Shawn Rheal's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Program to execute on one machine only

  Hello, My problem is that I want to deploy my program onto a 'thumb drive' and sell it that way and I need the program to only run off that drive. It is a small program that can easily be copied and run by anyone so I thought that if I could somehow 'lock' it to the small USB drive then that would solve my problem. Because some games require a CD to be in a drive before they will run I figured that that would be something that I could do, my problem is finding any help in how that might be accomplished. Can anyone point me in the right direction Thank you very much Bill Langston Yes, my thought was to check if the program was running from a removable device and deny if it was running from a fixed device. Like I said ...Show All

• Visual Studio Async download won't work when started from VS on an Athlon64

  Hello. I have a small application that uses the async design pattern to save a web response (in background) and update a progess form. It works perfectly... Except when run from Visual Studio on my 2GHz a64... I have a form displaying the progress of the download. When run from VS on my a64, whith or without vshosting, the application takes ~15-20% cpu time, and VS the WHOLE rest! The form refreshes correcly according to the progress delegate call, but is not responsive. The window can be moved, but the content of the window in unaccessible, behind a sandhour pointer. I can not click the cancel button. ;)   The content of the progress form is responsive when run on my a64 from outside VS (but the application still ...Show All

• SQL Server Database Tuning Advisor DTA Import Session Results?

  Hi, I have ran the Tuning Advisor (DTA) on a .trc file. Recommendations and reports came back. I would like to take my exported session results and import that file into a DTA on a different machine with the SQL Server 2005 developer tools installed. The file is the following Job010704SessionResultsExported.xml I see how to import a session definition. I do not see how to import 'session results.' Any ideas oh how to do that Thanks, AIMDBA ...Show All

• Community Chat any help for finding out CPU temperature? and RAM usage? in Dot net?

  any help for finding out CPU temperature and RAM usage in Dot net thx..   Yes there is a field for it. But if you read the documentation you will find that it actually does not supply any data. If you had bothered to even read it, you would have seen this: CurrentReading Data type: sint32 Access type: Read-only Qualifiers: Units ( Tenths of degrees centigrade ) Current value indicated by the sensor. This property is inherited from CIM_NumericSensor . Current implementations of WMI do not populate the CurrentReading property. The CurrentReading property's presence is reserved for future use. I'll accept your apology in this.....     ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Changed file warning on each test

  I have a solution containing an ASP.NET project and a DBPro project. I configured a second database for my unit tests, but now whenever I run one of my aspx file to debug I get the following dialog: http://www.cryptpad.com/screenshot.jpg I don't seem to be able to 'unconfigure' the deploy database, and there doesn't seem to be an option to not deploy on each solution build. Anyone know how to stop this P.S. The specified file is not 'included' in the project. To avoid building the Database project on every build you should be able to configure VS to only build depended-on projects when starting to debug. Tools->Options : Projects and Solutions : Build and Run Check "Only build start ...Show All

• .NET Development .Net Remoting Question

  I have a class that is invoked in multiple ways, but no matter how it is invoked, I only want one instance to exist at any one time. I'm wondering if there is a simple way I can solve this problem with .Net Remoting. I see two potential approaches for solving this problem: Method #1 (Using COM) There is a well-proven approach that's been around for years using COM for getting an active object if it is running (or creating an instance of it, if its not). In the programs that use my component, I can have them use this approach to first check to see if the object is already running before creating a new instance. There is a complication with this approach that makes it somewhat ugly. I've found that .Net objects have to be registered ...Show All

• Visual C++ "R6002, Floating point not loaded" occurs when EXE file is compressed...

  I have a program built in Visual Studio 2005 (C++). When I try to compress it with UPX, MoleBox, HandProt, and so on... the program doesn't work anymore... It messages me with Error R6002, Floating Point not loaded... I suppose it's because the C++ compiler in VS2005 makes something different from others C++ compilers (VS2003, VS6, etc) when creating the PE structure. I think something is different that when compressed, the program can't load the variables float and double. I've observed and I'm sure that the crash occours exactly when some floating point is called. The program, when no compressed, works normally... I need to compress this program. Does anybody know if there exists some option in compiler that allow me to ...Show All

• Visual C# How to view the frame page sources in webbrowser control

  Usually,I can view the sources of the frame page sources as below: webBrowser1.Document.Window.Frames[index].Frames[index].Document; But,it can't work in www.afb88.com . why I want to built a project to autologin this site. In the DOM viewer,I can see the struction as below: html --head --frameset ----frame ----frame -------html ----------head ----------frameset --------------frameset -------------------frame -------------------frame ----------------------html -------------------------head -------------------------body (I need to get in it)   CommonGenius.com wrote: What do you mean, "it can't work" Have you tried What proble ...Show All

• .NET Development Programmatically determine calling method at execution time?

  Without using StackFrame, how might one go about determining the method that called the current method I need this for logging but do not want to use StackFrame since it has difficulties outside of IDE environment. Looked and looked - no can find. For example, method A and B each call method C. From method C, I want to be able to log who the parent method was that called me. Thanks. What problems are you having ouside the IDE As far as I'm aware, there is no record of the method call chain outside the stack (where it would logically be anyway). The only other way to handle this is for you to create your call chain recording structure and populate it with each call (per thread). However, that's a lot ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Live ID SDK

  Trevin, would you tell me where could I find the Live ID rich client SDK, or any info about it Alpha version of Live ID rich client is now published at http://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx SiteID=347 Thanks, - Vivek ...Show All

• Visual Studio Trouble Installing ReportViewer

  After publishing my web app to my production site, I received an error stating that necessary reporting DLLs were missing. After searching through forums, I found the solution was to copy my C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\BootStrapper\Packages\ReportViewer\ReportViewer.exe to the production machine, run it, restart IIS, and that should fix it. Well, now that error has gone away, but for some reason, I am now getting the following compiler error: CS0117: 'Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.ReportViewer' does not contain a definition for 'Reset' I have to use the ReportViewer.Reset() command to do some local report file switching, and for some reason, this method is not supported on my production machine. I verified w ...Show All

• SQL Server Incremental Update

  Good afternoon, I was wondering if someone could help. I'm busy researching into SSAS's capabilities, specifically Incremental Updates, however this would be the first time I'm working on SSAS, so I don't know where to begin. I've read through the BOL July 2006, and it explains that you have to enable this option; however to me it's not very clear. I followed the steps outlined in the Book; however when I go and update the source table, the partition does not update automatically. Could anyone please let me know if there is a website detailing how Incremental Updates work, and also how to set it up correctly Thanks Colin. Hello Colin, I would like to stress Tomas's warning about converting d ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista State Machine & Replicator Activity

  I have state machine with two states: Initial State and Completed State, Initial State looks like that: eventDrivenActivity | delayActivity | ----------------------------- | replicatorActivity | | | | | codeActivity | ---------------------------- | setState public sealed partial class Workflow1: StateMachineWorkflowActivity { private int _index; ............. private void codeActivity_ExecuteCode(object sender, EventArgs e) { Console.WriteLine(replicatorActivity.CurrentChildData[_index++]); } private void replicatorActivity_Initialize(object sender, EventArgs e) { Console.WriteLine(sender == replicatorActivity); replicatorActivit ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums VBA w/ Word 2000 - keep form on top of all applications

  Does anyone know of a way to make a form stay on top of all applications or even on top of all open Word documents I want a form that stays on top even if I minimize its parent Window (the document from which it was launched). I want it to stay on top even if I click on another Word document. Is it possible I've used the SetWindowPos function, but as soon as I minimize the form's parent, the form minimizes as well. I've tried using the SetParent function and the GetDesktopWindow function to make the desktop the forms parent, but for some reason the GetDesktopWindow seemed to return the same handle as the form's parent Word document. Any help would be greatly appreciated. That's called a modal fo ...Show All

• Visual C++ Slider Range Problem and S309PictureBox Active X Control

  Hi, I want set a range for my slider in visual studio 2005, mfc, dialog. But I dun know why I only can set the range max and min in main dialog. When I call second dialog with slider (range was set like ::slider.SetRangeMax(60,True);) it appeared an error with afxcmn.h line 438. If I set the range for slider in main dialog , it seems ok. All problem are same with my Active X Control or when I want to change a Static Text. Can you help me Hey, I'm curious how you even got s309picturebox running in visual studio 2005. I've been trying for a while and I can not get the control to come up in the toolbox to use. How did you do it Appreciate any help. ...Show All