Benjj's Q&A profile

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums MS Office document and image writer print driver

  Besides removing this feature from Office during setup, is there a process to remove this virtual printer from 300 users with roaming profiles on an active directory network We are having an issue with this printer assuming the "default printer" selection for our users. As a work around we have changed their default printer, but after they reboot or log off / on it has defaulted back to the MS Ofc doc and image writer printer. Hello, I have the opposite problem. I have users who have had the icon for the Office Document Image Writer deleted under Printers and Faxes. You mention above that it is easy to reinstall the virtual printer. Could you point me to the directions for reinstallation pleas ...Show All

• Visual C++ newbie help: importing functions from a dll in a C++.net project

  Hi, I am using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. I am trying to create a C++ application (Win32 project/application) that imports functions from a DLL. The DLL, which I did not create, is a Win32 DLL (that uses MFC in a static library). The DLL .h and .cpp files do not contain any classes. Just functions with __declspec (dllexport). I think that my problem is that I am very new to .NET (I am not sure I should post this question in a different form). Here is what I have done: I tried creating a new solution and adding the DLL project to it and then building the project (to generate the .dll file). Then I added a new project to the solution and tried to: 1-Add the dll to this project as a reference: using Project -> References -&g ...Show All

• Windows Forms setting up smtp in web.config for password recovery control

  Hi, i am using PasswordRecovery control for which i need to send an email. I have smtp set up on my machine. How do i configure smtp settings in the web.config file yojimbo Hi,    Red60man In the Web.config file,after </system.web> tag add the following, replacing "machine-name" with your machine's name or "localhost": <system.net>    <mailSettings>       <smtp deliveryMethod="Network">          <network from=" admin@geekspeak.com " host="machine-name" defaultCredentials="true" />       </smtp>    </mailSettings> </system.net ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Robot Invaders Contest Winners

  It's time to annouce the winners for the Robot Invaders contest. The contest ran from May 15th to September 15th and in the end 53 Messenger bots were accepted as valid entries in the contest ( per the how to compete guidelines ). Each entry to the contest was judge by three judges separately using the Judging Criteria outlined on the How to Compete page and then the judges scores were averaged. There were a lot of great robot's submitted but here's the winners: Title Prize LiveBot Grand Mother Nature 1st Spleak 2nd Mobile Record bot 2nd Virtual Secretary 2nd Dr Phile Knowledge 2nd Comtec Travel Bot 2nd Search Bunny 3rd ...Show All

• Visual C# Making a Send To Shortcut

  I have an c# VS 2005 winform that takes file list variables via Environment.CommandLine passed from a Send To link to my application. So I need to create a shortcut to my application in the user's Send To folder. I am able to build a MSI to install my application and create the shortcut in the User's Send To Menu location but when I right click from windows explorer I do not see the short cut as a Send To target. If I simply copy the shortcut to some other location such as User's Program Menu I see the shortcut as expected in Programs start menu location, which launches my application. How can I get my Send To shortcut to show up in windows explorer right click context menu I have other questions about the nature of the shortcut and why ...Show All

• Visual Studio Charset for a button

  Hi, I have this button that won't diplay its label (in chinese) correctly in a ENG system: <OBJECT id=hhctrl type="application/x-oleobject" classid="clsid:adb880a6-d8ff-11cf-9377-00aa003b7a11" codebase="hhctrl.ocx#Version=5,2,3790,2453" width=100 height=100> <PARAM name="Command" value="Close"> <PARAM name="Button" value="Text:Ao3 "> </OBJECT> Could you please let me know what would be the correct charset syntax, so it will correctly display on a ENG system Thanks, Cata Hello Cata - I asked one of the original devs for HTML Help whether he knew if this was ever suppo ...Show All

• .NET Development GetReferencedAssemblies

  Hi, I'm trying to get all referenced assemblies, however GetReferencedAssemblies returns only those referenced assemblies that are already loaded. How can I find the unloaded referenced assemblies as well Thanks, Tom maybe if you walk the graph of assemblies that those assemblies returned by GetReferencedAssemblies depend on (so some recursive scheme) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Create a UserControl

  I am following a tutorial on how to open a directory and show all the pictures inside as thumbnails. Below is the last paragraph so I thought, for my purposes, I would try to create a control so that I can use it in other programs in the future. I have now done everything I need, what I don't know is how to make it a dll so can someone show me how I compile it to a dll please You can use this control in any of your projects by adding the Thumbnail control source code to it. Alternatively you can create a UserControl project that contains the finished thumbnail control and compile it to a DLL. You may then either add the compiled user control to any of your projects as a reference or add it to your toolbox and use it in the Visual ...Show All

• Gadgets Microsoft Bob

  How do I get this older software to work with XP In Windows XP you can tell the operating system to run an executable file in Compatibility Mode, which might help, but I doubt it. Microsoft Bob was designed to run in Windows 3.x and was a replacement for the windows shell. That, actually, was one of the really nice features of Windows 3.x, in that you could completely remove the user interface and replace it with your own application, and yet have all of the other underlying Windows services there at your application's beck and call. I had to do this a number of times when building pen-based applications for field use on Windows-for-Pen based machines. Replacing the shell with my applications eliminated so ...Show All

• Windows Forms Transfer to child

  I've been messing around and searching for a few days and still haven't found what I've been looking for. I have an application (Form1) that opens up another window (Form2) on a click of a button. I need to be able to get what the user clicked in Form1, into a texbox on Form2. Like: Storage = System::String::Format(treeView1->SelectedNode->Text->ToString()); I need to share 'Storage' with both forms. Is there a way I can do this Thanks. Yeah I had.. System::String^ Storage; Storage = treeView1->SelectedNode->Text->ToString(); I can tell this is going to be pretty hard to do.... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Hi recieve the same message

  Hi i just registered VB 2005 Express Edtition and i try to enter to the registration benefit portal but i can't. i click this link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ LinkId=52054 and error appear: The registration process can take a good 24 hours to go through, I would wait a day then try again... Also moving the thread to the Install and registration group for the express products. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Packaging Class Libraries

  I have set of Strong Named Class Libraries and I need to create a package to deploy them. While Visual Sutudio, provides means to create a msi for installation, I'm trying to find out whether there is an easy way to register these assemblies in GAC after installation, and include this instruction as a part of msi. Update: As usual, the feature I was looking for, already exists in Visual Studio. Here is what I had to do... Create "Setup Project", On the File System on Target Machine Icon, right click and add Special Folder and select Global Assembly Cache Folder, Add all assemblies that are to be deployed in GAC. Thats it. That's really it. Take a look at the properties of project, before you create a package. VS eve ...Show All

• SQL Server Performance Based Transact Coding

  Hi all, I am looking for some study meaterial focussed on performance based transact SQL development. I am a fairly well seasoned (3+ years self taught), and I am getting into situations where different query constructs yield the same results, but the performance (execution time and disk I/O) varies. I have found that sometimes nested select statements execute faster than joins, but usually the opposite is true, for example, and I would like to learn why. Info would be appreciated. some food for the brains for DBA's most database performance relies on the following 1. database design (normalization) 2. Tsql Syntax. it pays to know your select, insert, update, stament indepth 3. know your index 4. know your ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFC installation, Cannot see workspace in Visual Studio

  I have installed TFC and in Visual Studio 2005 things look ok. I can connect to the TFS server and see all projects but I cant perform any actions. I can see that there is a workspace set up for my account and machine using the tf tool. I can alos map projects to folders using this tool. In Visual studio I cant perform any actions. THere is no workspace defined and there is nothing added to the File-> Source Control menu. What am I missing The TFC installation went fine as far as I could see. Thanks Hello, In Tools->Options->Source Control does the "Visual Studio Team Foundation Server" is selected If no solution is open and you are connected to TFS server (you can see ...Show All

• SQL Server MDX "Filter" function Performance?

  There is about 3,000,000 records in the cube. And the members amount of [DIM FACT].[GOODS DESC] is almost 3 Million. I use the MDX as following: SELECT [Measures].[Price] ON 0, FILTER(NONEMPTY([DIM FACT].[GOODS DESC].MEMBERS), iif( InStr(1,[DIM FACT].[GOODS DESC].CurrentMember.NAME,"milk") <> 0, [DIM FACT].[GOODS DESC].currentmember,null)) on 1 FROM TestCube It costs about 10 Minutes . Is it too slow or it's normal thanks, Deepak Puri wrote: Only thing that I can think of is to take a different view of the problem - is there a certain set of keywords like "milk", which is established beforehand, or is this a completely ad-hoc query In the latter ...Show All