squeakstar's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Hotkeys in .NET CF

  I want to setup hot keys in .NET CF as the device I'm using has a keyboard.  Any tips/recommendations to deal with hotkeys in .NET CF Figure this would be useful for anyone writing .NET CF apps as it'll speed up UI. Thanks, Jeff. Hello! If you want i can send you a dll to intercept pda hotKey! Wavemill ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite

  Hi I have installed Visual Studio 2005 Team suite , But I can't find team foundation server with this edition , While it must have team foundation server workgroup edition with Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite ....What should I do --thnx Hi You are my last hope. I had enough onlline chat with one of the tecnical representitive of the Microsoft. Here are some details about my company's status : "W ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Modifying Work Item Fields

  I presume it is bad practice modifying work item type fields isn't it What I want to do is increase the number of Priority values available in the Bug work item. I see from WITExport that Priority is of type Microsoft.VSTS.Common. Priority . If I wanted to say give 10 values for priority (1 to 10!!) should I change the field type to one of my own i.e. MyCompany.Priority, or am I safe to just add more LISTITEM elements to the existing one T ...Show All

• Windows Forms Design time on mouse over event?

  What would the simplest way be to make a custom draw control highlight a specific area when pointing at that area with the mouse in design time do i have to override the wndproc of the control or of the designer or is there any better&nb ...Show All

• Visual J# java.nio not supported

  Hi, I am trying to migrate my java code into j# but I found that java.nio is not supported in J# 2005 beta. Is there any replacement for this big class. Thanks Steven J# is not Java, most of the functionality in the nio are available in the .NET Framework, plus other functionality.  The issue here is that J# is a language that Java folks can use, it is not intended to be Java.  Although I really like ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to Package the .net framework with the EXE for smartphones

  Dear All, I have to deploy my smartphone magneto application in to smartphone. How do I create the package for .net framework along with exe so that it could be installed and run on the target machine. I am using .net 2005 on my XP machine. Thanx Hi Amarender, Are you interested in using ActiveSync to deploy your application   If so, you can follow this page on MSDN might be helpful : http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnpp ...Show All

• SQL Server inserted/deleted tables

  Does the data in the rows in the inserted and deleted tables always  correspond   For instance, row 1 in inserted corresponds with row 1 in deleted. Thanks, It is possible to update the unique key for multiple rows in a table. In that case, there is nothing to correlate the rows in "inserted" to the rows in "deleted" other than the order in which they are returned by a select s ...Show All

• Visual C++ Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003

  I have buid *.c very well. But i have problem, I want export result(error, warnning or result) to text file. Can i do it If it can not, Do you have other resolution Please answer me soon, so i need it. Thanks my email : chonhoi2304@yahoo.com One way is to compile through the command line and redirect the output to a file: e.g.: cl sample.c > a.txt Thanks, Ayman shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• .NET Development RAS and "Which COM Port"

  Hello All, Please let me apologize if I am posting on the wrong forum. Is there a parameter/field in RAS/RASEntry which will tell you which "COM Port" for a particular DeviceName(szDeviceName) If not, how do I find out which "COM Port" is szDeviceName using Thank you in advance. ...Show All

• SQL Server AutoClose

  How do you set the AutoClose property of a SQLExpress db Also, can the user instance timeout property be set at the database level too to make for easier application distribution. Is there any downside to turning off AutoClose in order to speed up the initial startup times after a period of inactivity. Hello Jens, thank you very much for your answer. Ok, safest way is detach or use backup. > No the da ...Show All

• Smart Device Development CF 2.0 and VS 2003

  Hi, Is it possible to use compact .NET 2.0 framework with Visual Studio 2003 If so, where can I find information on how to setup VS 2003 to use CF 2.0 Thanks, Brian No, it's not possible. You need VS 2005 SE or above. VS 2005 SE is just $300 and it works side by side with VS 2003. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Is vc++ 6.0 good

  i bought a book on vc++6.0.can i build powerful software applications with that.what is the difference between the vc++6.0 and vc++ 2005.what is the latest released version Well... you could use VC++ 6.0 but that's too old really. VC++ 6.0 was released about 8 years ago and I'd say that the quality of the C++ compiler and the IDE itself improved a bit since then . Not to mention that there is a free version of VC++ 2005 called "Expr ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to add a custom dialog for properties?

  Is there a way to define a property that would fire a custom dialog instead of being a string, int or enumeration For example, I define a property "Item References" and when I select this property I have this little (...) button on which I can click to fire a dialog that will guide the user setting the actual value (e.g. filling a combox box with names of all domain classes that exist in the model). I believe this thread http://forum ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Visual studio locking up when doing TFS stuff.

  Hi, I am wondering if anyones else is having a similar problem as me. It seems at certain times when I do various actions (getting latest code, checking in something) the action completes and then Visual Studio locks up to the point where I have to kill the devenv.exe from the task list. It has happened to me quite a few times now. I am running the VPC image for the server and have installed the TFC from the en_vs_2005_tfs_trial.iso file. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Web file existist

  Hi, I'm building a small program which displays images that are downloaded from a website during runtime. My question is: How do you determine whether a file exists on the web (i.e. check to see if a .gif file exisist at a URL e.g. "http://www.somedomain.com/someimagename.gif") Really the only way to determine if the file is there is to request it and check the status code you get back and/or ...Show All