LegendRey's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Inconsistent 2-tier TFS installation after SP1-probably solved here

  First I installed the Team Foundation SP1 RTM on the application-tier and after that succeeded I went to the database tier. But I'm not able to install the service pack on it. Somewhere the installation stops and hopefully reverts it's changes. The lock-down of the SQL server through the "TFS_Quiescence" still stays. There some manuall task to revert this and the SQL server is accessable again. Now we can't get any source code anymore because there is always an error which says that an incopatible version is installed: "Detailed Message: TF53018: The application tier MY-SERVER is attempting to connect to a data tier with an incompatible version.". Could somone please help me, I really need to access the source. Is it ...Show All

• Windows Forms no selected cells in the datagridview

  Hello, I am writing a programme with the datagridview, just to visualize data in the DB. I have sent the enabled property to false, so the user cannot select any cells. But at startup, the first cell is selected. As I am using colors in my grid, it is not pretty. How can I set things, so no cell is selected Thx, Bart I usually unselect it after I set the datasource DataGridView1.DataSource = dt DataGridView1.Item(0, 0).Selected = False ...Show All

• Visual C++ System::String^

  I am developing an application in visual c++ using VS 2005. I am reading data in via the serialPort dataRecieved class. This returns a system string, and I am assuming that the string is an array of unsigned characters. The trouble is I am unsure how to access individual data bits within the string. I can perform an if statement to check the contents against a set value. if(myString->Text == "hello world") But......I want to perform something like a switch statement so I can test the 3rd character against a set value, say... "x" or something similar. Can I do this When I have attempted it, I receive errors stating that a switch cannot be performed on a system string - IT IS ILLEGAL - apparent ...Show All

• Visual C# class inheritance and delegates

  In the book I'm reading for my MCTS 70-536 (ISBN-10: 0-7536-2277-9) it has a sample exam question about not extending one class and not getting the delegates with it. Is that true In other words, when you have A and it has an event declared in it, and you create B to extend A, shouldn't B get that delegate as well Thanks. PS Yes, I'm a noob, so please forgive the beginner question. Hi, In A if you have event declared with "private" or no-modifier then it will not be available in derived class B as its simply OOPs that cant access private members. But if you have event declared "protected" or "public" then it will be available in B, and the same is applica ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions image to a picture box without using the properties window.

  Hi, I would like to place a p icture box on a form and using a text box select from any number of images to show in the p icture box. How can I assign an image to a p icture box without using the properties window. Ken I'm using the image code to configure a PLC where each slot ( nine slots total) of the PLC has an image and a combo box so I can select the appropriate module for that slot. With all those images in the resource it takes around 12 seconds for the form to load. Is there anyway to reduce the load time When I remove an image from the resource folder I get an error when trying to run the program. How do I remove images from the resource folder, can I remove the folder and ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development Disabling Autoscroll on IE

  I was wondering if there was a way to disable autoscroll with the mousewheel on the newest version of IE for Windows XP. When I use the mouse wheel, it continues to scroll down and I can't stop it.... Very annoying. HELP!!! Just to be clear, the Autoscroll feature (aka. Reader Mode) of Internet Explorer refers to clicking and holding the middle-mouse button and moving the mouse around to control the scroll location of the page. As far as I can tell, the Autoscroll feature cannot be disabled. If you are experiencing erratic Autoscroll behavior when moving the mouse, you might try using the numeric keypad instead. Click the middle button and hold it, then use the following keys: 7upL 8up 9up ...Show All

• Visual Basic problem in generating serial number in a vb report form

  hi everyone.... i am having problem in generating serial number in payroll report using vb. the report shud b like this.... sl.no. empid empname basic hra cca when i try to give serial number it repeats the same number again and again.. pleas suggest what to do... thanks... You're going to have to be a bit more descriptive of the problem. It sounds like you have a function which creates a serial number, which you're passing to a report. But the serial number is not unique. There could be many reasons for this. Perhaps show us some code. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Secure password storage

  Hi, I'm making a business PDA application which gets and sends data from and to an Axapta database. For this i'm using SqlCE3.0 The problem I have now is that I have quite some bits that are sensetive information, namely the username/pass of the IIS folder where the SqlCE dll resides and the username/pass of the Axapta database. if possible i'd like to store the passwords in a secure storage on the device, does this possibility exist and if not, is it safe to store the key to decrypt/encrypt a password in code (I assume not, but where else if no secure storage exists) Thanks in advance, Ben. Or you can ask user for a password on your application startup and authenticate on the server ...Show All

• Visual Basic Cross-thread exception

  Hi, I'm writing a small server application (and a client ofcourse) using an asynchronous socket listener. Since it uses different threads, I can't directly call for controls on my form. But I can't solve the problem myself. Maybe someone else can hopefully help me with this. I have a socket listener class clsListener, and when the listener sends a connectionrequest, it should add a new row to a datagrid. Here's the sub I use for that: Private Sub writeOutput() Dim row As New DataGridViewRow row.Height = 16 ' all code for adding cells to the row ' after that, it should add the row to the datagrid dgOutput.Rows. Add (row) ' dgOutput is the datagrid I can`t access row.Dispose() row = Nothing End Sub When I don't use &quo ...Show All

• Community Chat Developer Solutions team needs you! Well your ideas anyway...

  Hi everyone, I'm a PM on the Developer Solutions team (I work with Joe), and I need some input from you all. I'm putting together a roadmap for some of our future Power Toys work, and we need some good ideas. I've posted about what I'm looking for over on my blog so if you're interested in helping us out, pop on over and check out my post. Thanks in advance for all the great ideas I know you'll send us. :) -Jeremy Kelley i wouldn't say that, we all know they make linux work with virtual PC because they know once anyone who is curious about it tries it, they won't like it since its hard to use (well for a non-geek anyway) well this would be diffrent, this will make VS appealing to those already in ...Show All

• Visual Studio Can't install VS 2005 SP1 on Vista Ultimate

  I can't install VS 2005 SP1 on a Vista Ultimate machine. When downloaded and "installed" via Windows Update, I get "Code 64C", and no further explination. If I download and try to install the fix directly (run as administrator) I eventually get an error telling me that the source code does not exist. All other Vista Ultimate updates have been applied successfully. I'm also running Office 2007 Ultimate. I can't un-install VS 2005 Pro from Add/Remove programs because it can't find c:\program files\microsoft\visual studio 8\vs_setup.msi during the VS 2005 maintenance mode program. I tried to copying vs_setup.msi from the install DVD to the aforementioned subdirectory, but I still got the same error message. I g ...Show All

• Windows Forms ProgressBar

  Hi All, I always collect the data from database and display in UI. But some times, it will takes long time to collect data from database and i would like to have a progress bar running in UI so that user know that there are processing running. Unfortunately, i did know the exact time of collect the data from database. So how can progress increase the value in it to the maximum. Hope u all understand what am i try to say. Thanks Kendy Umm, not entirely sure that you mean. Guessing: reset a regular (non-marquee) progress bar by setting the Value property to 0. ...Show All

• .NET Development Stream audio over LAN

  I want to be able to stream audio from my computer in my office to my computer in my living room. What is the best way to get started I just want to take the audio output and stream that. Any help would be great! Thanks Microsoft Direct Sound under Direct X will definitely help in this. Do some research and find this Book "Managed DirectX 9 Kick Start" it has the sample of what you are upto do. Best Regards, Rizwan ...Show All

• .NET Development Ping timeout < 500 ms

  Hi, I have to connect to many machines defined in IP addresses ranges at startup. In these ranges, it is possible that some IP addresses does not exist or some machines are not started so I Ping (using System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping) each IP address before trying to connect to it to prevent big Tcp timeout. It seems that, whatever timeout I specified < 500 ms, a Ping timeout is always at least 500 ms ! As I have to ping a lot of machines, I would like to specify a timeout of about 100 or 200 ms. To avoid too many threads, I send the ping sequentially in 1 dedicated thread. Thanks in advance, Droopy. I use Ping.Send (IPAddress, Int32, Byte[]). The second argument is the timeout. If I use 100 or 200 a ...Show All

• Visual C# Generating HTML or CHM files via XML Comments

  Is there an option in Visual Studio 2005 that allows me to export all of my XML comments into a CHM or HTML file visually similar to the online MSDN library I know that there is nDoc and DOxygen, and other third party tools (none of which work well with .NET 2.0 btw), but I would think that with VS 2005, MSoft would finally include their own way of doing something like this. That is ridiculous! I'm not normally one to bash Microsoft, because I am a true supporter of them on many different levels, but..... This is something that I believe should be incorporated as a tool within Visual Studio! How do they expect developers to write API's and SDK's from .NET without giving us a tool to automatically generate help files, ju ...Show All