YellOwCN's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Cursor flickers and IDE Not responding ....

  I'm using VB 2005 and having a issue while in design mode in the IDE. I click on a control to change some of the properties, like the Name or Text and my cursor starts to flicker like crazy. Mine flickers SizeAll cursor type, I've heard others flicker on hourglass. Anyway it flickers and the IDE goes into a Not responding mode for about 30-45 secs. If only happened once then it wouldn't be that bad, but as I'm layout a form it happens about ever ...Show All

• Visual C++ Linking the microsoft platform SDK to VS 2005 express

  Hi, i have read through various threads regarding methods to link the microsoft platform SDK to visual studio 2005 express beta 2. Personally i have tried changing the express.dll.config file to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\..." where I include the path to where my microsoft platform SDK is located. Well that doesnt work. So i tried the "create a PlatformSDK folder under VC folder" method. N ow afxwin.h is located in C:\microsoft ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Using MSF for CMMI with external Software Factories

  Here we work with external software factories. There is a special condition with this; we always close contracts with factories based on closed scope. We're trying to adapt the MSF for CMMI for this context and our plan at this moment is something like this: Deploy              |            xxxxxxxx  Stabilize &nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Variables in SQL Agent

  I need to pass a value to a package level variable in an SSIS package from a SQL Agent job. If I use dtexecui the syntax for passing the variable in the Property Path is \Package.Variables[User::MyVar].Properties[Value] and the package runs fine. When I use this syntax, or any similar format I can think of, in SQL Agent, my job fails. In SQL Agent you put this in the Property Path on the Set Values tab of the Step that runs the package. If I r ...Show All

• Windows Forms UserControls disappear from VS2005 Toolbox

  I created several UserControls within my solution. They showed up in the Toolbox for a while. Then they all disappeared even though they compile just fine. What happened and how can I get my user controls back Sorry about the triple post everybody. Whenever I tried to post, it said an error had occurred, so I tried again. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System "Check In - Work Items" window number hours spent

  I think the "Check In - Work Items" window should have a column for number of hours spent on the files being checked in. Otherwise the flow is disrupted by the developer having to go into team explorer, find the work item and change the appropriate field. Why is it that when you double-click on a work item in the "Check In - Work Item" window that all the editable fields are greyed out From the Pending Changes window (View > Other Wind ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Data bound combo box

  I'm trying to load a combo box with a simple table containing a number of cities. However, when I debug the program and select a city, the previous city selected changes to the current selection. For example: My list is Vancouver, Montreal and Ottawa, in that order. If I select Ottawa, and then hit the pulldown box again, my list becomes Ottawa, Montreal and Ottawa. If I then select Montreal, my list becomes Ottawa, Montreal and Montreal. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Using rules without WF

  Hello, I'm trying to understand if it is possible to use the Policy functionality without running WF. I looked on the method Execute at RuleSet : public void Execute( Activity activity, ActivityExecutionContext executionContext); It's obviously public. Does it mean i can use it How   Example: public void MyRuleSetExecution() { DiscountPolicy p = new DiscountPolicy (); p.Q ...Show All

• Windows Forms Bringing controls out from design-time

  I'm using standard DesignSurface for control design in my custom editor and I'm trying to serialize designed controls with my custom serializator that simply recursively parses the root component and emits custom serialization data for each and every component. The problem is that some components contain objects that were created by their designers. For example, the MenuStrip in its Items collection has a DesignerToolStripMenuHost object tha ...Show All

• .NET Development Openning hex editer and inputing data

  First of all, I'm a student, 16 year old, and I started learning vb.net in september, so please help me. I want to write a program that will let me, by clicking a button, and after inserting the different variables, open a hex editer, which I have already installed on my computer, and it has to write in it a hex string and save it. after that I want it to load the word processor and substitute in the variables. I can open the hex edito ...Show All

• Visual C# Getting StreamReader to recognize unicode escape characters

  I am reading in a file which has a header similar to a java properties file. name=My Software Package The issue is the value of the property (the right side of the =) can contain unicode escape characters (\udddd). When this file is read in by my StreamReader (new StreamReader(file, Encoding.UTF8)) the escape characters are not recognized as individual characters. Instead of seeing one symbol they are read in as six chars (ie \\u02ed ). Is ...Show All

• Visual Basic how can webbrowser share session with other controls?

  i put a webbrowser in my application,and navigates it to some web page on internet. The web page will show a login form before i types my name and password.And after i logined,the page showes some info. then i want other controls to get the info.but they don't have the same session with the webbrowser control.so they can only get the login form. any one can help me my native language is not english,so i must have made some errors in my typ ...Show All

• .NET Development NullReferenceException when calling PerformanceCounterCategory.Exists(categoryName)

  I am experiencing an odd error in one of my applications where I randomly seem to see NullReferenceExceptions when I call PerformanceCounterCategory.Exists() with a non-null category name.  I am working with version 1.1 of the .NET framework. I have verified that passing a null or empty category name would generate a different exception, so I am pretty certain that the problem is NOT that a "bad" parameter is being passed to this method. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Connection failing from workstation

  We are working in a new LAN evironment.  The server is Windows 2003 with SQL Server 2000 installed.  When we run our application from the server, there are no connectivity issues. When we run the application from the work station, logins fail.& ...Show All

• .NET Development Detecting if code executes after exception

  Hi, I'm wondering if there is a uniform way to detect whether code is running after an exception is raised (within the .NET framework 2.0), transparent to the possible environment the code is running in (ASP.NET, Forms application etc). I have a Dispose method that that must behave differently when it's executed after an exception has been raised. This disposable class will be placed in a library that will be used by different types of applicati ...Show All