Keith Chapman's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic How to get user's dekstop name?

  Hi! I'm begginer on Visual Basic - so at starting i have a simple quoestion: How to get desktop name of a specified user I need it for ProcessInfo structure... Thx in advance for help... the username Environment.UserName will give you the current user who started your application process, not always the physical user.... more specficially you can try this: System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name Does this help is this what you are after ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Avg. Response Time for transaction.

  After I run load test, in the table view for counter, I can see "Avg. Response Time" for my transaction. In the table, there are also "Min, Max, and Avg." When I select the counter "Avg. Response Time" in this case, there is another table that shows up on the right corner. However, I am confused by this one table. And it usually looks like below. What is the "value" in this table mean I saw one case like I have "Avg. Response Time" for one transaction like "Min" is 2, "Max" is 694 and "Avg" is 57. But in the table below, those values are much smaller than the values I got from Min, Max, or Avg> Avg. Response Time Value - ...Show All

• Visual Studio difference between VS 2005 pro and express editions

  what is the difference between VS 2005 pro & the express editions can i download web developer express edition & program web apps using c# plz help difference between them is alot. the IDE is different from both. The express editions can only have 1 language you can develop in, either VB or C#, each IDE has its own language as with VS2005 (full) you can develop with multiple language in 1 IDE and create projects in 1 solution with different languages. Express editions are aimed for hobbiests really and have limitations like you cannot develop Windows Mobile applications but VS2005 full can. The deployment projects are more "richer" than the express editions as you can create a p ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Need Info On The Basics

  OK, Ive read a large part of this forum and HAVE recieved alot of answers. With that said, over the past few days Ive been burshing up on my old C++ skills and plan to start learning C# here in the next week. My plan is to do this as a Hobby (Mainly cause Im an electrician with a family) so ive set some really long goals. Im not expecting to pump out a 3d game in a year. Ive been very interested in writing code for years now and have been a lover of Game design ever since Missle Command came out in the Arcade (Just Dated Myself). Since Ive taken this up, a Tattoo Artist buddy of mine has become interested inthe graphic end of the whole thing. So in short, what would be a great 3D design software for a begineer (with years of drawing expert ...Show All

• .NET Development Is it possible using Asp.Net?

  Hi all, I dont know is it right place or not .But please shifting to right place. I am using Asp.Net 2.0 with c#. My client ask me to develop Like pornographic site does If a girl is online and have web cam and i am paid user. Then there is a link on the below of girls image. If i would click on that Then i can view the girl. Now How to do in our site this features. using webcam,can site user can see other users. It is website specific application(not desktop). Thanks Ujjwal ...Show All

• Visual C++ Hangs at WaitForSingleObject()

  Hi all, in my code i have sth like this: try{ ...... CriticalSection.Lock(); ...... CriticalSection.Unlock(); CriticalSection.Lock(); }catch(exception){ do something here } At the very first CriticalSection.lock(), it will go into the lock() function shown below and seems to hang at the statement in red color. I have placed debug points after the red line but did not seem to even go to 'return false". Nothing got to do with my try and catch statement right I am working in VS 2005. Previously without the try and catch statement, program was working fine. inline bool Lock(const DWORD& dwMilliseconds = INFINITE){ if (::InterlockedCompareExchange(&m_lLockCount, 1, 0) == 0){ m_dwThreadID = ::GetCurrentThrea ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE7 Tabs

  I am looking for a way using the SendMessage API or something along those lines to activate a different Tab from an external application, so I can detect if a URL is already open and restore that instance of IE and automatically switch to the proper tab. Hi Michael, There are not specific APIs for automating tabs in IE7. You can you accessibility APIs to activate different tabs. We are looking at this area for future development and it would help to understand exactly what you'd liek to see here. Thanks -Dave ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridViewCell: Allow user to highlight parts of text while cell is readonly

  I'm working on an app which requires the DataGridView being displayed needs to be readonly, but the users need to be able to highlight only parts of the text in various cells to copy text. E.G. The user may have a cell with the text "Incident Number: 6WW0000001" and the user would only want to copy the "6WW0000001". Is there a way to accomplish this When I set a cell to be read-only, the user loses the ability to select parts of the text, and I can only seem to allow them to copy the entire contents of the cell. I've tried making the cell not readonly and then just discarding any accidental changes the users make, but management is uncomfortable with this approach as it will likely still create some support calls when ...Show All

• Visual C# monitoring registry and folders

  Hello, I want to know (using C# 2005,) how would I monitor changes or additions made to selected registry keys and to certain folders in Windows XP Regards, SSZ You can use RegNotifyChangeKeyValue API Function to monitor Registry Key you can see an example of this here RegistryMonitor - a .NET wrapper class for RegNotifyChangeKeyValue For watching Folder .Net Come with FileSystmWatcher component you can use it ...Show All

• Visual C++ size_t: redefinition; different basic types

  Hi, I'm trying to recompile an application that runs on 32-bit Windows to 64-bit Windows. The system is a Xeon processor running Windows 2003 Server and Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition (that comes with MSDN library). For the visual studio solution, I selected x64 as my platform. However, when I compiled the code, I got the following error message, C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Include\crt\stdio.h(68) : error C2371: ' size_t' : redefinition; different basic types test.c : see declaration of 'size_t' I gather from other posts that I might have mix 32-bits tools. How do I check if I'm using 32-bits tools instead of 64-bits Thanks! I think your question should be restated as "how d ...Show All

• .NET Development Equivalent for Performance counter users group (win 2003) in windows 2000 server

  Hi, i am getting an exception when i try to get the id of process using process.getprocessbyid function if my user account is not part of admin group. Below is the question and answer i got from the url http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/programming/bcl/faq/SystemDiagnosticsProcessFAQ.aspx#Question7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How do I use the Process class under a non-admin account From Windows Server 2003, you will get an exception if you try to get process performance information under a non-admin account. The workaround is to add that account into the Performance Counter Users Group. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...Show All

• Visual C++ A question about WMI in VC++ 6.0

  I'm a chinese,I used VC++ 6.0 to make wmi program ,why the flowing err (Windows2003 CN + SP1) I searched the answer on internet,google,yahoo,or others,and can't resolved I had set the include path and lib path "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Include" and "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Lib",and make this path first, please help me --------------------Configuration: wmi - Win32 Debug-------------------- Linking... wbemuuid.lib : warning LNK4003: invalid library format; library ignored wbemuuid.lib : warning LNK4003: invalid library format; library ignored wmi.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _CLSID_WbemLocator wmi.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _IID_IWbemLocator Debug/wm ...Show All

• Visual Studio Building huge solution

  Hi, We have +- 85 projects as part of one huge solution. Making changes way down in the dependancy chain spawns a build process that takes forever, even with super fast machines. My question, if the changes made to the code does not affect any public interface, why does everything above this project in the dependancy chain get rebuild Surely this is not needed or am I missing something or even better is there a way to instruct the build engine to not recompile everything above thx adrian Adrian, To determine if a file needs to be built, MSBuild looks at the source files for the current project and compares their date/time stamps to the binary output of the prior run. If the source files are newer, the build occurs. Any ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) XamlWriter how to serialize a collection ?

  Hi, I'm trying to use XamlWriter to serialize a tree of object which are not UIElement. It work fine & my Properties are serialized in the xaml but not when they are Collection like List<T> here my test sample :   using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.Windows; using System.Windows.Controls; using System.Windows.Data; using System.Windows.Documents; using System.Windows.Input; using System.Windows.Media; using System.Windows.Media.Imaging; using System.Windows.Shapes; using System.Windows.Markup; using System.Xml; namespace XamlTest { public class MyNode { private string _Name ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2 setup FAILED!!!

  Hi everybody, I Developed a small application in Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. I tried to deploy that application in a machine running Windows XP SP2. I downloaded the file dotnetfx from microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework Beta 2 Redistributable page and I tried to install it on my deployment machine.... I tried everything to make it work, but the .NET Framework 2.0 does not install on my machine. I renamed the mscor*.dll on the System folder, I'm logged on as the administrator,  I gave all the authorization to change the registry. Then I changed the deploy machine, I tried with a tablet PC and didnot work the same!!! Any Idea would be appreciated.... Thanx Lorenzo. I Installed Latvian Langpack I ...Show All