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• Software Development for Windows Vista Help: Managed Code Sample of Vista Preview Handler

  Does anyone know where I could find an example of implementing IPreviewHandler, et. al in managed code Would prefer c# I know there are probably issues in doing this in managed code...but still must be possible with some CLR checking. Thanks... Hi, Can i get the source code for zip Preview Handler in the above context ( source code for xaml is available but zip is not ) also can somebody tell me how MAPI protocol handler (Windows Search) is implementing preview. I have a protocol handler of my own and i want to implement a preview for it in Vista. Thanks Akshay ...Show All

• .NET Development web.config issues

  I hope this is the right forumn but i am tryin to get my web.config file to work with the <appSettings> i am using VS Enterprise Arch 2003 and i am trying to connect to my local SQL 2000 db but i get this error...When i take away the <appSettings> it works fine...just when i add the <appSetting> it gives me that error "Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging on the web server. Server side-error occurred on sending debug HTTP request. Make sure the server is operating correctly. Verify there are no syntax errors in web.config by doing a Debug.Start Without Debugging. You may also want to refer to the ASP.NET and ATL Server debugging topic in the online documentation."   now when i ...Show All

• Visual C++ deleting a class

  In the main menu we have a option, Project- add a class. Now how can we delete a class that we have add Thanks for your time in advance Ricardo 8a ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums resize/padding pushpin detail

  Is it possible to resize the the pushpin detail window I know you can add a control and make it whatever size you want but I would like to keep the arrow VE produces for the window. Also, is there any way to reduce the padding in the detail window Seems like the way it is now is that there is alot of wasted space that is not necessary if you don't have alot of info in the window. Thanks, Jason Jason, I had the exact same problem, well i needed more width. I put up an article that shows the html rendered by VE and the default css. You would simply overwrite all the padding styles and reduce the overall width Have a look at: http://www.soulsolutions.com.au/Articles/VirtualEarthPopupStyles/tabid/79/Default ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to get the overall desktop rect on a dual-monitor system, GetDesktopWindow()?

  Good day, I know the function GetDesktopWindow() can return the window handler of current desktop. But if I am working on a dual-monitor system, am I able to get the overall desktop area Or, am I able to get the other desktop window position Thanks very much. -Peng I opened up Visual Studio to try this and I looked in the AllScreens class, but I didn't find anything useful like in the PrimaryScreen class. There were two functions in the class called GetLowerBounds() and GetUpperBounds(). I don't know how that would help you though. :/ ...Show All

• Visual C# Q: image processing

  Hello everybody. I have a small question concerning image processing in c#. Straight to the point: Let's say I have a picture box with size 640x480...After that I load an image file in it(same size)... What I want to do is to "slice" the image into regions. Let's say 50 pieces along the width(this 50 is a user input parameter). I know that the height of each small region is determined by the ration of width to height...After "slicing" the image into small regions I want to be able to get the average color value of each region(average for the red, green and blue), and to display them somewhere(let's say listbox).... Can you guys help me achieve this....any help would be greatly appreciated! PS: If there is so ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can anyone tell me what logic can i apply in the following situation? (Parsing)

  In file there is a lots of row like this..... "REM16703","PSO","AR","xxxxxxxxx","1417510002","304851","Buy","2000",".111","314","00232223" "REM16703","PTC","462","xxxxxxxxx","1415080002","304451","Buy","10000",".0158","42.7","00231826" "REM16704","MCB","844","xxxxxxxxx","1439270002","306066","Sell","600",".0703","192.25","00233332" "REM16704","MCB","844","xxxxxxxxx","1 ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Is it possible to send a sms or call to mobile phone itself?

  i mean a virtual call that maybe seems really comes from another person Possible with emulator. See here ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA with other languages

  Hello, my name is Brian i am an Indie developer looking into the XNA. My question is, will XNA ever be able to be used with VB.net and will microsoft allow it as a language to be used whilst creating Xbox 360 and Windows games than you. This is the site I ended up using the most. Anytime that site didn't have what I was looking for, typically I could find it pretty quick just Googling for it. Hope that helps and like I said. Once you know a .NET language like VB, it's not too hard picking up another one like C#, I'm sure you'll be up and running working on an XNA game in C# in no time at all...although when you start adding curly braces to your VB code you might feel a little silly... ...Show All

• .NET Development escaping special characters during XSLT conversion

  Hi, We're using a XSLT file to convert a XML into RSS complaint XML. The input XML contains an element with HtmlEncoded value like "#&174; " for characters like R or . We want to assign the decoded value to the title element of the RSS feed. The problem is that, we need to display the title without any Htmlencoded characters. Can anyone give us some examples or pointers on how to achieve HtmlDecode functionality in XSLT language The code snippet of the XSLT file which we are using is as shown below: <title> <xsl:value-of select="F[@N='1']"/> </title> Here we are trying to extract the value of the element with name F & attribute N & attribute value 1. The code snippet of the inp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Problems creating the install package

  Hi, i've managed to create the add-in that i want and i can test it on my development machine and it works fine and integrates with other projects well and all is good with the world on that front. however, when i try to build the setup project that visual studio creates for me the compiler tells me that the build has failed and gives me no errors descriptions for some reason. just says failed and gives no reasons! so i had no idea in which direction to look about solving the problem and i've searched the net up and down trying to find something but i just can't get it. i'm sure i'm doing something silly but i can't for the life of me see it. i saw an article about the whole trust and security thing and i've implemented that into my ...Show All

• SQL Server Checkpoint restart

  I have a package that uses checkpoint restart. It is resposible for truncatings many sets of tables and then loading them. There are several ExecuteSQL tasks to truncate the tables and several corresponding data flows to accomplish the loads. If a load fails I want the corresponding truncate task to be part of the restart otherwise duplicate data may be loaded. Normally, SSIS will start at the failed task. I read something about containers that led me to think that if I put the truncate & matching load pair in a sequence container that the container would be the restart point, but either I read it wrong or it's not working that way. Anybody know how to accomplish what I want to do Gordon, ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WCF (June CTP) TransportWithMessageCredential IIS Hosting Mystery

  Situation: System A = Dev box Created simple WCF Service with custom Service behaviour (no external dependency). Host service within IIS supporting SSL. Create simple Console client passing in UserName credentials. Result: All works like a charm. System B = Test box: Exact same Server 2003 setup as Dev Box but only running WCF Runtime (June CTP) (i.e. no SDK, VS2k5, etc.) Host service within IIS supporting SSL. Result: No joy! Here are the scenarios:* DevBox.Client -> DevBox.Service (OK) DevBox.Client -> TestBox.Service (Error) TestBox.Client -> TestBox.Service (Error) TestBox.Client -> DevBox.Service (OK) *In each scenario the endpoint addresses were adjusted within the respective config files. Additional bits: ...Show All

• SQL Server Help Creating Dynamic Reports

  I can create static report with Report Server, but wanted if anyone can help me create a report that is dynamic and regenerates with new data as it comes in. Thanks so much! Jvinsky, Maybe I missing something in what your asking, but adding a dataset to your report, add those fields on the report will get you a dynamic report as "your data changes". If you add a dataset which returns customers, you will see all of your customer, if customers are added to the table and if you refresh your report then you will see those "new" customers. I hope this is what you meant by "dynamic". Ham ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) XmlDataProvider - Recommend when using large files

  Hello I really enjoy the binding features in WPF for the xmldataprovider, really useful. My only problem is further down the road there is no support in my mind for setting the XmlDataProvider with an XmlReader only an in-memory XmlDocument. After downloading the XPathReader from MSDN should there not by a XPathReader in V3 of the Framwork and an XmlDataProvider that streams data I can see my avalon app eating memory in occasions. What do you recommend. kind regards, Andrew Yes this is the approch I have taken and think is the only best alternative. I set my DataContext equal to an 'ObservableCollection<DataRowProxy>' with each DataRowProxy being a JIT read from an XmlReader. It's not perfect as a thousand ...Show All