David Lowe's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Simple forms question...

  I have my primary form (Form1) and a label control on there (label1).  In my project I've created many custom classes for grabbing data of which I would like to display to the user via the primary form's label1.Text property. How do I go&n ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista ICredentialProvider

  Did anybody make a successful user logon using the new ICredentialProvider interface My credentials are displayed, but I can't make them to logon. And what worse - after 20 or 30 seconds, the winlogon crashes completely with no recovery possible excepting hardware reset. I thought I basically did something wrong and decided to wait for more detailed documentation or some sample code. But MS doesn't seem to put too much effor ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office launching a VSTO app within a whidbey win app

  hiya, I have a whidbey win app that contains several menu options.Some of these menu options should launch a specific smartDoc.At the moment, I have the VSTO project within the solution. Is this the  best way to do this I don't want loads of "rogue" word docs open at the same time.I have looked but haven't found an example that would be a good starting point for this sort of thing. Can anyone point me in the right direction cheers, yogi ...Show All

• Visual Basic MdiChild external application

  Is there possibility to run third party application (for example notepad) as mdi child window in mdi parent form Or is there possibility how to manage window size of such a application Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Chart Control

  I have upgraded a VB 6 application that has a chart.  The upgrade was successful but when I run the application I get the following error: System.InvalidOperationException was unhandled   Message="An error occurred creating the form. See Exception.InnerException for details.  The error is: Unable to get the window handle for the 'AxMSChart' control. Windowless ActiveX controls are not supported."   Source="WindowsApplication ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions com and microcontroler

  I’m a beginner with Visual Basic. My final faculty project (assembly hardware and software) consists of driving microcontroller from PC. I have choused visual basic 2005 express edition to make graphic interface ( supervising controlling and data acquisition ) Argument: I ‘m using serial COM port for connection between devices. I my see lateral (ascii) on Hyper terminal; I ha ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Numeric Automatic

  I want to fill column in datagrid with id and want it fill automatic when the row focus so that i wrote this code and it'snot correct i want any one correct it Dim i As Integer For i = 0 To i Step +1 Coming_tblDataGridView.CurrentRow.Cells(1).Value = Now Coming_tblDataGridView.CurrentRow.Cells(2).Value = i Next Catch ex As Exception End Try Datagridviews are normally bound to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions System Volume Control

  Please can someone help me with Windows system volume! I have built an app that contains a slider control for which i would like to able to control Windows system volume from.  I have found some stuff on the net but it all seems to deal with the wave output instead of the volume control. I am coding in CSharp.  I thought these types of things were suppose to be easy in .net Thanks for any help in advance   Mark ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) When will the C# version of LinQ be ready for VS.NET 2005 RC0

  I am very excited about LinQ and would like to use it asap. Since I have to use the VS.NET 2005 RC0 version to create demos, I would like to inquire when will the C# version of LinQ be ready for VS.NET 2005 RC0.   Yes, I know that LinQ is already compatible with the VB version of the RC0 VS.NET release, but I would like to show Java programmers a flavor of what they are missing ! If the normal CLR met ...Show All

• Visual Studio login and password

  Hi! Is there is any possibility in VSS, that we can map it with active directory login and password or can we have in the network environment in VSS automatically windows login and password thanx If you mean VSS2005, then no, it won't support AD integration. Alin ...Show All

• Visual C++ Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition Beta 2: function names are greyed

  Hi all, When I opened a project I used to work on for a long time (written in C-language), I surprisingly discovered that the names of some functions in the "Members of (Global Scope)" list are greyed, which haven't been so beforehand. Clicking on those names leads me to the declarations in header files instead of real definitions. I wonder what is wrong. Thank you in advance. Easy come - easy go. After I wrote ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Problem in Removing the Children(animation) of StoryBoard

  hi Currently i am working on small application which give suser the option how he/she want to see picture wtih various kind of animation.And these animation are idependednt of each other. For Example: If i choose rotate animation then my application will display all the selected pictures with rotate effect.And when he choose to see them in Slide animation then rotate animation will stop and ans Slide animation will Start. But ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Programmatically add a workitem with AssignedTo

  Hi ! I'm using Beta 3 of TFS. After searching through the forum I found out how to add a new workitem programmatically. All works well except for the AssignedTo. Even though the WorkItem-Field[ CoreField .AssignedTo].IsValid returns true it dont work. It seemingly saves the workitem but assigns it to the networkcredential I am using for connecting to TFS using TeamFoundationServerFactory. Is there any way to make this work The logged-in ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Registration is somewhat confusing

  I think I registered successfully but I haven't received a key, only a thank-you email. Does anyone understand exactly what is supposed to happen when registering Thanks. No problem! I believe the registration process for SQL Server Express Edition is different from the other Express Editions. I'm looking into it for you now. Benjamin Bradley - VS Core IDE ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Web Tests are not running

  I have just recorded a test web test. Then, when ever I tried to run it, I get a dialog box with the error message, "The test could not run because of the following exception: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object" I do not get any other information about this error. Can anybody please help me to solve this problem. Thank you, Ruwan What version of the product ...Show All