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• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Announcing the Cider November CTP for .Net Framework 3.0 RTM

  The November Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Cider Visual Designer for Windows Presentation Foundation is now available! As usual Cider is being released as part of the Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .Net Framework 3.0. This CTP is compatible with the RTM release of .Net Framework 3.0. There are no new Cider features in this CTP . It is merely a refresh of our September CTP bits to make them compatible with the RTM release of .Net Framework 3.0. The Cider feature set is identical to the feature set we released in September. Release notes and installation information for the November CTP are published on the Cider Wiki . The full set of November CTP features can be found in our November CTP ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Regarding Set Property and Unset Property

  Hi there My current understanding is : if any style attribute is set using script then it gets locked on that particular element ...till it is unlocked on that particular element....ie the style attributes are locked at element level. whereas for state attributes things are different. a) state:focused can be locked using one element and unlocked using other element(even that belonging to a different application) b) state : enabled and state:value can be locked by one element and unlocked using other element belonging to same application i.e. they are locked at application level. I have seen behaviour a). About b) I am not sure. Do these i.e. a) and b) look right to ya all. Regarding b) The latest sp ...Show All

• .NET Development Save a pdf file with c#(windows forms) in sql server

  I would  like a sample of code to do this. Can anyone help me Well i want to pick a pdf file  (using a windows form) and save it into sql server using c#, and then read that file from slq server and put it in a windows form As I understand it you are trying to generate PDF files from within your code. If that's true there are 2 possible options I know of: You can install a PDF printer driver: PDF995 CutePDF writer PrimoPDF ... You can use a open source PDF generator library : iTextSharp SharpPDF Report.NET PDFSharp PDF Clown It is important to know if your solution is going to be used to generate PDF files on server-side or client-side. If ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot create an instance of OLE DB Provider VFPOLEDB object

  Hi forum I'm developing a report in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services based on a query from SQL Server tables joined with Visual FoxPro free tables. I created a Linked Server with Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Visual FoxPro provider, whith VFPOLEDB.1 string provider. Everything runs ok within a Business Intelligence Development Studio environment, but when I implement my report, at runtime an error occurs it said "Cannot create an instance of OLE DB Provider VFPOLEDB object". I swtched any combination of Linked Server security and Provider security pages without to solve the problem. Navigating the web today, I read a similar thread posted by stephanielauym at April 3, 2006 but I`m not clear if she passed the issue or no ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to make two same application running at the same time...

  Hi everybody: As Title.I build one project . to release a xxx.exe application..then I copy this project sourcecode to release a xxx_updated.exe application. when I run two applications,but only one of them can run..I think wince system core.dll considers them the same applications.and makes one of them to one solts. Can you help me how to modify it.not to build new project. Thanks! Hi Windows CE itself does not enforce 'single instance' apps. Is your app is a 'Win32 Smart Device Application' generated by the Visual Studio 2005 project wizard. In this case change the Window Classcame of your main windows. This can be done by changing the string resource with the ID IDC_DEVICESDK. The wizard generated code searches on a ...Show All

• Visual Basic Best method to restrict input

  I need to restrict the input in a text box to '0 to 9' max 10 digits or 'NA' max 2 char. allowing for the backspace. Can anyone suggest the best method. If regex is suggested I would need the formula. change the textlength to 10 and on the keypress event, check to see if the character pressed is numeric. if not, set e.Handled = true; private void TextBox1_keypress (object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e) {    if (!Char.IsNumber(e.KeyChar) && !Char.Iscontrol(e.KeyChar))    {       e.Handled = true;    } } ...Show All

• Visual C++ no appriciate default constructor

  Hi everyoune. What's a reason I cannot compile source code which is similar to one following below. VS 2005 compiler generates an error (C2512) error C2512: 'CControlCp<F>::CNodeCallback' : no appropriate default constructor available class Cp { public : Cp(Env env); Cp( const Model model); Cp(CpI* impl = 0); } class CallbackI { protected : CallbackI(Env env); virtual void main() = 0; } template < class F> class CControlCp : public Cp { class CNodeCallback: public CallbackI { public : // CNodeCallback(Env& env): CallbackI(env) {}; // when it's non commented the same error occurs CNodeCallback() {}; ~CNodeCallback(){}; }; ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Code formatting on Forum

  What are people using to get the nice color syntax and formating for XAML samples they post on the forums thanks, Kiel See also How do I enter code examples in my posts and Post Code Coloring . ...Show All

• Visual C# How to read a float from a Big Endian binary file.

  I have a binary file written in big endian. Scattered within the binary file, there are 4-byte floats that I wish to read. I can't use methods like ReadSingle() since it is in big endian format. The only thing I have found to solve this is to read it in one byte at a time...reverse the order of the array...write it out using BinaryWriter and read it back using BinaryReader.ReadSingle() from the temp file. This seems to have a lot of over head...is there a better way to do this (I tried the way below but did not work) Thanks. -JRozak FileStream fs = new FileStream(openFileDialog1.FileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);BinaryReader r = new BinaryReader(fs); float x=(float)IPAddress.NetworkToHostOrder(r.ReadUInt32()); ...Show All

• Smart Device Development problems accessing virtual COM port

  Hi, I'm trying to build a simple serial communication test app on a Windows Mobile 5 pocket pc that can talk to a hyperterminal session on a desktop over a serial port. The mobile device does not have a physical serial port, so I have paired it to a bluetooth serial adapter installed on the desktop. I also configured an outgoing port for the bluetooth device on the pocket pc for port COM6. It is my understanding that I should be able to search for available com ports using the G etPortNames() method in System.IO.Ports. When I do so, I do not get a value for COM6. My application works great when I run it on an emulator through a mapped port. I can map COM1 on the emulator to COM8 on the host laptop with bluetooth and communicat ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error - Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

  I have a webservice that I want to subscribe to the WorkItemChangedEvent. I have tested this on my test server, but when I attempt to subscribe on my production server, I get a plain vanilla nullreference exception. That's no help. I can navigate to the service in the browser. Here is the command line that I used to subscribe on the test server. I have been unable to make it work in any form on the productions server. bissubscribe /eventType WorkItemChangedEvent /userId AD\\dsgtfsservice /address http://dsgts1:8080/NumberWorkItems/Service.asmx /filter "\"ChangeType\"='New'" Any guidance would be appreciated. ++Alan Are you getting null reference error when running BisSubscribe.exe Looks like we have a bug there if ...Show All

• SQL Server Timeout

  I have a datawarehouse and a Step is timing out. The step involved inserting records... I am calling a stored proc from a VB script in the step...from ISQL this step taks a long time but works fine. Thanks, JavaWaba Hey JW: What's timing out Is SQL Server timing out, or is the step in your SSIS package It may make a difference as to where to look for a solution. Also, as always, are you sure the stored procedure is well-designed and efficient ...Show All

• Visual C# WIA 2.0 Image Deletion

  I need a programmatic way to delete images from a digital camera using WIA 2.0 Automation Layer and C#. I am referencing Interop.WIALib.dll in my project. I can find references to a CommandId for DeleteAllItems for use with ExecuteCommand method in online documentation http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wiaaut/wia/wiax/refwiaaut/consts/commandid.asp but there appears to be no Device class available to me inside C# (only DeviceInfo, and it lacks ExecuteCommand). And I can find reference to DeleteItem method in older WIA 1.0 IWiaItem interface http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wia/wia/refwia/ifaces/iwiaitem/deleteitem.asp but again not available from WIALib in c#. I have also tried going through Interop.WIA.dll which has more clas ...Show All

• SQL Server Invalid class string in Enterprise manager

  Hi, Sorry to be cross-posting, but I'm not getting much response to this... http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=807314&SiteID=1 ...which I don't even think is in the right forum anyway. can anyone help Basically, I get a error box saying "Invalid class string" in Enterprise Manager whenever I try to run a query. nope didn't work. I installed the Analytical services, ran the regsvr line (which worked) but still having the same problem. btw, I used to have some version of SQL Server 2005 installed (as part of Visual Studio 2005) but removed this, as I though this was causing the problem. I tried a repair of Visual Studio 2005 hoping this might help, which t ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista why the workflowMonitor can only track the workflow with one activity?thx

  when I add other activity to the workflow, it will show the error . thanks! Please make sure that if you modify the workflow type, you provide a new version number to the assembly or clean the database. If not, the database could have the wrong information for the new type. Thanks, Ranjesh ...Show All