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• Visual C# Invoking windows application from web application

  Can I open an windows application from web application. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Form Controls

  Hi, I would like to have a control, like the ones used in the 'my computer' form, that when clicked displays a dropdown list under the button that is clicked. Is there a control that will provide this function I have created my own version of it using  panels but fail, at this stage, to adjust the position of the other controls that may be under it. I would like to create a number of verticle tool bars taht are equally spaced and when one is clicked it will expand a listbox under it. At the same time all other controls under the expanded control will move down and up when the control is clicked (toggled) I hope this makes sense and someone could point me in the right direction Ron ...Show All

• Visual Studio Is Install of SP1 for VS2005 Worth It?

  After reading pages of horror-stories involving just installing SP1, I'm really wondering if it's worth even trying to install it. I thought the purpose of an SP was to fix at least some known bugs, this doesn't seem to be the case. I've just installed VS 2005 yesterday, and haven't even used it yet. I'm pretty leery of installing anything on top something I haven't even tried. Anyone want to weigh in If that is what you think, then I guess you have been seeing very limited use of VS. Although I was generalizing, this philosophy certainly refers to VS, as well. Let me give you just one example. Many productivity add-ons and functionality-enhancing plug-ins require a specific SP-level of VS. You get left behind an ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Check Database for category name

  I am trying to figure out how I can make an if then that will check to see what the name of the category is inside my database. if categoryname = "cat name1" Then something will happen End IF dustinto, According to you question, I suggest you to use the PerformanceCounterCategory class in System.Diagnostics namespace. There is a property called PerformanceCounterCategory.CategoryName Property that gets or sets the name of the performance object that defines this category. The following code example creates a PerformanceCounterCategory with the PerformanceCounterCategory. It prompts the user for the PerformanceCounterCategory and computer names, then sets the CategoryName and MachineName properties from the entered val ...Show All

• Visual Studio problem with new software

  I recently bought 2005 Visual Studio Academic version...I installed and all seems smooth...however I click on for new project CLR console application give it a name and then the software closes...when I reopen there is a saved folder of the name of this project but I cannot open ant .h or cpp file I uninstalled and put back on...is this a bum copy I have 2003 with no problems Thanks open file ...new project...clr ...console application....box xomes up I put in name test 5... click ok and software closes I reopen and click folder and get tab test5.vcproj < xml version = " 1.0 " > < VisualStudioProject ProjectType = " Visual C++ " ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Configuring Elementary Security

  I'm trying to just get a service working from outside a domain and am getting nothing but headaches trying to get it going. Here's my configuration for now: < bindings >    < wsDualHttpBinding >       < binding name = " wsDualHttpBinding " >          < security mode = " Message "/ >    </ wsDualHttpBinding > </ bindings > This works locally, but I get an error on the client saying it couldn't work out the SOAP security. As I understand it, WCF uses Windows credentials by default for wsDualHttpBinding and this would make sense because it works locally, but not on the other computer. To get around this, I tri ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot delete users in SQL 2005?

  Hi, Running multiple SQL 2000 servers and on each can easily go under Enterprise Manager>>ServerXYZ>>Security>>Logins>>Delete and delete user regardless users DB membership etc...now installed SQL 2005 (MS SQL Server Management Studio) and trying to do the same (attached to server running SQL 2000) and I cannot do it. Each time I try it, I am getting: TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ------------------------------ Drop failed for Login 'testdelete'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo) For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=9.00.3033.00&EvtSrc=Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.ExceptionTemplates.FailedOperationExceptionText&EvtID=Dro ...Show All

• .NET Development Unable to retrieve "all attributes" using custom XPathNavigator

  I have run into an interesting problem with my custom XPathNavigator : The query '//@*' (return all attribute nodes) does not seem to walk the entire document tree. For example, if the document element has attributes, it returns them all, but does not return attributes of sub-elements of the document element. If the document element does not have any attributes, it returns the attributes of only the first two sub-elements. However, this query returns the correct results when the default implementation of the XPathNavigator (for example, the one XmlDocument.CreateNavigator() returns)  is used. In order to isolate the problem, I have implemented the simplest XPathNavigator I can think of, and verified that the same pro ...Show All

• Visual C# Get the computer Id

  I want to get computer id that always be uniqe even if windows of that computer have been changed. please tell me how and where I can find something like this. Code sample is helpfull too. I have implemented the similar approach, which operates with hardware ids. It was constructing a string like "Processor1_ID=XXX,Processor2_ID=YYY,...,Primary_HD=ZZZ,...NIC1_MAC=...". Here is the painful experience: Desktops and servers are usually OK. Use combination of CPU ids and primary hard drive id. Laptops are pain in the butt, as people plug their laptops whereever they want and use hotswap hardeware, therefore some customers report expired licenses. MAC addresses are BAD because connecting to VP ...Show All

• SQL Server Using IDTSEvents interface when running a Package

  I am running a package from a C# application. I would like to use the IDTSEvents interface to capture events from the package such as OnPreExecute, OnWarning, OnError, etc. I created a class (PackageEvents) that implements the IDTSEvents interface. I pass a PackageEvents object into the Application.LoadPackage call that creates the package. The package runs successfully as usual, but nothing happens in my PackageEvents class. None of the breakpoints hit (I put one in every function). What do I need to do to get the class that implements IDTSEvents to be called All the properties of the package object seem reasonable at runtime. Here is a code snippet that shows what I am trying to do: // Class that implements the IDTSEvents i ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Wierd Interface issues

  Anyone else having strange interface issues I get things like GameComponents disappearing and later reapearing in the designer, errors that the designer cannot be displayed, etc. I have not been able to reproduce any of these consistantly yet however but they sure are annoying. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Troubles with D3DXSaveTextureToFile

  When i'm trying to save dxt texture to already existing dds file, D3DXSaveTextureToFile function call fails. DX debug runtime says that it cannot create RT with DXT5 format. I'm using June 2005 SDK and switching to newer one is not an option. Any thoughts I'm not generating dxt data. I'm just trying to save already created texture back to already existing dds file. and D3DXSaveTextureToFile call fails when trying to create RT with that dxt format. ...Show All

• .NET Development Thread.Abort()

  I know a lot has been said about this method and I am of the firm belief that calling this method or designing my applications around this method (for clean up work) is just plain old evil. Anyway, I was wondering what would happen if the method were to be called from the worker thread itself, and the not the parent thread So something on the lines of: try { Thread doWork = new Thread(new ThreadStart(ProcessData)); doWork.IsBacground = true; doWork.Start( ); } catch (Exception) { } protected void ProcessData( ) { try { // Do Work } catch {Exception e } finally { try { Thread.CurrentThread.Abort( ) } catch (Exception) { // Do Nothing } } } My intuition tells me that this model is evil, but my mind tells me that there is nothing wrong with t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions No templates available in VB Express New Project dialog box

  My new installation of VB Express (downloaded and installed 10-12-2006) has the following problem: There are no templates in the New Project dialog window, and the following error message appears: "No Visual Studio template infomation found. See the application log in (Win XP) Event Viewer for more details." Event viewer info says to run "Vbexpress /installvstemplates". Tried it - problem not fixed. Event viewer alternatively says to re-install VB Express. Did that too - problem still not fixed. ! There are Project Templates in \.........\common7 \IDE\VBExpress\ProjectTemplates\1033\ They are in the form of .zip files, which I believe is proper. I see others have had a similar problem. Anyone know how to correct ...Show All

• Visual C++ error C2665: 'operator new' : none of the 5 overloads can convert parameter 1 from type 'const char [71]'

  When I try to compile the programe in VC7, I got some errors mensioned below, how to resolve them, suggest me. c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\include\xmemory(34) : error C2665: 'operator new' : none of the 5 overloads can convert parameter 1 from type 'const char [71]' c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\include\new.h(100): could be 'void *operator new(size_t,const std::nothrow_t &) throw()' c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\include\new.h(108): or 'void *operator new(size_t,void *)' while trying to match the argument list '(const char [71], int)' c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\include\xmemory(137) : see reference to function te ...Show All