Vicki Maxon's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Reports?

  Hello, how to create custom reports  Is there any tool Thanks Stephan  Stephan, I've provided instructions on creating reports at http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=13143 . Allen ...Show All

• Visual Studio Release of a DSL for the Gamma et al. Design Patterns

  Hi folks, I have written a DSL for the Gang of Four design patterns. If any of you are interested in taking it for a spin, you can get the source and doc from:    http://www.clipcode.biz/workshops/dsl.html Enjoy, Eamon O'Tuathail Clipcode Knowledge Services mailto:eamon.otuathail@clipcode.biz http://www.clipcode.biz Hi Eamon, This is a great piece of work. I had some issues with the Design ...Show All

• Visual Studio any complete examples of creating new custom C# projects

  Does anyone have a full example of a Visual Studio 2003 custom C# project which demonstrates 1. it appearing in the New Project dialog, in its own folder (I know this means adding an entry to TemplateDirs). 2. it having custom C# files which I can add using Add New Item 3. it having its own icons - so I'll need to know how to create a resource file. I'm not trying to extend VS, just create my new template projects. Its a lot to ask- does anyone ...Show All

• Smart Device Development PPC 6700 Sprint -- FileName Problem

  I have Dell Axim X51V with CF2.0 C# application. In my device if I create filename programatically like 123.txt it works great with no problem. One of my customer has complained that if he enters 123 for filename, his device (PPC 6700 Sprint) is not creating the file. But if he enters characters like abc then abc.txt is getting created fine. In the previous case he is not getting any error message. If somebody has this type of phone can yo ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to draw a control on form designer with variable size

  Hi Guys, I am trying to draw a control picked from the toolbox on to the designer surface by means of defining the first top-left and dragging the mouse cursor to the right-bottom corner point. I do not know how to do this, the drag/drop from the toolbox works fine. Is there some kind of settings i have to define first Thanks Michael Well, I see now that this is totally differ ...Show All

• Windows Forms Proper coding model for running multiple dialogs.

  Hi all. I have a question regarding the correct programming model I should be using for getting multiple dialogs to interact with each other and the user at runtime. Its something I've never been good at - I've been using Visual Studio since version 6, messing with Dialogs in MFC. I didn't have much trouble switching to .NET's framework, but having recently switched to .NET2.0 and Visual C# Express, I'm getting abuse from Mr. MDA telling me that ...Show All

• .NET Development Service will not create Log file

  I have been having a problem with my services working correctly. I am trying to create a custom event log, that the system refuses to create.  IT may have been connected to my problem of creating and delete the windows service. I had actually created 2 that were both different names, but the service name was both service1.  I then changed the second one to service2, but it refused to uninstall and would delete the Log file.  I fin ...Show All

• .NET Development Most of things require much lesser code in .NET. Some things NOT!!!

  Hi! Intro | After a few years dealing with .NET I can say that I'm very pleased with the fact that I have been working with Microsoft Development tools in my carreer. And this includes starting from GW-Basic, moving to VB5 and 6 and now 7 and 8 and a little C#. Less Code | Most of things require much lesser code to implement. The code is almost completely managed and there are much fewer chances of using third part components or WIN32 API to ge ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Non-VS client for TS source control?

  Newbie question: we have developers who do embedded work and don't use Visual Studio. They prefer their own editors and must use speciaiized compilers/linkers. They currently use SourceSafe for source control. Is there a standalone VSTS source control client that these folks could use We are very interested in changesets, shelving and the tying back to project tasks. Are these only available in Visual Studio/VSTS ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Adding elements to a grid dynamically

  hi all, once again...i am trying to add textboxes to an existing grid of a winfx window. maybe anyone can give me a hint on how to do that.. thanks in advance; // assuming "myGrid" is the name of the grid TextBox tb = new TextBox(); myGrid.Children.Add(tb); Grid.SetRow(tb,0); Grid.SetColumn(tb,0); ...Show All

• Visual Studio Cannot debug a form method called from a thread

  hi folks, i'm trying to break and step through a method in the main Form of a c# program. it is called by a thread created by the same form. it breakpoints fine but the cursor is dead for something like 5 to 8 seconds. after that, if i attempt to view and local variable data, it says "evaluation timed out. you must continue execution" or something close. the real problem is that when i hit F10 to step, the calling thread behaves as if terminated ...Show All

• Visual C# form not repainting text

  Hi, i built a form with a progressbar and a percent text (label). Now i run throug some loops and delete some files, and in every iteration the progressbar is updated. The label is updatet too, but it doesn't change it's text until every loop is done. Then the right text is shown. I cannot figure out WHY this happens. Here some code: //one of the loops foreach ( FileInfo file in files) { try { file.Delete(); fileCou ...Show All

• Windows Forms browser & winform

  I want to create a menu in plain html for my application. How do i launch a winform by clicking on those links(anchors) in the browser  I am using framework 1.1. thanks for any advice You have to elevate the permissions level& ...Show All

• SQL Server Why is this slow?

  The query is just... select name, max(date) from myTable group by name myTable had a clustered index PK, also non-clustered indexes on name and date. There are approx 1,000,000 rows and there are only 3 distinct names. This takes 10-15 secs to execute, even running directly on the server. Server trace says duration = 100, reads = 100 Profiler says CPU=20000, reads = 20000, duration = 10000 What on earth is going on ! ...Show All

• .NET Development underlying connection was closed:an unexpected error occurred on receive

  hi, webservices installed on windows 2003 is trying to access another server behind firewall. And getting this system.net exception. please let me know whts the fix for this.   thanks gouda     Maybe firewall doesn't permit packets from your network, or forbids connection to the port you're trying to access. BTW what port you're trying to use Can you specify the Ex ...Show All