phygoris's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2 won't install

  The Visual Studio Express install fails when installing Framework 2.0 Does Framework 1.1 need to be uninstalled   No other beta or Visual Studio software has been loaded on the PC before...any ideas Anyone had something similar happen Thanks, Ron Thanks for your reply. I used "iisreset /stop" from the command line and the installation progressed satisfactorily. For those who like working with a minimalist development environment there is a version of Jeff Key's excellent Snippet Compiler available for C# 2005. ...Show All

• .NET Development publish feature stopped working

  2 days ago after months of it working, the publish feature has stopped.   Within Visual Studio I get the following in the output window. Error: The publish components are not available. You need to reinstall Visual Studio to publish your application. Well several repair and reinstalls later, the problem remains.  So I thought maybe the command line version will give more details on the underlying problem. Target GenerateBootstrapper:           C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50215\Microsoft.Common.targets(3249,9): error MSB4018: The "GenerateBootstrapper" task failed ...Show All

• SQL Server Workflow using SSIS?

  I know this is quite an open and large question but, would it be possible to use SSIS to implement workflow for an application. For example, take a document management application, if user X creates a order document then user Y needs authorize it. Or is this type of application workflow better implemented using SqlServer notification services I know I should read the BOL but I was just trying to do a quick poll see what you all thought. Any comments regards Graham ...Show All

• Windows Forms Forms display incorrectly in different resolutions

  I have an MDI application used by users using different screen resolutions.  On many of them my forms do not display properly (controls will overlap or shift to the left/right).  Are there any suggestions on how I can make the forms more resolution independant http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cptools/html/cpgrfWindowsFormsResourceEditorWinresexe.asp frame=true might be what y ...Show All

• Visual Basic Creating totals from imported data

  Hi, I have an access database linked to a data control and the relevant record source(s) called via SQL. Currently the data is output to a picture box and is selectable by date. What I am looking for is to select a range of items (all sales on the same date, all sales within a range of dates, that of monday through sundays date and also monthly) and show the total amounts for printing. (Sorry I'm having trouble thinking how to explain this!) Hi Mattneck, I think you'r looking for a way to filter some records by date for example: get me all records with date field between 1/12/2005 to 30/13/2005. ...Show All

• Visual C++ MFC project with WinXP style menus and toolbars?

  Hi. I asked this in a previous reply already, but the subject changed, and I wanted more people to see it. In VS2005, is it possible to create an MFC application that uses the WinXP sytle menus and toolbars   What I would like is the steps to create a new MFC project that when I build and run it, it displays with the same "look" as a VS2005 forms application. I've been directed to use the manifest through which I can make other MFC controls render in their new style (by using version 6 of ComCtl32.dll), but I can't get the menus or the toolbars to display in the WinXP style. Can someone point me to the the procedure for doin ...Show All

• Windows Forms Winforms PDF third party products

  Hi all, I've used abcpdf.net in the past to create pdfs on the fly from with in my web applications. I've used the http response object to stream byte arrays containing pdf data to IE and now now need to do a similar thing from with in a windows form. Does anyone have experience of doing this with abcPDF or any other third party tool I need to stream the data directly to the users window, and ensure that the pdf displayed has modal value that means the calling application can not be used until the pdf is closed. Any suggestions with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Butt3r5 ...Show All

• Visual C++ AfxMessageBox not working

  Hi, in Visual Studio 2005 I chose new project->c++->mfc. As Projecttype I chose Dialogbased. Now I have the problem, that following code does not work, that I put on the click event of the ok button: AfxMessageBox("test"); I get an error message that not all arguments could be parsed. But I found this code on MSDN just with an other text than "test". any ideas Look into the project settings and switch from unicode to MBCS. BTW: The best way is to support handle both using the T-char style. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Designer Preview

  Hi, how can I obtain the information, the current instance of a Control class is running in the Designer preview I didn't found a member that supplies me that information in the Compact Framework. Thank you! Yes, it's supported in CF 2.0. See the code below. bool designTime = false; if (this.Site != null) { designTime = this.Site.DesignMode; } // If "designTime" is true at this point // then you're in the designer. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Error while accessing value of the control

  Hi, I have two combobox filled with data in a window form. I also have one more window from in which I have declared two variables. Now my requirement is that how can we access selected value from the combobox in first form to the valiable declared into second form. How can we access selected value of the combobox from any place in the working application. If possibe please provide some example. Thank you Hi, I have used following code: dsYear = Some Provider.ExecuteDataSet(System.Data. CommandType .Text, "Select distinct trim_year from VehicleTrim" ); this .bindingSource1.D ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System accessing Work Items via the webservices

  Hi, I am trying to write java application that integrates with the Work Item service. Obviously I cannot use the Microsoft SDK as it provides .net api's. Has anybody tried to do this already ..if so do you have any tips or things I should be aware of Even some exaple code would be great! thanks I've never tried this with Java, but I do own the WorkItem Web Services piece so if you have any question on the methods or the parameters let me know. Sam ...Show All

• Visual C# HTML Pagination

  Hey All - I'm taking a datatable, converting it to XML, transforming that with an XSL file, and then sending the HTML string to a WebBrowser control in a local WinForms application. Is there a way, via the HTMLDocument class perhaps, to control the pagination of the document For example, after the table occupies a certain height, the table concludes, and a new table, containing the header of the first table, is inserted and continues displaying the data The goal is to maintain a specific, printable page size so that each page contains the table header. I couldn't find any information regarding such a procedure via XSL, CSS or Javascript ...Show All

• Visual Basic Status code of web request

  How do u determine status code of webrequest while using webrequest /webresponse or HTTpRequest or HTTPresponse objects. I am interested in status only of there is an error. What is correct way of catching errors. I used WebException in catch block but it has general error codes which won't give u http response status like 302 or 404. HTTPResponse has Status codes but in case of error webresponse or Httprequest returns nothing so we cannot use that. Webexception has Webresponse object while debugging it gives access to HTTpResponse.StatusCode but when I try to write code to convert webresponse object in WebException it gives me error. There ...Show All

• .NET Development Help With Vb.net 2005 MS Access UPDATE command

  I am making a program for my company. I am using a MS Access Database. The Table has 236 field, which i have just found out that the 'UPDATE' command only does 127 field. So can you make a query that only does so many of the table field and then another to do others in the table. I have tried but i get this error {"No value given for one or more required parameters."} Here is my code for the update. HcPhase2CompleteTableAdapter.UpdateCoverSheet(Row.Abstraction_ID, Row.Provider_ID, Row.UHC_Key_ID, Row.Member_ID, Row.Service_Date, Row.RDB_HMO_Location, Row.Provider_Name, Row.Provider_Address1, Row.Provider_Address2, Row. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Failed to connect the Team Foundation Server in VS2005

  I have followed the beta 3 installation guide (V50926.chm) to setup the following in ONE machine 1) Windows 2003 Std edt with SP1 2) Setup IIS 6.0 3) SQL server 2005 Std edt Sept CTP 4) SharePoint service with SP2 5) Team Foundation server Beta 3 in single-server mode including the TF Build and TFS proxy 6) Setup the VS 2005 RC version 7) Setup the MS Office 2003 and MS Office Prof 2003 8) Setup the Team Explorer Everything installed fine...but when I start the VS2005 and click Tool > Connect to Team Foundation Server Immediately an error windows appeared "The request failed with HTTP status 503: Service unavailable " Any hints for ...Show All