John Wilkie's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic 2005 .Net Nightmare

  As a visB programmer who has been happily coding very successful applications for many years, I have been shocked at the verbose incomprehensibility of the .net framework. Where is the wonderful Basic language that has served so well for so long Is there a way to disable all the garbage in VisB 2005 in order to just write simple single thread applications in the Visual Basic language I have been unable to get even the simplest microsoft SDK examples to run in .Net. I really don't want to invest in learning a language as complex and dense as the .Net applications, I don't believe I will ever need ANY of this functionality. The whole IDEA beh ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions SelectedIndexChanged gives exeption?

  I am trying to use the SelectedIndexChanged event in the simplest way possible... the first time the event fires, everything is ok, but the next time I get an Argument Out of Range exeption. What am I doing wrong here Any help appreciated This is the code:- Private Sub ListView1_SelectedIndexChanged( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ListView1.SelectedIndexChanged MsgBox( Me .ListView1.SelectedIndices(0) ) End Sub Thanks, I get it... the event fires twice, when the "old" selected item is deselected, and then again wh ...Show All

• Visual C++ Convert double to char

  Hi, Can someone please explain to me how I convert a double variable to char, and then even how I convert it back to double from char Thanks! 'Look at the sprintf() function for converting a double to a string, it is easy and does not require inserting the decimal point.' hmm...that was something new to me. Maybe I can use that instead of _fcvt_s. Thanks! ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB2005 Express: Monthview control. DATECHANGED event firing every 2 minutes

  Hi all.  I've found some interesting behavior in the Monthview control using VB 2005 Express.  The Datechanged event of this control seems to be firing every 2 minutes all by itself.  This creates some problems for me in the development of a date-intensitive application that cues off of this event on several monthview controls.   I'd like for someone else to verify this behavior (make sure it's not just my system).  I've included instructions to reproduce below along with the workaround kludge I've implemented. Reproduce : Create a vb app with a monthview control and a text box.  Code i ...Show All

• Visual Basic running apps (shell command)

  hi, just wondering what i have done wrong in visual basic 2005 (.net). i used to be able to (vb6) go shell("appnamehere.exe") and it would run if i had the app in the same dir. now i cant seem to work out where i should put the exe when you run the setup of the project i published its like it installs itself and runs in temp or sumthin how do i make it so it just runs from its folder and can run the apps via the shell command Dim proc As New Process proc.StartInfo.FileName = "c:\windows\notepad.exe" proc.Start() ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Rational Integration

  We are just beginning a fairly large project and are planning to use VS.Net 2005; however, several people on the project team have had experience with Rational Rose and Rational RequisitePro, we are used to that environment, and we have naturally had no experience with the VSTeam capabilities.  We are in a quandary as to whether to use all the features of Team System and/or Rational products which we have experience and confidence in. Here's a few questions - I hope someone out there is in a similar dilemna and is willing to share thoughts and ideas on this. Microsoft seems to have no requirements management tool similar to Rational Req ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can't add project Web Parts to home page

  I'm trying to add web parts from the project gallery, just the ones installed by default, but they give this error every time: An unexpected error has occurred. Only the project gallery web parts give this error. If I add one from the "Online Gallery", those work just fine. But the ones associated with the project fail. I have three TFS projects and I get the same error on all three. I also have two other non-TFS SharePoint sites on the same error, but those do not generate an error. Jay McCleery posted the answer below. It worked for me. Jay McCleery wrote: Unfortunately, thi ...Show All

• Visual Basic Refactor slow and not quite stable

  1. Opening VS2005 is slower, and opening a project is slower. No big deal, but if you start opening files before DXCore is finished loading, it hangs for quite a while. 2. Cursor movement is jerky, and somewhat annoying. This is on an AMD 3200+ w/GeForce6200. 3. Several times I accidentally hit both mouse buttons and/or keyboard keys, causing an IDE crash with loss of data. I mention this only FYI; these would not be big problems if I had found it useful (especially given that it is given.) The uninstall seemed to have worked. I will mention the IDE itself is very stable compared to Beta. Bravo! ---Mike ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to show all records on one form

  Ok right now I have my dataset like this. index # {primary key} [checkbox] Name [label] Address [label] State [label] When I drag it out on my form it only displays 1 set of records I would like it to display all records on one page. For example index Name Address State check Bob bob's address NY check Tom Tom's Address VT check TIm Tim's Address CA and so on and so forth maybe i'm barking up the worng tree i have no idea. I'm extremely new to VB but understand programing and vbscript very well. Any help or sugge ...Show All

• .NET Development FileInfo?

  Thanks to Aidy, I got what I needed to work for the most part. My program can now get the subdirectories and stuff. So I started implementing the next part, which is to get the Files in each directory. I got that working. But I can't find anything to get the filesize. I'll still be looking but suggestions are welcome. Hi, try this code:     FileInfo f = new FileInfo ( "yourfile" );    MessageBox .Show (f.Length.ToString());   ...Show All

• Visual Basic Generic Collections In vb.net 2005 Help

  Hi, Getting to grasp with Generics.Could somebody help as follows: In vs 2003 I used to write strongly typed collections now I could simplify it all with generic. I am trying to write some base collections What is the difference between inheriting from collectionbase  and list I have tried to implement the IEnumerator in my collection but the for each still doesnt work Can somebody provide a good example of collections using generics implementing Ienumerator,and explaining the diff between List and collectionBase Possibly in vb.net 2005 beta 2 Also some example of dictionary could help thanks a lot ...Show All

• SQL Server Query spawns multiple connections

  I have a stored procedure that pulls data for a Reporting Services report. Up until today that query has run on average in under one minute. Today however, it has run for up to 10 minutes before I would kill it. I also noticed in EM that when I run the stored proc from QA, it spawns at least 10 connections to the database and it appears they are all running the same piece of the SP.  None of my other SP's that use the same tables do this. Any thoughts Parallelism is the cause. You might want to use MAXDOP hint to control it. The following kb should provide a starting point. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315662 ...Show All

• Visual C++ MFC-> Minimizing the window to the status area

  Hi, after I create NotifyIcon, how can I make my program (after doing somestuff first) restore and minimze to tray (statusarea) <Bigguy Graves@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:29a9c3f6-b163-4359-974b-fa7d9d9c888a@discussions.microsoft.com > Hi, after I create NotifyIcon, how can I make my program (after doing > somestuff first) restore and minimze to tray (statusarea)   "Minimizing to the tray" is really an optical illusion. You minimize normally, then hide your window (which causes the taskbar button to be removed) and install a tray i ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista EVR API problem

  Hi, I tried to add directshow enhanced video render API into my project. I copied evr.h into my workspace. And include windows sdk include, lib directoried into my visual c++ 6 settings. I got many strange compilation errors, many of them leading to header files in windows sdk include folder. Can anyone tell me how to call EVR directshow api into my directshow application Thx ...Show All

• .NET Development New to .NET

  Hi there, im new to .NET and need to find out sum information about it! I wondered if anyone could help me and reply with some gd information about what it is, its uses and stuff. Or even share sum url's that would help me. THank YOu http://www.microsoft.com/net/Basics.mspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_.NET ...Show All