PaulSomers's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Can't remove Ghost project from source control or add project with same name

  We have a ghost project in our source control explorer.  I tried using TFSdelte to remove it says it doesn't exist.  So when I try to create it it says it is already there.  Here is what it says when I try to create the project.  If it already exists, why can't I delete it   Thanks for any help you can provide. Error TF30004: The New Team Project Wizard encountered an unexpected error while initializing the Microsoft.ProjectCreationWizard.Portal plug-in. Explanation TF30171: The Microsoft.ProjectCreationWizard.Portal plug-in used to create the new team project could not be initial ...Show All

• Windows Forms Source code for the Objects should be included

  All the source code would be nice  I am particulary interested in the inherited textbox that Provides the Percentage complete if that is indeed how it was done. I need to do something similar with DAYS but I notice that none of the objects in the OBJ directory have included Source Code Colin that helps a lot I looked for it as a  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Books, tutorials of VC++ Express Edition for newbies

  Hi guys, Since VC++ 2005EE does not ship with MFC/ATL, this makes most of VC++/MFC books irrelevant.  The sample codes and tutorials on MSDN are plenty, but few apply to Express Edition. So my question is where can I find good books, tutorials to accelerate my pace in learning VC++ Express I remember Charles Petzold's "Programming Windows" is entirely focused on Windows API. Is it still apply to Win32 SDK programming Leonard Hi Leonard, I recommend you start from STL to Windows API.  In this context,  STL samples  from  MSDN would be helpful. Also the books by Herb Sutter ...Show All

• Visual Studio VSS 2005 can not show history.

  I'm using VSS 2005 and VS2005, both version are 8.0.50727.42. I'm using VSS Explorer. The "Show History..." does not work. No any results when I choose a long period. I tried to empty "From" and "To" fiels, the result is same. Any idea Thanks in advance. Computer Comfigurations: Windows 2000 Advanced Server sp4 English Dual Monitors VSS in english mode (i think) 80 gig hd 1 gig mem p4 3 ghz Windows XP Pro sp2 same config as above Checked the VSS binaries and they are all the same version accross all PCs NOTE NOTE NOTE, this may be very important. Viewing the properties of a file from my Windows XP Pro sp4 box shows unbroken properti ...Show All

• Visual C# C# Windows Control

  hey ppl, i am having a problem with a control, my control is a background with a label on it, then when i use my control on my form i use the on click event, and it only happens when u click the control itself and not the label, so i was wondering how can i do that no matter where u click inside the control , fires the click event. pls post me some code :( mig16 thx In your UserControl you are handling the Click event, but when you click on the label the click event is not getting fired because the label was clicked. You can do this: this.Click += new EventHandler(MyUserControl_Click); this.label1.Click += n ...Show All

• Visual Basic Mschart change axis problem

  I want to change the x axis of my mschart. I can change the y axis with the following commando:  With Chart1.Plot.Axis(MSChart20Lib.VtChAxisId .VtChAxisI dY).ValueS cale                     .Auto = False                     .Minimum = 10                     .Maximum = 20                 End With But when I do the same for the x axis like this: With Chart1.Plot.Axis(MSChart20Lib.VtChAxisId .VtChAxisI dX).ValueS cale           ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Pocket PC application with Visual Basic Express

  I searched around for help on this topic but was unable to find any good information. Is it possible to create an application for a Pocket-PC using Visual Basic Express Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual C# Operation must use an updateable query

  I had created a windows application. The application will pull data and insert to an access database. But while running the application half way through, it will gives me the above error message "Operation must use an updateable query" I had read through some of the forum, most of them mentioned that it is due to permission settings and they are using asp. But I had check my table permission. It is read and write. Moreover , I am running as an application. Can anyone please help If am ask what the query script youre are trying to execute this error may likely to be caused by ...Show All

• Windows Forms VB.net window controls for databinding

  I have an application in vb.net window environment for insert, update record to access database.   the more window controls I put in the less record I can input (200 -75 - 20).  Now running for 20 records it's hanged because of System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception error.  it seems to me that the application eating out all of the resources.  the&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions help !

  Hi, I've just installed Visual C# 2005 Express Edition, and have now started learning the C# language, I already know C and C++. When I try to start my program with debugging (F5) I get this error: Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging.  The binding handel is invalid. Does anyone know how I can fix this You are likely running into this problem  which has a couple possible workarounds.  You can find more information about this at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx feedbackid=0d5a9aa7-6dda-4317-8c56-d03e53b25f10 . Thanks, Luke Hoban V ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Build, TestConfiguration and Deployment of files fails

  I have a number of tests that require some additional data files be deployed, which I have specified the directory to deploy in the file defaulttestrun.testrunconfig file, in the Deployment item. When running tests locally, everything works. The required directories and files appear in the <testrun>out\ directory. However, when I run the build using TFS Team Build that I have setup, the deployment process tries to copy the files to themselves. Example error message from MSBuild with /verbosity:diag C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v8.0\TeamBuild\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets : warning : Warning: Test ...Show All

• SQL Server unique code

  Hi all Problem Counter ID is not good because it gives information about the number of records, the next record.... So i want to obtain another unique code to store in another field of my table. I want to know some function to obtain a new code from the counter or other bases and which are very difficult to get inverse one. For example, if i have my counter 1,2,3,4,5,6,.... and my f(x) = x +100 my new code is 101,102,103,104 but if a user do 3 insert, he could understand the f(x)... Thx This is a tricky part of building keys. The user presentable number. I always use identity values for my tables, but sometimes ...Show All

• Visual C++ Open File Dialog

  Hi I`m trying to play a mp3 file with c++ a console application.. so i need the exact path to it.. i figured out how to show the open file dialog .. but i still have some problems CODE: OPENFILENAME ofn; char szFileName[MAX_PATH]=""; ZeroMemory(&ofn, sizeof(ofn)); ofn.lStructSize = sizeof(ofn); // SEE NOTE BELOW ofn.hwndOwner = GetActiveWindow(); ofn.nFileOffset=1; ofn.Flags=OFN_PATHMUSTEXIST | OFN_OVERWRITEPROMPT; ofn.lpstrFilter = L"Text Files (*.mp3)\0*.mp3\0All Files (*.*)\0*.*\0"; ofn.lpstrFile = (LPWSTR)szFileName; ofn.nMaxFile = MAX_PATH; ofn.Flags = OFN_EXPLORER | OFN_FILEMUSTEXIST | OFN ...Show All

• Visual C# Missing project file in a solution

  Currently, we are adding a c# project to a solution that was formely code in visual basic. However it seems that every time we tried to load the solution file, all of our c# project is missing and we have to manually add the c sharp project one by one. Does anyone have an idea how to overcome this problem It's not a fatal problem but it's quite annoying after some time. This can only happen if the path's chanced. Normally you add the C# files, save you project and all the problems are gone. Does this happen on just one PC or with just one solution/project ...Show All

• .NET Development Windows Message

  I'm trying to write a program in C# that will sit in an infinite for loop, waiting for any other application to write to or read from the registry. I have a few questions, I was hoping people maybe able to help with:- I intend to override a Forms WndProc function and take in the System.Windows.Forms.Message and compare the Msg from the Message for a particular WM_ value - Could you tell me if there are particular Windows Messages associated with writing to the registry or reading from the registry - Would the application's System.Windows.Forms.Message be able to "see" ANOTHER application is writing to the regi ...Show All