cougar91's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Default Directory For Common Dialog

  Is there a System class/property that stores the location that a common dialog (file save etc.) will default to upon invocation I am using the PrintPreview control from ComponentOne. It has an embedded FileSave Dialog with no capability of setting the initial directory (I've spoken with them). They default to the last path used by the app FileSave Dialog (which is not where I want it to default to). I was hoping .NET had a way of accessing the this location via a .NET class (non-common dialog). There are ways to get at all kinds of useful locations. I am sure I can figure out where it is in the registry, I just do not want to go that route (yet). Using (setting) the properties of the Common Dialog d ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How can I create a query team builds for my test runs

  I want to be able to query builds for a list of my test runs. Since the test run name defaults to my user name <first initial><last name> I want to query builds where Test Run = jsmathers*. I did not see how to do that when I tried to create a query. Can anyone help Jeff Hi Jeff, We currently do not support that scenario. We are working on enabling it in future versions. We appreciate your feedback. Thanks, David Gorena Elizondo [MSFT] VSTS ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Read HDF file: fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'HD412md.lib'

  Dear all, I am using VC 2005 to read the HDF file. Linked the HDF41r2 library into the project, but the error message shows up: fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'HD412md.lib' . . I am very confused since there's no 'HD412md.lib' in the library package supplied by NASA. Anyone have experience with this please help me !!! Thanks.. It seems that you would have more luck checking with the sources for the software you are using (e.g., at http://newsroom.gsfc.nasa.gov/sdptoolkit/toolkit.html ). The list server for users of those ane related toolkits might be more helpful than this forum. - Dennis ...Show All

• Visual C# method not firing

  I have a method which is not firing. I use a customValidator control that calls the method onServerValidate I've tested the method on a seperate page using the exact same code and it works fine, so something is preventing the method from firing on my page. Here is the page where the method does not fire: http://dwayne.compasslearning.com/contact.aspx (click on the dropdown menu and select "request product and services information") When you submit the form, the phone number input boxes do not validate, which is where I have a CustomValidator control calling my method. Here is a test page, where it does fire: http://dwayne.compasslearning.com/validate.aspx I'm stumped on what is causing the method to not ex ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies How get WDS 3.01 Outlook 2003 to index Contacts, Calendar etc.

  I am a previous user of Lookout for Outlook 2003 that allowed me to search all of my appointments for keywords in the subject line along with many other functions. With Microsoft's acquisition of Lookout and it's subsequent development of Windows Desktop Search, I decided to try the latest version 3.01 of WDS for searching Outlook Calendar, Contacts, Tasks etc on a new computer I am setting up. Only problem is that I can't get the WDS search to work for Calendar, Contact items. Have it working for email and regular files, but not the more granular stuff. I have tried all of the functions I can find in "Windows Desktop Search Options" to add the Calendar and Contacts data files to the index list but none seem ...Show All

• SQL Server Full Text Search

  I have a strange issue with full text search. I have a table that has only 700 records in it, when I enable full text search and follow the wizard the index is not getting build. the storage full text say it is populating and it never does. I have restarted the service and rebuild the index few times with no benefits. I can do the same steps on another server with the same database and it works just fine. does anyone have any hints or things I can try Please help MSFTESQL is up and running. I don't get any errors when creating the Index. everything is successful status but when I am looking the property of the full text under storage the status is always "populating Catalog". The only error ...Show All

• Visual Basic Program help please!!!

  I'm working on a program that converts something in a metric unit of length (meters, centimeters, etc.) to something in another metric unit of length (meters, centimeters, etc.) Whenever I type in a number, check something in the first checkedlistbox, then check something in the second checked list box, and hit a button, all i get is zero in both boxes. Can someone help me with my code It's just a multiplication error, but I need some help on determining what it is. Thanks. Public Class Form1 Dim dblMultiplier As Double Dim newdblMultiplier As Double Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load CheckedListBox1.Items.Add("Yottameter(Ym)") CheckedListBox1.Items.Add("Zettameter( ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Context menu for File Explorer & iexplorer

  I need a help on context menu.Please let me know any of you how to extend context menu for file explorer for Smartphone/Windows CE 5.x and Context menu for Pocket Internet Explorer Samrtphone/Windows CE 5.x. Thanks, Krishna Thanks alot Alex.I have succeeded with Contacts , Calendar and Picture & Videos applications with different Context and Class. But for file explorer (For example Right Soft key in \My Documents) and for PIE I do not know the Context and Class. Can you please help me out how to integrate the context menu in those applications ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums OTP x x x x

  very not happy with the new msn live messenger 8.0. TOO MANY PROBLEMS. .now supposobly i'm missing a file Win something .dll.. help. Ciao xox ...Show All

• Visual C# Combobox

  Hi What i would like to know is the following. With a combo box by default you would be able to type in the box. I do not want the user to be able to type. They must be only able to select from the drop down. The selected value is highlighted in a dark blue. Is it possible to change it to another colour. Thanks in advance Hi Mark Rendle Thanks for the code sample. When using it you can not see any difference. But if you run t in debug it does get painted but it somehow gets painted again and goes back to white. Any ideas what the problem could be Here is my code private void DrawItem( object sender, DrawItemEventArgs e) { if (e.State == DrawItemState .Selected ) { using ( S ...Show All

• Visual Basic Print contents of picturebox

  In my application lines and text are drawn in a picturebox.  My problem is that I struggle to print the contents of the picturebox.  The picturebox doesnt contain an image, only text and drawn shapes.    INFO: I am using Visual Studio2005 to create the application (VB.Net) Operating System: XP Pro   Christie Sounds like you're doing your drawing in the Paint event. You could put your painting code in a method, pass the e.Graphics argument. Then call it both from the PictureBox.Paint event as well as from the PrintPage event. For example: Public Class Form1 Private Sub DrawArt(ByVal gr As Graphics) gr.DrawLine(Pens.Black, 0, 0, 300, 300) End Sub Private Sub PictureB ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions None of the Express Editions Work

  I have a very good computer that should be able to run these programs very well. Yet I create a new project and after 5 minutes it's still creating it and the program freezes. Athlon 64 3200+ 2.2ghz 6800gt 1gb ram Any ideas Thanks Hi All, I found this in the Microsoft Connect site (this is where you report the "bugs" sorry Development restraints or make surgestions) https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx FeedbackID=91550 Maybe some one should reopen this post or just e-mail it in again, but not having this problem I cant give any more help than this. Scott ...Show All

• SQL Server Dynamic transformation to upload flat files into database

  Hi, My scenario: I have 4 different flat files types each having different no. of column, order of columns etc. I want to upload all the 4 types into the same destination table in the SQL database. Before uploading I need to apply transformation to each column in the flat files. The transformations could be like 1) Multipying the source column by 100 2) Put an if condition for 2 source columns and then select one column to be copied into the destination. I have the flat files schema with me and also all the transformations that are required. Question: Can SSIS provide me with a component that can read the flat file schema and the transformations from the database and apply them to the source data and then upload it to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System WebTest playback anomaly with site requiring ID/Password

  I have a web app that, when recording, captures the following requests: https://myapp.mydomain.com https://myapp.mydomain.com/setup.asp https://myapp.mydomain.com/menu.asp https://myapp.mydomain.com/ov.asp https://myapp.mydomain.com/comms.asp https://myapp.mydomain.com/profiles.asp https://myapp.mydomain.com/endsession.asp Playback shows this: Request HTTP Status https://myapp.mydomain.com 302 Object Moved https://myapp.mydomain.com/password.asp 200 OK https://myapp.mydomain.com/setup.asp 302 Object Moved https://myapp.mydomain.com/password.asp 200 OK https://mya ...Show All

• SQL Server Mismatch between approaches

  I am retrieving data from an AS400. I used the import data utility to pull the data in initially and to create the table for the data in SQL server. There are a couple of text fields that represent dates in the data I imported. The Import data utility imported these fields as character data. That was fine by me. Now, when I pull new data from the same AS400 data source I have to use the Data Reader source (due to the OLEDB components not being able to work with an SQL command;i,e, it works okay when pulling the entire table but does not work at all with even the simplest of sql statements). The data reader source insists on interpreting the text fields containing date data from the AS400 as DB_DATETIMESTAMP data type. The net effect ...Show All