Joe Morel - MSFT's Q&A profile

• Gadgets Detecting Gadget visibility / screen saver & power saving state

  Is there anyway to detect if a gadget is visible or covered by other applications or if the screen saver / display power saver is on I'm creating kind of a slide show gadget which will download images from an external server and it's wasting of server bandwidth to keep downloading the images when the gadget isn't shown so I need some ways to detect when the gadget should be suspended. Hmm, seems that the visibilityChanged-event is launched either with the screen saver or the power save at least every now and then, not always though. Need to explore it a little further, but thanks for the info. =) ...Show All

• Visual Basic contorl's desktop location

  Hi, how can i get the desktop location of a control on a form i mean i want to know where my contol is on the desktop and not on the form.... thnx Use the controls "PointToScreen" Method: DesktopLocation = Me . RichTextBox1 . PointToScreen ( Me . RichTextBox1 . Location ) ...Show All

• Connected Services Framework Can i make Biztalk use custom serialize/Deserialize ???

  Hi all, I'm using a custom class as serializeable which it allso implement ISerialze. I wrote constructor for serialization public MyConstructor(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext ctx) ... and Deserializtion public ISerialze.GetObjectData(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext ctx) ... now i tried to run it under orchestation using suspend action (with\without  transaction scope ) but i did'nt see biztalk using my custom Serialization/Deserisalization . Does anyone experienced with that isue  btw.. i tired to define events befor and after serialization ) but again .... could'nt see any changes. Thanks Amit.     Hi Amit, Your question seems to be a BizTalk q ...Show All

• .NET Development which is the better data storage, XML or Excel

  Hi, I am developing a windows application that requires constant connection to data store. The data will then be used for calculation. I don't wanna use SQL database as i thought the retrival process could slow down the performance. Hence, I am thinking of using either XML or Excel as data store for retrival and calculation. Is there anyone know where I can find more information about how to choose the approperiate data store. any help is appreciated. Thanks!! Carol There are multiple ways of accessing Excel data from a .NET application. Discounting impractical ideas like loading and parsing the binary data file directly, there's the OleDb method and the Excel PIA method. My suspicion would be that the OleDb method is consi ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies HTTP 403 error when displaying custom webpart on sharepoint 2007

  I have a major problem with a custom webpart on sharepoint 2007. I created two connected webparts, one is used to define a searchfilter for another webpart. The part that shows a list of values works just fine, but the filter part doesn't work and causes the site to display HTTP 403 error. this only happens when I'm not logged on as administrator. The webpart does nothing special, it has a connection with another webpart and sends a fieldname and fieldvalue as strings to the other webpart. Anybody have an idea as to what might be going on. Hi I'm new to sharepoint and i creating many reports. I'm using sql server 2005 to create reports and other Database work. I need the example to communicate the two webparts in my case ...Show All

• Smart Device Development SHCameraCapture preview image. How does it work?

  Hello I have looked at the SHCameraCapture example code provided with the SDK. I can't figure out how the preview ends up on the screen. When I examine SHCameraCapture all it provides is the path to the allready captured image. But how is SHCameraCapture able to display previews Also I would like to ask if there is some way to intercept SHCameraCapture (or some other capturing mechanism like DDraw) before it renders the file I would like to be able to do some image processing on the fly both on the preview and before saving the file. Is that possible at all If not, is it possible to grab previews or raw (rgba) data before it is handled by the OS Does the SDK provide any of those possibilites I have developed a camera application using ...Show All

• Windows Forms combobx inside datagrid with filtering

  Hi, I have a DataGrid with several column that have comboBox inside. I would like to set the dataSource for the other comboBox based on the item selected in comboBox1. for example i have 2 table with relation 1- store 2-item in datagridcombobox 1 i have store_id in datagridcombobox 2 i have item name when i select store number 1 from datagridcombobox 1 i need to show in datagridcombobox 2 items that included in store number 1 only bla bla bla pls i need help very important im using vb code waiting a reply ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Identifying Software Baseline at a Branch

  Could anyone suggest a way to identify all file revisions on the main trunk that have been forward integrated into a branch Can this be done without using version labels Here is the scenario: I have a main trunk which has been branched. Developers check in changes to the main trunk. Periodically, the software lead would cherry-pick the changes and forward integrate his selection into the branch. The branch will always be a direct subst of the main trunk. At any time in the lifecycle, the software lead must be able to identify the software baseline at any integration point with respect to the main trunk. Can this be done without using labels in VSTS Also, I'm assuming that once a branch has been created, the branch will maintai ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development How to start new instance of IE6 from .NET Web Application

  Hi, Here is my scenario: I have a management page which shows all the registered user names. I want to popup a new window when I click on the name of a user and automatically login that user in the new window. The problem is that everytime when a new users is logged in, the previous user's session variables will be replaced by the new user, since the "poped-up" IE6 will always have the same session ID with its parent browser. I think the only way to solve this problem is to start a new instance of IE6 (or iexplore.exe process) everytime when I click on a user's name, so they don't share the same session variables. It seems for security reason, starting a new (iexplore.exe) process on client side has been disabled. If any ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Can I make a Resident Evil=type game with XNA?

  Hi all, Longtime gamer and complete noob when it comes to actually designing a game. Basically, I work in entertainment and have long wanted the chance to tell a strong narrative story in a game. When I heard about XNA I thought this might be a great way for me to learn and experiment with just how one designs a game. Now, I'm not expecting RE4 but I'm basically wanting to know if I could make something along the lines of the first RE or even simpler the first MYST. I don't care if all the backgrounds are pictures, etc. But I DO want to try my hands at level design, voice-acting for dialogue and simple generic baddies to kill, oh and an inventory of weapons! Anyways, looking forward to downloading the beta version tomorrow! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Excel bound/cached data problem

  Hi, I tried out the walkthrough on creating a Master Detail Cached dataset in Excel. I followed each step precisely. ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.v80.en/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.VisualStudio.v80.en/dv_vstcore/html/419f4e07-c67f-4fc9-973a-bc794f349ac3.htm Simple enough, and the data displays correctly. Problem is that I cannot get the data to sync with the DB. I worked within DevEnv (VS2005 Team, SP1, VSTO SE), in debug mode i.e. havent deployed. The data changes I made to the child table were saved in the excel, but did not reflect in the DB (SQL2005x64,SP1). What have I missed TIA Kar Looking at this example, this only explains/shows how to get data and view it in a disconnected state, not actu ...Show All

• Visual C++ using CImage:.but LoadFromResource ()failed

  IDR_GIF1 is a  gif imported from resource editor. and GIF is custom resource! m_image.LoadFromResource(AfxGetInstanceHandle(),IDR_GIF1);//load failed!  if (!m_image.IsNull())  {     m_image.BitBlt(dc,0,0);  } i also tried : HINSTANCE hInst = AfxGetResourceHandle();  HRSRC hRsrc = ::FindResource(hInst,   MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_GIF1),   TEXT("GIF")); // type  if (!hRsrc)   return FALSE;  // load resource into memory  DWORD len = SizeofResource(hInst, hRsrc);  BYTE* lpRsrc = (BYTE*)LoadResource(hInst, hRsrc);  if (!lpRsrc)   return FALSE;  // create memory file and load it  CMemFile file(lpRsrc, len);  m_image.L ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Failing to write List

  Hi, I am trying to write data to a text file using the FormClosed event as I just want everything that is in the list sent to a file, no matter how the data has been manipulated while held in memory string s = myList.Items.ToString(); if(s != null) { WriteData(s); } static void WriteData(string s) { using (TextWriter w = File.AppendText(@"MyData.txt") { w.WriteLine(s); } } I have wrapped the first part in a try block, but the exception doesn't seem to catch it. The text file is full of these lines System.Windows.Forms.ListBox+ObjectCollection and it should be full of my data line 1 my data line 2 etc., tia, Markku is close, try this: foreach (object i ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot see the cube using Crystal Analysis 9

  Hi, I'm currently using SQL 2000 Analysis Manager to create a cube, and Crystal Analysis 9 to try to view the cube. When I grant the role of the cube to "Everyone", there is no problem, CA is able to view the cube. However, when the role is granted to a specific "domain account", the cube is NOT showing up in CA... My settings are: SQL 2000 on one PC, and CA on another PC. Both are under the same domain, and both are logged in using the same domain account. Also, this domain account is already granted the "Administrator" rights in SQL 2000 PC. Any idea why this is happening Anyone ran into this problem too Thanks very much in advance. sendmehere. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Performance Combobox 11000 Values

  Hey guys, I am using a datagridviewcomboboxcolumn which is bound to a datatable containing 11,000 entries in a datagridview. This column is causing alot of performance issues, when the user moves through this column it really slows down the datagridview. Can anyone suggest any ideas to stop the column from slowing down the grid Cheers Kris Thanks for the suggestions, in the end we found a way of speeding up the datagridviewcomboboxcolumn. I created a new column which inherited of it and included the following code. The display works really fast now and we are happy with it. protected override object GetFormattedValue( object value, int rowIndex, ref DataGridViewCellStyle cellStyle, System.ComponentMo ...Show All