BillForShort's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Installed SQL components not listed on splash screen

  Hi, I installed SQL Server Dev first, then installed VS, but when VS loads, there are no SQL components listed on the splash screen, just VB, C# and VWD. A colleague installed the other way, and has some SQL components listed on the splash screen.  Can I get VS to 'refresh' this list I've since installed Reporting Services and that's not listed either... Thanks Mike devenv /setup will regenerate the splash screen. if you ran it, and you're still not seeing what you expect, then possibly something is wrong with the install of either sql or vs. if you really want these things on the splash screen, ...Show All

• Windows Forms Localization, string resource files and Windows Forms

  I'd like to localize an existing application. App is written in C# and has been converted (automatically) to .NET 2.0 from 1.1. When the application was initially developed, there was some work done to [hopefully] make localization easier. Example of the project file layout: Project - Resources |- Messages.resx |- MessagesWrapper.cs - Form1 |- Form1.resx As shown above I have a project folder called Resources. In this folder I have a standard RESX file (Messages) containing string data used for user messages. Along side this is a wrapper class (MessagesWrapper) that provides a C# class with properties and methods to access the resources. Thi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Getting files with specific extensions using FolderBrowserDialog

  Hi everyone. I'm making a media player using the BASS API Library and Direct-X. My problem is, I'm using the FolderBrowserDialog component and I know it can't filter files but I need only files with specific extensions to be added to the Listbox I have on the form. So far the code looks like this: Public Sub foldertoplaylist() Dim plug As Integer = 2 Dim playlistid3 As String Dim chosen As String Dim filInfo As IO.FileInfo AddFolder.Description = "Choose the folder you would like to add to Tray-Play" If addfolder.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.Cancel Then ...Show All

• Visual Studio Total page number

  when I call the printToPrinter method I give the page from/to to print. I change this numbers at runtime, but if the user gives me a higher number of page than the ones the report have it gives me an error (obviusly). That's why I need to know HOW DO I GET THE TOTAL PAGE NUMBER OR THE LAST PAGE NUMBER. Thanks in advance. Actually I'm opening the subreport object with a ReportDocument: 'get the subreport name Dim mySubreport As New ReportDocument Dim subreportName As String Dim mysubreportobject As SubreportObject mysubreportobject = myCrystalReport.ReportDefi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office hiding menus

  is it possible to hide all menus and display an excel workbook in full screen mode i am trying to use the commanbar but when hiding the worksheet menu bar it is raising an exception. i want to display only the shhet in fullscreen mode with no other menus just the taskpane. i appreciate any help........... thanks If you really want to hide a CommandBar, you probably need to set Enabled=false and Visible=false. However, it is not usually a good idea to hide the Worksheet Menu Bar, because it leaves the user in a very difficult state where they have no control over the UI. I wouldn't gene ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WST decoder for Turkish character?

  Hi! Does anybody know about Turkish character display of Microsoft WST decorder I wrote a program, it seems to work fine in English Windows but can not decode O.K. in Turkish Windows. Reading the docs on the WST Decoder I see: "Only Western European languages are supported at this time" They don't specify which languages those include, but given that you say it doesn't work, it seems likely Turkish isn't on the list. It might be possible to create your own filter to do this, however, I wouldn't expect this to be easy. If I needed to do this, I'd start with finding the specs for ...Show All

• Windows Forms dissecting vs...

  Hi, Does anyone know where visual studio stores the information whether we want the start page to open when we open vs.net, or the open file dialog, etc  In what file... Thanks Well, there is some information in: [My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.0] regarding things like tool windows and such.  But, for your particular example about the Star ...Show All

• Visual Studio CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.LogOnException: Logon failed.

  Hi there, Please helpout with this error: CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.LogOnException: Logon failed. I have created a ReportViewer and bound it to the report that i had created in the same webapplication. When i run the application i get this error, please help ...Show All

• SQL Server Slow SQL

  I have an application created in house that runs great in all PC's with SQL express 2005, this application need to import data from a .TXT file, when I import the data in all of the PC's it imports arround 1000 lines per second, but when I install this application in a server HP DL380 with 3 disk 76 GB 10K in RAID 5, 1 GB RAM it just imports 100 lines per second. In the server this application is 10 times more slow. I have installed in both (server and PC's) the SQL Express 2005. Does anybody could help me How difficult it might be to assess if 100lines/sec is "slow" a RAID set generally speaking ...Show All

• Visual C# Problem with threading in C#

  Hi, I'm new to C# programming,that's why I have a lot to learn.I'm trying to understand how to create and work with threads in C#.Here's the code of my demo project.Please if somebody can see this code and help me to understand why I get an error when I start the code.The app stops after a while and show me an error that I don't understand and don't know how to fix it. Please if somebody can help me I'll be very happy and thankful. using System; using System.Drawing; using System.Collections; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Data; using System.Threading; namespace ThreadsProblem { /// <summary> // ...Show All

• SQL Server Adding datetime fields

  Hi I'm learning SQL, stuck on a problem, and would be very grateful if someone could point me in the right direction please. I have a table that contains employee overtime data.  The table contains the employee ID number, the work week ID, basic hours, and overtime hours worked. What i want to do is SUM(OThrs) for a particular employee to get the total OT hours worked in a given workweek. However, as I understand it the datetime datatype stores its value as a value measured from a base date of Dec-30-1899.  As it wouldn't make sense to add the datetime fields due to this, is there any way around it   The OThrs is brought in f ...Show All

• Visual Studio VCBuild Task and Warnings

  Hello, Can I use the VCBuild task without the output of compile warnings Thanks. I use the /override:<path> command-line switch and the <VCBuild Override=""/> attribute in an MSBuild project but they don't work unless the .vcproj file actually references the file, so it doesn't really help me to have overrides for different projects built in MSBuild. Am I missing something I have to do in order to not specify anything in the .vcproj and use .vsprops files ...Show All

• Visual C# Subclassing controls

  I want to modify the bahavior of a standard control by changing some of the methods. I know I can do this by subclassing the control. However, it seems like I need to create a new control as a seperate project and reference the created dll in my main project. This seems like a lot of work for a simple task; what I'd really like to do is have everything in the same project (although not the same file). What I'm used to in Visual C++ is to use the base control as usual (eg. drag an edit control onto a dialog), and then use DDX_Control in my DoDataExchange to subclass the control. Is there a similar way in C# ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Pause a workflow

  Hello, Is it possible for the host to 'pause' a workflow's execution at the completion of a specified activity and then resume execution from that activity I know one could define special activity types within the workflow that listen for external events and effectively pause the workflow in that manner, but I'm thinking of the more general case, where the workflow is not specifically designed to wait for external events. I'm primarily interested in a sequential workflow but would also be interested in if this is possible with a state machine workflow. Thanks, Notre Thanks for the reply Paul, but ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DxDiag and DirectShow error, please help

  as i figure out there is no "real" reliable source of information (or at least not very trustworthy) out there. i came here to seek a solution.   when i was trying to run DxDiag, it popped an error message up telling me that there was a problem accesing DirectShow, the cause of that might be previous improper use of the DxDiag. and it asked me if i want to skip loading DirectShow.   i have no idea what caused this problem but as u guys are pretty advance developers (i assume), u probably know that the problem with DirectShow prevent me from playing many media files.   i tried re-installing Dx9, but as ...Show All