Shady9399's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Time Delay using C# and VSTO

  Hello, I am writing a program using C# and Excel that sends a DDE request and then recieves the result and uses it in my code. The problem I am experiencing is that my code is going too fast that the DDE has not had time to return the result. Are there any built in methods that I could use to create a time delay in my code I've used Thread.Sleep but that freeezes the whole application and doesnt allow the DDE request to run. Thanks ds Wow DDE--now there's a blast from the past!   Your question is a bit suspicious.  Excel's Application.DdeRequest method should performs synchronously so you shouldn't need to do any waiting to make it work properly.  Dde is a message based protocol.  The way ...Show All

• Smart Device Development .Net Compact Framework in O2 Xda Stealth phone

  I developed a simple windows mobile 5.0 application using VS 2005. But after I deployed it into an O2 Xda Stealth phone, which supports windows mobile 5.0 and just released this year, it said "the application requires a newer version of the .Net Compact Framework than the version installed on this device". Does anyone know how to deal with this problem Any help would be appreciated. You have to install NETCF V2 on to it. Make sure you have NETCF V2 SP1. ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development mht files not being opened (IE 7.0.5700.6)

  IE is allowing me to save pages with 'mht' extension but does not open then up for view This is a serious problem for me because now I cannot access pages I saved on my hard drive and will have to revisit them. Try this out. Go to - Start > Settings > Control Panel > Folder Options > File Types - Click on 'XLS' (Microsoft Excel Worksheet), in the extension list. - Click on 'Advanced' button. - Select 'Open in the same window' - Click OK Now try to open your .mht file. Hope this helps. ...Show All

• Windows Forms checkedlistbox

  I am display some items in a checked list box. How do i know weather it is checked or not. I would like to include a condition if the item is checked or unchecked . How do i do. Pls anybady know reply immediatly. Thanks in advance. Arun You can use GetItemCheckState or GetItemChecked methods of CheckedListBox control. you have to pass the index of the item to these methods. If you dont know the index of the item you can use Items.IndexOf(object) method of CheckedListBox control's Items collection. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem running App Ref on startup

  I have a click once app that needs to run as part of the users startup group. I have code in the application's startup that checks if there is a link in the startup group, and if not, copies the app-ref file over. This is fine on most machines, but on a few the application does not start when the user logs in to windows. If the user manually selects the link from Start -> Programs -> Startup then the app runs fine, but it doesn't start when windows starts. I've tried moving/adding the app-ref file to the HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run key in the registry and still no luck. I cannot see any obvious configuration differences between the machines that work and those that don't - all are W2K SP4. Even stranger, on ...Show All

• SQL Server Replication issues with failed logins

  I just applied instcat.sql to my SQL Srvr 2k sp4. At first it broke my replication with some cursor errors. Applying the latest instcat.sql fixed the problem, however one of the distribution agents would not start (i'm not sure if instcat had anything to do with it) giving me a "Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON'. The process could not connect to distributor 'DistributorName'. The step failed." error. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! ...Show All

• Visual Basic Dynamically load a DLL in VB.net

  Is there a way to Dynamically load a DLL in VB.net Dunno where else to ask this question, so decided to post it here...tq Actually, I have yet to write the code. After I got the error " Failed copying C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\CompactFrameworkSDK\v1.0.5000\Windows CE\wce400\X86\symbol.all.x86.cab to the device " while testing the app on Windows CE Emulator, I had stop coding with the assumption of the Symbol libraries would not load to devices other than Symbol devices. ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums How to convert excel file to .DAT file?

  Hi I need urgently in my job to converfile to .DAT file Can some one help on the same. Thanks Kishore. Here here...I need to do the same thing. I have Excel files I've saved as .csv delimited files. The files are pipe-delimited but I don't have a pipe-delimit extension. I need to get these files saved with .dat extension. I am copying them to an FPT location where another person is grabbing. them. They need data files with .dat extensions. I believe their scripts looks for these automatically. I have not found yet a method to convert .xls to .dat. Thanks! EW' ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. FixedTimeStep faster than Variable Time Step

  A question for those who know the inner workings of the XNA framework. Whe using FixedTimeStep, if a frame takes longer than 0.016666 ms (th frame time for 60 FPS), what happens is it left to finish it's task I ask this, because, in some condition (lots of details on the scree, and split screen, and post processing) my framerate, when not using FixedTimeStep goes to 15-14 FPS. But if I enable FixedTimeStep, in the same condition, the game runs smoother, no hiccups, everything runs as if it were 60 FPS. I understand that this is what FixedTimeStep is supposed to do: run the game at 60 FPS.... but HOW can it do it, if otherwise the game runs at 15   That's what I needed to know... that it d ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to change the Index of Data column in Data table?

  I am using .NET 2.0. I am trying to change the Datatype of Datacolumn after the data filled in but as i know it is not possible so i tried to use the “Expression” property of Datacolumn to create a copy of particular column with different Datatype. As shown in the below code: table.Columns.Add("oldcolumn_as_date",ty peof(DateT ime)); table.Columns["oldcolumn_as_date"].Expre ssion="old column"; But the problem is that i want "oldcolumn_as_date" to be appear at the same location of "oldcolumn" . Where as Expression property adds new datacolumn at the last index of the datatable. This is not feasible for me as i have to keep the sequence of columns. Hi Mr-Expert, nice handle ...Show All

• Community Chat Using Vista?

  Good idea Joe! Okay, I'll go first.  I'm using Vista RC1 full time now.  The computer seems quieter--doesn't take so many trips to the hard disk for VM paging.  I find going back to XP an unpleasantry, so I think Microsoft is succeeding here. Glass is nice.  I think the performance is what I expected it to be on an Intel Advanced Graphics card (Dell Dimension 9100).  Office 2007 is also pleasant to use, but they stil have some cleanup work to do on their UI. Who else is using Vista   Brian I have the same exact computer. The only difference is that I'm on a raid 0 array that is not partitioned, and I have a nvida 6800. Would you reccomend installing vista rc1 I wou ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Preserve timestamp on files when getting from TFS

  When you do a "Get Latest Version" or a "Get Specific Version", is there any way to have it preserve the modified timestamp on the local file to match the file in source control instead of having it set to the current date and time I would have expected that to be the default behavior, but it doesn't seem to be. I also can't seem to find a setting to change that. Thanks, -Daniel Daniel, Unfortunately, there is no setting to change that and in v1 setting current date is only supported behavior. It came out already couple of times on the forums, so I believe MS is aware of the fact that such feature would be desirable. Regards, Eugene ...Show All

• Visual C++ Problems with Unicode

  is using TCHAR is better or Going with 2byte Unicode is better else Going with Ascii is better If you want to localize your code to non-English, you will need Unicode. If you don't know or care right now, just use TCHAR consistently and then later you can easily switch between the two, and define _UNICODE "just because." If you are more used to the ascii versions of the c runtime library function or need to port to Unix, then don't use TCHAR. Use char everywhere. Brian ...Show All

• Visual J# Binding data to mschart control

  Hi, I couldn't figure out how to bind the data to the mschart control 6.0 in J#! Any suggestion would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance, Harry Please Help!! !! !! ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Custom Content Manager - Generics Question

  Greetings & Salutations: I am trying to put together my own kind of "Content Manager" as the current one appears to only work with content that has been added to the project, and not with say, a file on a network drive somewhere. I really like how the "XNA ContentManager" uses generics, and was trying to implement it myself, but encountered some errors. I looked on the net but couldn't find the answer I was looking for. Basically, I would like to be able to fetch any kind of asset from my own content manager, regardless of what it is . The following function does not work as it is written. Could someone point out the proper way something like this is supposed to be implemented (PS. The content is stored in dicti ...Show All