Glenn Burnside's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Memory leaking on one machine, but not another... HELP!!?

  HI I have a vb.net windows forms app (framework 1.1) It creates 4 user-controls on a window (which themselves contain a mixture of com and dotnet controls). It displays the user controls for a fixed amount of time, passing in image and video files to be displayed for fixed time-legths, then destroys them. Then it starts again. On my laptop, and 3 other machines I have at my disposal, the user-controls are disposed of properly, and memory is released, but on 2 machines, the memory is not released! It appears that Garbage collection is not working properly! This is running exactly the same binary .exe file on different machines, and all machines are running framework 1.1 sp1 on xp pro sp2. Can anyone give a reason why on one machine, the mem ...Show All

• Visual C# part of the alphabet

  Is there a prewritten funtion that I can use to check if a string only contains the english alphabet You may be able to use regular expressions. Check this out: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/20bw873z.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Hosed Refactoring Smart Tags after LINQ May CTP Install

  I installed the May CTP. The refactoring Smart Tags no longer work. For example, when a variable name is changed, the underscore glyph appears indicating that a refactoring is available. Usually, by hovering over the glyph or by pressing a shutcut key, a Smart Tag will appear. This Smart Tag no longer appears. Further, the Refactor shortcut menu is no longer available in the body of the editor. I uninstalled the C# 3 language service using "Uninstall C# IDE Support.vbs", but the refactoring support was not reset. How do I restore my IDE to it's previous state Do I need to re-install VS By the way, I have noticed one other really odd behavior that is likely unrelated, but a bit unnerving. After the installation of the CTP is complete, Fire ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System override BuildDirectoryPath

  Is it possible to put a condition on the <BuildDirectoryPath> property and pass in a parameter from TFSBuild.rsp to set that condition i.e.: in TFSBuild.rsp: /p: BuildAgent=Buddy in TFSBuild.proj < BuildDirectoryPath Condition = " '$(BuildAgent)'=='Nightly' " > d:\Nightly </ BuildDirectoryPath > < BuildDirectoryPath Condition = " '$(BuildAgent)'=='Buddy' " > d:\Buddy </ BuildDirectoryPath > I know there is an opportunity to override this value when running a build from the GUI , but for my Buddy (CI) and Nightly Builds I will be executing builds by calling the BuildController service What I'm trying to avoid is having multiple build types for Buddy, Nightly and On D ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Playing sounds from markup

  How would one go about playing sounds in markup Specifically, I want to trigger audio from a focused state without passing an event to script. I understand that I can create a wav object, but how is the object sent to Player.audio.effect in markup Thanks! Do you mean that if you have very fast animations (eg, move 1000px over 2 frames) it looks bad Well.... not much you can do there I am afraid. There's only 24 (or 50/60) frames per second to draw in. Make your duration longer or your distance shorter, or you *could* create a version of you graphic that was deliberatly "blurred" and use that so it looks like a smoother animation. ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Cannot log in to Live Mail Desktop

  Hello! Ok I am having all sorts of isues with Live Mail Desktop. When I first installed it it worked fine and I was really impressed. Then I started getting sync issues and it wouldn't download messages from my hotmail account. In the end I completely uninstalled it and did a reinstall. Again it worked fine but now it has stopped working again. I open it up and the sign in window appears and then suddenly it dissappears. I have tried uninstalling again but when I reinstall it does exactly the same thing....arghhh! I tried a different route where i opened a word document and tried the "File- Send to- Mail receipient (as an attachment)" option. After several seconds it appears with the following error: "Logon ...Show All

• SQL Server Totaling of the represented values (but not dataset values)

  Hello! I have a problem with totaling. There is table below which represents what exactly I need. Each cell value in the table is field multiplied by a coefficient. Totals should sum all row values as represented below : Tasks            User1 value                  User 2 value      ...     Column Totals  task 1            =field1_1*coef1           =field2_1*coef2   ...    =field1_1*coef1 + field ...Show All

• Architecture 3-Tier

  Hello, I want to know about 3-Tier Architecture, I know that it has, User Interface Layer Business Logic Layer Database Layer. How can i explain that to somebody in effective and simple way about each layer, and how i can expain about each layer can u guys give me an example please (maybe from your previous development and experience) Guide me ivolved_Mike_Brown wrote: I agree with Diego. Although the difference is subtle, it is still there. However, the meaning has been blurred since the concept was first introduced. The standard 3-Tier architecture is a thin-client (desktop or web-based) accessing a central server application that uses a database. So the three tiers are server, client, and dbms. I agree th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to SUM column data

  Hello, The result of a query in TableGridView looks like this: Location Number1 Number2 Thanks again, Inserted your line (it would not take without " Me .Database1DataSet" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Private Sub Find_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Find.Click Try Me .Table1TableAdapter.FillBy( Me .Database1DataSet.Table1, LocationComboBox2.Text) Catch ex As System.Exception System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(ex.Message) End Try Dim result As Integer = 0 result = Table1BindingSource.Count If result > 1 Then Me .DataEntry.SelectedTab = TabPage4 ...Show All

• Gadgets Gadget creep

  Just an observation, but... Has anyone else noticed that Gadgets move of their own accord when Sidebar loads For instance, if Sidebar is closed by DEP, Gadgets randomly creep to the left when it restarts. Then there's the order on the Sidebar itself. If you shutdown/restart or exit and reload Sidebar, the attached Gadget order changes occasionally. Just a thought, would the number of pixels 'drifted' bear any relation to the screen resolution Just wondering whether the sidebar scales dynamically to the screen and could therefore have varying drift between setups. ...Show All

• .NET Development Exception: DataTable internal index is corrupted: '5'. on ...

  Hi, I have a problem with bindingsource component in framework 2.0. I have a combobox bound to a bindingsource which is also bound to a dataset with 2 related tables and a datagridview bound to the same bindingsource. What I want to do is : When the selectedindex property of my combobox changes, the corresponding cell value must be changed in the datagridview. But although the value in bindingsource changes, datagridview does not display the new value. That value is displayed after I move the mouse over that cell and make it invalidate its region manually. Another error I caught is the one that you can see as the subject of my post. I do not know why i have that message when I try to change the property of ((DataRowView)mybindi ...Show All

• Visual C# Problem with simple program...

  namespace Project_2 { class Checking { private string balance; string dated; string datec; int input; string checka; string deposit; string outputd; string outputc; string party; decimal Original = 2000; public void Checker( decimal Original) { Balance = Convert .ToString(2000); } public string Balance { get { return balance; } set { balance = value ; } } public void Input() { Console .WriteLine( "Choose 1 for Deposit, 2 for Checking, or 0 to exit\t" ); input = Convert .ToInt32( Console .ReadLine()); while (input != 0) { switch (input) { case 1: outputd = Depo ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Is Microsoft the company broken?

  I've been developing on Microsoft platforms for many many many years (early 80's). I've been forced to start developing on OSX and other flavors of *nix primarily due to: 1. Increasing demand by my clients to produce higher level service agreement 2. VS 2005 even with SP1 can't deliver the goods on large scale 24/7 mission critical apps 3. The need to still use Java in ASP.NET based web solutions 4. Microsoft's SP/Fixes take too long to (6-18 months is not acceptable) Unfortunately I find myself having to agree with my client's position and the many clients I've lost because of the platform (.NET) I use. But what it ultimately boils down to is this: 90% R&D and 10% coding I'm spending way too much time working arou ...Show All

• SQL Server Sql express 2005 conflicts with my 2k instance

  Hello, i have both server instances installed on same machine, 1st is sql 2k enterprise and 2nd is sqlExpress 2005. all was working fine till today, i renamed a catalog in the express2005 instance. the reason for this renaming was a duplicate catalog name in the 2k and in the 2005 so when i backup my dbs one is overwriting the other because of the same file name. after this rename i started to get some errors in the application so i decided to rename it back to its original name and relocate the backup destination to other folder. now the situation in that i cant login any more to the 2005 server, when i login to serv\sqlexpress2005 (via manager or via odbc) i see always the 2k server. i tried to login to an ...Show All

• Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) Check this out: Vista simulated by WPF/E!

  Wow! Vista simulated online, using WPF/E. http://www.vista.si It is in some strange (european ) language, but you can click and watch... there is everything, windows, movable icons, videos, texts, even some form of a contest It's slovenian (judging from the domain name). Nevertheless, this is awesome! And they even put in features that was only released yesterday. Only feature I'm lacking here is the cool 3D tabbing through the running windows :-) I like the fact that Windows Media Player runs WAY better than it does in a remote desktop, which makes me wonder whether remote desktop should use WPF instead... ...Show All