Paul Hacker's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Multiple check boxes in a listview

  How can I have multiple check boxes in a listview entry I need a listview like the one used when right clicking a folder in Windows Explorer > Security tab. Possibly something like an icon in the frst column, text in the second and check boxes in the next 3 columns. Thanks for any help. Iain Have you tried accomplishing this with a DataGridView If not, add one to the form, right click it and select "add column". You should then be able to add bound/unbound columns with images, checkboxes etc. Let me know if it works for you... ...Show All

• Visual C# How do write a pragram to search keywords in a documents

  Hi, I need to write a small application to search a given keyword(s) in a couple of documents. User can enter a word or couple of words to be searched. Then when the user clicked a button it should search that keyword or key words in all the documents. Those documents are in a database field saved as Binary files. (Eg :- BLOB type field in an Oracle database) This is something like google search. This searches key words in couple of documents saved in a database field rather than searching in web. Please give me your thought how to do this. Hi Nalaka Hewage, This is not the kind of application you normally write yourself, so I assume you want something very simple, you want to write it yourself and you don't wan ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Recent projects

  Hi, My recent projects list in Visual Studio C# is always empty and I always have to click on "Open project" link at the bottom of the list. I checked the registry and it has the necessary key. I tried reinstalling but it is still always empty. Any way how to remedy this Thanks Hi Pedro, I'm not sure if this makes a difference but, are you saving your projects in the default location of "..\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects" or are you choosing a differnt location. I could be wrong, but it helps eliminate one thing it could be. Scott ...Show All

• Visual Studio Microsoft.WinFX.targets is stealing the Microsoft.Common.targets for itself!

  I installed the latest bits and was trying to craft a .csproj using our own msbuild customizations which override some of the "meant to be overridden by customers" targets from Microsoft.Common.targets such as "AfterCompile". I noticed that the stuff that we wire into "AfterCompile" did not take place during the build. Upon investigation I discovered that Microsoft.WinFX.targets is overriding our override of "AfterCompile". So if Microsoft is going to start using these targets in their own project systems, then how are we supposed to be able to work-with/extend/customize the build I am hoping for an answer such as "Oh that was just expedient and before long that will be corrected in ...Show All

• Windows Forms Control population - Best Method

  By the way, are there any other techniques I can use to speed up the population of a form besides "SuspendLayout" and "ResumeLayout" (Moderator: Post has been split from original for this question) ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) PeerChannel and node-directed messages

  Hi all, I am playing around with PeerChannel and have created a custom SQL-backed resolver. Using this technique I can identify nodes in my mesh as belonging to a certain user account. What I would like to do now is abuse PeerChannel for direct messaging, so I basically want node A to send a message to node Y without any of the other nodes seeing this message on the wire. The way I see it there are several options (please correct me if I am wrong): - Build a custom PeerMessagePropagationFilter that checks if the message is meant for the receiving node. I assume this wouldn't be really usable in large mesh-scenario's since the message would basically flood the mesh - Truncate the nodes that the custom resolver returns to only the single no ...Show All

• Visual C# nmake problem

  I'm trying to use nmake to but I allways get the same message: makefile(26) : fatal error U1034: syntax error : separator missing i understand that the colon sign (:) is the separator, but the problem is that my "makefile" file has only 25 lines!!! and i have copyied it from a book justas it is! the text of the file is as follows.... ASSEMBLY= MySharedAssembly.dll BIN=.\bin SRC=. DEST=.\bin CSC=csc /nologo /debug+ /d:DEBUG /d:TRACE MODULETARGET=/t:module LIBTARGET=/t:library EXETARGET=/t:exe REFERENCES=System.dll MODULES=$(DEST)\Fraction.dll $(DEST)\Calc.dll METADATA=$(SRC)\AssemblyInfo.cs all: $(DEST)\MySharedAssembly.dll # Assembly metadata placed in same module as manifest $(DEST)\$(ASSEMBLY): $(METADATA) $(MODULES) $ ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't connect to reporting server using SQL Server Management Studio

  Dear all, I can't connect to the reporting server using SQL Server Management Studio. Do I need to put any port number to the exception list of the firewall Thanks. Best regards, Michael Wu What error do you get Try using the server name or report server url (the default is http://<servername>/reportserver ). ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies Application definition file for BDC

  While creating the application definition file for BDC ,can we have multiple methods in same entity. I keep getting error that Application definition import failed. The following error occurred: Method Instance of Type 'Finder' already exists on Entity with Name 'dbo.UserInfo' and Id '1059'. Parameter name: type Error was encountered at or just before Line: '85' and Position: '5' You can only have one Finder method per entity, but you can have GenericInvoker methods! :-) Check the MOSS 2007 SDK as it's well documented in there HTH Nick ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to make my App start with Windows?

  Can some explain or point me to some resources on how to make my program start with Windows. Thanks. ok done, and now my program can start with Windows. Thanks. Then another question pop up, how could I remove this registry entry when user uninstall my program using Add and Remove ...Show All

• Visual C++ Hexadecimal Representation of an object?

  Hi, I would like to get the hexadecimal representation of an object and display it as a String, how would this been done using C++ .Net (VS 2003) Thanks! Well yes, there are ways to do this through the marshalling classes. I've only done it in VS2005 (.Net 2.0), though. I haven't got 2003 installed now, so I can't really be of much help with an approach for that platform. My suggestion, however, is that you try searching for serializing solutions. Those are often made up by functions which retrieve the binary representation of an object. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Disable Navigation Hotkeys in a WPF Navigation App

  How can i disable navigation hotkeys in a wpf navigation app For example the backspace key makes the app go back a page. I want to disable all such keyboard navigation. Thanks. -jgoines I have an application that is made up of a window and some frames.  The application changes itself by changing the Page displayed in the frame.  So different 'screens' are different Page objects displayed in various frames.  The nature of my app is that the Back and Forward Web Page navigation doesn't make sense.  There is no concept of Back and Forward in my app.  My application will handle the navigation itself, I don't want this Back and Forward metaphor imposed on me ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MSG 15151 - RoleMemberships.sql

  After excluding in Schema Objects\Security\Users a user, the statement EXEC sp_addrolemember ... in RoleMemberships.sql is not commented out, which causes an error (Msg 15151) Yes, unfortunately all objects in pre & post deployment scripts must be manually manipulated. So in your scenario, when you delete a user or exclude them from the build, you must go comment out related role membership (and permissions) yourself. ...Show All

• SQL Server Merge Join vs. Lookup vs. Custom Script - which is fastest?

  Very often we have 50'000+ rows which you need to pull values from different source (e.g. CityNames from citycode in Excel file). Currently we are using Lookup - but the questions is which of those 3 options is best in performance wise Thanks guys for your answers - I will try it out performance testing this weekend on my free time. So far it has seemed to me merge join is slower than lookup, however, lookup seems to take much longer than i like it to - so i was wondering if creating a script transform would be better solution... Just wanted to get an idea - based on you experience which option do you use ...Show All

• Smart Device Development localization settings and .net compact framework 1

  Hi, I am having some trouble finding documentation on localization setting in the compact framework. Any help would be much appreciated. The application we are building ustilizes the Globalization.CultureInfo class to handle localized resources. We also use a ResourceManager to retrieve the text strings from a .resources file that is associated with a particular culture. Our default culture is english. we create our resmgr like this s_oResmgr = System.Resources.ResourceManager.CreateFileBasedResourceManager("mXForms",sPath, null ); then depending on the files we are tring to process (has a culture id tag), we set the culture info like this s_ci = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo(sCulture); then we retr ...Show All