Giftson's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Unable to Sart Debug?

  When i finish writing some codes, i cant debug because i get an erro that reads: "Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debuggin The binding handle is invalid" help ...Show All

• SQL Server problem creating varbinary(max) data type

  I'm unable to create a field with the type varbinary(max). When I try doing this with Management Studio, it tells me that the maximum length is 8000 bytes. I've also tried creating the field with DDL as shown below, but that doesn't work either. If I create the varbinary field with a length of 8000 or less, it works fine. Is there some trick to using varbinary(max) Thank you. create table images (filename nvarchar(250) primary key,photo varbinary(max)) Sounds like compatibility level is set to 80(2000) instead of 90 (2005). You can get the level by right clicking on your database and going to properties\options page. You can use the system procedure sp_dbcmptlevel to adjust your database. See BOL here ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Is there any protocol to initiate voice call to MSN Messenger Live?

  I only know Jabber does text, I am not sure whether it does voice call. If not, is there any way to initiate a voice call to MSN Messenger Live without using Messenger System.Diagnostics. Process proc = new System.Diagnostics. Process (); proc.EnableRaisingEvents = false ; proc.StartInfo.FileName = "msnim:voice contact=contact@hotmail.com" ; proc.Start(); This will open a browser window, but it does work... Maybe there's a way to hide the browser window too, didn't look to that yet. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Deploy Problem

  Hi, I have a mobile device project which is referenced to another project. both projects includes some external files. When deployed these files are included in the bin folder but when i deploy only the files from the mobile device project is deployed to the device. how can i configure so that it deploys files that is included in reference projects as well regards, rnv Add all files you need to deploy from the first project to the second project. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Error Loading Pipeline assembly DirectInputSupport.dll!!

  Error Loading Pipeline assembly "c:\......XNA Game Studio Expres\v1.0\referemces\windows\x86\DirectInputSupport.dll" XNA dont compile :( If you want to use the assembly, please check that it exists on your computer. If you don't want to use that assembly, remove it from the XNA Framework Content Pipeline assemblies. You can check the XNA Framework Content pipeline asseblies by right-clicking on you project in the Solution Explorer and choose Properties. On the properties page, select the Content Pipeline tab. Hope that'll sort it out for you. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Loading forms

  How can I load forms explicitly without showing them. Like there was a function Load (form_name) in VB6.0 that could be used to load forms without showing it. How can I achieve the same effect in VB2005 same thing. just dont show it. Dim theForm as new FrmName () replace FrmName with the name of your form. when you want to show it, just do a Show or ShowDialog() theForm.Show() ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums drawing lines/polygons on map with line following pointer?

  hi, i have successfully created an app where a user can click on the map and draw lines and polygons. each time the user clicks, it creates a node and a line is drawn from click to click with an attachevent onclick function. however, i noticed how on the maps.live.com site, when you draw a line and click on the map, and you move your pointer, a line follows the pointer nicely, giving the user a great sense of where the line will be drawn before he actually selects the next node. would anybody know how this is done many thanks No its not in there. Yavuz should be credited with working this one out. There are two lines that are undocumented in the SDK:   map.AttachEvent('onmousemove', mapMouse ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. telling the difference between xbox 360 and pc

  Is there a way for your game to detect what environment it's running in (eg 360 or windows) There are some environment specific issues I want to play with. I guess this is a little premature since we can't compile/export to the 360 yet. I don't have GSE in front of me at the moment, so I don't know if the Environment namespace is availabe, but if it is you should be able to make use of System.Environment.OS Version. -------------------- Public Shared ReadOnly Property OSVersion() As System.OperatingSystem Summary: Gets an System.OperatingSystem object that contains the current platform identifier and version number. -------------------- Of couse I couldn't tell you what OSVersion XBox would return... ...Show All

• SQL Server CONDITIONAL SPLIT Assistance

  i need to use a conditional split transformation to find missing column and direct the output of conditional split to my destination. I have the following columns PatientId, Allergycode, SeverityCode My requirement is to check whether value of a particular column is null or not null. Please help. Ronald How many outputs does your Conditional Split have Which outputs are connected to Data Conversion transform and SQL Destination Have you monitored the data flow during execution - do any row flow out of the output you are using ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Event Handlers and Raiseevent issues

  Hi, I seem to be missing something here!! I am looking at the process of Event driven coding and I am a bit confused. If I understand it correctly all I need to do is: 1) Within the form that will raise the event declare the event with the event key word and raise the event Public Class Form2 Public Event xevent() Sub raiseevents() RaiseEvent xevent() End Sub End Class Within form1 create an instance of form2 with the withevents keyword Public Class Form1 Dim WithEvents eclass As New Form2 Private Sub eclass_xevent() Handles eclass.xevent MsgBox( "test" ) End Sub End Class The issue I have is the above only works if I call the form2 raiseevents ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Building a setup project in its own solution

  Hi, I have a problem when build msi / setup files from TFS Build. It's not how do I get msbuild to understand my project type, it's... I have a VS2005 setup project contained in its own solution. I have added files to the setup and these files come from other VS solutions I build. When I added these files they were added using relative paths to their respective projects \bin\<release | debug> folder. However, I have since found out that TFS Build does not create the \bin\<release | debug> folder when it builds a solution, instead it places project output in the obj\<relase | debug> folder (before copying it to the {Binaries} folder). My question is whether my setup project should reference its files from the obj ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to make certain menu invalid or disabled

  I want to disable certain menu like " F ile->Print" or "File->save as" in Office Word. Does vsto can do this and how or is there any other technology can achieve this Thank you very much. Thank you for you answer. Your code can make all the command bar invisible, but what I want is make one of them disabled(cannot be used), and make one of menus not useable. And user cannot make it useable when he/she use it. And thank you all the same. ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums what OS are included in MSDN OS subscription?

  Can I find all the flavors of Windows XP, original, SP1, SP2, ... Pre XP if I subscribe to MSDN OS I am trying to build several machines for webapp compatibility testing, and it would be nice if I could download any OS snapshot from MSDN, but it's not clear from the MSDN OS product index that anything previous to latest SP2 is available on disk or download. Any help would be appreciated. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/subscriptions/chart/ This page shows a chart comparison of all of the various MSDN subscriptions. Per the "b" footnote below the chart, the following OS versions are available: Microsoft Operating Systems, including Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows XP Profes ...Show All

• SQL Server PDF underline goes away

  Hi, I'm having a problem with my pdf files removing underlines from textboxes. I've tried it with both field text boxes and hard coded textboxes I draged from the toolbar. What happens is this; If I underline text in the textboxes, it shows up on the visual studio preview window, the report manager window, but when I export the file as pdf format the underlines go away in the pdf document. The problem seems to be centered around the "can decrease to accomodate content" property (which I need to do, doh). If I turn this property off, the underlines show up again. Is it just me :(, or is this a know problem. - Bruce ...Show All

• Windows Forms LinkLabel - AutoEllipsis on and automatic tooltip

  I wanted someone to confirm this for me before I go nuts. If I put a LinkLabel on a standard form, set AutoEllipsis to true and AutoSize to false and make the Text of the LinkLabel larger than the supplied region, the text is shown with an ellipsis and a tooltip will automatically appear with the entire text when the pointer is over the control. If I do the same on a UserControl instead of a standard form, the tooltip does not automatically appear when the text is too large. Is this by design I'm assuming that the standard form might be supplying addional services to the LinkLabel control. I wouldn't be so up in arms about this but, I have LinkLabels in UserControls and they do not automatically tooltip so I have to figure ou ...Show All