Gino Matthew's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic My.Settings overwritten during upgrade installations

  Hello, Is there a way to keep the settings stored in My.Settings from being "reset" during an upgrade installation Every time I put out a new build of any application using My.Settings the settings in My.Settings are reset to whatever they are in the visual studio designer. Thanks, not the answer I was hoping for but at least it answers my question:) Do you think this is a bug or by design It seems like the entire point of My.Settings was persistance, this sorta defeats that purpose. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Low battery notification in CF ?

  Hello, Does anyone know how to test for a low battery or get a low battery notification in the Compact Framework Thanks for any ideas, Tom Tom, I don't believe there's a way specifically in the Compact Framework libraries to test the battery levels. However, Windows Mobile 5 includes some managed APIs that could help you. You'll need to add Microsoft.WindowsMobile.dll and Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Status.dll to your project. The particular properties you'll be interested in are SystemState.PowerBatteryStrength and SystemState.PowerBatteryState. You can do a simple check, something like: if (Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Status.SystemState.PowerBatteryStrength == Mic ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How do I get ActiveSync 4.2?

  Verizon says I need to upgrade to ActiveSync 4.2, but the link to download the English version from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/activesync/activesync42.mspx is broken. Verizon says I need to upgrade to ActiveSync 4.2, but the link to the English version on http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/activesync/activesync42.mspx is broken. ...Show All

• SQL Server Invalid attempt to read when no data is present.

  Hi, I have this error every tine I run the report: Invalid attempt to read when no data is present. The Process I did was: 1) Create store procedure using Dynamic SQL (the where part in the query determines in ASP application according to user choose). 2) Create the fields of the report by running the select part with its parameter only with the name as the Store Procedure ( not Dynamic SQL) 3) Alter the SP back to the Dynamic SQL Store Procedure. I can see the data in the Data TAB when I Execute the Store Procedure for every value that I set its parameter. But the strangest thing is that for the first default value of the parameter the report works perfect. Any Ideas Thank you. AB ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions question

  hey all this isnt a very important quesition but i am qurious, why would i want to use the debug config in vs 6 when i can just use the release wouldnt it be more efficient is there any benifits to using debug insted of release while i am developing the softwhere thanx, jt The debug version is better for development because there are error checks (debug asserts) inside the library, and features such as stack overflow checking are probably disabled in release mode, depending on the default optimizations. ...Show All

• Visual Studio I am not getting a sub-folder called _PublishedWebSites when I run a build

  This is despite the fact that I have several web site projects. Could this be because I use website projects rather than application projects If so, is there a way around it It would make life better if I did get this subdirectory after a build. Here is my build project; < Project DefaultTargets= "DesktopBuild" xmlns= "http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" > < Import Project= "$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v8.0\TeamBuild\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets" / > < ProjectExtensions > < BuildMachine > appdev < /BuildMachine > < /ProjectExtensions > < PropertyGroup > < Te ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Panning with polylines

  I've created an app that creates a polyline covering a large area and then pans around the map by calling map.Pan(1, 1) or something similar. This works well but on Firefox (and sometimes on IE) the polyline is not redrawn. I've got a workround in which I call GetCenter(), offset the result by one pixel and then call SetCenter() which triggers the polyline to redraw but I wondered if there's a better method There seems to have been an map.Update() method in past versions of the API that isn't in any more, is there a similar method in 3.1 Or a simple way of redrawing overlays Thanks, -- Marc Sutton Codev Ltd hey i am also seeing a similiar behaviour , polylines just dont appear on the map...any idea why. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Updating a dataset through bound controls.

  I have an XML based database system and on one particular form I have a customers display that allows editing and adding. The user will always be updating a current row. When the add new button is clicked, a new blank row is added and then the text boxes bind to the blank row. All the code is in place to bind controls, save the new xml, etc. But, when I make a change it is not always instantly updating the dataset. A datagridview is also linked to the same dataset. For example, if in the surname textbox I type "Smith" then there is no change. But as soon as I tab out of it, or click out of it the dataset gets updated. However! Sometimes it does not automatically update when I tab out of it. I have to click in and out of the textb ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE7, OE6 Printing problems with headers

  Having an intermittent problem printing To: From: CC: Subject: Attachments: headers on emails. Usually happens with larger emails or emails with large attachments or emails that have been replied to or forwarded from other people. Have installed Generic/text printer and sent the email to this printer but sometimes the headers are still missing even printing this way. I have if I open the offending email and highlight just one or two words in the text of the email eg Dear John and then print the email using my HP printer (not as text on Generic printer) - the headers then print and so does the selected words. Don't suggest using Outlook as often we only print the first page of emails as we already have the rest of the email on file especial ...Show All

• Smart Device Development CCommandBar: yet another problem

  Hello, I developed MFC dialog-based application with eVC 4.0. Now I'm trying to make it work on MSVS 2005 beta 2. I replaced CCeCommandBar with CCommandBar, but its functionality not the same. Really, I can't understand why should Microsoft replace working class with another one, which has more bugs :) The problem is that after inserting menu bar (InsertMenuBar) previously loaded toolbar gets invisible. If I change the order of these functions' calls (first, InsertMenuBar, then - Loadtoolbar) everything works well. But I need my toolbar to be on the left... so help me please :-) Please check my blog link at the following location. I havedescribed  about 4 possible options here http:// ...Show All

• Visual C# Dots and Commas

  Calling Float.ToString() will generate a string where the decimal part is separated by a comma (on my Swedish comp). I'd like it to be a dot instead, mainly for compatibility reasons (file outputs etc...). Is there some easy way to change this, like some locale setting somewhere I'd prefer not to call String.Replace() every time I call ToString(). Using C#.NET on MSVC2005.NET One of the ToString overloads take a IFormatProvider parameter so you can do something like: System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo format = new System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo(); format.NumberDecimalSeparator = "."; format.NumberGroupSeparator = ","; s = f.ToString(format); In your specif ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Running programs that are outside my own

  the objective is to make a menu for a autorun CD that once clicked on an item runs a particular .exe file separate from my own. the file is very old dos file made from .bas with QB7.1 but i got it to work with the command "System.Diagnostics.Process.Start()" though it doesn't show the PRINT as this: prog inputs: dia#: Mes#: ano# But does't show nor this print for input nor the result print: the screen is black but if you press the keys it goes to next line as if it was working but not showing. Any sugestions Thank you, JDuarte. No the pro doesn't require any special arguments or options in windows i just run the .exe file and it opens a dos window with the prog. but whe ...Show All

• Visual C# Remove picture Box Controls

  Hi all I have windows form, where in picture boxes are dynamically being created, I need to Remove all picture boxes from the form every time user clicks on the button to load new images , how can i acheive this. i tried with the following code , but it didn't worked PictureBox pic; foreach ( Control ctr in frmScreenShot.ActiveForm.Controls) { if (typeof(PictureBox)== ctr.GetType()) { ctr.Dispse(); } i also tried with this code snippet PictureBox pc; if (this.Controls.Contains(System.Windows.Forms.PictureBox )) { this.Controls.Remove(pc) ; } Welcome Each suggestion Thanks You should be careful to modify the collection you are enumer ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Exam 70-300

  Re: MSF 4.0 related exams 70-300 Was this post helpful Who determines if there should be a 70-300 exam for Large systems call it 70-300L and another for MSF Agile. Call it 70-300A. This seems to be a logical progression. Who determines if this could and should be done MS Learning is the team that takes care of certification exams. Exam 70-300 (Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .NET Solution Architectures) does not cover MSF for Agile Software Development, but MSF 3. The new suite of VS 2005 exams does not yet include a replacement/update for 70-300. I agree that there is a logical progression, but I am not sure if it will be economically feasib ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Robot Invaders Contest Winners

  It's time to annouce the winners for the Robot Invaders contest. The contest ran from May 15th to September 15th and in the end 53 Messenger bots were accepted as valid entries in the contest ( per the how to compete guidelines ). Each entry to the contest was judge by three judges separately using the Judging Criteria outlined on the How to Compete page and then the judges scores were averaged. There were a lot of great robot's submitted but here's the winners: Title Prize LiveBot Grand Mother Nature 1st Spleak 2nd Mobile Record bot 2nd Virtual Secretary 2nd Dr Phile Knowledge 2nd Comtec Travel Bot 2nd Search Bunny 3rd ...Show All