vincentvdb's Q&A profile

• Visual C# IDE does not repsond after a successful build

  After the "build success" text appear in status bar, the IDE could not respond to any mouse or keyboard input for a long time. What is it doing How to eliminate this period Thanks! Lei - Try this solution from another thread since you're building a winforms app. http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=54840 Try going to Tools->Options->Windows Forms Designer->General and setting AutoToolboxPopulate=false; HTH, Kar ...Show All

• Visual C++ Console application to MFC application

  Hello all, I have some older C++ code that runs in a windows console and that I would like to make into an MFC windows application. Are there any wizards that would help with the export in VS.NET I know I can open an MFC new app and copy paste the code, but if there's a wizard to do it then why not Thanks. NF I don't believe that there is a wizard that does that for you currently. Feel free to log such suggestio ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Most efficient way to draw a colored square (no, really!)

  Yeah I know, this sounds really lame... I've actually got textures, input, sound, physics and a bunch of other stuff working, but I have to conclude that the method I'm using to draw a starkly colored square is murderously inefficient. I can add 50 textured squares to my scene and lose maybe 40 frames per second... but adding 20 colored squares to my scene kills about 600 frames per second... from a human standpoint, this makes no sense, sinc ...Show All

• Windows Forms Executable not appearing in SysTray

  Hi, I've written a VB.NET exe which runs and appears in the system tray to indicate the status of the service as in stopped, started or paused. This works perfectly ok when you invoke the exe (as in double-clicking on it) and it puts the&n ...Show All

• .NET Development Element level XSD Files in XML

  I have elements in my XML document,I am already validating this XML file using XSD File,I would like to validate my Xml elements also. is it possible to validate the elemnents of my XML by having elemnt level XSD files like this <Phone Type="Office' Number='0404-32366' xsdFile='phone.xsd'/> please let me know how to do this,if it is possible. Thanks, Vaishali Validating an xml document against a schema means validati ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Internal Links

  Hi, I was working on a project in Visual Basic Studio 2005 Express Edition, and was wondering if there was any way to link the various items in the project together, using an index page Its probably fairly simple, but I cannot find how to do it anywhere. Thanks a lot. Scott Hi, My program consists of 3 sub items (3 area calculators or other math function calculators). I want to put them i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Translating Basic into SQL starments

  I was wondering can VB get into a SQL database ok If so I wanted to be able to do something thats easy to do in VB, but I am new to SQL. VB.NET uses ADO.NET, which means you have a rich library for working with a database. What database do you have Do you have SQL Server installed, or Access, or something else SQL is a totally different language to VB, you will need to learn SQL in order to work with a database. http://www.1keydata.c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Question concerning TFSSecurity.exe and specifying scope...

  I've started looking at the command line tools for Team Foundation Server.  According to the help, the following syntax is used to list all the application groups within a project scope: TFSSecurity.exe /g [scope] My problem comes in trying to figure out how to specify scope.  For example, I have created a team project called tp1.  So I tried: TFSSecurity.exe /g [tp1] and I recieved the following error: FATAL ERROR: TF5039: You do ...Show All

• SQL Server Connection string for SqlCeConnection

  Which format is assumed for connection string for SqlCeConnection In help topics there are only examples like this:  ... Data Source = 'SalesData.sdf'; ... But this example is intended for SQL Server 2005 Mobile database located on desktop computer... I need to custom data load from desktop to device and vice versa, so I did this: string SqlMobileConnString = "Persist Security Info = False; Data Source = Mobile Device\CF Card\mBase.sdf ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Could someone recommend a good book for VB 2005?

  I'm new to programming and this is the language I've choosen to start with. Could someone suggest a good book to begin with Myself I can not image anyone Learning this trade without First taking a few Formal Courses in this Area.... But if You are Really Smart(Cgraus) you can Do It..... These are Free Movies Not Books... http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/learning/default.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visu ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) ObjectDataProvider.ConstructorParameters and Feb CTP

  Hi everybody, I'm trying to use ObjectDataProvider.ConstructorParameters but it doens't appear in Visual Studio, in intellisense. Here is my code: <Window x:Class="DemosWPF.Window1"     xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"     xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"     Title="DemosWPF" Height="768" Width="1024"     WindowStartupLocation="C ...Show All

• Visual Basic get any icon from file

  i searched and only found an function that gets icon from file ,it 's system.drawing.icon.( i don't remember name ) .But it only gets first icon ( index 0 ) ,i can't get icon with other index please show me sory if i write wrong grammar and words That was my code and I use it with .exe files all the times. Are far as the icon sizes. I think there are parameters in the call to get the larer icons. Certainly that r ...Show All

• SQL Server Can I use SQL Server Management Studio Express to work with SQL Server Everywhere?

  Can I use SQL Server Management Studio Express to work with this...SQL Server Everywhere I bought VS2005 Pro and installed everything, including the Developers edition of SQL Server 2005. I would love to play with this and try converting old Access desktop applications. Unfortunately I am unsure how to create and modify a new database for SQL Server Everywhere using SSMSE. I have several tables that have a thousand records o ...Show All

• .NET Development Setting up Column Binding

  Without using a DataTable, how do you go about setting up column information so that the binding code will use it Basically, I have a data token class that has validation rules in it. So I want to bind to an array of these tokens, instead of using a DataTable (and having to duplicate the validation rules). So I've created a class that's derived from both ArrayList and IBindingList, which has the code for adding a new row. That's working gr ...Show All

• Windows Forms BUG: Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data

  In one of the ExecuteReader Methods, I'm pretty sure there is a bug.         Public Overloads Shared Function ExecuteReader(ByVal connection As SqlConnection, _                          &n ...Show All