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• Visual C++ Extract text from Word Document on runtime

  hi there, From many days i am trying to extract the text of Word document just like any spy program which watch the word document and if it found then extract the current page's text, for this purpose i have read few articles but they were not that much helpful. If some one has a code to obtain the text of runtim doc then please let me have it, i will be very greatful for it...or any tips , guidence will also help me for it... thanks in advance regards For such issues, the newsgroups at http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups is a more proper place. OTP Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• SQL Server use of CASE in script

  I have been working on a job that is supposed to do the following: 1) Imports last name, first name, date of birth, ssn, medical record number, and enterprise id from TAB seperated text file an example of the format would be ENTID<tab>LAST<tab>FIRST<tab>DOB<tab>MEDREC<tab>SSN 2) Looks up the person in the import system and inserts a primary key value that represents the person into another table, along with some id numbers representing the system the file originated from. This is to identify people in one system that have been in the other as well. I have been working on a solution that imports the text file to a new table, then a cursor that reads each record, looks up the person, and then inse ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions code not working for a negative number

  hello i have a text boc were i can type in plus 5 to -5 in reality. when i type in anyting when it beigns with - so for NWgativ the app craps out; the codei have for postivie is as follows, and it works great. I want to toype in a number , eg 4.7 and the black box i talk to to see 47, so negative -3.2 the black box shouls see -32, many thanks in advance, ian Private Sub TextBox2_TextChanged( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TextBox2.TextChanged Try 'When ActEasyIF is selected by the radio button, 'the WriteDeviceRandom2 method is executed. iReturnCode = AxActEasyIF1.WriteDeviceRandom2( "d1" , 1, Convert.ToDecimal(Format( "{-#.F1}" , TextBox ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. What is economic justification for adopting XNA to publish a game?

  I have been reading the forum with great interest but I don't believe this question has been posed quite this way. Looking at the historical costs/effort and time-to-market for a typical, worthy game title, are there any preliminary metrics that estimate how much XNA can actually shave off in terms of costs and effort For instance, let's say a game in the FPS genre takes 2 years for a team of 10 talented developers to create (just a wild guess). Take that same team but use XNA how long would it take, feature for feature - what would the range be, e.g. reduced time by 50%, 75% What would be the distribution of cost savings be in each phase of the game life cycle - design, develop, test, ship Would a title be easier to publish and market ...Show All

• Visual Studio Cannot set value because it is in a register and not in the top frame

  Hi. I have a problem, that... when the string variable shows "mystring" but string.IsNullOrEmpty evaluates to true. I'm using this variable to access SortedList and it fails that key cannot be null. However when I watch the variable it has the value it is supposed to have. The subroutine where it first occurs is: public bool IsReadOnly( string fmBind) { XPathNavigator node = xpData.SelectSingleNode(bindings[fmBind].NodeSet, _nm); if ( string .IsNullOrEmpty(bindings[fmBind].ReadOnly)) return false ; return /*node != null && */ ( bool )node.Evaluate(bindings[fmBind].ReadOnly); } Exception is thrown on the return - because node gets null. However I cannot try to find out why it is, b ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Runtime platform determination?

  What's the suggested way of determining, at runtime, whether we're on Windows or the 360 Getting the PlatformID & if WinCE then we're on the 360 That seems funny. I'm not actually sure what that will give back on Xbox. There isn't a specific define for Xbox in the CLR system platform enum, because that was defined long before the CLR guys even knew Xbox was going have .NET on it! ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. .fbx vs. .x

  1) I've had virtually no luck getting the output of the AutoDesk convert-to-fbx tools to load into XNA successfully. Judging from the AutoDesk conversion tools, there are a number of .fbx variants in play. Maybe I'm converting to the wrong flavor of .fbx. Which variant does XNA like the best 2) In general XNA seems to like .x models better than .fbx models. What editors beside Blender produce .x directly Thanks for any insight. Cheers, Scott Me too. From maya to fbx and XNA. I've experienced problems with transforms into the fbx file, but I think that it's my lack of modeling talent. I don't know if there any differences between fbx and x. I'm not sure but I think that these two formats con ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Accessing the VertexBuffer of a ModelMesh

  I want to load a model from file into XNA and then warp it and then store those vertices back into the model mesh and use that warped version as the final mesh. Is this possible I've seen information on creating a vertex buffer, storing data in it and then using it for rendering, but not information on creating a vertex buffer and storing it into a ModelMesh or even BETTER, taking a ModelMesh's data and modifying it. That's really what I'm looking to do. If I cannot grab the ModelMesh's data and modify it, I at least need to know how to grab the data and copy it into my own vertex buffer and then if there is a way to store it back in, how I could do that. Is it possible to modify the contents of an existing ModelMesh's Ver ...Show All

• Windows Forms [C#]Datagridview copy/paste from a row to another row

  Hi all. Before opening this post, i've already spent a lot of time looking for solution to this problem over the net and over this forum :( I only need to copy some values in a datagridview row, and paste over another row of the same datagridview. Thx a lot in advance at all :) Bye and have a nice day, RaouL. Hi. First of all, do you only need to copy within your application If the answer is "Yes", you could do away with using the clipboard and set up some kind of buffer in memory. You would copy the data under your copy event into the buffer (if other things like cell formatting are required, you would handle the various formatting you would need in separate buffers, sort of like layers in a ...Show All

• Visual C++ Multiline Tooltip

  In the "Using ToolTip controls" it talks about using \r\n as the way to force a tooltip to go to a new line, ...or you can use a carriage return/line feed combination, \r\n , to force line breaks at particular locations... But it doesn't work in practice. Is there something I'm missing How can I make a multiline tool tip Thanks Chris 1. You have to use CToolTipCtrl::SetMaxTipWidth(int iWidth ); 2. If its about the standard behaviour you have to override handlers TTN_NEEDTEXTA and for TTN_NEEDTEXTW! Because the standard implementation uses AfxExtractSubstring that extracts just the 2nd string part. ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to initialize - The encrypted value for "logoncred" configuration setting cannot be decrypted.

  I am unable to initialize the reportserver: gettting the folowing error: is it possible to reinitialize the server: *********************************************************************************** The encrypted value for "logoncred" configuration setting cannot be decrypted. (rsFailedTodecryptConfigInformation) *********************************************************************************** Please help thank you very much for the information. Did you copy the config file from another machine The encryption used in the config file is tied to a specific machine. You can repopulate the value using the database panel of the report server configuration tool. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem with updating existing Workitems

  It looks to be functioning properly but the data is not updated, below is a screenshot of what I'm doing. Set-Alias tfpt 'C:\program files\Microsoft Team Foundation Server Power Toys\TFPT.exe' PS C:\TFSWorkspace> tfpt workitem 2996 -------------------------------------------------------------- Work Item: 2996 Title = Bill's Test Task PS C:\TFSWorkspace> tfpt workitem 2996 /update /fields:"Title = 234234234" Work item 2996 updated. PS C:\TFSWorkspace> tfpt workitem 2996 -------------------------------------------------------------- Work Item: 2996 Title = Bill's Test Task Hi, I could repro the problem and it is a bug in powertoys code. When we parse "Title = 234234234", we take field values as &qu ...Show All

• Architecture Looking for Microsoft Aspiring Software Architect Program certification details.

  Hi, I am looking for "Microsoft Aspiring Software Architect Program certification" details. Could some one point to me how to get certified Thanks! Dave ...Show All

• SQL Server Dynamically create text file as destination

  I am trying to create a text file from an SQL query on a SQL table. I would like the SSIS package to prompt for the file name and path. The text file is tab delimited and the text qualifier is a double quote. Thanks, Fred Thanks for the suggestions but I am still lost. I have a Data Flow Task which has a SQL Server Source. In the Data Flow Task I connect the SQL Server Source to what I believe is next - a Destination Script Component. I did not see anywhere you code put code in a Data Flow Destination - Flat File Destination. In the Script Component it allows you to add code in Script Design box which is Visual Studio's designer window. How do I assign the filename to the new file I create ...Show All

• Visual C++ main.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__MessageBoxA@16 referenced in function _WinMain@16

  ------ Build started: Project: HelloWorld, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ Compiling... main.cpp Linking... main.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__MessageBoxA@16 referenced in function _WinMain@16 C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\dev Projects\HW\HelloWorld\Debug\HelloWorld.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\dev Projects\HW\HelloWorld\HelloWorld\Debug\BuildLog.htm" HelloWorld - 2 error(s), 0 warning(s) ========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ========== Please bear in mind that I'm *very* much a newbie to much any form of programming. Maybe someone ...Show All