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• Gadgets System.Network.Wireless Not Working

  It seems like System.Network.Wireless doesn't work... I have tried a few Windows Vista Sidebar gadets that use it and non of them work. I have also tried creating my own gadet and it doesn't work either. Has the object refrence been update but not the documentation Has anyone else seen this issue Or am I just doing something wrong I tried the following to have it printed out on the gadget and also saved in the Event Log and both places show that nothing is outputted. (and before it is asked, yes I do have wireless that is what I am using to write this and dont even have a hard connection) var IPAddress = System.Network.Wireless.address; gadgetContent.innerText = IPAddress; System.Diagnostics.EventLog.writeEntry(&quo ...Show All

• SQL Server Set Background color using RGB value

  Hi All, i have a field which stores the related RGB values for each record I need to set programatically the background color for some objects in the report using the RGB value stored for the record. how can i convert the rgb value to color and then set the background color for the report object. Please Help Thanks In Advance sud 1. Report parameters >> Add Name : "bgcolor" Data type: string check Internal Available values: From query (You have to define dataset and return the bgcolor value) Default values: Non-queried:  #FFFFFF 2. Edit Expression in BackgroundColor (Object Properties) =Parameters!bgcolor.Value ...Show All

• Visual C# Constructor

  Hi, How can i make constructor which can have all values Can you give me example Hi, What exactly do you mean by "All Values" I think you try to create a constructor that is accepting parameters rather than the default one that accepts no parameters, you can write so : public Car() { } public Car( int maxSpeed, string brand) { } Regards, ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can I make Hierarchical Interfaces, like Hierarchical DataSet

  When I make a dataset that's comprised of two tables and a relation between them, then when I look at the parent table at the 'Data Sources' tab I see that it has a connection to the child table. And the same when I drag it to a Grid then I see it hierarchicaly. How can I do the same with Interfaces If I have an Interface that contains a reference to another child interface, how can I make ado.net to look at it hierarchicaly Thanks Take a look at the datarelation class. You can find a vb sample on the vb-tips website . ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System .dbproj files to be read inside a Developer Edition of VSTS?

  At my workplace we have a number of editions of VSTS, one of those being the new Database Projessionals version for our DBA. We used to create a Database project, then had an app to combine all the .sql files into a master file for execution against our development server. It seems now that this new project type can better integrate into our build server and we will no longer need to use this sql joiner app. Regardless, all developers could view the standard Database project, but these new SQL Server 2005 (.dbproj) files are unreadable by the Developer edition of VSTS. While developers won't be doing many database changes, it's nice for us to be able to get latest and do small changes with code review on our databases, but moving to this ...Show All

• Visual Basic mouse position + mousehook

  hi all, I am trying to catch the mouse events all over the screen. I did a lot of researchs about that but unfortunatelly even the samples I found were in C and unfortunatelly I am using VB.NET 2005. by saying that I managed to find one sample which works fine just on the current application's form. but this is not what I want. I want to catch any mouse events that been made on the screen. And I also want to turn on or off this facility. For example if I click button1 it will start and if I click button2 it will stop. This following code is the one I managed to find. It is quite urgent and I am looking forward to see your helps. Thanks hi nobugz thank you ever so much. you are a lifesaver. thanks a lot. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Version property for MSI Files

  Hi, We have created a deployment MSI package and when i right click and click on properties i see only "General" and "Security" tabs. How do i include "Version" tab that would have my product version We are using Visual Studio.NET deployment projects to create the MSI file. Thanks, Kris Phil, Sorry i guess i didn't put my question right. Well after building the deployment project we get a setup.exe and an application MSI file. I was talking about that , how do we also add a version tab to the created MSI file properties that will contain the version information. Is it possible someway to edit through ORCA and enable this feature Thanks, Kris ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\include\string(15) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before 'namespace

  Hi, I am pretty new to visual c++ and the express edition as well. I am working through various examples in books to get more familiar with the language. When compiling one example I get the following message C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\include\string(15) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before 'namespace' Which is pointing at one of the included files, not at anything that I did. The code where this points and the surrounding couple of lines are #ifdef _MSC_VER #pragma pack ( push ,_CRT_PACKING) #pragma warning ( push ,3) #pragma warning ( disable : 4189) #endif /* _MSC_VER */ _STD_BEGIN // basic_string TEMPLATE OPERATORS template < class _Elem, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System GenerateDeploymentManifest and Codebase issue..

  Hi, Can any one help me out with this issue: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=946086&SiteID=1 Thanks Mohan Hi, GenerateDeploymentManifest is also an MSBuild Task. So can any one from MSBUILD team answer this Why is that there is no option to provide the "codebase" value for the GenerateDeployment task This seem to be major issue for me. I can't use mage.exe because there is no option to specify Updatemode as foreground with mage.exe. So when i try to use GenerateDeployment task, codebase becomes an issue. I am surprised that no one has raised this before. That makes me wonder whether i am missing something obvious. Regards Mohan ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Pocket PC Screen Size

  I've developed a pocket pc application which works fine on emulators, but when running on an o2 xda exec (larger pixel screen size) the screen sizes all halve, how can i get the program to run on all pocket pc's no matter what size of screen You can get screen's size with System.Windows.Forms.Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds or System.Windows.Forms.Screen.PrimaryScreen.WorkingArea and than optimize your UI ...Show All

• Windows Forms User control with some parts drawn translucent

  Hi, everyone! I'd really like to hear (or read ;)) some help on solving my problem. I want to create a custom user control. I'd probably derive it from Control class, I want to draw everything on the control by myself (it's actually not going to be really complicated). The problem is that I want to draw some kind of a shadow that drops onto the background of this control. Obviously, it has to be translucent. And I would maybe make some other parts of the control translucent. So I tried to draw the shadow using brush colored as Color.FromArgb(100, Color.Gray), for example. I do my drawing in overridden OnPaint method. This did NOT work. I started to look for the solution on the web. Everything I found was one method of creating such a beha ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Transitioning WorkItems from one TeamServer project to another

  I had an idea this morning and I would like comments to see if it is possible. I want to split issues between the development and software support teams. So basically I thought I would set up a server for Software Support to handling Questions, Suggestions and Bugs from customers. Once they get triaged and Software Support determines that it is a valid WorkItem I would like to automatically create a new WorkItem in a Dev project. One way this could be done is as a process that runs at scheduled intervals which checks a field in the Software Support WorkItem to see if its valid and then create WorkItems in the Dev Project. Does anyone have any other ideas for a better implementation or comments Have you considered creatin ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to start SQLEXPRESS

  Hi I have downloaded and installed the trial version of MS Visual Studio 2005 Team System. The installation was successful. However, I am not able to start SQLEXPRESS using the SQL Server Configuration Manager. It shows me SQLEXPRESS but when I right click and select Start it tries to start the service and after some time gives the following error "The request failed or the service did not respond in a timely fashion. Consult the event log or other applicable error logs for details." The event log shows the following errors: 1. FCB::Open: Operating system error 5(Access is denied.) occurred while creating or opening file 'c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\DATA\mastlog.ldf'. Diagnose and correct the o ...Show All

• SQL Server Changing Default Rendering Method of Reports

  Ladies and Gents, I have a question with regards to the default rendering extensions for reports. I am using RS 2005 with SP1. I am accessing a report as follows: http://<ReportServerName>/Reportserver /<Folder>/<Report Name> Sample: http://TestServer/Reportserver /Special Reports/Dealer Report This displays the parameter bar and the view report button. When pressing the view report button, the report is automatically rendered into HTML 4.0. Is there a way to use the existing parameter bar and automatically render the report to a different extension (such as PDF) when the parameters are entered and the View Report Button is pressed. Thank You for any advice you can give, Raph ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to use pagemaker SDK in vc++?

  Hi, I have pagemaker SDK for vc++.. In that i have functions for getting only text from a pagemaker file.. can anyone help me how to use that SDK in my vc++ coding... very urgent please.... Isn't there any sample code in the SDK, showing you how to use its functions If you have some code which gives you compiler errors, we can try figuring out the C/C++ problems. But for the SDK - you have to be lucky to find someone using that also. I never did - sorry. -- SvenC ...Show All