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• Visual C++ Converting time in MSG to COleDateTime

  Hi, I am using MSG to retrive the message I am getting all the details I am unable to decode the time which is in DWORD type. Is there any idea plz inform. Check this thread . Second question today on a really obscure topic. Is this a class assignment ...Show All

• Visual Studio error MSB3323: Unable to find manifest signing certificate in the certificate store.

  Problems began when I received the MSDN Final VS 2005 v8.0.50727.42 and uninstalled the RC build which I had worked with without issue and replaced it with the previously mentioned. After four or so installs/uninstalls I got past the Invalid license data. Reinstall is required. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=162712&SiteID=1 I have tested C++ project builds for managed and unmanaged code and both work without a problem. My C# projects however fail to build, the error I get is: ------ Rebuild All started: Project: D And P, Configuration: Release Any CPU ------ C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Microsoft.Common.targets(1718,7): error MSB3323: Unable to find manifest signing certificate in the certific ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Usage of Order property in MessageBodyMember

  Should the Order property of the MessageBodyMemberAttribute follow the same guideline as for the DataMemberAttribute This is the data contract recommendation wrt versioning: "The Order property on the DataMemberAttribute should be used to make sure that all of the newly added data members appear after the existing data members. The recommended way of doing this is as follows: None of the data members in the first version of the data contract should have their Order property set. All of the data members added in version 2 of the data contract should have their Order property set to 2. All of the data members added in version 3 of the data contract should have their Order set to 3, and so on. It is okay to have more than one da ...Show All

• Smart Device Development .NET Compact Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 is released and available for download.

  Please follow this link for download and list of changes: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=0c1b0a88-59e2-4eba-a70e-4cd851c5fcc4&displaylang=en Note: if you have previous version of NETCF V2 MSI installed on your desktop, please uninstall it first. There are field alignment requirements on different CPUs. Your sample probably violates them by aligning DWORD on odd address. In fact, most likely it needs to be 4 or 8 byte aligned. I would suspect framework on XP simply ignores your incorrect alignment spec and integer offset is not 1 but 4 (or 8 on 64 bit OS). Structure size in that case would be 8, not 5 which you can check using Marshal .SizeOf(). To declare same structure on ...Show All

• SQL Server Time calculation Growth % from Business Intelligence wizard

  Hi, I need some help to solve an issue I have on displaying data from cube onto a OWC Pivottable. What I did is as follows. I created, using the wizard of the BIDS evironment the measure “Month Over Month Growth %”, calculates on the Time dimension. Browsing the cube, when the calculation is applicated to a measure containing a 0 value, I see “-1,#IND”. How I can avoid this Is it necessary to modify the MDX expression created by the wizard If so, How Thanks in advance. Client development is not my strong side but I have seen the same problem in Reporting Services 2005 when building reports with SSAS2005 as source. In SSRS2005 I can set the formats for percentages like "###.## ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Saving email to a file to a specified directory and filename

  Hi, I am new to developing any addins to outlook. I want to create a button in outlook (similar to the print button which can print the email to any printer), once clicked the selected email new or existing is then saved to a specified directory and filename depending on the client number. The client number will be prompted. Thanks In addition to the general VSTO and Outlook resources listed at the top of this forum, you'll want to look at the Help topics for Outlook's Explorer.Selection collection and MailItem.SaveAs method. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista unexpectedly flipped frames using null renderer

  I wonder if anyone else has experienced this curious frame flipping behaviour and might have a solution to offer... I'm rendering frames from a capture source (the integrated camera in a WM5 device), through a custom transform filter (derived from CTransformFilter), and finally out to the null renderer (i.e. the renderer you get by specifying NULL as the last parameter on RenderStream). The transform filter doesn't do anything to the video data at the moment - just copies everything through verbatim. I call IMediaControl->Run() to start the graph, and everything runs normally - frames are being displayed ok on the mobile screen (appearing the right way up, like a camera viewfinder). But then, if my app has cause to call up an AfxMessage ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to adjust MDI forms size according to screen size...?

  Hi... In my MDI application , Before loading my parent form i want to check my screen size & according to that i want to adjust my MDI parent & child form size. In my application, I have a child form which is always active & which is covering the parent forms area. For that I want to adjust my parent form & that child forms area according to the screen size. How I can do this in C#... Thanks & regards, Vinay Try this in your MDI parent: private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { this.Location = Screen.PrimaryScreen.WorkingArea.Location; this.Size = Screen.PrimaryScreen.WorkingArea.Size; } ...Show All

• SQL Server Lookup error redirection

  Hi, I would like to know if the following is possible or if there is another way to implement this. I have a lookup transformation which i check to see if a specific record is stored. If nothing is returned i would like to insert a record into the table and then try the lookup again so that this time it will find the record and continue processing. How could i redirect the data flow to allow something like this to be done. I have tried linking the lookup failure constraint to an oledb destination and then attempted to link this back to the lookup but this has not worked. Does anyone have any ideas on this Thanks in advance, Grant Instead of using an OLEDB Destination component, use an OLEDB Command compon ...Show All

• Visual Basic Something's wrong with the bitmap.FromStream method --- can anybody help

  Good day guys, I have here a code that loads an image from a database. It converts it into a byte array and writes it into a memory stream. then I tried loading the memory stream into a bitmap class. but everytime I use the Bitmap.FromStream() method i get the following exception. System.ArgumentException: Parameter is invalid can anybody tell me what's wrong with my code. thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dim myByteArray() As Byte = dtEmployee(0).Picture_IM If myByteArray.Length > 0 Then '' Create a new MemoryStream and write all the information from ' ...Show All

• Visual Basic create an on-screen keyboard

  hello. i am programming using VB 2005 express edition. i want to create an on-screen keyboard to be integrated with my app, but i have no idea where to start. can anybody give me a direction thanks. Check this thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=326409&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• SQL Server Fromatting excel column

  Hi, I have an excel export with numeric values. When the SSIS package writes into the excel it treats all data types as strings and attaches an apostrophe in the beginning. I tried formatting the excel sheet with the number data type and saving it . It doesnt work. Other strange thing is that when I go into the advanced editor for the excel destination and look into the properties of the external columns all of them have the data type as Unicode String[DT_WSTR] irrespective of what the data type is from the input.The UI allows me to change it to numeric for numeric columns without any error but the value is not saved at all which is very frustrating. I also tried changing it in the xml file of the package, it some how seems to ov ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Building a camera class.

  Hi all, I have built a fps camera class but I have some doubts I would like someone to clear. My camera follows this steps: 1) built a view matrix from CreateLookAt with inital pos/orientation 2)Set from client code rotation & new pos. The rotation code uses the inital camera axix (we obtained from CreateLookAt and transfroms Forward, Right & Up. 3)When client code calls update, Forward,Right & Up vectors are copied to internal matrix that keeps current viewmatrix 4) client code gets the matrix, inverts it, and pass it to the shader. My doubts: 1) CreateLookAt is giving me the Camera matrix what means... this is not the matrix I should pass the to shader, but the inverted one I have check some tutorials at riemers page and he ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to acces picture in the resources

  Hi, I want to add pictures to my project so I go to Project->resource->add resource than I import the picture I want. But now the problem is, how to access my picture from my class for example my picture is pict.bmp, so after I added it to resources how to call it Thank you in advance :D MFC CBitmap bmp; bmp.LoadBitmap(IDB_BITMAP1);// IDB_BITMAP1 will be the existing bitmap in your resource. Win32 HBITMAP hbmp = LoadBitmap(hinst, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDB_BITMAP1)); ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Error C2504: 'CCeSocket' : base class undefined

  I am attempting to port a Smart Device project from a previous version of Visual Studio into a Windows Mobile 5.0 project for PocketPC in Visual Studio 2005. I am getting the error mentioned in the subject where I have a class inheriting from CCeSocket. Has anyone else had this problem or know of a way to fix it This is code that worked just fine in its previous environment. HI, The CCeSocket class has been deprecated in VS 2005 for devices. You should use the CSocket and CAsyncSocket classes for network related functionality. But for a few Wininet flags that aren't supported on devices the programing experience should be the same as that on desktop. Hope this helps. Thanks ...Show All