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• Visual C# Programatic set of ListView SelectedItems does not increment Count

  I am programatically setting the selected item for a list view control.  When I then check the count of the selected item it is still zero.  However, the UI displays as it should at runtime, meaning the programatically set selected item is indeed selected. Here is some sample code: // Set the first item to selected someListView.Items[0].Selected = true; // Check the Selected Item Count .. it should be 1 BUT isnt someCount = someLi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Webbrowser again :(

  Hello all, I am using this code sample to print a webpage from my program. My problem is that if I run it using debug it does print (altough not every time, and could not find out why...) BUT if I run it without the debugger, I always get an error message that "IE_Print Type is null or not an object. Any suggestion what is wrong private static void PrintPage() { WebBrowser wb = new WebBrowser (); wb.Url = n ...Show All

• Visual C# Saving a Solution

  How can I save a solution created in VS 2005, so it can be opened in VS 2003 and compiled Hi. You can't save a solution of VS2005 to VS2003. VS 2003 use .net framework 1.1 where as VS2005 use .net framework 2. So u can't just compile it vs2003. You need to modify your coding. That means you have to do it manually or you can look for third party conversion tool. Regards ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error after deleting Work Item field

  I wanted to report that after deleting a field from a temporay Work Item I was working on, the TF Server started throwing errors about every hour. I used >witfields delete /s:MyTFServer FieldName I see the post by Sarah Cameron at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=171684&SiteID=1 describing the exact same problem. I see the answer suggests a rebuild, which I am about to attempt. I just wanted to report that ...Show All

• Windows Forms Databindings Practices -> Nested properties (NorthWind example)

  Hi Guys, I'm disappointed by databindings in WindowsForms C# 2.0 and I really need your help to resolve this problem,which maybe is due to some misunderstandings of how Databindings and BindingSource must be used in .Net 2.0. I've a my different layers ( SQLClient, DAL and BLL) and on top a fourth project which is my WinForm app. (rem : I'm using NetTIers to generate my layers on top of NorthWind database, used to explain my real life exam ...Show All

• Visual Studio Add-in TextEditor with syntax coloring and content assistance

  Hi all! I have a big and very urgent problem, and I need Your help: I need to make an add-in to Visual Studio .NET. It should be a simple editor, with syntax coloring and content assistance. The problem is I don't know how to start. I can't find anything like TextEditor class or something like that.. I think that there should be some class, like TextEditor, which should use something like RuleBasedScanner, for detecting specific token in te ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridViewComboBoxColumn Selection is not retained

  Hi, I created a DatagridView and added two columns to it. One of them being a ComboBox Column. After running the form, I click on combobox, select some different value and leave the cell. At this point, the value I selected is getting lost and it reverts back to its original state. If someone has made samples on how to use the different column types, can you please put them on the net or mail it to me Thanks, Kunal ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Putting SQL Server DB Objects under Version Control using Team Foundation

  Hi there. I work on a relatively small project team (5 developers, globally dispersed) which develops on a SQL Server database 2005 platform. As such we work extensively with SQL server database objects (tables, triggers, constraints, view, stored procedures ..). Our main development environment tools are Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer, writing in T-SQL. I was wondering if anyone new whether Team Foundation offered any integration ...Show All

• Visual C++ Multiplatform build

  Is there any way to build a solution for more than one platform (i.e. Win32 & x64) with a single command I currently have to select a platform, build the solution, select the other platform and build again. I've tried devenv /build from the command line but it crashes during the build. If there is no direct support for multiplatform build perhaps a macro could do it   Thanks, Flavio. ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Bulky package

  My app takes up less than 0.5 MB and the required ressoucefiles (vfp8t.dll & vfp8renu.dll) take up 4.8 MB and yet the setup.exe created by Installshield Xpress is more tha 10.5 MB large. Any suggestions to how I can reduce the size of my distribution setup file The setup is larger than just the runtime, because the runtime itself has dependencies, too. For instance, it uses the MSVCRT70.DLL or MSVCRT71.DLL l ...Show All

• Visual Basic So where are the tutorials? (DirectX)

  So I've downloaded visual basic several weeks ago, done alot of tutorials, and downloaded the directx sdk (april release). So where are the tutorials for vb Do you have to download them somewhere else There are some in the coding for 4 fun developer center . ...Show All

• Visual Basic Determine TopMost Window on the Desktop

  Hi All, I have a tricky one (well, tricky for me) that I am having trouble finding a solution for. Here is the problem; I have a Form that is open and a Notify Icon.   I want to be able to click the icon and have one of two things occur depending on the current state of the form. If the form is the Top Most (i.e. on top of all other normalised or maximised Windows) I want to hide the form. If the form is NOT the Top Most (i.e. behind a ...Show All

• Visual C++ Moving GraphicsPath objects with mouse

    Hi,   I recently started a little project on my own which purpose is the following:             - Having "furniture" modules displayed on screen by pressing specific pushbuttons.             - Being able to select modules by the mean of a mouse click and then move them.        &nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Where to download MSFWinBuild?

  I'm in the process of customizing the MSF Agile Process Guidance.  I have been using the Process Guidance Customization Guide from the Visual Studio October SDK. This guide mentions that the MSFWinBuild Tool is useful to pre-render the HTML files.  The guide says that this tool can be downloaded from http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms243893.aspx . However, I can't find the download.  Where can I download t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Common Settings for all the projects in a Solution

  Hi, I have an issue, if you could find time then can you please suggest some opinion Issue: I have a dotnet solution and under that a no. of projects are existing. I want to control project settings(like buid type, Enable/Disable Framepointer etc..) for each project from one common place (may be xml file or anything else). When ask to build solution it should read settings from that file and apply to each project and then it should build. One w ...Show All