dmatthew's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ VCRedist Problem

  According to Microsoft our setup should look like this for winXP and above, C:\Test\helloconsole.exe C:\Test\Microsoft.VC80.CRT\Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest C:\Test\Microsoft.VC80.CRT\msvcr80.dll C:\Test\Microsoft.VC80.CRT\msvcp80.dll C:\Test\Microsoft.VC80.CRT\msvcm80.dll If I do not need to install VCRedist.exe on the client system. My problem is that i have to place the dlls at some other location, so that my application folder will not have complex structure. Is there any way to create a manifest file and embed it into the application exe, that will allow me to place the dll's at some other location. -- Thanks & Regards, Sachin The answer is, you cannot. VC8 specifically proh ...Show All

• SQL Server Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services

  I understand that this is available for free but I have not been able to find it for downloading. Can anyone point me in the right direction for this Do you know does it really require alot of resources like I have been reading. People recomending a seperate SQL box just for thes reporting services. Please advise. I am curious where this was mentioned. As far as your performance question, it is true that processing reports is an intensive task. However, a single box should more than enough to handle low to medium report loads. Besides, it will save you money if you host the database engine on the same server. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) gridview

  Hello, I have a bunch of listviews that have the exact same shape but use different itemssources. So I thought I would try to share the gridview between the listviews. I put the gridview the resources and tried to use it but as it turns out two listviews can't share the same gridview. I was wondering is there a way around this Or do I need to wrap the listview in a user control Thanks Houman Hi Lee, Yes that's exactly what I mean, they have the same set of columns. And the columns have the same displaymemeber binding. I have 2 list views (source list view, target list view) and two buttons (add, remove). When I click the add button the selected elements from source list view is mov ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions C# Hiding text in pictures

  if anybody can explain how by working with FileStream on Bynaric files' can write text to a picture file by overriding some pixels I assume you're talking about the technique to add a hidden watermark to an image, one that is not perceptible to the eye but can be recovered digitally. That would work with a black and white watermark and a 16 or 24bpp Windows .bmp file. The trick is to make the least significant bit of the Blue component for each pixel a 0 if the watermark pixel is black, a 1 when the watermark pixel is white. You can get that going pretty quickly with the Bitmap class and its GetPixel/SetPixel methods. Note that this won't work on any of the compressed image formats (.png, .jpeg) or on ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Learn about dlls

  I would really love to learn what a dll is, how it is used and in what kind of circumstanses I would need to use one. Here is what I do know about them 1) dll = dynamic link library and that's it (and I am not really sure if that is correct) Does anyone have a test dll that I can look at or at least a reference to where I can learn more aobut them. Thanks in advanced. So, if I understand you correctly, a dll is the same as a module, but it can be used in mulitple different applications. For instance, if I have a function that I have created that I want to use, and I know that it would apply in multiple different then I could create a class library to use that function in the different applications ...Show All

• Windows Forms N-Tiers application

  Hello, Is there a way to build a N-Tiers application in Winforms like the famous toturial for ASP.NET here : http://www.asp.net/Learn/DataAccess/ I tried to use the same way for a winforms application but that's not work. Any idea tutorial Regards, Maybe one of these will help http://windowsforms.net/WhidbeyFeatures/default.aspx PageID=2&ItemID=8&Cat=Runtime&tabindex=5 http://www.windowsforms.net/WhidbeyFeatures/default.aspx PageID=2&ItemID=13&Cat=Controls&tabindex=5 ...Show All

• Visual Basic Editing Listview subitem contents

  Hi all, Hope someone can help me with this. I have a Listview (details view) with 5 columns. It looks like I can only edit the first column text (with labeledit=true) as the listview control won't let me select the text in the other columns. Is this a limitation in Listview or am I missing something Should I use the DataGridView control instead Thanks in advance. Slimer74 wrote: Hi all, Hope someone can help me with this. I have a Listview (details view) with 5 columns. It looks like I can only edit the first column text (with labeledit=true) as the listview control won't let me select the text in the other columns. Is this a limitation in Listview or am I missing something Should I use the ...Show All

• .NET Development OraclePermission

  I keep having this problem when I tried to run a program from another machine. {"Request for the permission of type 'System.Data.OracleClient.OraclePermission, System.Data.OracleClient, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' failed."} Any comments Assuming you build the program as a stand-alone, managed .exe with no hosting going on, this permission failure is generally caused by one of two issues: You are running the program from a network share. Network permissions such as the provider permissions are denied by default for non-local programs. Configuration problem. The default permissions can be overriden in the app or machine config file to deny these permission ...Show All

• Visual Basic Detemining the "owner" of a ContextMenuStrip

  I'm working on a project that utilizes a TableLayoutPanel containing many controls. The controls can be one of three types, and each type has an associated ContextMenuStrip. I have it working where the ContextMenuStrip is applied to it's respective controls within the TLP, and can show and select items from the CMS, but need to be able to determine specifically what control was was right-clicked to show the CMS or the Point of that right click. Thanks for any help! How about this: Code Snippet Dim ac As String Dim mbutton As Boolean Dim mlistbox As Boolean Dim mcombobox As Boolean Private Sub TestToolStripMenuItem_Click( ByVal sender As Object ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Possible Bug in Warehouseadapter

  Hello all, our warehouseimport never gets completed, the status remains on "Running Adapters". We found out that the problem could be a compare of a binary file by the workitem adapter. see http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=736367&SiteID=1 The adapter simply stops processing and there is no entry in the application log. We changed the current status of the file to binary in sourcecontrol, but that doesn't solved the issue. see http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=645859&SiteID=1 Anyway - the bad thing is that it is an unhandled exception and the adapter stops importing the warehouse into the cube. The error should get logged and the adapter should continue importing by ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Count and display in cell

  Ok I have an Excel workbook that contains a schedule (51 worksheets total). Each cell has intials in it and if that person has taken a day off the cell is highlighted a certain color (yellow, rose, or red). What I need to do is have something that goes through and counts what intials have what color and then display in a cell the number. So: If cell contains "initials" and cell color is "color" Then count and display in "cell" Example: If cell contains "JJ" and cell color is "Yellow" Then count and display in "A2" I know it is possible to do this but I'm not sure how. Tiger There three diffrent colors (red, rose, and yell ...Show All

• .NET Development Catch global KeyPress

  How can I catch a KeyPress (or KeyDown) when the focus is in another window (not my application). I want to create shortcuts to my mp3 player that works even if another application has focus. Is this possible within the .NET classes You can monitor keystrokes with a low-level keyboard hook using the SetWindowsHookEx() API call. You'll find plenty of examples on this forum as well as the web. For a light-weight alternative, consider a hot-key. This thread has working example code. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. GamePadButtons

  Why are GamePadButtons and DPad Buttons spearate, and why are they exposed as a structs instead of enums like Keys are in Keyboard input All properties of the DPad and GamePadButtons structs are of type ButtonState, which makes it impossible to pass the (DPad/GamePad/Mouse)Button in question to an EventHandler because GamePadButtons.A is not a value, it's a ButtonState. Why not merge DPad into GamePadButtons and turn it into an enum. This could technically be extended to merge all 3 forms of input input one and make all buttons Keys (GamePad, Mouse and Keyboard). The Keyboard class allows for some nice generic magic. Here's the part of my InputManager GameComponent that handles keyboard input...it's an event based system that co ...Show All

• SQL Server How to build this expression?

  Greetings friends, I have the following T-SQL CASE statement. I've spent the last 10 minutes trying to convert it to an expression in my derived column component but to no avail. case when f.etypeid < 10 then '000' + cast(f.etypeid as varchar) when f.etypeid > 10 and f.etypeid < 100 then '00' + cast(f.etypeid as varchar) else '0' + cast(f.etypeid as varchar) end Many thanks for your help in advance. Hi again guys, Finally I managed to work it out. Silly me! The solution to the above is as follows : etypeid < 10 "000" + (dt_str,1,1252)etypeid : etypeid > 10 && etypeid < 100 "00" + (dt_str,2,1252)etypeid : "0" + (dt_str,3,1252)etype ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System <ALLOWEXISTINGVALUE> not valid for System.Reason

  Can anyone explain why <ALLOWEXISTINGVALUE> is not allowed for System.Reason. I would think this is just an ordinary string field. Thanks. What is the reasoning behind making this field readonly until a state change In our process there are mulitple values of reasons within a certain state. For example, in our process, In Active state for a work item type Suggestion we have New, Reviewing, and Accepted. For Resoloved we have Duplicate, Won't Do, and Implemented. The Dev, or QA needs to be able to change the reason even if they are not changing the state. ...Show All