timbailey's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio What is the function of mscorsw.exe?

  At times the process mscorsw.exe starts and uses 99% CPU. Obviously it is almost impossible to use the computer while it executes. What does this process do and what can I do to improve the situation Thanks, Dan Has the problem with this dll been solved. I would like to install the Beta 2 again. However I see the message related to simultanous Whitbey and CTP incompatibilities ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Uninstall problem

  Maybe not the right place to post this but I cant see where else I should. I have Visual Studio Express C++ and Visual Studio Exress C# install willed. But neither will uninstall. They both get as far as "Setup is loading installation components. This may take a minute or two". It gets a few bars in and then stops. I've left it 15 minutes but it just hangs. I need to deinstall both because I have bought Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition. Any help appreciated. Thanks! I would try creating the actual CD and not using the virtual drive, there may be problems loading from the virtual drive systems. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Unable to cast object of type 'X' to type 'X'

  The actual projects structure is: + MyServerFramework |---QueryComponent.cs ... + MyServerFramework.Design |---QueryComponentDesigner.cs ... The MyServerFramework.Design project has a reference to MyServerFramework, and is compiled alone in its own solution which also contains MyServerFramework, and then placed in a folder that is referenced the SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\AssemblyFolders key so the IDE can find it. The MyServerFramework project is then used in other solutions which don't contain the MyServerFramework.Design assembly. And here is where I'm seeing this error. This happens in the follow ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Border with corner radius

  When a stackpanel with grey background is in a border with a BorderThickness of 1 and CornerRadius of 5, the corners of the stackpanel overlap the border at the corner. Tried ClipToBounds but no effect. How do you make the border cut off the stackpanel Yep, eburke's code can work pretty well. Sheva ...Show All

• Visual Basic Bluetooth Serial Ports

  I am currently working on a software program in VB 2005 that requires input from several external sensors that are connected via Bluetooth RS-232 serial ports. I am upgrading from vb 2003 in which i used the MSComm control with no problems. However, in visual basic 2005, the my.computer.serialportnames function does not seem to be returning the correct names of the serialports. It will append various characters to the end of the com port name, for example "COM18c" or "COM18u". This code seems to work with standard serial ports. Also, I am also having problems with mutual authentication. After I add the new bluetooth de ...Show All

• Visual Studio Report parameters

  I have a report on a page. The report accepts parameters from the user. Upon refresh, the data is updated but the parameter value in the report still shows the default value. For example, the report will show data for the last 20 days, a value just entered by the user but the report still says ".. in the last 10 days" where 10 is Parameters!number_of_days.Value Is this a Reporting Services (RDL) report or a Report Viewer (RDLc) report How did you describe the Report Parameter How did you set it's value ...Show All

• Visual Basic Finding the internal Event IDs of a COM wrapped Custom Control?

  Hi all! I have written a simple COM wrapper for the standard textbox control in .NET 2003 and exported it as a DLL. I have then embeded the component as an ActiveX control into another application (SAP ABAP) but this application (as do others ) requires the event IDs to be registered before they can be captured. The control loads and displays correctly - but just does not trigger any events. My problem is that I do not know how to find internal event ids of the events exposed by my custom DLL Do I have to explicitly declare or create the events to expose them to the calling application If I load the TypeLib file in the OLE/COM ob ...Show All

• Windows Forms Override Keypress in vb.net

  I've created a few buttons at runtime and added handlers for that buttons.. e.g for a keypress event. But when I press the arrow keys the focus is changed from th eone button to another. The event I've created works fine but I want the focus to sta on the button on which the arrowkey was pressed. How can I prevent the change of focus. The buttons are sorted in a grid format and want to move focus freely in a direction indicated by the arrow. Hi, thanks for help... I will find that helpfull in vb.net 2003. If actually figured out what to do in vb.net Express 2005. I only needed to suppress up/down arrows and have created a function ...Show All

• Visual C# Resizing jpg to smaller resolution

  I am not sure whether I should be in C# or C++ perhaps somebody could advise I write in Visual Basic & have an app the I want to allow the user to select some jpg files and have them reduced in resolution As Vb does not have this facility, I was hoping I could get somone to point me in the direction a code example I could utilise in net 2005, (don't yet know how) using C which I could then compile. my app would shell the c app at the appropriate time or a compiled exe that does the following read a text file which has detail re resizing size a list of files to resize with destination folder and name the ...Show All

• Windows Forms Class design question

  This is more of a general architecture question rather than specific to Class Designer. We are building a 3-tier web-app and are currently in planning phase. At the business layer, I have a class which has a 2-d array which can potentially hold thousands of rows. The thing is on the UI, I would like to implement some kind of paging to display only N rows at a time from this 2-d array. I only want to retrieve records for the current page from the database. This way the object does not overload memory with all rows that are not currently shown on the UI. How should I handle this in the class design Should I have a property in the class ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Rendering a button to a bitmap (whats wrong with this code?)

  Seems simple enough, but I get an image of a black button instead. Here's my code... In XAML I have... .... <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition/> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition/> </Grid.RowDefinitions> <Button Width="50" Height="50" MinWidth="0" MinHeight="0" x:Name="Button" Content="Button" Click="ButtonClicked" Background="Red"/> .... In my Click handler I have... private void ButtonClicked(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { RenderTargetBitmap rtb = new RenderTargetBitmap((int)this.Button.ActualWidth, (int)this.Button.ActualHeight, 96d, 96 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Report Server (MSSQLSERVER) ERROR

  Hi there! I've searched but haven't find any help for this error. The Report Server Email extension failed to read its configuration settings from the RSReportServer.config configuration file. The extension is not available to users. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Ok!!! I think it's solved! Start -> Programs -> Microsoft SqlServer 2005 -> Configuration Tools -> Reporting Services Configuration Login to Server machine and configure sender and SMTP server. ...Show All

• Visual C# Accessing Automatically Generated Code

  There are a couple pieces of auto-generated code (C# 2005 Express) that I need to find, and can't find them. Where is the code that handles the event of the Close box being clicked I was sure I had found this before but I can'r remember how or where. Where can I find the code for the "Add new" and "Delete" buttons on an autogenerated BindingNavigator I can find the code for validate/save, but not these other two. Greatly appreciate any insight into these issues! Thanks, Mr. Kean, I've been working in that mode all along. I can find the code that builds all the objects, but I still can't find the event h ...Show All

• .NET Development WSE 3.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 Membership

  Hi, In the past I have used a custom UserNameTokenManager class to authenticate username / password combinations is WSE 2.0.  Is there a way to tie into the ASP.NET 2.0 Membership provider for authentication and authorization using WSE 2.0 without writing custom code for WSE 3.0   Or do I still have to manually write the custom UserNameTokenManager Thanks, Jon   OK,  I just found a document on the patterns and practices site that seems to have more information....   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=3E02A6C8-128A-47C2-9F39-4082582F3FE1&displaylang ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Deploying VSTO Word Project: could not find or load customization assembly

  Hello! I developed a custom task pane with VSTO for a Word2003 report and now I would like to enable access for my clients to this document. I copied the document to a server folder in my intranet and tried opening it, but I got the following error:: "The customization assembly could not be found or could not be loaded" "The customization does not have the required permissions to execute." Therefore, I need to grant access to a server folder where the document and the assembly will be located. I checked http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/k64zb6we(en-us,vs.80).aspx and followed the "How to: Grant Permissions to Folders and Assemblies" pr ...Show All