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• Visual Studio Team System Upgrade path from MSDN Professional

  I have an existing MSDN Professional subscription with about 18 months remaining, primarily taken out to give access tom Visual Studio Professional. I would like to upgrade to use the Team System, but cannot find any information at all about an upgrade path from MSDN Professional to MSDN Premium (which appears to be what I need to use the Team System). Is this really correct Do I have to throw out my existing MSDN Professional subscription and start again with a new Premium subscription just to get access to Team System Or do I have to purchase Team System separately. There seems to be a lot of "help" about version, upgrades etc on the site, but none of it really seems to help me identify what my options are. This is really, re ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Tracking Schema reusability in Oracle

  Hi, I am working on a banking application and I am using Workflow Foundation for the development of a workflow subsystem. Our application is architected to work with any back end like SQL Server, Oracle etc. I used the tracking services and the supporting schema (tables and sp's) while developing on SQL Server. I was wondering whether the same tables and stored procedures can be ported into Oracle or not. If not, what is the way around. Do I write the schema myself. That would be a daunting task really. I am anticipated that the tables wont be a problem. Its the stored procedures that I am worried about. Any help would be appreciated. No, they can not be ported to Oracle and you will need to writ ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Problem with on key label on conversion from Foxpro 2.5

  In an application that I converted from FoxPro 2.5 to VFP6 where I created the menus in VFP6 and then called the 108 prgs from this menu I have this problem I call this prg from within the menu the prg then calls on a procedure from the main prg which works fine until the time to choose the options I have two choices to press Escape to go out or to press F10 so I can continue and go to enter data, pressing Escape works fine but when I press F10 nothing happens. I was told to use “on key label” as a workaround. Ive tried splitting the lastkey part of the procedure into two procedures that could be called from a procedure that gets called from the “ prEp_hdr_f ”procedure and on this procedure all I have is to lines with on key label do that ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Installing Visual C# on Vista

  Hey For some reason I cant seem to install Visual C# on Vista Ultimate. I've tried running as admin, and in compatibilty mode but still wont work. The error is this. The Windows Installer package: C:\Users\BigBob85\AppData\Local\Temp\SIT35815.tmp\vs_setup.ms_ could not be opened. Choose Retry to try again, Choose Cancel for exit setup. (LOL, it says 'cancel for exit setup', not my bad grammar) I've installed Visual C++ and Visual J# no problems. Any Ideas Hi, It seems that you didnot install .NET Framework properly. Try to clear up it and reinstall. This thread is on the topic: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=520808&SiteID=1 and reference: http://blogs.msdn.com/astebn ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Need help with programming with outlook 2003

  I am using VC++/CLI and I am trying to create an outlook object to connect to outlook and create appointments. Outlook::Application ^outlookApp = gcnew Outlook::Application(); Outlook::AppointmentItem ^oAppointment = gcnew Outlook::AppointmentItem(); The second line gives me the error: Error 1 error C3767: 'Microsoft::Office::Interop::Outlook::AppointmentItemClass::AppointmentItemClass': candidate function(s) not accessible Oh, right, you will need to do some casting in there as well... outlookApp->CreateItem actually returns a generic 'object' type, so you have to do a cast to what you want. In C# you have to C-style cast it to (Outlook.AppointmentItem).  I am sure there is some sort of cast ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WPF Web - Full Width + Height

  Hello, Does any one know how to make a web app fill the users client I checked all the page level parameters but couldnt find one to suite me. For a standalone app, the recommended way to go full screen is to: Set WindowStyle = WindowStyle.None Set WindowState = WindowState.Maximized Set Window.TopLevel = true You are correct that these properties are not exposed in the Internet Zone sandbox for v1. One option, depending on your app requirements: you can open a full-screen browser window using JavaScript (see sample of how to do that using window.open here: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex8/window1.htm ). Host your XBAP in the new window. I'd love to know more about your scenario for creating a full ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions application error 0x7c901010. referenced memory at 0x0000001c. the memory could not be read. click ok to close program

  Hello, Please help me, I get this error when I try to open things on the web. The Instruction at at 0x7c901010 referenced memory at 0x0000001c. The memory could not be read Thank You Please help This has nothing to do with VS Express.... you likely have spyware/malware running on your system. See this link for a possible solution: http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php showtopic=66952 Thanks- -Tim <MSFT> ...Show All

• Smart Device Development equivalent of Control.CreateGraphics() for Compact framework 2.0

  Hello i need to convert a control.CreateGraphics() for my app. VS2005 gave me a runtime error saying that it's not supported for Compact framework. Is there anyway to bypass that You need to store the colors that you want to change in UpdateCircle() in member variables that will be used by the Paint event handler. For example: Brush circleBrushes[] = new Brush[ 8 ]; Pen circlePen = new Pen(Color.Blank); //... presumably in constructor for(int i = 0; i < circleBrushes.Length; ++i) { circleBrushes[ i ] = new SolidBrush(Color.Wite); } private void panel1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e) { // ... Debug.Assert(Circles.Length == circleBrushes.Length); for(int i = 0; i < Circles.Length; ++i) ...Show All

• .NET Development Alternative to using WebClient.DownloadFile() to download

  Hey there, I'm having a lot of trouble when downloading a file using the WebClient.DownloadFile() function. It works fine for small word documents, but large zip files are all corrupted. When I check the size of the file I recieved, it all says 0. I know it thinks it finished downloading because the downloadcompleted event handler is triggered when I use DownloadFileAsync(). Does anyone know why this is happening or know an alternative way to download files from a web link Under the covers WebClient uses System.Net.HttpWebRequest for HTTP traffic. I have used HttpWebRequest to download 30 MB files before and it worked great. Similarly, you can use FileWebRequest for files on the local machine or on a share and FtpWebRequest for FTP d ...Show All

• Visual Basic Help with Post Message

  Declaration: <DllImport("user32.dll", _ CallingConvention:=CallingConvention.StdCall, _ CharSet:=CharSet.Auto, _ EntryPoint:="PostMessageA", _ SetLastError:=True)> _ Shared Function Post( _ ByVal hwnd As IntPtr, _ ByVal wMsg As Int32, _ ByVal wParam As Int32, _ ByVal lParam As Int32) As Int32 End Function Constants: Public Const WM_LBUTTONDOWN As Int32 = &H201 Public Const WM_LBUTTONUP As Int32 = &H202 Sub: Sub LeftClick(ByVal Handle As IntPtr, ByVal XCoord As Int32, ByVal YCoord As Int32) Post(Handle, WM_LBUTTONDOWN, 1, XCoord + YCoord) ' Left mouse button down Post(Handle, WM_LBUTTONUP, 0, XCoord + YCoord) ' Left mouse button up End Sub Problem: This met ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Syntax ambiguity for params keyword

  Hi, I was just wondering if there will be any problems running this code: //A method public void MyMethod(string s, params string[] ss) { } //An overload of the method public void MyMethod(params string[] ss) { } How will the compiler know which overload I'm intending on using How will the compiler know that the "string s" parameter isnt part of the string array in the overload Thank you! This is discussed in the C# specification, section 20.9.4's tie breaking rules: Otherwise, if M P has more specific parameter types than M Q , then M P is better than M Q . Thus MyMethod(string s, params string[] ss) will always be better. ...Show All

• SQL Server Linked server communication

  Hi everyone, I've got problem querying remote tables via a specific linked server. The server from which I execute the query is an SQLServer2005 and the linked server is an SQLServer2000. If I do select * from <linked server>.<database name>.<db owner>.<Table1> after a while I get the following error message "Server: Msg 10054, Level 16, State 1, Line 0, TCP Provider: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host." I execute the query using profiler and I got the following profiler error: 'OLE DB provider "Unknown" for linked server "(null)" supported the schema lock interface, but returned "0x80040e96" for "ReleaseSchemaLock".' ( The que ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE7 embedded webbrowser control and SWF/PDF files

  My app embeds a webbrowser control. One issue I notice after installing IE7 is that if I browse directly to a SWF or PDF in the webbrowser control, the page is blank. If I browse to an html page that embeds a SWF, it works fine. Browsing directly to a SWF or PDF in my embedded webbrowser control works fine in IE6. Am I missing a flag/setting when creating my webbrowser control BTW - I'm using WinXP SP2. If I browse to the SWF or PDF in standalone IE7, it works fine. Jake- A KB article is coming out shortly about this issue. However, here's the short version: This error is occurring because of an unforeseen dependency between an IE6 XPSP2 security feature ( Local Machine Zone Lockdown ...Show All

• Smart Device Development C++ in PDA development

  Hi all What is the advantages using C++ language for PDA development instead of vb.net and c#. Faster code, real time possibility, no need to deploy framework/smaller total size. But... Longer time to market, more complex development, more error prone, bigger application size. You know, usual C++ vs. RAD tools pro and cons. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can I Use Visual Foxpro Controls In Vb.Net

  Can i use Visual Foxpro Textbox Control In VB.net Why do you want to Visual Basic has a Textbox control and if I would assume that all the textbox controls in .NET products actual are or inherit from system.windows.forms.textbox I'll assume this is answered by your other question with regard creating numeric and masked textboxes.  Easily done in .NET and wouldnt require foxpro controls.     ...Show All