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• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Problem with CustomPeerResolver

  I have an application that is using the PeerChannel with a CustomPeerResolver. Everything is working except in one case. If I have workstations A and B running, everything is fine. If the CustomPeerResolver restarts, workstations A and B continue to work as they did (no problem). If workstations C and D are then started, they can only communicate to eachother, not A and B. If I restart workstations A and B, everyone can see eachother. Right now, this isn't terrible, but in a real-world situation it could be a BIG problem. Is there anything that can be done about this Also, is there any way to have the clients discover eachother without having a fixed peer resolver running Thanks, Joe The PNRP re ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Binding To a User Defined Dependancy Property

  I'm still new to WPF so I'm sorry if this doesn't make sense. I have created a control that inherits from UserControl called MyUserControl. I want to use this in another project and have that working. I then created a dependency property called TestText that is a string. This will get displayed in the text box via data binding in MyUserControl. If I explicitly set this it works just fine. I want to be able to bind to that property from the window that is hosting the control. However when I try to bind in XAML it doesn't seem to update the field. When I bind using code it works. I'm fairly sure my XAML is okay because I can bind the to a label's content alright. Here is the code I am using: MyUserControl.xaml.cs: namespace CustomControlLi ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista UAC Prompt, interrupt or background

  I notice that in more recent builds of Vista, launching our app will no longer interrupt the user with a UAC elevation prompt. Instead, a task bar item will flash. Clicking on that taskbar item will then bring up the prompt. I think this is MS' way of making UAC prompts for "non critical" apps less intrusive. My question is, is there a way to force the UAC prompt to interrupt the user Is this a setting in the app's manifest file I'm not having any luck locating an answer. Thanks. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Automaticly deploy cabfiles

  Hello, I've developped a program with visual studio 2005 for pocket pc. When the battery is empty the pocket pc has to do a cold boot. I place the CAB files in a directory that installs the cab after a cold boot. However I always get the message to reIinstall the file. For other files like sql mobile I don't get the confirmation to overwrite. How can I made it so that a cold boot is done and the CF 2.0 is automaticly installed Thanks Sounds like maybe the cold boot isn't really a cold boot. With my Pocket PC 2003 devices a cold boot will blow away everything on the device accept for items stored in non-volatile memory which on my devices this is a folder called IPSM. This is a great feature in the e ...Show All

• Visual C# Multiple editions management with VS2005

  Hi All, Here is the big question : Suppose to need to compile the Basic, Standard and Pro editions of you app. What will you do inside VS2005 (each edition contains a different set of file/classes but, obviously, the most are shared between each edition) 1) I create 3 project (Basic, Standard and Pro) and link the shared files/classes from the first. 2) I use conditional compiling, placing the classes inside an #if PROEDITION #endif statement. 3) I build 3 different asseblies and merge them using ILMerge. 4) Other. Thanks so much for your thoughts, I want to start with the right foot! Alberto Why do you feel the compiled result of the Common Project is useless It would be a C ...Show All

• Visual C++ Calling native dll functions from managed C++

  I wish to call this function "DoSecurityBox" in "FilePermsBox.dll" (unmanaged) from managed C++. I am having a hard time doing so as I have no idea where to start. I need to pass these variables to the API however they are not exactly of the same type. parent window: System::Windows::Forms^ filename: System::String^ How should I approach this For more information the article can be found here: http://www.codeproject.com/win32/accessctrl4.asp /** Displays the ACL editor for the filenames specified, so * the user can edit their security descriptor. * * All parameters are in parameters * * HWND TheirhWnd - The parent window * SE_OBJECT_TYPE seObjType - The type of object specified. * Curre ...Show All

• Visual Basic Crystal Report And Similar Tool For Printing Document

  May i know is there any tutorial on Crystal Report, i want to retrieve some data from database, format it and print it out. Apart from Crystal Report, what other tools is suitable for this Thank you. Ok, lets look at this from a different point of view... If i was writing a program that does what you are trying to do I would approach it in the following manner.. 1) Create an employee object 2) Use a listview to display a list of employee objects rather than a datagrid tying the tag property on the listviewitem to the employee object. 3) create a routine in the employee object to provide a dataset of the data held within its properties You can then access the employee object directly from the ...Show All

• Visual Studio .Net & VS 2005 : newbie trying to 'cleanup' corrupted mapping table

  I am new (2days) to .Net and VS2005. I've been asked to cleanup/fix images/links/etc on a website that looks like it was generated with a wizard. This wizard created tables that map Products(siteid, productid) -> ProductNames,etc. in one table and Images(siteid, imageid) -> ImageNames, etc. in another. Finally, their are co-related via a 3rd,4th..nth table that ties them all together 'pdsaTableNames', 'pdsaRoles', 'pdsaApplicationConfig', ...., ProductCategory(siteid, productid)... so on and so forth.. I need to know (1) WHAT is the INITIAL application/wizard/control that can show me how ALL of these apps/sites/controls are being administered (2) AND how do I access it (what tool) ...Show All

• .NET Development Effective connections to SQL Server 2005 from ADO .NET 2.0

  Hello, Can somebody point me to official MS guidelines/custom advices where I can find methodology of creating effective connections to SQL server 2005 from ADO .NET 2.0 My system is planned to have big amount (thousands) of users who work with my system simultaneously and I have to create most effective communication from ADO.NET layer to SQL Server 2005. For instance: how many connections I should create Should I use connection pool or something else How frequently I should open/close connections How to guarantee correct connections behaviour in a multithread environment Thank you in advance. I don't know where the guidelines are (though I'm sure there are some) but what you want to do is keep ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to keep data persistance in MFC controls?

  Hi, I am newbee with VC++ and MFC. I have a dialog containing an Edit control. The variable of the Edit is an Integer. If I type a value in the edit and click OK button, the value is lost when I open the dialog again. how to keep my value persisting Thnks for your help. ...Show All

• Visual C# DOMParsing

  i wanted to ask if someone can give me an example of how to parse through an XML dock down to a specific node, then edit that nodes attribute. thanks ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Select & Unhide Columns

  Hi All, I have hidden all columns between columns B & J and then all columns between Q and V. What I need to do is hide column J and unhide 1 column to the right of column Q. If I run the macro again I then need it to do the same thing but hide column K and unhide 1 column to the right of column R. I am just moving 1 column to the right each time but only keeping 8 columns visible each time. I am lost for ideas on this, help appreciated. Hi You need a variable with global scope to keep track of the columns that you have worked with ( or use a cell on one of your sheets) . Then you can store the last column worked with an use this as an offset for your macro. ...Show All

• SQL Server Multi report subscription

  Hello, Is it possible to create a subscriptions for more than one report (I would like to pack in one e-mail three or four reports). Thanks, Regards Braulio ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Online Multiplayer for Xbox360

  Will there be any kind of support for creating multiplayer games over the internet for use on the 360 There's a hugely compact framework for the 360 when you create the project, and nothing about sockets, internet, etc... if we can't make online multiplayer games, huge blow to what we can do on the 360. I will confirm -- there will be no networking API in the first version of the XNA Framework. On Windows, you can use System.Net from the .NET Framework (or some other API), but there will be no equivalent in the Xbox 360's .NET Compact Framework. This is in the FAQ: Q: Does the XNA Framework include the ability to use Xbox Live A: The initial release of the XNA Framework on the Xbox 360 will n ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Using external style sheets

  Is there a way to use external style sheets without having to use include for the styling section of the markup file XSS My idea is to have the same menu markup file for 2 menus with slightly different styling. I guess I can do that :-) From your answer to this question I understood that include conditions can somehow refer to script. So to learn something new today how would an include condition look like that refers let's say to a variable I'd like to do something like this: <include href="styling1.xss" condition=" variable 'style' equals 1 " /> <include href="styling2.xss" condition=" variable 'style' equals 2 " /> Or am I getting this totally wrong Would using a GPRM an easier or bet ...Show All