Morgan Pugh's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Snaking reports

  Hi, I have a report that has 2 simple columns. I want to persent this as a "snaking" report - i.e. like a newspaper. I have added a second column in the report properties, but I can't get it to work. It occasionally works (no rhyme nor reason to it) in VS2005, but never works when I deploy it to the server. Any ideas anyone ...Show All

• Visual C# theme your application

  Hi can i apply a costum theme to my program .. i mean.. did you see yahoo mess you see that have a diffrent theme.. can it be done in c# Unfortunately there is no built in way of doing this short of manually controlling the painting of all of those controls and forms you want to look special and there are a number of articles out there on how to do some of the parts of this manually (which is rather time consuming unfortunately). If d ...Show All

• Visual Basic A VB Program -Confirm On exit

  Hello! I am a beginner in VB, basically I am creating a notepad application as a part of my learning. Im doing it in VB.NET. I am having problem in writing code that I want, which will ask for a save before exit confirmation, wenever i click in red X button on right. I want also include a check, so that only wen there is some event changes in the richtextbox (that i have used as d writing area) the save on exit dialog will pop up saying - " ...Show All

• Visual C# Hide and Override Difference

  What is the difference between the hiding a member method that belongs to base class and overriding a member method of base class. Explain in more detail with the help of an example. Imran Ahmad Mughal Imran: There are explanations and examples in the documentation. See the Versioning Tutorial . ...Show All

• Visual C++ msvcr80.dll not found

  I've created a simple Win32 console application. When I try to debug it, I get the message:  "This application has failed to start because MSVCR80D.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix the problem." The Release version runs fine. Any idea as to what the problem could be Thanks, Jonny This means several things. a) your console application does not have manifest. Either embedded inside or ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS 2005 Final - Installation problems - LoadSetupObjectGuid() : vs_setup.dll

  Hi, Can't install VS2005, released version on my WinXP Prof (Swedish), laptop. Started with a clean ghosted mashine yesterday with no beta or any other old stuff. Installad XP_SP2, WindowsInstaller 3.1. Run the installation (VS/setup.exe), 65 files are copied to the temp folder, the installation wizard starts and "Setup is loading installation components" and the progress bar stops after approx 40% I check the temp folder and in the dd_vserror80 ...Show All

• Visual C# List<T>.Insert is very slow?

  I have been writing a class that uses the List<T> class and noticed a huge performance decrease when using the List<T>.Insert method to insert my elements in the correct position as opposed to just adding them to the end of the list. The collection is about 200000 elements big. I tested this by creating a new project that creates a new List<int> and adds 200000. After that I add another 100000 by using the List<T>.A ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Create project templates with a directory structure

  Hello! I would like to create custom project templates for my needs. Currently I have this project structure: \project\ \project\bin\ - for output exe, dll etc \project\res\ - for icons, bitmaps, rc files etc \project\src\ - for source files and projects \project\temp\ - for obj, pdb, res files for all configuration etc. After googling, I found some examples and articles, how to create VS C++ templates. I have created .vsdir, .vsz ...Show All

• Windows Forms Contro Array in VB.NET

  Hi to every budy here. Could some one tell me how to implement control array in vb.net for windows forms like we did in vb6. Control Array for text boxes to be created on runtine as many as user wants using upper bound of control array. I& ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums has anyone done the tests at all?!

  hi, just wondering has anyone done microsoft ISV software tests   i'm a one-person ISV and i'm interested to hear from others who have been through the testing process.  i've been on the ISV empower program for the last 18 months and i'll be taking my tests shortly.  i intend to apply under the "platform" tests, doing the windows client test, and web services + .net framework.  i read the instructions from the testi ...Show All

• .NET Development Navigating nodes with namespace

  Hi, I want to navigate an XML file in which all the nodes have some namespace. When Iam giving the XPath expression including the namespace of the node it is throwing an exception. Eg: nav.Select("//UML:Class[@name='Subject']"); Some of the nodes in the XML file are as follows: <UML:Class id='...........' name='...............'> <UML:Classifier.feature> ......... ........ ...Show All

• Windows Forms Selecting A List View Item

  I have the hitch selecting a list view item. I want a user data entry form to dispaly when a user double clicks a listview item. Prospery - You should be able to hook up the MouseDoubleClick event on the ListView by goin to the Property Pane and selecting the small lightning bolt to look at the available events.  Then double-click beside MouseDoubleClick to generate the code for the event handler and go directly to it.  You ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS 2005 Team Edition Release Candidate shuts down sometimes when editing a report!

  Hi, when I editing a report in the designer sometimes the whole IDE shuts immediate down without any warning. I use VS.NET 2005 Team Edition Release Candidate. I didn't saw this behaviour in any previous releases of VS2005 Thanks, Filip Hello Filip, Are you able to reproduce this Is it possible to have steps to repro or a general idea of what you are doing just prior to the shut down Do you have the build num ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Link error PlayWndASF MicroSoft Sample

  I can't compile PlayWndASF sample from DirectX 9 installation. Cam anybody give me WMStub.lib --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: To link and run this sample, you must install the Windows Media Format SDK 7.1.1. After downloading the Format SDK, you can extract a public version of the WMStub.LIB library, which should be copied to the Samples\C++\DirectShow\Common folder. This library i ...Show All

• SQL Server System::SourceID

  Hello, If I am using many packages that are called using "Execute Package Task" is there any guarantee that System::SourceID will be unique for all containers across all of the packages Slightly similarly...all packages that are created from the same package template have the same package ID. This is BAD. Does it need raising as a bug   Thanks Jamie   It's weird because even variables and connection managers hav ...Show All