thomson's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Breakpoints window

  Hi, Is is intended to leave the breakpoints window functionality out of the express products If so it will be hugely frustrating to users of all abilities. Otherwise, first impressions very positive although the Framework seems slower than 1.1 Regards Jon Yes, the Breakpoints window is not included in the Visual Studio Express editions. Habib Heydarian Program Manager Visual Studio Debugger ...Show All

• Windows Forms MDI Main Menu

  Hello, I am trying to create an application that is a MDI where the main form has a menu and then each child form also has a menu of its own, but my problem is that when I open each child form the menu gets merged with the main form.  So my question is how would I get the menu to stay on the child form and not merge with the main forms menu . ...Show All

• Windows Forms open pdf or html

  Hello there, I would like to open a pdf file or a html page launched by a button. What is the best way to approach this Thanks a lot for your help. Chris This will work for either PDF documents or HTML pages assuming that you have access to the web AND you have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your PC.    Private Sub& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Property visibility problem

  Hello, here is the build file that I have: < xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" > <Project DefaultTargets="Test" xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003 "> <PropertyGroup> <Bobby>Default</Bobby> </PropertyGroup> <Target Name="Test"> <Message Importance="high" Text="Bobby = $(Bobby)" /> <CallTarget Targets="Test2" /> <Message Importance="high" Text="Bobby = $(Bobby)" /> <CallTarget Targets="Configure2" /> <Mess ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2000 alongside SQL Express?

  I would like to have SQL 2000 alongside an SQL Express in a Production environment. Is this wise Can Entreprise Manager and Query Analyzer work happily with SQL Express   SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 (including Express) can live side-by-side - this is a supported configuration. However, you cannot use the SQL Server 2000 tools to manager SQL Server 2005. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Passing var

  public void ObjectDumper( var x) {   Console .WriteLine( "Result" );    foreach ( var y in x)   {     Console .WriteLine(y);   } } The above code yields a compiler error at the ...(var x) as "Type Expected". Anyone knows how to pass the var type as a parameter Thanks all for your help    There is no conversion when you are boxing.  The reason I had you pass IEnumerable is so that you could pass something to the method.    When you box and unbox, you are wrapping/unwrapping a value type from an object instance.& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Failed to start monitoring changes

  i'm not sure if this problem belong to this forum, but it started only after a start to use visual studio express (web developer). when i try to build a website i get the folowing error: "Error 1 An error occurred loading a configuration file: Failed to start monitoring changes to 'Z:\lina\a\pics' because the network BIOS command limit has been reached. For more information on this error, please refer to Microsoft knowledge base article 810886. Hosting on a UNC share is not supported for the Windows XP Platform. Z:\lina\a\pics\web.config " "Z:" is a network drive located on difrrent computer. i read the knowledge bas ...Show All

• Windows Forms Ado.Net Concurrency Issues

  I need sample code for handling database concurrency in Vb.net. If anyone want to share your knowledge in this subject...Help to me. Thanks.. ADO.NET maintains two copies of the table it extracts. Once you make changes to the dataset (or datatable) and hit update, it will have 2 versions, the first version was the snapshot of the data that ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VB 2005 Express and .NET 1.1

  My work environment has a current standard of .NET framework 1.1 on workstations, and no sights set on 2.0 as of yet. I want to use VB 2005 Express... but projects are compiled using .NET 2.0. Is there a way I can use that IDE but my Windows App uses 1.1 for now You have to have VS 2003 to work with 1.1. Do you have an MSDN subscription If you do, you are allowed to install the software at home if you are using it to work from home. Chris ...Show All

• Visual C# Progress Bar

  I have a progress bar whereby it should progress for every graph that is loaded.But upon executing the program, the progress bar will immediately hit 100 % even the graph had not been fully loaded. But my code is written such that the PerformStep is placed after the loading of graph. Please advice. Thanks for ( int i = 1; i <= load_graph; i++) { parent_form.flowLayoutPanel2.Controls.Add( new TrendChart (a , root_source)); parent_form.progressBar1.TabIndex = 0; parent_form.progressBar1.Maximum = 10000; parent_form.progressBar1.Minimum = 1; parent_form.progressBar1.Step = 2500; parent_form.progressBar1.Pe ...Show All

• Visual C# Form Instance

  Ok. I have 4 forms. What I would like to know is when I create an instance of Form1, how to make it accessible from all the other forms. I see you have allready a topic about this, so i will close this one. Please contact me whenever you think it is closed with a wrong reason! ...Show All

• Visual C# Getting the user's location (country) in C#?

  How can I find the user's (client computer's) location (country) in a C# Windows Application I want to get their country and filter the items in a combobox to the determined country as default. I have the comboboxes set up corretly in Visual C# Beta 1 are getting the cities from my database. Basically the first combobox is full of Countries and the second is full of cities (filtered for the selected country). Best Regards, Dean Krause   Dean Krause wrote: Thanks a lot for the help, works great Where could I find a list of all the possible returns (e.g. Australia.....). Dean,     ...Show All

• Windows Forms User Control And Events

  I've go a User Control that inherits from the TextBox class and I've added a ListBox; I needed to create a custom event exposed to the parent form that would fire when the ListBox changed visiblity.  The code below works but I know it's now quite right.  Any help appreciated. Control Code Snippet============================================== using System; using System.Collections; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Drawing; using System.Data; using System.Windows.Forms; public delegate void ListBoxEvent(); namespace TextBoxLookupLib {  /// <summary>  /// Custom Textbox Control  /// </summary>&nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server small scale (light weight) SQL search engine (basically a stored procedure) to search through Products Table

  Hi, I am attempting to build a small scale (light weight) SQL search engine (basically a stored procedure) to search through Products Table. I am passing a search string, which i break up by the ' ' (space) delimiter. next for each [value] (after breaking up) in the search string I want to be able to count the number of occurences of each [value] in the [ProductName] [ProductDescription] fields of the [Products] table. However I am confused as if its even possible. We can count the number of rows(or products) that contain the [value] in either of the [products] data table fields but i don't know if its possible to count the number of occuren ...Show All

• Visual Studio Differences in IDE and MSBuild for Web Project

  Hi, I've got a wierd one. I've got a Solution that contains a Web project and a DLL project. The web project references the DLL project and The DLL project references 3 thirdparty dlls. When I build from the IDE, The build copies all the dlls from the DLL's output (my dll and the three thirdparty dlls.) However, when I build from msbuild, It neglects to copy one of the dlls. It is always neglects the same dll and it never gets copied. I've tried debug and release configurations and it is the same thing. I'll post whatever anyone thinks is helpful. thanks, nathan Note to this thread, I just started another v ...Show All