sgtpazo's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WPF and DirectX and what's possible

  I'm curious if anyone has a link detailing exactly what you can and cannot do in WPF vs DirectX. For example: If WPF is a thin wrapper over DirectX and I don't find what I'm looking for, will I be able to access the DirectX COM interface and get access to what I need and: I assume shaders aren't supported in WPF, so again, will I be able to hook up the plumbing for shaders, or will WPF have the same fate as the fixed-function pipeline (Where th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unlock bug ?? TF10152 The Item <> must remain locked ...

  I did a recursive lock of an entire source (yikes that took so long I killed the console window).  In order to unlock everything I did the same thing again except that I used the /lock:none switch.  But I get a bunch of errors like these: TF10152: The item $/TestCmmiTemplate/Trunk/WWW/default.gif must remain locked because its file type prevents multiple check-outs. Now we added GIF as a file type that doesn't allow multiple check ...Show All

• Visual C# How do you REMOVE or DELETE Items from Recent Projects list in VS2005 RC?

  I have been testing  VS2005 RC and as a result, I have built many applications. Most I am no longer interested in or use and would like to DELETE them from the RECENT Projects list, but I dont see how ! I have been achieving this by manualy deleting the project from IIS, but there's got to be a better way ! Any ideas cheers, yousaid Really, you shouldn't need to, but there is a way. If you continue to use V ...Show All

• Windows Forms Textbox as "a required entry" using triangle mark in its right bottom corner

  Hi, anybody help me, please I want create a Textbox which inherits System.Windows.Forms.Textbox but have the ability to indicate that the Textbox is a "required field entry" by giving triangle mark at its right bottom corner. A boolean Required property can be added, allright, but my problem is how to draw the triangle mark when user set the Required property to true Inheriting from System.Windows.Forms.Textbox is another one I needed, because I ...Show All

• Windows Forms Who ate my exception?

  My business entity class, containing properties with validation, is databound to a form. If I try to set customer number to an not cdv-valid number my entity class throws an exception. My form then behavies like I want it to, almost. It refuses to leave the current control until it is valid. But something ate my exception. My exception containing an explanation that the property is not cdv-valid is gone. I've tried to find a property to set on t ...Show All

• SQL Server Programatically Evaluating SSIS Expression

  Is there an object in the DTS object model that will allow me to evaluate an SSIS expression   I am trying to build a custom task that will require re-evaluation of an expression multiple times within the execute method and I can't seem to find a way to do this. Thanks, Adam I have logged a bug to document and publicly expose this, but it was on Beta Place, so if someone wants to do the Product Feedback ...Show All

• SQL Server how to convert ms access queries into sql server procedure

  hi folks is there any way or batch process written by some one to convert ms acces queries into sql server procedure thanks in advance Normally this isn’t a wizard thing, you have to invest some time to convert this. Although there are support packages of third parties, even these can’t solve the whole process of migrating Access to SQL Server. HTH, jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB Application Settings

  Im trying to build a program that runs on a database.  I have tryed everything i can think of to change my connection string at runtime.  What i want to do is enable a user to select a local SQL server that containes a copy of my database, and save it to the application settings.  i keep getting a read only message when i try to change the app settings connectionstring setting.  im not sure if i worded that right, if you need ...Show All

• Visual Basic Using and deploying DLL files without having to register it under Windows : is it possible ?

  Hello everybody. I'm a new member of this forum and I ealready have an imoprtant question. I wanna know if it's possible to create and deploy under Visual Studio 6.0 (VB6) or .NET (7.0 or 7.1) library files (dll) that I could use without registering it.... The goal is to be able to run any application using this library whatever the access rights to the register base of Windows... Thank you for your supports !!! Thank you Ken f ...Show All

• Visual Basic Inserting Sub-procedures into Module's ?

  Hello all, I am new to Programming, Visual Basic and Visual Studio and have a general question about Modules. I want to send data out my serial port and was wondering if I could insert code to access the port into a moduel so that it would be accessable to various "Button_Click" events with-in the Windows program I am writing. From reading I understand that when I insert varibles or Sub-procedures into a module it is accessabl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Web Setup, where there is no IDE in the build server.

  Hi, How can I make the Team Build to produce Web Setup (MSI) where there is no Visual Studio IDE in the build server Thanks, Visagan. You might look into using WIX - http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=467321&SiteID=1 . Also - there are already a lot of posts on this forum regarding creating MSIs using both Devenv and WIX, so you might tright searching for "MSI" or ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions MSDN Express - Direct Access

  Is there any way to open MSDN Express without going through Help Ideally I would like to open it from a shortcut on my desktop. Any ideas Cheers. I can run C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Help\dexplore.exe and it will load up the MSDN express documentation. ...Show All

• Visual Basic OTP: How to automate "Importing a xsd header structure of an xsd into excel sheet using VB 6.0"

  Creating dynamic maps should also help.Please send the information to gladsays@hotmail.com . I"m sorry, but VB6 support has ended, and VB6 questions are off topic in this forum. I would certainly recommend moving to VB.NEt if you have the option, otherwise you can try sites like www.vbcity.com and www.codeproject.com . ...Show All

• Visual C# Why is Generic.List<T> not ICloneable?

  I'm definitely missing here something. What was the reason not to implement ICloneable on the generic list Is it supposed to use ToArray() if I need a List with the same elements (value or reference types) Ok. It was stated that I should use copy constructors (as far as I understand - constructor with ICollection in my case). http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=5836&SiteID=1 Are ther ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions SQL Server Installation Problem

  i m trying to install Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 from CD but it gives error "windows can not find "ie4setup.exe" file but its working on other computers whts problem.thnx The forum here is for the 2005 Express products, you will need to follow the community links from the SQL Server Developer Centre . For the Public newsgroups for SQL Server 7 I would try this link . ...Show All