Mark_A_Polson's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) winfx installation

  Hi, I installed WinFx February CTP but the setup did not install any items in Start Menu. I can not find samples, tutorials, or any readme. By using FileMonitor I saw that the installation files are placed in %Windows%\WinFx\v3.0. I could not find the svcutil tool anywhere on my computer. What am I missing Thanks, Martin Kulov Hi Martin, Did you installed Windows SDK for wcf also,all these tools are part of winfx sdk ...Show All

• Windows Forms Graphics.MeasureString

  Is there a way to get Graphics.MeasureString to take into account whitespace (like spaces and tabs) at the ends of strings   I tried feeding the function a StringFormat object with the Trimming property set to StringTrimming.None but it didn't seem  ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Beta 2.2. Upgrade issue

  Does anyone know what would be causing the following when starting a new workflow Global.asx.cs System.Workflow.Runtime. WorkflowRuntime workflowRuntime = new System.Workflow.Runtime. WorkflowRuntime (); Application[ "WorkflowRuntime" ] = workflowRuntime; workflowRuntime.StopRuntime(); workflowRuntime.AddService( new System.Workflow.Runtime.Tracking. SqlTrackingService (System.Configuration. ConfigurationManager .Ap ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Registering Express editions

  Hi,  Can I reuse my registration number for the Express Editions on more than one PC or do I need to register again Thanks The registration key is also tied to user profile, so you will need to re-register to obtain a new registration key every time you reinstall your PC.  To be safe, you can keep a copy of the ISO file as Andre suggests. Thanks, -Scott Currie (DDCPX Program Manager - Micro ...Show All

• .NET Development Determining the maximum number of characters that may be displayed within a given area

  Hi all, I'm looking for a way to determine, for a given font, a "conservative" maximum number of characters that I can display in a given field using that font. I know that I can use Graphics.MeasureString() to figure out the size of a specific string. Instead, I want to know, "a lower bound on the maximum number of characters of a given font that can be displayed within a given area, without being truncated." Obvio ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Commands Suspended

  Whenever I execute the command Select count(*) from any_table to get a count of the rows in the table, 9 processes get created and each one of them is listed as being Suspended. The first process has a wait type of CXPACKET with no resource listed and the other 8 all have a wait type of PAGEIOLATCH_SH with a resource of 8:1:nnnnnnnn. The command will sit in this state for 3 - 5 minutes and then return the result. I am seeing this type of wait in ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums What is the difference between SET and Assigning a value to a variable?

  Hi, Can anybody advise what the difference between SET and assigning a value to a variable Example: Sub NewWorksheet() Dim ws As Worksheet Set ws = Worksheets.Add ws.Name = "New sheet" End Sub =================== Set ws=Worksheets.Add vs. ws.Name="New Sheet" Why not just write ---> ws=Worksheets.Add ----- for the former Regards, Patrick Hi Patrick You ...Show All

• Windows Forms Passing a string to my form

  I want to start my windows application (exe file) from command prompt and pass for example a name string to the exe. How and where do I retrieve that string in my form code  I thought that I could just get it from the EventArgs v ...Show All

• .NET Development Can WSE 3.0 be used with the Compact Framework 2.0 on Mobile 5.0 devices?

  I tried to find the answer to this question, but could only find a lot of partial answers. Can WSE 3.0 be used with the Compact Framework 2.0 on Mobile 5.0 PPC devices Here are my thoughts on this. I think MS is dropping the ball. ...Show All

• Windows Forms checkbox greyed out

  Hi I have added a checkbox column to my datagrid with this code....         Dim boolCol = New DataGridBoolColumn         boolCol.MappingName = "ID"         boolCol.HeaderText = "Process This item"  &nb ...Show All

• .NET Development How to get the left digit value?

  Hi Is there any function is available in Managed C++ to get the left side value of Integer value for example, that function should return the interger value like this... leftvalue(19,1) = 1 leftvalue(25,1) = 2 Assume leftvalue() is proposed function. Thanks in advance Jose  Hi, If my memory serves me right, then InStr() - gets the location of a specified character(s), Mid() gets a substring. If thats the case then: String^ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Source Safe Analyze

  We are using the VSS 2005 Beta with about 10 local users and 3 remote user. Looking from the VSS Admin GUI, we see that nobody is Logged into the Database, but when we try to run Analzye -f it complains that someone is logged in. Where can I see all the machines logged into SourceSafe The remote people are using the VS 2005 Beta with the Internet plugin. These people never seam to show up in the list of users logged in. How can I determine if th ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I make the user able to close the about box with 'Esc' button?

  The title says it! TIA. private void AboutForm_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e) { if (e.KeyData.ToString() == Keys.Escape.ToString()) this.Close(); } ...Show All

• .NET Development Transfrom Memory XML and send output to client

  So i am loading a base XML file. Modify this file in the memory, load an XSL that should convert it to a nice HTML page. however, i have no clue as to how i can send the transfrom results to the client! here is what im doing: //the classes public abstract class XMLWorker { protected XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument(); protected XMLWorker() { } } public sealed class XMLPageCore : XMLWorker { public XMLPageCore(string Path ...Show All

• .NET Development ILMerge for dotnet 1.1

  Hi everyone, I have been using ILMerge since dotnet 1.1 framework. Recently I formatted my hard drive and forgot to save a copy of the ILMerge.exe. Thus, I went to the Microsoft website to download another copy. Now the ILMerge is 2.0 version which requires dotnet 2.0 to run. This is fine with me as I can download the dotnet 2.0 framework. But when I use that tool to combine my executable with the rest of the dlls,  I found out that the ...Show All