chadhowell's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista vista blocks application at startup

  Hi, I'm a software developer and I have a question about Vista. Our application (a .NET 1.1 app) requires Administrator access and we have the "requiresAdministrator" access level defined in the application manifest. That part is working fine. However, our application needs to startup when the computer boots so we have it in the "startup" folder. For some reason (I can't imagine why) Vista puts it in the "blocked startup programs" list and the user needs to manually launch it. This is not acceptable for us. Is there any way to circumvent this problem And by the way, why is there no way for the user to say "I want this app to run every time I reboot so stop blocking it!" On a side note, I not ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Can we add an operation to a service description once the serviceHost has opened?

  Initially my service has say two methods. I want to add a third method by calling one of the two methods. If any new client subscribes to the service it should be able to call all the three methods. The method which should be invoked when the dynamically added operation is called is implemented in the service class. Is this feasible yes i can create a service without defining an interface explicitly as u mentioned, but the behavior is the same as wat i'd posted when i added the dynamic operation. Thanks Arun ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Timing Function

  Hey guys, Query PerformanceCounter is a Win32 function used for high precision timing...I was just wondering if it would be possible to use the same function to time an operation in a Win32 console application too...please let me know...thanks Hey Ross, Thanks...I tried using the function with a CLAPACK routine in my program but I got build errors in the header file clapack.h...have you ever come across such a problem ...Show All

• Visual Basic Array starting at One

  I'm trying to make a array start at 1 and go to 600, i tryed using "to" but never worked. ReDim Preserve Array(1 to 600) what David said is correct, it always starts from 0. Why must you have it at 1 :-) In the IDE if you do this: Dim test() as string Redim preserve test(1 to 300) the IDE will tell you, there will be a blue squiggle under "1" stating that "Array lower bounds can only be 0" ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. am i digging a hole for myself?

  Hi everyone. I have a simple question-am i making life difficult for myself by choosing xna to develop a game for my final year project the context-i have spent the last few years learing 3d, 2d and digital sound design so would have the ability to create all the media quite easily for a game. my doubts lie with the programming. the only game i have created so far is space invaders. am i being silly to go for developing a 3d game (maybe FPS or platformer-maybe one level) in 8 months I would say that with reasonable skills you would easily be able to build a 3D shooter in eight months (40 hour work weeks) You could go for using the quake 3 level editor and load the BSPs from there. It's easy ...Show All

• Visual Basic Excel Macros/ Protection / HideUnhide VB command

  Here is what I am doing I am using the HideUnhide command for of course HideUnhide rows. Here is a simplyfied version of what I am doing I have rows 1-20 and let's say when I input the number 5 in an specific cell (let's say A1) I want rows 15-20 to hide. This is easy and I can do it, but when I lock any of the cell on rows 15-20 and run macros, then it gives me an error. It seems that since the command HideUnhide does not have priority over lock cells it doesn't allow me to do it. in other words, if I lock cell A18 I cannot use the HideUnhide command because it would send an error. Is there a way to do this I have asked many people but noone seems to know how. Pierre These forums a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions ntdll.dll error only when exe file is ran.

  Hi, I have very strange situation with running c++ application. When I build project using debug mode everything is OK, but when I build application in release mode or just run exe file either in debug or release folder I get the following error in ntdll.dll file. "Exception Information Code: 0xc0000005 Flags: 0x00000000 Record: 0x000000...000 Address: 0x000000007c93426d" This is information from windows message. Here is information from building log: 'archiveEditor.exe': Loaded 'C:\Projects\archiveEditor\release\archiveEditor.exe', Symbols loaded. 'archiveEditor.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll', No symbols loaded. 'archiveEditor.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll ...Show All

• Windows Forms The designer could not be shown for this file because none of the classes within it can be designed

  Hi,     I have problem with generics in designtime. If there is a simple class , lets say class derived from System.Windows.Forms.UserControl with one generic argument added, any class derived from this class throws error when shown in designer. Code example: class FirstLevel <T> : UserControl {     public FirstLevel()     {      InitializeComponent();     } }   class SecondLevel : FirstLevel < int > {      public SecondLevel() : base ()      {     } } The second level class will not be displayed in designer correctly, instead ...Show All

• Windows Forms ListView object display error

  I was trying to display some rows of information with ListView control. It was contained by a panel. When the application runs, the ListView object doesn't show the columns at all though when at design mode, everything looks fine. Here is my code for initializing the ListView object: ListView lsvCours = new ListView(); private void init_lstview() { pnlNewCur.Controls.Add(lsvCours); lsvCours.MultiSelect = false; lsvCours.View = View.Details; lsvCours.Location = new Point(8, 87); lsvCours.Size = new Size(537, 167); ColumnHeader colStartTime = new ColumnHeader(); colStartTime.Text = "StartTime"; colStartTime.TextAlign = HorizontalAlignment.Center; colStartTi ...Show All

• Visual Basic Simply Question

  hello. A question please. how can I know if the current row (first item) on a datagridview is not filled NetPochi, Use the DataGridView.CurrentRow property, then return the value. If it is not filled, the value would be nothing. Dim instance As DataGridView Dim value As DataGridViewRow value = instance.CurrentRow ...Show All

• Smart Device Development unable to use using Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms; namespace

  Hi expert: I am hoping to develop a handphone application, however when i compile my source code, error occrs saying that namespace 'WindowsCE' does not exsits in Microsoft namespace, why i have already installed MS ActiceSync 4.0, MS .net compact framework 2.0 and MS device emulator 1.0-ENU into my computer. but the same thing still happen. All the expert out there please help me.....thanks in advance! In Visual Studio, click your projects name in Solution Explorer -window, and right click. Select Add Reference -menu item. Then scroll until you see "microsoft.windowsce.forms.dll", select it and click Ok. Now you have a reference added to the assembly, where WindowsCE namespace is defined. If you cannot find the assembly ...Show All

• Visual Basic Welcome to the VB Power Pack Forum!

  Today we released the Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Power Pack - a free set of Add-Ins, Components, and Tools that makes it even easier to develop great VB applications! In this first release we have two components (to download just click on the links): Microsoft Interop Forms Toolkit 1.0 - This toolkit is aimed at simplifying the use of Visual Basic.NET WinForms within a Visual Basic 6 application. The toolkit is targeted specifically at providing tools and guidance for performing a phased migration of a VB6 forms-based application to VB.NET. The goal of a phased migration is a production release at the end of each phase that has both VB6 and .NET forms running in the same VB6 .exe process.  Microsoft PrintF ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to completely uninstall Advanced SQL Server- Report Server

  1) I uninstalled Advanced SQL with Report Server to install 2005 SQL Developers Editions. 2) For some reason I am unable to completely uninstall Express Report Server. 3) Configuration Manager is still showing SQL Exp Report Server, even though I uninstalled Advanced Server. 4)I tried to remove though A/R programs (using my 2005 DE) - I see it listed but I receive the following error:The setup failed to read IISmime maptable the error code is -2147024893. 5) When I try to use 2005 Report Service Config Manager, I receive the following error: An unknown error in WMI Provider Error code 80040219 wmi provider. So I am unable to setup my 2005 SQL DE Report Server. Any ideas on uninstalling Express Report Server...This mi ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Query

  Hi, Does anybody of you unterstand the following SQL Command SELECT Configurations.AlarmId, Configurations.Mode, Configurations.Activated, Configurations.Empty, Configurations.UserName, Configurations.datetime, (SELECT * FROM ConfigurationsTanques WHERE ConfigurationsTanques.ConfigurationId = Configurations.ConfigurationId) FROM Configurations INNER JOIN Controllers ON Configurations.ConfigurationId = Controllers.ActiveConfig INNER JOIN Tanques ON Controllers.ControllerId = Tanques.ControllerId WHERE (Tanques.TanqueId = 1) If yes, how would you explain it to the sql server Thanks for your help! OK... Another question: ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Having trouble deploying to the report server

  Tried every combination with and without SSL, using reports and reportserver - cannot get it to deploy. Tried target folder the same name as my report project and the same name as my team project - still no luck - what am I missing TITLE: Microsoft Report Designer------------------------------A connection could not be made to the report server https://vstudio01:8143/reportserver.------------------------------ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel. (System.Web.Services)------------------------------The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure. (System)------------------------------BUTTONS:OK------------------------------ ...Show All