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Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) DateTime to Int64
user error and mismatch datatype in the database... thanks. Bill, Are you using the same client database file as the demo If so, then try to delete it and restart the application. It is always good to start afresh after making changes to data types. If this did not work, try to reduce the size of your demo to only one table and experiment with the data types. The anchor value generated by the NewAnchor command must match that of the tracking column in the table. ...Show All
Software Development for Windows Vista Interacting with different users based on roles
Hello, I've designed a document validation workflow but still with no roles on it, so anyone can introduce a document and anyone can validate it. I've been searching info about roles and what I've seen is that you can say which roles can or cannot do an activity. But my application is a bit different: There are 4 different roles (ranks of the employees). Role 5 (the less "important") can post a document, that same user can modify it as many times as he wants and then send it to validate, and it has to be shown in the list of pending documents of role 4. But role 4 can as well post a document that has to be validated by role 3, and role 3 need validation from role 2 etc. I suppose there has to be a way of designing a sing ...Show All
Windows Forms String to Formula?
I have a formula saved as a string, e.g "180/2+15" How can I process this formula to find the result (105) The following is based on the assumption that your formula is always the same. I'm not aware of anyway to convert a string representation of an operator to an actual operator. You need to manipulate the string with the string object's SubString and IndexOf methods and save each number in a separate string object. Once you do that.. you'd need to convert each one to an integer and store each in separate integers. Then add them. See: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aka44szs.aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k8b1470s.aspx For conver ...Show All
Visual Studio Syntax error when using Online MSDN
Hi, I have a problem with the Visual Studio 2005 help. Every page that loads i get a "line 1 syntax error" message box. It is DRIVING ME INSANE! I have tried to repair of the Document Explorer tool. I have looked for updates or KB articles and i can't find anything. I have tried turning off IE debugging but just the shape of the message box changes (and it doesn't ask me to debug), and the syntax error moves to line 2. A sample source for the page starts with XML so i thought that might be the cause but I am running the latest updates. Has anyone else had this problem Thanks in advance for any tips, Nathan The problem seems to occur when using Online MSDN. 1. Search for listbox. 2. Resul ...Show All
Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. right-handed Math Lib
XNA libraries are right-handed and DirectX API is left-handed. Why XNA team decided to introduce this inconsistency How this will affect porting code from DirectX C++ to XNA Guys, The XNA pages/Docs should state that MS switched the coordinate system in 36 point red font. I don't need to find that out after 3 days of hammering my head against the keyboard looking for "where did I invert coordinates " and "why doesn't my picking routine work ". I kept telling myself that D3D is left-handed so there's NO WAY XNA is right. Well.. I was wrong! :). Please make it clear in the docs! Thanks. IH ...Show All
Software Development for Windows Vista FASTOEM=1
Test case 26 requires us to run: msiexec /I testapp.msi /qn FASTOEM=1 However, this is what I got from the log: MSI (s) (F8:F8) [00:07:54:339]: OEM-mode installation supports only per machine installations. === Logging started: 1/11/2007 0:07:54 === MSI (s) (F8:F8) [00:07:54:339]: Note: 1: 1708 MSI (s) (F8:F8) [00:07:54:339]: Product: xxxxxx -- Installation operation failed. MSI (s) (F8:F8) [00:07:54:349]: MainEngineThread is returning 1639 Info 1639. Invalid command line argument. Consult the Windows Installer SDK for detailed command line help. According to the MSI doc, it says when specifying FASTOEM=1, the installation has to be per-machine. However, ALLUSERS is default to be an empty string and which is a per-user installa ...Show All
Windows Forms Custom form transparency problem
Hi, I tried to use the method mentioned here but I experienced the following: I have a background bmp file and it has rounded edges with different colors at the edges of the image (the edges are red). I set the TransparencyKey to red but they were still visible. Then I found two articles. The first claims that when one uses screen color depth higher than 16-bit, the transparencykey property stops to work. (The article is dated about 2002 and uses .Net FW 1.1). I found another on here (watch the last image inscription). The second one is a bug: when the DoubleBuffer property set to true, the transparencykey won't work, either. Here is this article. My application uses Do ...Show All
Visual Basic copying html contents from file with querystring
Hello i need to copy the contents of a html file. i have tried the DownloadString method, but the page i need to copy has a querystring. (e.g articles.aspx id=2) if i add the querystring to the address then an error pops up saying the address is not a valid virtual path. Any ideas how i can get around it thank you for the help, much appreciated. I will post again if there is anything more, but for now its sorted. ...Show All
Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums ADO Recordsets
I have a routine in Excel, which pulls data in from a SQL Server database into two ADO Recordsets using two seperate queries. These recordsets contain only 1 field, being customer ID, each with in excess of 65,000 records. I need to compare these two recordsets to establish how many customer IDs are present in one, but not the other and vice versa. Is there some clever way of looping I could use to achieve this The only other thing I can think of is a local query within my module on the two datasets, but is this possible Cheers for any help! Keith Hi man, No worries about the stored procedures, your quite right, you don't know who's watching. I don't get much oppertunity to write sto ...Show All
Visual Studio Express Editions Redistrodubtion of a VB app
Hi all! I am new to VB.net, so please excuse me if I'm asking a stupid question :-) I've created a few applications now, but the default setup program I get when I use the "Publish" feature, does not satisfy me. I've checked for a few setup creation packages online, and obtained a free one, but now, I'd like to know how I can publish the main executable program on its own so that I can create a custom setup Is this possible - if not: is there perhaps a way I can modify the default setup program Thanks - again, excuse me if I'm asking a stupid question. Johannes The only deployment solution provided with Express edition is ClickOnce. If this doesnt meet you requirements then you can either 1. Upgrade to a pay version of ...Show All
SQL Server SQL Server Express EULA
Hello, I want to use SQL Server Express 2005 as the database server for a commercial web site. Web site users will have both anonymous and non-anonymous access to web pages on the site (generated from data in the SQL Server Express database). Is this kind of use within the EULA of SQL Server Express 2005 I can't comment on the legality of any specific plan for a number of reasons. Most importantly, I'm not a lawyer. If you're not sure if your specific use of SQL Express falls within the limits of the EULA and the Redistribution Agreement ( http://www.microsoft.com/sql/editions/express/redistregister.mspx ) you should contact your own lawyer and have them read the agreements and offer an opinion. ...Show All
Visual Studio vs2005 sp1 install fails
On my computer (win2003) I get next message: The installation source for this product is not available. Verify that the source exists and that you can access it. On other computers it works... What can I do bye Damijan I'm getting the same error (Win 2k3 server, blah blah) Here's what I did. I uninstalled the stand-alone add ins for WAP and WDP, then tried to install SP1, got the error. I then restarted my machine to make sure it wasn't waiting for anything, but when I tried to install again, I got the error. I then uninstalled the patches for these KBs: KB920805 KB915364 Now, I have my original install of VS 2K5 Standard and tried to install it and got the error again. I do have ...Show All
Visual Basic What is the Me. thing for?
What is the thing for that starts with Me. and something else goes here I'm just wondering. Thanks. There's something, an object or whatever, that starts with Me. (and something else after it.) You know, there's My.Computer.Keyboard kinds of things, something like that. (And I know My and Me are different.) ...Show All
Visual Studio Whether there is the named enumeration for intellisense icons?
I noticed that the intellisense icons are taken from completionset.bmp image. This file contains 217 icons and it’s more than enough for me. Whether there is the named enumeration for these icons Hi Perikles, That’s great – thank you very much! Very much! I really grateful to you for that! P.S. Hey guys! Does anybody want to name miscellaneous icons There are only 10 icons left!.. ...Show All
Visual C++ please help me about these errors
Hi i want to compile and run this code but when compiled it ,have three errors pleas help me to solve this problem tnx Errors: scratch error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _AccessibleObjectFromPoint@16 referenced in function "void __stdcall RecalcText(struct HWND__ *,unsigned int,unsigned int,unsigned long)" ( RecalcText@@YGXPAUHWND__@@IIK@Z) -------------------------------------------- scratch error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__InitCommonControls@0 referenced in function "int __cdecl InitApp(void)" ( InitApp@@YAHXZ) --------------------------------------------- scratch fatal error LNK1120: 2 unresolved externals Code : #define STRICT #include <windows.h> #include <windowsx.h> #include <ole2.h> #includ ...Show All