Maheswar's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio documentation bug

  The MSDN docs say: ProjectFile Builds the specified targets in the project file. If a project file is not specified, MSBuild searches the current working directory for a file name extension that ends in "proj" and uses that file. This argument also accepts Visual Studio 2005 solution files. However, if there is both a .proj and a .sln file in the directory, it wants a project filename passed. Either the docs or the msbuild.exe program is wrong. thanks - dave Well I navigated all the links to the form, entered every field except the last (lots of fields) and then it kicked me out. So sorry, but I'm not trying that again. thanks - dave ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Database Validation Rules

  I see built-in database validation rules that can be used with webtests. My quick try to use them the way I use the other validation rules failed, I get an error "DatabaseFieldValidation Validation Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Column=TestColumn, ExpectedValue=Test, WaitTime=15, Retries=1, DatabaseServer=servername". I could not find any document which explains them, can anyone direct me to the documentation or any idea on why I get this error Can these be used with Webtests that test webservices No, I dont have any third party validation rules that I am using. I only validation rules I am using are the inbuilt Visual studio validation rules and a couple of the custom valida ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WPF UI Sample

  i am looking for some pictures/video demos to show my boss how good a UI can look using WPF. anybody got any links. our app is not going to do mind boggling 3d stuff. ideally id like an example of a nice clean web style UI to show him. if anybody knows a resource i can show without him having to install .net3.0 please let me know thankyou very much. this answers my question perfectly. as you have been so helpful, if you have the time would you mind looking at my other recent posts on .NET3.0 which remain unanswered. im thinking you might be able to answer my other questions too, if you would be so kind. thanks again. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual studio web developer to build web database

  Do i need IIS to build web database application using visual studio web developer 2005 express Can i integrate using web developer 2005 express and mysql Do i need any driver   for a database you need SQL Express or MsAccess or any other database (SQL Express would be great and recommended, but of course i dont think it will handle many connections if its for the web) this has pretty much nothing to do with IIS itself. you would use the SQL Client namespace to access the database and a for MsAccess, Ole classes. you can use other databases too as you have suggested.   try this: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=268244&SiteID=1 Also take a look at w ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Hiding the minimize/maximize/close buttons

  Hey everyone, I'm trying to figure out a quick and easy way to either hide the surrounding window of my XNA game entirely, or at least remove the buttons. I could do this the long way, by making an actual windows form and a graphics device and blah blah blah... But I wanted to know if there is a quicker way to do this. Thanks for any help. I don't want to go full screen because the game is meant to be played in a very small screen, it's part of the gameplay. But thanks thedo, that works perfectly. ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to display staus for a very long process..

  Hi, am an asp.net programmer very new to Windows forms development.. I am developing an application that process large number of records from database. I have to excecute lot of very lengthy SQL queries. Some of the queries will take more than an hour to complete. When the application start excecute something very lenghty it is not responding to anything else, even if i minimize it I cant maximize before completing the process. I need to give some feedback to the user that the application is not dead. How can i do it Please help Anzer You should run your lengthy process in a seperate thread. The mainthread is then able to update the UI, while the performs, for example, the query on the database. An easy way to do this is by ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Automatic control generatin

  I've recently started to use vb2005 and am having problems generation controls (e.g. Labels, Text Boxes, Combo Boxes) automatically. My application loops down a database generation controls from a pre dimentioned control array e.g Dim lbl_Q() As Label ReDim Preserve lbl_Q(ItemIndex) ETC.... This all works fine however when I try to write an event handler I'm told that event handlers can't be created for arrays. I'm used to using VB6 where this was fairly straight forward using the index property. Am I trying to do something that VB2005 can't do or am I going about it in the wrong manner. Thanks Glad to hear that it helped. Cor contributes a lot of good information in ...Show All

• Visual Studio can only create one shape

  I started learning dsl tools recently. After going through the couple of examples i tried writing a designer myself. The new designer i created has two classes(will be more later) and each class pointing to different shape. it compiles, transforms and creates debug project . But in the debug VS, even though the toolbox shows all the shapes classes i can only create one class instance on to the designer. And the rest of them don't draw anything even i drag and drop them. The one that i can drop is the first one i created.. I checked parent element path, and element merge directives that was suggested in the other posts and they all seems to correct. did anyone had this problem before any suggestions on how i can make this work thanks ...Show All

• Visual C++ Windows explorer file property tabs

  Greetings I would like to add a custom tab to the properties windo from windows explorer for my particular file type. For example, if I right click a file from Windows explorer, There is a menu option for 'Properties'. When I click it the menu, There are 'General' and 'Summary' tabs. I would like to add my own and display information on that page. Is there a definitive example that shows me how to do this Thanks What's the answer of a direct link to the answer The question really matters, which should not be handled by such a politician. ...Show All

• .NET Development Create Virtual Disk and Drive to Manage it

  I'm looking to create a virtual drive in windows and have every I/O operation performed on it: list, create, open, etc.....done through custom code. Basically I'm storing a whole bunch of files in a single file and I have a library of code that accesses each file within this large file but I would like to map the big file's contents to a drive letter. Basically just like what Daemon tools does. Could somebody point me in the right direction Well that's not exactly what I was looking for. I figured out I'll need to write a device driver to accomplish what I want. I have a flat file with files stored inside and I want to mount that file as a file system. So the dos command "subst" won't work. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development ceappmgr for multiple platforms

  Hi, I have a set of cab-files that are built for different platforms such as Pocket PC 2003, Smartphone 2003, Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC 2003, and Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone 2003. They all have a common ini-file that I pass to CEAPPMGR. With the help of [CeDevice] and VersionMin and VersionMax I can sort out the first two cab files from the second two. My problem is that when I connect a device and perform Add/Remove programs I cannot distinguish between the two WM5 platforms. I.e. the same cab is used to install on both platforms. How can I make ActiveSynch pick the correct cab-file There is an UnsupportedPlatform field in the inf-file. However, I can only find documentation that is 5 years old for verion 2 of WIndows CE. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Usage of My.Settings Error

  I am trying to use the settings page to save user changeable options and when I try to read in anything from the settings I get the following error. Reference to a non-shared member requires an object reference. Example: Me.textbox.text = My.Settings.Servername Thanks... Thanks for the direction. I looked into the Settings.Designer.vb code and it was hosed. I tried to repair it to no avail so I deleted it, ran 'Rebuild' and then added my values back and wala! The code looks exactly like your example. Thanks... ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to Convert a User Control(dll) written in c# to ActiveX Control(ocx)?

  Hi, Anybody have any idea on this. I am expecting some fine solutions from the experts like you. I am awating for good response on this. Thank you very much, kesav There is not an easy way to do that. You will need to almost completly rewrite your control in VB.60 or unmanaged C++. Incidentally, this forum is for Windows Workflow Foundation which has nothing to do with your question. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Make sure you are not dividing by zero.

  I am getting this message at this statement: g . DrawLine ( p , xPos + offset , yPos1 , xPos + offset , yPos2 ); g is an instance of the Graphics Class. It is not my code. I am trying to adapt NPlot package to my main application. The whole thing works well when NPlot uses an XML file (DataSet) that comes with NPlot. I copied the schema to another file and input my own data into the dataset and this error sprang up. I do not understand what the difference really is since I tried to copy everything slavishly. There are no dividions in the set of parameters. I cannot figure out why this message is appearing. Thanks. Another strange thing that puzzles me is this: The plot's grids are located on page6 of a Tab ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to switch between scenes

  i've just started using Expression Interactive Desginer, and i've created then imported 2 scenes in a Visual Studio, how can i switch between the 2 Scenes (ie, if i click in a button in one scene, it shows the other one) Two options here: a) If you are using Page as the root element: this.NavigationService.Navigate(new Uri("Page2.xaml", UriKind.Relative)); b) If you are using the default Scenes that Expression currently creates: NavigationService navigationService = NavigationService.GetNavigationService(this); navigationService.Navigate(new Uri("Scene2.xaml", UriKind.Relative)); Thanks, -Unni ...Show All