TekRichy's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Edit Start Pack Banners

  Is it possible to edit the pictures in the banners of the startkits Glen I downloaded the Club Starterkit. Its a prebuilt template. Jyst wondering if you can edit the banners on it. Thanks Michael ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DX GUI library

  Is there any developed GUI libraries, based on ManagedDirectX version, is it reasonable to do own one, and possibly to sell it, I mean UI that will be used inside D3D applications cehck on DirectSDK CustionUI exmple, I think they did the best to handle user\s input there + mixed it with navigation in 3d world, thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions 2 combo boxes with data source - change on changes the other

  Driven me up the wall so far. I have two combo boxes bound to data The dropdown list is there on both. But when I change one it also changes the other - which I dont want at all. Searched everywhere for a solution and none are forthcomming Any and all assistance appreciated You might want to change one so its not bound but rather is connected when you click it which involves some coding on the click event. N ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem creating modular tests

  I created test1.cs to login to the application, however, when I created test2.cs and run both(OrderedTest.orderedtest), it fails on the 2nd test. It seems to not keep the login information. All test2 does is clicks on a tab in the navigation bar to go to a different page. Does anyone have any tips on what I could do Hello, I'm not sure I completely understand what is happening in your scenario. If you can cl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Deploying add-in for Office XP and 2003

  I’ve built a managed code add-in with a COM shim that runs in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. During development, I’ve compiled against the Office XP PIA’s and tested against Office XP. I’ve also compiled against the Office 2003 PIA’s and tested against Office 2003. Everything works fine.   I understand the differences in deploying the two versions of the PIA’s. I’ve built an installer that detects the version of Office that is installe ...Show All

• Windows Forms XP visual style compatible Tab Control

  I've seen a dozen, often complicated, solutions to this problem, but I really hope the Tab Control will be able to display using XP Visual Styles in the next VS.NET release It's pretty annoying to have a great-looking interface everywhere but in the Preferences dialog.. :-) Have you ever tried enabling the XP Visual Style suport in your app That should render the Tab Control in XP style. ...Show All

• SQL Server if you have trouble connecting to SQL Express instance - read this

  I was getting an error like this: $exception {"An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.)"} System.Exception {System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException ...Show All

• Visual Basic That is Possible? (Collections)

  Hi All, please It is possible attach a datareader in a Collection and later having access itens in the Collection Dim mCol As Collection mCol = New Collection 'Sub for populate a datareader... mCol.Add(myDataReader) Dim uItem As OleDb.OleDbDataReader For Each uItem In mCol MsgBox(uItem( "myCol" )) Next Thanks! any help! This is what a datarow is for. I guess you could write you ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Adding other platforms?

  Hi. I want to learn C++, and i just downloaded VC++ Express. But my goal is to program for the Nintendo DS, so i would ask if it's possible to make VC++ compile for the DS - Kenny VCE is *free*. It's for learning C++, while you're allowed to use it commercially, it's not designed for it. And to *include* DS support would be work with no gain for a small market, as far as Microsoft is concerned. http://devkitpro.org/visual-c++-express.s ...Show All

• SQL Server Need distributed service broker sample

  I'm working with the April CTP of SQL Server and I'm trying to create a proof of concept using service broker.  I'm struggling with the "abc's" of it.  If anyone has or can point me to a distributed "Hello, World" for service broker between SQL Server 2005 and SQL Express instances it would save me some time and trouble. thx! Niels, The two link http://staff.develop.om/nielsb/code/routing2.zip http:// ...Show All

• Visual Basic Problem with Tab Groups in VS2005, programing in C#

  I have run into two problems when using tab groups in the VS editor. 1. If I have two tab groups organized vertially (never tried hz.) after navigating in a file in the second group, after clicking to edit a file in the first group I can not make any edits. I can use the arrow keys, and I can actually delete text, but I can not enter any new text. Simpy clicking on a different file in that tab group, then clicking back to the original file so ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System [Team Explorer] Can't change user who connects to the TFServer

  Hi,   I've installed TF(Build proxy server), SQL Server 2005, Sharepoint Services on a new windows 2003 Server. (TFS Beta 3 Refresh) On a client machine (running under windows XP Pro) , i've installed Visual Studio Team Edition for software developpers and Team Explorer I've connected to my TFS Server via Tools - Connect to a team server. Team explorer asked for my login and password. I gave him the credentials of a te ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do you Encrypt and Decrypt a file?

  Sample files to Encrypt and Decrypt: 1.) .exe    - possible 2.) .dll      - possible 3.) .rpt      - possible 4.) .txt      - possible By the way, can u also provide a sample code, on how to do this Thanks for your help. where do i look for it search where any link ...Show All

• Visual C++ Missing Class Designer for VS2005 C++/CLR projects

  I'm reviewing VS2005 right now to see how we can use the new tools that come with it.  However, I was not able to access the class Designer from a VC++ project.   I found it in VC#.  Where is it   Please don't tell me it is not availlable in C++! Stephane Guerin This is very sad.....  Why do we (the C++ programmer) have access to the new tools after everybody else   We'll have t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to do non-recursive "Get" from Source Control Explorer?

  (Using TFS Beta 3) From Source Control Explorer, I click on a node and see "Get Latest Version" in the context menu. This always does a recursive "Get". How may I do a non-recursive get Thanks. That sounds fine - the number of times I'd actually want to do a non-recursive Get is very limited, so it's no real hassle. ...Show All