Will Merydith's Q&A profile

• .NET Development C++ Web Service

  Hi Folks, I'm writing a small web service in C++ (apparently a foolhardy endeavor). Basic operation looks OK. However, I'm having the darndest time getting FindWindow() to work. Possibly making matters worse, I'm using multibyte strings, not Unicode. #define CLASS_NAME "Game Player" ... f_hPlayerWnd = FindWindowA(CLASS_NAME, NULL); Everything compiles and runs, but FindWindow keeps returning 0, even passing NULL for lpWindowName. When I call FindWindow from within the app I'm looking for, it works fine, so I'm thinking it's not a typo in lpClassName. Any help appreciated. Chuck Bueche Craniac, Inc. Yes, it's the intermingling that's the problem. It's precisely the inter-process communication ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums More points in routeItinerary?

  Hello people, i ' d really appreciate if someone can help me with this one. I need to get more intermmediate points in a routeItinerary object after querying directions with getRoute() method. Sometimes, when there is a long way on the same route, one step could be several hundreds long. I need to get steps like 25 miles long. Is there any possibility to do this with this control, or work around, or even if not, do you know of some other way to do it Any other service Thanks very much Dario so Derek, to sum up: in virtual earth you can go to production and commercial websites if you stays under 5000 transactions (actually, it's been updated to 10000 by now), but there is no similar possibility wi ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WCF solution for remote object references?

  Hi, I have a remoting-based distributed application I'm considering updating to use WCF. Here's how it works: Two or more client apps register with a single hub service, each giving the hub a reference to the client object (the hub acts as a discovery service). If client A wants to talk to client B it asks the hub for a reference to B, and then calls B's methods directly using that reference - client A doesn't even have to know where client B is on the network; the remote object ref it gets from the hub "just works" for calling B. This is a very powerful system which works well with remoting using remoted object references (i.e. RPC). Can anyone suggest an approach for doing this with WCF, which seems to me to be more message- ...Show All

• .NET Development Dataset Current Row Position

  I am programatically creating a dataset with a table and need to know the current row number I am on before doing something else so I can get back to it. I have no controls bound to this dataset/table and would prefer to do everything in program. In the old days of recordsets I just used to get the bookmark of the current record and then go back to that bookmark. I have searched and can't find how to do this and I know it is probably really simple. Thanks You may want to look at DataRowCollection.IndexOf(Datarow row) which is new for .NET 2.0. Given any row you can get it's position in the Rows collection by using myRow.Table.Rows.IndexOf(myRow). Asuming RowCollection hasn't been modfied via Ins ...Show All

• SQL Server Delete record from table over 5000 count.

  Hi, I want to delete from table when the record count is over 5000. That is, the table's record cannot over 5000 count. How row_number() seem to be used... If I should make index for this table, the DATETIME type column will be a member of the index. This table is for saving the event messages which may occur in same time. As a result, this column data may be not unique. Any other column of this table is not unique also... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions access database

  I know there is a treat about this but it can 't solve my problem I've got vb express on 2 computers now, en when I try to connect by add new datasource, one my laptop i'vr got give a connection string , on the other pc , I can browse to the access database. I already removed the complete office and express editions and installed them again the same problem occures a simple question fot some but i can't find it why is there a difference, and I'vr tried several connectionstring , nothing seems to work Is there someone who can give me a push in the good direction thanks in advance greetz ivo it is xp,with sp2 .net framework 2.0 office 2003 proff. the same config ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies Associations

  Hi, I'm using the AdventureWorks BDC example to try to assiociate two entities. The example works, but when I do my modifications, I get the error "Could not find fields to insert all the Identifier Values to correctly execute an Association method." It's possible I've stared myself blind on this xml, but I am not able to find where the missing tags should go. This is my bdc app def: < xml version = " 1.0 " encoding = " utf-8 " standalone = " yes " > < LobSystem xmlns:xsi = " http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance " xsi:schemaLocation = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/03/BusinessDataCatalog BDCMetadata.xsd " Type = " Database " ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Stuck in loop; newbie need help

  Hi All ! The following code seems to stuck in loop. Any idea why Function koe( ByVal u As Short ) As Boolean Dim z As Integer = 0 Do My .Application.DoEvents() Out(&H378S, 1) For z = 1 To 200 z += 1 Next Out(&H378S, 0) 'Stop For z = z To 1000 z += 1 Next 'Acc = 0 z = 0 Out(&H378S, 0) Loop While u = 1 'Acc = 0 z = 0 Out(&H378S, 0) End Function The code comes out of do loop when u = 1, but it still keeps doing output to LPT Thanks in advance Chopa I'll add, here, that you need to learn to use the debugger : rather than simply run the program and wonder why it doesn ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) netMsmqBinding using WAS

  Hi, I'm currently testing WAS running "Longhorn" build 6100. When hosting services using net.tcp everything is running fine. However, when I attempt to start a service using netMsmqBinding the application pool used by WAS process "freezes". The only error message I get is an entry in the windows event log indicating that the WAS process "hasn't responded to a ping". The service I'm trying to test works fine when running on Vista Ultimate machine. Any ideas Hi Henny, Could you please answer these three clarifying questions 1. When you say "Longhorn" build 6100, are you referring to Windows Server codename "Longhorn" I wasn't aware build 6 ...Show All

• .NET Development Process.GetProcess() Issue

  I'm facing trick problem. I'm using Process.GetProcess( ) method to get all the process which are running in server. This code causes the application termination. If i want to get what kind security permission i have to set . Can any one help Regards Unsure what "find the previous instance" means. Anyway, if you have a semaphore with a maxCount of n, you will be able to call WaitOne and not block n times. After this a call will block, waiting for a Release. There is a timeout overload. If you put 0, you can just check if the count is n or less. ...Show All

• .NET Development How to keep a thread running?

  Hi, I have the following issue and the odd part about is that I had it already working however I don't know what I changed that it doesn't anymore. I runtime compile a class, create an instance of it and init it on a different thread. In this init the class subscribes to a couple data dispatchers and should now wait for incoming data. When I first implemented this it kept running after I subscribed to the dispatchers until I aborted the thread. However, now it subscribes and after that exits the thread. Any idea how I can keep it running without putting it in a wait loop Thanks, Tom A while(true) loop in the thread should do it. :) Or a Thread.Sleep() Dont!! Just Kidding. You have to give us more info ...Show All

• SQL Server Trigger and send to the fax printer

  Can SQL Server let me create a triger and send the data to the fax printer n send it to that particular person Hi, you have to be aware that sending printer jobs through a trigger can cause performance issues. Triggers behave asynchronously which means that they will block during their execution. You should better write the job data to a table and poll this table on a regular basis or use Service broker for communicating with some other message service. HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Xml/Xaml Editor WPF Component

  Hello everybody. Before starting to reinvent the wheel, I'd like to ask: Does anybody know a good  Xml/Xaml Editor WPF control Does maybe even Microsoft plan to provide such an editor as a basic part of the presentation foundation, just like the RichTextBox is In particular I am looking for an editor component, which features: data: from a XmlReader source or from a XmlDocument syntax highlighting (tags, attributes, special signs, comments ...) IntelliSense with respect to any schemas defined in the XmlReaderSettings outlining as in Visual Studio (i.e. support for collapsing/expanding logical sections) standard editor features In my scenario I would like to use it as the source editor for a spe ...Show All

• Windows Forms Dynamically creating text boxes and retrieving their values

  I have a user control consisting of three text boxes. I have to dynamically add these text boxes to a panel control depending upon a number of record selection by the user. These text boxes are loaded in pairs with one text box contains a name and the other comments about this name. If user selects 5 records than this pair/user control will be loaded 5 times. Does anyone knows how could I traverse through all the text boxes and read their text values. I have to make sure that I keep track of NAME and its COMMENT in pairs such a way that I read name and then its comments and so on. 1. TextBox(hidden)-file_num | TextBox -file_name | TextBox -comments ......read and execute the stored proc 2. TextBox(hidden)-file_num | TextBox -file_nam ...Show All

• Visual Studio Debugger starts and stops without running application

  If I create a new project (i.e. Windows Application), put a button on the form and then try to start the debugger, it will "start" and "stop" within a second or two. No form is displayed. If I run it outside the debugger, no form is displayed. If I add code behind the button and try to set a breakpoint, it is ignored. This occurs for both Visual Basic 2005 Express and Visual C# 2005 Express. Any ideas The exit code is -1073741819. In the knowledge base, the error code exists for other applications, but not for Visual Studio. ...Show All