Travis Lowdermilk's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums Presence

  Any news yet on presence information Yahoo and aol have had this for a long time and MSN is currently the one that is preventing us from launching a presence indicator on our collaborative community. Thanks for any info. ...Show All

• SQL Server Virtual Cube Migration

  What are best practices around virtual cube migration When the cube was migrated, it became a physical cube with linked measure groups. However, when I try and add a dimension to the cube, and edit the granularity within the Dimension Structure tab, I get this. Regular relationships in the current database between non-linked (local) dimensions and linked measure groups cannot be edited. These relationships can only be created through the w ...Show All

• Visual C# Use of classes in windows c# programming

  I'd like to ask some experienced developers what way of using classes in windows application they prefer. If you prefer to have one class for main windows form and other classes for application logic and functions and how are objects of these classes communicating . If I had class for main form and other one for some program functions, how can I change the look of windows form from some functions like adding items to listbox Do I need to pa ...Show All

• Windows Forms 2 Questions about databases in .NET

  Hi, I have 2 questions about databases in VS.NET. 1) How can I add text I typed in a textbox in a database ex: I type in txtname George, and how can I add George to the column Name in my database 2) How can I print my entire form (layout and filled in textboxes) I've made a connection to my database, I have a dataset & an OLEDB DataAdapter for the Costumersdatabase. Please help... Hi, 1.Below link should help you add text from a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Creating custom project

  I am trying to create a new project type in the visual studio .NET 2005.There is 28 step method is given for creation of the custom project. At one of the step it is talking about a dll microsoft.visualstudio.package.project. This dll is not available in the vsip. We have downloaded the visual studio 2005 SDK & installed. Please provide simple steps for the creation of the project type. Example of the code will also be helpfull. Th ...Show All

• .NET Development Automatically detect a CD and read CD contents

  Hello all, I am trying to make a module which will do two jobs: 1. Automatically runs when a CD is inserted into the cd rom drive. 2.copies the contents on CD to any location on hard disk. I am usng C#.net 2003. Anyone please help me! Thanks I got this working in a C# Windows app.  However, the A: drive keeps spinning. The documentation states that one shouldn't set the WithinInternval if you provide a Event Handl ...Show All

• Windows Forms Unable to copy a custom control in the designer

  I've created a custom control, but when I copy it (Ctr-C or context menu), I get an "Object reference not set to the instance of an object" error.  When debugging, I find that the call stack looks like this: > System.Design.dll!System.Windows.Forms.Design.CommandSet.CommandSetItem.Invoke() + 0xbe bytes    System.dll!System.ComponentModel.Design.MenuCommand.Invoke(object arg) + 0x5 bytes    Microsoft. ...Show All

• Visual C# C# & COM Interoperability

  I'm beginer in COM, but write some projects in C#. I have a Windows Service, COM object written on C# and 2 or more VBScripts to communicate with COM object. Situation: En example: VBScript 1 make some operation with COM-object but if I start new VBScript 2 - it create it's own example of COM class and make operations with it. Question: How can I use both VBScripts with the same instance of COM-class The data from COM class (specifie ...Show All

• Visual Studio Swapping Group Order

  Hello All, I am using SSRS 2005 and have created a client side report. After I had completed (or at least I thought it was complete) the report, I realized I was missing a group. I went and added the group, but now I can not move the group above the other groups. I have tried setting the parent groups on all the groups, but it dows not change the group order. Is there any way to swap or change the group order if so how thank you, ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. some code

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• Visual Studio Team System Problems found when install TFS on a AD domain controller

  I install TFS on a Windows 2003 Active Directory Domain Controller, using Single-Server depolyment mode. Everything seems ok during the installation, but after that, when I open the event log, some error appear found : Volume Shadow Copy services could not start, the error code is 0x8000FFFF. Does anyone encounter the same problem How to solve this Thanks! I see many people are having trouble installing Team System in a single machine. Eve ...Show All

• Windows Forms data format

  Hi, I am beginner in Visual C# and I have a question;  I make a data form with wizard and I want change the data format in textbox : exemple : 0.19 I want to show 19%  the number is from access database thank you  ...Show All

• SQL Server Communications to the remote server instance failed before database mirroring was fully started

  command in principal server ALTER DATABASE database name SET PARTNER = 'TCP://<mirror_server_name>:5022' return: Msg 1413, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Communications to the remote server instance 'TCP://<mirror_server_neme>:5022' failed before database mirroring was fully started. The ALTER DATABASE command failed. Retry the command when the remote database is started. This problem is only in production dat ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to build a group-filter, based on multiple ListBox ?

  Hello, I would like to filter a DataView, based on multiple listboxes, just like "Itunes" does. It does work when i have consecutive selections, but when nothing is selected between two listboxes, the filter goes crazy. I have made arrays that contains fields & control names, for easier upgrade. it resumes like this : - if string not empty then add - ColumnName + " Like '" + SelectedValue + "' AND " ............................. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Exposing a Component Control of a UserControl

  I have this usercontrol (which is like a main panel with 3 other panels for header, detail and footer).  My custom panel (type of the 3 panels) has a designerverb basically for hide/show.  I want the three panels to be exposed or clic ...Show All