emasstech's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Anti-Cracking Packers?

  Not to beat a dead horse, but after reading some of the threads about decompiling and the abundance of tools such as Reflector, I am just looking for some opinions. I am a newbie coder and just learning and through various googles on various topics, I've seen companies that claim to produce .exe packers that either prevent or make decompiling/cracking a vb or any .net application harder to do. Anyone ever try any of these Would anyone try one of these things I beleive you are refering to code obfuscators. I would only use them for extremely proprietary procedures, but even then, they can be inferred due to the nature of IL. If you want to completely hide your processes, used unmanaged code or perfor ...Show All

• Windows Forms Check if theres update by HTML or other

  Sorry but i didnt new what topic titaly to type ..so no kill me plx :P alright i need some idea or example that i can cehck if there are new updates and if app is out of date like..... maybe there is some HTML parameter that the app can check if its not same it'll say new update ... or some other way...is there such thing thx ahead If you are using ClickOnce, you can configure the application to automatically check to see if it is out of date. See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1zyc39fb.aspx and http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/axw1fa38.aspx for an explanation how to do that. If you are new to ClickOnce, a good overview article is at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ ...Show All

• SQL Server Unprocess will destroy the structure and Metadata?

  I found something. I you Process a dimention with an Unprocess option, and after that, you can only ProcessFull to the dimension. If you try ProcessUpdate or ProcessAdd to the dimension, you will get a mistake which tell you that there are some mistakes in the MetaData. So I want to know if the Unprocess will Destroy the structure of Dimension, and put a Dimension to nothing in fact. Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions help, help me rhonda or anybody

  axmediaplayer1.url = my.settings.song1 song 1 is bound to textbox1 textbox1.text = c:\windows\media\somefile.mp3 this works fine............question is how can I make it so the user only has to type in the name of the song to the textbox.....instead of the full path bearing in mind there are100 textboxes thanks cheyenne sorry I mistyped the original .......should have been (axwindowsmediaplayer.url) and the reason I have not considered a listview is because I know nothing about listview....... thank you cheyenne ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Running a macro at a certain time

  I would like to have a macro that automatically runs once every day at a certain time. Is this possible and does Excel and the spreadsheet need to be open in order for the macro to execute Any help is appreciated! Ok thanks alot!! Last question I hope, do you have to be logged in to Windows in order for this to work The computer is on at all times but at night when I had planned to let the macro execute no one is logged on to the computer. Would be very grateful for your help! Thank you very much for your answers!! ...Show All

• Windows Forms Remote Desktop client embedded in TabControl

  Hi, I'm writing a windows forms application and I need remote desktop within that application. I referenced MSTSCLib and used the RDP client control. The control is embedded in a TabControl. Everything works fine, except for one very annoying thing: when I switch tabs and return to the RDP client control tab, the RDP client no longer responds to any user interaction (mouse clicks, keyboard commands). I tried explicitly focussing the RDP control on the tab switch, but that does not help. I have a very simple demo app, which can be requested by mail (jochen__-at-__dedigate___dot___com). It contains a single form, with a tabcontrol which has 2 tab pages. The first tab page contains the RDP Client control axMsTscAx1. The writ ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX Texture Tool (PLEASE NEED HELP)

  When im trying to lunch this utilitie in directx 9.0 sdk , it says Unable to create Direct3d Device . Please make sure your desktop color depth is 16 or 32 bit. my desktop color is at 32 bit and it still dont work , I really need some help . manders wrote: DxTex requires the "ref" software device to be installed. Did you install the full DXSDK Make sure you have a "d3dref9.dll" in your windows\system32 folder. -Mike Thank you so much my problem is solved , ive noticed that my d3dref9.dll was corrupt , so ive ask to a friend to give me his file and now its working . ...Show All

• Visual Studio Creation of Item Template within VSPackage

  How do I create an Item Template within a VSPackage I have an item template already created and working, I also have a VSPackage implemented and working but how do I connect the two I see from the IronPython example is the VS SDK samples that it is possible but I cannot see how it is implemented! the Item Templates are listed in subfolders in the Templates folder in the project with their own template files but I cannot see any reference to them in the VSPackage files! Is there some Attribute I need to add to the VSPackage files Please help, the help docs are inadequate for this particular issue. I've come across an attribute type ProvideProjectItemAttribute, I think it should work just like the vspackage attribute, ProvideProjectFactory ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Visual FOXPRO ODBC Drivers for windows Vista

  Hi. Does any one knows where i can get the Visual FoxPro ODBC Drivers for Windows Vista Thanks. Helder Santos I don't think that the current download/install of VFPODBC (VFPODBC.MSI) hasn't ever worked on Vista, and I notice it's still broke in RC2. Is VFPODBC going to be supported in Vista ...Show All

• SQL Server Destination resets when changing selected databases

  I discovered that everytime I need to add a database to my backup Maintenance Plan, after I select the new database from the drop-down of databases, the Destination automatically resets back to a default location. I'm assuming this is a bug that will be resolved at some point, but in the meantime, I need to see if there is a way I can deal with this permanently. I am not the only one adding databases to the backup routine so I can't verify that this setting is properly changed every time we have a new database (which is about once a week). Thanks in advance. Thanks for the idea Kevin.  Unfortunately this is a client-side solution and I need a server-side solution for the default.  Othe ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to: tansfer records/data in dataset to datagridview in windows application

  Attn: alll users I need ur help to help me in my project.... How to tansfer the selected record/data to another dataset/datagrid like u click the button transfer and the details will be on the other datagrid pls provide link to relevant topics and alos sample code asap the method u gave me doesnt work so can anyone gave me a better method on how to copy ther selected rows from 1 datagrid to another Pls state clearly the steps to all the codes @! THX!! ...Show All

• Visual C# Getting the console AND GUI to appear simultaneously

  Hello Everyone, I have Just moved over to C# from Java... When I ran Java programs with a GUI from an IDE both the GUI and the console window appeared, so I was able to send debugging information from the GUI program out theough the command line. How is this done when using Visual Studio (Using C# as the programming language). Thank you Chris you could also do this if you are running VS2005 right click project > properties select the Application tab in the "output type" select "Console Application this will now launch the GUI as well as its own console Window where you can read and write to the console does this help ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums CreateProcessA problem - no DOS windows appearing

  Hi I have an Excel model which (once a lot of data is entered) saves some data as a text file and uploads it to an OLAP database. It does this using CreateProcessA to run a command line. (Code at the bottom of this message.) The code wasn't written by me, but comments on the code say it was from the MS web site. This has worked fine in the past, but I have recently upgrated from Windows 2000 to XP (and from Office 2000 to 2003) and it no longer works. The CreateProcessA command fails to open a DOS window. I thought it was an XP problem, but a colleage has the same set up as me and the upload works fine on his PC. So I think the code's OK, but it seems there's something on my PC that's interfering with it. Any ideas where I can start to loo ...Show All

• SQL Server Any other way but Cursors or While loop

  Hi all, I have a bit of a challenging on my hands with this, i have a result set in a table which i am trying to iterate through the rows one by one i.e Values Values Dates 1.10 1.20 1.30 1.40 2006-03-31 00:00:00.000 2006-06-30 00:00:00.000 2006-09-30 00:00:00.000 2006-12-31 00:00:00.000 go to each row get the value and the date perform some calculation with the value and the date and insert it into another table(which sounds easy enough) my problem is how do i iterate through the result set one by one without using a cursor or a while loop do i have any other options at all Hello: Thanks for putting all the i ...Show All

• .NET Development FTP ListDirectory specifying type of file (extension) ???

  Hi, I have been playing around with the FtpWebRequest, but I just can't find the way to send a ListDirectory using an specific kind of file, for example I only want the list of the xml files in the remote directory. Is there a way to achieve this using the FtpWebRequest (I'm not really interested in using the socket) Thanks in advance. George, try adding the pattern to your Uri. For instance, send your FtpWebRequest, with method ListDirectory, to: " ftp://www.yourserver.com/yourfolder/*.jpg " HTH --mc ...Show All