BrianNoyes's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Preventing a Null

  Hello Folks, This is my first post, so please forgive me any mistakes. I have a form I have connected to a menu that allows the user to add color names that appear in a combo box on the main form. All works well. If the user tries to add a new record and save it, alas an error. I expect that because the two fields in the DB are set to "Do not allow Nulls." I want to build in some error checking so that when the user tries to save nothing (Null), a message box appears and allows them to correct the mistake. Anyone got any pointers for me Remember, I am very new to programming and this answer is probably stari ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to associate file types with program?

  I'm creating a small windows app in which I have a cusom file extension that I'm using to save/open the files.  I was wondering how you associate a file type with a particular program.  Is this done through the setup, somewhere in the registry   Any help would be beneficial! Thanks, Matt Hawley ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Where is CustomAction.targets in Beta3?

  I want to migrate the target/tasks we use to have in between the different build "steps" (defined in CustomAction.targets) in Beta2 to Beta3. But Beta3 doesn't seem to create a CustomAction.targets file to customize this. Is this in a different file now Thanks, Pablo Here is a blog that helps you upgrade from beta2 to beta3 automatically - http://blogs.msdn.com/manishagarwal/archive/2005/09/21/472229.aspx ...Show All

• Windows Forms Auto Generated Columns

  This feature of the DataGridView is really starting to piss me off, I optimize the positioning, labels and other aspects of my DataGridView, run it to make sure everything is ok, and when I come back to it the thing has added back 20 new unformatted columns that are exactly the same as the ones I already had. How can I disable this 'feature' DataGridView.AutoGenerateColumns = False ...Show All

• Visual Studio Basics

  Hi, I'm relatively new to VB.net and VSS and I'm writing a little ap which will copy a load of files across from a network share using xcopy, in vb.net, everything fine there. But in order to make the app being copied work on the enviroment being copied to I need to extract a particular file from source safe. I'm haivng problems using the vss API to extract the file and I don't seem to be able to find any source code or tutorials on how to do this. Can anyone point me in the directly of info regarding connecting to the vss db and extracting the file...if that is indeed the way you go about it Many thanks See http://msdn2.microsoft.com ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions WebBrowser object question - hover target

  How can I get the target url of a hyperlink when the cursor hovers over it I'd like to display that info in a status bar on my form, like IE does. I know the WebBrowser object is aware of the hyperlinks, because the cursor changes to a hand when it hovers over them. I just don't know how to get the embedded url. Thanks... In the event handler StatusTextChanged and read the StatusMessage property. It will throw out other things like Done which can be handled in the following example: Private Sub wb_StatusTextChanged( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles wb.StatusTextChang ...Show All

• Visual Basic Icons in Toolbox out to Lunch

  I don't know if this has been posted (I looked through a few pages and coudn't see any mention of it). Has anyone else ran into where the icons in the toolbox for: BackgroundWorker BindingNavigator BindingSource Button CheckBox are all represented by the same icon - a checkbox icon Is there a way to customize these if this is a 'feature' ............ also, is there a way to stop losing all the items on your form when Vbasic repaints the screen after editting something in the menus Yes this is happening to me too - in fact lots of the icons have been replaced, I can't say ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Launching an application from my Add-In (sometimes Word)

  Hi; I need to launch an application from within my Add-In (it's a Word Add-In). 1a. When I launch Word, I get the MessageBox "You cannot close Microsoft Office Word because a dialog box is open.\nClick OK, switch to Word, and then close the dialog box." 1b. When I click OK, I then have two instances of Word, but the one I launched is under the one I launched from (want it over). 2. When I launch another app (like IE), it comes up under Word. I want it over Word. How can I fix the above thanks - dave Dave It'd be helpful if you could attach at least a psudo code sequence of the steps you're going through, as we're s ...Show All

• SQL Server Need Advise on SQL Express with Advanced Services

  Hi Guys, Need some advice on the free SQL Express with Advanced Services provided. I plan to develop a small departmental multi-user applications with 5 to 6 simultaneous users using the free SQL Express with Advanced Services with VB.net and stored procedures on a local area network. Is it a good choice to use this free SQL Express with Advanced Services or is it more advisable to purchase a standard version Appreciate if someone could help me to address this issue One more thing, can i install the free SQL Express with Advanced Services on a normal desktop with Windows XP SP 2 and utilize it as a server or do i need a prope ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System team build of C# and C++ projects

  Hi, I am working on managed code projects written in C# and C++. Now, iam trying to build using Team build. It seems its not possible to build them with one buildtype because platform settings. Is there any possible solution Thanks in advance. Yes, you can build them in one build type. Use "Mixed Platforms" as the platform. Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error with getting associate workitem after customizing team build to get version on specific workspace

  Hi I customize my team build to build on specific workspace ; I have done it by edit my TFSBuild.proj file and include there my new target . My workspace is : SHMULIK And the owner is : shmoel < Target Name = " CoreGet " Condition = " '$( IsDesktopBuild)'!='true ' " DependsOnTargets = " $( CoreGetDependsOn ) " > < Get Condition = " '$( SkipGet)'!='true ' " Workspace = " $( WorkspaceName ) " Recursive = " $( Rec ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Exception LoadTestException

  Hi,   I create new load test with web test inside it. I use Step Load Pattern. When I first start the test project I got this error: Exception LoadTestException 10 Could not find dependent counter needed to apply threshold rule: \\VPCVSTS\LoadTest:Page\Avg . Page Time(_Total)  Any idea why do I get this error   Thanks, Martin     slumley MSFT wrote: Check out this post. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=88641&SiteID=1 Thanks, Martin ...Show All

• Windows Forms Controls Gone!!

  I have no idea what just happened.  I was adding items to my menu through the designer, I then got a message that said something about the Items in the collection..blah blah...with an OK button.  I clicked the button and then to much my dismay, all of the menus I created are gone as well as the statusbar at the bottom my window. All if the controls are in the designer.vb file and I have tried rebuilding, closing everything, opening, deleteing the bin and obj files and rebuilding again but they don't come back.  I tried deleting them out of the designer file so that I could add them back manually but it tells me that the contro ...Show All

• .NET Development Very slow debugging

  I have the 2.0 framework on one computer and haven't tested it anywhere else, but I'm experiencing very slow debugging. I have a Windows Form app with about 60 classes/forms. Sometimes after making a few character change in code it takes 30 seconds before I can continue in the editor. Opening a form with a lot of controls on it can take almost a minute. The hard-drive runs almost continuously during these "wait" times. The computer is a 3.2GH P4 with has 2GB RAM and 700GB (fast) disk. I know that the 2.0 editor does a lot more work than the 1.1 editor did, but the wasted time during coding is very PAINFUL - anyone else having these ...Show All

• Windows Forms Install MSDE as a part of setup?

  Hi, I need to install MSDE as a part of setup of my application. Setup must check if MSDE/SQL server are installed on local PC. If yes, setup must skip intalling of MSDE, otherwise it will instal MSDE in the background. How to do that Thank's Alexei Hi, I have found another way to check if SQL/MSDE is installed on computer. This can be done by ODBC. There is a code: [DllImport("odbc32.dll")] private static extern short SQLAllocHandle( short hType, IntPtr inputHandle, out IntPtr outputHandle); [DllImport("odbc32.dll")] private static extern short SQLSetEnvAttr(IntPtr henv, int attribute, IntPtr value ...Show All