Frans Bouma - C# MVP's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development DateTime Picker for SmartPhone

  I give up.  How is everyone getting a DateTime Picker for smartphone   I am using the vs 2005, but I want to support 2003 devices (since there are very few 2005 smartphones). THanks, Currently the OpenNETCF SDF does not install in VS 2005 but it is being worked on.  In the mean time you can use the SDF binaries in 2005 and manually add your references. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Visual C++ 2005 compliance with The C++ Standard

  Despite a boat-load of documentation on Microsoft extensions to the C++ language, I have been unable to find a single page describing how VC++ 2005 differs from VC++ 2003 (7.1) with respect to the serious non-compliance issues that plagued users of VC++ 2003 (7.1). This document http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vclang/html/vclrfNonstandardBehavior.asp is available for Visual C++ 2003 (7.1). Does anyone know which, if any, of these non-compliance issues have been fixed in Visual C++ 2005 Is there an equivalent document for VC++ 2005 -- somewhere Something that says, in plain English, in what ways, if any, V ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Bug in Visual C# 2005 Express ?

  Hi, i got stuck on what it think to be a bug in VC# 2005 Express. After quiting debug on a windows form application containing 2 forms, one of the forms (settings dialog) kept showing up right in front of the editor, blocking the editor window. I'm not able to click it away or sending it to the background thus i'm not able to use the IDE anymore As soon as i start the VC# IDE again and load the project, the form stucks there, even without running the builder or debugger at all. Some similar experiences out there Cheers Phil Phil - I'm not sure I completely understand what you are seeing.  When you sa ...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 http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/programmersguide/shell_basics/shell_basics_extending/autorun/autoplay_intro.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/11/autoplay/ ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. D3D: Transformations to World Coordinates

  Hello everyone I am making a game engine, which renders terrain. So far this is going well and it can render a whole plane of polygons based on a heightmap. I want a water effect - so i have decided to: Create a cube Place top of cube somewhere in between plane (will become water level) Place bottom of cube at bottom of plane Fill with water texture/colour. My problem is, creating a cube is tricky for me because of the transformations. My terrain coordinates (in local) range from 0.0f to 255.0f - and my transforms are as follows: Projection = Matrix.PerspectiveFovLH(( float )Math.PI / 4, Width / Height, 1f, 500f); V ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB.NET and Word Automation

  Hello all i have a template document with a variable title how do i access this variable via VB.Net i'm told it is posible but 1 whole day of attempts has gotten me no where. the other way i can do it is using a book mark but i cant leave this now as we've started and although the problem is solved still curious to how to access the variable it's one of those i will not be conquered things. and i'd like to use document variables for report generation in word its word 2002. i'm using VB.Net from VS 2005 profesional. not sure what other information is needed hope some one knows its like a void that needs filled. thanks :) ...Show All

• Visual C# & Operator

  What exactly does the & operator do I am trying to convert the following to VB.Net: uint x = 50000; short y = 0; y = (short)(x & 0xffff); Thanks A single & is the bitwise AND operator, so ANDing 42 (101010 in binary) and 56 (111000 in binary) you would end up with 40 (101000 in binary). In VB.NET, that code would look like:         Dim x As UInt32 = Convert.ToUInt32(50000)         Dim y As Short = 0         y = Convert.ToInt16(x) & &HFFFF Just for note, the & in &HFFFF is required as ...Show All

• Windows Forms mask in DataGridView

  How can I check the mask when the user edit the cell. I already set the custom format in DataGridViewCellStyle using CellFormatting event. But, when I key in the value, it doesn't check the format. ( for example, maxlength... ) ( EX : 1. CellFormating Event - format  setting : AA-AA-AAAA          2. When the data display : in Database&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF30177 - Error creating new Team Project!

  I keep getting this error.  I looked through all the similar errors on the site and none of it fixed it. This is a clean installation with the TFS - RC. Error TF30170: The plugin Microsoft.ProjectCreationWizard.WorkItemTracking failed during task WITs from group WorkItemTracking. Explanation Plugin error text: “System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: TF51613: [BIS.ReadIdentities] Could not read the following identities : System.ArgumentException: Value cannot be null. at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Proxy.GroupSecurityService.ReadIdentity(SearchFactor factor, String factorValue, QueryMembership quer ...Show All

• Visual C# SDK for software license keys?

  Hi, We need an SDK (or a method) for adding license keys for our software. We would like to provide trial versions and paid versions of our software. At this time, it does not need to be very advance, but we would like to restrict usage somehow. Can anybody suggest a good SDK (or way) to do this (Does this kind of tool come with Visual Studio or as a plug-in / extention ) Thanks :-) There are some nice tools availeble for this, for example: Software Shield . But you asked for a simple not to advanced trail version. Then you can create your own, just store the time of installation somewhe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Licensing?

  I could not find any information in the current beta regarding licensing.   What are the terms of use and distribution of MSF Agile MSF for Agile Software Development is a faeature set of Visual Studio Team Systerm. All the licensing and rights that pertain to Visual Studio Team System apply to MSF as well. Let me know what your scenario specifically is and I can help further. ...Show All

• SQL Server wmi event watcher task

  hello i would like to know how i can retrieve the file path+name of a file detected by the WMI Event Watcher task, so that I can assign this to a variable for an Import task thanks darren i eventually found this tutorial on using the FileSystemWatcher in VS 2005 http://www.geekpedia.com/tutorial173_File-monitoring-using-FileSystemWatcher.html It describes how to build a file monitoring app , which i suppose Ican enhance to call an import package ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Hiding Class from Test View window

  I have been refactoring a number of my coded webtests and have created a base class that inherits from ThreadedWebTest. My webtests then derive from my custom base class and things work well. My question... Is there anyway to prevent my custom base class from appearing in the TestView and Test Manager windows I do not want my developers selecting the base class directly and trying to run it as a test. The base class is marked as "MustInherit" but I guess the IDE sees that my base class derives from ThreadedWebTest and chooses to list it. Any suggestions Thanks Anthony So no sooner ...Show All

• Windows Forms Control.Invoke blocks on WaitOne while UI Thread continues to run?

  I have an application where a background thread is calling Invoke() on a control owned by the UI thread. I'm seeing a problem where Invoke is blocking indefinitely on a WaitOne operation while the main UI thread is still processing the queue (i.e. the UI is still responsive). I'm currently able to reproduce the condition relatively easily and believe it might be a race condition related to the UI thread disposing the control while Invoke() is being called on it from the background thread. I believe this because the only time I've seen the hang is when a trace message output in the control's Dispose method comes between messages output ...Show All

• .NET Development Soap Serializer does not support serializing Generic Types.

  I tried to serialize an object contains list (List<>) of objects and I got this exception: Soap Serializer does not support serializing Generic Types : System.Collections.Generic.List. It works fine with the  BinaryFormatter. Yeah, Let me post more codes about the configuration. What I am doing here is, I have a remoting server start, also to have the capability for a client to event call back to server, we defined a delegate and an event wrapper as the book "Advanced remoting said". Here is the definition: public interface IFactory { IWorker getNewWorker(); } public del ...Show All