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• Windows Forms how can I best deliver the HUGE .NET 2.0 download to customers without causing them to quit!!??!?

  I am writing a chat application. I am confused by a few things and hoping anybody can shed some insight. 1. How many users are running .NET 2.0 vs 1.x 2. If your exe requires .NET and the user doesnt have it installed WHAT is the best way to get the user to install the 25mb .NET files without freaking file without laughing at you and quitting. 3. Is there not a LIGHT VERSION that isnt so large and doesnt take 12 MINS to install on my FX 57. Has anybody tried a web deployement FRUSTRATED. 1) well, some people are using both. I would say about 50% of people are using .NET 2.0. .NET 3.0 will be as standard in Vista, Windows XP SP2/MCE2005 and WS2003 have .NET 1.1 built in I believe. 2) Well, you can ...Show All

• SQL Server How to use Excel's XIRR function in StoredProcedure????

  Hi All, Is it possible to use excel's XIRR function In SQL 2000 StoredProcedure....Or Is there any function available like XIRR that I can use in SQL 2000.   Thank you, Balwant Patel. Hi Jignesh, Thank you for your reply...I apply the logic that on the site given by you...But it works too slow...and sometimes I m not getting teh correct result so ...I m finding other alternatives. Regards, Balwant Patel ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office copy attached file from MS outlook to a folder by vb.net2005

  i have to copy the attached file from ms outlook to a folder automatically when a mail received by an id. how to do this can it be done by windows services plz guide Copying attachments is well documented in the Outlook documentation. Please consult the resources I list here: http://blogs.msdn.com/johnrdurant/archive/2005/12/07/vsto_outlook_resourcelist.aspx Keep in mind that you need to save the attachment to disk first, then copy or move it to the location you desire, for example serve it up to a Web service. Best, John ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions MDI Child form

  i have and mdi form , and custom form , is it possible to make the custom form to get displayed in mdi work area or having functionality of mdi child form , with making the custom form as mdi child form, can any body help me on this issue... Set your main form as a MDI Container (IsMdiContainer property), and simply set your custom form to be a MDI child. After all, all the forms you create, are custom. Ok, Form1 is set to be a MDI Container. Instanciate and show Form2 (a child) like this: ... //do this for example in menu item event handler in Form1 or so Form2 f = new Form2(); f.MdiParent = this; //this refers to the MDI Container form, Form1 f.Show(); ... ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS2005 not recognized during Extensions for Framework 3.0 install

  I am attempting to install "Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF) November 2006 CTP" (vsextwfx.msi) but keep getting an error: "Setup has detected that a prerequisite is missing..." and lists several products including VS 2005 Standard, Professional, Team System as options for the prereq. I have VS2005 Team Edition w/sp1, framework 3.0 RTM, and have the workflow foundation (WWF) installed, but it seems my install of VS is not being recognized. Also to make sure that some registry information is not missing take the following steps: Stop any antivirus program Download and run Process Monitor By default Process Monitor will automatically start monitoring, stop it (Ctr ...Show All

• .NET Development StringBuilder - octal notation escape sequences

  Hi, I'm having a problem with StringBuilder when I try to append string sequences that contain octal notation escape sequences: e.g.: StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder (); sb.Append( "ABC" ); sb.Append( "\001DE" ); ... this results in the StringBuilder only containing "ABC". Any idea why it's doing that Thanks, Tom As Mike Danes pointed out, the C# specification does not allow octal escapes, another small thing in which C# differs from C. Anyway, the hexadecimal escape is still allowed, so \x001 would be right, but not in your case. The reason is that the hexadecimal escape has a variable length and will "eat" up to four hexadecimal di ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions All implementation in header files C++/CLI

  Hi, I was wondering what are the drawbacks of implementing all the program code in header files is. This is because when i used the Form Designer, all the implementation is in the header files, so I implemented my other source code in a similar fashion. I'm quite new to C++/CLI. None, when thinking of the runtime of an application. Might be less maintainable because the declaration of a class is not as easily watchable because of the inplace definitions. Library developers normally would like to distribute only headers with declarations together with theirs libs and dlls and no definition of their classes/functions. That typically is not an issue with .Net as you would distribute the assembly which i ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Filling an area using DX9 Sprite

  (C#) Is there a way to fill an area of the screen (not the whole thing) with a solid color (Using DX9/DX9 Sprite) You mean, in your DX window You can of course do it with a sprite, but you can also clear that area of the backbuffer to an specified color, what is even more simple. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Newbie Question - Yes I've searched. :)

  Bear with me...the last time I programmed was on my Atari 800 back in 1983. I've decided to take up programming again as a hobby. I've done some online coursework and I believe I'm making some decent progress. I've also ordered a book or two but haven't received them yet. This is a simple process I'm sure...I just haven't found a way to do it yet. I've made a form and a simple SQL Database. What this does is show Last Name, First Name, and a quick summary of the person (in this case historical figures.) I want to add a PictureBox that will change when you click on the name of the person. I've got .jpg files in a folder inside the Project. I've searched Help and the Web and most say with VB it's best to store the locations of ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to set the Background Image in windows mobile 5.0

  Hi This may seem like a very simple and trivial request but I am new to c# and windows mobile 5.0 Development and I have been searching the net for the past few hours looking for the answer to this, without any luck. My Question is: how do you set the background Image of a windows form in Win mobile 5.0, I can set it in a regular Windows form using the IDE but the option is not there in win mob 5.0. I tried to manual type in the code that is generated on the regular form this .BackgroundImage = new Bitmap ( @"C:\Documents and Settings\Kevin\image2.jpg" ); but I get the error Could not find type 'Bitmap' . Please make sure that the assembly that contains this type is referenced. If this type is ...Show All

• SQL Server Full-Text

  this is a very generic question but I couldn't find an answer for it anywhere I looked. If I do have the choice of storing documents in different kinds of types (Varchar, text, Image, XML,......) what type will give me the best performance for full-text search....I really appreciate it as I am new to full text search. Emad Thanks for the info...I do have resumes to search on .....could be either a word documents or a pdf files...so you think I should use the VARBINARY(MAX) ...Show All

• Visual C++ why :: . .* can not be overloaded

  hello people, i m into c++ for quite some time.. .. i hav a doubt why :: (scope resolution; ) . (member selection ) .* (member selection through pointer to function) operator can't be overloaded in "The C+ + Programming Language Third Edition" its written that " They take a name, rather than a value, as their second operand and provide the primary means of referring to members. Allowing them to be overloaded would lead to subtleties [Stroustrup,1994]." please help me to understand above sentence... If you ask a technical question, you're going to get a technical answer. The operators you've mentioned aren't logical or m ...Show All

• Visual C# Implementing a UI Type Editor – How to get a reference to the property owner class.

  Hello, In my application I am using the PropertyGrid control to edit the properties of a class (MyClass). To edit one of its properties I am writing a custom System.Drawing.Design.UITypeEditor . Like described here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171840.aspx To validate the property (for witch I am writing the property editor) I need to call a method on the class(MyClass) in which the property exists. My question: how do I get a reference to MyClass, or a reference to the PropertyGrid.SelectedObject from within the UITypeEditor EditValue method public override object EditValue( ITypeDescriptorContext context, IServiceProvider provider, object value) { ........... } Probably via the IServiceProvider GetService ...Show All

• .NET Development WS-I18N, Web Services Internationalization

  Has anyone done any work implementing the WS-I18N header enhancements with an ASP.NET Web Service, or similar I did actually implemented it using WSE for ASP.Net, 2.0 bellow are some code snippets that I hope help. Some notes: I just implemented the locale element, you could take the rest from Pablo's article. The output filter grabs the culture from the UI Thread and puts this on the header, the service input filter sets the requested culture in the servies main thread. doing this, you don't have to worry about setting the header every single time you call the service. I derived the InternationalHeader class from SOAP header so you can use it explicitly as a SoapHeader attribute if you don't want to use WSE (you will nee ...Show All

• Smart Device Development windows mobile 2003 SE and net cf v2

  I moved from using visual studio 2003 to develope an application for a windows mobile 2003 SE PDA to vs2005. After some problems this now works. However when I upgrade to using .net cf v2 and download to the PDA the forms in the application become compressed to appox. a quarter of their origial size. The menus are still in the correct place its just the size oif the forms. Has anyone else had this problem, does anybody know of a solution I already have NETCFv2 SP1 installed. Thanks Rob Thanks for replying. The post from Tim indicated the thread would be moved but I was n't sure what he meant and the thread appeared to remain in the smart devices C# and vb forum henc ...Show All