B M E's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Drawer for form?

  Hullo all, I was looking around with VS2k3 and wondering if there was any way to have a 'drawer' component on a form. Off hand I can't think of any windows programs that have one though there may be some out there, what comes to mind is Apple and OS X. For example, If you were to create a document viewer where the center of the app was a text editor you could click a button and a 'drawer' would pull out of one side of the form that would allow you to choose different files to view. Is this functionality in VS or is it (as of right now) Apple only Thanks Thomas The only programs I can think of that have this feature are OS X programs like iCal.... Would there be a way to create my own component to do somet ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Visual Studio Tools for Office "V3" - InfoPath 2007: InfoPathVSTool_setup.exe cannot install

  I have been trying to install the InfoPath 2007 support for Visual Studio 2005 without much success (InfoPathVSTool_setup.exe). I have the Team Edition of Visual Studio 2005 here are the successful install messages: Event Type: Information Event Source: MsiInstaller Event Category: None Event ID: 11707 Date: 8/18/2006 Time: 11:21:07 AM Description: Product: Microsoft Office Professional 2007 (Beta) -- Installation operation completed successfully. Then I install the CTP for Office 2007: Event Type: Information Event Source: MsiInstaller Event Category: None Event ID: 11707 Date: 8/18/2006 Time: 11:26:48 AM Description: Product: Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System CTP -- Installation completed successfull ...Show All

• Visual Basic Editing connection string at run time

  I have got two connection strings in my application which I am creating in VB.NET 2005, one whose database is installed with my application so i can keep the connection string and other which is already there with the user. I want the connection string of the other database which i am taking from the customer to be installed in the registry which is fine, the string value is stored in the registry from the customer input. Now how do i get that string as the current connection string as systems.settings.connectionstring is read only Is there any ways this can be done because I am working on this project and it needs to be done somehow Easy. You have to add your own user setting. I called mine NewConnection. Check out the followin ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Is it possible to run WPF applications in a system which only contains .NET framework 3.0?

  What are the requirements for running the WPF applications Can we copy the .exe file of the WPF application and will it run in other systems From the list of following what are the requirements for running WPF application Visual Studio 2005 Windows SDK .Net Framework 3.0 I developed a WPF application. Can i copy only the exe file of the WPF application and install in other systems and run the application ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista kbfiltr example in ddk doesn't work?

  I have been using a modified version of the kbfiltr DDK example that I have been using to route data from a HID keyboard MSR up to user level for an OPOS "driver" for some time now on Win2k and XP. It works on 2k and XP but becuase I use IOCTLs it won't run on Vista. As I inderstand, IOCTLs are no longer allowed between user space and kernel space any more Installing it, Vista claims that the driver is not compatible with Vista, I believe this is the reason, but anyway... So I am starting over with the WinSDK/DDK sample "kmdf/kbfiler" This contains an alternate method of user level communication. However, after building the .sys file and the test program, then installing the filter driver on the MSR device, both t ...Show All

• Visual C++ problem in using ::CreateService() API

  hi all, i am trying to run a sevice developed by me under the local service account "NT AUTHORITY\\LocalService" Account....here is how i m using the api char path[30] = "NT AUTHORITY\\LocalService"; SC_HANDLE hService = ::CreateService(handle,servicename.c_str(),servicename.c_str(), SERVICE_ALL_ACCESS,SERVICE_WIN32_OWN_PROCESS,SERVICE_DEMAND_START,SERVICE_ERROR_IGNORE, "C:\\services\\receive_service\\Debug\\receive_service.exe",NULL,NULL,NULL,path,NULL); Now when i install my service,it installs properly but when i start my service, it doesnt start n hangs up. If i change the second last parameter to NULL(meaning running service under local system account) it runs properly....so i guess th ...Show All

• SQL Server How to import data from a dBase file by import and export wizard?

  In SQL Server 2000, the import and export wizard has a lot of datasource provider and I can do this easily. But in 2005 I can't find the dBase provider in the datasource option,so can I import data from a dbf file by using the import and export wizard ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) SQL2LINQ

  Does a tool like this exist Baiscally something to encapsualte all of the complex business rules/logic of the LINQ syntax. Actually, there isn't a tool that shows you the LINQ syntax starting from a SQL statement; sincerely, I can't figure out why you need to programmatically convert SQL into LINQ's query because when they are analyzed by LINQ to SQL, they are transformed back to SQL... Maybe you desire a tool showing you what you have to write in your code to perform a particular query. In this case, at this time, you have to learn LINQ query syntax studying the official documentation, watching webcasts, reading books, and so on. No other chances. Best, Fabio Ferracchiati's LINQ Blog: http://www.ferracchiati.com ...Show All

• Visual Studio Where can I find a list of third party Visual Studio vspackage providers

  I'm trying to see some more example of Visual Studio VSPackages and providers approaches to installation of their product, ideas on wizards etc, is there a central location where providers and their products are listed google hasn't provided very much and msdn doesn't seem to have an obvious link either. Hi, Check this: http://catalog.vsipmembers.com/catalog/ Pablo ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista StateMachine receiving events too fast?

  I have a State Machine workflow. What I am doing is firing a message into the host which then fires off an asynchronous call to a webservice for some data. I do this asynch call to the host in the StateInitializationActivity of a State. I expected that I would immediately go into that State and the response from the host (which is an event that the State captures with an EventDrivenActivity) would be captured by the State and things would continue from there. What is happening however is that the response appears to come back before the transition from the InitializeStateActivity into the State itself. The error I get is: Event "ResponseFromWebServiceCall" on interface type "ManagerFlow.IManager" for instance id & ...Show All

• Visual Studio Using GDB as backend of Visual Studio instead of Microsoft debugger

  I have written an addin for Visual Studio. This addin allows user to use GCC (MinGw) as compiler. This part works well. Now I want to add the capability to debug generated binaries using GDB with Visual Studio as frontend(Actually I'm using Insight but it's not a really well integreted solution as I launch another application out of Visual Studio). I dont know how I can replace the Microsoft debugger by GDB. If anyone has an idea it would be great. Thanks I am interested in seeing such an addin...I normaly just use a makefile project to do this but having an integrated solution would be handy. ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Keyboard Mapping problems

  I am trying to use a Microsoft keyboard with the Microsoft HD simulator, and the Ctrl and Alt keys do not simulate the player correctly. The keyboard I am using is connected via USB. (I am using a Dell computer, with USB connections only) The player, and the code, works fine on a different computer, with a keyboard that has a ps2 connection. I have tried changing the keyboard, doesnt help... For example: when pressing 'Ctrl m' it does not act as the menu button for the player. Please Help! Talia I am using Win XP Pro, the spec for the media center remote specifies that it will work only with WINDOWS XP MEDIA CENTER OPERATING SYSTEM, do you think it will work Th ...Show All

• Visual Basic Newbie to VB.net

  I'm trying to find a replacement for Vb Printform think I may have found it..... this will not compile: could someone walk me through the setup of this I created new project with one form on it Form1 in the code area I put the following:: Public Class Form1 Imports System.Drawing ' ... Private Const SRCCOPY As Integer = &HCC0020 Private Declare Function BitBlt _ Lib "gdi32.dll" ( _ ByVal hdcDest As IntPtr, _ ByVal x As Int32, _ ByVal y As Int32, _ ByVal Width As Int32, _ ByVal Height As Int32, _ ByVal hdcSrc As IntPtr, _ ByVal xSrc As Int32, _ ByVal ySrc As Int32, _ ByVal dwRop As Int32 _ ) As Boolean P ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Communicating a WorkflowAuthorizationException result from a web service call

  Hi I've already posted on this issue before but never got any answer that solved my problem. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=791955&SiteID=1 . Please have a look at this post to get some more background. My solution to getting an exception result back to the client is to allow the workflow to throw exceptions all the way up to the root of the workflow and terminate. The webservice activities will report this as a result of the call. I then, looking at another post, changed one of the SqlPersistenceService stored procedures slightly to not remove the instance from the InstanceState table for this type of termination of the workflow. Effectively throwing the in memory workflow instance away and maintaining ...Show All

• Gadgets Problem with onClick in simple gadget

  I'm trying to do the same thing Daniel Moth did in his great video but can't get the onclick to work. I get the onmouseover to work, but onclick just acts as if it's not there. here is the javascript and html causing me the grief. any ideas Peter Kellner http://peterkellner.net ASP.NET, MVP <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <script type="text/javascript"> function setupgadget() { //machName.innerHTML = System.Environment.machineName; //<span id="gadgetcontent"><span id="machName">Not running in Sidebar!</span> } function toggleFlyout() { //System.Gadget.Flyout.show = true; //Sytem.Shell.execute("notepad"); //System.Sound.beep(); } function ...Show All