Robs Pierre's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms ListBox text alignment w/decimals

  Hello out there. Populating listBox easily with Tostring. However, my decimals do not align neatly. For example: Item name Item Number 100.22 item name2 Item Number2 100.0 Item name3 Item Number3 100 How can I align numbers with two decimal places in a listbox thanks cPrince Thoms, I like your example. Can you set a set mask to string. For example, x.ToString("##,###.##"). I tried it but did not get very good results. thanks, cp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Clarifying Forum Expectations

  We've had some confusion about what expectations you should have with respect to the MSDN forums. This thread is an attempt to clarify that confusion, at least as far as how the folks from Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) interact with you here in the forums. Q: What is the VSTS goal for the MSDN Forums A: The forums provide a community-driven mechanism by which customers can have questions answered about Visual Studio Team System. In addition, they are a feedback mechanism for the product, the product documentation, and product-related activities. Product group members, Customer Support Services personnel, and MVPs will respond to questions here, but we also hope that the community becomes self-sustaining, and that user ...Show All

• Windows Forms dataGridView problem

  I am very new to VB.NET 2005 and have a small problem that looks like a big one for me. Below is what I am doing to get queried data in the dataGridView at run time: Private Sub CompleteOperationsToolStripMenuItem_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles CompleteOperationsToolStripMenuItem.Click OperationsDialog.Show() End Sub So on clicking event of the above code the operationsdialog form opens up which has got a workcentercombobox (which is dragged from the WC010931 dataset) and ok, cancel buttons. The code in this form what I have is: Public Class OperationsDialog Private Sub OK_Button_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventA ...Show All

• Visual C++ Link errors, Help!!!

  1>NVStorageInterface.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__RegCloseKey@4 referenced in function _main 1>NVStorageInterface.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__RegQueryValueExA@24 referenced in function _main 1>NVStorageInterface.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__RegOpenKeyExA@20 referenced in function _main 1>Release_Win32/NVStorageInterface.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 3 unresolved externals I use the following functions in code, then I got the above errors RegOpenKeyEx() RegQueryValueEx() Thank you in advance!! According to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724897.aspx , you need to link with Advapi32.lib. If tha ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Nice Work Guys!

  Just compiled my game to the XBox and it ran perfectly after a few minor changes. Cons: - Having to create a seperate 360 project (should just be able to select XBox 360 or PC from the dropdown list next to the Debug dropdown list) - Not being able to share the game yet to people without a PC - Not being able to share the game yet to people without providing the source code (not many people want to distribute the source, which makes the Creators Club very pricey for what you get) Questions: - Is there anyway of displaying a picture next to the game (i.e. when selecting the game in the Club menu before launching it) - Any way to control the Xbox Music via a XNA game... i.e. changing songs, or getting song information - Any way to get X ...Show All

• Visual Basic Post-FormLoad Event

  The form load event handler gets control before the form is actually loaded and displayed. Is there an event where I can get control AFTER the form is loaded and displayed Thanks. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Why compilation takes 35-40 seconds?

  I basically have a new project here. I hit compile and I actually timed it twice which ranged 35-40 seconds. Why is that There's nothing there in the code :) Even VS Express's icon in the upper-left corner changed images as it compiled, and VS Express's text ontop somewhat flashes. I rebooted, same slow process. I'm using the latest releases. I'm just curious why it takes so long. I'm use to compiling somewhat-complex native applications & C# forms and it takes much less time. I just get bored waiting around. Any thoughts would be great. I'm just curious what's up. After creating a new project, it took 20 seconds. My other project just had one image which added an extra 10-20 seconds. Is ther ...Show All

• Commerce Server Pipeline Component - Compile

  I am attempting to compile my Pipeline component and am having errors creating the tlb file.  I also tried to compile the MinMaxShipping sample with same results. The assembly "C:\Documents and Settings\conference\Desktop\CS SDK Samples\MinMaxShipping\bin\Release\CSSDKSample.dll" could not be converted to a type library. Type library exporter encountered an error while processing 'Commerce.MinMaxShipCSharp, CSSDKSample'. Error: Error loading type library/DLL. Commerce I also get the following error during Compile. The assembly 'Microsoft.CommerceServer.Interop, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' is not registered for COM Interop. Please register it with regasm.exe /tlb.   Any gu ...Show All

• Visual Studio what is phoenix?

  having heard Phoenix for the first time, can somebody help with these basic questions... exactly what is Phoenix where can I get its tutorial and why is it placed in Visual Studio section regards, Sumit Dagar hi Yan Xu not possible for me to attend the conference due to its location. It there's something like this in India then I will surely be there. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Not Responding In Taskbar Icon

  Hi, I have an simple MFC single document application(e.g TestApp). When application stop working for little time it shows in task bar icon not responding(i.e TestApp(NotResponding)). If I go in TaskManeger then I can find that status of my application is not responding. Then after some little time my application again runs normally but task bar icon still shows not responding(i.e TestApp(NotResponding)) though it was supposed to show only application name (i.e TestApp).I can verify that application is running normally by seeing the status in TaskManeger.The name in TaskBar Icon remains until I exit from application. In short I want the the application name only in task bar icon when application returns to normal state. Can any ...Show All

• Windows Forms Question regarding WiX

  I'm a noobie when it comes to installer packages. I'm a co-op student developer at a company, and another developer has asked me to research WiX on weather or not it can support modifying seetings in IIS. For example, he wants to be able to set the asp.net from 1.1 to 2.0 in the IIS website properties.. any pointing in the right direction would be awesome thanks, Kirk There's a Wix mailing list on Sourceforge, and this is a Wix tutorial: http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/ ...Show All

• SQL Server need help on T-SQL

  Hi guys, Assume I have the following rows in a table 'T' ================================= C_ID R_ID Created Date ================================= 345 294 2000-08-01 14:16:08.000 345 295 2000-08-01 14:27:13.000 345 296 2000-08-01 14:28:41.000 As you can see, I have different record for the same C_ID - 345. What I want is to retrieve the record with the minimum R_ID and minimum Created Date value of that C_ID. In other words I want to get the following record: 345 294 2000-08-01 14:16:08.000 I don't need the other two records. Can anybody tell me the T-SQL query to achieve this req. Thanks! Hi, I hope it should work. Select * from ...Show All

• SQL Server Difference between SSIS and Biztalk

  Hi Can anybody please tell me the basic differences between Biztalk and SSIS and when to choose which technology over other Regards, Sandeep Saran SSIS is just a small piece of BizTalk. BizTalk is more Business to Business (B2B). SSIS is more simply, data integration. I suggest you read the documentation for each on Microsoft's site to make your own judgments: BizTalk SSIS ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TokenizeCompoundWord not tokenizing as expected

  I'm running the VS2005 integrated version of FxCop but debugging by using the stand-alone IDE and I've noticed that I'm getting some funny results (visible in debug) from the RuleUtilities.TokenizeCompoundWord method when tokenizing words with underscores in them E.g. EMPTY_ARGUMENT_ERROR is tokenizing to "EMPT", "Y", "ARGUMEN", "T", "ERROR" instead of "EMPTY", "ARGUMENT", "ERROR" Also I have come across situations where a single 'word' tokenizes to nothing! E.g. variable name "x" tokenizes to "" Has anyone else come across these problems Are they known issues Is there going to be a fix This is causing issues in my custom ru ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Using button to browse a image file and load into database

  Hi im a begineer. the following is what I do. I created a database table and 1 of the field i put it as varbinary(MAX) let call this field "SmallPhoto" I drag the picturebox from the toolbox to my form1 and i drag a button to my form1 too. Now I need to configure that when i click on the button i can open an explorer to search for an image file and load into the picturebox, and click on the save button to save this image file to the database. Please advise how to do it as i am running out of idea. yep, lastly i had been watching the video clip from visualstudio.net for solution too... thanks in advance Sorry, where are you doubleclick this :-) This is code for VB.NET, I am sure you know. what date format are you aft ...Show All