Keith Brown's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions excel commands with c#

  Does anyone know how to make a selection like "ctrl + shift + down" using C# in a Excel application I wanna get the range from the first cell until the last one with something written in it it depends how you are interacting with Excel. are you filling the values from Excel into a Dataset are you using the Excel/Office/worksheet classes are you just running a process of Excel ...Show All

• Windows Forms no registry keys are created on x64

  I have a Setup Project created by using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Version 8.0.50727. This setup project creates several registry entries. The registry editor is used to specify which entries should be created. By setting the project's "TargetPlatform" property to x86 and executing the wizard on 32bit platforms everything works correctly. Ecch registry entry is created. The problems begin when I try to execute the wizard on x64 platforms. More details about the platform: Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition with SP1, Intel Xeon 3.4GHz CPU. On this x64 box, the system path environment variable begins with the 32bit related entries (e.g. C:\Windows\System32) and follows with the 64bit related ones. It seems to be ...Show All

• SQL Server Data Source Views - Calculated Columns

  Q: How do I use Calculated Columns from a Data Source View in an OLEDB Data Source Adapter. I took the following steps: - Created new SSIS project - Added a Data Source connecting to a SQLServer2005 DB (MyDataSource) - Added a Data Source View based on MyDataSource (MyDSV) - Created a Calcualted field to Table Object MyTable (MyCalcField) - Added a Connection Manager based on MyDSV - Added Data Flow to Project - Added OLEDB Source Adapter to Data Flow - Attempting to Access Calculated Field MyCalcField to be used in Data Flow. ISSUE: I can't seem to find a way to get the Calculated field to pass through. It's as though this metadata is not available to the Flow. Anyone have any ideas Thanks - MikeyNero ...Show All

• Visual C++ Is this ISO C++ conformant?

  I wrote the following simple program and could build it happily. #include <stdio.h> #include <conio.h> int main() { int i; printf("Integer please>"); scanf_s("%d",&i); _getch(); } I have two questions about this code. First, is this code 100% ISO C++ conformat I could build this, with language extensions disalbed. Second, is the _getch() function always thread -safe Thank you very much. Takashi Toyota wrote: The fact is that I could build this with language extensions disabled. Disabling langauge extensions means that I can get standard code. Is this interpretation wrong Well it's not part of the ISO C++ standard, that's for sure. Those fu ...Show All

• Visual C++ Every time while relocate : Add Files to Project

  Hi, In our project there are many files I have to add from different directories. And that is working fine. But if I relocate that project folder then path of all the added files is changed. And I have to delete those files and add the same files again every time. Is there any way to give relative path to this files so if I change the location then I need not add all the files again. Thanks The files are always added using a relative path as long as this is possible (that is when the file you add is on the same drive as the project file). Note that even if you use relative paths you need to move both the project and the files and keep the same "relativeness" between them. ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums VE on Blackberry ?

  Hi, The application I'm developping shows maps on a webpage and I want to show it on a Blackberry. Is it possible to use VE on a blackberry Thanks Stephane Taken from Wikipedia.org: Modern BlackBerry handhelds incorporate an ARM 7 or 9 processor, while older BlackBerry 950 and 957 handhelds used Intel 80386 processors. The latest GSM BlackBerry models (8100 and 8700 series) have an Intel PXA901 312 MHz processor, 64 MB flash memory and 16 MB SDRAM . [2] Compare that to the minimum requirements for running VE, and so no this is not possible. ...Show All

• SQL Server Import/Export data with SQL Server 2005 Express

  Hello folks! I have installed SQL Server 2005 Express and SQL Server Management Studio Express. Everything looks ok and works fine, but I can't find the Data Import/Export Wizard.  Can anyone tell me how to Import/Export data Thank you!!! Wolfey305 wrote: If you have MS Access, you can simply export directly to your SQL Server data base by creating an ODBC link. You will have to export the tables from MS access one at a time but once the ODBC link has been created it takes only seconds to export individual tables. Before you start exporting make sure you have a data base in SQL where you want to export to. Open your data base in access Right click on the table you want ...Show All

• Visual C# Caret Position SelectionStart, Simple?

  This should be simple... I have a maskedtextbox on a form, and I've added an OnEnter event which I want to set the caret position to zero (it defaults to the end). From what I've read you should use the SelectionStart Property to do this, but I can't get it to work. In the debugger it seems to reflect the correct selectionStart position but even though I set the value the caret doesn't get repositioned. I've also tried setting the selection length to various numbers along with the selectionStart... Any help would be greatly appreciated. No I've not tried in UserControl and left this job on you coz didnot have much time. And tell me what are the results. Best Regards, ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. GameComponents In Depth With V1

  So I've been trying to read all I can about the features of XNA and one that I'm just starting to discover is the GameComponent system. I have a small knowledge of what's going on, but I can't seem to find much on how it works in V1.0. I Googled and found a video (http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2006/08/31/734204.aspx) but that covers back during beta 1, which was the same for most other sites. Does anyone have any links to sites that talk about GameComponents and how they work Or does anyone have a few minutes to go through them I'm looking for as in depth as possible so I can really see what I can do with them. Thanks in advance. Let's say you want to make a UserInterface drawable component.   ...Show All

• Windows Forms Using Window Messages

  Hello, I wonder if it is possible to use Window Messages in C# If so, would it be a good thing to use Window Messages to communicate between different Threads Henk >I found some article about windows messages, hope it help you >http://blogs.msdn.com/csharpfaq/archive/2004/10/20/245412.aspx (1) >http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/cswindowsmessages.asp (2) I'm sorry to say but (1) only talks about filters and (2) only shows a list of Window messages >for thread communication, see this project. Looks good but I stuck with the IMailBox which I don't know how to make my compiler recognize it. I (newbie) am missing some essential info. R ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista About WF Tracking

  I want to query workflow track when this workflow is running. How to do Thanks. hi, Be careful, by default, the tracking works in transactionnal mode, that is to say logs are written in the database only when the workflow is idle. if you want to track workflow in "real time", here is a little code: ...Show All

• Gadgets How to get Market information when add gadget by URL "http://www.live.com/?add=http://xxx/xxx.xml"?

  When I add a gadget by inputing URL for example ' http://www.live.com/ add=http://xxx/xxx.xml ', I can't get the correct market information but it gives me "en-us" all the time as I set the language in live.com is Chinese which's market information is "zh-cn". So is this a bug in the live.com Or is there any other ways to get the correct market information Ps: getLanguage() and getLocal() methods will return null in this situation. Thanks Starlet, I use the M_CultureVariable_Text to retrieve the market information on live.com. It's available for use, just reference it. ...Show All

• Visual C++ System.Timers.Timer not elapsing

  I have a two timers in my service that will be reset after some work gets completed. The problem comes in if the service is left running for a few days, the timers will reset but then not elapse. The problem is that without the timers elapsing no work gets accomplished. Any ideas void OnQueueTimerElapsed(System::Object *sender, ElapsedEventArgs* e){ gQueueTimer->Enabled = false ; gLogFile->Write(S"QueueTimerElapsed", false ); /*********************** CODE *********************/ gQueueTimer->Enabled = true ; gLogFile->Write(S"QueueTimer reset.", false ); } should be void OnQueueTimerElapsed(System::Object *sender, ElapsedEventArgs* e){ gQ ...Show All

• Windows Forms user notification

  What is the best way to inform the user of a application that there are some changes to data or new data that they should look at. Polling the database A service that is polling the database and sending messages to the app Other........ Remco This sounds like an implementation of messaging queue. Messaging service/object is part of VS2003 .NET Framework. I think it's a subset of BizTalk. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How can I pass Cubemap texture into Pixal Shader ?

  Q1: How to contruction a samplerCUBE in   .fx file 1. I import my static cubemap texture into content pipeline  TextureCube mySkybox; 2. In LoadGraphicsContent()   mySkybox = content.Load<TextureCube>("Contents\\skybox");   and now everything is ok. The question is  how can I contruct a samplerCUBE in myEffect.fx file   Q2: How to create a dynamic cubemap  Q3: How can I setup VC# express so that I can have HLSL language higt light when I  edit *.fx   in VC#   I am trying to use a glass shader for one of my objects and when I try and load the Cube asset I get a System.InvalidOperation exception with the me ...Show All