rpreston's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development How to capture the joystick keys in a PDA (Dell Axim Again), with windows mobile 5.0??

  Hi, How can i capture the josystick keys of a PDA(Dell axim x51), i am trying to capture the press of the middle button in my application. I tried using WM_KEYDOWN and other key messages but was not successful. I am using MFC with .net 2005 as the enviroment. Any help would be appreciated Please post your query at the news groups pointed by the below announcement link http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=481505&SiteID=1 Thanks Srikanth Bogadapati// ...Show All

• SQL Server Performing a wget type web request from SSIS (Newbie)

  Hello, I have a file I need to retrieve nightly from a web server, it's not a SOAP request. It's just a wget call to a remote php script that returns a csv file. I can't seem to find a way to do this , I see ftp, and web service, but no web get type of function. Is this not available in IS as provided from microsoft, and something I'm going to have to write Seems like this type of thing would be allmost as common as ftp. If anyone has any suggestions, any help would be be greatly appreciated. Right now, it looks like I'm going to have to use an external wget.exe to get the file. Thanks Found this example that does exactly what I'm looking for. http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson/arch ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tool to find circular dependencies?

  Hi, Is there a tool/add-on to find circular project dependencies It's easy to find when you only have 3 projects, but I've got a lot more than that, and it doesn't seem trivial to figure out (yeah yeah, I'm working on improving the design, but in the short term, I'd like to find this circular dependency). Visual Studio (2005) tells the user that there is a circular dependency, but, annoyingly enough, it doesn't say what the circular dependency is. It wouldn't be hard to list all the projects that depend on each other, in order: project1 depends on project2 project2 depends on project3 project3 depends on project1 Or, more tersely, project1 -> project2 -> project3 -> project1 Simon, I tried this new version, an ...Show All

• Visual Basic Long Numbers

  Hi, I would like to write applications, such as calculating pi, generating Mandelbrot Sets, factoring large numbers or prime hunts, which use extremely long numbers. I'm not talking about the measly 32 decimal places of the Decimal variable. I'm talking about two or three thousand decimal places. I've written a couple long number calculators which are, quite frankly, crude, cumbersome and slow. My approach has been to create arrays of byte characters, assign one digit to each byte, and then try to program the whole thing to handle addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; all the while trying to keep track of decimal places and polarities. It seems to me that there has to be a better way. Anyone know if it is possible to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Ghost Projects

  We had a TFS server and an administrator moved that to a new server. When the old server was turned off, SharePoint errors popped up. We turned the old server back on so that the errors would go away. Another problem we are seeing is "Ghost Projects". These projects appear in Source Control Explorer but when I go to delete them using the command line utility TFSDeleteProject, I get an error "project XXX not found on TFS Server". So, it appears I have two problems 1. How do I convert this SharePoint database over to the correct server and 2. Why am I seeing Ghost Projects and how do I delete them "Show Deleted Items" is NOT enabled. I really can't turn off the server ...Show All

• Visual Basic Integrating .Net into a VB6 client

  Hello I have a question about whats the best way to integrate a .Net application into an "old" VB6 application. The current problem is that we need to rewrite "parts" of the application and need to incorperate those "parts" into an old legacy System... This system is written in VB6 and the goal would be to make this possible with the smallest amount of changes to the VB6 code. I was thinking about creating a plugin or something like that which would have its own form or controls and only require a very "minimalistic interface" (like show()) Are there any patterns which I should take a closer look at or has anyone a suggestion on what would work best The "part" of the system will ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. what graphic engines are free?

  the Torque x engine is only a 30 trial when will there be a full version for free or will we have to fend for ourselves when it comes down to that I'm talking high quality stuff though not asteroids and pac man more like half life 2. TorqueX Binary is free... period :) No worries there. TorqueX Pro will come later and will cost $150. With TorqueX Pro you get the source code for TorqueX. Now TorqueX comes with a 30 day trial of TGB. If you purchase TGB you can then get a free version of TGBX which will allow you to export your levels to TorqueX :) Hope this clarifies. ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro GetFile

  The statement lcFile = GETFILE([PDF],[Scanned doc],[Select document]) causes some machines to totally freeze up. Seems to affect Win2k machines and not XP or 2003. Statement is in a command button in a container in my vcx classlib. Used to work fine till I started building exe's on my 2003 server Any ideas AndyKr wrote: I think that Alex means that GetFile() is merely a wrapper around the Windows API call that opens Windows Explorer. Therefore the issue is nothing to do with VFP, but more likely to do with the WIndows system. Andy That's exactly what I meant. Maybe I did not make it clear. In re-reading, I should've said wrapper around the API. It is not Windows Explorer per se. I' ...Show All

• Smart Device Development OPNET

  hi expert, I am using the OPNET to implement a snoop protocol. Now i am facing problem in generating the cache table and also the source code in the snoop_data and snoop_ack. Can anybody help. Thank for advance Hello Lee, I am currently doing a project with OPNET and also implementing Snoop Protocol and having a hard time finding the modules for opnet or compiling source without errors. Maybe we can work together.................. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Joining code

  Is it possible to make a program with joined code (Like joining a little bit of VB and a little C#)   You can also have a C# or C++ DLL with a VB project or vice versa. DMAN is an expert, expert, expert but because of this ability, I would say it's not as hard as he makes it sound. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Windows Mobile 5.0 USB driver development

  For my master thesis, I need to develop software that controls a medical implant over a USB link. This USB link requires 1 control transfer (the standard one required by the USB standard) and bulk transfer. In order to do this I need to develop a USB driver to communicate with the implant. Up until now my experience developing for windows mobile: NUL, my experience for developing drivers: NUL. Ofcourse I've already done alot of reading, and on the msdn website I only find some information about developing a USB driver, and there it states I need the platform builder.. which is not free. After what I read about the platform builder, it just configures a whole new windows Mobile, but that's not really needed is it I have a certain PD ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Style based on binding

  Hello! What is the correct way of adjusting item style dynamically (preferably through XAML). We have two styles; one for read-only and one for editable modes: We would like to be able to set them something like {Binding Path=ActiveStyle}. The main idea is to keep the styles definable normally in XAML and simple control "toggling" the right style. < Style x:Key = " ReadOnly " TargetType = " {x:Type Border} " > < Setter Property = " Background " Value = " Green " /> </ Style > < Style x:Key = " Editable " TargetType = " {x:Type Border} " > < Setter Property = " Background " Value = " Red " ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS advantages

  This may be too general a question but I'm going to ask it anyway. I'm moving data from a source DB (say A) to a target DB (say B). On A I need to join 3 tables and, after some lookups etc., I need to populate several tables in B. Inserting into B's tables involves sequential operations because in many cases I have to get back the value of an Identity column to use as in input value in a another table 'downstream'. Additionally, the tables in B are populated as a group i.e. if the insert on any one fails the entire group's insertion needs to be rolled back. I set up a set of stored procedures to do this. The master Stored Proc opens a read-only cursor and for each row of the cursor executes the other SPs in proper sequence. Some of t ...Show All

• .NET Development use existing store procedure is disabled

  Does anyone to why when I right click on a tableAdapter to add query I don't get the "use existing store procedure" option. All I get is : 1- Use SQL statment and the other 2 are disabled: create a new stored procedure and use existing stored procedure did you ever get this sorted out i'm in the same boat and can't get the wizard to allow executing an oracle sproc inside a package. thanks in advance. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VSTE Crash on Rename of WebTests and OrderedTests

  Back on April 19, 2006, the following problem was posted regarding VSTE crash problems whenrenaming webtests. I didn't find any further thread information/answer/resolution/suggestion. I'm experiencing the same problem... but with not just webtests... but with orderedtests, as well. Is there a suggested solution available Tx dgorena_MS (Expert): Q: If I go into Solution Explorer and attempt to rename either webtests or folders that they are in, there's a 50% chance that VS just shuts down. Re-opening the project and showing all files shows that both the original and renamed files are there. A: Is this something that you can repro for any project or a specific project We definitely want to know the cause of this and help you ...Show All