Bob Meyers MSFT's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to reload the window form and restore its original layout?

  Hi There, Our product called AssetViewer has a main UI (TabControl). The main UI changes dynamically to respond to the different AssetType. when displaying a new asset item, if the AssetType is different, the UI view is to be adjusted from its original layout instead of its previous state. Since the previous state has made too many changes and it may need more codes to track these changes. Thanks, Billy, Hi Nick, Very sorry to reply you so late. The "Window Form" mentioned in the question is a generic term. Our application UI is achieved by using Avalon. UI class inherits Window class ( public sealed ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Publish trx file to a SQL Server Report

  Hi I have a bunch of trx files and I have set up the SQL server where the loadtest database is with reporting services. I want others to be able to view the results that tdoes not have VSTS test edition installed. I know you can convert the trx files to reports if you have a team foundation server. Is there a way to do this with out team foundation server   thanks     This is not possible "out of the box" -- you are free to parse the XML format of the TRX files and manipulate the data yourself into the TFS. However, this is significant work. I would highly recommend evalu ...Show All

• SQL Server Enterprise Publisher to Express Subscribers (2005)

  I implemented a merge replication publication on a SQL Server 2005 Enterprise instance on a test server. On my laptop I have VS.NET 2005 installed with SQL Server 2005 Express. It's my understanding that I can subscribe to a publication with Express. I also have SQL Server Workgroup installed on my laptop so I'm able to use Management Studio to control the Express instance. The first issue I encountered was that you cannot subscribe to a publication if you are not on the same network as the publishing instance (it requires the actual server name). And in lieu of this I tried to implement Web synchronization, but had problems with SSL (which ...Show All

• Windows Forms Category property, System.ComponentModel.CategoryAttribute

  There is in MSDN description of CategoryAttribute class : "Notes to Inheritors ... Additionally, you can override the Category property to provide your own logic for localization. ..." but how to do this The only way is to hide that property in inherited class (or I'm wrong...! ) like public new string Category { get { /* localization logic here */ } } that does't work at all... Agreed, it doesn't behave exactly as documented. Microsoft appear to have forgotten to declare the Category property as virtual. Earlier on in the Notes to Inheritors paragraph it a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Indentation for text field only

  Hi all, How can I perform indentation in hierachical group for text field only in Crystal Report 9.1.5 for Visual Studio .Net 2003 Thanks in advance! ...Show All

• Visual Basic Calling Procedures

  How do I call one procedure (button_click) from another procedure (timer) Key line is highlighted in brown background... Public Class Form1 Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form # Region " Windows Form Designer generated code " # End Region Private Sub Timer1_Tick( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick Call Button1_Click(sender, e) End Sub Private Sub Button1_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click MsgBox("Hello world") End Sub End Class ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WorkflowState with multiple graphic presentations

  Is it possible to have more state icons on diagram for one state in StateMachine workflow when diagram is complex and there is big number of line interceptions Thanks, Indigo Cowboy ...Show All

• SQL Server Replication Error: 4138

  If our subcribers try to synchronize the following error occurs. The Upload of the data works but the download failes. Error messages: The merge process was unable to perform data validation on article 'tbl_xTableFieldValue'. Check for SQL Server errors in the Windows application event log or retry at a later time. (Source: MSSQL_REPL, Error number: MSSQL_REPL2147766343) Get help: http://help/MSSQL_REPL2147766343 Conflicting locking hints are specified for table "fncReplicationFilterTableFieldValue". This may be caused by a conflicting hint specified for a view. (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 4138) Get help: http://help/4138 What does t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Using managed resources in VSIP packages

  Hi, Can anyone point me to (or just make one up) an example of using managed resources in a VSIP package for VS05 The documentation tells me to set a Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.PackageRegistration attribute with UseManagedResourcesOnly set to true on my package and create a ResX file which I then fill with strings, icons etc. Once I have all of this set up, how do I then use the resources, especially in the InstalledProductRegistration attribute When you use unmanaged resource DLLs, you can just reference it (in InstalledProductRegistration's ProductDetails, ProductName and IconResourceID properties) like #xxx, where xxx is the resource ...Show All

• Windows Forms 2 openGL objects in 2 windows

  Hi, I have 2 OpenGL objects in 2 different windows. In the bigger window I show OpenGL object sometimes big than window (and by that way getting scrollbars). In the small window I show optimized OpenGL object to window. When I do refresh of application window (I am working with MDI windows) the scrollbars sets to zero. It happends after I am calling MakeCurrent to the small window or the big window. What I need to do that scrollbars stay and doesn't change to zero Thank's Alexei Alexi I'm sorry, but I can't really answer your question but I'm hoping you can answer mine! It sounds like you've gotten OpenGL working in a Windows.Form&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Sharing projects

  I have a project I have been working on at my office. However, I want to work on it this weekend at home. I tried to copy it to my laptop, but when I opened it I got security errors. What do I need to do Thanks. Jeff Hi, I am doing this all the time and do not have any problems. I copy the complete project folder to cd from my Home computer and then copy the folder from CD to my Office Laptop. What errors are you having Ron ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Windows Mobile 2003 and .NET Compact Framework 2.0

  Hello, Can the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 be installed on a Pocket PC device running Windows Mobile 2003 I would like to do this so that I can use the Serial Port class provided in the .NET Compact Framework 2.0. Thank you for your help, Is the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 installed side by side with the version that is currently on the device What size is the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 Thank you again, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problem with free ebooks

  I complete the activation process, two weeks ago, but i don't receive any e-mail with information about how to download the ebooks, if any have the same problem and know any email where i can get more information please let me know The instructions don't work. When I Click the activate product under Help to activate the product, it says, " the product has already been activated" ( a pop up window" thanks ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Activities Menu Unavailable

  I've noticed a number of instances with users not being able to access our P4 application because the Activities menu is consistently unavailable.  I have witnessed this situation myself over several  home broadband connections and the Activity list comes up with the following message: "List of games or activities is temporarily unavailable. Please close and try again later." I initially thought this was due to a restriction on the client machine's network, but this has happened to me in my own home after a recent move.  I've changed nothing...even my provider is the same, but the Activities menu is inaccessible from home. ...Show All

• .NET Development Technical difference between COM and CLR

  Hi Guys, I wanted to know the technical differences between COM and CLR in terms of it's memory management. I had been working on VB component development and would like to know if the memory management remains the same or it has changes completely. Waiting for a reply. Thanks in Advance. It changes completely since the CLR provides a garbage collected environment where most of the memory management work is taken care of automatically. The tradeoff is that you loose deterministic finalization you had in the reference counted world of COM. ...Show All