jimoctezuma's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development ActiveSync and PocketPc/Smart Device

  Hi I have made an application in Visual Basic 2005 for PocketPC 2003, where I generate files on the device and copy to PC with ActiveSync. I want to use several ce devices, and they have the same DeviceID, but ActiveSync want to make a new sync foler for each device Hi Andrew I have seeked for RAPI, but can't find any samples for Visual Basic 2005 Any tip where to look Thanks for the tip! ...Show All

• Visual Studio MSBuild targets with relative paths and Visual Studio problem

  Hello, I'm having a strange problem when I use a custom targets file with relative paths. I have this directory tree ProjectRoot +bin +$(Platform) +$(Configuration) +src +Project1 Project1.csproj <Project source files here> +Project2 <Same as Project1> MySolution.sln MyTargets.targets Each project file (*.csproj) contains only properties like ProjectGuid, AssemblyName, etc (project specific only). The project files reference the targets file with a relative path (<Import Project="..\..\MyTargets.targets" />) at the end. MyTargets.targets contains all settings for debug and release configurations and also the OutputPath set like "<Out ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Splash Screen reappear's...

  i have made a form for splash screen and one more form before which that splash screen appears...... when i run the project splash screen appears for 3 secs then the other form comes but again when i click some button or do something in that form for opening other form the splash screen appears for 3 secs how can i restrict it to appear only once...... hi, in solution explorer you will find class called program this the start point of your project just before application.run you can instantiate the splash screen then run your project or make the splash screen is the startup form in main, then in splash screen closing instantiate your form hope this helps ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Bring up Team Portal into Visual Studio view

  Everytime I bring up Team Portal, a separate IE brower window comes up. How do I change the setting so that the team portal will come up in a browser window as a Visual Studio view I don't believe there is any way to get the portal to show up as a VS document window. We made the call that we would have the team portal open a separate browser window. Brian ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Slow Connection Manager / GPRS connection

  Hi, I'm using the following code in a loop every second to check that the GPRS connection is active, and if not then connect it. It worked fine under VS2003 but since changing to VS2005 it runs incredibly slowly and makes the program inoperable. Can anyone shed some light on it or offer any improvements Thanks if ( ( ( Global.connMgr.Status != ConnectionStatus.Connected ) && ( Global.connMgr.Status != ConnectionStatus.WaitingForNetwork ) && ( Global.connMgr.Status != ConnectionStatus.WaitingForPath ) && ( Global.connMgr.Status != ConnectionStatus.WaitingForPhone ) && ( Global.connMgr.Status != ConnectionStatus.WaitingForResource ) && ( Global.connMgr.Status != ConnectionStatus ...Show All

• Visual Basic open unbound form and fill with data

  I have a form that has several unbound textboxes, I use it for entring new data only. I tried the below to open the form and populate the textboxes and it didnt work Private Sub Button2_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click Dim EDFRow As DataSet1.EDFRow If Me .ListBox1.SelectedItems.Count = 1 Then EDFRow = DataSet1.EDF.FindByEName( Me .ListBox1.SelectedValue.ToString) My .Forms.EmployeeSimple.ShowDialog() My .Forms.EmployeeSimple.ENameTextBox.Text = EDFRow.EName etc. didnt post all lines, but its basically the same, just different columns Exit Sub End If End Sub I tried a msgbox to return EDFROW.EName and it was the name ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. spacewars window displayed off-screen

  ive just got the spacewars starter up and run on xna but unfortunately its displayed half off screen. upon trying to move the aplication, what happens instead is that the image within the game is moved within the original off-screen box. anybody have any tips to remedy this issue Hey, this is almost certainly caused by the back buffer being greater than your resolution, or your resolution not being set to your monitors intended setting (especially the case on flat screens). The first thing to try is setting your resolution to 1280 x 1024 or better.  If this works, great. Otherwise: Go to the WindowsGame_Starting method in SpacewarGame.cs and change their back buffer size settings (720 x 1280 in the code) to smaller values. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Creating Open - Save File menu

  I am trying to figure out how to make a menu for saving & opening a file that my program has created. I coded the program to always open the same file but I want to be able to save records to other file as needed & not quit sure how to go about this any help would be great ty OpenFileDialog SaveFileDialog I hope that it be hepfull. Regards. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Deployed application referes to source files.

  Hi and thanks for your help, I have a solution with a DLL project, this dll works as visio plug in, using VS 2003 installer. I have no problem installing the application with Microsoft installer. Now I tried to use another software to deploy my assembly, I copied the project output (main and referenced DLLs) then used my installer to installer these files to the destination directory. The problem is that installation works fine until I change the directory name of my solution : I checked and found my deployment application is always looking at my bin directory of my solution. I am not very familiar with references and dont want to use VS 2003 installer. How to set references and have installed Assemblies used Thanks ...Show All

• Commerce Server Custom and Orders Manager crash

  After I add a credit card to a user's profile and then I try to open the user's profile in the Customer and Orders Manager, it crashes. If I debug it, the error is: A property value provided in the profile XML could not be persisted to the underlying data store. Validation of the property value failed. Profile Type = 'CreditCard' Which is odd, because this used to work fine. The only thing that I recently changed that remotely might affect this is I extended the orders system by adding two weakly typed custom properties. These are working fine for me. Any ideas on how to proceed Best Regards, Brad Hi Joseph, Yeah, the OrderObjectMappings.xml under the OrdersWebService directory has the custom propertie ...Show All

• SQL Server General issues concerning Data Mining with SQL server 2005

  Hi I am just starting to learn how to use data mining with SQL server 2005. I have some general questions which I hope someone out there can help me with. Each month I have approx. 100.000 customers who buy a product. I want to contact 10.000 of these with a letter for cross-selling some additional products. Currently I choose these 10.000 randomly from the 100.000 customers. I now want to use SQL server 2005 data mining to choose these 10.000 better, to receive a better response rate. How do I transfer this knowledge to the 100.000 (potential cross-selling customers) I understand that it could be set up in SQL server like the following: case table: customer_id, gender, age, city, etc. nested table: customer_id, produc ...Show All

• SQL Server how to quick query duplicate records?

  any idea quick query duplicate records (speicifed fields.value are same) using T-SQL just add the extra columns in to the SELECT and GROUP BY clauses and it will work for multiple columns. even better, can u post an example of the data that you are wanting to look for duplicates in ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX functionality removed from VB.NET?

      From reading through the information on the Microsoft DirectX web-site, they are saying that the DirectX2.0 is deprecated and is being replaced by what they are calling "XNA Game Studio Express". Further, from reading the following : "..One problem with the first path is that XNA Game Studio Express is supported only through Visual C# Express" It seems to say that you will only be able to use managed DirectX with C#   Is this true Can anyone clarify if this is the case I have quite a few applications that make use of DirectX in vb.net for display elements (like "loading bars", neat effects on forms like spinning logos, etc), and I have no intention of switching to C# at any point in the future and GD ...Show All

• SQL Server how to set up database diagram in SQL Server Management Studio Express

  After i created my database, i want to set up the database diagram, when i click "new database diagram", one message came out   "Database diagram support objects cannot be installed because this database does not have a valid owner.  To continue, first use the Files page of the Database Properties dialog box or the ALTER AUTHORIZATION statement to set the database owner to a valid login, then add the database diagram support objects."   why my database do not have a valid owner and where is the "ALTER AUTHORIZATION statement Recording to the message, i go to my database "Properties" and click "files" , then i saw the "Owner" item, i click the browse, i read the examples,  but i do not understand it: ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Viewport3D view converting to an image

  Hello, I want to convert the view of Viewport3D to an image. So I added the following code: Image myImage = new Image(); RenderTargetBitmap bmp = new RenderTargetBitmap(180, 180, 120, 96, PixelFormats.Pbgra32); bmp.Render(Viewport3D); myImage.Source = bmp; StackPanel myStackPanel = new StackPanel(); myStackPanel.Children.Add(myImage); this.Content = myStackPanel; But after the execution of this code, StackPanel was empty (there were no image inside the StackPanel). Could anyone help to sove this problem Thanks for a help. It really works! I would ask is there a possibility to convert the view of the Viewport3D to an image file which could be saved on the hard disk ...Show All