miker55's Q&A profile

• Visual C# How can I work around this bug in VS2005?

  hi, First, I would think it is a bug. Hopefully the sp1 fixed it. We have VS2005 Professional Edition with version 8.0.50727.42 on XP Pro. The problem we have is, we are working on a project using .net compact framework 1.0 for x51(windows mobile 2005) pda. When I try to debug the project, first, VS will start to deploy the project to pda, and then start debugger to debug it. Normally, it works fine. But if the connection on ActiveSycn is broken, or PDA is dead, VS could not figure it out and keeps deploying, never return. And I did not see anywhere I can stop it. The Cancel in Build is not working in this case either. So, I have to close the whole solution or even kill the whole VS2005. Is there anyone who has the similar experience Th ...Show All

• Visual C++ F1 Help in Visual Studio 6.0

  Hi, I am using visual c++ 6.0 and MSDN Visual Studio 2005. I want to link the MSDN to visual c++ 6.0, i.e. if i press <F1> in visual studio 6.0, it should automatically invoke msnd. Any thoughts. thanks, VSAT There's no way to do this natively (since October of 2001). But some guy wrote an unsupported VC++ add-in that will allow it. I cannot find it now, but as I recall, it was on a site like codeproject or codeguru. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Memory corruption possible with _SECURE_SCL ?

  So I had been having a problem for a few weeks where the dll for my bot would crash while unloading. It's one of those crashes where something was jacked up with the heap and the crash is when the program/dll is in the process of unloading, specifically the crash was when cleaning up boost::regex which I statically link to. The odd thing, is that I could never reproduce this crash, but it would happen consistantly on other peoples machine. A friend was even building the exact same code with the exact same version of visual studio 2005, resulting in a differently sized dll, and no crashes. I then started thinking something must be wrong with my 2005 install, maybe some jacked up libraries or something. Just before I re-ins ...Show All

• Visual Basic Executable runs for one user and not another?

  I wrote an application in VB (Visual Studio 2005) and took it to a client's office on a CD. I copied the program.exe to one of the client's computers (running Windows XP) and the program runs fine. I copied it to the computer at the next desk (running Windows 2000), and it aborts immediately with an unhandled exception error. It won't run on their server either (Small Bus Server 2000). I'm an old VB6 programmer. Did I miss something in the documentation about how to distribute my applications Is there something wrong with the client not using XP for his operating system Without seeing the exception its difficult to determine an exact cause BUT for a VB 2005 application to work requires both ver ...Show All

• .NET Development Sending Email using System.net.mail

  hi everyone, I have trouble to send email using system.net.mail in ASP.NET 2.0 with VB here is my code.... any body tell me what is going wrong with the code. Code for SendEmail.vb Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic Imports System.Net.Mail Public Class SendEmail Public Sub SendEmailMessage( ByVal fromMail As String , ByVal toMail _ As String , ByVal subjectMail As String , ByVal messageMail As String ) 'This procedure takes four string parameters for sending the mail Try 'address create a mail message Dim MailMsg As New MailMessage( New MailAddress(fromMail.Trim()), New MailAddress(toMail)) MailMsg.BodyEncoding = Encoding.Default MailMsg.Subject = subjectMai ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. all in one shader = better performance?

  Again a question from an unexperienced user who wants maximum performance ;) I draw really a huge number of vertices and started with a simple position/normal/color vertex declaration, which worked fine. It allowed me to draw anything in just very few indexed vertices batch calls (about 20) Now I want to use some textures, too, to give the whole scene more life.I was looking at some of the normal approaches: you pass the texture to the shader and draw all vertices using this texture, switch the texture and or effect and draw the next batch, the vertex declaration would change to a position/normal/texture/(probably)color combination. As far as I can tell, if I would use 20 textures, this would in the worst case increase the number of ...Show All

• Windows Forms removing header and footer (from printer page setup)

  hi Im using the Webbrowser control in VS2005 now I want to print the page but I want to eliminate the header and footer that the browser adds Im not talking about the header/footer of the html page that cant be removed using a Printer Style Sheet, Im talking about the URL that IE place as a footer(the header and footer that appears in the Page setup dialog) Is possible to remove that information using only VS2005 classes or do I need to use some unmanaged API kenny http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/Removing_url_in_print.asp Hope this helps.Try changing the registry key as mentioned there. ...Show All

• Visual Basic picture problem

  How do i make a picture from a file visible in the program on another computer that would not have the exact same file extention. Ex...... image.FromFile (C:\my documents\my pictures\pic.jpg) would be on my computer but that image wont work on another computer PLEASE HELP! i know its not in the same place on the other computer thats why i was wondering if there was a way to set it up so that i didn't have the picture coming from a specific file so that it didnt have a problem running on another computer. I'm pretty new to this programming stuff so all advise is very helpful. ...Show All

• SQL Server Scripting stored procedure add with Linked Server reference when Linked Server is not available

  Is there a way to bypass the syntax checking when adding a stored procedure via a script I have a script that has a LINKed server reference (see below) . INSERT INTO ACTDMSLINKED.ACTDMS.DBO.COILS ..etc. ACTDMSLINKED does not exist at the time I need to add the stored procedure that references it. PLEASE to not tell me to add the LINK and then run the script. This is not an option in this scenerio. Thanks, Terry use dynamic sql. this one compiles.be warned of the consequences though USE NORTHWIND create proc dynamicproc as declare @CMD VARCHAR(300) SELECT @CMD=' INSERT INTO ACTDMSLINKED.ACTDMS.DBO.COILS' EXEC @CMD ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System check-in policy that checks source code

  Is anyone aware of a product that would check the source code to ensure it complied with certain development standards that can't be checked through static code analysis This would certainly be nice, we actually would like to enforce that xml comments were applied to all public methods prior to checkin. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development PPC-6700 and Picture Mail

  Can someone explain why the latest and greatest Sprint PDA phone suddenly dropped Picture Mail capability - arguably the one of the most-used PCS Vision features The phone seems to have all the hardware capability to handle Picture Mail. Has anyone at MS even considered adding Picture Mail capability to the next 6700 upgrade This forum is smart device development related. Since your question is not related to smart device development, it's off topic here. Please post to relevant forum or news group: http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx Closing as off topic. ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Indexing

  1) Most of our PK's are non-clustered. In this case when should we go for a clustered index. 2) Apart from Primary Keys which are indexed by default, I am going for single column indexes for foreign keys & other columns which are involved in WHERE, GROUP BY, HAVING & ORDER BY. 3) When is a covered index good to have i.e. a composite index on entire select list. 4) When should we go for a index on HERE, GROUP BY, HAVING or ORDER BY columns followed by select list columns. 5) Are functional indexes allowed in SQL Server i.e. when column is in function like ABS/MAX etc. If so, what is the DDL 6) When data has been encrypted and we decrypt while selecting, how to make sure that index gets picked. ...Show All

• Visual C# Question on UML and Generics

  How does one model Generics in UML - say the class public class CWordList : Dictionary<int, string> { } thanks Ralph ...Show All

• SQL Server How to export report to csv without column lables exporting as the first row

  I tried to export a report with no hearders nor footers - just rows(details) - to CSV format, however, the lable for each column is exporting out as the first row in the CSV file. How do I export a report to CSV without the column lables exporting Example of what my export looks like: lable1,lable2,label3_Department 223,John,Accounting 256,Mary,Marketing (I don't want lable1, lable2,label3_Department to show up in my export) thanks, h. You can set the DeviceInfo parameter "NoHeader" to True to suppress column headers when rendering to CSV: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms155365.aspx -Chris ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions button pressed on a messagebox

  i am using a Messagebox.show("some text" , "caption", Messageboxbuttons.YesNo) how do i know which button the user chooses , the messeagebox class cannot be instantiated so i am not sure how to get a return value Here's an example which I got from MSDN which I hope is what you are looking for. Notice how the Messagebox is contained in an if statement, and uses DialogResult. // C# public void ExitApplication() { // Display a message box asking users if they // want to exit the application. if (MessageBox.Show ("Do you want to exit ", "My Application", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo, MessageBoxIcon.Question) == DialogResult.Yes) { Application.Exit(); } } source: http://msdn.micr ...Show All