boblotz2001's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ Need to re-register???

  I installed service pack 1 for Visual C++ the other day, and now im being told to register Visual C++, yet it is already registered is it possible to use the registration key I was using before, or do I need a new one hello I haven't really tried to repro this situation but it seems you do need to re-register with previous license, refer to: http://www.hauser-wenz.de/s9y/index.php /archives/219-Visual-Studio-2005-Service-Pack-1-Gotchas.html thanks rico ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Project Output Directories in Team Build

  Most of my VS projects have the output directory defined in the project settings as /bin, however when I run a Team Build, no bin directories are created, there are just obj directories. Why is this and can I change it because in some circumstances (like building a windows service) some of the output is not copied to the obj folder, it is copied to the Binaries folder. If I understand properly, the question is whether you can have individual projects compile into directories based on the project name, rather than having all projects compile into the same directory This is not possible without modifications to Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.projects, which defines the generic TF Build build process. Thi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Tab through Tree nodes

  Hi, How to tab through tree nodes in window forms Thanks Balamurugan (Also answered on c# general) This was harder than I thought - so I have blogged how to do this, take a peek http://blog.the-dargans.co.uk/2007/01/navigate-treeview-with-tab-key.html Ross Dargan ...Show All

• Visual Studio Organizing additional content

  Asside from interrupting the processing and using a external script or executable, how does one go about organizing additional content within the help file Thanks! Rory I'm most of the way there in making it work, but I have a task to complete still.  And it now generates a hierarchical format of additional content. If you're interested in seeing how I've done it, I'd be more than happy to share. Now I just need to modify the ItemContent and ItemContentCollection classes so that they load the children in the project file correctly.  Otherwise, it's done and it works. Thanks! Rory ...Show All

• Windows Forms Datagrid scrolling

  In Excel you can "freeze panes" so that, when you scroll, you can keep a header row at the top, for example, and still see your column headers. Can you do the same for a datagrid in VB.net ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) ListView selection

  Whatis the correct way to handle selection in a ListView I could add a MouseDoubleClick eventhandler, but this is not called on keyboard selection (pressing enter) Best regards, Thomas Andersen Can you tell your scenario and purpose Do you want to handle Selection yourself If so, MouseDown, Space key and Enter key are not the complete list, Up, Down arrows keys and so like also have affect the selection. ...Show All

• SQL Server What is the SSIS Transfer Task?

  I have just been using the Import Data wizard in SSMS and when going through the wizard I checked the "Optimize for many tables" checkbox. The resultant package contains a task called "Transfer Task". I've never heard of this before. Its not listed in the toolbox and its not documented in BOL. It does some rather strange things as well. From what I can determine it uses an XML manifest file (stored in c:\documents and settings\<user>\Local settings\temp) to construct a SSIS package on the fly which is then executed by an Execute Package Task. Its SourceDB property is always "smo_Pubs". Its DestinationDB property is always "smo_Pubs_xfred" There's no UI for it All very pecul ...Show All

• .NET Development Circular Buffer in .NET

  Is there a collection in .NET that offers a circular buffer If not is there a collection that I can extend that would offer this functionality Thanks   A Queue is very close to a circular buffer. You would just have to throw an exception when the Count property gets too large... ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Framework error when trying to start a 360 game project

  just wondering if this is happening to everyone or just me. if i click any of the 360 projects i get this error: Could not load type 'Microsoft.xna.Framework.Content.ContentSerializerCollectionItemNameAttribute' from assembly 'Microsoft.Xna.Framework, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=f48fa5f25d27e8ff'. is there something wrong with my installation or is that done on purpose until the final version of game studio express is out i got the xna framework, the game studio beta 2, and the directx 9 runtime installed. actually that doesnt work either, just the windows app works pretty much. will try reinstalling everything again ...Show All

• Visual Studio Export to PDF programaticaly

  I have a heavy report with graphs When rendering to PDF it runs out of memory any way to make it render directly to a file Hi, I'm using virtual earth in my application and need to export map in pdf or some other foramt. If anyone knows how to do it, please share your thoughts with me. Regards, Milind ...Show All

• SQL Server DT_NTEXT pass through columns in fuzzy lookup transformation

  The documentation on the fuzzy lookup transform mentions that only columns of type DT_WSTR and DT_STR can be used in fuzzy matching. I interpreted this as meaning that you could not create a mapping between an input column of type DT_NTEXT and a column from the reference table. I assumed that you could still have a DT_NTEXT column as part of the input and mark this as a pass through column so that it's value could be inserted in the destination, together with the result of the lookup operation. Apparently this is not the case. Validation fails with the following message: 'The data type of column 'fieldname' is not supported.' First, I'd like to confirm that this is really the case and that I have not misinterpreted this limitation. Fina ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Windows SDK Documentation

  Hello,   If you have the Windows SDK and Visual Studio installed, you can help me.  Please tell me if your Windows SDK documentation is integrated with your Visual Studio 2005 documentation.  Thankyou. Because mine isn't.  Assistance appreciated. I did a clean installion of Visual Studio on Vista RC2, and I installed the following additional items in the order shown. installed VS2005 sp1-KB918525-X86-Beta-ENU installed MicrosoftR WindowsR Software Development Kit for RC 1 of Windows Vista  and .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime Components installed Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name Orcas Community Technology Preview  – Development Tools for .NET Framework 3.0 - vsextw ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to change browser in VS.NET 2005

  Hi, I am developing ASP.NET Application, whenever run an application, it opens in IE (Internet Expolerer) by default. What i want is, want to open the application in netscape navigator, netscape navigator is installed. Kindly suggest me how to go about Thanks & Regards, kalai Go to the website property and select "Start options" and change the start to be "external program". Add the path and parameters to netscape there. Cheers, John ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Stablish cursor position in Word

  Hi: I'm using a WebBrowser control to display a word document. But I have to open it ready to start typing. Right now the cursor is not abailable until you click inside the control and appears at the beggining of the document. And a toolbar appears too, I need to hide all toolbars. I hope you can help me. Thanx. NMB I presume you are loading a word document inside IE as a host of Word You have to have the document activated and as such dont think there is a way around this. This is not the best forum for this answer as it is more of an IE Hosting scenario. You can try and control the Host Object and cast this to a WordApplication and then set the Toolbars to be visible. I a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to get user Identity having its display name?

  I have the following problem. There is work item type having some fields which restricted to contain only user names via <VALIDUSER> definition. I'm accessing work items of that type programmatically. I could retrieve values for this fields and they contains user display names: John Smith, George Foo and so on. I need to get domain names for this users like DOMAIN\jsmith or DOMAIN\gfoo. I'm trying to use IGroupSecurityService in various ways: IGroupSecurityService gss = ( IGroupSecurityService )TeamServer.GetService( typeof ( IGroupSecurityService )); return gss.ReadIdentity( SearchFactor .AccountName, username, QueryMembership .None); but I was unable to get user domain name by its display name in simpl ...Show All