Mystagogue's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Failed to update customization from the specified deployment manifest.

  I'm trying this again. I've successfully created an Excel App-Level addin that supports automatic updating (details below).  The issue is that I want to ensure that the addin loads from the local copy when the remote copy is unavailable. My app.dll.manifest file is as follows:   <assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" xmlns:asmv2="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2" manifestVersion="1.0"> <assemblyIdentity name="PriceTools.dll" version="1.0.0.18" /> <asmv2:entryPoint name="Startup" dependencyName="dependency0"> <asmv2:clrClassInvocation class="ClassName.AppName" /> </asmv2:entryPoint> <asmv2:dependency asmv2:name="dependency0"> <asmv2:dependentAssemb ...Show All

• Visual Basic Topmost problem when used in a service

  Got an odd problem. 9 months ago I wrote a windows service that displayed a message to staff. The service was set to interact with desktop so that the window would display when required. The Topmost property is set to true Now, with no change to the code and after many months of this working perfectly the window now does not display on top af all other windows on ALL work PC's. But on my development PC which is not part of the work network it still works perfectly. I use VB.net 2005. Hi Martyn775, I found this thread looking for a solution to the same problem - only my application resides in the system tray. I did confirm that it works fine under IE6, but not IE7, by testing in VirtualPC. I ...Show All

• Community Chat How to reteieve "My document" after re-install WindowsXP?

  Dear All, I re-installed Windows XP. Please advise how I can open files stored on "My documents" of previous WindowsXP of user account "VL". When I open "C:Documents and Setting\VL\My documents", message "Access denied" is displayed. I still remember the password of this user account. Thanks at advence. VinLui this would be a good place to start:   http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support&lang=en&cr=US     The MSDN forums are oriented toward development, not desktop support. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Multiple DataBindings to Children Elements

  Using the below XAML as an example how can i make it so that when one of the labels in the stacker is clicked that my first textblock in the grid is data bound to text of the inner textblock of the label that was clicked <Grid> <TextBlock> *This is where data should be bound* </TextBlock> </Grid> <StackPanel Label.MouseUp="LabelClickHandler"> <Label Name="Label1"> <DockPanel> <Image Source="Resources\lbl1img.png" /> <TextBlock>Label 1</TextBlock> </DockPanel> </Label> <Label Name="Label2"> <DockPanel> <Image Source="Resources\lbl2img.png" /> &l ...Show All

• Visual Basic My applcations always use about 15 MB of the memory ????!!!!

  Hello, Every time I develop an application I face a real problem that my appliction is slow to open and it uses alot of megabytes from the memory. I tried an empty application and it used about 15 MB !!! I think 15mb is LOT for a 'HelloWorld' app!!! I've been monitoring Memusage on a sytem with a 3rd party (& leaky) API, and wasn't happy to find a app doing essentially nothing, but chewing up 20mb of memory doing that! When the .NET framework is loaded for 1 app, do other apps 'share' it or load thier own If the latter, and you have 10 apps running on one machine, that's a lot of memory is use for not much processing ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Unable to Update db in Visual Web Express

  When using Visual Web Express 2005 I am able to insert/create new entries in the database but when I edit the update command dose not change the data and there is know apparent error. I have seen similar issues with Visual Basic Express 2005 but the solutions there do not seem to apply to Visual Web Express. Can any one shed some light on this Have you tried asking the question in the ASP.NET forums as this is the location for Visual Web Developer questions. forums.asp.net Hope that points you in the right direction. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Where is the "Make Game" button?

  i've looked all over for it, but it doesn't seem to be there. Is that because this is a beta i know for sure that the "Make Game Go on XBox 360" button won't be there until the full version hits at Christmas, because i have read the FAQ. But i'm surprised that the XNA team would not offer even a tiny, hard-to-read "Make Game" button, maybe tucked into the corner somewhere, so that with a lot of trial and error and reading the manual, you could eventually find it and make a game. Sheesh. - MrSock I'm still downloading, but did you try to create a new project (file->new project) I'm just taking a wild guess, but there's probably a template there. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista managed card backed by a locked self-issued card

  What would happen if I used a managed card backed by a self-issued card, where the self-issued card was locked Would CardSpace prompt me to enter the locked card's PIN Also, what is the use case for managed cards backed by self-issued cards What sort of Identifying Party would issue such a card It seems self-defeating to issue a managed card that requires authentication, and to back it up with another card that requires no authentication at all. yes, you will get prompted for the pin on the self-issued card. A managed card that is backed by a non-pin protected self-issued card still provides a prett strong authentication credential, barring of course somebody with physical access to your machine. I ...Show All

• Smart Device Development mobile application problem

  Hi. I got problem with mobile application. Every time I try to access the web using: request = ( HttpWebRequest ) WebRequest .Create(requestUri); response = ( HttpWebResponse )request.GetResponse(); I get the message: FileNotFoundException From the GetResponse() command. If I use the same code to produce regular windows program everything works fine. Do you have any idea what cause that I wrote a simple project with the problem. If you need it to help let me know and I'll e-mail it to you. I didn't find any way to attach it here... :-( Best regards, Amit. B.T.W. Some thecnical information: I'm develpoing with Professional Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 (Version 8.0.50727.42 (RTM. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to play wav through phone line?!

  I try to make a answering machin for pocket pc 2003. So I need to play wav through line when incomming call happend. How should I play wave files through lines ! Aactually playing the wav file on Telephone line is not a problem, There are just two things that are needed for this purpose. 1. Your modem should be a voice modem and should have media capabilites. 2.The wav file should be a PCM File(Pulse coded modulation File.). Windows provide you the wavin and waveout API for recording and playing the PCM files. I have developed the small component for playing and recording the wav file from telephone. More detailed information and component you can visit at ...Show All

• Visual C# Answer What is the idea behind this program?

  Hello everybody. I would like to make a small program for my university I am in. Just a little bit of history. Very often I see people that have not logged out of their accounts. A bad person can do a lot of damage if you have left your accound logged. What I want to do is to write a program to monitor the user's activity. Let's say he/she can define a time interval. If there is no activity during this period, the prograt should log off the user automatically. That's it. So could you guys explain to me the general idea behind this program(programmer's point). How can I monitor the user's activity and stuff like that. Any help would be greatly appreciated. With all the respect, chire This ...Show All

• SQL Server dynamic change of graphs type

  We have a requirement where we show a particular simple graph in type columns. we wanted to give the user a parameter like Type: which has some or different charts in it. i would like to give a user a feature of dynamically changing the chart type. hope you understand me. let me know which is the property i need to assign the parametere value and where i should write that there is no such property available. For this you need to writhe the function and make it DLL and refer in your report or u can write the code in code window and refer that in your report ...Show All

• .NET Development system.net.mail problems

  Hi everyone, I've trying to use the system.net.mail namespace to send emails with the follwing code: Private Sub Envio_Correo( ByVal ruta As String ) Dim correo As New MailMessage correo.From = New MailAddress( "b98123839@usmp.edu.pe" ) correo.To.Add( "amonasiq@usmp.edu.pe" ) correo.Subject = "Archivo de Confirmacion de matricula" correo.Body = "Se adjunto archivo de confirmacion de matricula de su respectiva facultad" correo.IsBodyHtml = False 'correo.Attachments.Add(New Attachment(ruta)) correo.Priority = MailPriority.Normal 'Crando la instancia del SMTP cliente Dim smtp As New SmtpClient smtp.Host = "mail.usmp.edu.pe" ...Show All

• SQL Server Group age by a parameter and find out the value corresponding to that.

  Hi guys... My goal is to change the given stored procedure so that I can find out the different age gorup according to users parameter and find out sumof these values for that group: s.TVmins, s.Notional$, COUNT(*) AS Qty, SUM(s.TVmins) AS TVMinsAmt, SUM(s.Notional$) AS NotionalAmt For that I am planning to put another parameter @count for the group interval and I need to group accordingly. So my answer should look like: if the user give the @count value as 10: the result should: age group TVMins Notional 1-9 1560 125632( the sum of that particluar group) 10-19 -- -- --- 91-100 -- --- I have a field DOB( Date of birth) , I have to extract age from that field first and then g ...Show All

• SQL Server Build datbase from xsd/xml ??

  Hello all. I have an .xsd file and a .xml file that goes with it. Are there any tools available that will build a database structure in SQL Server from either of these two files I can't see the .xml file being of much use for building the structure, but how about the .xsd file ...Show All