Jay K's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Socket connection between two mobile devices

  Hi, Has anyone tried to establish a socket connection between two mobile devices Is it possible Thanks Not tried it, I connected Mobile Device to PC works fine. And I'm sure Mobile device to Mobile device will also work the same way bacause .Net Compact framework supports litening socket. Why dont you give it a try Cheers ;-) ...Show All

• Windows Forms ToolStrip changing positions on minimize/maximize.

  Hi, have a few toolstrips and a toolstripContainer. Few things I noticed: 1) Drag a toolstrip all the way to the right, minimize, maximize, toolstrip is now next to the toolstrip on the left side (both are on same "row" of toolstripPanel). 2) Can't Anchor/Dock toolstrip to right edge. I've tried every layoutStyle to no avail. 3) Form designer oddity. When you select a toolstrip in the IDE, a new toolstripitem is displayed in a combo box and you can select button, label etc. etc. So if I move the toolstrip in the IDE to be flush to the form's right edge and then deselect, the toolstrip is away from the edge of the form's right edge by the size/width of the toolstripitem placeholder as it disappears on deselect. I've tried right t ...Show All

• SQL Server Where are conversation timers stored?

  I've looked in transmission_queue and the actual queues, but can't find them anywhere If a timer fails to fire (e.g.: log is full, broker is disabled), the timer state will stay unchaged resulting in retries until it succeeds or the dialog times out. So the guarantees are quite powerfull. If the BEGIN DIALOG TIMER statement succeeded and the transaction commited, then you will get the timer message, eventually. HTH, ~ Remus ...Show All

• Visual Studio Sandcastle: Getting BuildAssembler Unhandled Exception

  Hi, I am new to SandCastle and am in a situation where BuildAssembly is generating the following: Unhandled Exception: System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format. at System.Number.StringToNumber(String str, NumberStyles options, NumberBuffer& number, NumberFormatInfo info, Boolean parseDecimal) at System.Number.ParseInt32(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info) at System.Convert.ToInt32(String value) at Microsoft.Ddue.Tools.ResolveReferenceLinksComponent.GetTemplateParameterName(String reference, String context) at Microsoft.Ddue.Tools.ResolveReferenceLinksComponent.WriteTypeReference(String reference, Boolean showContainer, Boolean showTemplates, String context, XmlWriter writer) at Microsoft.D ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums How do we see the purpose of the "Contacts Control" project

  In some threads of this forum, I've read words of Danny Thorpe (developer), describing his vision of the "Contact Control's" target audience, e.g. "...we're focused primarily on the browser web app as a dev platform for the contacts control is that it targets a much larger audience than a Win32 or .NET control. The contacts control can be used on Windows and non-Windows machines, in a variety of browsers, and can be incorporated into a web app by just about anyone with a little bit of scripting experience." I have my own view on this subject, that I want to deliver to the "Contacts Control's" project development team. And I believe, that other members of the development community ("stakeholders& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Improving data binding performance by not using transparent proxies

  After sometime struggling with databinding performance of VSTO we eventually did an investigation into the root cause. It turns out that the new transparent proxy feature introduced in VSTO 2005 (not present in VSTO 2003) that is used to support excel COM properties with the hidden lcid attribute is causing serious performance problems. The Range.Value2 property is one such property if you examine the underlying IDL. As a simple test we accessed the Value2 property 1000 times using a grid of cells (100x10). With transparant proxies enabled (<ExcelLocale1033(true)> in AttributeInfo.vb) the performance was attrocious taking a least a minute to perform the operation. More interesting is the reason why. After analysis using V ...Show All

• Visual C# How to set focus on control after thread exits

  Hi, Iv'e got a form containing some usercontrols. When the form loads some calls that manipulate the usercontrols are added to a threadpool. Now on to my problem. I'd like to set focus to a control within one of my usercontrols, but if I do so before my threads exits the focus is lost. Ideal would be to have the focus during thread execution so the user can start interacting with the GUI while the usercontrol is being manipulated by the thread(s) and the focus is not implicitly changed or anything by the threads. If thats not possible then is there a way to set focus to a control after (whatever thread exits last) the thread exits and is done with the control /J Consider the following as a simple examp ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Where get the latest Intel(R) 82801 SATA RAID Controller driver for Vista

  Where can I get the latest Intel(R) 82801ER SATA RAID Controller driver for Vista Hi Lawrence, This is a applications development forum but I believe you want to contact the vendor of your driver for a Vista compatible driver. Here's some links for ya. Windows driver assistance page: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/hardware.mspx Here's the main microsoft assistance area http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/community/default.mspx Here's intels site: http://www.intel.com/support/index.htm iid=CorporateV3+Header_2_Support_Head ...Show All

• SQL Server Another Mysterious issue in SQL 2005 & SSIS

  Explain this: Package runs successfully from BIDS It runs successfully in SSIS store It runs successfully when I manually execute the Job JOB FAILS EVERY FREAKING NIGHT Message Executed as user: MyDomain\Administrator. The process could not be created for step 1 of job 0x51E59B1986AB454C80F1D7B18F658064 (reason: The system cannot find the path specified). The step failed. Btw - there is no DTS folder in C:\PROGRAM FILES\Microsoft SQL Server\90 directory ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to increase size of image in button (msocontrolbutton) of custom toolbar of Excel 2000

  Excel 2000 version only ======================= Image size appears in button(msocontrolbutton) of custom toolbar Excel 2000 is very small and blurred using below code. How I can increase size of image in button (msocontrolbutton) as well as brightness of image in custom toolbar I am able to increase size of button using width and height property but image appears in center of button as 16X16. How to fit image to button(msocontrolbutton) It would be really great help for me…… My code: '======================================== Const cImgCommandBarID As String = "TMC Img Toolbar" 'Image code Dim cbImgBar As CommandBar Set cbImgBar = CommandBars.Add(Name:=cImgCommandBarID, Position:=msoBarTop) 'cbImgBar.conte ...Show All

• Visual Studio Com Add-in creating custom events for keyboard Shortcuts

  Hi, I have written a COM Add-in for Office 2003 using C#2005. I have sucessfully added custom events to most of the menu items and tool bar buttons, but, if the request is done via the short cut (F7-Spell check for example), then, my newly created event doesnt fire. I still want to access the shortcuts, but want my event to fire first. Is this possible Thanks in advance We have an application that generates a word XML template, and we are allowing users to fill in parts of document. As a result we want to lock down most of the word functionality, and only allow functionality that conforms to our strict guidelines, but still have as much flexability using word that people are used to (but this ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Creating controls for Datagrid

  how can i created controls for Compact Datagrid. Well, go ahead and create them – you already have a sample on how to host controls in the grid. They just controls, by the way, there's nothing special about them. ...Show All

• Visual C++ C++ code compiled with Visual C++ 2005 Express runs slower from the IDE

  I have noticed that my code runs slower when invoked from within the IDE. The debug code runs a small job in 21 seconds from the IDE (no breakpoints set) and in 6 seconds when invoked from Windows explorer directly. The release code runs in 11 seconds from the IDE and 1 second when run directly. For comparison, I tried the same code generated by Visual C++ 6 and got 14 seconds when running from the IDE and directly. Is there some setting that affects this I could not find any. Is this normal behavior for this version of Visual C++ Thanks, Peter Yes, I believe it is normal behavior. (I assume you are talking about running in debug mode rather than Ctrl+F5, since you mentioned breakpoi ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Beginners

  My friends and I have no experience with coding or anything like that but have taken an interest in XNA and have some ideas that we would like to try to create. How easy is XNA going to be to use to make a simple 2d game just for fun I know it uses C# and I am going to start trying to learn, but is this going to be something where only experts can use this program, or is someone like myself going to be able to create at least simple games and not have to spend hundreds of years doing it Given that XNA GSE is being targeted at hobbyists and indies, I think the learning curve won't be excessive. One reply said there will be starter kits for projects so you'll have at least a skeleton of code to ge ...Show All

• Visual C++ What does the dependency between projects within a solution mean?

  How to determine and set up these dependencies Many thanks in advance! ...Show All