tkrasinger's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms ClickOnce - MSBuild - Deploying to HTTP

  I am using CruiseControl and MSBuild to automate our builds. (Dev,Stage-QA,Prod) Our application uses a ClickOnce smart client that is deployed from a website. Here is my problem: If I publish inside of Visual Studio, everything works correctly. I get a publish.htm, my manifest is versioned, and the version increments correctly. If I run the MSBuild /target:publish from a command line, it publishes in the bin folder, does have a publish.htm, does not version the manifest and does not increment the version. What is the IDE doing differently (devenv.com to publish ) How can I duplicate the IDE publish behavior from the command line Thanks in advance, Jarod If you are missing files t ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Catching clicks on a panel or any other non-button-element

  Calling a function, when clicking a button isn't a problem. But recently I tried to catch clicks on a grid, but with no avail. Since these elements don't have a click property, I'm completely clueless how to accomplish such a thing. Anyone got some ideas Buttons convert mouse events to click events as the mouse event bubbles. Most WPF elements don't have click events; use the mouse events instead. Unless you want to intercept and modify the click event behaviour of buttons, it's better to handle the bubbling versions of the mouse events rather than the preview versions. The advantage of using the bubbled event over the preview event is that elements that have specific handling for mouse events will han ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Working with Headers (this is working now)

  Using VSTO in VS.net 2005.  I would like to include a picture in my MS Word 2003 header.  The picture I would like to insert at runtime will depend on an action selected by the user in a smart tag ("Insert Logo").  I would like to just include the possible pictures in the same directory with the application add-in, and refer to the paths at run time. So far I have had problems getting the header pane to close, and figuring out how to insert a picture from a file.  This is the first page header code I started with: Private Sub AddHeaderPic() Dim i as integer i=1 ' for first section For i = i to 1 Globals.ThisDocument.Section(i).Headers(Word.WDHeaderFooterIndex.wdHeaderFooterFirstPage) _  .Range.Sel ...Show All

• Visual C# Canvas Class (System.Windows.Controls)

  I tryed typing "System.Windows." to declare a Canvas object, but the Controls Class never shows up. Am I using a wrong template (windows form) How should I access this Class (System.Windows." Controls) Thank you very much!!! Make sure that your application has a reference to presentationframework.dll (part of the 3.0 .NET Framework ). ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development ACA Explorer

  Hello, Don't know if anyone has created one yet but I figured I'll share this small tool i made with everyone. AcaExplorer allows you to view the content of unencrypted Advanced Content Archives and extract files. Usage: Run acaexplorer.exe > Click on [Open Archive]  > Select an *.aca file and click [Open] > Select one or more files from the listbox > Click on extract and choose the destination > Click [Choose] and voila! Tip: use [CTRL] to select multiple files The tool is free and can be downloaded from: http://www.levelx.eu Notes: The program doesn't warn if there is already a file with the same name in the destination map and overwrites. Currently there is a max 16MB limit.   ...Show All

• SQL Server Import/Export data with SQL Server 2005 Express

  Hello folks! I have installed SQL Server 2005 Express and SQL Server Management Studio Express. Everything looks ok and works fine, but I can't find the Data Import/Export Wizard.  Can anyone tell me how to Import/Export data Thank you!!! You can you other means to move data in and out of SQL Express that don't rely on SSIS. BCP is one such tool, you can find more information about BCP at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162802.aspx. If you are working with data in Access, you can use the functionality of Access to directly export the data into SQL Server. Most other programs can generate data in a format that BCP can accept. Mike ...Show All

• Windows Forms Installer

  I've never built an installer before. I'm a ammature writing little games for my Grandchildren. I wrote a game in 2005 express and would now like to share it. any help would be appreciated bob v Take a look at my post at the bottom of this thread for some of the different options you've got for making an installer in Express with the easiest being ClickOnce . ...Show All

• SQL Server Windows integrated security issue

  I have two SQL 2005 server ServerA hold the database ServerB hold the report server. While I using "Credentials stored securely in the report server" option in the data set the report generated without a problem while I'm using "Windows integrated security" in the dataset I'm getting error message An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted) Cannot create a connection to data source 'MYDB'. (rsErrorOpeningConnection) For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors In the ServerA (SQL databse) I see event log Event ID 18456 Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON'. I configure ServerB (Report Server) com ...Show All

• Windows Forms Accessing parent Form from a thread

  Hello, I have a winforms application with a bunch of user controls such as buttons, richtext boxes etc. I'm creating a thread on the click of a button and the thread spawns off and does a few tests in the background. I need to provide the user a status of whats going on with the thread, so I decided to update the text box from within the thread. Here's my code for spawning off the thread - // Run Thread Perfmain ^mgEx = gcnew Perfmain( "NULL" , "NULL" ); Thread ^mgethr = gcnew Thread( gcnew ParameterizedThreadStart(mgEx, &Perfmain::mgExistsThread)); mgethr->IsBackground = true ; mgethr->Start( ); Obviously, since I'm creating a new object for my form, all output is directed to the new objext mgEx. M ...Show All

• Visual C++ strtol strangeness?

  I'm probably missing something very simple, perhaps I'm tired. Why is it that the line of code "DWORD DWordValue = 0xF988FA1F; " places the proper hex value into the DWordValue variable (4186503711, 0xF988FA1F), but this line of code "DWordValue = strtol("0xF988FA1F", NULL, 16);" places the unanticipated value (2147483647, 0x7FFFFFFF) Don't Long and DWORD size to 4 bytes What am I doing wrong I am testing this because I need to read hex strings in from a file, and then write them as REG_DWORDs to registry sub-key named values. (Any easy ways to do that would also be useful). I have been avoiding that ever since I ported this app to VS2005! This app is HUGE and unfortuna ...Show All

• SQL Server Full feature demo for SSRS Web Service Rendering (with Interactive Sort)?

  Is there any example I can find a full feature demo of SSRS Web Service Rendering with Interactive Sort and other features enabled For MS: Indeed I think ReportViewer Control should be an open source component as we as developer needs the flexibility to customize the report viewer interface as well as can learn directly from the control source so to understand how can we integrate better with SSRS. The reflector is quite a useful guidance, I am very new on the reflector thing though, will try to see how it works. RSExplorer seems not the right project, there is no sign of using ReportExecutionService at all, it just does the report publishing using ReportService and use URL based browsing to run the report. We could just hope MS to ...Show All

• SQL Server How to do multiple inserts for one row of data?

  I need to insert multiple rows for input rows that meet certain conditions. My input data is as follows. ZIPCode, Plus 4, Range, City, State What I need to happen is that if there is a value in the range column that is > 0 then I need to insert a row for every range item. For instance say I have the following data. 54952, 1001, 10, Menasha, WI What I need imported is : 54952, 1001, Menasha, WI 54952, 1002, Menasha, WI 54952, 1003, Menasha, WI 54952, 1004, Menasha, WI 54952, 1005, Menasha, WI 54952, 1006, Menasha, WI 54952, 1007, Menasha, WI 54952, 1008, Mensaha, WI 54952, 1009, Mensaha, WI 54952, 1010, Mensaha, WI 54952, 1011, Mensaha, WI Any help in pointing me in the right direction would be great. Thanks for your help in advance. ...Show All

• Visual Basic WebBrowser control

    This isn't a question. It's a commentary on the Webbrowser control. You'll find that I don't complain and that I really like VS2005 overall. Lately I've been working on not a non-noobie version of a browser application and I find that this control just cannot match the function of the IE Engine. It does not have enough events and it has known bugs. Why on earth have a control as sophisticated as the WebBrowser control and not have a Mouse Up/Down Event (Yes - I'm aware MSHTML has those events.) At times the code needs to know if there is a mousedown event to descriminate between an unwanted popup and an actuall mouseclick. Because of the window STYLE flags, this can't even be caught in a wndproc. There is mouse down in ...Show All

• .NET Development How to transform set of Points and render a image?

  Hi, I have a grid drawn on an image. At run time I am randomly altering the intersection points in the grid. I want to distort the image based on the new grid intersection points. e.g. I have 20px x 20px grid. so I have the original list of points pt1(0,0) pt2(0,10) pt3(0,20) pt4(10,0) pt5(10,10) pt6(10,20) pt7(20,0) pt8(20,10) pt9(20,20) Now I change the points of the grid as below pt1(0,0) pt2(5,10) pt3(10,20) pt4(12,0) pt5(8,11) pt6(10,20) pt7(18,2) pt8(18,10) pt9(20,20) Assuming I have a image of 20px by 20px. I want to create a new distorted image based on the above points transformation. Please note that the grid size is dynamic. I cannot hardcode any points. Can anyone let me know how I should do this Thanks ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to specify CFileDialog to target for folders?

  I've been experimenting with the common dialogs, specifically to do a File Open and Save As feature. Now i'm in a bind. I think there is a way to configure the FileDialog to target and return the folder, or path, so that i can set a working directory for my application, but i dont seem to find a flag (or dont understand which flag does that). Am i looking in the right place, or is there another option somewhere or a whole different common dialog i'm supposed to be looking at Youre right. CFileDialog has no option to do this thing. The only lead i got was from SHFolder project, found from CodeGuru and Planet Source Code. For anyone who needs this in the future, my function went like this: void CDataAcquisit ...Show All