Paul Hackney's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ VC++ 2005 built times extremly long

  Hello together, i finished migrating one bigger project (400000 lines) to 2005. Compile times are extremly long about 3-4 times than with 2003. Also Intellisense needs to be switched of else the UI is just going around and playing all time with itself leaving the user watching the animation of the class browser flickering and the speed bar. Also the UI crashes often. Also sometimes the compiler or linker ends in nirvana, the UI do ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can I Create an Access DataBase Without Access?

  I don't own Access and this is for Learning Purposes.... Can I create an Access DataBase with my own Schema(I guess that's the word) with VBE or any Other Way I downloaded Northwind.... Can I change Northwind schema without Access Thanks   Hi ReneeC.... Referring to your Knowledge Base Application... May I ask Why you chose an Access Database  over an an SQL Server Express Database Thanks   ...Show All

• Visual Studio Propating targets from master to sub-builds

  Any real world product of any size that uses msbuild.exe (apart from the VS project systems) will end up with many .*proj files which get chained together using the MSBuild task. There must be some way to propagate specified targets from parent to child. I have seen some suggestions on doing this and they look absurdly combinatorial in approach. There has to be a simple way for a parent *.proj file to pass along the target list that it was in ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Infopath to Sharepoint

  What is the most straightforward way to take information from an Infopath form to a Sharepoint web part For example, if I save an Infopath form into a library, can I then create a Dataview from the XML I would prefer to do this to creating a .NET control. What is the recommended approach Thank you. Jim, It is helpful to remember that this forum is mainly for issues that directly pertain to the Vi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Force another key in datagrid?

  Hi, I extended dataGrid class and overided ProcessCmdKey(). Now i could trap any key press inside of the datagrid. The question is how could i force another key instead of the one which pressed. e.g. let say the Enter key pressed, i want to&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Setup.exe - A problem encountered while loading the setup components.

  Odd. Dialog err box with text "A problem encountered while loading the setup components - Cancelling setup" is returned when starting setup.  Searched Knowledgebase.  Other products have experienced: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;en-us;321393 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;en-us;294814 Is there a setup log which might contain details downloaded en_vs_2005_team_foundation_dvd_beta2 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Default from icon

  Anybody knows how to remove the default icon when you create a form while keeping the minimize box,maximize box... Thanks. Thanks for you reply and that is sure to be one way. However, we I looked at TaskVision sample application,I foun ...Show All

• Windows Forms Threading

  I've done some things with threading before, but this one is a little different. I have a class file that I access to ping a server, any server, whether with IP address, url, or intranet server name and all works fine.  All with a single click of a button. The server name is sent to the class via a textbox and a string is sent back with the server response - if any - or an error. I need to now set this up to continously to ping not ...Show All

• SQL Server SDF Creation on Desktop

  Hello, Was wondering if its possible with VS 2005 to create and populate a SQL Server Ce database on the desktop Reason why I'm asking is it takes a very long time (~40 minutes) to process xml and insert the values into the sdf database on the Pocket PC. I would assume it is much quicker to create the database and insert records on the desktop. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks Hi to all in this forum. have been involved i ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Logging the message body (s:Body)

  I've created a message inspector to log the body of the message. Been looking at some of the methods that are available, and the following looks promising: public string GetBodyAttribute( string localName, string ns); However, this method seems to be returning null all the time ( evenhough I've use the appropriate localName, and namespace) I've used Reflector to have a look at the implementation, and found out that this method will alwa ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do I print multiple lines using graphics.drawstring?

  I tried g.drawstring("test1", ...) g.drawstring(controlchars.NewLine, ...) g.drawstring("test2", ...) it prints on the same line. How do change line Thanks and Regards! i have found that using "\n" in a string does cause a newline to be printed ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Files saved to a CD unable to open

  I saved some files to a CD yesterday at work.  This morning I pop the CD in to work on the files and there is nothing there.  I checked it at work and the files were there.  If you pull up the properties it shows the disk to be full but says 0 files.  Is there some type of format that must be done in order to view the files on the disk.  Not sure if it matters but the file is a zip file. PLEASE HELP THIS IS VERY IM ...Show All

• SQL Server How to get the value of script of various SQLDMO(version 8.0) objects

  Hello, I am working on a project where I want to access and modify some objects of Microsoft SQL 2000 database. Would someone help me how to do this I need following informations; - Script of the checks of a table - Script of the Indexes of a table - Script of Key object(Primary or Forign key) - Script of Permissions of View and Stored procedure The following code returns no result; MyTabelClass mytabelClass = new MyTabelClass(); mytabelClas ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do I author an upgrade table for MSI files from the visual environement?

  I have created an add-on that should help making the Build process of some program highly automatic. There is a setup project in my solution, and my problem is, that when I install consecutive versions of my resulting MSI outputs, the newer one simply installs itself and completely disregards the previous one (it is set as a "major upgrade" i.e the version is incremented and both the PackageCode and ProductCode are re-generated - All of those ar ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Test framework in VS 2K5

  I've created several tests for one of my forms, via the "Create Tests..." menu in VS 2K5. Several of the tests that were created need to check the status or contents of controls on the form. Via the accessor object I am able to see all methods and property of the form's controls. For some reason when I try to reference any of these properties, for example a textbox's "text" property, I get an error. I've also noticed that form events do not fi ...Show All