bpfh's Q&A profile

• Audio and Video Development Great news, looking forward to make authoring tool

  I am glad MS got involved in HD DVD as this is the technology that is based on already proven and decade tested DVD technology. I am looking forward to start making a HD authoring software once these things get some legs (like a way to play the iHD :-). (I am the author of DVD-lab PRO from www.mediachance.com ) Thanks to the iHD developers at MS to push HD DVD. It certainly did help to speed up the HD-DVD when MS got involved! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Alter Name of Solution

  I have a solution template that creates a simple solution. I ask the user for the name of the solution in a wizard. (using ProjectName argument). If the user changes this value, the solution is created with the original file name, regardless of user's wishes. What are the options of overwriting the orginal file name after the wizard has collected the new name You can simply use: <ProjectTemplateLink Project ...Show All

• Windows Forms Customize built in components, how?

  I checked that out and it does seem more like what I want. I have been trying to learn as much as possible and I think I might need to re-phrase my entire first post. What I think I'm really trying to figure out at this point is how to customize the look of the built in components. For example, I need to have a tabbed MDI. I could create it all with Panels, but I'd have to code the logic for all of the switching. I'd rather take advantage of ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to know parameters type and return type

  Hi, I need to know : 1) if a method has only one parameter and is a class, and the kind of type this method returns 2) if a method uses the command "command" 3) if a method has only basic types parameters and returns a class 4) if a method has no parameters and returns an arraylist 5) How to search inside the assembly code some words, like: I need to know if some dalc classes and their methods are calling only procedures of an especific kind. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Macro, DTE Events for file moved

  In Macros, is it possible to get an event when a file is moved from one project folder to another For example, I have the class1.cs file in my project main folder, I create a new folder in my project and move the class1.cs file thru the IDE in that new folder. I tried the ProjectItems (added/renamed/removed) events and about any other events in the EnvDTE namespace, but haven't found any that detects this. Using VS2005 of course. ...Show All

• SQL Server Index on bit fields in SQL Server Management Studio

  I noticed that I can put a bit field in an index in a SQL Server 2000 database, while using the SQL Server Management Studio (shipped with SQL Server 2005). In SQL Enterprise Manager this wasn't possible. Does SQL Server 2000 support indexes on bit fields and doesn't Enterprise Manager support it, or doesn't SQL Server 2000 support indexes on bit fields and is it a 'bug' of the SQL Server Management Studio Thanks. ...Show All

• .NET Development Web Server and Windows Media Center

  I don't know if this is the right place to ask for this, but since is a forum for web services here it goes: I am thinking of upgrading to Windows XP Media Center Edition but i don't know if this would allow me to develop ASP.Net applications using VB and C#. I know that with XP Home Edition this is not possible, so i am wondering, should i stay with XP Pro ...Show All

• Visual Basic dynamic help window

  I've been using vs 2005 for quite a while.  I just noticed that the dynamic help window has disappeared.  I looked at the view menu.  It wasn't there.  I searched the msdn vs 2005 help file, and didn't get any help. How do I open the dynamic help window   dennist685 The dynamic help window is not included in VBExpress. See http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1 ...Show All

• SQL Server Run SSIS Package problem when using SQL Agent

       Maybe someone else has asked similar question. But I still can't solve my problem after looking some threads in this forum.      The package runs fine through VS 2005. After imported into MSDB, it still does well when I start it in  Integration  service directly. But the packgae never achieved under SQL Agent.       ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System ADAM Error on Installation

  Hi, I could not ever install the ctp version of foundation server. Finally on beta 2, i thought my woes would be over... Far from it Now it stops at the ADAM install itself. I did exactly as the installation guide said.. fresh machine..  it completes the step 1 starts the step 2 and then it says there has been an error.. now no info on what the error is all abt.  I chkd the known issues and it mentioned abt the TMP variable spaces... ...Show All

• .NET Development How to apply WordML.xslt to DataOnly.xml programmatically?

  Hello, I have a typical requirement for which I could not find any related examples on internet. I would like to programmatically(.NET or VSTO with C#) load xml data and apply XSLT to create a word 2003 document. Here what I do: User provides me a formatted word template (Original.doc with placeholders which my application should fill in and save as separate document). I attach MyXsd.xsd document to it a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions .NET Runtime 2.0 Error

  Hi, please help, I have visual basic express beta 2 and .net 2.0 What I have written appears to work fine. It may run fine for an hour or 2, then some of the common controls on the main form appear to behave strangely. EG: three combo boxes, the actual drop down arrow turned in a number 6 on all three. Then the program terminates, with the following error. Event Type: Error Event Source: .NET Runtime 2.0 Error Reporting Event Category: ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WWF Performance issues

  I am doing some timing measurements to figure out whether we can use WWF for orchastrating code within our project. Here are some of the numbers I am getting and questions associated with them: 1. For a workflow with about 5-6 activities including a parallel activity and several code activities, the time to create the workflow the first time is more than 300 millisecs (328, 359, etc). All subsequent times it takes about 15 millisecs. What i ...Show All

• SQL Server Null and Multi-value parameter possible?

  Does anyone know how to allow null values in a multi-value parameter The parameter is passed to a stored procedure which handles the null values. The parameter represents a hierarchy in which none, any or all values can be selected. However, the report parameters cannot be setup to be both Multi-value and Allow Null. When I try to submit the report it requires a value to be selected. I have also tried to add a Null value to the parameter list: S ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Urgent: Beta3 to Beta3 Refresh Backup and Restore Help

  We had Beta 3. In the upgrade to Beta 3 Refresh we had some problems. We rebuilt the server after backing up all SQL databases. We now have Beta 3 Refresh on the single-server server - completely rebuilt. We are about to do a restore of the database when we thought the database structure may have changed between the two versions or the stored procedures or whatever might have changed. What process should we follow to restore our d ...Show All