scud's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Me.Invoke How to use it with sub routines?

  This is the code I have: I need to invoke the sub routine, and I can not find any correct tutorials or posts for this Thanks SJWhiteley - Helped me a bit. How would this look if I had two or more textBox's Could I use this one function for all of those Thanks, mNilysg ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Adding parameters at runtime before instancing

  Is There any way to add parameters to a workflow instance before instancing it I tried with: IRootActivity ra = workflowRuntime.GetWorkflowDefinition(type); WorkflowChanges wc = new WorkflowChanges (ra); ParameterDeclaration pd = new ParameterDeclaration (); pd.Name = "MyParameter" ; pd.Type = typeof ( string ); ra.Parameters.Add(pd); wc.ApplyTo(( Activity )ra); But maybe I'm wrong doing this... Regards, M ...Show All

• SQL Server Free space information in Management Studio

  In Enterprise Manager, the taskpad view showed me how much space is available in the data and log files. Is this information available anywhere in SSMS For instance, in one database EM shows me that I have 1200MB free in the data file and 400MB free in the log file. It also says, at the top of the taskpad view, that I have 0 free space in the database - I'm not sure how they relate, but in SSMS the only number that I can see is the 0. It also t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Create New SQL Server Database

  Hi Using VB Express (released edition) when in the Database Explorer Window and I right click there is an option to "Create New SQL Server Database". However this option is greyed out. Any idea why Reason I ask is that some of the Microsoft tutorials use this method of creating the database in their tutorials etc. Why is mine greyed out. I have SQL Express installed and working. Thanks. Larry_t     ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Working Offline with Source Control

  Hi, Am I supposed to be able to work offline with Team Foundation server I have a solution with a few projects in Team Foundation Server. I do 1.5 hours a day on the train and I usually work on my code on the journey. (I'm sure this is a common requirement and in fact I used to do this all the time with VS.NET 2003 and SourceSafe) When I'm offline I open a solution I get a few messages and I opt to "temporarily work uncontrolled&qu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Plugins, DirectX, and other languages

  OK can anything plug into Express Editions and can it open, say Office projects or DirectX ones at all If each Express Edition is a different separate tool another language wouldn't plug in it'd be a whole extra program   Would/Could that work that way Also when will microsoft make a plug-in for Visual Modelling that doesn't require ultra-expensive Enterprise Architect Edition with all the bells and whistles, I tend to thin ...Show All

• .NET Development Update Reference not Working!

  I have been freaked out by an uncommon misbehavior: I have a solution consisting of one main Web Project, three C# Projects and a Web Services Project. Web Services project is referenced by the main Web Project. Paths are all correct on the reference. I have the following error: ArrayList projects = (ArrayList)ps.getProjects("gerardo.thomas"); Cannot Convert type 'object[]' to 'System.Collections.ArrayList' The strang ...Show All

• Visual C# Where can I find Provider Configuration in ASP.NET Web Site Administration Tool?

  Where can I find Provider Configuration in ASP.NET Web Site Administration Tool I have read the article "Web Development with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, Part 1" in http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnsse/html/VWD_SSE.asp but when I open ASP.NET Web Site Administration Tool from Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Beta 2, where can I find  Provider Con ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) complexity

  Hi, Why do you make things so complex and hard to understand even to read. Things like : /* query example */ DEFINE QUERY myQuery FOR EACH customer WHERE cust-num > 100 NO-LOCK. OPEN QUERY myQuery. GET FIRST myQuery. IF AVAILABLE customer THEN    DISPLAY customer.cust-name. DO WHILE NOT QUERY-OFF_END(myQuery) :   GET NEXT myQuery.   DISPLAY END. /* more comple query example */ DEFINE QUERY myQuery FOR EACH customer WHERE ...Show All

• SQL Server Retieving ODBC Settings.

       I'm having some issues grabbing ODBC Settings. First off I need to present a user with the options to select thier DSN, Server, UID, PWD, and Database settings. I have come up with a way using the SQLBrowseConnect function to obtain the Server and Database information I need. Therefore, I have a semi working version of the program.      I just need a way to make the program a little more user friendl ...Show All

• .NET Development WebSetup project sets ASP.Net version to 1.1 instead of 2.0

  Hi, We have a Web Services application that we have upgraded to use VS2005/.Net 2.0. However, we have one remaining issue with the WebSetup project. After a few tweaks the WebSetup projects compiles and executes but when it creates the Virtual Directory it sets that ASP.Net version to 1.1.4322 instead of 2.0.50727. If I go in and manually change this setting in the IIS Manager (after the install has completed) then everything is fine. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Installer class

  Hello, I'm new at deployment and Setup with VS .NET (C# application). I would like my setup program to APPEND the path of where the application is installed into the Environment variables Path registry (in the currentControlSet). In order to do this I created (after trying with the Registry View and not succeeding) an installer class in the project and where I override the Install method, and get the registry path r ...Show All

• .NET Development Possible to detect when laptop screen is closed?

  Hey, This is the most general forum I could find, so forgive me if this question is too far out of place... Does anyone know if it is possible to detect if a laptop's screen is closed I imagine if so, it would be available through WMI, im currently going through the SDK but have not been able to find anything so far. Any help would be appreciated. From what I understand it would be the laptops hardware telling the OS to suspend or ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do I calculate the appropriate font size to fit a string within a given area?

  I'm working on an application that displays multiple buttons that resize themselves when their container size changes. I've added a handler (AddHandler MyButton.Paint, AddressOf PaintMyButton) In the PaintMyButton routine, I'd like to paint a text string on the button that fills the button face regardless of the size of the button. I'm using the e.Graphics.DrawString(). The problem is calculating the appropriate font size as the button siz ...Show All

• Visual Basic Turning Off Quick Console in VB.NET 2005 Express

  Hello: Would like to inquire the floor how to turn the "Quick Console" off so that all my input and output would be done through a external-window console. Many thanks in advance. Tortoise Idiot Number Four Visual Basic Express does not support Debug options and that is why you don't see the Debug Options page. However, turning-off the Quick Console and routing it to the regular console window is something we'd ...Show All