JRMcFetridge's Q&A profile

• Visual FoxPro Future of Visual Foxpro

  Hello friends, I have a general question. What will be the future of VFP The reason for asking this question is because, our company is planning a major commercial software development. So far we were very much satisfied with VFP. But now doubts are being raised whether we should base our investment on this platform or consider something new like VB.NET. Especially when we hear that the products will not be served beyond 2009!!! Any sincere opinion will be a big help. Thank you. Financial Investment companies here in the US often use the phrase "past performance is not an indicator of future returns". The same holds true with software. Just because old applications continue to run fine does not mean they will conti ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE7 Crashes when closing streaming video window

  I am running Windows XP Home and Windows XP Pro at home. All boxes are up-to-date with Microsoft patches. My boxes were very stable until I installed IE7. Now when I am watching streaming video from a news source or a trailer from a movie source and I finish and close the streaming window, I get the Microsoft error window that wants to send the error data to Microsoft. If I send or don't send the data, all IE7 windows are closed. I have backed out IE7 on one of my boxes (by using Microsoft Restore Points) and I get my stable IE6 environment. I want to upgrade to IE7, but I can't have the browser die so easily. I have a pretty standard load of software on the boxes. I do have Microsoft OneCare Live installed also. Can anyone help me Tom ...Show All

• Visual Studio pls help me....

  when i run the form in Visual basic 2005 Express Edition, the msg display that. the application failed to initialize properly (0xc000007b) Click ok to terminate the application. I dont know how to solve this problem, can any one help me pls........... Ok, I seemed to have solved the issue by reformatting and installing my Visual Studio 2005 first before anything else. Once VS is installed, then I go back and install all the security updates and whatnot. Thanks, PB ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) TreeViewItem width to fit control & transformation

  Hi! 1)Is there any way to set TreeViewItem width in such way that they fit eaxactly all free space in the TreeView. (smth like items in listbox) I cannot manually set it in code because treeview width is defined automatically. 2) How can i apply transformations only to the treeview item and not to its child elemwnts (All effects are applied at node expansion, i tried to set RenderTransform of child elements to null but it didn't help) Or maybe i can perform all transformations before node is expanded but just after + button is clicked but i didn't find necessery event Thank you 1.you can try one of the following < DataTemplate x:Key = " dt2 " > < TextBlock Text = " {Bind ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Event issue with assembly redirect

  Hi! I'm investigating different workflow upgrade scenarios. One issue I have is when I do the following: Upgrade my workflow (state machine) Increment the assembly version Redirect running workflow instances to the new assembly version This seems to work until an event is raised targeting one of the existing workflow instances. This will throw an exeption (delivery failure). It seems the event subscriber (my workflow) is bound by an assembly version and cannot be located. Any suggestions to how to get around this Without a solution to this, I cannot see that assembly redirects are possible to use with state machine workflows. Thanks in advance! After a workflow is started the workfl ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Device ID Data Type

  Hi All, I want to be able to uniquely identify a mobile device. I've discovered that devices have a Device ID but is only accessible via the Win API through PInvoke() calls. The article I found is here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms172516.aspx PInvoking is not a problem for me. I actually found this article through a message board where someone actually had problems using it. 1) Is this article up to date and compatible with WM 5.0 devices Most Importantly 2) Is the device ID a GUID Or is it something else The article indicates it converts the final result into a string not a native GUID. This doesn't actually mean that the string doesn't contain a GUID though. I haven't run it through yet to see, but I do ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Desperate: it doesn't open anymore my project!!

  Hi, it's been a week since I had opened my project...today I tried, and I cannot open the VSTO project inside the solution! I get a weird message which I really don't know what it means...I'm crying, because I really don't understand! The message is this one: Unable to read the project 'RemoteCalendarsVSTO.csproj'. The project file ' ' has been renamed or is no longer in the solution. Yes, there is that weird ' ' reference which I don't know...what the hell has happened This is the XML code: <Project DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003"> <!-- This section defines project level properties. Configuration : Specifies a default value for debug. Platform : ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions c# method wizard

  I couldnt find C# Method Wizard in c# 2005 express edition See the following thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=765147&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Accessing IVsTextLayers?

  Hello, I'm trying to support word-wrap and folding/outlining better and with better performance in my vi/vim emulation addin. In order to do this, I'm trying to access the different layers in an IVsTextView directly. I've been successful in getting the 'topmost' layer (IVsTextView -> QI(IVsLayeredTextView) -> GetTopmostLayer() -> IVsTextLayer), but I can find no sensible way to get the next layers. The real need is to get to the layer that comes before word-wrapping, which I'm guessing is the last layer. I'm guessing there is one or more layers that applies the outlining/hidden regions. Accessing this layer, I can quickly map buffer coordinates to non-word-wrapped-but-outlined coordinates. The only thing I've found that return ...Show All

• SQL Server TOPCOUNT does not work for when using selection in the where clause.

  We run the following query trying to identify the top 15 products for a quarter. The results returned by TOPCOUNT are not predictable. It appears that the ROW statement is evaluated before the WHERE clause giving us NULL data in the second query if the PRODUCT 5210 is not in any of the TOP 15 products in the ROW set. Has anyone encountered problems with TOPCOUNT, parent-child dimensions and multiple hierarchies Waterfall is the parent-child dimension. This query was generated by ProClarity. SELECT { [WATERFALL DIM].[Waterfall].&[1000], [WATERFALL DIM].[Waterfall].&[2000], [WATERFALL DIM].[Waterfall].&[3000], [WATERFALL DIM].[Waterfall].&[4000], [WATERFALL DIM].[Waterfall].&[5000], [WATERFALL DIM].[Waterfall].& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System domain administrator password lock automatically.

  Dear all, i am system admin of corporate firm .yesterday i have chnage the password of my admin account and after that my account locked out intermediately with 2-3 min. senario of my site. I have exchnage server 2k3,2 ADC with win 2k3 server, 1 ISA 2000 server,1 EPO server(antivirus updation),1 application server .sql server loaded on EO and Application server. i think that due to change in password some of the application running on the server need authentication of old password so theu locked the account so i will restart all the servers and login with new password but the proplem was not solved. now iwill change the account name so that proplem is solved but if i again want to chanage the password of ...Show All

• Visual Basic LoadLibrary returns null

  Hello, I have a windows application in VB .NET (VS 2005) that tries to load an unmanaged dll dynamically using LoadLibrary. However the LoadLibrary constantly returns 0. I checked the last error message right after the call to LoadLibrary using Marshal.GetLastWin32Error and it returns 998. It is interesting that when I laod the same dll in VC++ .Net using the LoadLibrary function it returns the correct handle. I appreciate if someone could help me out with this, Thanks in advance Are all the dependencies for the dll in the same directory, the path environment, or the system directories If not that's most likely the reason why the dll cannot be loaded. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to load UIElement from XML file in code-behind

  My goal is to render the UI from xml coming from a web service. I have an XML file that has a grid UIelement node. I would like to add this to some kind of placeholder in my xaml. Maybe a contentpresenter or contentcontrol Can someone give an example of how I might accomplish this I am using VB code. Thanks! This blog entry of mine demonstrates how to do exactly that: http://www.infusionblogs.com/blogs/jsmith/archive/2006/07/30/686.aspx ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Creating WF Rules From CodeDom

  Hi everone We have a situation where will be using Windows Workflow Foundation Rule Engine along with our custom application. Now the main point of foucs is to create rules on basis of some external application (say Microsoft Analysis Services Dataminig generates rules and they will be used ) , now as we gather WF uses CodeDom to save rules , now we need to write a convertor that takes rules from one side (SQL BI ) and convert it into WF (CodeDom ) Format . Now here i need you guys support for the following (SQL Datamining Generated Rules ---->WF CodeDom) a) Let me know the best possible option(s) for this b) can any one provide detail codeDom demos (I already browsed WF Team Member Blog , i think Mustufa's and some one ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is there a way to know when a MDIchild is added?

  plain and simple: Is there a way to know if a Form has been added to the MDIChild list What I want to do is be notified if a Form created was added to a parent MDI to be able to refresh or create a TaskBar like control. Is there any event that can do this When a Form is marked as a MDI parent (using IsMdiContainer), it creates an instance of the MdiClient control, and add it to its control collection. So you can add the following code to your MDI parent form's OnControlAdded method: if (e.Control is MdiClient) { e.Control.ControlAdded += new ControlEventHandler(MdiChildAdded); e.Control.ControlRemoved += new ControlEventHandler(MdiChildRemoved); } Then in MdiChildAdded and MdiChildRemo ...Show All