Horea Soanca's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development How to change the device emulator screen resolution to 640x480 ?

  Dear Ppl, I have been working on a PDA applicaion for a while. The device I was working for got the screen resolution 320x240. Now i have got a new device which got the resolution 640x480. The Windows Mobile 5.0 device emulator that comes with VS.NET 2005 got the screen resolution 320x240. Is there a way I can make the screen resolution of the device emulator to 640x480 Awaiting Nabeel ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Is there a way to communicate between Word Document Addin & Word COM Addin in VSTO?

  I have Word Document Addin in VSTO 2005, but I need to add some items to MS Word menu. I'm going to use Word COM Addin to add menu items, but it's going to be separate app. I'm not sure how can I notify Word Document Addin when state changed in COM Addin. What is the best way to do that Does Word provide any functionality to solve this problem <<By the way, I'm going to implement Ribbon support for Word 2007 for my project later. Do you know if I'll be able to do the same trick (Create Ribbon in COM Addin and then subscribe on OnClick event from Document project) >> No, that won't work because the Ribbon is based on an XML model that uses a callback system. In the XML element for a Ribbon c ...Show All

• SQL Server Does SSRS support cluster?

  SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, Notification Services, and Integration Services are not cluster-aware; they are always installed as stand-alone components, but can use a clustered SQL Server database. Words above come from sql 2005 help on msdn, but the guide of ms reporting manager says, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) must already be installed and configured before you can install SCRM 2006. Although SQL Server 2005 and SSRS support a scaled-out deployment model configuration using clustered servers, SCRM 2006 does not support clustered servers. Why they are different which one is correct Thanks. sorry, the first section comes from official sql 2005 cluster white paper, <Fail ...Show All

• Visual C# Static fields, inheritance, and Reflection...

   I'm trying to force a class that inherits from a base class that contains a static field to assign a value to this field. I'm not having any luck. For example, say I have a base class "Shape": public class Shape { public static string Description = "A shape"; } and I want to create a class that inherits from shape, but I want the new class to be forced to assign a value to 'Description'. Is this possible I know I can't use abstract or virtual along with static.. The reason for this is that I want to be able, when using reflection, to use the FieldInfo class to return the 'Description' of the inheriting class. I know I can assign a value to 'Description' in the constructor of the inheriting class, but the Typ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System build

  Currently, one team project can build nicely. But I have a problem when i try to build a team project which use a reference from another team project, then it cannot build. give me an error says Solution: , Project: TeamWork.sln, Compilation errors and warnings d:\Build\MessageShow1\TotalBuild\Sources\TeamWork\TeamWork.sln(0,0): error MSB3202: The project file "..\..\Documents and Settings\mm\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\MMLib\MMLib\MMLib.csproj" was not found. Could you please help me thank you jiajia Hi Jiajia, Please take a look at the following post: http://blogs.msdn.com/manishagarwal/archive/2005/12/22/506635.aspx Swaha ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System COM access to TFS Version Control?

  In our existing build processes built against Perforce, we have some COM objects written in VB6 that will automatically check files out during our compile steps, and back in once completed. I see that there are .NET interfaces into the TFS Source Control system, however this would require us to re-write our build components. Our company is investigating migrating all of our old VB6 based projects into TFS Source Control, and I'm in charge of the automated build processes. We have a pretty proprietary system built up over the past few years. These processes automate the creation of our end product CD distribution for our QA to test on a daily basis. I'm basically looking to scope out what is going to have to happen for us to migrat ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) SQLMetal / visual editor - connecting to remote server

  I’m unable to find any examples for sqlmetal where it connects to a remote SQL 2k5 server over TCP/IP. What is the syntax for the ”/server:” option for this work Also, what rights are required for the sqlmetal/visual editor to work Currently I have a SQL 2k5 database where the user is mapped to the ”db_datareader”, ”db_datawriter” and ”public” roles. But the visual editor doesn’t work with this. If I add the user to the ”sysadmin” role on the SQL 2k5 server, it works. But this is not a solution for me. So what tables and accessrights are required for the SQLmetal/visual editor to work On the same note, what rights are required for the runtime to work. When we deploy this to a production server, I would like t ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Analog stick "holes"

  Does anyone else have odd ... holes ... in the values returned from the analog sticks For example, if I push my left analog straight up very slowly, I see the Y value stay at 0 for a little while, then it jumps to ~0.25 and climbs steadily to 1. Likewise with the X, and it happens in both directions for both sticks. Also, if I peg the stick up and slowly roll it clockwise, Y stays at 1, X at 0, then after a while X jumps to 0.25 and climbs steadily. As I get close to straight to the right, Y approaches 0.25, then drops straight to 0. Am I alone IE: is it likely my hardware Or is this something other people see IE: likely software This behaviour is intentional, read the following thread fo ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE7's Shrink-to-fit is one size fits all?

  Printing in a web app isn't easy. I have an application that loads a page into an Iframe, and a button outside of the iframe that does the iframe.focus();iframe.print() ; thing to print out the contents of the iframe. Whats inside of the iframe is meant to be print out on legal sized paper (8.5"x14"), which isn't the same as normal letter paper (8.5"x11"). In previous IE versions this worked like a charm. IE7, however, decides that legel size is not appropriate and applies the shrink-to-fit to shrink my beautiful legal sized document into a letter sized box. When printing, the printer expects a legal sized document since that's whats defined in the printer settings, but only prints a letter-sized box of content si ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) System.ServiceModel.FaultException in a certificate service

  I've created an wcf service hosted as a managed Windows Service . The service was configured to use netTcpBinding , message security mode , and Certificate authentication . I'm running the client and service on the same machine, and so the client and server certificates are installed on the same machine as well. The CertificateValidationMode is set to PeerOrChainTrust in both, the client and the service. When I try to run one of the operation contracts from the client, I got the following exception: System.ServiceModel.Security.MessageSecurityException : An unsecured or incorrectly secured fault was received from the other party. See the inner FaultException for the fault code and detail. The inner FaultException return this... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions System.Media.SoundPlayer problem

  I use the .NET Media player thingy and it hes some prob this code is under soem button. System.Media.SoundPlayer soundplayer = new System.Media.SoundPlayer(); soundplayer.Stream = Properties.Resources.Windows_XP_Notify; soundplayer.Play(); wen i put this code under a button that open a form or if i put few buttons in same form and i click it fsat it get this realllly annoying sound. like its KHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ya..just liek that like a paper gets cutted but 100 times stronger.. what this happens // It worked fine when I tried it. One thing to double-check is that you've added the resource properly. Click the Show All Files icon in Solution Explorer. Open the Prope ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Passing application context information to servies

  Hi, I am got the following situation and would love to hear peoples feedback on whether i am doing this in the correct way for WCF. Currently our application has its own context class similar to HttpContext and is accessed using the Current property. This class contains a number of properties such as ClientName, ApplicationName, Status etc etc. We would like to be able to pass this information over the wire to our remote services hosted in WCF, but we dont want to have to explicitly the information on every method call. My current thinking to have a class that implements the IClientMessageInspector and IDispatchMessageInspector interfaces. In the IClientMessageInspector .B eforeSendRequest i take the current context and then creat ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista installutil.exe installing windows service

  I'm tring to install a windows service and keep getting the following message, can anyone help with this TIA C:\Program Files\My Application>installUtil.exe MyApp.exe Microsoft (R) .NET Framework Installation utility Version 2.0.50727.42 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved. Running a transacted installation. Beginning the Install phase of the installation. See the contents of the log file for the C:\Program Files\My Application\MyApp.exe assembly's progress. The file is located at C:\Program Files\My Application\MyApp.InstallLog. Installing assembly 'C:\Program Files\My Application\MyApp.exe'. Affected parameters are:    logtoconsole =    assemblyMyApph = C:\Program Files\My Appli ...Show All

• Windows Forms Preservation of contents of the form in a database

  Help! Such problem: it is necessary to keep all contained (an arrangement controls...) forms in a database. How it is better for making Can eat any framework (for CMS, for the client) for such work. Do you mean to create the tables Or for the code to display the forms from the tables The .NET Framework provides features (via reflection) to create the controls at runtime and set the appropriate properties. I don't know if there is a product that automaticallys does this... ...Show All

• Visual Studio trial version of En_vs_2005_Pro_90_Trial.img

  After you download this animal, how do you get it to run http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=778624&SiteID=1 ...Show All