Don Lafontaine's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System VS2005 Team System Beta 2 VPC - Login Failure

  I have downloaded and installed VS2005 Beta 2 VPC, including VPC SP1.  When I start VPC, it loads as far as the login screen.  I cannot login using the suggested user ame and password. Domain: ADVENTUREWORKS Username: LOCAL\darren Password: Pass@word1 The error I am getting is 'The system could not log you on....' Do I have to create the domain   Please advise  Garfield ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView Empty Data Template

  Hi, I'm using a DataGridView to show the results of a query that I made to my datasource. Now, there are sometimes that the result of this query is null, meaning there are no items to show. When developing on ASP.NET the GridView or the DataGrid had a EmptyDataTemplate, or something like that, the idea is that we can show something to the user letting him know that there were no records. Does the DataGridView has the same fucntionali ...Show All

• Visual C# DataGridTextBox Format

  Hello. Please tell me how to fix the following problem. I have DataGrid in which is displayed the information about products, getting the information from SQL Database. In one of the columns there is number of type of product. For example the Product1 and Product2 are type 1 and Product3 is type 2. I want to display a string instead of the number without having to change the value in the data base. Here is an example of what I am t ...Show All

• Visual Studio .Net Framework CANNOT uninstall or reinstall

  Hi All, My .Net Framework 1.1 does not give me the option to repair. I tried to reinstall, but it did not work because it gives me a message saying that I already have the current version installed. I'm trying to uninstall previous version of .Net Framework before doing a clean install of SQL Server 2005. When I tried to uninstall in Add/Remove, the following file it asked for, and I don't think it is on my harddrive - tmp1DD.tmp - any help ...Show All

• Visual C++ "debug assertion failed" when debug and release .exe both work fine.

  Hi: I compile one program under both debug and release setting in VC++ Express 2005 and with no error. Both version execute without any error. Somehow I constantly encounter "debug assertion failed" message when I press F5 to get into debug mode under VC++ Express 2005. Could anyone tell me what happened The error points to a piece of code I never changed... which is standard I/O procedure. I am pretty sure if there's ...Show All

• Visual C++ Does Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition Beta 2 support DirectX 9.0c?

  Does Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition support DirectX 9.0c    Was it built to support it   Will it support it in the future I am trying to use some sample code from DirectX3D with Does Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition Beta 2 run with DirectX 9.0c (the latest) with unmanaged code and it simply does not work.  There are several missing include files (objbase.h, windows.h...etc). Any help would be appreciated. CP The Pl ...Show All

• .NET Development DeviceIoControl() c#

  Hello Can anyone help and tell how can I operate the function:DeviceIoControl() in or from c# (c sharp) Thanks Ohad Jeffrey Wall has a blog post on MSDN about this Google seems to know alot about this subject . ...Show All

• Visual Studio Merging Source Safe databases

  Hello. Is there a tool to merge 2 VSS databases Considering that a branch is actually another VSS database (same projects structure), does anybody know a tool that can merge 2 branches into one Thank you. Cosmin Seems like an awful lot of a work for something that would rarely be needed.  I often need to know the specific delta information of file x version y to z of branch n ; but, never had I needed ...Show All

• Windows Forms Custom Scrolling

  I have built a control & now I want to be able to scroll a multipage text in it freely  without inheriting TextBox , RichTextBox , TextBoxBase , because of extra features . please help me , thank you . Check out the h ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can't Install Terrarium

  I would like to try this out but having difficulties installing.  It gives me an error saying that I need DirectX 7.0 installed.  I have DirectX 9.0b.  Anybody know why or how to get past this error I have the same ...Show All

• Windows Forms Thread maximum

  I am worry about my control's maximum number of my .net application. I am using VB.net to created a multi-use server including chat,control,transfer...etc. In this server program , when a new user connected to the server My server give it a new backgroun ...Show All

• Visual Studio Bug : Rotated text at 90o don’t show properly in Web (report in web browser viewer)

  I’ve made a report in VS2005 Designer, put a ReportSource and ReportViewer control and Build. Everything is ok unless the headers text that in my report are rotated 90o. For what i can tell it’s because there isn’t a css parameter to rotate the text (like in Asian languages). I’ve tried it in many browsers and computers with diferent OS and browsers versions the error is always the same... is this flaged already that it’s true but if you ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Turning off Wireless Radio

  Is there any way to turn off the radio on a wireless networking card   or even turn off the power to the card   I have tried the setDevicePower function in the coredll.dll, but the radio comes right back on.  What I really want to do is the same as turning it off in the same way setting in flight mode.  And then be able to turn it back on again. Thank You Robert Brown Sinex Solutions ...Show All

• SQL Server http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345276.aspx is wrong?

  To build the sample in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 From the File | Open menu, click Project and open the SqlConnectionMgr.sln in your preferred programming language. In the Solution Explorer, select the SqlConnectionMgr project, which is the top node in the Solution Explorer . Locate the DtsPipelineComponent attribute before the class declaration in the SqlConnectionManager.cs file or the SqlConnectionManager.vb fil ...Show All

• Visual C++ CString assignment operator causes memory exception

  I compiled VC++ 6.0 code with VC++.NET 2003/2005 beta and both causes a memory exception with CString assignment. My code looks like the following: CString szFileName = g_pGlobal->m_szAppPath; where g_pGlobal is a pointer to an object with global scope. The crash occurs if the assignment is done outside of the object instance itself. Quick Watch shows all CString members of that object are Bad Ptrs! I don't get it. ...Show All