JayneK's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Does .net 2003 Academic validate VS 2005 Pro Upgrade?

  Does .net 2003 Academic validate VS 2005 Pro Upgrade version What do you mean validate VS 2005 Pro upgrade i'm not sure what your question means. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Error Installing to RTM Version of VS2005

  I'm getting this error when attempting to install the GAT: "There was an error reading the manifest file for the GAT. The error is: Method not found: 'Void set_XsdValidate(Boolean)' Is there a version of GAT coming soon that works with the RTM bits BTW, how come there's no mention of this on this site anywhere At least I didn't see it. It would be nice if this site were updated/monitored at least a little better, just basic stuff like this woul ...Show All

• .NET Development How to make Microsoft Enterprise Library June 2005 June release work with VS2005 beta 2?

  How can I find the instructions in the Release notes which discuss how to make the Microsoft Enterprise Library June 2005 June release work with VS2005 beta 2 I'm using visual studio 2005 beta2 to open the Microsoft Enterprise Library June 2005. When I open the solution as follow "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Enterprise Library June 2005\QuickStarts\ExceptionHandling\CS\ExceptionHandlingWithLoggingQuickS tart.sln", the IDE throw an exception ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS July CTP + VSTS August CTP = error!

  Ok, so I eagerly installed the latest and greatest bits of VSTS - the August CTP.  Having read that Team Foundation Server won't be released until September I naturally assumed that the TFS June CTP would work with the VSTS August CTP.  WRONG! When I try to install the Team Foundation Client it generates an error when trying to install the .net framework and cannot proceed with the install. Am I doing something wrong or is this a known ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Using mySQL Database with Smart Device Application

  Hi everybody,     I like to ask anyone who knows how to use mySQL database with Smart Device Application (.Net Compact Framework). I know you need web service to connect to mySQl or other databases, but from web service to and fro pass data to Smart Device Application or OpenNetCF Application, how is it done Dataset is seems not supported in OpenNETCF application. Advamced Thanks. den2005   C ...Show All

• Windows Forms Help with Timer control

  I want to make my program wait half a second until it will continue and I don't know how can I do it. I managed to stop it for a second but I can't stop it for a shorter time. Please help Thanks vbasics and feline&nb ...Show All

• .NET Development Thread.Abort fixed for finally blocks?

  In .NET Framework 1.0 & 1.1, calling Thread.Abort on another thread could abort that thread while executing the "finally" part of a try/catch/finally block. That was rather nasty because it could lead to criticial resources not being released by the aborted thread. Now I see in the July CTP docs that this situation is documented as a possibility for 1.0 & 1.1 only. May be assume that this has been fixed in 2.0, and that all finally block ...Show All

• Windows Forms Event for Dynamically Created Controls

  Hi All, i have a form which creates the controls according to the no of records present in dataset  and then these are binded to the certain row of the table of the dataset and my code for this is  Sub createcontrols()        ...Show All

• Visual Studio Using SQL with VS .net 2003 Pro

  I am trying to link to the SQL pubs database that is specified in the VS walk through "Creating a Web Application Using VB".  When I come to the step "add and configure a data source" the Data Link Properties Window opens to the connection tab; step 1 "Select or enter a server name". I do not find any reference to my local computer in the drop down list. I did install the SQL component that comes with VS .net 2003 Pro. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF50612 Couldn't Remove Permissions for Group

  Hi, I can't remove a user from Team foundation Server Security Setting (Team -> Team Foundation Server Settings -> Security). I get: Couldn't Remove Permissions for Group TF50612: Failure creating access control entry, one of the specified actions don't exist Regards DDressel Could you provide some additional details such as the permission(s) you attempted to remove and the Team Foundati ...Show All

• .NET Development Noob question - why is my remote function call not working?

  OK, I've just started working with .Net remoting. I've made a couple of test scenarios which have worked where I can call a MessageBox from another application domain. (although I can't seem to get an HTTP connection request to work, but that's another question) I'm trying to set up a server-side user settings table which will (amongst other things) set up a client-side DataGridView with user-specific customizable columns. My remote call righ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What version of TFS is installed?

  Rather sheepishly admitting I've kind of lost track with which version of TFS I have installed it is definately either beta 3 or beta 3 refresh, could you tell me a way I could check Click Help/About Visual Studio, select "Team Explorer" and see what version is reported (it should be something like 8.0.50727.147). I don't know off hand which build number corresponds to which release, but if you pos ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Creating reports in Vb Express 2005

  Are there any type of reporting features in VB Express 2005   Tried Crystal 9.0 with no luck.  Any help appreciated. John Williams there is reporting services in SQL Server Express 2005, you can create reports but not using visual basic, you must download and use the visual web designer software, then you can create web reports. There is not functionality to create a report project in VB Express 05, onl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Validate arguments of public methods - need bad code

  Ok, so FxCop alerted me to some instances where I was not validating inputs. How can I pass a null object to test the error path in my code Everything is so type safe, I don't know how to pass a null reference (in this case a StringBuilder object) to my class. Nick, References to 'reference' types, such as String and StringBuilder, can be null, for example given the following methods: C#: public   int MyMe ...Show All

• Windows Forms Excuse can u make it clear

  Hi, I am creating a program that will contain a calendar within it.  I have added the Calendar 10.0 control to my Toolbox, but I cannot figure out how to extend the functionality of the conrol so that  the user can input events and&nb ...Show All