PDCS's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Select treeview node with enter

  Hi there, The event AfterSelect, does not allow the user to scroll through the nodes with the keyboard. It selects the first node it comes to. I have already utilized NodeMouseClick for users who prefer using their mouse. My question is what event would allow users to select a node with enter. One requirement is that I must be able to view the tag property of the node selected. Any code examples would be greatly appreciated as I am fairly new at this. Thanks a bunch, Daniel Sorry, I don't follow you. I'm pretty new at this and don't yet understand some of the basics. If I'm using the KeyPressEventArgs how exactly do I reference the selected node What would be the syntax. I am used to using e.node.tag. Wha ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Error accesing outlook contacts

  Hi, I've got a problem accessing a large number of outlook contacts. It always crashes after doing 248 contacts. It exits with the error : Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'Outlook.ContactItem'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID '{00063021-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}' failed due to the following error: Interface not supported (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE)). I dont get why it gives me the error there while the rest works. Source: { Outlook.MAPIFolder oPublicFolder = of["Public Folders"]; of = oPublicFolder.Folders; Outlook.MAPIFolder oAllPublicFolder = of["All Public Folders"]; of = oAllP ...Show All

• Visual Studio Copy task does not overwrite read-only files

  How do I make Copy task to overwrite read-only targets The quick anser is "You can't." The copy task always fails when it tries to overwrite a read-only file. You will have to retrieve the list of files being copied and delete them from the target folder prior to calling the Copy task. The nice thing is you can retrive the list with something like this: <Project DefaultTargets="" xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003 "> <ItemGroup> <FilesToCopy Include="C:\Temp\**\*" /> </ItemGroup> <Target Name="Build"> <Message text="@(FilesToCopy)" /> </Target> </Project> ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development Just one BHO's instance for all the Tabs.

  It looks impossible, but: Is there a way to have a persistent instance of a BHO across all the Tabs That is, the same BHO instance for all the Tabs. At least, does somebody knows a “strategy” for to simulate this behavior you shared the one bho, only want to use the shared data among your instances. you can use shared data among all your instances, like #pragma data_seg(".SHARED") etc. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Question about the default window created in the WPF application...

  Is it possible to remove the bar with the back and forward arrows in the window created by the WPF application template in the Visual Studio or Microsoft interactive designer this might be what you are looking for http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=335391&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 3D Modeling

  What is the best free/cheap 3D modeler out there By best I mean a good combination of capable and easy. I have used Maya while playing with UT2004, but the free version won't export .X files. I have a copy of 3DCanvas pro, but I find it lacking somewhat. I have been using AC3D because it is easy and relatively cheap, you can download a 14 day trial. You can also look on TurboSquid and see if any of the models you need are already avaiable for free/cheap. ...Show All

• Visual Basic precision of a number

  Hi all, I am trying to get the output of some numbers enetered to a given precision. Example: if input is 12.456780977 and i fix the precision to 2 it should roundoff the entered no to 2digits after decimal and output should be 12.46 I am able to attain this output.........but if the input is given as 12.1 then i want the output to be 12.10 for precision 2 ,which i am not able to attain. Can anybody help in this case. right now i m using the following code: c=Round(a,2) *a can be given as input Thanks, Robin Hello, This is just your output thats not appearing as you want. Basically you can't store 2.10 because the zero is meaningless. If your displaying this n ...Show All

• Visual C++ COM DLL, regsvr32 and manifest - blech!

  I have a COM DLL that relies on MSVCR80.dll and when I try to register it with regsvr32.exe I get a "loadlibrary failed -2147220473" error.  If I create a regsvr32.exe.manifest file and place it with regsvr32.exe, then it works.  There has to be a better solution though.  I can't count on target PCs having regsvr32.exe.manifest installed (and I'd rather not install it if possible). Hi Keith, Went through your post at msdn blogs. I too have been working on Vista and tried to embed a manifest into a com dll using rc.exe but it dint have any effect and was not able to perform admin tasks, though i suceeded when i tried to embed a manifest into an exe i succeeded and the exe was performing ad ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) can I bind a controls IsEnabled to the SelectedIndex of one or more comboboxes?

  I am trying to implement a UI in WPF where the user can only use a button if they have already selected a value in two combo-boxes. As such I'd like to do something like IsEnabled="{Binding ElementName=comboBox_Name, Path=SelectedIndex}" however this doesn't work, the button stays disabled, I guess because SelectedIndex is an int with -1 being the value for no selection. Is what I'm trying to do even possible with 1 combobox, let alone then making IsEnabled dependant of two comboboxes. If it's not possible is there any other way to achieve this using triggers, without resorting to code-behind. It strikes me that this is a very common UI requirement and if I can only bind IsEnabled to anothe rbinary property such as IsChecked the ...Show All

• SQL Server Exception 0xc0000005 EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 637B7FC0 at 0x77387EAC

  Hi i am connecting to a DB2 database on a AS400 machine from SQL server 2005. I have setup a linked server to connect to the DB2 database. Most of the time the query ( select * from OPENQUERY(lnkd_svrname,'select abc from svr_name.lib_name.tablename') ) works fine but at times it comes up with the following error. I am running SQL server 2000 Std. Edition on a WIN 2000 machine. Any help would be a ppreciated . *****ERROR***** From the Exception.Log file 11/30/06 09:38:59 spid 69 Exception 0xc0000005 EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 637B7FC0 at 0x77387EAC STACK DUMP ---------------------------------- ============================== ============================== ========= ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions FromBoadStyle

  I got a form that its boardstyle is = none..... but i wanna do wen i click the form i can move it around...like MSN have..no matter where you click [except a component] you can move it thx ahead take a look at this on how to move a borderless form: http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Code/2002/Sept/MoveBorderlessForm.asp http://www.syncfusion.com/FAQ/WindowsForms/FAQ_c95c.aspx#q1107q http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/DraggableForm.asp   ...Show All

• Visual Basic DIRECT DOCS FILES PRINTING FROM VB.NET

  Hi all, I need to execute the windows command "send to printer" on my application. Well, I have some files in a listbox, after I selected some of them I'd like to send the selected items directly to the printer. In this way no printer windows will appear. It should be like when you click on the right button on a file in window (.DOC, .PDF,.TXT etc..etc.. ) and then you select the PRINT function. I think there's a commandline to be executed with the filename... or something like that. TIA for any suggestions about this best regards Dario The low-level method is to look up the extension in the registry, in HKEY_CLASS_ROOT (HKCR). Each extension key has a default value ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System When will this book be published?

  I wish Mr. Stott or Newkirk will see this.   Anyone has information about this book:   Visual Studio Team System - Better Software Development for Agile Teams by Will Stott and James Newkirk.   When will it be published   Thanks! Update on publication date: The book will be published in May 2007. We're sorry about the delay, but hope you find the wait worthwhile. Please come and take us to task at Tech-Ed in Orlando Will ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista MSAgent Character Sizing

  On pre-Vista versions of windows I was able to scale an MSAgent Character by changing the Characters Width and Height properties. Under Vista, the character window appears to be changing, but not the character graphics, so the right and bottom get cropped. Any thoughts/solutions Since it is not a known issue, your best recourse is to use your Microsoft Partner Support benefits and report this in an incident (as opposed to advisory). If it is confirmed to be a bug, then it would not be decremented against available incidents. If you are not currently a Microsoft Partner, please see the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/apr05/04-12ISVAdvisoryPR.mspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Example of tabbed webbrowsing

  Hello, as I have seen a lot new threads about the webbrowser, I thought: "Why don't try it myself " :p So I tried, and I just made myself a working tabbed browser :o I put the source and working example online so you people can have a look how everything works.. Here is the link Please post any questions/suggestions/bugs (I know there are a lot of 'em) here :) Grtz, Tom. tom, the webbrowser is in a tab, in a groupbox, and the webbrowser has focus. The form should not be capturing keydown under that circumstance should it Also there is an htmldocument inside the webrowser. The webbrowser does have a keypreview event. The event looks for other keys such as f1 for help. I commented the whole event out and it made no ...Show All