harveyDBA's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Team Explorer does not auto-create a link from a parent work item to related work items.

  When creating a related work item in Team Explorer a link is not created on the parent work item to the child work item.  Consider the following example: Create a scenario called 'Test Scenario' - e.g. ID=1. Create a related work item (task) for this new scenario by right mouse-clicking on this scenario from one of the query windows. A new task is created named 'Related to work item 1 - Test Scenario'. - e.g. ID=2 ...Show All

• .NET Development Versioning Question

  If a company makes a .NET dll that they sell to customers, what is the guidance for the CLR version to use If you stick with v1.1, the company is stuck using VS2003 forever. If you go with 2.0, some customers won't buy because they are still using v1.1. Applications built using v1.1 of the CLR cannot reference assemblies built with version 2.0. One solution is to just tell customers that they need to upgrade to 2.0 development tools to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions activex control

  hi I have created an activex control and used in a html page. If i open the html page in my machine then the page loads perfectly. If i open the html page in others' machine then the page shows a small box. if any one knows the answer for this problem, please explain. venkatesaperumal Hi, This forum is meant for VB Express programming issues. Could you please let us know whether you are using ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Chart Control

  I have upgraded a VB 6 application that has a chart.  The upgrade was successful but when I run the application I get the following error: System.InvalidOperationException was unhandled   Message="An error occurred creating the form. See Exception.InnerException for details.  The error is: Unable to get the window handle for the 'AxMSChart' control. Windowless ActiveX controls are not supported."   Source="WindowsApplication ...Show All

• Visual C++ Correct way to reference managed code

  Hi, I am trying to call a form object using _beginthread(), if: Form ^ myForm = gcnew Form(); and void myThread(void * theForm) {...} and _beginthread(myThread,0,myForm); How do I use myForm within the thread function Thanks in advance! Ljubica You dont' need to use _beginthread in managed application, use System::Thread class for this. Thread function can be non-static class me ...Show All

• Visual Basic Verify my functions

  I made three functions that deal with bits. I want to know if they are good or if they can be improved. Thank You. Private Function extractBit(ByVal value As Byte, ByVal bit As Byte) As Boolean If bit = 7 Then bit = 128 If bit = 6 Then bit = 64 If bit = 5 Then bit = 32 If bit = 4 Then bit = 16 If bit = 3 Then bit = 8 If bit = 2 Then bit = 4 If bit = 1 Then bit = 2 If bit = 0 Then bit = 1 If (value ...Show All

• Visual C# Solution files

  How do I create 2 or more than 1 solution files for the same project file in the same folder. I actually need one for 1.1 framework and other for 2.0 framework. Thanks! Hi. I always create a seperate folder for each of the project and solution file versions when I want to do this. Makes it possible to know what you have compiled, too. MyKillerApp     VS6\     VS7.1\     VSx\   ...Show All

• Windows Forms vb.net stored procedure with select statement getting returned values

  Hi, I want to use a stored procedure from my vb.net code, to return a sql query result. I have some syntax for using a stored procedure to run update and insert queries, but can someone show me an example of capturing the result from a&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) A more complexed usage

  Hi, At work, we use mapping engine that uses GDI+ as renderer. Map is combined of several small bitmaps. At the background we build a "BIG" bitmap from 9x9 tiles of bitmaps. The viewed area is clipped from the "BIG" bitmap. We used to refresh the map every 300mSec in order to see location changes of icons/shapes which we managed as layers. I'm evaluating how to do it/ is it the purpose of WPF There is no OnPaint event (which ...Show All

• .NET Development ConnectionState enum

  Whats the best way to check the ConnectionState of a SQLConnection object I need to close and open connection for purposes of pooling. Heres how I handle it now: When closing: If SqlCnn.ConnectionState = ConnectionState.Open      'Closed End if When opening: If SqlCnn.ConnectionState = ConnectionState.Closed Then     'Open End if If the connection is fetching or executing, will the ConnectionState.Op ...Show All

• Smart Device Development TextOut() in Smart Device Application (VS2005)

  It doesn't working... Help please, I'm a beginner. Hi Riven, I've moved this thread into the dedicated Smart Device Native C++ Development forum. Can you give us some more context on the problem you're having Thanks, Jeff Abraham Visual Studio ...Show All

• Smart Device Development encryption on WM 5

  Hi all, I'm developing application that Send/Receive data to/from the server. I need to encrypt this data via AES encryption. my questions: 1. do WM5 CF2 app supports this kind of encryption 2. I didn’t deal with encryption in the past, where should I begin any ides, links, thoughts will be great J Oren. Yes CF2 supports AES. You may use System.Security.Cryptography.RijndaelManag ...Show All

• SQL Server Is the June CTP compatible with Visual Studio Beta 2

  Different versions of .Net 2.0, maybe other files... It is compatible, there are instructions with the June CTP as what you need to do but basically uninstall .Net then install SQL June CTP. -Euan ...Show All

• Visual Studio Adding a ASP.NET ToolBox Control Library programmatically

  I've been struggling with this for an hour now and although I've found lots of content on this topic, I can't seem to make it work with my own controls. I'm working with info in this post: http://blogs.msdn.com/chetanc/archive/2005/10/05/477128.aspx So I've created my VSI zip file and when I run it every *looks* right. I see the name of my control and the control gets copied into the Controls directory in VS.NET. But the controls do not ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Delaying a program

  I am wondering if there is a built in function for delaying a program in C# Something akin to C++'s "System("SLEEP")". I tried typing "System.Sleep();" in my program code, but that didn't seem to compile. If there isn't such a function in C#, how would I go about writing one Seeing as I'm a complete newbie when it comes to C#, I wouldn't know this. :( You can use the following Fu ...Show All