fatquack's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Night Vision

  I am working on a military application that needs to support a "night vision" mode - that is, make the application appear in a green scale color pallet to make it easier on the eyes in reduced lighting. Now, I know I can take an approach that will "skin" or "theme" my application to make it appear green (our GUI COTS product Infragistics NetAdvantage makes this possible), but it still isn't a 100% solution because we would need to re-do all of our images/icons that we use in the app to a green scale version, and then code the functionality to change the images at runtime when needed. Further, because we display maps and map information, there isn't an easy way to change all of the maps into a green scale. Havi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problems installing our product after using the new Sept 2006 SDK

  Hello, We are having a bit of a problem since we started using the Sept 2006 SDK. Previously we were using the April 2006 SDK and our installation on target machines was working fine. Since then we have reworked our code to use the new Project sample as a base and everything on the development machines works fine in both Debug and Release mode without any problem. No problems with the PLK or anything. However, when we include our new assemblies into our install and try to install our product on a machine that is not running the VSIP SDK we are getting the following error after a user clicks on the Add New Project and selects our project template: "The project file [c:\<tempdirectorypath\projectname.proj>], cannot be ope ...Show All

• Windows Forms Application.EnableVisualStyles and .DoEvents()

  Hi All; I've got a groovy little windows app (VB.Net 2003) going with some tab controls and tab pages. I'm also attempting to EnableVisualStyles but am not able to display the tab's text when using EnableVisualStyles. I have Application.DoEvents following as suggested in several different threads I've found on the web that are mentioned to combat the bug in 1.1 framework. Can anyone offer further suggestions Code as follows. Thanks, GRaab Public Sub Main() Dim mainForm As mdiServiceCare = Nothing Try Application.EnableVisualStyles() Application.DoEvents() mainForm = New mdiServiceCare Application.Run(mainForm) Catch ex As Exception MsgBox(ex.Message) End Try End ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office [Outlook 2007] Create automatic formatting programatically for an appointment

  Hi, Using Office 2007 B2TR and Cypress, I would like to know how I can create an automatic formatting for an appointment In fact, I would like to change the background of how my appointment is displayed, in my calendar, according to a specific UserProperty. Anyone have an idea/pointer/links Thanks J Thomas Use the object browser in Outlook VBA (or any other Office program's VBA environment, as long as you add a reference to Outlook) to look up the help topics on all objects, including AutoFormatRule, which will take you to http://officebeta.iponet.net/client/helppreview.aspx AssetID=HV100433241033&ns=OUTLOOK.DEV&lcid=1033&QueryID=63DAZ2wrO& ...Show All

• Gadgets How to make ActiveX Callback functioning

  I cannot get the office name control to call back to a jscript eventhandler. (Office 12 installed in my case) The page works well if just rendered in a browser, hoever it does not function when run in a gadget. The thing that fails is that the eventhandler is never called when a buddy chnages state. The callback function is registered by calling the OnStateChange function as shown below. is such a callback not allowed (or only with additional magic ) I'd also appriciate suggestions for debugging this as I am not quite sure how to approach this Jos Could be a security issue, instead of testing in a browser, run it as an HTML Application . ie rename it to <filename>.HTA and run it. HTA's run with similar security to Side ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums iexplore.exe - Application Error

  I get the following error message when I close my internet explorer. The instruction at "0x62304320" referenced memory at "0x62304320", The memory could not be "read". Click on OK to terminate that program. Any ideas what is causing this It sounds like you might have a badly-behaved control on your system, if you're using IE6 on XPSP2 or IE7 you should be able to use 'manage add-ons' to disable it. just disable it or add some activex control through 'manage add-ons' ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Dynamic images for pushpins

  Hi, We are doing a virtual earth implementation for our client. He has some specific requirements. I want to find out if requirements can be met with Virtual Earth API. 1. Ability to upload images: The client wants to be able to upload images onto the map. I was thinking of giving the functionality to upload an image for a pushpin when the user adds one. Is it possible to dynamically upload an image for a pushpin If not, can we have an image store on the server and the user is able to choose the image from there when adding a pushpin 2. Ability to write text: The client should be able to add text at various points in the map. I am thinking of again providing it in a pushpin. The user will be able to choose/upload an image or speci ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Shift F5: need to dispose of resource from VS stop. Where?

  I've overridden form's OnClosing to dispose of barcode scanner object .. and it works fine when I close my form with the X button on the device.. however if I hit shift F5 (stop button) in VS2005 the application won't close and crashes the device because I haven't disposed of the scanner object.. Anyway I've tried disposing of it in dispose and other ideas but I cannot get it to call any code to dispose of my object when I end the program through visual studio (which crashes my device and is annoying).. how can I make it run this code when I click stop or press shift + F5 in visual studio. // code to dispose of Symbol's scanner object... Where to put it so Shift f5 // and form X button calls this What happens when I sto ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Pushpin Collection

  Is it possible to retrieve a collection of pushpins currently on the map I need to reload a map, then re-add all the pushpins that were previously on the map. Is there an easy way to do this Thanks. Hmm...IMO, the statefulness of the pins should not be dependent on the map. Can you give some insight on why you need to reload the map and pins One immediate solution would be if your pins were defined in one of the collection formats the api supports (GeoRSS or Live Collection). If it's home-grown data, then the GeoRSS is the way to go. ...Show All

• SQL Server Auto hide not working properly

  When I start Management studio for the first time on boot the Auto hide (Pin icon) does not work. I have to pin it first and then unpin it to make it work. Initially I thought it happens only on my machine but same thing I tried on couple of other machines. Happens only with Object Explorer not with Properties pan. All these machines have good primary 1GB RAM and processing power Intel dual core CPU 1.60 Gz. It is very minor issue but little annoying! Anyone else experienced similar behavior Using MS SQL Server 2005 EE Tha page read : To get started: Search for your issue below. If you find that your issue has already been reported by someone else, add your Vote on the issue to hel ...Show All

• Windows Forms Only 2 active forms

  Deal all I have Project in c# using Client/Server approch, I want to to have main form active -it contains menus- and if i select any option from the menu show a new form and if i select another option it will overload the open form. so that keep only the main form and one other form active. any help !! Thank you sirs What is the Reference of FormClosedEventArgs just to clearify what i mean that main form will be always open (as parent) and only one child form can be open at time. Regards. ...Show All

• SQL Server Is this possible?

  Hi guys, Is there any mechanism or tool to convert T-SQL query to its corresponding MDX query Please let me know. Sincerely, Amde Hi, The thing is I have a T-SQL query which works perfectly in a relational database. And I want to implement the same functionality in my Cube. So I am curious to know if I could achieve this thing. Sincerely, Amde ...Show All

• Visual C# Using OleDbConnection to populate DataGridView

  I'm a bit new to this, so pardon my ignorance if this is well-known. I've been searching the net, but no luck yet. I have an established OleDbConnection that I want to use to populate a DataGridView. I can run SQL queries on the connection and see data sets, but I would like to present a view of that data in my grid. Also, I'd like to be able to only show a fouple of the columsn, but hold on to the full data set for later use. Any pointers would be appreciated... Thanks. I'm still getting this exception: System.InvalidOperationExcception: "Update unable to find TableMapping['Table'] or DataTable 'Table'." I haven't changed the data set (knowingly) between these two function calls. If it is easier, I could send my full proje ...Show All

• SQL Server Selecting hierarchy from a self referencing table

    I have the following SP which returns a single row based on the ID passed (int identity field) SELECT ManufacturerID , ManufacturerName , ManufacturerDescription , ManufacturerURL , ParentManufacturerID , L astUpdated FROM Manufacturers WHERE ( M . ManufacturerID = @ManufacturerID ) Can anyone recommend the best way to modify this to select not only the matching ID row but also any rows which have matching ParentManufacturerID's,  and those rows parents etc... ie recursively all the way till the selected parent rows hit the parent's column default ID of -1 Thanks Mac   try this declare @Parent table(ID int) insert into @Pare ...Show All

• SQL Server sql update

  I am building a stored procedure (sp) as below to update a table. Some of the parameters may or may not be provided hence null values... Is what I am doing correct please I get this error when running it: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Syntax error or access violation Thanks Create PROCEDURE uspUpdate @IndexID int, @UnderlyingIndexID int = null, @Nearby int = null, @RolloverTypeID int = null, @Decimals tinyint = null, @LimRolloverDate datetime null, @LimRolloverPolicy varchar(50) = null AS declare @Error int declare @Msg varchar(128) declare @sql varchar(1000) update tblData set UnderlyingIndexID = @UnderlyingIndexID, Nearby = @Nearby, RolloverTypeID = @RolloverTypeID, Decimals = @Decimals, LimRolloverDate = @L ...Show All