Chrisull's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Newbie Question About Creating a Screen Saver from scratch

  I'm trying to create a screen saver using Visual Basic 2005. I was wondering does anyone know of a good site or tutorial on this subject that explains from start to finish how to accomplish creating a simple screen saver I found one on the microsoft site but it mentions issues with visual basic 2005 express writing code to two separate forms, the the form.vb and form.designer.vb, and that these would need to be resolved but it does not go into how to do it. Would anybody know how to do that If I can figure that part out I could use the tutorial I found. I'm newbie who is trying to learn by practicing and actually coding as I go by creating a screen saver from scrath. I have tried the screen saver starte ...Show All

• Windows Forms Localization and disappearing toolstripicons

  Hey At the moment I'm building an application which will be available in several languages. When I change the designtime language in the IDE and change some text-properties of several controls the icons of my toolstrip disappear on the default language. So I've got a toolstrip with several buttons. The default language is dutch. When I change the language to english all buttons are intact. But when I switch back to dutch the icons on these buttons are gone... Is this a bug (and is there a fix/workaround ) Thanks in advance By default the language property is set to 'default'. This 'default' language is dutch - Netherlands. The second language is 'english'. When I have a form in designmode, with a toolstrip w ...Show All

• Smart Device Development problem in deploying the application on device

  Hi All, I've developed a windows mobile 5.0 application for smartphone in C# and created a CAB file. And I bought a Motorola Q device which has windows mobile 5.0 in it. I was able to deploy the .cab successfully, but when i try to run the application, its saying "Application requires a newer version of .Net compact framework". My assumption is all windows mobile 5.0 phones ships with .Net compact Framework 2.0. Please advice me. Thanks Tan You can download the .NETCF 2.0 Runtime http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=9655156b-356b-4a2c-857c-e62f50ae9a55&DisplayLang=en and install on your device. The Windows Mobile 5.0 Devices only ship with 1.0 in ROM Thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server is waiting for an internal operation to complete

  When saving a database diagram, SQL Server 2005 frequently "hangs" for an indeteminate amount of time and displays the message "Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio is waiting for an internal operation to complete. If you regularly encounter this delay during normal usage, pelase report this problem to Microsoft." For one thing, this is an extremely lame and unhelpful message, as it gives no clue as to specifically *who* to report the problem to (Microsoft is pretty big, after all), and an "internal operation" is sufficiently ambiguous to mean anything. I cannot find any references to this problem, and it happens frequently enough that I'm finding it very difficult to use Management Studio for editing ...Show All

• Visual C++ Database and C++

  Hi Folks; Could someone point me in the right direction for resources on database interaction through C++ that is not .NET The following should get you started: SAConnection con; con.setClient( SA_SQLServer_Client ); con.Connect(" servername@databasename ", "username", "password"); or, for SQL Server 2000, you can also use con.Connect("servername\\instancename@databasename", "username", "password"); ...Show All

• Windows Forms C# program on Windows XP Pro

  Two users of an application I developed have told me that my program does not work properly. Controls are being screwed up, settings don't save, a whole lot of stuff is going wrong. The common link They both use Windows XP Professional. I believe Win XP Pro is the reason why something is wrong, and they both do have .NET Framework 2.0 on their OS, so something with Win XP Pro is causing problems. Why doesn't it work on Win XP Pro Okay, well the control problem actually is fixed for both of them, but now one of them has this problem: On startup, this shows up: EventType : clr20r3 P1 : application[1].exe P2 : 1.0.0.0 P3 : 45158549 P4 : application P5 : 1.0.0.0 P6 : 45158549 P7 : 3 P8 : 6 P9 : system.security.security where a ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Pseudo Code anyone?

  Ok Experts, I am looking for nothing more than pseudo code at this point - I've done little more than dabble around with the UI, created a simple activity, done some limited persistence etc.. Here's what I would like to do: Create a new WF instance Persist, and place the Instance GUID in a table, along with other attributes Present this list and allow selection Open the WF Instance again, and munge around with it - add properties etc.. Continue along the WF route and evaluate rules as necessary Persist again, etc.... Essentially I am not seeing the easy way to open a WF instance, work on something related to it, then update some properties and have it reume it's path ... Anyone care to point me in the right ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Mouse.IsCaptured

  When running in windowed mode, this doesn't seem to do anything. When set to true, the mouse state coords do not update when the mouse is outside the window. Am I misinterpreting what it's supposed to do It seems like to do scrolling where your mouse is outside the window bounds, you'd need to know that fact. More important than set position is to be able to get the relative movement vector directly from the mouse. Very high precision mice are coming. Windows has had native support for getting at those through RAWINPUT for a long time, why the XNA library doesn't use that is beyond me. Also, the SetCapture Win32 function is very much able to capture the mouse even if the mouse button is not pressed. ...Show All

• SQL Server The process could not connect to Distributor - Need some help

  hi friends i am creating the Merge Replication between two server(both SQLServer-2005, on XP). Server names are as 1. HB5B 2. VSNET1 i)    On server HB5B, i had created the Publication with name 'hb_pub'. (publisher & Distributer on HB5B server) ii)   On server VSNET1, i had created the Pull Subscription, for the publication name hb_pub( form the server HB5B), this starts fine. iii)   When i went to Viwe Synchroniztion status, it says       The process could not connect to Distributor 'HB5B'   iv)  i too check the Distributor properties, its seems fine for me. v)  On server VSNET1, if creats the Push Subscription, for the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions problems downloading vwd

  i'm unable to download vwdexpress,whenever it starts downloading an error appears and the setup exits.The troubleshooter says to repair BITS and clear the cache.I've done them both still its not working.pl help me the best thing to do is to download the ISO image and burn that to CD and install it from that. Also be sure you updated Windows too. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/install/ ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) XamlParseException Line1 Postion 9????

  Ok i'm getting a XamlParseException in Line 1 Postion 9 well as far as i can see i dont see anything wrong their at all... I just love these Exceptions because theirs No information on how to fix it Any ideas System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException was unhandled   Message="Cannot create instance of 'Window1' defined in assembly 'SexyEyesBar, Version=1.0.2460.4298, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'. Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.  Error in markup file 'Window1.xaml' Line 1 Position 9."   Source="PresentationFramework"   LineNumber=1   LinePosition=9   StackTrace:        at System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException.ThrowException(String mess ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista COM Component Development with ATL

  In recent work, I found some COM components written in ATL cannot run correctly on Windows Vista. Some members of ATL classes which can be successfully called on Window XP return error code on Windows Vista platform. For example, the failure of calling CAtlServiceModuleT.ParseCommandLine() result in unable to register Windows system service. My platform is Windows Vista RC1 build 5483, Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition and Windows SDK Beta 2 build 5483.1.1 (achieved from http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher ). I wonder whether ATL is supported in the new platform. If so, what is needed library and how to configure the IDE. If not, is there any other technology to replace ATL I tried to implement an out of process server using ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Forcing Update of UI before my function exits

  I know this question has been asked before, but none of the answers given work for me. I have a function that performs a long operation. Before that function does all its work, I want to set a Status message in my Status bar. The problem is that UI updates don't seem to occur until the function has exited, by which time the Status Message is no longer relevant. What can I do to force the UI to update I've tried calling UpdateLayout(). I've tried calling InvalidateRender(); I've tried setting the Status Bar properties within a delegate passed to Dispatcher.Invoke with DispatcherPriority.Render. None of these work. I have, elsewhere in my App succesfully used Background worker to perform longer running operations asynchronusly. I ju ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to access pocket Email message in Windows Mobile 5 app?

  Hi all, I have an application developed in C# which needs to retrieve Pocket Outlook for email messages. I have come across a solution using MessagingApplication.SwitchToAccount but it will only open the Inbox page of selected account without any customization to my likings. Lets say I want to display only the Subject, From, and Data received on my custom page, anyone has any idea Is it possible For your info, I'm using Windows Mobile 5 SDK with VS2005. Thanks. Regards, shah Unfortunately, you cannot read email messages using Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook from the Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK. You will need a third party tool such as Mobile In the Hand Professional Edition. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Using PermCalc

  I have an application that I want to mark as a partially trusted application in click once. The Calculate Persmissions buttons constantly states that MUST be run under full trust without telling me why. So I need to learn more about CAS. I want to understand how and why it makes the choices it does. From what I have read I can get more detail with the PermCalc.exe command line tool. I clicked, File, New Project, Visual C# Windows, Windows Applications. Build in Release Mode. I did not add or modify any code. So I just have a blank forms app that does nothing. I run the following command line Permcalc.exe -sandbox -cleancache -show WindowsApplication1.exe and learn that I require the following permissions: < xml version=" ...Show All