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• Smart Device Development Cannot connect Windows CE 6.0 DeviceEmulator via Activesync

  Hello, When I clicked "Cradle" in Device Emulator Manager, the ActiveSync tried to connect but finally showed the dialog window "Microsoft ActiveSync cannot recognize this device for one of two reasons: *The deicve was not connected properly. *The device is not a Smartphone or Pocket PC." Some background: 1. Catalog item "ActiveSync" is added in OSDesigns for building the run-time image. 2. DMA support in enabled ActiveSync (v4.2). Thanks. Can you please verify that if you saved the state of emulator while cradled If yes, i would suggest to try after clear of save-state. -Thanks, Mohit ...Show All

• Community Chat Password Stars

  Windows Forms apps make it too easy to create something without writing much (if any) code. For example, to have a user enter a password displaying only asterisks is simply done by changing the textbox property. But isn't it more satisfying to actually program your own code for it, as in this Console application Module Module1 Sub Main() Dim ch, word As String word = "" Console.Write( "Enter your password: " ) Do ch = Console.ReadKey( True ).KeyChar 'get character without display If ch = Chr(8) And word.Length > 0 Then 'backspace to delete Console.CursorLeft = Console.CursorLeft - 1 'move back one column Console.Write( " " ) 'erase last star Co ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office I want know how many workbooks are open from a excel application,but i know only its process id

  Hi, iam having one application in which with the help of the excel process id provided by system.diagnostics i want to choose that paricular excel application and i want the no of workbooks ,or worksheets attached to it, Can anyone help on this issue Regards Prasad. Hmm, Generally, when Excel process starts up, it registers its Application object in the Running Object Table (ROT). Later, one can retrieve this object using Marshal.GetActiveObject("Excel.Application"), cast it to Excel.Application and use it to retrieve the desired information (e.g. to get the number of open workbooks you can use something like the code below object oxlApp = Marshal.GetActiveObject("Excel.Application" ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development How do I open a HTML page stored in local drive, give its parameters?

  I have a HTML web page that uses parameters to generate the content. It works fine on web servers, but when I use it on my local machine, I got this error saying my PC can't find the file. If I don't include the paramters, it finds my HTML file. But I need the paramter to generate proper content. What should I do BTW I am using IE7 and XP Professional SP2. I have the same problem using IE7 (it works fine with IE6). When I run: iexplore file://C:/test.html VAR1=123 IE7 only uses the part " file://C:/test.html ". The parameter part does not appear in the address line. If I place the web page on my web server and run: iexplore http://<web server>/test.html VAR1=123 the web page gets t ...Show All

• SQL Server SSRS: Generate Report Without RDL file

  Hi all the good people here, Can I generate a report without having RDL file physically at the server According to any "Generic Report Builder" logic, the report builder must stores the properties of Report in one form (RDL/XML) or the other (in database) and at the time of generating the "Report Output", builder must be reading those properties, assigning those to any class object's (say objRPT) properties/members and calling the method to generate the report in perticular file format. I need a way where I can assign these values stored in the database (i.e. meta data of report is stored in database) to the objRPT directly. Can I do that. I need this because I want to see whether I can switch from "Act ...Show All

• Windows Forms Clickonce deployment error trying to download

  I am getting the following error when I tried to install a Windows application using clickonce deployment The following properties have been set: Property: [AdminUser] = true {boolean} Property: [ProcessorArchitecture] = Intel {string} Property: [VersionNT] = 5.1.2 {version} Running checks for package 'Microsoft Data Access Components 2.8', phase BuildList Reading value 'FullInstallVer' of registry key 'HKLM\Software\Microsoft\DataAccess' Read string value '2.81.1117.0' Setting value '2.81.1117.0 {string}' for property 'MDACVersion' The following properties have been set for package 'Microsoft Data Access Components 2.8': Property: [MDACVersion] = 2.81.1117.0 {string} Running checks for command 'MDAC28\mdac_typ.exe' Result of running op ...Show All

• Visual Studio Can Sandcastle generate HTML Help 2 documentation?

  I currently use NDoc + H2Reg to generate HTML Help 2 documentation and integrate it into the Visual Studio Help Collection. Can this be done with SandCastle From what I can see the sample provided for the CTP only generated CHM files. Here is an MSBUILD project that builds HTML Help2 files using Sandcastle: http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/postsharp/trunk/Documentation/ClassRef/ClassRef.proj view=markup With little modifications it should work with your projects also. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How to gray out screen for pause menu

  Hello, I am trying to create a grayed out copy of the screen of my game so that I can render a "pause options" menu on top of it. I think the solution might have something to do with using GraphicsDevice.CreateRenderTarget to render the game to a new texture, and then drawing that texture grayed out. How do I accomplish the actual graying out How (if it is even possible) do I render my game so that the result ends up in a new texture instead of on the screen Thanks! Phoenix, I'm not sure what any of that means (well, except for the dot product part, which I understand). I'm writing a 2D game, and so far I don't know anything about shaders (but maybe I should learn ). I was under the (probably mistaken) impression that they ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums live messenger logging on twice

  Everytime I log in, messenger tries to run twice on XP pro. It gives me an error that I can only sign on one computer at a time . I've checked the startup and it only appears once. Is there any fix for this and is it a known issue Cheers. I am sorry but this forum is for developmen discussion only. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=368260&SiteID=1 http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=335030&SiteID=1 I had the same problem and it was the Windows Messenger that logged on also. Run and disable Windows Messenger to start, it is available in the start menu. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WPF vs2005 code snippets

  Hey fellow WPF addicts, If you like me you can't get enough of code snippets and keyword<TAB> and let completion do most of the work. The ones that came with the last cider were a bit lacking so i upgraded them a bit and added a few other ones (read-only dependencies and tuneling / bubbling events). And it's all at http://serialseb.blogspot.com/2006/12/wpf-snippets.html Let me know if it's useful for you! Hope it helps, SerialSeb ...Show All

• SQL Server insert statement problem

  Hi all, I'm trying to calculate the data from one table and insert the results into another table. The queries are the following: 1. select top 5 userId, count(photoId) numOfPhoto from photo group by userId order by count(photoId) desc 2. select top 5 userId, count(photoId) numOfPhoto from photo where datesubmitted > DATEADD(dd,-30,DATEADD(dd, DATEDIFF(dd,0,getdate()), 0)) and datesubmitted < DATEADD(dd,-8,DATEADD(dd, DATEDIFF(dd,0,getdate()), 0))group by userId order by count(photoId) desc 3. select top 5 userId, count(photoId) numOfPhoto from photo where datesubmitted > DATEADD(dd,-7,DATEADD(dd, DATEDIFF(dd,0,getdate()), 0)) and datesubmitted < DATEADD(dd, DATEDIFF(dd,0,getdate()), 0) group by userId order by coun ...Show All

• .NET Development Web Service and a problem in Web Reference

  Hello, I have Web Service which contains classes. Public Class Foos Public Sub New() End Sub <XmlElement("Foo")> Public Foo As Foo() End Sub Public Class Foo Public Sub New() intSomething = Nothing End Sub <XmlElement("intSomething")> Public intSomething As Integer End Sub Then I have WebMethod <WebMethod(Description:="Lists all Foos")> _ Public Function AllFoos() As Foos Dim F As Foos = New Foos F.Foo = ListOfFoos() '-- ListOfFoos is a functions that returns array of Foos where intSomething is set for every Foo Return F End Sub Now the problem is, or I don't know is it problem or only something that I don't understand. If I ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista help desk sample application

  hi, You might want to check out this open source web help desk , which uses a, wwf, state machine workflow, hosted as a windows service to model the help desk process. thanks, ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista workflow project type

  hello, My workflow run from a win form application. which type of the workflow ( Sequential Workflow console App or sequential workflow library..) must be used. Hiya The console app includes a console application host so if you already have a windows application to host your workflow just add a workflow library project to your solution. ...Show All

• SQL Server Dynamically specify server and database in Stored Procedure

  I am writing Stored Procedures on our SQL 2005 server that will link with data from an external SQL 2000 server. I have the linked server set up properly, and I have the Stored Procedures working properly. My problem is that to get this to work I am hardcoding the server.database names. I need to know how to dynamically specify the server.database so that when I go live I don't have to recompile all of my stored procedures with the production server and database name. Does anyone have any idea how to do this EXAMPLE: SELECT field1, field2 FROM mytable LEFT OUTER JOIN otherserver.otherdatabase.dbo.othertable OBJECTIVE: Replace 'otherserver.otherdatabase.dbo.othertable' with some other process (dbo.fnGetTable('dbo.othertable') ) Tha ...Show All