ScooterBrown's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ Hotkey For Build Ouput Go To Next Message

  I know this should be simple, but I can't find the hotkey or how to assign a hotkey for "Go To Next Message" in the build output window. The scenario: I press Ctrl-Shift-B to build my solution, I have build errors, and I want to press a key to cycle through these and fix the errors without fixing the error and then going to my mouse and selecting the next one. Excellent! Thanks very much, Viorel! Thats the exact answer I was looking for. Now, how did you figure this out It doesn't show up mousing over the button, and I can't locate it in the menus. So did you press every key till you found it ...Show All

• Gadgets How do we reference Sidebar properly? (IP/Trademark)

  Which one is correct WindowsR Sidebar Windows Vista Sidebar None of the above Good question! We have an article on the User Experience guidelines at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa974179.aspx , and at the very end we make mention of how to refer to gadgets, but not the Sidebar itself. I believe for "Sidebar", if you refer to it as "Sidebar" in your interface (menus, dialogs and gadget itself) that is fine. And if you're referring to it in documentation or a website, you can use "Windows Vista Sidebar" the first time, and "Sidebar" in later references. And as with all posts, but especially this one, this isn't a definitive opinion of Microsoft. Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Basic How can i use the CUMIPMT function from excel inside vb.net?

  I am currently writing a program and need to use the CUMIPMT function from excel inside my program, on a form, but there seems to be no way to add it, and its not included in the financial functions as far as i can see. can i add it somehow or does anyone have the math formular i would hate to do it, but if i have the formular i think i can just write code to do it. thanks CUMIPMT function returns the cumulative interest paid on a loan between start_period and end_period. Syntax CUMIPMT ( rate , nper , pv , start_period , end_period , type ) Rate    is the interest rate. Nper    is the total number of payment periods. Pv    is the pr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Distributing console app - problems with SP1

  Hi all, I've been having a problem distributing a command line tool written using Visual C++ Express and I'd like to raise the issue with the rest of you. VC++ Express, with SP1 applied, embeds the requirement for version "8.0.50727.762" of the CRT into the manifest (and hence embeds it into the executable). I ask users of my tool to download and install the VC++ Runtime from here : http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ linkid=65127&clcid=0x409 However this only installs the runtime version "8.0.50727.42". Normally I would expect such a minor difference in version to be acceptable but the policy installed with the VC++ Runtime only permits these "old" versions to use the instal ...Show All

• SQL Server error:no report server found on the specified machine while setting up reporting services configuraion manager

  Hello, I have installed sql server 2005 along with reporting services... though i am able to design report using business intelligence studio... i am unable to access the report server.... while trying to start the reporting services configuration manager it says no report server found on the specified machine...Invalid Namespace ... the installation is local ... Due to this problem inspite of designing the entire report i am unable to deploy it on the web..since it is asking for a report server... Can somebody please help me on this... Thanks in advance... Nirupa Hello Jarret I do not have the folders that you have mentioned....As you have mentioned will probably need reinstallation ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Availability of console SDKs

  Hello, I know that this question might be a bit off-topic in this forum, but I think this is the best place to get the answer. I've always been wondering, why the SDKs for gaming consoles are only available to large companies which are charged large fees for the SDKs. I mean: Shouldn't it be in the interest of the console publisher to make it possible to develop games for it for as many people as possible, considering that every game increases the popularity of the console So, I'd be thankful if someone could explain this situation to me. Regards Opfer I see. So it's actually quite a nice step of Microsoft to make that available for 99$ per year. If they find a way to distribute the bina ...Show All

• Visual C# ListView Selected Item Move to Another Control

  When I select an item in the list view I'm using the SelectedIndexChanged procedure to run some code. At the end of the code I would like the cursor to be be put in TextBox TB1. When I use TB1.Focus() the system still keeps the items in the ListView Selected to have the focus. If through the code I change the selecteditem everything works. The problem is when the user clicks the item. Thanks for everyones assistance. Hi, According to what you said, it's quite nature. Because you put the code in the SelectedIndexChanged event of the listview control, only when the listview's selected item changed the code can be excuted (the textbox get focus). So, if you click the item, it does not change. That's the p ...Show All

• Smart Device Development System.CF namespce missing

  I'm using .Net Compact Framework 2.0SP1 and VS 2005. VS2005 doesn't recognise any System.CF* namespaces. Any ideas That's because there are no System.CF* namespaces. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Hot keys

  How can i make a "Hot Key" to something... lets say i want in a key press of Acssi #13 will Close application lets say or anything... .....in VB6 i used to do that using the Acssi API .....Finding etch keyboard button code with keycode and thats it.... i know its probablly obsolete way for .NET...any clues how to do it .. Here is a short answer and a long one. The short one: events . The long one: Events are there to deal with that kind of things. It's not just that they are able to do it, they are the way it should be done! What you want to achieve is task of the KeyPress event, which is intended to allow you responding to keystrokes by the user. The first approach ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Image serialization

  Hi! Why WCF runtime cannot serialize Image (Bitmap) class Hi Sergey, Can you share the exception that you are running into It might be possible you need to up some of the quotas. Thanks, Sara ...Show All

• Windows Forms [MSI] DIRCA_CheckFX fails on some PC

  Hi, I built an MSI, using Visual 2005, Framework 2, C#, and a setup project.This MSI install an add-in and a Com server. It works fine on some PC (Xp), but fails on others: the first window contains an error message. The message suggest to restart the installation. Note that I already checked that: * the framwork v2 has been installed * the SYSTEM account has full control over the temp dir and where the .msi file resides, * visual 2005 and the XP machins are English. I have read serveral forums, but the error is no exactly the same: http://www.totalblowhole.com/new-800043-3598.html http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-2180743.php http://www.eggheadcafe.com/ng/microsoft.public.windows.msi/post20389649.asp http:// ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Keys enum, Unicode

  It seems that the keys enum doesnt correspond entirely to unicode, for instance OemTilde casts to 0x00C0 where as the unicode tilde is 0x007E What is the Keys enum based on I was guessing US keyboard layout, in fact, im finding it very confusing! heres another one, my hash key corresponds to Keys.End (int)'#' 0x00000023 (Keys)0x00000023 End   and another for / (int)'/' 0x0000002f (Keys)0x0000002f Help I am trying to write an ingame Console, and its not as easy as just converting Keys to an integer or character After doing some research on this there is a solution (for umanaged DX and MDX) that hooked into the windows message pump and used WM_CHAR to get text ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. D3DERR_NOTAVAILABLE while build of first example in help how to do

  I used to code in pascal, cobol, assembly, basic, etc, but not C. From: Your First Game: Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express in 2D following along and doing the first build, I get the error above. I did not think I was calling the 3d engine only the 2d. I cannot find any help on the error, where to look, etc, except what is in the error window when you cursor over it. I cannot figure out how to copy the error in that popup window to look at it further. I know some dislike nubies, but please help if you know the answer. Its disheartening to type in only 6 lines of code and not be able to debug it! To say the least. Thanks OH OH OH, I figured out how to copy the error: Error 1 Building content threw InvalidOperationExcept ...Show All

• Visual Basic Coerce a byte string to a structure?

  I have a file that contains a series of packets. I've created a set of structures that map the elements of the packets. My question... Is there a technique in VB to map the string of bytes read from the file to the structures In 'C' this would be simple. In VB.NET I don't know. Suggestions are appreciated. Thanks, Johnny Johnny,  there is something in the Interopservices that you may be able to use. I'm not sure what the overhead will be compared to just bitconverting the values out. Also, having arrays in your structure will be a problem / unknown length Anyways, this technique copies your managed bytes back to unmanaged memory and marshals them back into a managed structure. That goes something like this: Imports ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista looking for web editor for business processes for WWF

  Currently you can visually model workflows by using Visual Studio or by implementing graphic editor to WinForms apps. Does anyone know about Microsoft's plans on web editor Hi, I started to know about WF when I saw your application at http://www.masteringbiztalk.com/atlasworkflowdesigner I have exactly similar requirement. I have to build the workflow at run-time using ASP.NET (It is going to be a web app). My objective is that I need to have similar UI. 1) My activities are based on previous activities.....I mean activity B cannot be added unless activity A is added. 2) I need to have an execute button which will do some processing based on the workflow generated using drag an ...Show All