Doug Nelson's Q&A profile

• Visual J# Deploying Windows Appication in J#

  Hi, I'm looking to deploy my windows app. in J# and I'm using the msdn library's "Deploying a Windows Application" walkthrough ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/k3bb4tfd(VS.80).aspx ) to help me do so. Not sure if this is the right path to travel, but I'm just looking for the basics. I'm looking for the equivalent J# code for the following command that launches Notepad.exe and gives it focus: Shell("Notepad.e ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Serial ports, Bytes, Hex reading and writing, ASCII control characters.

  Hopefully the subject line will help other people doing a search to find some answers! I've been struggling for a bit to write simple bytes to a serial device which then returns an acknowledgement of 7 bytes. My aim was to run a program under windows which when I clicked a button would send some bytes of data, the serial device would then send an acknowledgement back to the user. For some reason after a while I selected VB Express. As i ...Show All

• .NET Development List.RemoveAt(int index) returns void??

  Would it have really hurt to return the value that is being removed   I mean, if you don't need it then just don't capture the return value.  If I want to drain a list from the head then I have to write goofy code like this: List< int > primes = new List< int >(); int nextPrime = candidates[0]; candidates.RemoveAt(0); primes.Add(nextPrime);   this was what I was expecting to be able to do: List< int > ...Show All

• .NET Development System.Configuration and extensible configurations

  Hi there, I am developing an application that needs to provide an extensible architecture so that new functionality can be added using plug-ins.  This is fairly simple using .NET 2.0.  The problem I'm having is providing an extensible configuration model that works with .NET 2.0's System.Configuration namespace. An example of what I'm doing for configuration follows: <stuff_to_do>      <task typ ...Show All

• Visual C++ Im new, need overview

  Hey, ive just joined the network, i stated using visual studio 6 c++ , and began learning the basics like the beginners hello world console application and learning basic structure on coding. then my firend told me to scrap VS6c++ and use the Visual Studio c++ express 2005, and the compiler doesnt understand c++ coding, so i type in the basics to just recap, //blah blah #include <iostream.h> int main() {   //blah blah ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) FlowDocument rendering questions

  If I want to render a FlowDocument to an irregular area what are the best approaches I would like to be able to render a flow document to a series of rectangles that are not arranged in Y linear order. Basically, allow free-form page layout with content flowing from one place on the page to the next. Can this be done with any existing control While FlowDocument supports columns and floaters and such to do simple page layout, is that all there ...Show All

• Visual Studio PLK request denied!

  Hi there, I hope someone from MS can give me a solution about that follows. I went to the partner website to reuest PLKs. After my request had been accepted and the PLK was given to me, I found I had writen a wrong company name. Then I tried to edit the profile to modify my company name.But it seemed I'm not allowed to do so. So, I went to obtain a new account and filled in th right company information. Yesterday, I requested the PLK ag ...Show All

• SQL Server failure in starting the process for the user instance

  High everybody, I have a set of winforms (.NET 2.0 assemblies) ( 6 total ) that each tries to open a connection to the same Database file using the same connection string. In the connection string, UserInstance is set to true. If each winform is started manually after opening the session on the computer, the connection to the database performs well for every winform. If the same winforms are automatically started at the opening of the u ...Show All

• Windows Forms Why can't I hide a form in it's load event

  Hi I have a feeling that calling me.hide() in a forms load event doesn't work due to threads because when i use a timer to call it from the load event it  works. Can someone please give me a detailed reason why thanks in advance ...Show All

• SQL Server After Install of 2005 still 2000 Engine!

  I have installed the new SQL Server 2005, but I see my local database as version 8.9.193, means SQL Server 2000. I do not know why setup did not upgrade it. What do I need to do now  I think some new options are now working because of that... Was your SQL Server 2005 installation successful   And did you do an upgrade, or a separate instance installation   Check to see if you have a second instance of sql server runn ...Show All

• Visual Studio 13 tries & still no luck.

  wow, ive been trying to install vb express beta 2 now for over a month, with no luck.  i have read every post related to installation problems, and still havent found any usefull information.  heres my problem,  I uninstalled beta1 according to the guidlines. I installed beta2 , and now when ever i try to start the program, it errors out. I have uninstalled, and re-installed beta about 13 times now, still with the same result. i ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem With AppDomain.Unload() in Remoting scenario

  Hi to all able programmers here, I have the problem with AppDomain.Unload() method. It throws me the following exception: System.CannotUnloadAppDomainException: AppDomain can not be unloaded because the thread a64 can not be unwound out of it. Please somebody gives me some help to figure out this. Any help will be deeply appreciated. Best Regards Hi c#Coder, AppDomain.Unload() does something of ...Show All

• Visual Studio property pages combobox

  I'm using MPF and want to display one property of the project (of my project system) as combobox (not just editable string in the grid). How can I do that The document at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/usingpropgrid.asp is a good start for learning how to manipulate how items are shown within the properties grid. Craig ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. to David Weller and tom miller

  Hello . Please fix before xmas Microsoft.DirectX.DirectInput;  Version beta 2 december 2005   no mouse or keyboard support SystemGuid.Keyboard or SystemGuid.Mouse SystemGuid is gone. We have to release a sdk for game engine cos money problem it is hard to wait 4 month with no income in the firm and 4 peoble on the payrool we have been programing for allmost 1 year now prepering for net framework 2.0 of directx and mobile directx ...Show All

• Visual Studio How do I create an application.extension.config file using MSBuild?

  Hi, I'm using MSBuild to build an executable program (exe) from VB.net source code. How do I get MSBuild to output an ApplicationName.exe.config file Thanks, Damian MSBuild does not generate .CONFIG files on its own.  The only thing it can do for you is copy an existing .CONFIG file from your project to the final bin directory.  So, if you have a file in your project called "APP.CONFIG", then MSBuild will copy this file ...Show All