Beuker's Q&A profile
Windows Forms Forms.Topmost = true and Tooltips - Feature or Vb2005 bug?
I have a form for which the property Topmost = true is set. The form has controls which have tooltips. I notice that the tooltips are UNDER the form and obscured by the form. I've never seen this behavior in vb6 and it doesn't seem like a desireable behavior to me. Is there a reason for this If so, is there a work around to have tooltips where they need to be, which is not obscured by the form itself This problem may have returned. I'm ex ...Show All
.NET Development "Configuration system failed to initialize" exception
I'm getting a System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException exception with the message of "Configuration system failed to initialize" when I attempt to read a web page. Here's the revelant code: Dim web As New System.Net.WebClient() Dim strm As System.IO.Stream strm = web.OpenRead(url) url is a string containing a valid URL. I can paste the contents of url into IE and the page will display. The code is actually cod ...Show All
Visual Studio Modify Designer Colors
I would like to create an addin that could control the designer's background color as well as the colors used for the different element types. Is this possible with the power toys framework One more thing, to elaborate on step 5 above - make sure that you close and reopen the development environment after you have enabled high contrast mode. Not all UI elements support toggling into and out of high c ...Show All
Visual Studio Team System maximun length of server response in web tests
ACT has a maximun response length of 10000 bytes. I would like to know if there is any limitation in Web Tests of VS2005. Thanks. We have a similar property in the Web Tests in VS2005. By default we will save 750000 bytes of the request and 1500000 bytes of the response. This is what is saved and what is available for use in validation rules, extraction rules, and plugins. We still send and receive evry byte. So if the response is 2 ...Show All
SQL Server "there is no 64-bit JET provider...."
Yes, I admit it. I am leanring SSIS on an x64 bit machine (with Windows 2003 Pro x64, 9GB of RAM). I have installed sql 2005 Sp1 on the same machine. As I found out today, there is no 64-bit JET provider which explained why I couldn't use SSIS to import a simple Excel file. (I spent an hour fighting with SSIS before I gave up. Time required to setup the Excel import under sql 2000 DTS, 2 minutes.) What other 64-bit related surprises should ...Show All
Visual Studio Express Editions Online Search Failure with VB Express
Just installed Visual Studio Express 2005 (the C++ option). Tried to use the Document Explorer to search online using the Search tab for the string "Simple2D". Got the following error message. I understand what it says, but I'm wondering how to resolve it. The Explorer seems to know how to talk to other parts of msdn fine. X Search failed The request failed with the error message: -- <html><head><title>Object moved</ti ...Show All
Visual C++ difference between SDI and MDI
Plz tell me the diff between SDI and MDI Diff between Modal and Modeless Dialogs The full answer is available in MSDN , but in a nutshell SDI or a single document interface is a window that can only handle one document at a time per window. An example of an SDI is Notepad (you can only edit one text file per Notepad window. If you want to edit two files, you need two Notepad windows). An M ...Show All
Windows Forms How to identify the particular item in a ListBox right-clicked
I want to be able to identify the item in a ListBox a User right-clicks (in order to enable the user to change the name of the item listed). I added a ContextMenu control to the Windows Form, associated the ListBox with it, and have a (stil empty) event handler activated when the User right-clicks in the ListBox, but the problem I have is identifying the particular item righ-clicked. How is this done Thanks in advanc ...Show All
Visual Studio Team System Problems with build type configurations and 'Publish'
If I want to build 2 solutions in one build type, each with a different configuration, I just make sure that both of the configurations are defined in tfsbuild.proj. Then the build will attempt all four permutations (sln1, config1;sln1, config2;sln2, config1;sln2, config2) but skip the ones that are not valid for each solution, is that correct Also when I try to publish, I would expect it to do a build first, or do I have to be exp ...Show All
Windows Forms webbrowser in vb2005
i have a runtime created webbrowser and i want to use it's ProgressChanged event and some others, too. how can i do this You need to add event handlers to your object, for example: Sub Main Dim WebBrower As New WebBrowser AddHandler WebBrower.ProgressChanged, AddressOf Me .WebBrowserProgressChanged End Sub Private Sub WebBrowserProgressChanged( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser ...Show All
Visual C# Convert array to Class
Hi, C# Gurus, I'm switching from MFC/C++ to .Net/C# recently. Really miss the POINTER, you can convert any pointer to any type easily. I have a case need some help, please. Here's the C++ code : I have a byte array myArr[100] contains data read in from COM1. myArr = {1,2,3,11,12,13,. . . . . . . . . . . .} and classes CX, CY, CZ . . . . . . . . class CX { byte a; byte b; byte c; . . }; I can con ...Show All
Smart Device Development Convert to memoryStream and store in database
hi i have a Private Points As ArrayList = New ArrayList() which already store a signature inside How do i convert it to the IO.MemoryStream and store it in database What you trying to do is called serialization. In this case it's binary serialization which is not supported on NETCF. You could try using this instead: http://www.freewebs.com/compactFormatter/downloads.html Or you could implemen ...Show All
Visual Basic How to hide app in system tray on startup?
Hi all, I have a vb.net application where I want to be in the system tray when it starts up. I included the controls NotifyIcon and ContextMenuStrip in my form and everything works fine. But I do not want my app to be visible on startup, only when the user clicks on my system tray icon then it will launch the form. How can I hide my app on startup Where should I put me.hide() in my form I cannot put me.hide() on form load because then my app w ...Show All
SQL Server Get last record in a SQL database
Don't know if this is the right SQL section, but... using VBE, how do you SQL for the last record in the database Thanks. What does "last" mean A table is an unordered set of rows, so you need to indicate to SQL Server what you mean by "last"... wrote in message news:c6e41dc5-463e-4bfd-b88c-99ebbc38e746@discussions.microsoft.com... > Don't know if this is the right SQL section, but... using VBE, h ...Show All
Software Development for Windows Vista Please, Help!
I am about to loose the ability to Windows WorkFlow because a simple problem I cannot seem to figure out and knowbody can seem to answer. Its simple, how do I get the service objects right after a workflow is coming back from being persisted mardo Have you tried the WorkflowLoaded event Add the following where you create the workflow runtime: workflowRuntime.WorkflowLoaded += new EventHandler < WorkflowEventArgs >(workfl ...Show All