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• Software Development for Windows Vista Enumerating Audio Source Lines in Vista ?

  hi, What Interface or API to use for enumerating Audio Source Lines (i.e Line IN, microphone, phone Line, CD Audio) In Vista I guess I'm confused. Line in and Microphone are inputs, not outputs. They don't have an output volume. My guess is that your sound card provides a loopback functionality - it will internally loop the capture sources to the speaker, and provides a volume control for those. In that case, you just need to walk the topology of the render endpoint looking for those controls. The device topology is a graph of connected parts and endpoints - each part has incoming and outgoing connections, you need to do a search for the controls you want. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Can anyone tell me why Vista RC1 can't go to the correct webpage when we click HTML file by using Record Drive?

  Hi! We have found one interesting thing: if we want to open the HTML files which are stored in the disc by using Record Drive, we always get the wrong URL such like "C:\users\administrator\appdata\microsoft\windows\burner\burner\xxx.html" . Could anyone help us Thank you very much! Hello XiaoYang, How are you attempting to open the HTML files Please provide as much detail as possible. Also can you provide more details about how the html files were created Things such as the tools used to create the html files Can you put the same disc into an XP machine and reproduce the problem Thanks Louis Shanks ...Show All

• Visual Basic Replacing forms

  In my program, It will be organized into forms that you can click a button and take you to another one. However, I can figure out how to make it so that when I click the button to take me to the next form, to make the original one disappear. This will be a major part of how you get around in my program, but if anyone can help, please do! Thanks Hi, Not sure this solves your problem, but there are 2 ways to should a form (without closing the original one. One is calling for Show() method and another is ShowDialog() method. These are slightly different. Let's say you have to create a new form call Form2, then you will have some code similar to this. First example is to show Form2 while Form1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) hide partially shown listbox item

  Hello Is there a way to hide listbox item that is only partially shown At the moment last item in the listbox is shown partially when window is not just the right size. Thanks, Kalle You can use this method to retrieve the ItemsPanel for ListBox: ListBoxItem item = myListBox.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromIndex(0) as ListBoxItem ; VirtualizingStackPanel panel = VisualTreeHelper .GetParent(item) as VirtualizingStackPanel ; Sheva ...Show All

• Visual C# Custom File Properties

  Hi, Can anyone help me out, I need to get at custom file properties using C# - such as the URL property in ie favourites or the Artist, Genre, etc. properties in a music file. Any ideas I can get at the standard stuff, like size, archive, read only, but not the ones I've listed above. any help would be much appreciated. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=629725&SiteID=1 take a look at this thread for reading the file information ...Show All

• .NET Development FTP in non blocking fashion

  Dear friends, I want to add FTP functionality in my application in Non-Blocking fashion. I want to add this functionality in Non-Blocking fashion because i want the user to cancel the FTP operation any time. In .NET 2.0 there is a class FTPWebRequest with the help of which we can support FTP functionality in our applications. There is an example in MSDN which shows that how FTP operation can be performed in non-blocking fashion using FTPWebRequest. The part of example can be found here . (Please scroll down the page). For uploading file we write all the data to the request stream and then closes the stream using statement: requestStream.Close() Now my problem is that the statement requestStream.Close() blocks for a very long ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to tell (event) the user changed a bounded value

  I hoped to use CurrencyManager on a bounded table to tell when a user changes a value. (IsDirty state) Instead of having an event for each control bounded for the same table. Any one knows what the trick is Take a look at the currency manager's current changed event. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WPF: How to Close Parent Browser Window of WPF windows application

  Hi, I have WPF windows application deployed over network. When I run this application, framework opens the browser window and hosts this application in browser. In my WPF application I have provided a <Close> button which is suppose to close my application along with parent browser window. On <Close> button I close my application using System.Windows.Application.Current.Shutdown() Now the problem is, my application get closed, but the Browser Window which hosted my WPF windows application does not get closed. Browser window remains alive with fucus on it. Please let me know, how I can close both, application and Browser using <Close> button in WPF windows application. Thanks, Mahesh Declare the HTML fi ...Show All

• SQL Server Deploying MSSQL 2005 Express DB to MSSQL 2005 WKGP Errors

  DB is developed on local computer with MSSQL 2005 Express. My host is on MSSQL 2005 workgroup. Are they compatible, because I am getting errors Is my approach wrong I have tried several approaches. A) I created a backup of database on my local, then placed a copy on the server. Then I tried to restore through Server Management Studio. I get this error. TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ------------------------------ An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo) ------------------------------ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The backed-up database has on-disk structure version 611. The server supports version 539 and cannot restore or upgrade this da ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. What games or applications are allowed?

  Hellos I have a few questions regarding the content of the games: Is it allowed to put out advergames sponsored by 3rd party commmercial companies (Either games that feature sponsored splash screens in menu etc or even product placement in the game) Then what about adult content Like how much Blood, Gore, Drugs, Nudity is allowed Do games have to be politically correct cheers Nils I say Go Microsoft! This is obviously a win-win scenario for them. They get access to a wide variety of amatuer programmers who love gaming and making games. The window amatuer development community is massive Their 360 Customers get access to a lot of free content, making the XBox more attractive XBox Live becomes more att ...Show All

• .NET Development how to connect to oracleXE using vb.net which is at a remote place

  Hello, this is srichand, i am very much new to this technology.. i would like to ask 2 questions regarding .net 1. can any one suggest me how to connect to oracleXE using vb.net. i mean how to access the database using manual codding in vb.net. 2. is there any chance of connecting to IIS(internet information services) using vb.net if so could you help me in this case. i would be very thankfull if you do this to me. thanking you one and all. srichand.k Hi, Here it is: http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/windows/odpnet/index.html Greetz, Geert Geert Verhoeven Consultant @ Ausy Belgium My Personal Blog ...Show All

• Windows Forms TableAdapter Wizard w/ optimistic concurrency @IsNull_ params invisible to ObjectDataSource

  For the past few months we have be using the TableAdapter wizard to generate Procs with optimistic concurrency under these procedures, running Visual Web Developer Express, C#: a) Table has a primary, autoinc identity key b) Set objectdatasource.conflictdetection = CompareAllValues in the ODS for the DetailsView c) Change ID field readOnly from True to False in DetailsView, per http://www.geekzilla.co.uk/ViewF9581DAE-CCF8-49FF-844C-7498603E0005.htm Then we hit this roadblock: This table has 5 NULLABLE fields. The wizard generates the UPDATE PROC with TWO additional params: @IsNull_Disposition nchar(10), @IsNull_OwnerDiv nvarchar(50), The objectDataSource does not add these params, so the mismatch causes the "Update not f ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Missing .NET Framework installation?

  I need help with my computer... All microsoft problems. This forum is smart device development related. Since your question is not related to smart device development, it's off topic here. If you’re having a hardware issue, please contact hardware manufacturer or reseller. If you having an issue with 3rd party software, please contact respective software manufacturer or reseller. Otherwise please post to relevant forum or news group: http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx Closing as off topic. ...Show All

• SQL Server Permissions

  I posted a problem with connecting programmatically last week. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=590672&SiteID=1 Nobody seemed to have any suggestions, however since then, I've mucked things up and recovered to the same problem and now I've mucked things up again in a different way. Also last week  I didn't mention that I was running my connection through remote desktop. That apparently can be a problem although not the fix. I'm still getting the ServerVersion member status set to "'this.conn.ServerVersion' threw an exception of type 'System.InvalidOperationException' when I try to create a SqlConnection . I still don't understand why. But when I try to open the connection I now get the follo ...Show All

• SQL Server 2 similar queries - different results! Why?

  SSAS2005. Tell me please, why this query SELECT { [Measures].[Internet Sales Amount] } ON COLUMNS , { [Product].[Product Categories].[All Products] } ON ROWS FROM [Adventure Works] WHERE ( [Product].[Category].&[ 1 ] ) returns: $29,358,677.22 but SELECT { { [Product].[Category].&[ 1 ] } * { [Measures].[Internet Sales Amount] } } ON COLUMNS , NON EMPTY { [Product].[Product Categories].[All Products] } ON ROWS FROM [Adventure Works] returns different result: $28,318,144.65 If I replace [Product].[Category].&[ 1 ] on [Product].[Product Key ].&[BK-M18B- 40 ] then results are identical! $25,919.52 Thanks. Have you had any follow-ups from Microsoft or anybody ...Show All