fatquack's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic How should I develop a WindowsService that shares files with a WindowsApplication

  Hi, I am developing a WindowsService having three threads collecting information (such as event logs), storing information, settings and some actions in three XML files. I am also deveoping a WindowsApplication to display information in these XML files and to change settings. Assumptions: From what I understand there can exist no Forms in a WindowsService. The file path to the settings XML file must be hardcoded into both the WindowsApplication and the WindowsServices (The settings XML file contains path's to other XML files. Here are my questions: Does WindowsServices assemblies have a default location on the file system (I am deveoping for Windows 2003 Server). Should these XML files be stored there or Should the fi ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Yamaha YMF753 Sound Card - Vista Driver

  I just upgraded my computer to Vista Ultimate. After running the diagnostics I was told I would not have any problems with my Sound Card. Once the install was complete, I do not have a driver that will work. I have a Yamaha YMF753 sound card. I have been searching the net for a Vista driver for a few hours... any help would be appreciated. Thanks MikeC Have you picked up all Windows Updates that are available If you try that and your sound card still isn't working, go into the Device Manager (devmgmt.msc from a command prompt), find your device, right-click for Properties, Details, and cut&paste the "Hardware Ids", and I'll see if someone here can try it out. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Survey respondents needed for masters thesis

  We are two students from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden (http://www.kth.se/eng/). We are currently doing our masters thesis in Applied Information Technology where we specialize in security. As a part of this thesis we will do a survey where we compare general information about software organizations and software projects with certain aspects and activities specific for the creation of secure software. We would really appreciate if you participated in this survey to help us with this masters thesis. Please feel free to spread information about this survey to your colleagues or any friends you have in the software industry. All answers we can get are helpful to us! The survey is available a ...Show All

• Visual C# Datagrid - unbound

  VS 2005 std. Using an unbound datagridview that has 5 columns, when columns 1,2 or 3 change I want to show the total for columns 1+2+3 in column 4. Column 5 is a tickbox, how can you tell if its ticked or not. Thanks in advance. This worked fine try { double Col1 = double .Parse (dataGridView1.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[1].Value.ToString ()); double Col3 = double .Parse (dataGridView1.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[3].Value.ToString ()); double Col4 = double .Parse (dataGridView1.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[4].Value.ToString ()); double Col5 = double .Parse (dataGridView1.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[5].Value.ToString ()); double total = ((Col3 * Col4) * Col5) * Col1; dataGri ...Show All

• Visual C# I can't run VS 2005 on vista

  I have installed Vista Ultimate from MSDN. On clear Windows (without any optional drivers and programs) I have installed Visual Studio 2005 Professional EN. But when I try opening Visual Studio it always closes ! In Event log is description like previous posts: Faulting application devenv.exe, version 8.0.50727.42, time stamp 0x4333e699, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 6.0.6000.16386, time stamp 0x4549b87a, exception code 0xc0150015, fault offset 0x0002b216, process id 0xd18, application start time 0x01c751532be98c50. The same error is when I try open documentation of Vista SDK (after installation it on my system) I have try SP1 for Visual Studio 2005 and SP1 Beta on Vista but the error with ntdll.dll doen't disappear ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Error in using treo 700w emulator TypeLoadException could not load type Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Status State from assembly

  I have an application which uses Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Status assembly. It is working Fine in the pocket pc emulator and i-mate KJam devicve. Now I want's to check it form Palm treo 700w.I have downloaded the emulator. But when I run my application I get following error on the emulator. TypeLoadException could not load type Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Status.System State from assembly Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Status,Version =1.0.0.0 ,Culture =nueutral ... I have also tried a sample application AppointmentOverSms which run fine in Pocket pc emulator but not on troe 700w Also I can see the GAC_Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Status... dll from file explorer. in the treo emulator via remote file viewer What Can I do ROM image means the Operating S ...Show All

• Visual Studio Build macros no longer working after upgrading from VS 2003 to VS 2005.

  I have a long and arduous deployment process set up, and although it took me a while to get all the kinks out, it was all finally working just great for many months.... and then I upgraded to VS 2005. Part of this deployment process involves building my solution (obviously) using a macro. The code I use to do that looks like this: DTE.Solution.SolutionBuild.SolutionConfigurations.Item( "Release" ).Activate() DTE.Solution.SolutionBuild.Build( True ) ...again... this worked just fine... for a long time. But now that I'm on 2005, it doesn't seem to want to work. And that's not to say that it gives me any errors... oh no... that would be way too convinient. It just runs, but doesn't really do what it's supposed to. After runni ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Exception error, how to solve or handle it?

  Hi, could someone tell me whats the meaning of the error and how can I solve it. Thanks. here my code: public static void ReadData() { string connectionString = @"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=|DataDirectory|\FYPproject.mdb" ; string queryString = "SELECT Sample_Number,Pump_Speed FROM 2Pumps" ; using ( OleDbConnection connection = new OleDbConnection (connectionString)) { OleDbCommand command = new OleDbCommand (queryString, connection); connection.Open(); OleDbDataReader reader = command.ExecuteReader(); <<Error on this line while (reader.Read()) { MessageBox .Show( String .Format( "{0} , {1}" , reader[0], reader[1]) ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Which SDK do I need to develop Tablet PC applications?

  Hello, this is my first post to a developer forum, so go easy on me. :) I'm a little confused about all the SDK's available and hope someone can makes sense of it all to me. I am new to developing software, but am very interested in developing Tablet PC applications. I would like to develop Tablet PC Apps that are compatible with the Tablet PC 2005 platform and Windows Vista. My test/development PC has both Windows XP Pro and Vista Beta 2 dual boot setup. I also have a Tablet PC 2005 by Averatec. I have downloaded (but not installed) the MicrosoftR WindowsR Software Development Kit (SDK) for Beta 2 of Windows Vista and WinFX Runtime Components, and the Update for Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition Development Kit 1.7 - English. Do I n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Cherry Pick Merge causes conflict

  I know this subject has come up a few times in the forum, and I've read the answers to those - but still not sure I'm following the answer. I am following an admittedly old webcast from TechEd 2005 by Douglas Neumann that talks about TFS Promotion Modeling, and the ability to Cherry-Pick merge a particular changeset. I'm wondering has something changed since the beta when this seemingly worked Very similar to the demo, I have the following setup: DEV branched to QA (changeset 29) DEV class1.cs QA class1.cs Make a change to class1.cs and check it in + add new property called "NewFeature" for the next release (changeset 30) Make another change to class1.cs for a bug fix and check it in + add new property called "BugFix", need this in th ...Show All

• Visual C# Members Dropdown (hide Members)

    I'm currently developing a WinForms Application, and sometimes there are really a lot of controls on a form. The Member-DropDown now shows me not only methods, but also the Members (excl. GenerateMember=false). I set GenerateMember to false on all labels, but I just have about 30 toolStripMenuItems, GroupBoxes, Textboxes and so on, and i hardly can find any method in the dropdown, because it displays so many controls. I put a very good example here: http://www.krasinger.at/public/dropdown.jpg I want to hide the members, so that the dropdown only shows me real Methods, but I didn't find anything to do this You should split your form in different controls in order to avoid that issu ...Show All

• .NET Development Remote Event's handler in client application

  I am using C# with Singleton. on .NET framework 1.1 I want to call an event using delegate on remote object and want to handle it into client application. After building remote object 's project(Class library) I have copied that .DLL in client and added reference to it in client project. In server config file I have set typeFilterLevel to full . But I am not able todo that. It is showing Security exception. Do I need to write cusomized sink to do that or without that also It can be done. I need the simplest way to do that. If Source code of my apllication is required let me know... I will post that too... Thanks. did you read link I provided carefully It clearly says: "It ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA Games Studio Express.... need help guys....

  So I've just downloaded and installed the xna games studio express (with visual c# of course) now i want to no, is there any tutourial guides or anything that can help me get started Any reply would be greatly appriciated. Mat.......... Yes, there are many community sites out there that have tutorials. There are also some great tutorials right there on your harddrive provided by Microsoft. Just explore the help a little and you'll find quite a few very good ones. There's a stickied list in the forums of all the community sites and once you find one of them, you'll find them all since the majority have a "Links" section linking to all the other community sites out there. Good luck and have fun getting started with XNA! ...Show All

• Visual C++ How do I spawn a new process that inherits the shell environment ?

  Hi, I was wondering whether it is possible for a process to spawn a NEW process , but one that would not inherit the environment of the creating process but rather inherit the environment from the shell. For example , I tried to create a server/client application where the server creates a new client upon request (using ShellExecute ). The client checks the value of a certain environment variable. I'm changing the value of this environment variable between requests but the clients keeps showing the old value, the one that was valid when the server started. Is it possible to achieve what I have described Thanks. I think instead of ShellExecute you should consider other functions which ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Skip StateInitialization in StateActivity

  I have the following StateMachineWorkflowActivity State1 (InitialState) StateInitialization1 State2 StateInitialization2 State3 StateInitialization3 At first stage (initialization) I need to set current state to State2 (I use SetState method of the StateMachineWorkflowInstance), but without executing StateInitialization. After initialization I need to use state machine in the normal case (with enabled StateInitialization). How to disable/enable or skip StateInitialization in runtime Thanks Alex Thank you for quick reply. >why not adding an IfElseActivity in your StateInitialization Activity where test if it's the first time or not ( a simple flag)... I did it. it works. But how ...Show All