MA2005's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions ntddk.h and ntifs.h

  express says "ntddk.h no such file or directory" when i try to include one and/or both of these, are there any alternatives for these or any way to get them to work thanks in advance you need to make sure the headers reside in either on of following directories: 1) your project folder 2) one of "Additional Include Directories", reach by "Project | properties | configuration properties | C/C++ | General" 3) one of "Include Directories", reach by "Tools | Options | Projects and Solutions | VC++ Directories ", set "Show Directories for" to "Include files". ...Show All

• Windows Forms default font in RichTextBox

  Hi, I want to set the default font for an empty RichTextBox. I have found no property for that. Simply settings the Font property does not seem to work. I also tried modifying the Rtf accordingly. This works at first, but the font settings get discarded when the user selects the whole content of the RichTextBox and then deletes it. So how can I set the default font Thanks Sebastian I'm not sure why it didn't work before, but setting the Font property now works. Maybe the problem was that the box is part of a custom control and that I overrode the Font property of that control to set the box's property. Well thanks anyway. Sebastian ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX, XNA, Or XNA Game Studio?

  Dear, I Am A Beginer In Game Development, But Professional In C# And C++.Net 2005. I Want To Start Learning 3D Game Development Where I Have 2 Main Questions: 1- C++, C++.Net 2005, Or C# Is The Fastest And The Powerfull Language For Creating 3D Application 2- What Is The Graphic Library I Have To Learn And What Are The Difference Between XNA, DirectX, And XNA Game Studio I Hope To Help Me In My 1st Steps. Thx Alot Thx Guys For Your Answers, But Plz, I Want A Direct Replies. 1- Can We Say That XNA Is The Latest Graphics API After Managed DirectX And DirectX 2- Like We Know, The Powerfull Off All .net Languages (C++ and C#) Is The Same, Does You Mean That The Native C++ Is The Fastest If Yes, Took A Look To The Cry ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions hidding the tab?

  Hi I try to hide the tab head by setting sizemode to fixed and item size to 1,1 (I can't set it to 0,0 it work but a small portion show at the top left (a pixel of 1X1) . is there anyway to fully hide the tab head thanks. Me . TabPage2 . Hide () will hide the entire tab page and tab head.....(if the tab head is hidden the tab page cannot be selected anyway) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Office10 directory and weirdness

  (Cross-posted to the SDK forum.) This is very weird. When I install Windows Server 2003 SDK R2, a directory called Office10 shows up on my C: drive. Here's where it gets really weird. I have a very old Visual Basic application that I and dozens of others have used without incident for about 7 years. If I delete the Office10 directory, then whenever I open that old application, a dialog pops up that says, "Please wait while Windows configures Microsoft Platform SDK (R2)." It then starts whizing through progress-bar type stuff. If I put the Office10 directory back, the old application runs as it always has. What the heck is going on I have seen this before I think some of the common components installed in t ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to capture the state change event in state machine workflow?

  I have created a state machine workflow. When the setstate activity changes the state from one state to another, i want to capture an event and perform some action. For example, when the state of the statemachine workflow changes from "State1" to "State2", i want to capture an event inside the workflow itself. Is there any way to do this Thanks A usertracking event is also fired during a state change. If you are using Tracking, you can use that too but make sure that you are tracking those usertracking events. Ranjesh ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WPF not displaying images

  Hi all Today i sat down and decided to do some more work with WPF and i decided to try some stuff out with various images. But when i went to place a PNG image into my window it doesn't display. To clarify further i can see the PNG image in both the Visual Studio and Blend designers, but as soon as i run my app and the window loads with the PNG on it, i don’t see the PNG any more. Also, this same pattern seems to be happening with various other images that i have. Some work and others don't and all of them are included in the project in the root directory. If anyone can help me out on this that would be great. Thanks Anthony Here is the code if it makes any difference, although as you will see i am not doi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office exporting to excel problem

  hi, I have created a little time reporter (Web Application) that has a button to export time sheets to excel. when I debug the application by hitting F5 and then I click the button to export time sheets to excel, everything goes well but when browse to my application ( http://server:888/app1 ) the button does not work and it generate followin exception: System.Exception: Cannot create ActiveX component. it generates at this line of my code: oExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application") Hi Medes this forum is specific for questions concerning the VSTO technology. You're automating Excel in a web application, which is outside the scope of this forum. You need to ask this question in a mor ...Show All

• .NET Development Free Web Service Provider

  I'm new to "Web Services" and i would like to try it out remotly. Can anyone recomend a good free web service provider Can i use any free service provider which gives free asp webspace I don't wish to construct asp web pages though. i want to test out "Web Services". Thank you. I don't think there are any free ASP.NET hosters out there really, not that I have come across, if there are then most likely they would have WebServices disabled. The best one, for paid, would be to use what I use: axwebhost.com, only a couple of bucks per month for the basic package and that goes a long way - includes SQL Server. You can also cancel any time - its a per month subscription thing unl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Importing Work Items and Links

  I am currently importing many work items from a spreadsheet. However, we also require that work item tasks are linked to the appropriate requirements. In the spreadsheet there can be anywhere from 5 to 50 work item tasks which will need to be linked to a single work item requirement. Is there a way to do this linking in bulk either in the spreadsheet before I publish the items or in TFS after the items are published. Currently, it seems that I can only select one item at a time to create the link. Any assistance here would be appreciated.... Hi Gregg, Do you have estimations for this "future version". This feature is of the vital necessity for the cases like the one described below. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Drawing along with the Mouse

  Hi, I have a code to draw a line along with the mouse as below: private Color myColor = Color .Red; [ DllImport ( "user32.dll" , EntryPoint = "GetDC" )] public static extern IntPtr GetDC( IntPtr ptr); private void myForm_MouseMove( object sender, MouseEventArgs e) { if (e.Button == MouseButtons .Left) { IntPtr hdc = GetDC( IntPtr .Zero); Graphics g = Graphics .FromHdc(hdc); Pen myPen = new Pen (myColor, 1); Point p1 = new Point ( Cursor .Position.X, Cursor .Position.Y); Point p2 = new Point ( Cursor .Position.X + 1, Cursor .Position.Y + 1); g.DrawLine(myPen, p1, p2); myPen.Dispose(); g.Dispose(); } } Now the problem is, t ...Show All

• Visual Basic General question about learning VB.NET

  hi, I hope there are experienced VB developers here that have been with the product awhile so that my question may be answered: I have heard that VB.NET is so different from VB 6 that you might as well learn another language. Is this true Thanks! And Merry Christmas : )   Hi Mark, Well I would rather say that its more like VB has kind of grown up or matured to go the object oriented way with VB.NET. Its the simplicity of VB with the power of object orientation. So VB.NET is cool, fun and easy. And the simplicity isnt too different from how it was in VB. So VB.NET it isnt a "whole new learning" for an expert VB developer after all. You will not be starting from ground zero while moving to VB.NET. Y ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Desktop search does not think Outlook is installed

  I recently installed windows desktop search on my XP SP1 machine running Exchange 2003 in cached mode connecting to an Exchange 2003 server. Windows desktop search won't let me select Outlook because it doesn't think I have it installed. I checked from IE and Outlook is set to my default mail client. Any suggestions of other things to check is appreciated, searching through my mailbox and .PST files would be great! Thanks. I have the same issue. There are no disabled items in Outlook Help, About, Disabled Items. When I expend the "My Mail" folder, Outlook has the right 2003 icon but the text is greyed out and says "Outlook - Not installed on your computer". On the right hand s ...Show All

• SQL Server Geting the report url

  Hello. Is there a way in a report to get his url I'll explain what i want to do: I want to add an option to export the report to excel format with out useing the menu so i want to add a button (or a table cell) and give him,in the nevigation field, the same url of the rreport with the same parameters but add to him the command "rs:format=excel" and then by pressing the button it will automaticly export my report. Thanks. Craft a URL like this: http://localhost/reportserver /ReportProject1/Report&rs:Command=Render&rs:Format=EXCEL Documented at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms153586.aspx . Thanks, Donovan ...Show All

• Windows Forms Help...windows xp now asks if i want to start vista?????

  I have 2 hard disk drives in my computer. 1 with my normal XP installation on it and the other which I'd installed the Vista Beta on. Now Vista final has been released I decided to remove the beta and carry on with XP for the time being so I formatted the drive with Vista on. The problem I have now is when i first turn on my computer I get a choice as to which OS I want to start, XP or Vista. vista isn't there though and automatically selected so unless I sit there waiting for the selection screen to come up and manually choose XP, a timer runs down and selects Vista as my OS and the computer just hangs. Vista has obviously written something onto the boot sector of the other hard drive but does anyone know how I can remove or modify it ...Show All