Freddie Tripples's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio IDTWizard and managed C++

  As per usual, C++ seems to be the ugly sister of the .NET languages. I have seen lots of examples of how to create a non-HTML-jscript wizards in VB and C# by creating a class based on the interface EnvDTE::IDTWizard. The simple walkthroughs just mention to check the COM interoperability flag (or something like that) and make your .vsz file. Done. Simple. I'm trying to do this simple task in managed C++ since I want a forms-based wizard but I am ...Show All

• Windows Forms Welcome to Gridview Hell

  Ok this should be Sooooooo Easy that it is insane All I want to do is return a datatable and have the gridview display 4 rows of 3 images. I also need the gridview to page through the Datatabe if there are more than 4 rows of images (Easy so far, Can and have done this in my sleep... Perhaps thats the problem). But when you click on an image, I need to populate things on the right side of the page.. Details like the non-thumbnail version o ...Show All

• .NET Development how to set the dataset's namespace

  hi, I'm use the Dataset Desinger of Visual Studio 2005 to design a dataset. Then, I compile the project. The desinger generate a typed dataset class. But the dataset class is inside the global namespace. How to set to generate the typed dataset class in a customed namespace. The namespace above is C# namespace. Not the XML namespace. thanks. Hi, When you create a typed dataset, the generated dataset class inherits the Dat ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS 2005 RC1, SourceSafe freeze

  Didn't notice this earlier, but as the project has increased in size VS2005 will freeze for a few seconds anytime I click on different parts of the IDE. This may be a SourceSafe issue since projects that are not bound don't exhibit this problem. Has anyone else seen this...any workaround (other than disable binding) Jae I'm having the same problem - incredibly frustrating. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Request / Response Diagnosis Tool

  Hi, Is there any tool similar to the old SOAP toolkit trace utility distributed with the Windows SDK for WinFx I just want to view requests and responses so I know what's being sent across the wire. I'm sure I read somewhere about some new tool being released with WinFx but now I can't remember where I read it . . . Thanks, Kent SvcTraceViewer.exe comes to mind. To get it working properly, you'll h ...Show All

• SQL Server ANSI SQL-99 Compliance Level

  When I researched SQL Server 2000, I was told (I believe by Hal Berenson) that it was entry-level compliant with SQL-92, but the next version was going to be compliant with SQL-99. I haven't been able to comfirm this in the docs. Can anyone from MS confirm Thank You Garth Note that T-SQL is the procedural language extensions for SQL. It is not the same as the query language described by ANSI SQL. SQL Server how ...Show All

• Visual C# performance problem

  Hello. I have created our custom ticket-like component. I must place multiple ticket's component on the form in runtime. This tickets must fit in the form's size. their size changes according the amount of tickets to fit on the screen, and this process is to slow. when I have more than 4 components on the form, and I put another one, all of the tickets size is changed and the screen is flickering. I tried Application.DoEvent(), Invalidate etc ...Show All

• Windows Forms TrackBar LargeChange Property

  Hi, I'm trying to have it where when you click on a trackbar, instead of moving a "LargeChange" units forward/backward, the bar moves to the position that was clicked.  The LargeChange property determines how much further the bar will move forward/b ...Show All

• Visual C# Convert to int

  Hi all what is the function name that allow me to do this operation string s="abo76hmza2" int i=function(s); now i=762; the second function i need string s="3+2"; int i=functoin2(s); now i=5; please help Alternative first function: using System.Text.RegularExpressions; public int GetNumbers( string OriginalString) { return Convert .ToInt32( Regex .Replace(OriginalString, "[ ...Show All

• SQL Server Best and worst scenarios for Notification Services

  Hi, I am just looking for the best and worst scenarios to implement Notification services...This is more to come up with a design guildelines I Would be more interested in the worst sceanrios :) Please share your inputs based on your experiences... Regards, Anjana I'm not really sure that I understand what you mean by worst case scenario. Do you mean situations where SQLNS is not the best tool for the job Or do you mean spe ...Show All

• .NET Development PGM Multicasting using a RDM Socket

  I've recently created an application housed on a few servers...each server is listening to a multicast address on a socket using the RDM socket type.  Supposedly, this uses PGM(Pragmatic General Multicasting) for multicasting... How can I test the reliability of this form of multicasting I'm planning on using it in an enterprise environment so I need reliable multicasting and before we deploy the application I would like to make sur ...Show All

• SQL Server Import from excel

  I am trying to import data from an excel spreadsheet. The file comes from a client and sometimes it may not have any data, that is, it will be blank. It seems that the Excel Source in SSIS does not like empty files, is there any way around this I suppose I can check to see if it is empty and abort the import process but I am not sure how to do this. Any other ideas on how to get around this mthierauf wrote ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Automatic Checkout not Getting Latest Version Issue

  Hi all, We're having a problem with automatic checkouts using the Beta3 TFS with VSTS 2005. When we edit code, the call is made to automatically check out the code from TFS. Unfortunately, the behavior we are encountering seems to indicate that the call to TFS isn't performing a Get Latest Version before checking out the code locally. This results in us getting "Invalid Handle" errors on check-in and having to manually step throu ...Show All

• SQL Server async_network_io wait during replication

  I have re-initialize some subscription. After generated snapshot successfully, the synchronization view showing 'The process is running and is waiting for a response from the server.' and I found the replication process is under 'async_network_io wait'. The job has run for more than 8 hrs. Any idea to improve it Thanks in advaise. Are you running the sync agent (like merge agent/distribution agent) in continuous mode If yes, it will show r ...Show All

• Visual Basic Datagridview "HideSelection"

  I'm using an unbound datagridview to display information, and I need to color-code certain cells to alert the user to status events. Is there a way to not have the selected row highlighted when the control does not have focus (similar to the VB6 .HideSelection property) Did that do what you wanted it to do, or did you find another solution I'd be interested in the other solution if you have one . ...Show All