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• Jillaint how can i control in setup file???

  how can i control in setup file such as "i want to setup my program in c:\program files\myprog" and make shortcut and can i do this with publisher thnx Have a look at this previous discussion . Personally, I find Advanced Installer really easy to use and have not been able to find the advertising that Thymen objected to, in the free version that I use. It comes with a help file with tutorials etc and is just a case of clicking a few boxes and drag and drop your files to create an installer. (I have no affiliation with the company). can u explain it in detail and how can i use it You can't with VBE. You'll have to get a shareware installer and make a ki ...Show All

• jschroeder Why new an int?

  The book "C# in easy steps" says than when declcaring an integer we can write int y = 2; int x = new int(); What is the purpose or advantage of using the new statement with a simple integer or other simple types I'm not %100 sure about C#, but if it works the same as in C++/ C++/CLI: The diffrence is static (int y = 2;) verses dynamic (int x = new int();) allocation. Dynamic allocation is useful if you do not know for sure how much memory you will need at compile time. Any way if you are learning to program don't worry about it and just use the normal method: int y; //or int y = 2; Calling new on a value type just initializes the variable with the default value f ...Show All

• SydIlBradipo USB port

  Hey guys, I've been searching for a while now about how can i connect to the USB port using C# but i found nothing so if any one here knows how can i do it can he share it with us. Hi, What do you exactly want to do with usb Could you be more specific Thanks Hi, SamuraiJack This thread is on the topic: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=588602&SiteID=1 Thank you Isn't there an API for such thing Hi, If your cell phone has intalled windows CE, you can use Microsoft ActiveSync. Otherwise, you must contact your cell phone provider with this issue. Thank you I have a CellPhone (Let's say Nokia) i want to sen ...Show All

• deviparimala Help Needed for my project

  Hi all I'm just starting out on this programing stuff,A friend send me a program in C# and I am having some trouble getting it to work when I open up the project is comes up with an error WIAfuncs.vcproj is not installed,could someone help me with this And it keeps saying that controlui.exe is missing when I try to start debugging thanks simon Hi Wipermotor, How did your friend send you this project, did it come complete with all the sub-folder and the solution file, or did they just send you the runable file Scott Hi, Your problem is a missing project. It could be that the solution that your friend is using has 2 or more projects associated with it or maybe dependent ...Show All

• Sara Hentzel Work Item Publishing errors (with SP1 installed)

  Hey, I am having issues getting work items published through Project. I have installed Visual Studio 2005 SP1, the TFS machine is not running SP1 yet. In addition to that I have Office 2003 and 2007 installed side-by-side. I am now trying to get a project plan published in TFS. All I am getting in both Project 2003 and 2007 is "Cannot Complete the operation". "An unexpected error occurred". In Excel 2003 I get : TF84032: Team Foundation could not insert the work item list because there is data in the worksheet that cannot be moved. Select a location where there is enough space to insert the list. (With an empty sheet) In Excel 2007 it is working! Any clues I am using a custom process template (Avanade Con ...Show All

• ThE ViKinG VB Express Hotfixes

    Since there's no official support for VB 2005 Express , is there any way to get hotfixes from Microsoft I'm interested in KB917452 , in the "Applies To" section appears "Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition" as one of the products affected. But I don't have any clues on how to get the bugfix. Any help   TIA. J. Amselem Sounds like the details are pretty self explanatory as to how to get the hotfix. Don't say self explanatory until you have tried it! As far as I can tell, you have to sign up for paid support, or pay for a phone call, and then maybe Microsoft will cancel the charges IF they decide that their hotfix did indeed solve the problem! Hardly self ex ...Show All

• Vlladico Control test case running sequences in VS 2005 team version for developers

  When runing unit test using VS 2005 team edition for developer, it sometime does not following the test code sequence as I desired. For instance, it sometimes starts from a middle block of the test function instead of from beginning. I want my test cases starts always following the code sequnces. How can I do that Thanks John Hi John, Can you please provide more info on your scenario If you're talking about tests running in a certain order, then we don't guarantee that, and just provide the ordered test to be able to do this. Thanks, David Gorena Elizondo [MSFT] VSTS ...Show All

• Tom H. What about Jobs, DTS, Replication?

  Are there any plans to add support for sql jobs, dts packages or replication Basically, what we are after is a Team System for BI Professionals so that SSIS and SSAS etc. can be included. This has been discussed here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=502456&SiteID=1 Nothing is on the cards for v1 apparently. Jobs and DTS do not represent schema objects, so the answer to this is no. I am not sure what level of support you are looking for from a replication perspective. The main thing we will do is not break replication when we deploy your schema. -GertD "DataDude" Development Manager ...Show All

• Jignesh Vyas VB Express Reporting capabilities

  For the moment there is not any reporting capabilities in vs express editions (except for vs web developer express editions). Is it true that MS will provide  such reporting Add-ins for other express  editions in near future if true, When   hi, i just want to add this, i was searching about that b4 all what i found was those 2 threads useing msAccess report http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=171802&SiteID=1 http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=176302&SiteID=1 hope it was helpfull found some reporting tools http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=842709&SiteID=1 :-D Seems everyone wants ...Show All

• goreng Send Mail

  I'm having trouble from two ends with this bit of code to send form letters. First, the "InvalidOperationException" box appears when "Send" is clicked, and "A first chance exception of type 'System.InvalidOperationException' occurred in System.dll" appears in the Immediate Window. Second, and probably related, the mail is not sent. Can anyone help here Imports System Imports System.Net.Mail Imports System.Text Public Sub Mail( ByVal togroup As String , ByVal type As String , ByVal office As String , ByVal jobname As String ) Dim fromaddress As MailAddress = New MailAddress( "<automailer@corp.com>" ) Dim SmtpServer As New SmtpClie ...Show All

• vidya_084 How to get Free VBE E-Book

  I obtained VBE 2005 in a looong download. I registered it using my real name. I accessed the VBE forum using a fictitious name. I want to obtain the free VBE book "Writing my first program" but when I try to obtain it I get a page stating I have no permission to get it and it gives me a long coded value that looks suspiciously like something in the Windows registry. It offers me a change to contact someone and use the entered code as a reference. How do I complete the process to obtain my free copy of the e-book, preferably downloaded Please respond to old7t1@msn.com Thank you. Yep... got confirmation e-mail below, but apparently that is not sufficient, as the list of available downlo ...Show All

• NetPochi silly question about converting a vector<char> to char []

  I have a vector of vector char's that I need to display to the screen. I don't want to display char by char but would like to store them in char[] or strings. I hope this is easy and possible but I just can't figure it out at the moment. Any help or push in the right direction would be helpful. Thanks, Matt I found the answer I was looking for finally. vector<wstring> Parse(BSTR &XML) { vector<wstring> dirTree; //char * tmp = _com_util::ConvertBSTRToString(XML); wchar_t const * tag = L "<a:href>" ; wchar_t const * endTag = L "<" ; wchar_t const * stringFromTag = wcsstr(XML, tag); while (stringFromTag != NULL) { s ...Show All

• pshaw Adding Tcs to VSTS

  Suggest me how to add Test Cases in VSTS. Thanks in Advance mahendra Hello mahendra, What kind of test cases you want to create VSTS supports different test types depending on the SKU that you have. Selecting a test type: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182415.aspx If you want to create and run unit tests on your C#/C++/VB dev code, here's a walkthrough: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182532.aspx Thanks, Christine Thanks for information Christine,basically I am tester I want to use VSTS as a Test Management tool, I want to add all my Test cases(Functinality, GUI,web, Load TCs), Suggest me whether I can add all these cases to VSTS, if possible how to proceed. Thanks i ...Show All

• Mike737Aviator Creating field which is a value dependent on other fields

  I would like to have a field called weight or multiplier which takes the rank and priority and multiplies them together to populate this field. Does anyone know how to do this I am starting to think that this is not going to work out - is it possible to do this through a query Basically I want to sort by the highest rank * priority I think that the way I could do this is by having a conditional value. Basically this is what I will need to do...1. have a field called Customer which will be by default 0, if there is a customer assigned to this work item, then set to 1.2. Create a query which will sort first by the field Customer, then by Priority and then by severity.This ...Show All

• Johnny Watson function returns

  *Edit* how do i separate the code from the actual text Hi. i'm reading about classes and how to create fields, properties and methods so far i'm doing just far everything seems strait foward but one thing that i bumped into... a function must return a value in visual basic but in this example (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f8f40dwh.aspx) Private Function CalcAge( ByVal year As Integer ) As Integer CalcAge = My.Computer.Clock.LocalTime.Year - year End Function is CalcAge actually the equvalent of return CalcAge; This was the only way to return a value from a function with VB6 or earlier. That's why it remains. Additionally, it gives you greater versatility: you do not need to 'return' f ...Show All