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• .NET Development WebRequestMethods.Ftp.???

  I am trying to go to an FTP site and download files based on when they were updated. I am able to figure out how to get a directory list, and how to download individual files. The problem I am running into is how to download several files based on the date of their last modified date. Can anyone point me in the right direction Thanks, Russ You can get a list of files from the directory using ftp and on each of the files do WebRequestMethods.Ftp.GetDateTimestamp ... Then using this info you can download files based on this timestamp. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Calling Crystal Reports With Stored procedure

  How do I connect in crystal reports. I'm using stored procedure in crystal reports. When I try to call my report in vb.net 2005 it was sucessfully loaded in crystal report viewer. However if I change the database name of my report connection (In case I change my database name) I was encounter error, the parameters of my stored procedure in crystal report is invalid...Can you give me some example... Thanks in advance.... Sir this code is working because it connects on the original database name (see SET OF CODE), Howver on the next set of code I was not able to print my reports and error message appear Unknown parameter... (SET OF CODE 1) Dim report As New ReportDocument() Dim con ...Show All

• Visual Basic Unable to release memory using VirtualFreeEx

   Hi, I have two applications, app1 is written in VC (it has a listview control) and third patry sw (no source code), and app2 I have written in VB. I am trying to send click event to particaular list item in app2 from app1. I am scanning thru all listitems in app2 by allocating memory in app2. Once it is done, I need to release memory in app2 from app1.Allocating memory in app2 using VirtualAllocEx, and releasing memory using VirtualFreeEx with MEM_RELEASE param. But, VirtualFreeEx is always returning 0, and GetLastError also returing 0. And in Windows memory management, everytime it is allocating some memory and not releasing. Given below VB code (app2): Public Function GetListviewItemCd(ByVal hWindow As Long, B ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Access Developer Extensions

  I have bought MS Office Pro 2003 specifically to develop programs in Access. I want to legally be able to distribute it with runtime so I purchased VSTO on my laptop that has XP Home. I can't get it to load!! I tried following the instructions that say to first load VB Prerequites, then VB standard, Then the library etc. etc., but if I put in the Prerequesites CD it then says to reboot and put the VB Standard in. When I put the VB standard in it says to reboot with the Prerequesites. I also tried just loading Office then just the Extensions since I'm only after the runtime, but that didn't work either because when I go into package wizard a blank white form comes up that I can't get past, and it should be the welcome screen. I tried loa ...Show All

• SQL Server What happens when the 4 GB database size limit is reached?

  Does the user get an error message What error does an application get that tries to insert additional data via ODBC Try running exec sp_databases This will show you the databases on your server, as well as their size in kilobytes ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is there anyway to suppress the Repair or Delete dialogue during deployment?

  Visual Basic 2005 Professional Setup & Deployment Project (not ClickOnce): When a user installs an update of my application, he is asked if he wants to repair or delete the previous version. I am afraid that he will reply "delete" which would delete his databases! Is there anyway to suppress this dialogue I always want the new version to replace the previous version without deleting the user's data. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to convert Pocket PC forms VS2003 to VS2005?

  I have many forms created using VS2003, pocket PC and Smartphone. In the VS2005 there is a new file together the main form file called <form name>.Designer.cs. How can I generate this file for my forms Or I need to re-design all forms   (The import wizard only converted the project). One of the errors I have: Forms\PPC\frmEstTime.resx : error MSB3103: Invalid Resx file. ResX input is not valid. Cannot find valid "resheader" tags for the ResX reader and writer type names. When I got that MSB3103 error, I simple deleted the RESX file (before creating a backup of it, of course). Then I recompiled my solution and then I opened the form in question with the Windows Forms designer. Upon saving, th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Get text from a Textbox.

  This is going to sound like a very stupid problem. I'm trying to get a string out of the textbox (using Windows.forms) then parse that string into a double. double payment = Double .Parse(ConsoleApplication1. Program .Monthly.Text. ) I cant seem to get it to work.. and what I get is that the string I'm trying to parse is being passed in the inccorect format. Help heh...was too excited and didnt put in any error checking *sigh* looking further, your app seems alot complicated in how you are creating objects, and using and accessing them. Try this... Monthly = new TextBox (); Monthly.Location = new Point (185, 10); Monthly.Name = "txtMonthly"; form1.Controls.Add(Monthl ...Show All

• Visual Basic The custom tool 'MSDataSetGenerator' failed. Unable to convert input xml file content to a DataSet.

  Hi there, I experience the following problem. I'm using Visual Studio 2005 Team System For Software Developers. When I try to add a new DataSet to any kind of project, I cannot get to the visual DataSet designer. Rather, I get the following error (all the time no matter what the type project actually is - Windows app, Web site, etc.): The custom tool 'MSDataSetGenerator' failed. Unable to convert input xml file content to a DataSet. Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1. Has anyone experienced the same problem Any solutions Thanks in advance! George Jordanov Ivanov Ran into the same problem, because I had XMLSpy installed. Your fix worked for me and saved me a lot of time. Thanks! ...Show All

• Visual C++ Calling C# Function

  Hi Everyone... I have two programs. One in C++ and one in C#. This in C++ have one event and i want to call a fuction from my C# program when the event execute. Can one help me ! Sorry for my bad english :( Ilian wrote: Hi Everyone... I have two programs. One in C++ and one in C#. This in C++ have one event and i want to call a fuction from my C# program when the event execute. Can one help me ! Sorry for my bad english :( If you're writing managed C++, remember to add a reference to your assembly written in C#. If you're writing in traditional unmanaged C++, you should host the CLR in your C++ program. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XBOX360 DirectX Graphics Caps?

  Can someone post, or let me know where I can find a listing of the XBOX360's Graphics Capabilities: like those displayed under "Graphics Adapters" in the DirectX Caps Viewer on Windows Does the XBOX360 video card support texture addressing inside the Vertex Shader. I'm referring to what is known as Vertex Texture Fetch. From what I know, on the PC's this is only possible on NVIDIA hardware, and since the xbox360 is powered by Ati, this may not be possible. Can someone give me an official answer. I have written a Vertex Texture Fetch sample for beta1 of the XNA framework, but I don't have an xbox to test this. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Where did the manifests come from?

  I'm just wondering where did you get the information on manifests from As in, where in the world did "/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='x86' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\" come from Is there a list in MSVS which shows a list of available manifests in the computer which I missed I've been searching through MSDN but I only got information on what manifests are, not where they can be found. Hi Krad, Most probable, is from a statement similar to this in your project's stdafx.h file: #ifdef _UNICODE #if defined _M_IX86 #pragma comment (linker, "/manifestdependency:\& ...Show All

• Visual C++ Use win32 dll in the window application

  Hi, I try to reuse my code from a win32 console application to a window application project, Then I try to make dll of win32 project and add it to the new window project, but I get error that said my win32 project is not .Net assembly. Can some one show me how to reuse my code or do I have to copy paste all the code and recompile it Thank you in advance, sorry for my poor english To use unmanaged Win32 Dll in other C++ application, you need to add .lib file to the Linker dependencies list, include Dll interface h-file to the client project .cpp file, and call Dll functions. This way works both for unmanaged and managed client. Unmanaged Win32 Dll cannot be added as reference, this way works only for .NET class libraries. ...Show All

• SQL Server MS Mappoint and SSRS

  Does anybody know if it's possible to embed a mappoint map into an SSRS report I'm currently using SSRS2000 but hope to upgrade to 2005 before too long. Thanks. Yes, access would be easy because you could write a macro to call mappoint and the .ptm file based on a data query. However I can't see how I could do this using ssrs except by some kind of hyperlink url perhaps, or by calling a windows batch file that ran mappoint. I do know though that if you use report manager, you can 'upload a mappoint file' onto the web page and then the mappoint session will run inside the ssrs report manage browser session, which is probably the best I will get. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Is it possible for XNA go into Visual Basic?

  I alway think Visual Basic is the easiest of all 5 languages(Java, Web Development, C#, C++, and Visual Basic) and I heard that XNA only work on C# and I wanted to have XNA communcate and have some commands for Visual Basic. If it exist please tell me. :-) Please and thank you. You can use any .net language. Just create a new empty vb project, reference the dll's in the .net framework and convert the Game1 and Program file over to vb. It should run fine i know there are a few other things you will have to do in preperation...they can be found here. http://www.alanphipps.com/VisualBasicdotNET-XNA.html ...Show All