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• Visual Basic It takes so long to verify before installing a VB published program!

  How to solve this problem I wrote a program in VB 2005 Express. When installing it in another computer, it first shows something like " verify ..." and this takes about 5 mins. The program itself is only about 1M. Shouldn't it be much faster to install Also, publish function works only if prerequisite is set be be downloaded from web. How can I make it independant of web Thanks for reading! Referring to the "Verify..." situation, it could be the AV virus kicking in and causing it to slow down, however generally, regardless of the size of the application, generally the installer may take some time to verify itself, other required resource, packages etc.... if it is actually taking a while (a g ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Newbie question - Methods not available

  Hi folks, Forgive me if this is a real dumb question... I'm a newbie to MS Workflow Foundation, and have only today download the Visual Studio 2005 extensions. I am working through a book I've bought on the subject "Presenting Windows Workflow Foundation - Beta Edition", and have fallen more or less at the first hurdle. One of the very first example contains the following code: ====================================== Shared Sub Main() Dim workflowRuntime As New WorkflowRuntime() workflowRuntime.StartRuntime() AddHandler workflowRuntime.WorkflowCompleted, AddressOf OnWorkflowCompleted Dim type As System.Type = GetType (Workflow1) Dim parameters As Dictionary( Of String , ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Cross-thread operation not valid

    Hi, I am have a chatting application. I try to write the received messages to a text box but I got the following error: "Cross-thread operation not valid: Control 'textBox4' accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on." How can I solve that Thanks in advance. This issue is much more complex than those who just say test "invoke required" and then use " control .invoke()'. There is, as far as I can find, nothing in these forums that treats the subject comprehensively. As Kartit just pointed out, if you're not in the control's thread, finding out whether 'invoke required' is set is a long drawn-out process (as far as I can figure out), where you have to ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Windows Vista cannot multi-select files in Windows Explorer.

  Hi, I dont know if this is a right place for about my question My Windows Vista CANNOT multi-select the files in Windows Explorer, I try to Shift-Click, Ctrl-Click, even mouse-select, NO WORK AT ALL !! just one file can be selected in one time. my vista edition is utimate and build# 6000 the behavior is okay in other way, like winzip. and I switch to other accounts in the same vista machine, it still okay. any idea please help, and thanks in advance. I deleted these keys a while back and it worked. Now it has reverted back to not working, and I tried deleting them again but to no avail. I also tried the reset and that doesn't work either. Any other idea's aiside from downgrading to XP ughhhh!!!! ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL2005 SP2 Dec CTP Sharepoint AddIn install problem

  Hi, I've installed the Dec CTP of SP2 on a Windows Server 2003 SP1 virtual machine. Sharepoint and SQL2005 are running on the same machine. It currently has 1GbRAM allocated. I configured the Report Server to use a Sharepoint integrated report server database. (Missed this first time round). Then I installed the SharepointRS.msi. I see no sign of the Reporting Services section in Central Administration, Application Management, and in Central Administration>Site Settings>SiteFeatures, I see no sign of Reporting Services either. Below is the log file from SharepointRS.msi /l* Any help much appreciated. Thanks Martin === Logging started: 22/01/2007 14:54:20 === Action 14:54:20: INSTALL. Action start 14:54: ...Show All

• SQL Server Count Item function

  Hi, I need to count the number of rows in my Item table. The following statement gives me the number i.e. 200. Select Count(*) As Counter From Item Group By Id How can I number each individual row so that the row will have a number next to it i.e. Select Count(*) As Counter, [Count Statement] as Number of the Row From Item Group By Id Thanks I am not sure, I get the following error. Server: Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1 'Row_NUMBER' is not a recognized function name. Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 9 Line 9: Incorrect syntax near 'b'. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Using TabControl

  Hello, I want to use a TabControl in a different way. There are 7 tabpages in a TabControl and 2 buttons on a form. I want to ignore mouse clicking on the tabpages, so you can not change tabpages using mouse. But click buttons, it will change the tabpages one by one. How can it be done Thanks in advance. First add a bool to your form class, call it something like cancelTabSelect, and set it to true by default. Then add a Deselecting event to the tab-control: private void tabControl1_Deselecting(object sender, TabControlCancelEventArgs e) { e.Cancel = cancelTabSelect; } So by default the tab won't change. Then in the button event you wish to use to switch tabs, do something ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Add users from a trusted NT domain

  Hi, We have installed TFS on a single server that is a member of an active directory domain (Win2k3). This AD domain has a two-way trust relashionship with a NT domain. The problem is that we can't add users from the NT domain to the "Team Foundation Administrators" group (or to any other TFS group). Do we have to mirror the TFSService account on the NT domain Other solutions Thanks. Unfortunately, TFS doesn't support NT domains, which I believe is the problem here. If the Win2k3 domain happens to have a 2-way trust relationship with another Win2k3 domain, you should be able to verify that is the issue. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms253081.aspx ...Show All

• Windows Forms progressbar while dataset is loading

  I use a dataset to load around 1000 records into a DGV. How can I show a progressbar while a dataset is being loaded Check out the backgroundWorker object. Use it to load the dataset in a separate thread. It has events that can pass back info to the GUI thread that you use to update your progress bar. Pretty easy to use. ...Show All

• Visual C# Converting a string to a datetime

  Here is what I'm trying to do: ----------------------------------------------------- string strTime = "20060801" ; DateTime dt = Convert .ToDateTime(strTime); ----------------------------------------------------- This of course gives me the following error: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime. What is the best way to take a custom string like that mentioned above and convert it a datetime so I can use c#'s built in datetime functionality try using tryParse to see if it can be parsed into Datetime:   string strTime = "20060801"; DateTime result; if (DateTime.TryParse(strTime, result)) {    //we have our result stored in result varia ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE7 on Windows Vista Business Edition

  Hi all, I have bin experiencing some problems with IE7 on Win Vista Business Edition. I seems like web pages that contain flash animations are not displayed properly. Here are the images of the MS Home page: http://unclezen.com/Documents/ie_maximized_window.gif http://unclezen.com/Documents/ie_maximized_window_w.gif Interestingly enough this is how the same page looks when the same window is restored: http://unclezen.com/Documents/ie_restored_window.gif http://unclezen.com/Documents/ie_restored_window_w.gif Two more examples: http://unclezen.com/Documents/ie_maximized_dell_home_page.gif http://unclezen.com/Documents/ie_restored_dell_home_page.gif As well, any other action like moving the mouse over an link will c ...Show All

• .NET Development I'm Dying Here! ;o): The proxy settings on this computer are not configured correctly for Web discovery

  I'm having this issue on WinXP box that is stand alone and is not connected to a network of any type. The web service i am tyring to consume is not .NET however it is running on the local machine. I am able to access the wsdl directly through IE but when i try to add it as a web reference i get this error: "The proxy settings on this computer are not configured correctly for web discovery. Click the Help button for more information." another thing to note is if i do hook the computer up to the interent and try to access an external web service like https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/v2/CampaignService wsdl it works fine. Is it possible that i'd only have an issue when accessing a local web service I've tried all the settings possible ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA talk in College

  Hi, This post is mostly directed at Microsoft people, but feel free to respond anyway. I'm going to give a talk about game-development next week at our local college for the second time this year. This time I would like to go a little more indepth in XNA and it's possibilities. My question is, is it possible to get some nice XNA material from Microsoft for this Sheets, movies, demos, etc. I know there are some pretty nice sheets with the for example the layout of XNA, as I've seen them at the GDC in Leipzig last year. Thanks in advance! Maurice Sibrandi YouTube, the XNA Team blog (some nice graphics showing XNA functionality and object structure), the starter kits (Space Wars). There you go ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Balloon dialog boxes like MS Office.

  Hi, Do we have facility to create Balloon message box like Microsoft office on Desktop PCs If not, can we implement it in any other ways I am using C#. Thanks, mv ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development HDDVD vs Blu-ray

  All I have to say is go HDDVD. Microsoft you made the right choice. Please if anyone else has something to say about the battle of the High Definition era please explaine. Well i think of things are already said one of the x BD vs. HDDVD articels you can find in almost every Home Cinema, Video, PC, ... newspaper at the moment ;) The only thing i would like to add: Please don't only look at the capacity (like most of the arcticels are doing it), or what features are mandatory on which format. Take also a short look at the technologies behind and there the battle is iHD vs. BD-J. You don't need to go in detail, I'm sure you already have a winner after comparing the basic-concepts and it's success in th ...Show All