Keith Willis's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms ToolTips MIA

  VB6 had tooltips for the TextBox and RichTextBox.  Where did they go The ToolTip is now a separate component (it is known as an ExtenderProvider).  Drag a tooltip off the toolbox onto your form and then all of your controls&n ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) MSDN Chat: DLinq, May 18th @ 12:45pm Pacific Time

  Show up and tell us what's on your mind! People from the C# and DLinq teams will be there to listen. We're still in the planning and development stage, so rest assured - we can react to your feedback. The official chat schedule entry . Add a reminder to your calendar. The chatroom itself . All upcoming developer chats . Have some time zone questions Check chats category on my blog for the next C# chat. See you there! &n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Have both a ProjectCollection and ProjectItems in a Solution vstemplate

  Hi! I hope this is the right forum to ask this question... I'm trying to have a solution template (.vstemplate file) that has both a ProjectCollection element with ProjectTemplateLink's inside, AND ProjectItem's. Something like this : <VSTemplate Version="2.0" Type="ProjectGroup" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/vstemplate/2005"> ... <TemplateContent> <ProjectItem TargetFileName="readme.txt">readme.txt</Proje ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Build FAILED: A database error occurred (SQL error 8152) ---> String or binary data would be truncated.

  Hi, I'm running Beta 3 Refresh in a single server environment. I've started moving our source code from StarTeam to TF Version Control, but have run into a problem with the build. I started out with a small sample and a simple build file and everything worked fine. Now I've checked a major part of our source code into TFVS and have set up a team build. The build have multiple solutions with multiple projects and several thousand source files. Th ...Show All

• Windows Forms Custom Control can't be used

  Hi, I've developed a simple control by inheriting from ComboBox. eg public class CatKeyword : ComboBox {} There's hardly any extra code to it. I've done it such that the new Custom Control appears on the 'My App Components' list on the toolbox - just like a real comboBox! It worked when I first created it. But I went to use it again today and when I place it on the form it says "Failed to load toolbox item 'CatKeyword'. It will be re ...Show All

• Visual C# Threaded Controls

  I'm a little confused on how to show a progressBar with style continious on a seperate thread. Do I need to create the progressBar at runtime...or can I pop one on the form and just invoke it Style Continious can just be set in properties...with nothing really to do in the threadproc...know what I mean My form is also getting very "crowded"....mucho hidden panels groupbox, etc. Rather create at runtime and just bringtofront....let i ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums 8.0 Beta - What's the difference?

  I'll freely admit to being a non technical person when it comes to backend programming but the fact is that I can't see all that much of a difference from the v7.x of the software. The only thing I've noticed is that the interface is a bit chunky and it signs on a fraction quicker. Is there something I am missing that would make it seem like a real update the new 8 is so much easy to use then the previous veris ...Show All

• Architecture Serviced component architecture issues (State management/ OOD).

  I've seen serviced components abused and misused due to inherent limitations in how COM operates and now I’m looking to architect a web based, OO, n-tier system and wish to avoid the same mistakes. In my system there are two architectural problems: Much of the data is common across users, complex and potentially quite large, which leads to a large number of objects when using standard OOD (not so good for COM as I understand ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can't find a "SysInfo Control" equivalent

  Hi, I really like the Visual Basic Express. I am having a problem getting information about the system battery. Something like this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vbcon98/html/vbconsysinfoscenario3monitoringbatterypowerstatus.asp would do. However I can't find a "SysInfo Control" to use in Visual Basic Express. The only reference in the msdn  I can find is here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.a ...Show All

• Visual C# Design Question

  Pretty new to C# and Im rewriting a VB6 app that contains many features that should force the ol learning curve. I have hundreds of images that are saved with a filename, such as: temp1.jpg temp2.jpg....etc. The full path will have to be added later, probably to a list or Arraylist...in numerical order. As I recall I had to jump thru hoops to do this sorting with VB. temp1.jpg temp101.jpg temp2.jpg temp211.jpg....etc. What is my best bet no ...Show All

• .NET Development How To Add Custom Header To httpcontext.current.request.headers

  How add custom headers to httpcontext Thanks Todd, I will try out the method  you suggested and will get back to you in case of any problem. thanks!!!!!!!!! Regards Hardik ...Show All

• SQL Server Remote Connection problems, I've read many a thread on this and nothing has worked!

  Hi, I am trying to enable remote access on a SQL Server 2005 standard edition instance. I have enabled it in the properties using the Management studio and have enabled it under Sql Server Surface Area Configuration under "Database engine". But it didn't work. I know for a fact that my connection string is correct (I tested it on the actual machine) So I checked everything again and I noticed in the Sql Server Surface Area under ...Show All

• Visual Basic Have u ever created a menu component

  Hi guys, I m trying to use the component technology of Visual basic.NET in order to create a customized menu control in this context: I have menu items that must change according to the active windows form (the form that has the focus in each moment); so since the menu items re so similar and since a lot of those items will be repeated inside different forms; i don t want to go through creating the same menu items over and over for all th ...Show All

• Windows Forms Dimming a class based on a choice

  Hello all, Here's my delma, I have an MSSQL database and a Sybase database that can be used with a spacific application, I have the .NET data providers for both and have created 2 classes based on their respective providers, the classes are identical in every respect except the provider from which they are based. What I am looking to do is based on an option on startup instanciate the proper class. The problem I have is, what do I do with ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to remove files

  Hi, again, I am a newbie to the programming and I need your help! Well, I am just trying to learn the language for my hobby and free time. But I need to get help to this.... I tried the Remove command like: for Delete32.cpp: _________________________________ // remove example: remove myfile.txt// #include <stdafx.h> int main () { if ( remove( "myfile.txt" ) == -1 ) perror( "error deleting file" ); else puts( "File successfully deleted" ...Show All