Christopher Roberts's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Virtual Server Not in Config Database - TFS Beta 3

  I can't browse to my Team Foundation Site.  If I attempt to get to the site through SharePoint Central Administration, I get this error: "The virtual server that is referenced here is not in the config database." If I browse to http://localhost:8080/ , I get a 403 Error (Not Authorized to view this page). If I try to browse to any of the pages within http://localhost:8080/ , I get 404 Errors. I have installed Beta 3 of Team Foundation Serv ...Show All

• Windows Forms non-topmost form textbox behavior

  I have an old form that I would like to re-use, but to do this in my application I must host the form in another form. The problem is that I need it to look like the topmost form and to behave like it too. On other forums I've found a way to make the form look like the topmost form by executing the following code: this.form2 = new Form2(); this.form2.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(-6, -24); this.form2.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(t ...Show All

• Windows Forms Keyboard input in Form

  I'd like a Form to handle keyboard input.  However, I do not want it to clash with other controls that use keyboard input, such as ComboBox, PropertyGrid, etc. Is there a way I can find the Control that has the keyboard focus and query it to see if it (is one of the known ) text entry Controls.  This way I could prevent multiple controls from handling the same input.  This particular application needs global level input due to its ...Show All

• Smart Device Development OpenNETCF beta 2 and VS2005

  Has anyone gotten the OpenNETCF stuff to work with VS2005 I have been trying for a week now and response on their forums might as well not exist. Getting error from VS2005 that the package dll is not supported by VS but that doesn't make much sense to me. Not sure if there is something in VS that is looking for the old stuff or what is going on. VS lets me add it to the toolbar, and it lets me include the packages into my references s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions So how do We deploy?

  If VC++ express doesn't include an installer project, then how can I distribute the files needed Is there a free installer wizard that supports .NET or has someone created an Installer project Can I just create a batch file or exe that runs .NET runtime install and copies my dependencies or is there a better way any help appriciated. Take a look at the following threads that discuss similar issues: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPo ...Show All

• Windows Forms My experiences with WindowsForms

  I'd like to share my experience porting a program to .NET. Our company had a little program, written in Access. You'd enter some information, which would be passed to a DOS program that created some results. I ported the entire program - the Access& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office excel vsto workbook appln

  how can i create a stored procedure for access2003 from vsto There is no specific VSTO way for interacting with Access. In general, though, you would use the CREATE PROCEDURE command in ADO.Net in order to create Access stored queries. A Web search for Access Stored queries in VB.NET returns several relevant hits with additional info. iouri --- This post is provided AS-IS and confers no rights. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions UserControls/Design Time Property Grid

  I'm designing and UserControl with a lot of properties.  I would like to place some of the porperties in sub catagories.  Similar to the way the X,Y properties are displayed for the Location property under the Layout catagory.  Can someone help me emulate this behavior.  Thanks Robert Sure... you can supply a TypeConverter attribute to a property. The TypeConverter will convert your ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Access to serial port in a WinCE device

  Hi, I am developing a WinCE application for a PDA and i need to access its USB port. I am trying to access a serial port, using the function CreateFile, and when I execute the .exe in the PDA (it compiles and links well on PC), it returns me a '120' Error (This function is not valid on this platform.). In the web requirements fot this function it says "OS Versions: Windows CE 1.0 and later", and the PDA has 'Microsoft Pocke ...Show All

• Windows Forms BackgroundWorker and BindingSource Threading question

  The documentation mentions the following: You must be careful not to manipulate any user-interface objects in your DoWork event handler. Instead, communicate to the user interface through the ProgressChanged and RunWorkerCompleted events. So if I have a datagridview, a typed dataset, a table adapter, and a binding source components on a form and the datagridview datasource is the binding source and the binding source data source is the typ ...Show All

• Visual C++ vstudio 6 on "no class name display in the "class view" tab of workspace"

  Sometime, nothing appears in the calss view in the workspace even though there are some files in the file view. why those happened I have a workspace with 20 projects, some of which are normal library (dll) project without MFC support. Typically, those library proect will have the problem described. ...Show All

• Visual C# DateTime.Parse and empty strings

  I'm trying to import a text file into my SQL table.  I'm running into problems when the date field is empty.  DateTime.Parse(sField[3]) will throw and exception if the field is blank.  I've tried sField[3] =="" null : DateTime.Parse(sField[3]) to no avial, the compiler comlains that it cannot implicitly convert datetime to string. any ideas Glad you got it working. You can streamline the above cod ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Getting Host Variables

  Im wondering if anyone can help me. I am hosting Windows Workflow in ASP.NET. In ASP.NET I am using NHibernate. NHibernate has a run time variable that is created when the web app starts up that all the sessions use to create querys, etc. Its a good practice to only have ony application variable because of 2nd level caching, etc. My question is how would I go about getting access to this application variable inside windows workflow. I cant pass ...Show All

• SQL Server Help on Migrating from 2000 to 2005- SSIS package

  Hi, I have to create a migration package ..means package should migrate the sql server 2000 tables to 2005 tables (Not dealing with data at this point of time and ignoring SPs,DTS packages).But there are lot of normalisation ans schema changes in 2005 compared to 2000.Like, - One 2000 table devided into 3-4 tables in 2005 - Lot of changes in the filed names - Handling integrity relationship between the newversion tables Being new to SS ...Show All

• Visual Basic A program that converts VB6 code to the 2005 Express Edition?

  Is there one out there I'm in desperate need of it! babbel fishken http://web.telia.com/~u31115556/desc/programs.htm#BabbelFisken ...Show All