jack katz's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms How can I select all items from a ListBox quickly?

  Hello, I'm a beginner, first of all. I'd like to know if I can select all items from a ListBox quickly. When there aren't many items, this code works fine: ... myListBox.BeginUpdate(); for (int i = 0; i < myListBox.Items.Count; i++) { myListBox.SetSelected(i,true); } myL ...Show All

• Visual Basic DirectX Samples complaining

  A few days ago I've installed the directx9.0b sdk. I looked through the vb tutorials, and the first 4 seemed to work well. But the rest didn't work, the compiler complained alot about the directx library not containing stuff. Any idea what's going on here I hope I get some answers quickly, Michel EDIT Sorry, the tutorials work, but all the Samples don't. http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) custom togglebutton

  Hi, I need to draw a check mark in the left side of toggle button when the status of togglebutton is pressed. I was trying to do it using either DataTemplate or ControlTemplate using a path (for drawing checkmark) and textbox but I can not figure out how to hide the checkmark when the button is not pressed using property trigger. Any suggestions or sample code will be great. thanks/chong Use a trigger to set ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System installation of team foundation server

  team foundation server - single machine - has not been possible to make the installation because the installer says that SqlServer is not installed.  What I can review   SqlServer is running. Marta, In order for TFS to work properly, you need to use the default instance, not a named instance. Could you try to install on the default instance of SQL Server 2005 Thanks, Erin ...Show All

• SQL Server ODBC Data Source

  I am new to SSIS packages and want to use an ODBC data source connected to an old Btrieve set of data files. I set up the ODBC DSN, and my SQL Server Data Connection, and can browse the tables in the Server Explorer. However with regards to my SSIS package, I'm not sure whether to use an OLE DB Source or Data Reader Source. I have futzed with both of them but haven't had any luck at seeing the tables. Can someone please give me some tips. Tha ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Two questions on hydration/dehydration

  a) Will a workflow instance be hydrated during a long running web service request/response call b) Does the framework allow custom behavior for hydration/dehydration a) Yes, if the workflow runtime is set to unload instances upon idle. b) Yes - an easy way to do this is to set UnloadOnIdle=false, and then subscribe to the workflow runtime's OnIdle event.  In that event, you can choose whether yo ...Show All

• SQL Server Connecting to Sybase

  Hi, I am assuming someone has had success connecting to Sybase from SSIS. I am having trouble. And I freely admit naivety when it comes to something like this. :-) I installed dbConnector 6.01 which has a Sybase connector as a part of the package. I then tried to create a connection manager for Sybase using OleDb, but it was not an option in the list of OleDb connections. So, am I correct in assuming that I need to use ODBC If so, is there ...Show All

• Visual Studio Administrator priviliges required

  I just tried to create a new Language project on a computer where I don't use an Administrator account, and it doesn't work since I obviously don't have write permission to the Program Files folder. I think it is super important to fix this and allow development of DSL projects with limited rights accounts. Cheers, David Done. Now, please everyone vote for this as important :) http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/produ ...Show All

• Visual C# Data binding hell

  Something so easy causing so many greys....            void fetchNames()         {             comboBox1.Items.Clear();             OracleDataAdapter dAdapter = new OracleDataAdapter("select name from people order by id",myOracleConnection);          &nb ...Show All

• Visual C# typedef-equivalent for shared tentative types?

  (This topic has been touched on here and here .) Use case: Developers are working concurrently on a system where some details of the implementation remain unsettled. One of the details is whether a particular Id will be a string or an integer. We can write: using PlantId = Int32; using AnimalId = String; class Plants : List<PlantId> {} class Animals : List<AnimalId> {} void useList(Plants p) { PlantId firstPlant = p[0]; TextBox1.T ...Show All

• .NET Development DateTime.Parse problem (IndexOutOfRange Exception)

  This is the first time in this forum, and my question is: This code fragment is very simple string s = DateTime .Now.ToString( Thread .CurrentThread.CurrentCulture); DateTime .Parse(s, Thread .CurrentThread.CurrentCulture); OR DateTime .Parse( "25/01/05 11.27.31" , CultureInfo .CreateSpecificCulture( "it-IT" )); OR DateTime .Parse( "dummy" , CultureInfo .CreateSpecificCulture( "it-IT" )); I expected a FormatExcept ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VSTS 2005 release

  Who can explain me when Visual Studio Team System released I see in our MSDN subscription only Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Trial Edition - DVD - (For Evaluation Only) (English) but it was posted at 2005-10-28 17:05:44 (UTC). Is it lates buid of VS Where I can find lates version of Team Architect and Team Tester Can some on advise me Eugene Popov 180 days -- Lorenzo Barbieri M ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Check for true sentence

  I want to know how can I check a sentence like that on the code: if(isInt == true) I mean, I want to know if that sentence exist on the code... Rodrigo, What are you tried to achieve Are trying to determine the unnecessary comparision to true For example, you would fire on the following: if (isInt == true ) { } but the following would be okay: if (isInt) { } If so, then this is not possible. FxCop ...Show All

• Visual C# Assign string to Shortcut

  Peace on you I want to assign string to data type enum shortcut As: string x = "Ctrl + A"; Shortcut sh = x; how i can do this With out error thank you i cannot implicit convert from string to enum.. "string x='Ctrl+ A'" this will only create the string.. but ctrl has a specific Keycode and A has difrent keycode Shortcut=keys.F you can do only this if you want o combination set ...Show All

• Windows Forms object database with Native Queries....never write a SQL query again!

  db4objects Inc. has announced the availability of version 5.0 of the open source object database db4o. This zero administration embeddable object database allows objects to be persisted without the need for relational mapping or ADO.NET interim objects. The latest version implements Native Queries to express database queries in native C# or VB.NET semantics. db4o version 5.0 comes with Native queries, a new approach to express database queries ...Show All