ravithegreat's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Cursor from Geometry

  Hello, is it possible to convert Mouse Cursor from Geometry I have a bit of UI on my screen, which I'd like to turn to a Mouse Cursor. Thanks. I guess you could hide the mouse cursor and RenderTransform/Translate a DrawingBrush or Image in response to the MouseMove event... Not what you'd wish for, but doable... ...Show All

• Visual C# How do I select Images from my External DLL?

  Hello, I've made an external DLL for my Icons/Images. The Image dll is nothing more then a resource file. So now I want to use this DLL in my projects but here's the problem. Calling the pictures by code is no problem. But i want to use them in my designer. When I click on the Image property I get a window (VS2005) -Import but this one wants .bmp,.png,.. -Resources but this one wants a .resx file from my project So how do I solve this problem ...Show All

• SQL Server Data Flow Task Problem

  I have a Windows XP X64 machine with SQL 2005 Developer and VS 2005 Team Edition for Architects on it. For the most part it appears that all normal VS and SQL functions are working properly with the exception of SSIS. If I open the developer studio and drag a Data Flow Task onto the design surface I get the message below. I have tried doing an unistall and reinstall of Integration Services as well as a repair on VS 2005 with no success. I've sea ...Show All

• Visual C# How to set Background Image in a multiline textbox/richboxcontrol or any other control

  Hi, I need some pointers on how to go ahead with it. Thanks, No, you cannot override OnPaintBackground. The events are not fired by default by TextBox or RichTextBox, so even if your custom control can override them, nothing is accomplished. The only way I know to get the Paint events is to set the UserPaint style for the control, but at that point the control will never redraw itself... which means that if you want to cha ...Show All

• Visual Basic Print control code

  Iam creating a order form using vb 2005 express beta, Iam having trouble writing correct code to print button that will print form contents. Iam only able to print a blank page. Please any help would br great thanks, Bruni look at the powerpack http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/aa701261.aspx This may help in printing a form ...Show All

• Visual C# Deleting Directories off a network drive

  So here is an interesting concept that I have not quite figured out. I am attempting to deleted all directories on a network hdd.  The drive is obviously mapped already.  See if I create a temp folder on H: (hdd) named "A" and insert it into the path "H:\A", it will be deleted with this try.  I have a windows form with a button to execute the event.  I have a textbox to output the results.  My buddy says that I shou ...Show All

• Visual C++ handling the global static object constructor thrown exception in VC++ Express Edition

  Hi, I am new to VC++ and would like to know how can I handle the exceptions thrown from a constructor of a global static object is to be handlwed in VC++. I tried creating another global static object which sets a handler function using set_terminate method but the control is not going there. Any guidance appretiated in handling the exceptions thrown by the constructors. Thanks and Regards, You run just into more troubles. ...Show All

• SQL Server Email tasks fail after an unsuccessful SQL 2005 installation

  I tried installing SQL 2005 Dev Edition on my Win 2000 Professional machine. That failed. But now I cannot send out emails or even open a simple Email task from DTS. This is something that worked perfectly fine before I attempted the SQL 2005 installation. It seems that the SQL 2005 installation somehow messed up the the MAPI profile. The exact error message that I get when trying to execute or open a Email task in DTS is: CAnnot load MAPI Inter ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Explorer Bug - Get Latest on Check-out

  I consider it a bug that Team Explorer does not fetch the latest version of a file when the client selects to check it out for edit. There should be at least an option in settings to enable/diable this. Editing out-of-date files is getting old. That's my 2 cents. DougN explains why this is the default behavior: http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2005/08/20/454140.aspx In short, silently breaking your build is a lot worse than making ...Show All

• Visual Basic Starting a process in a thread

  I am curious about being able to launch a process such as Process.start(c:\SomeDoc.doc) as a thread.  I don't really understand threads very well so if this does not make sense let me know.  If it does, can I see a code snipetf for using using a thread for a process. Thanks, Fred H Hi Fred, You can launch a process on threads. The following code snippet shows how you can do the same: Public Class ProcessLauncher &n ...Show All

• .NET Development Trying to create file causes UnauthorizedAccess exception

  I have created a web service in VS2005 and put it on my ISPs web server. I can reference the web service from my client just fine. The problem is when I in the web service try to create a file to contain some data, I get an UnauthorizedAccess exception. I have googled and also searched this website, but have not found the magic thing to do. I don't know how the web site is setup by my ISP (anonymous access and so on). Also I ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to show pdf document in windows forms created using c#?

  I whant to display pdf documents in windows forms.Is there any controls available for this. Not sure, but it seems like you could use the WebBrowser control to then host the viewer. - Erick ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Couple of questions

  I was told that if I had Visual Studio Team Architect version I could make a one time change to Visual Studio Team Developer. Does anyone know how to do this via the msdn web site I have an RC of Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite based on discussions I have had with others I am begining to realize that this is not the latest version of Visual Studio Team System. Is there a way to determine what is the latest version, i.e. version numbers ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Offline binding

  Is there any means to initialize "offline" binding for elements I've created in code through .baml/xaml parsing or imperative What if I've <ViewBox/> with some resources+binded elements-all self contained but I created it from "sratch" and it's not displayed on screen.Now I want to simulate "complete" cycle of rendering to get RenderTargetBitmap of my ViewBox...well you get idea All work nice except {Binding} ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WinFX May CTP ? +"real life and live" WPF application screen shots

  Next Week or other time Who can tell me I apologize for not responding sooner. In case you hadn't figured out -- there wasn't a March (or April CTP). Unfortunately, I can't confirm an exact date for the next CTP -- but we are working on one... Sorry that I don't have more data to share right now... -Arik ...Show All