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• Smart Device Development How to make an installation?

  Hi, I am developing a simple navigation system on PDA. I do not know how to make an installation file (.CAB) so that other users can download it and install it on their own devices. Does the VS2003 provide any installation wizard If not, how can I do it manually Which files should I include in besides the .exe Thanks. Toby Within VS 2005 -- Select Other Projects->Smart Device CAB Project in the New Project dialog and add this project to your solution. Use this project to create the CAB file for your app. Manav ...Show All

• Smart Device Development using c# to develop handphone application

  Hi expert, i am a user of VS 2005 standard ed. Is it possible for me to develop a hanphone application that can send SMS using VS 2005 if yes, then how can i do that and how can i install my application into the handphone Hope all the expert out there can help me on this....thanks in advance. you would need to install the Windows Mobile SDK's for PPC or smartphone (depending on the mobile device) and then create a new PPC/smartphone application project. The software can only be ran on a Windows powered mobile device. As well as this, the device needs to have the appropriate version of .NET CF (compact framework) on their device, maybe in this case .NET CF 2.0, to run the application. WM5 PPC SDK: http://www.microsoft.com/downlo ...Show All

• SQL Server cannot deploy analysis services tutorial db

  i am using sql server developer 2005 .... i follow a tutorial example and attempt to deploy a created analysis services project to the analysis server .... but when i attempt to deploy i get the following: Error 1 The following system error occurred: Key not valid for use in specified state. . 0 0 i have looked a bunch of different places and found references to this error and have tried things like deleting & creating a new data connection but this does not have any effect .... also these references i have found on the web dont look like they matche my particular situation (deploying to the analysis server) ..... does anyone know how I can get around this unfortunately i have not been sucessful in executing the most rudimenta ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Installation Directory Write Access Issue

  Hi, I am a developer for a commercial program and we are working on a Vista-aware release of our product. It is a large install (6 CDs) abd is currently all put in Program Files under XP. The Microsoft suggestion of putting program executables and static data in Program Files and all other stuff in the appropriate users/... directory is not practical for our application. I have never liked that model. It makes things complex both for users and programmers. It is a road that we simply will not follow. The problem, of course, is that users don't have write access to the Program Files folder unless they explicitly and manually set it. We could require the users to do that but this is not a happy solution and we probably will not do that. W ...Show All

• Visual Studio CompartmentShape - TextColor

  Hi, While experimenting with compartmentshapes I found that setting neither the Entry Text Color nor the Title Text Color has any effect. Has someone an idea how to change the color of one of these items Thanks, W. Jansoone ...Show All

• Visual C# Error: "No overload for method "foo" takes '4' arguments"

  I have referenced a C++ project to call a function from a class within but I get the error message "No overload for method "foo" takes '4' arguments" when I compile. if I go to the deinition for the class of the following call: myClass.foo(a, b, ref c, d) I can see the following metadata: namespace SPTI {     public class myClass     {         public myClass();         public static bool foo(Target a, byte[] b, byte[] c, bool d);     } } With the following for the declaration in C++: static bool myClass::foo([Runtime::InteropServices::In]SESTool::Target a,       &nbs ...Show All

• Windows Forms Unable to paste CSV format into Excel

  Hi, I am trying to put data onto the clipboard which can be pasted into Excel.  I have successfully implemented HTML, Text and XML Spreadsheet but cannot get the CSV format to work.  Even the example provided by MSDN won't work: string comma = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.TextInfo.ListSeparator; String csv = "1" + comma + "2" + comma + "3" + Environment.NewLine + "6" + comma + "8" + comma + "3"; byte [] blob = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(csv); MemoryStream s = new MemoryStream(blob); DataObject data = new DataObject(); data.SetData("Csv", s); Clipboard.SetDataObject(data, true ); When I 'Paste Special' in Excel, the CSV type is listed but pasting gives the following error: "Microsoft O ...Show All

• SQL Server Execution 'desjl3yk2yzk4f2ycchu5jeb' cannot be found (rsExecutionNotFound)

  Hi, Can u tell me the full description of rsExecutionNotFound Error.I tried to search on msdn2 also but there is not info provided for this. When exactly does this Soap Exception will be thrown by the web service Here is the code for which i am getting this error SecurityBR securityBR = new SecurityBR(); securityBR.ImpersonateUser(Session["UserName"].ToString(), Config.SSRSServerName.ToString()); ReportBR reportBR = new ReportBR(); ReportRow reportRow = (ReportRow)reportBR.GetByReportID(int.Parse(Request.QueryString["ReportID"].ToString())).Tables[0].Rows[0]; string strReportPath = reportRow["ReportPath"].ToString(); //rvReport is the name of my ReportViewer Con ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. When can we expect the content pipeline?

  Hi Just wondering if you have an estimate for the content pipeline arrival date. It's kind of useless sitting here creating stuff that is going to be obsolete in just days or weeks. Regards Joachim Please see here, Thank you! http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=693073&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE7 auto shutdown problem

  I downloaded the IE7 from Yahoo! a couple of days ago, and installed it. My PC was bought from Dell two years ago with XP Pro (Pack 2). The installation process was normal. I was able to access the internet as before (AT&T DSL). However, after a couple of clicks, the program just shuts itself down automatically without any warning. I was able to download another copy from microsoft.com, and reinstalled it. The problem is still the same. Now after launching IE7, it will likely shut down before my 5th click. Please help solve this problem or tell me how to go back to the previous version of IE. Thanks a lot. - Steve I seem to have the exact same problem. I can't even get as far as 5 clicks. IE7 shutsdown before it even proper ...Show All

• SQL Server Using SSIS to connect directly to Outlook as Data source

  Can I connect directly to Outlook using SSIS If so is there any white paper or walkthroughs I could follow TIA Tom I think this will be possible from a script task or script component. Outlook is a COM-compliant object and hence you will need to install the Office Primary Interop Assemblies in order to call this from a script task or script component because these use managed code, not COM. Office XP PIAs ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=C41BD61E-3060-4F71-A6B4-01FEBA508E52&displaylang=en ) -Jamie ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Another puzzle on how to access ui elements inside datatemplate.

  Recently, I am trying to use the DM-V-VM model (see dan 's blog) to develop wpf applications. In this model, I can define DataTemplate like this: <DataTemplate DataType="{x:Type local:Contact}"> ........ </DataTemplate > <DataTemplate DataType="{x:Type local:ContactVM}"> <Grid> <ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding Contacts}" ></ListBox> <Grid Name="grid"> <Button Name="button">Test</Button> </Grid> </DataTemplate > ...... <Grid> <ContentControl Content="_content"/> </Grid> In such a model, we can see the DateTemplate is applied to a DataType(C ...Show All

• Visual Studio Non string name domain properties

  Hi, I just tried to set as a name property for a domain class a property with a type different than String (an Integer in this case). When I did it, I got an error stating that I needed an ElementNameProvider to make this work: Domain Property DomainProperty1 is marked IsName, but has type System.Int32. Unless it has an ElementNameProvider, the type of a Name property should be System.String. I did create the element name provider, registered it as an external type and set it as the element name provider for this name property; the error was gone, and I could successfully generate the code for the dsl. When I tried to create an instance of the domain class with this property, I got a different and somewhat contradicting run ...Show All

• Windows Forms datagrid column headers fire the click event

  VS 2003 I have a datagrid, and on the click event I process the selected row. You click the selector on the left side of the row. If you click any of the column headings, the click event fires for the row that currently has the focus. So if you are just trying to drag and re-size columns, it fires and process that row. I just want my code to execute if you click on the record selector to the left. How can this be done Thanks yes that is correct. for the handheld devices, you need .NET CF 2.0 (Compact Framework) to run .NET CF 2.0 applications. There are some limitations on which devices you can install the 2.0 CF however 99% of Windows Mobile 2005 devices do work with it, the limitation ...Show All

• Windows Forms progressbar while dataset is loading

  I use a dataset to load around 1000 records into a DGV. How can I show a progressbar while a dataset is being loaded Check out the backgroundWorker object. Use it to load the dataset in a separate thread. It has events that can pass back info to the GUI thread that you use to update your progress bar. Pretty easy to use. ...Show All