LeeC22's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Ready, Steady, Hang on a minute.

  To give me a break from the program that I'm working on, I've decide to have a go at a simple game, (That's a laugh, my last program was a Simple combobox to show the fonts on my system, it' now about 5000 lines of code and 4Mb, and still going thanks to an extreme beta tester ) Anyway I thought I would do I twist on tetris, still blocks falling etc but before I start and go wandering off into a maze of code, only to come here and ask for you guys to pull me out I thought I would start with your ideas and opinions. Would it be better to have pitureboxes dropping or drawn rectangles or panels or what Is there any help or info out there that I could look at to get the basic idea. Should I stop now and forget it All advice welcome and appreci ...Show All

• Windows Forms Process arrow key combination

  Hey, I am trying to process arrow key combinations (for example when a user presses Up and Right). The KeyDown event will not work because it does not handle the arrow keys. ProcessDialogKey will not work because it is fired seperatley for each key (so once for up and once for right). I could do a timer to make see if the keys were pressed quickly but that seems over complicated for something like this. Does anyone have any ideas on how this can be done easier Thanks. Hello All. zenox: I don't think so, because I don't think that there is any event for simultaneous key presses. Each key will fire its own event, so you're going to have to check the state of at least one of them. From looking over ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE7 HP Director Problem

  I also tried the HP software workaround for my sj4570c. It did not work for me. I tried everything I could, I had both versions of HP software(v1.2 & 7.0 ) installed, tried all the patches, got the "HP Solutions" to open the HP Director, then I still got error messages prompting me to re-install the software. The basic scanner functions worked ok. I could not get the scanner to work thru the HP Director with IE 7. I need my HP director to work and it does after I uninstalled IE 7. I like the features on IE 7. I I like the featuresof the HP Director. I am stuck between HP and MS lack of support. I am getting tired of the lack of support and uncompatable upgrades from MS. I may give FireFox a try. Anyone know of an other s ...Show All

• Visual C++ (MSVCRT) _iob disappeared?

  What can I do to replace the functionality of _iob Seems to be missing in MSVCR7/8 (using VS2005). The library I'm building is being used as a "proxy" if you will for API monitoring/research purposes. I have to handle all exported functions from the original. What gets me is the fact these old internal symbols (_iob, _acmdln, etc) are actively used in Windows Vista applications... ...Show All

• SQL Server How to render multiple reports into one output file?

  We are using SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services and looking to render multiple reports into one output file. So, for example, say we have four reports and when the user asks for the reports to be generated, we would like to have all four reports come out in one PDF (or Excel or HTML) file instead of four separate files. I hope this makes sense. Is there any way to render multiple reports to one output file Thanks! One way to do this is to write your own component that executes a set of reports on the server and combines them into a single pdf programatically, and then streams down the single PDF file back to the client. ...Show All

• Visual C++ why ok with istream but not with ostream?

  Hi there, In my program, I define a class Mytype. In order to make cin>> and cout<< availbe for Mytype objects, I include iostream and declare ostream& operator <<(ostream&, const dvariable&); istream& operator >>(istream&, dvariable&); But the combiler, visual studio 2003, seems not recognize ostream at all and gives a lot of error messages about the line with ostream, eg, syntax error: ',', 'int ostream': redefinition, syntax error : missing ';' before '&', etc., while the line with istream is fine. Any suggestions are appreciated. rich your sample is somewhat outdated and incorrect. Here is the change: //#include <iost ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Flash screen timer

  Before I start my application in form1, I want to show a splashscreen for 3 seconds, how can I make it jump to the application in 3 seconds you would really have to implement it yourself. The guideline/instructions given arent really hard :-) You just have to work out which form to show first and perform the operation Which form is showing first splash screen or main form ...Show All

• Windows Forms disable text entry in an ultradropdown

  hi, does anyone know how to disable the ultradropdown from accepting typing from a user Thanks. ultradropdown Me . ComboBox1 . DropDownStyle = ComboBoxStyle . DropDownList ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.NETDEVFX.v20.en/CPref17/html/T_System_Windows_Forms_ComboBoxStyle.htm Member name Description DropDown The text portion is editable. The user must click the arrow button to display the list portion. This is the default style. DropDownList The user cannot directly edit the text portion. The user must click the arrow button to display the list portion. Simple The text portion is editable. The list portion is always visible. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Sum of an Array

  Another newbie question. I am using VB express. I have an array of intergers. what is the best way to find the sum of the array Thanks in advance Scott Code Snippet Dim arryint() As Integer 'assuming values have been added to arryint Dim cnt As Integer = 0 For Each i As Integer In arryint i += arryint(cnt) cnt += 1 Next ...Show All

• Visual Basic Weird arithmetic overflow

  I have the following function Public Shared Function ReadUInt32( ByVal Array As Byte (), ByVal Index As Integer ) As UInt32 Dim A As UInt32 = CUInt ((0 Or Array(Index + 3)) << 24) Dim B As UInt32 = CUInt ((0 Or Array(Index + 2)) << 16) Dim C As UInt32 = CUInt ((0 Or Array(Index + 1)) << 8) Dim D As UInt32 = CUInt (0 Or Array(Index)) Return A Or B Or C Or D End Function The error occurs at Dim A As UInt32 = CUInt ((0 Or Array(Index + 3)) << 24) The 32 bit value of Array(Index) is &HFFFFFFFF. So Array(Index + 3) << 24 is 4278190080D But it gives an arithmetic overflow even though the value is less than UInt32. ...Show All

• Visual Studio MSBuild FAQ issues you'd like to see?

  Hi everyone, I'm Kemp Brown, the new documentation writer for MSBuild. Like all products, there are undoubtedly issues with MSBuild and questions you have that you just can't seem to find good answers for. (Hence this forum. ) Or there may be gems of wisdom that you've found that you wish you'd known before. At the risk of sounding cliche, we honestly do feel your pain. And in addition to participating in this forum, we want to help by addressing the most critical and prevalent issues and questions you have in an FAQ format. Bear in mind that -- as hard as this might be to believe -- even big 'ol MS has resource constraints, so as much as we'd love to, we probably won't be able to address all of your issues. But we'll tackle the bigg ...Show All

• SQL Server How do I get a RS report onto an Internet app?

  I've written our first Reporting Services report, using SQL Server 2005. Since we've never used RS before, we may, or may not, have done some things correctly. One of the things is that we only have the Reporting Services, and Report Manager, on our SQL Server 2005 server, which is in our network behind our firewall. We also have an ASP.NET 1.1 application which is used by external users (other businesses that do business with us). Because of the nature of our business, we don't want people from one agency to access data from another agency. Since calling the report in RS involved passing parameters to the report in the URL, I decided that I would hide those details by putting the web page returned by RS into an IFRAME in an aspx page. ...Show All

• SQL Server Getting the uniqueName and name of members in a Calculated set?

  I'm trying to do this to have a somewhat dynamic parameter value list in Reporting Services 2005. I need to be able to show Customer.Territory or a different type of Territory (this will be determined based on another parameter). When running some initial mdx I get the error: The CURRENT function cannot be invoked in this context because the 'aa' set is not in the scope. I'd prefix aa with Customer, but there are multiple attributes in Customer, and I'd then need to respecify which attribute I'd want to be accessing - this would defeat the purpose of the set. I need the ending name "aa" to always be aa (for Reporting Services), so Customer.Territory.aa or Customer.TerritoryType2.aa would not be static. with set aa ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Slow Tab Control

  I have a tab control with 8 pages each with a good amount of labels, textboxes, and comboboxes. When I create the form that contains this tab control, it takes several seconds to load. I'm a novice when it comes to programming but is any suggestions for the UI design that will speed up the load time I know that PPC is limited in resources and I was reading an article that says that Tab control in the Compact Framework isn't very good. Even when I take out all but 1 page, the form still takes 2 seconds to load. Thanks for any help. I forgot, you should also move the control new'ing code from Form1.Designer.cs. Like this: Lars if (tabPage1.Controls.Count == 0) { // Move this code also: ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Problem with WS-AT: WS-AtomicTransaction protocol service is disabled...

  Hello, I am trying to call a WCF web service with enabled transaction flow from a Java client. The Java client is capable of WS-AT and calls the WCF service from within a transaction scope. I always get the following exception: "The flowed transaction could not be unmarshaled. The following exception occurred: The MSDTC transaction manager's WS-AtomicTransaction protocol service is disabled and cannot unmarshal incoming transactions." The binding my WCF service uses is: <customBinding> <binding name="customB"> <transactionFlow transactionProtocol="WSAtomicTransactionOctober2004" /> <textMessageEncoding messageVersion="Soap11" /> <httpTranspor ...Show All