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• fasttrack Free Online Visual Basic 2005 book

  I have recently made my book free, sponsored by AdSense of course. The book is designed for non-programmers. After many hours of tweaking javascript I have finally completed most of the design of the page, so that it works with google and also so that there are no frames. If anyone would like to help with the book, ie: make it better, then feel free to contact me here or at the site. You can find the book link in my signature... Is it posible to read it off line   robinjam wrote: C# and C++ are fairly similar, so there isn't really much point in putting both in the book. BTW, what's going on with your site Half the links are broken, and JimmyWidgets is offline! Fix it ...Show All

• GrahamY Removing items using custom pipeline component.

  In our model, we use a soft delete of products to indicate a product is no longer being sold. Our custom property is currently not checked by the Basket Pipeline, so what I did was create a custom component that checked this property and if set, it gives a custom error message and then adds the Item["delete"] = 1 line. This component was put in the basket pipeline after QueryProdInfo and Before RequiredProdInfo. The problem is that I don't want the RequiredProdInfo to display it's message saying "Items in your order have been removed because they are no longer sold" on top of my custom error messages. Can someone tell me how I can remove the line item myself as RequiredProdInfo does instead of setting the "delete&q ...Show All

• Sideout IE7 and desktop icons

  I just installed Internet Explorer 7 today, which I guess is a.k.a. Windows Live . All of my fancy customized shortcuts on the desktop disappeared and each got replaced by the same generic windows icon. Right-clicking & changing the icons in properties no longer works. Also, when I create an internet shortcut while browsing, that creates a shortcut with that same generic icon (not even an explorer logo). Now my desktop is just one forest of identical icons. Anyone know how I can fix this I've wasted all day without success. Hi, The favicon implementation has changed to be more effective in IE7. If you revisit the content the favicon should be replaced by the correcte one. Than ...Show All

• Asif Aziz Is it possible to let multiple BHOs add their own context menu items?

  Hello, Thanks for providing this forum to ask questions for MS technicians who know the inside of IE. I have a BHO that shows some context menu items with the default IE items together. The approach was from an article on MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/workshop/browser/hosting/wbcustomization.asp The approach is good for only one BHO to add context menu items. But if more than two BHOs are existing, this approach seems not working. Is there any good solution for this problem The short answer: do not use IDocHostUIHandler from a BHO to replace the standard context menu. You will invariably override other BHOs and possibly expose options that are supposed to be lock ...Show All

• farming How to retrieve address from Address Bar, change it and then send it back to Address Bar?

  Hi guys! How to retrieve an address of web-page from Address Bar in IE7, then change it w/ my own logic and then send it back to Address Bar in IE7 Thank you. Cheers, Dmitry Alekseenko Hi,   Different Question.... Use a BHO and manipulate the url parameter in the BeforeNavigate2 method. Regards. Another thing to try is to find the Address bar (class name Editbox) using the findwindow api and using a callback to detect the enter key, but I do not think this will work for all IE browsers as this has been addressed as a phishing issue in IE7 + you will still need a BHO to find each Editbox for each tab that is loaded. Regards. Thanks. And how to do it when a user is pr ...Show All

• Christina Tabet OnUnload and SetTimeout not working

  Hello all, I'm trying to do the following: 1. Open a new window 2. Change the size of the current window so that it is side by side with the new window. 3. Wait until the new window is closed and then resize the current window. (I think MS Office does something similar when displaying the Help files.) I've tried to do this via onUnload + setTimeout and via setInterval but both have failed for different reasons. 1. onUnload + setTimeout Handles the unload event. Then checks if the new window's closed property is set to true. It seems the closed property isn't set straight after the window is closed so I put a setTimeOut of 200ms before checking if the window is closed or not. Unfortunately in IE it doesn't even seem to go into the unload ev ...Show All

• Dietz Understanding the differences between 2.6 and 3.0 and the future of WDS

  Understanding WDS and the Future There have been many questions about WDS versions and what is recommended for use as well as development. I will outline what the differences are in the document as well as what is coming in the future. WDS 2.66: WDS 2.66 is the most recent release in the 2.6x lineage of WDS. WDS 2.6x runs in a per user context. This means that all users have their own unique index stored in a location only they can access. While this is sufficient for many scenarios there are a few scenarios where this hurts WDS adoption. If you have a multi-user machine and lots of common data there is a ton of duplication in each user’s index. You also have to pay the processing cost for each user to index data. However, ...Show All

• Jay_Vora_b4843e Cannot install WDS 3.0 RSW

  In the event veiwer I get the following The Windows Search Service has failed to created the new system catalog. Internal error <7,0x80070002> The Windows Search service terminated with service-specific error 2147749155 (0x80040D23) Running XP64 Hey David Not sure you can help on this... I have vista outlook 2007 business contact manager... Whenever onecare or another program does a defrag of the disk, i get about 50'000 crawl scope errors per hour in the outlook event log and eventually outlook will not respond anymore. I reset windows search twice, so the problem is absolutely reproducable... Any ideas Peter It doesn't appear that I have any of the ...Show All

• xion.truth Site having MAJOR rendering issues in IE6

  I've been working on a website for my school's FIRST Robotics team, and work has been coming quite nicely, but I have encountered a major roadblock, it is rendering absolutely horribly in IE6. It looks okay in IE7, but looks the way I want it to in Firefox. The link to it is http://www.theunforgivenones.net/robotics/dev_site/ Any help at all would be greatly appreciated, I have already searched google and have tried different 'fixes' out there. Thanks, I do appreciate the reply. The thing is, in early stages of development of the layout, it rendered fine in IE6. I wish I had followed its progress in IE6 all along, but I had upgraded my desktop to IE7. I don't think the problem is in the HTML, but probab ...Show All

• LamptonWorm IE7 the culprit? outlook express hotmail problem

  I use OE6 to archive my hotmail locally via dial-up until I installed IE7 and then I'm requested to logon when synchronizing my hotmail folders. I have not been able to logon yet and synch my mail. I also have McAfee security running and have disabled it to see if the connection is being firewalled to no avail. I just need to know for sure if hotmail is no longer available to OE users or there is an easy fix to restore what was a very handy facility. Help! Afew minutes after I posted this I found KB907942, an obscure update that Most Magnificent Microsoft has for just this problem. I will repost if it doesn't work. sorry riggs,I wouldn't want to recommend tweaking your registry without some pro guidan ...Show All

• Chris Honcoop How to catch the message of right click in IE

  Hi all,I want to use bho to catch the message of mouse right click.It seems there exists one way: Using ATL.I followed MSDN:rewrite SetSite,and then assign FindConnectionPoint，then advise，at last catch events to invoke，the following is example codes in invoke(): switch (dispidMember) { case DISPID_HTMLELEMENTEVENTS_ONCLICK: CComPtr< IDispatch > pDisp; IHTMLDocument2*pHTMLDoc; mWebBrowser2->get_Document(&pDisp); if (pDisp!=NULL) { pDisp->QueryInterface(IID_IHTMLDocument2, (void**)&pHTMLDoc); pHTMLDoc->elementFromPoint(myPoint.x,myPoint.y,&pElement); } ... } But,how can I know myPoint,where can I get it ...Show All

• Chiro VB.NET

  please does anyone know how to create a non visual class that has the behaviour to count characters, words, alphabets, vowels, consonants, digits thanks Hi, Yes this is possible using regular expressions group matching. Regular expressions let you parse and ask question of text based on certain patterns. They are easy to use as long as you know the patterns you need. In .NET you use the RegEx class to parse text with patterns. It's easier to give you an example. The code below is from a console application that demonstrates the idea, you can use this to build your non visual class. If you create a new visual basic console application and copy the whole code into the module and run it you will se ...Show All

• John32121 WDS - registry settings for indexed locations and disable settings changes for users

  Hello, I hope somebody can help me to find registry settings to do the following things: 1. Enable indexing only for local harddrives, mails and personal home drive . 2. Do not allow the user to change the settings for elements which can be indexed. FYI: We like to deploy WDS via script to the users and they should not be able to index e.g. team network drivers, etc. Thanks for your help in advance. - Katrin ...Show All

• Cesar Francisco Buying questions about Zune

  Hello! I am considering getting a Zune (I have no music player at the moment, and am willing to give Microsoft's music player a shot), but I am very concerned about it being a "1.0" product; how much upgrading can Microsoft perform on the Zune through firmware/software upgrades before Zune 2.0 is released (I guess I'm concerned about plunking down $300 for a music player this year, only to see a new, improved version of Zune come out next year...) Specifically, I am wondering if the list of supported video and audio formats will ever be expanded through firmware and/or software upgrades, or if those will require a new Zune product... I am primarily interested in listening to my CD collection (the subscription service doesn't interest ...Show All

• Andrew Buyan IE7 and desktop icons

  I just installed Internet Explorer 7 today, which I guess is a.k.a. Windows Live . All of my fancy customized shortcuts on the desktop disappeared and each got replaced by the same generic windows icon. Right-clicking & changing the icons in properties no longer works. Also, when I create an internet shortcut while browsing, that creates a shortcut with that same generic icon (not even an explorer logo). Now my desktop is just one forest of identical icons. Anyone know how I can fix this I've wasted all day without success. The issue is not the favicon. In my case it is for a shortcut to a webpage that has been placed on the desktop. I have several web based applications that I had ...Show All