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• Visual FoxPro Grids are from Venus, cursors are from Mars (Help!)

  Hey guys, long time,<br><br>I've been recently working on grids with cursors, and doing cursor transfer stuff. After some point in time during a function, one of the product IDs changes itself. I have figured out how it happens, but not why it happens. Below I will post the original code: set exact on SCAN     WITH thisform.pftransact.pInvoices.grdInvoice         .column1.text1.value = crsItems.barCode         .column2.text1.value = crsItems.prodName         .column3.text1.value = crsItems.quantity     endwith     SELECT crsTransaction     UPDATE crsTransaction SET crsTransaction. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Setting a default application in pocket PC

  Hi, We have developed an application in C# .Net Compact Framework using .NET Visual Studio 2003 and have it running on the Pocket PC(HP iPaq 5555) as well. I have 2 requirements : 1)I need to make this application the default application that is launched when pocket pc starts up 2)Need to disable all other applications / other windows programs when this application is running. Any ideas on how to do the same Thanks Smitha Hi there, You can create shortcuts in the startup folder by modifying the PPC or WCE .inf file in \obj\Debug\ scroll to the end of the file and add the following [AddlShortcut] "Pallas Foods",0,PallasFoods.exe Go to the [DefaultInstall] and modify the following CESh ...Show All

• Visual Basic vb build

  hello! i am making 2 vb projects. i compile (build) the first project and everything goes right. it even created folder on program file's shortcut. now when i compile (build) my 2nd project, it also uses the same program file folder name . where can i change this thanks Ah, I understand now. The "folder" used for the shortcut in the All Programs menu is taken from the publisher name assigned to the project (if any). You can get to this value by right-clicking on the project and choosing "Project Properties." When the property pages show up, click on the "Publish" tab. On the resulting page, click the "Options..." button. You should see a field called "Pub ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Sprite is not transparent

  Ok I finally got the game to work but I have a new problem...my texture which I made transparent in DirectX, doesn't have the transparent background when I run it. Is this due to my graphics card & me adding that line of code to make the program work Sorry I can't remember the exact line but it's been floating around the forums, I think we all know what it is. I've read that bmp files created in Paint with magenta backgrounds(255r, 255g, 0b) are automatically transparent as magenta is ignored by the renderer. I haven't tested that yet. I've used very simple single color images so far so it has been easy to create the image, then create a mask image by reversing the colors and combining the two with ...Show All

• Visual C# Getting shortcut properties

  Is it possible to get the values of properties from a shortcut that launched an application I've created a shortcut for an application and after right clicking on it and selecting "properties" I can see there are several items in the "shortcut" tab. What I'd like to be able to do is get the value of "Run:" in the application, so I could get it to start either normally or minimised. Is it possible to read these values Thanks, Stu not sure I quite follow. You would need to implement the IWSH interface to read desktop shortcuts.... if you are trying to pass arguments into your application, then this would be better than to read the shortcut and checking to see what the shor ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Source Control for XNA Projects

  Previously, when we were using MDX 1.1 with C# we were able to use VS2k5 with a SourceSafe server on a machine running Windows Server 2k3. To my understanding, VC# Express does not integrate SourceSafe into the IDE like VS2k5 does. If that is incorrect please let me know. What options for version control do we have using VC# Express Thank you. You may also want to check out perforce. http://www.perforce.com they give you a free 2 user license that is their full blown product. It's fast, reliable and MS uses it internally . ...Show All

• Visual Basic Type 'tCtl' is not defined.

  Group, please review the following code and help with type 'ctl' not defined. I'm not sure what to do... when i view the local, this shows as: - tCtl {Name = "Label" FullName = "System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label"} System.Type For Each ctl As Control In frm.Controls On Error GoTo WCTL_Err If TypeName(ctl) = "LiteralControl" Then GoTo Skip_Ctl Dim tCtl As Type = ctl.GetType Dim xCtl = CType (ctl, tCtl) '<-- this line keeps showing the tCtl as "Type 'tCtl' is not defined." WCTL_Err: Select Case Err.Number Case Is <> 0 Err.Clear() End Select Skip_Ctl: Next Please help. ...Show All

• .NET Development How to call a aspx page from a exe file

  Hi, Here is my problem.I have an application in which i enter data into database using one asp page.After the whole data is entered i want to start a exe file which executes some code and that data should be entered into the database and into a aspx page and i want that page to be displayed as soon as the exe file finishes executing the code. Can anyone help me out by telling how can we call a aspx page from a exe file. Thanks. You can call an aspx page using System.Net.HttpWebRequest class from .NET. Search for articles about screen scraping, this should get you pretty close for example: http://www.dotnetjohn.com/articles.aspx articleid=93 Might be easier to just create an asp.net web s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Unable to start debugging on the web server.

  I have been working with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express in file mod and have had no problems. I created a site in IIS which is running and working for aps code. I have asp.net 2.0 installed on my system and appears to be set up for the new site. When I try to run a file from VWD I get the following error message. Unable to start debugging on the web server. Unable to connect to the web server. Verify that the web server is running and that incoming Http requests are not blocked by a firewall.   Even if I turn off by firewall I get the same message.   Can anyone help     Hi! Thanks for asking! I'm a member of the ASP.NET team, and was just popping over here to see what was going on. ...Show All

• SQL Server Add Titles to columns in a matrix report

  I have a matrix report and it doesn't add titles to the different groupings. And when you try and add a text box it spans across all grouping columns. How do you add titles to these columns Cheers Damien I know im a little late on this. But i was working with this problem today, and i put a rectangle in the top part of the table, where its empty, and then put textboxes aligned with the groupings, and it looks just like the headings for the details. Hope this helps you as well. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Components

  How do adding components within Visual Basic 2005 Express edition works I cant find a components menu anywhere. actually, i am not trying to add it to my form, I am trying to add it to my toolbox so I can then add it to my form. I need the image componenent so that I can use it for my database type program i am trying to write. Is there a place to go to get compenents we need at msdn ...Show All

• .NET Development how many parameters could oledbcommand has ?

  I've found that for using .net framework 1.1(sp2), with oledbcommand, I can't add more than 720 parameters. Is there any offical document for the limitation of parameters count of oledbcommand in .net framework 1.1 / 2.0 Or how about other command class such sqlcommand, oraclecommand etc Hello There is no limitation on Parameters to a command object in .NET Framework 1.x and 2.0, I have no documentational information but I have checked the code of Both System.Data dlls and found nothing to limitize the number of Parameteres . Thank You ...Show All

• Visual C# Group by time period which spans two dates!!! HELP

  Lets see if some of you RS Gurus can help me on this. I have a start_time column that returns the date and time. I have converted these out to return the date for one column and the time (24 hours) in another column. I have a report that I need to group by a 24 hour period that starts at 20:00(8pm) and should end again 24 hours later (20:00) 8pm. This should be my time period for each day. The problem is that when I group for each day it is returning the results for the day on a default 00:00 to 00:00 time period. I need to group for each day but I need that days time to be from 8pm to the following 8 pm. If someone could clue me in on this I would be forever greatful. I don't know how to get past the default times for the date groupin ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies WDS INDEXING & NOTIFICATION TASKBAR - DISAPPEARANCE OF ICON

  After having run some clean up software, the WDS icon has dissappeared from the notifcation task bar (right hand side). This means that when the indexing function begins, I do not have the option of suspending it if there is another more important task and as this tends to happen every time I boot up, it is getting very annoying and slowing my system down at a time when I least want it. I also rarely use the search option. After searching the settings and on line, I can't find any reference on how to re-install it. Please help. This was in your startup group in the program files on the start menu. You can re-add it yourself: "C:\Program Files\Windows Desktop Search\WindowsSearch.exe"  /st ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problems Installing VB6 in Vista RTM

  Hi, I'm trying to install VB6 on a clean installation of Vista RTM. After installing it, when it starts loading it shows a message "Component mscomctl.ocx not correctly registered...." I've tried installing the SP6 over it and it still doesn't work. I've tried both as a normal User and right-clicking on the setup icon and choosing "Run as Admin" but it still shows the same message. Thank you so much for your help ...Show All