Ross B.'s Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) November CTP - Install Issue

  I am trying to install the WPF Designer November CTP (after experiencing problems with the previous relase which wouldn't install sayng the .NET 3.0 was not installed). The installation starts, alerts me that the help system is configured to use online help and advises to switch to local, installs, tryes to merge the help and then, I think, tryes to configure an hidden instance of VS2005. But then VS crashes (It was not running when I began the installation) and the installer rolls back. Then, when I try to run VS it behaves like it is the first run after installation and it starts with default config. I can see the NET Framework 3.0 project templates but they do not work. Furthermore when I close VS it crashes. Even more strange is ...Show All

• Windows Forms Check Box values not being tally.

  Dear All, I have this very funny problem. Actually what I am trying to do is that in my grid I have a check box column which I made using the method DataGridViewCheckBoxColumn cbDelete = new DataGridViewCheckBoxColumn (); { cbDelete.HeaderText = "Delete" ; cbDelete.AutoSizeMode = DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode .AllCells; cbDelete.DisplayIndex = 10; } myGrid.Columns.Add(cbDelete); Actually there are other colums too but I want to keep simple just show the delete column only. So what I want to do is that upon pressing the delete button I want a confirmation message to pop-up and upon confirmation delete the selected rows. So my code is as below private void myGrid_KeyDown(object s ...Show All

• Windows Forms C++ Drag and Drop

  I know there have been lots of questions asked about this, but I can't see any that answer my particular one. I have pictureboxes that I want to be able to move round a panel freely - they contain bmps. I have implemented the dragdrop events of the panel like so: private: System::Void pnlDragDrop_DragDrop(System::Object^ sender, System::Windows::Forms::DragEventArgs^ e) { PictureBox^ picPole = safe_cast <PictureBox^> (sender); picPole->SetBounds(posx, posy, picPole->Width, picPole->Height); } private: System::Void pnlDragDrop_DragEnter(System::Object^ sender, System::Windows::Forms::DragEventArgs^ e) { e->Effect = DragDropEffects::Move; } private: System::Void pnlDragDrop_DragOver(System::Object^ sender, System: ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies Sharepoint Blog

  I want to setup a secure Blog. This means that each user would have an online journal. only that reader and certain administrators could read this journal. 1.Is this somthing that should be done in sharepoint or should I just build a webapp to do this 2.If this is for sharepoint where can I go for some information on how to get started. 3.Note I am very very new to sharepoint so go easy on me if this is stupid..... Thanks We should have Lawrence pin a post for us that Defines the acronyms... sorry guys.. I've been sharepointing so long they aren't even acronyms anymore :-) MOSS = Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. The current incarnation of SPS. I really think MS got i right this time ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problem with uncompressing files.

  Hi I use the Vista thats the latest from MSDN and running it on a brand new laptop. When i try to uncompress files in both .NET and the UI it runs the application but no files get unzipped to the file. The UI goes away and then nothing happens. I tried downloading Winzip and Winrar and they all behave the same. I wrote my own unzip code in VS 2005 using C# and the code executes fine, no errors. But still no files unzipped. The only way i can unzip files are to start winrar and select the path to where i want to send it. Right click method does not work at all. Thanks I posted a solution to this on my blog: http://bphillips76.spaces.live.com/ Bryan Phillips MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE blog: http://bphillips76.spa ...Show All

• Visual Studio Can Visual Studio 2005 proffesional coexist with Visual Studio 2005 Developer?

  Hello I would like to know if anyone have tried to install and run different Visual Studio 2005 editions on the same machine Thank you Kind Regards Mikael Olesen To be honest I have never tried this out but as far as I know you can only install the following side-by-side: One of the Visual Studio 2005 editions side-by-side with one of the Express Editions; Visual Studio 2005 with different languages but the same edition and feature set; Visual Studio 2005 and previous versions of Visual Studio with the same language; ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development Windows Vista and ActiveX registration

  Hi all, I was hoping that the new Windows Vista could allow me to install our .ocx plugin on IE7 after IEInstal.exe allowed installation and it does not seem to work. I am using VS 2003 After reading http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/IETechCol/dnwebgen/ProtectedMode.asp many times I would except the following scenario : 1- our activex is not installed 2- standard user browses a web page where our tag starts the downloading of our installer (lets call it installer.exe) 3- a prompt appears requiring administrator login and pass 4- installer.exe creates our destination folder (with low integrity level) and copy the embedded ourplugin.ocx file in the destination folder then 5 installer.exe ...Show All

• .NET Development i am a new comer to web service, i do not know where to start

  on the concept and on the practical operation, how can i do, please help If you want an introduction on how to write and use web service with ASP.NET 1.1 then check this quick start introduction . For ASP.NET 2.0 check this introduction . The quick start samples can also be installed locally as part of the .NET framework SDK. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Single APP Instance VB.NET 2005

  Hi I need to make my App a single instance, and pass arguments I have a Main Module : Public Sub Main( ByVal sArgs() As String ) How can I use sARgs with ONLY one App instance i.e., I want to pass Arguments to the running instance I use VS.2005..Visual Basic Thanks in advance I have Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2 With VS 2005 Professional and crashes in both I'm stuck with this :( one more vote for me in that feedback I don't know how to vote :( I hope someone of Microsoft staff read this issue ...Show All

• .NET Development Multilingual resource editor

  Hello, I have an idea for an application, maybe it already exists. The aim is to allow the user to simultaneously edit different localisation resource files. The tool I have in mind is like an extension of Lutz Roeder's .NET Resourcer. Basically you open resource files ResourceFile.resx, ResourceFile.en.resx, ResourceFile.fr.resx and you have treeview. Top level are the resource keys in the files, and the next level has the values for each culture : default value, EN value and FR value for this example Hopefully this quick description is clear. Does this sort of tool exist anywhere Thanks, goPlayer Check this web page, it sounds similar. http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/d10resourceeditor.htm ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies Assigning a unique number to all documents

  Hello,   I want to store a unique ID to use in a webpart. In a aspx page I would do it with a database field and a stored procedure, but with webparts i don't know. I want to give all my documents a unique ID, but not use the ID from sharepoint itself. Thank you. So it is possible then to connect to the database and put the unique ID there in my webpart Thx. ...Show All

• .NET Development Help with writing rows to Excel please.

  First, I am a VB/ADO newbie so type S L O W L Y when answering please. I have collected and modified some code that watches folders and when a file arrives in a watched folder it writes the file name and date to a row in an Excel spreadsheet using Insert into. It works OK until I open the spreadsheet and delete rows. The next time the program executes (new file arrives in folder) the new row in the spreadsheet is added where it would have been if I had not deleted the old rows. For example, I delete rows 1-7 from the spreadsheet, save and close it, a file is added to a watched folder, when I open the spreadsheet the new data is on row 8 with rows 1-7 empty. How do I make it use the first empty row or reset whatever is keeping a count on us ...Show All

• Visual C# panel.visiable's problem..I've to double click then it works

  // in my webpage I put my controls in a panel , when page load I set panel.visable = false. only when botton_click and then panel.visable=true //my problem is panel doesn't appear when I click once. I've to double click and then panel become visiable.. what's going wrong is my problem concern with "post back " I've no idea... P.S... I write panel.visiable while datareader.read() thanks thank you now my code are like below protected void Page_Init(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { PanelYes.Visible = false; PanelNo.Visible = false; } and I run program ... result is the same.. I 've to click bottom twice and then panel can be showed ... this way doesn't w ...Show All

• .NET Development Please help: How to validate a flat file against xml schema?

  Dear Experts, I have the following 2 files: - a well formatted flat file (text file); - a XML schema that correponds to the above text file. This XML schema file defines the clearly the positions and lengh of the each of the fields in the flat file. Actually this XML schema was created using Biztalk. Now I would like to create a program that can validate the flat file against the XML schema. Is it possible to achieve this If direct validation is not possible, I am thinking to create an XSLT file based on the above two files and then uses .NET classes to do transformation on the flat file. In case the flat file does not comply with the XML Schema, the transformation will be failed and the correponding errors would be given out. ...Show All

• Windows Forms creating project similar to outlook

  hi i am creating a project similar to outlook i mean the option will be in vertical form and the respective forms will be displayed in other part of outlook based on selection in vertical form .I found that i will create only one main form and the usercontrols will be replaced based on the selection of vertical buttons . Please suggest me if any other options are there thanks in advance Regards nagireddy t Nagir There are several ways to do this type of interface: Use an MDI container with two MDI child forms. The navigator (Vertical form) is docked left and sets it's width to some percentage of the parent (like 20%). The worker is docked fill. The navigator can consist of a series of button controls that ...Show All