iowatvman's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Accessing Public Function located in another Project referenced within the same Solution

  I've to a solution with two projects: Bungalow New Programs New Programs has a ref to Bungalow. Bungalow has a Module called Bungalow which has a Public Function (clone_control()) From within 'New Programs' I can not access Clone_Control. However, if I drag (wihin the Solution Explorer) the Bungalow module from Bungalow to New Programs, then it works OK. I thought that adding a reference was like lett ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to link to the correct STL library when a third party dll is based on VC6?

  I have a third party dll targeted for VC6 and .net 2003. It worked well with my old MFC application. After it was migrated to VC 2005, it throws an exception of access violation whenever the stl string information in the object is accessed. Accessing other members of the object is OK. I guess it might be linked to the stl.net library instead of the old stl library that the dll is based on. Anyone knows what is the problem  and how it c ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Deployment, Load balancing, Instancing

  I've been reading the "Presenting WWF" book, and can't seem to get my head around the instancing and persistence model for a scalable, enterprise system. The book talks about how Sharepoint uses WWF persistence and events to essentially run workflows across a web farm. My question is how much of this is application code I have to write, and how much is in the WWF runtime For example, if I have a long running workflow on server A, and it ...Show All

• Windows Forms Inherited forms and the designer (again)

  Hi I've found many threads in this and other forms dealing with similar issues to my this, but none which provided what should be a simple answer. I have a form which inherits from a base form. In the constructor of the base form controls (typically lists) are populated with data. We're currently using firebird embedded database. The designer pops up with the familiar red message, and the following exception text: Unable to loa ...Show All

• Visual C++ CComboBox default message handling?

  I made a CComboBox in resource editor and added list of items separated with semicolons. When I run the application, clicking on the combo box doesn't make list box drop down, but only one horizontal line appears under the combo. How do I make CComboBox respond to clicking by dropping a list of items Thank you very much! :) Trifles like this can stun me in place so now I'm free to go further! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Installing TFS

  humor me here.... really this is installing "Time Consuming System" TCS uses a set of state of the art components that almost fit together ... but not quite. so every time you get 8 parts working the next one tells you it won't install due to some other part not beeing configured to the last nanometer of it's life.... so you go back and un install 7 parts, try to re-align the other one and then 5 installs later you ...Show All

• Windows Forms InvalidOperationException: Cannot call Invoke or InvokeAsync

  I have a tabcontrol that has several tab pages most tab pages contain a seperate datagrid.  The datagrids datasources are not set until runtime.  When closing the application and switching between tabs and moving between forms I recieve the followin ...Show All

• .NET Development C# oriented object programming - Collection of objects

  What will be the best for me as a C# programmer to use a list of object of the same type.. EXP: Object 1 = League.cs Object 2 = Teams.cs Should i use an ArrayList in my League object to store all teams that are refered to it what will be my best array here for me in .NET framework to use to store objects !! ** I dont have any third party software and i dont want to buy any of them.. because some people have said the arraylist can do the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFSDeleteProject/Add Project with Same Name in Beta 3

  Can you still not use TFSDeleteProject to delete a project in beta 3 and then add a project back with the same name that was just deleted   I tried it and received errors. Thanks There's a lingering bug in beta 3 that prevents the naming of a project with the same name as a deleted project.  The bug is scheduled to be fixed in the final release. ...Show All

• SQL Server Question on Integration of SSRS 2005 Graphs into Sharepoint

  I have been assigned to work on a dashboard (see jpg below) which will hook into our Intranet on SharePoint 2003.  I have a few questions as in teh approach and what is possible by creating charts through SSRS 2005 report(s): http://photopizzaz.biz/dashboard.jpg 1) what technique to use to show all 4 graphs simultaneously on the same page in SharePoint Webparts   Is WebParts the best way here to accomplish this 2) Ev ...Show All

• Visual C# !!! IF MICROSOFT HEAR US!!!

  I just saw another thread with "Can i make a app that doesnt use the .NET.  The framework is too big 23 MB".. SO... Can Microsoft create a .Net Framework just for c# not for asp or j# or visual basic providing only the neccesary dlls Please!!!! This makes me laught! You are kidding, right All the .NET Languages just create MSIL code, so the .NET Framework is allready only for 1 language. But please tell me, what is wrong with a 30 ...Show All

• Visual C++ how do I create .exe file?

  Hello everybody, I am very new to Visual Studio. I created a solution, and I can start it with " CRTL + F5 "-key. This means it is being compiled and then executed. Now I want to build an *.exe-file from it, which will be executed by a linking desktop icon for example. I tried many times to find this out, but couldn't. I use the Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition . I would be very happy if anybody could help me. Th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Disabling page caching

  I am using VSTS to run load tests on a web site. To test it i would like to disable page caching . Is there any way to do this in VSTS. Thanks in advance ! There is not an easy way to disable caching of dependent requests inside of a test iteration. If you have the % new user property in a loadtest set to 100, then each test iteration will fetch the dependent requests the first time the they are needed, but ...Show All

• Visual C# List the names of "folders and files" under a directory in a treeView control???

  List the names of "folders and files" under a directory in a treeView control    I can't think out the arithmetic, may be using recursion. Who could tell me the detailed method Yes, it's best done with recursion: 1. Read directory structure 2. Add Sub-directories and files as nodes to the treeview 3. Read Sub-directories in a loop. Read the name of each directory, go to step 1 (call function itself) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System ReportServer and missing System.XML

  I have finally made it. After couple of sleepless nights I managed to successfully install VSTS. I checked and all required services are running (Analysis, Reporting, SQL and SQL agent). I can open http://localhost/Reports , however I have an error when I try to open http://localhost/ReportServer . See the error below: Server Error in '/ReportServer' Application. Compilation Error Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a ...Show All