show All

• Windows Forms TabControl changing TabPage

  Hello, After clicking a button on the first page, I do some processing, then I want the user to automatically be directed to the second tabpage. How do I do this programmatically Thanks. Did you try something along the following line tabControl1.SelectedTab = tabPage2; ...Show All

• SQL Server Customize QA - 'Script output as Execute'

  Hi group, In QA there is an option called 'Script object as....' Were developing a lot of sp's. When I use this option the 'skeleton' of a sp is created. Eg Create proc uspMySP @Message varchar(10) AS SELECT @Message The mention option would generate the following: DECLARE @RC int DECLARE @Message varchar(10) -- Set parameter values EXEC @RC = [EMGLSP3].[EM3_OWN].[uspMySP] @Message The question: Is it possible to customize this I would like ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) RichTextBox How To!

  Hi, I have searched the net and the documentation that shipped with Beta 2 and have not found any results or information that was able to aid me.  Hopefully there are some RichTextBox experts that could please help me with the following things: How can I make the RichTextBox single line   (this was possible in Win32, and no, changing the control template to a textbox does not work!  Because then it essentially is a t ...Show All