bwhunan's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Welcome to the MSBuild forum

  Hi, I am Faisal Mohamood, and I am a Program Manager on the MSBuild team at Microsoft. Please use this forum to post your questions and comments about MSBuild. --Faisal Mohamood ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions A few things

  Hello 1) How can i read and write text from a (text)file (encrypted if possible) 2) How do I create a chat application 3) How do I show the time and date in my program 4) Is it possible to let a program have more then one language For example that people can choose a language for the entire program And how is it done then 5) How to add a calender to it (without database and with notification on certain dates) => as a user control or something like that to my program.   Bye and thanks in advance for anything you can tell me about this.   1 - The System.IO.File names ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView Columns Reflecting User's Dropdownlist Choices

  Hi everyone, First off, I am able to reflect the user's dropdownlist selections for the "where" clause in the select statement. (First group of dropdownlists). However, the problem I'm currently facing is having the DataGridView columns reflect the user's choices in the second and third groups of dropdownlists (which are not on the DataGridView). In other words, I would like the user to determine whether a field is shown in the DataGridView. This means that if the user selects "Account" from the second group of dropdownlists, for example, then the select statement should show up as select Account from dat ...Show All

• Visual C# Message passing... telling the form the control is in to do something

  Hi, I have an application that has a user created control, the data in this control is used to populate color boxes in a seperate user control contained within the same form. How can i call a function of the form that my two controls are in without having a form object in each of the controls Thanks for any help, -Dave Yes, you can cast the Owner property to the needed type and then call the needed method. But with events it is much more dynamic and it is the way to handle such things. What is wrong with events ...Show All

• Visual C# StringBuilder.Length adds null character not space.

  According to the Class Library Documentation, the StringBuilder.Length property will do the following... "...If the specified length is greater than the current length, the end of the string value of this instance is padded with spaces ...." When I try this it is padded with a null character "\0". So then I have to do a sb.Replace('\0', ' '). Is this correct and common knowledge What fundamental thing am I missing Thanks James, glad to hear it wasn't me... I liked the Length property for its simplicity and clarity in the dual purpose of truncating as well as appending. Especially if it did as documented an ...Show All

• Visual C++ How can use both VC++ and C# in same solution

  How can use both VC++ and C# in same solution Thks *grin* I don't think so.  This guy has posted across four forums, and his question is, can he take a VC6 project and turn it into a C# project.  In any case, you can add C++ and C# projects to a solution, but you can't compile C++ and C# in the same project, can you Perhaps in ASP.NET you can, although I've never seen C++ used in ASP.NET.   ...Show All

• Visual Studio HowTo: Access instance of own property page

  Hi, is it possible to access a specific instance of my own property page from my flavored project I need to modify a ComboBox on that page from my code. Regards, Jens Hello Jens, In general, property pages save their properties in the project or configuration. As a result the code that needs to access (read or write) those values would do that by accessing those same properties on the project/config directly. If you want to discuss this more in details, please include information about your scenario (is it configuration dependent/independent page, at which point in time are you trying to change the va ...Show All

• Visual C++ Latest compiler creating XP-only compatible .exe files

  [had no luck on the Visual Studio Express forum...] Has the compiler for this new release version of VC++express changed since the beta On a different forum, the following posts have been made: " I always use UPX to compress my binaries, and it seems that compressing the output of the new compiler produces something that doesn't run." "Is there any managed code in it UPX butchers that as I recall as it is not actual valid machine code." "Yes, that must be it.. though I can't find any options to get rid of the damn stuff. I've got CLR support turned off in the settings, and it's exactly the same project that used to work ...Show All

• .NET Development Connecting with MSDE to MS Access database

  Hi, I must admit i'm a bit of a noob so go easy please! I've been trying to connect from a C# form to a MS access database through MSDE. I've been trawling the internet for hours and can't solve the problem. Here's my method: In .Net i've opened server explorer, right clicked Data Connections and selected add connection, opening 'Data Link Properties'. I've inputted Server Name 'WORK' Put in user name 'sa' password 'hello' At this point the test connection works. I then want to select the database. I'm given 4 options, master, model, msdb, tempdb. Not sure what they are for. Could someone explain Anyway  I need to connect a dat ...Show All

• .NET Development system.objecr

  hello all, In .Net framework, every class is a class of system.object, how can we proof this. thanks For example with a Reflector: http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/ ...Show All

• Visual C# Asynchronous Sockets - BeginAccept

  Im having some trouble with BeginAccept... each delegate runs for a while (Transfers data) and more than 2 delegates cannot run together, it quees the others automaticly, can I somehow change this default value of 2 Can you explain it in more detail As far as i understand your question i could only say that you can't accept twice on one socket at the same time. ...Show All

• Visual C++ MSXML DOM memory usage

  One of the applications I'm developing requires the use of some kind of phone/address book. The address book requires to be persistent. The first idea was to use the registry, but it appears that in the typical scenarios in which this will be used, the address book can have as many as 65,000 - 70,000 entries and that would mean too much data in the registry. I'm evaluating the suitability of XML for this purpose and plan to use DOM to allow for typical operations associated with an address book. In this context, I need to know the typical memory requirements for MSXML DOM when used in this manner. I do not expect the data format to be too de ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Is anyone having problems with messengeractivitysdk

  When I download the sdk and then open messengerp2p.chm, all the topics are blank. I am experiencing this problem on my work pc as well as my home pc, so that it appears to be a problem with the sdk help file. Thanks, Jeff No problem, I had the same thing, but I searched a bit and found the solution. I hope this helps other people too. It isn't a bug btw, but it's a result of MS's security policy... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Smart Docs in SharePoint

  Hello, First, I'll paint the picutre of what I have set up... I found that I could deploy a Smart Document solution to a Document Library in SharePoint by publishing to the 'Forms' directory inside of the target Doc Lib. The actual publish would fail as VSTO doesn't have the ability to interface with SharePoint yet, but I would just use Frontpage to actually get the files in there. At this point, I have a Smart Document and its assemblies in a Document Library as the document template. When users click the 'New Document' button, the smart doc is brought down (Excel in this case) and everything runs great. When they save it back to t ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to share one WindowsMediaPlayer by two forms?

  I have two forms between which the user can switch. Each has its own music track. One of the two forms is the application's main form. Is there any way that they can share a single axWindowsMediaPlayer control I'm asking this because if I give them each their own WMP control, there is some ugly sound interference even though of course one of the two has been ordered to stop playing. It stops playing OK, but still does 'something' that interferes with the other WMP's sound. Thanks,   Guido That is, unfortunately, not good enough since the form that is instantiated (in my case, form 2) does not ...Show All