EZ1976's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Problem with activex control.. Please help..

  Hi, Not sure if its the right place to ask my question.. We are using an Active X component to get the MAC ID of the system through the browser. The components used are <object classid="CLSID:76A64158-CB41-11D1-8B02-00600806D9B6" id="locator" VIEWASTEXT> </object> <object classid="CLSID:75718C9A-F029-11d1-A1AC-00C04FB6C223" id="theId"> </object> It works well for all system except two. The specifications of the systems are as follows: IE version - 6 OS - Windows Xp Professional version 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158 and Windows Xp Professional version 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519 The systems are configured exa ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista will localiztion verison also get vista Logo ?

  Hi , I have a question. If our english version application got Vista Logo, should localization version with the same version need to got it again , or it also can applied the logo of english thanks you My understanding: If it is the same product and a patch is created in minor upgrades then retesting is not required. If it is a different product and/or major upgrade with new components then recertification would be required on the new components. I will confirm this because I heard this not from the actuall Logo team and will confirm with them. But for now this gives you some idea of how it most likely works. ...Show All

• SQL Server Report Builder Problem - I am novice please suggest me!!

  I created report model based of three relational tables(SQL Db). When I try to run it gives me error 'cannot run this report - A filter must be specified'. When I supply filter it will go head and run. Basically I have three relational tables from SQL database. one is the Master say A and other two are related tables say B and C. I joined with id1 to B from A and id2 to C from A. A(id1) ----> B(id1) A(id2) ----> C(id2) 1.Why is it asking me the enter filter 2.Also, when I created a report based on fields from A,B and C I tried to do the click through. I can able to click through to table B by clicking on the fields of B but similarly I am unable to do for the fields from the C. 3.Can I create a report model bas ...Show All

• .NET Development access files with a web service URGENT!!!

  I want my web service to log every call to it, in a file on the server. e.g: www.microsoft.com/ log.txt assuming my web service would be at: www.microsoft.com/ service.asmx How do I go about getting the actual path of that folder. The server is not my own; We just bought a few years worth of hosting at this company----- I have no access to ISS manager, much less the actual machine because it also hosts other peoples' web sites I basically want the service the simply open the file and append a few lines and close it again. But the type and amount of information that is logged is very dynamic. this will vary from 60 bytes to a few MB here are my questions: How do I get that directory name with my code How do I set a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VSS Migration hanging TF60047 - how to move forward?

  I am in the middle of running VSSConverter to migrate our source (~2GB) from VSS to TFS. It has been hanging for an hour or so with error # TF60047. The error message says there could be a problem with the network connection or TFS connection. I am running in a single server setup so TFS and SQL Server are all on the same machine, and all are running, incl. all SQL Server service - I checked in Configuration Mgr. One problem earlier was that there was huge (~800K) memory usage by w3wp.exe which was being run by the TFSService account. So I shut down IIS. Now, even though memory usage is down to acceptable levels, the migration is still not moving forward. Any ideas on how I can proceed here Or if I were to start afresh, how do I do that ...Show All

• Smart Device Development new e-mail notification

  Hi, is there a way to receive a callback to my application whenever a new incoming mail is received to the windows mobile (CE)'s inbox in outlook or other mail client application thanks, Ofer. I am unable to find the Inbox class or similar one in MSDN's PocketOutlook namespace list: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/mobilesdk5/html/N_Microsoft_WindowsMobile_PocketOutlook.asp . Do I miss anything Now I am thinking about using the NEWMAIL_NOTIFICATION in the MAPI to catch new mail. Will post result later. ...Show All

• SQL Server Log provider - Handle to Log provider from Active X Task

  We are facing an issue in migration of DTS to SSIS Package in ActiveX Script – Issue: We have Text Log Provider from SSIS for Logging to file C:\Testing\Log In the ActiveX script we are trying to append custom messages into the same file C:\Testing\Log under certain test conditions. In SSIS the ActiveX Script fails at the point of OpenTextFile() stating failed to retrieve file values. If the same call(OpenTextFile()) is made with Read mode option, the call succeeds. However if we use either Write or Append mode the failure occurs. We are looking to Append data to the log file. Cause: Since SSIS Log Provider has already opened the file C:\Testing\Log and ActiveX is trying to open the same hence givin ...Show All

• Windows Forms .NET frame work and windows installer prerequistes

  i downloaded both the redistributable components .NET 2.0 framework and windows installer 3.1 as these are required by my app to run on a client machine. when i publish my app i chose the "Download prerequistes from same location as my application" but it keeps giving me an error that DotNetfx and WindowsInstaller3_1 are not found!.. Where am i supposed to place these setup files so that my project publishes . ...Show All

• Windows Forms add an empty line to combobox?

  hello, I have two questions. 1) When using Databinding with combobox, the application shows the first record automattically inside the combobox. I want it to show nothing until the user selects drop down tab. When user selects drop down they should be able to see the available choices. How do i do this 2) I have another combobox that I don't want to populate until the selection is made in the first combobox. so how do i keep the combobox2 visible and unpopulated until the selection is made in first combobox (Making a selection in first combobox gives me a value that i use for filtering purpose for second combobox) I am very new to C# and .NET, so I would appriciate any links/instruction that helps me figure this out. thank you. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DrawableGameComponent: GraphicsDevice

  i could be being really dumb, however i have a DrawableGameComponent and i try to access the GraphicsDevice but i get not an instance of object error any help guys if somone has written a basic drawablegamecomponent if u could post it would be ace i work well from examples when im stuck :) thx I cover this in my new Tile Engine Component Tutorial . Basically, the GraphicsDevice object is available once your LoadGraphicsContent method in your component is called. Therefore, if you are setting up say a spritebatch object you can do it in LoadGraphicsContent by: m_spriteBatch = new SpriteBatch(GraphicsDevice); ...Show All

• SQL Server INFORMIX ODBC PROTOCOL

  hi all, Happy new year! is anybody here familiar with the different informix ODBC protocol such as Sesoctcp and onsoctcp and the rest of the protocols I think my SSIS design is affected by this protocols i'm having problems with the unicode and non unicode conversion. many many thanks Joey hi Phil, thanks for that - OLEDB But that's beyond my control. honestly, i was thinking the same. i'll keep that in my wish list anyway   i don't have access to our informix db and the way to connect to it is to use the stored  ODBC system DSN created by other DBA by which password  is protected by the box.   Using OLEDB i can have it saved using the UDL (universal ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Dreaded "document opened in multiple windows" error

  I know it's normal for the task pane to disappear when users hit F7 to launch spellcheck. My problem is if a user manually runs spellcheck and the first error encountered is in the text of a comment, Word turns on the comment preview pane on the bottom of the document, and this error appears just before the task pane disappears: You are currently viewing this document in multiple windows. To attach an XML expansion pack, you must first close all additional windows so that you are viewing the document in only one window. This error is overlaying the spellcheck dialog. When I click OK, the following exception appears: An unhandled exception occurred in your application. Contact your administrator or the author of this document for further ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to get a contorl instance of the ribbon UI?

  Hi there, I am using VSTO SE and Excel 2007. I want to handle the ribbon UI and child controls. But' I don't know that how to get the a control instance of the ribbon UI. Microsoft.Office.Core.IRibbonUI didin't have any methods to  handle(add/remove/visible/unvisible/set/get value) the ribbon UI and child controls. Has someone any solutions Thank very much, Dennis... But, My interest is that How to get and control a child control in Ribbon UI, Not add. There were examples about add controls and define callback-functions using the XML. But, There weren't examples about control them in real-time. Where do I find information about this ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Book suggestion plz on VSTO

  I know the books list in the sticky thread, but they don't have very good ratings on Amazon. Please tell me your favorite books on VSTO. A little bit about me. I am pretty good with C# and VB .Net, but don't know much about Office programming (not even VBA for office :) Thanks a lot. There just aren't any other (more) books available for VSTO than those listed. If you need to learn about the Office object models, then you need material centered on the individual application. For Excel, I can recommend "Professional Excel Development" by Bullen, Bovey and Green (Addision Wesley). They even have a short bit in there on .NET and VSTO. There isn't much out there for Word written in Engli ...Show All

• Visual Basic Clipboard Events Need Advice? VB.NET

  The situation is like this. I have my application wich needs some data input from outside It is very fast to pass data by clipboard I have 8 different TextBoxes What i need is that when a clipboard is filled with textdata i need that my app raise an event on clipboard change and copy this text to the textbox then clear the clipboard and wait for another input. I know how do every thing execpt how to raise an event on clipboard change Is there any object that monitors clipboard activity in VB.NET Thanks for you patience and time well thanks for advices I simply made it with timer on other thread It monitors if Clipboard.ContainsData and that's i guess the simpliest way to do it May be not a good pratice of programing but ...Show All