When I'm stumped, I look here first. When I'm just bored and looking to learn something, I browse articles of interest here. 'Nuf said. FWIW, I've made a LOT of posts over at the MSDN forums, and to be frank, it's a rare thing that I get a reply that actually helps me solve a problem. D. T. Doutel

I'll look into that; thank you! D.T. Doutel

Hey folks, Anyone know what I need to do to get the tab key to move from field to field in a CPropertyPageImpl-based property sheet page? it works fine in design view in VS, but sounds a bell and stays put when executing. All the necessary controls have the WS_TABSTOP set, but the focus doesn't move... Thanks! D. T. Doutel

I usually work in C#, but of late have had to resort to C++ for a BHO project. Regardless of what keyboard configuration I select, or what type of indenting I have set for C++ source files, the Tab key is dead in the VS2010 C++ code editor. I can switch over to another tab which has a C# source loaded, and the Tab key works fine, as it does outside VS in every other app I run. Reset to Defaults makes no difference. Anyone else run into this, and if so, have you figured it out? Best, D. T. Doutel

Nevermind; until IE knows how to deal with the possibility of multiple versions of the CLR in-process, if indeed that's even possible, C++/CLI won't make any difference.

Just getting back to C++ after a long hiatus in C#, and am designing a product that's going to need an ATL IE BHO. It occurs to me that if the managed/unmanaged modules were partitioned properly, there might be some significant advantages in being able to use the CLR. I chose to use C++ rather than C# for the BHO portion of the project because I understand that there are issues with potentially having more than one version of the runtime in-process with IE. Anyone here ever considered/tried this strategy for an ATL COM object that interops with the CLR? If so, what kind of issues have you run into? Thanks! D. T. Doutel

Ok, point taken; sorry, it's been a bad several weeks... Pete: so, um, I can get rude, crude and socially unaccceptable over in the lounge? I'm on it! :laugh: D. T. Doutel

You're right; if you know to look for it. Just delete the post, huh? That make you happier? Geez. I've seen far worse rants than this on here... This is a great reminder of why I work alone.

I don't post often; I think the last time was over a year ago. In looking at the listbox, this one looked most appropriate. No "Lounge" listed.

Much easier to fight back if you have a gun... Britains' crime rate has risen more than 40% since they denied people the right to have guns; now only the criminals can get them, and will always be able to get them. Only honest, law-abiding citizens can't. Britain is the last country that should be lecturing anyone about violent crime...

Nobody twisted your arm to reply to the post, did they?

Yeah I know; I've been using the VS2010 Uninstaller utility, which as near as I can tell, actually does remove all of it. D. T. Doutel

...thoroughly fed up / frustrated / disgusted with Visual Studio 2010? I believe MS has completely screwed the pooch on the ONE thing VS should do well; ATL COM DLL's. I installed this sucker the day it went RTM, and since that day, I've spent more time uninstalling, reinstalling and repairing it than I've spent getting actual work done. I have lost count of the number of times I've had to run the VS uninstaller tool to start from scratch!:mad: Disgustedly, D. T. Doutel

To whomever it was that recommended to me in this thread the book Pro WPF in C# 2008 by Matthew MacDonald, I owe you a debt of gratitude; many thanks! Edit: this gentleman turns out to be JHubSharp; dude, this Bud's for you! ;) Best regards, D. T. Doutel

Thank you! I'll look into that one! Best, Duane

I would have, had I known...

Actually, Andrew, I'm betting I don't get a response at all! MS actually talks a good game when it comes to saying they want input from the trenches, but from what I've seen, if your name is not known to them...well, you get my point. Yes; completely agree with you regarding the "we'll support it until we won't". Also agree with you regarding the reason for wanting MDI support in WPF; it's not that I like MDI (that would be a strange fetish, indeed), but when you need it, you need it, and anything else is gonna be awkward in a sense that it'll leave your users scratching their heads and wondering what the developer was thinking, at best. Appreciate all the replies, gentlemen! I have a feeling it more than I'll get from ScottGu, busy guy that he must be. Best, Duane Doutel

Computafreak wrote:

I agree about your point on MDI support. It's a nightmare trying to host a WPF Window in a Windows Forms Form; I can't even get it to be constrained by the bounds of the MDI client properly

That's odd; I've not had problems with that part of it...

dan neely wrote:

If you get a response, please post it here.

I'll gladly post any reply I get, but I won't be holding my breath...! :|

Pete, I don't want to be argumentative, but I'd hardly call those current; both were posted in '05... I'd just like to have good ol' child windows in a main frame, ala WPF. No tabs; I need to be able to constrain the children to free-floating columns in the frame, with perhaps a DockPanel + children in them, nothing fancy; I know Tony Gordon has done this. But unless I'm mistaken (a VERY distinct possibility), it's not a 'complete' implementation. Look, compared to you guys, I know very little about WPF. I had in mind a project as something worth doing/fun to do to help me get up to speed, and I'm finding after a good bit of looking at it that it won't suit the project, which kinda defeats the purpose. In fact, I think you may have been one of the ones who convinced me I should take another look at it in a thread I started here a few weeks ago. ;) Regards, Duane

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