rolo11's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Passing Control between Excel and C# code

  My goal is to be able to have some C# code execute every 5 minutes from Excel. Between runs, i would like to have control in Excel so that I can perform normal tasks. This seems doable but my moniker is quite apt in this case. The problem seems to be based around my inability to multithread in Excel (so my 'sleep' attempts failed), nor do can I execute "OfficeCodeBehind" functions from VBA/macros. Any one have ideas on how to do this I'm about ready to build a mouse controlling external app to scroll over and hit my Excel buttons every five mintues... please save me from this embarassing solution. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Xact in combination with MDX?

  Hey, I'm trying to get Xact working with MDX in C#. creating the engine is no problem, but then I want to create the sound and wave banks Does anybody has an example for a simple use of Xact with MDX in C# Well XACT has a managed implementation in the MDX 2.0 beta. However I'm not sure how complete it is and since its beta there are no docs or samples. Nor have I come across any 3rd party samples. Given the announcements about MDX 2.0 and its future as the XNA framework though (see http://blogs.msdn.com/tmiller/archive/2006/04/12/575225.aspx and http://blogs.msdn.com/al_msft/archive/2006/03/20/555065.as ...Show All

• Visual Studio Cannot find server for Visual Studio help

  I am having trouble using help for Visual Studio 2005. I installed Visual Studio and then installed the MSDN Library for Visual Studio that came with it. Visual Studio itself seems to be working just fine. However, any attempt to use help or MSDN generates the following error message: Cannot find server. URL: ms-help/MS.VSCC.v80/...<<lots more>> The page cannot be displayed Cannot find server or DNS error. This happens regardless of whether I try to access help through Visual Studio, or through the MSDN item on the start menu, or through the Visual Studio Documentation item on the start menu. Same result acce ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions debugging not working

  i'm using VC++ express edition. I was trying to debug one of the examples that come with the help system. but even after setting breakpoints the program doesn't break at the particular break points. it was working fine a couple of hours ago. i tried debugging the same program that i debugged a couple of hours ago. even tht wouldn't work. i don't know if this is a bug in the vc++ .. but its really bugging me. i've been trying for the last hour to debug the program and its not working. thanks in advance... When I try debugging a message box pops up and says, "Debugging information for "game.exe" is not found or does ...Show All

• Windows Forms A new "here" keyword

  Not a request for any WF feature, actually. More on C#/VB language and VS.NET Intellisense, and there ain't any public channel to suggest to the languages and VS.NET teams. We're all used to using base/MyBase and this/Me keywords in our OO programming in conjunction with Intellisense that gives us instant view of members. But if we declare variables in local&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Updates are not kept by Source Control

  Hi! We get a problem with SourceSafe control. We are sharing a project, in order to control changes we are using Sourcesafe.  When some of us want to modify a file we check out file and start to modify. After making changes we check in files. Well, when we try to get latest version, last changes are not refreshed. What is happening Thanks.  Have you tried to view the history of the file, compare versions and see if indeed the changes are in the file you think they are, and if they have been checked in in the VSS database Can you describe exactly what you're doing (how ...Show All

• SQL Server OK button not working...

  I am trying to get MSSQL Reporting Services working. I have used it before, but now I have the opportunity to get the software entrenched in my organization. I installed the app and it opens up, but when I try to create a new folder the software will not allow the OK choice. I can cancel, but I need to choose OK. I have installed the app, SP2, and a hotfix that is on the website. Help.... I've run aspnet_regiss -i (and -c) , I still get the same error. The complication might be that the default website points to d:/websites/wwwroot instead of c:/inetpub. Is there any way to get it to work Re ...Show All

• Windows Forms Edit mode in datagrid?

  Hi, How could i programmaticaly know that the datagrid is or is not in Edit mode   Thanks.   Datagrids don't go into edit, datarows go into edit, since the datagrid goes into edit for each cell and and ends edit when you move rows here is a way to see if the current row is in edit dim cm as currencymanager = ctype(me.bindingcontext(me ...Show All

• SQL Server set context_info

  I have req: where i need store a string value and retrive it later on. And it should be session specific. Hence I thought of using "set context_info". But when I set the value and then retrive it the values are not similar. Here is a sample where the length are different: declare @context_info_var varbinary(128) select @context_info_var = cast ('test' as varbinary) print len(@context_info_var ) //5 IS PRINTED set context_info @context_info_var declare @name varchar(4000) select @context_info_var = context_info from master.dbo.sysprocesses where spid=@@spid select @name = cast (@context_info_var as varchar) print len(@name) //30 IS PRINTED ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How do I change the process template in which a project was created?

  I have multiple projects that were created during the beta with differing templates. Project1: CMMI Project2: Agile ... etc Now that we evaluated the templates, I would like to change the existing projects to use a new template, that may or may not be customized, and may be a third party template. What are the steps to change the templates If the answer is no, I can deal with loosing work item history but not source control history, how about now Thank You, David Burrell SunGard hi, As I konw, the anwser is yes. But the precondition is the new template must contaions all fields ...Show All

• .NET Development How to delete columns in Datagrid

  Hi i am doing project in vb.net. I have placed data in datagrid with the use of DataGridtextcolumn. I don't know how to place datagridboolcolumn in datagrid. I need to place datagridboolcolumn for all the rows in the Datagrid. if i click the checkbox of datagridboolcolumn the concern row should be delete. I need this. if any one know this, kindly help me.I hope for ur helping. Thanks ahead. Regards S.P.Maheswaran mail to maheswaran.s.p@gmail.com mahessa_msc@yahoo.co.in You can change your code so that the form2 constructor takes a form1 as parameter. You can us this to access you're public variables. Then yo ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Update of Redistributable Package from VFP9 to VFP9 SP1

  Maybe I missed an knowledge base article. We have an app, already installed using VFP 9.0 out there. On our development machines, we've updated to VFP 9 SP1. What do we need to do to roll the SP out to the users Do I have to re-run the setup to create updated vfp9t.dll and vfp9r.dll files And then can I just have a script copy them out to the appropriate directory at the end user's workstation, and then run regsvr32 vfp9t.dll regsvr32 vfp9r.dll And where should they go Really, there should be some documentation of this process...in a KB article. Craig Yes, you need to update ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Migrate work items from an existing project

  We have an existing project using work items generated with another tool. The work items could be exported to a CSV file. We want to take over those items to our VSTS project. How can we do this Hello Anina, You should check out the Extensibility kit for any samples around doing this programatically. This kit is part of the VS2005 SDK and is available for download on http://affiliate.vsipmembers.com/affiliate/default.aspx Also check out the following : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms253058(en-US,VS.80).aspx http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=118065&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Visual C++ XML Comments

  When I first heard that Visual C++ 2005 was going to support XML documentation I was very excited to try the beta.  One fo the things I expected was the XML documentation experience to be identical to that of C#, but here are some of my experiences. The triple slash (///) before a function header doesn't automatically generate some blank xml comments for me When I place XML comments above a function header and specify information about its arguments, the intellisense doesn't seem to pick that up when I start filling in the arguments of a function call (like it does in C#) While I do see the XML comments within the intellisense before I ...Show All

• Visual C++ Adding bitmaps

  How do I add bitmaps to a Visual Studios 2005 C++ program without using The Windows Forms interface or express edition. After adding a bitmap as a resource is there a way to insert the bitmap. Use Bitmap::FromResource() to load the bitmap from a .NET resource, then use Bitmap.GetHbitmap() to create a bitmap you can use with GDI (BitBlt etc) . Cast the IntPtr returned by Bitmap.GetHbitmap() to a HBITMAP handle. ...Show All