D. Wood's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Internationalization. Try setting the Culture .

  Big word, hopefully small problem... I am in the process of internationalizing my application. I have created a string resource file so that I can create all the required language translations but how do I go about changing the shortcut keys on menus etc to correspond to each language Is there an easy way to do this Cheers Mark Hi, See this thread please.>> http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1247101&SiteID=1 Regards, S_DS ...Show All

• Visual Basic binary files as resources in VB 2005

  I want to add binary files to my VB 2005 executable to make a single exe with all the required files which I can extract at will through my code, how do I do this pls. guide o how to add binary file (.exe) and extract them using resource files. I tried the following but was not succesfull '*** get current Assembly object. Dim asm As Assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly() '*** load embedded resource into stream Dim ResourceName As String = "App1.MyDep1.exe" Dim str As Stream = Me.GetType().Assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(ResourceName) Dim fs As New FileStream("c:\app1.exe", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write) Dim w As StreamWriter = New StreamWriter(fs) w.Write(str) w.Flush() ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums How to re-connect an Excel.Application variable to a disconnected Excel instance?

  Hi, Automating Excel is wonderfull. I program it quite offen and I quite enjoy it. I have a question: When a program with new a Excel.Application is broken and stopped, the created Excel instance will be deattached to any VBA variable. In this case, I need to be "End Process" manually in the window task manager. I do this more than 50 times in one day of programming. Without doing this, I once had found more than 20 Excel instances in the task manager. It is terrible. I tried following, the program broken at J=27 in my 1Gbyte RAM notebook. Dim J As Byte, mExcel(1 To 50) As Excel.Application For J = 1 To 50 Debug.Print J; Set mExcel(J) = New Excel.Application Next Stop My question is how can I scan all curre ...Show All

• SQL Server Union All Component

  I am using a Union All component in a Data Flow Task. I have 3 Input OLE DB Sources connecting to the 1 Union All component. And then the Union All component connects to OLE DB Destination component. Everything looks good, but for some reason, for every time the Data Flow Task runs, 3 rows are inserted into my table. Why is that Isnt Union All joining all fields, and then just inserting 1 final row to my table. What am I doing wrong or what should i do to just insert 1 row in my table. Thanks and I am really anxious to see responses on this post. Thanks again. Here is my last question, are all my merge joins will be inner joins, left outer joins or full joins. As you know I just have one ID for each Input, which matches. So a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Live webcam viewer

  It might be a big job, but I'd like to know the (basic) code for a program that displays my webcam video (live), and what control to display the webcam video. code { ... code } must be some tag to format code on a webpage somewhere. The stuff inside IS vb.net. The problem is with the line: SendMessage(hWnd, WM_CAP_DLG_VIDEOFORMAT, 0&, 0&) When you use an ampersand: 0& , it makes it a long. In vb.net a long is 64 bits long. SendMessage expects an Integer which is 32bits. Just remove the ampersand. The code was originally vb6. Regarding constant definitions, these api functions are written in c/c++. The constants are defined in the header files. You can usually google for the ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista own Attributes on Interfaces

  I planned to use the method definition in an interface with additional custom attributes for an own global correlation implementation. E.g. public interface IExampleIFace {   [GlobalCorrelation("ID", "id", true)]   void Test(string id, string test); } But if I try to get the custom properties and the settings during design time in a custom activity, I had to discover that the WorkflowDesigner is raping my Interface and exchanged all my attributes with AttributeInfoAttribute attributes. While I already figures out that I can access the values my attribute again by the AttributeInfo.ArgumentValues, I have to be exactly aware of the order of my properties in my attribute to get the right ones. This replacing of attributes ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Keep getting "is a read-only file"

  This is really a getting old...about 8 out of 10 times I get "myfilename.mpp is a read-only file" when I "edit" a document from within my workspace. This really sucks after I've made a bunch of changes to my project file, then try and save it. Lawrence, I'm sorry to hear that you are seeing this issue. This is due to a Sharepoint lock on the project file and we are investigating this to find a suitable workaround or solution. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=681914&SiteID=1 Appreciate your patience. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions emailer form

  Im tring to make a form that a user can fill out and send all the data in the form to my email... so far i have 2 text boxes, 1 Text field and a button What would be a code for this Thanks Loads of examples but the class/namespace you want to be looking at is System.Net.Mail. This will enable you to send email. You will need a mail server and you may need to authenticate yourself to send the emails but the general code is something like the following. If it doesnt work then do a web search on vb.net + system.net.mail.mailmessage for more information. 'Create a new MailMessage object and specify the"From" and "To" addresses Dim Email As New System.Net.Mail.MailMe ...Show All

• Windows Forms Modify The Shortcut Install Path

  I have an application that is deployed to a website. When it is installed the shortcut is installed to the Start>programs>[Name specified as the Publisher Name in Publish Options]>[Application Name] Is there any way that this location can be modified e.g. Can I add another folder location: Start>programs>[Name specified as the Publisher Name in Publish Options]>My Folder>[Application Name] ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO 2005 SE: one assembly for Office 2003 and 2007?

  Hi, can I use VSTO 2005 SE to create one Add-In per Office application which supports the versions 2003 and 2007 in one single assembly I would like to query the given Application object which type or which version of a type it is to e.g. create a ribbon element in Word 2007 or a command bar in Word 2003. How would I set up my dev machine if I want to develop for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007, as it is not supported to have both versions installed on one machine -- SvenC I definitely need a better answer to the first question: Does VSTO 2005 SE solve the problem of Outlook 2003 PIA Let me get this straight: a user gets a new computer, and installs Outlook 2007. Then he wants to install my plugin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Sharepoint sites for TFS disappeared

  Hi Today I noticed a big problem with our TFS test server, the SharePoint sites for all the team projects are gone. The sharepoint sites haven't been visited for a few weeks due to the summer holidays, but they were certainly not deleted on purpose. This is not a big problem however, as these were only sample sites. The big problem is that it's not possible to create new team projects, I have tried both repairing and reinstalling SharePoint, but this doesn't seem to help. I would prefer not to set up everything all over again, so if anyone can help me get back on track I'd be very happy. Would you be able to post the error that you are getting on project creation from the logs Also - shot in the dark this one, but could one of th ...Show All

• SQL Server Do you need 1 or 2 SQL licenses to install RS on separate web server?

  Plese help with this issue by reading and responding!!! If you install Reporting Services 2005 on a separate web server from the database engine do you need 1 or 2 SQL licenses It's a more complex issue than it initially appears to be. Please go to the following thread and read the bottom of page 1 and page 2. Please help verify this! Page 2 contains a post with 5 steps that you can perform to verify that only 1 license is actually need! http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=198900&SiteID=1 Note: Unfortunately this discussion got started in a off topic thread in the wrong category. I wrote this thread so that interested people could find it. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) [urg] security negotions fail over domain

  We're about to go final with an interop wpf/wcf application in our main intranet product, when this bit us bigtime: The security negotiations between server and client fail (and thus time-out). This happens with machines on the same domain as well. The exception: "Client is unable to finish the security negotiation within the configured timeout (00:00:00). The current negotiation leg is 1 (00:00:00). " Basically we wish to do authentication using kerberos. So, in both client and server we have: < security mode =" Message "> < message clientCredentialType =" Windows "/> </ security > When testing with both server as client on the same machine, everything works f ...Show All

• .NET Development SocketError

  I'm trying to listen windows default port (such as 445, 8080) with C Sharp. But, I'm encountering a problem. The error is "An attempt was made to access a socked in a way forbidden by its access permission" I'd like to know, can I listen incoming connection from those port by my own program If I can, please point me out. Best Regards, If another program/service is listen in this port yet, you can't listen too. Before you must shutdown the services listening in this ports, but some system services listen ports are always open. Why this ports Regards. ...Show All

• Visual Studio MsBuild Task and References

  Hi, Is there a way in MSBuild task to specify reference folder to find referenced dll if it cannot find in the referenced path specified in the csproj file which it is trying to build. To state more clearly, the way we can specify References for CSC task is there something similar or a way around. Thanks MRI MRI - Where you ever able to resolve your issue I'm converting from Nant to MSBuild, and it's a huge annoyance - almost to the point where I'm considering sticking with Nant. Let me know what you came up with. John ...Show All