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• Smart Device Development Vista, VS2005 SP1, Mobile Device Center and disconnects

  Situation: I had to install Vista Ultimate x64 I installed Visual Studio 2005, SP1. Both in Italian. I could not install the "Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista " because it is available only for English. To work with my PDA, I installed "Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center Beta 3 for Windows Vista (AMD64)". I'm able to sync my PDA with my PC. The problem: When I run my VS2005 VB application, it is correctly distributed on my PDA. BUT, as soon as it load the symbols for debugging, the PDA gets disconnected from the "Windows Mobile Device Center" (but NOT from VS 2005!!) This happens randomly, but about 4 times out of 5. I can debug my application, but since my application is tryin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Saving Data

  Hello, I have a form and I can use the data binding tool with my access DB with no problems but I cannot figure out how i save things manually, I want to save specific data to specific columns in a table, could somone point me in the right direction or post some kind of example Thanks! heres what i have so far "which doesnt work" Try Me .Validate() Me .ContractsBindingSource.EndEdit() TextBoxVat.Text = Me .InvoiceDetailsTableTableAdapter.Update( Me .db1DataSet.InvoiceDetailsTable.Address1Column) MsgBox( "update successful!" ) Catch ex As Exception MsgBox( "update failed, the data may already exist please check and try again." ) End Try ...Show All

• Commerce Server BaseCatalogName

  I'm looking to get the BaseCatalogName from the SiteContext CurrentCatalogUri Category object or the SiteContext CurrentCatalogUri CatalogItem object but as of yet have been unsuccessful. Can anyone point me in the right direction Thanks, Brad Sure. As you know, this is how URLs are currently displayed in a commerce site: http://www.website.com/Virtual Catalog/Category(Base Catalog Name)/Subcategory(Base CatalogName)/Default.aspx My goal is to make the URLs more friendly by removing the (Base Catalog Name) from being displayed to the user. IE http://www.website.com/Virtual Catalog/Category/Subcategory/Default.aspx I realize the need to have the base catalog name when referencing categories per your po ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DrawableGameComponents as primary graphical output.

  Would it be a valid programming approach in XNA to have the main game's Draw function not draw anything, but use DrawableGameComponent classes to perform all of the video processing This would seem to make sense, because you have various screen types in a game, which could all be DrawableGameComponents, such as the startup screen, FMV screens, gameplay screens, etc. Also, would you use DrawableGameComponent for something like a character in the game, since it is 'drawn' to the screen Or would you make it a simple class, or maybe a regular GameComponent, and have the appropriate screen DrawableGameComponent class perform the drawing for it I did what you describe first in my game, and the only added c ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista canceling an activity to reset itself?

  i've got a custom activity composed of 2 activities. all it does is listen for an event from the user, and then if the user input is valid, it calls an external method. the problem is, i don't see how to 'reset' the activity if the input is invalid. i.e. if the input is invalid, then i need for the current activity to cancel out and start listening again. as a hack, i think i can accomplish this by enclosing it in a while loop activity, and not to break out of the loop unless the user input is valid. or is there another way to accomplish this by setting the execution status if so, i haven't been able to determine the correct method call, or (dependency) property to set. Thanks, casey disregard my ...Show All

• SQL Server Using Except function without aggregation (ssas 2005)

  Hello, I recently got help in getting the except function to work... Here is the solution provided by Deepak. (The requirement is to calcuate active head count of employees excluding two departments) SUM( Except([dimensionEmployee].[Employee Department].[All].Children, { [dimensionEmployee].[Employee Department].&[Services], [dimensionEmployee].[Employee Department].&[Leadership] }), [Measures].[Active Employee Head Count]) Now, how do I get the except function to work "without" the aggregation Any help is greatly appreciated.. Thanks, Ganesh Deepak, First let me thank you for the wonderful job you are doing helping us all resolve our issues. The solutions you have posted has h ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Count and display in cell

  Ok I have an Excel workbook that contains a schedule (51 worksheets total). Each cell has intials in it and if that person has taken a day off the cell is highlighted a certain color (yellow, rose, or red). What I need to do is have something that goes through and counts what intials have what color and then display in a cell the number. So: If cell contains "initials" and cell color is "color" Then count and display in "cell" Example: If cell contains "JJ" and cell color is "Yellow" Then count and display in "A2" I know it is possible to do this but I'm not sure how. Tiger Hello, With a few changes it will work for mu ...Show All

• SQL Server Merge replication: problems upgrading SQL-2000 to 2005

  Hello! We have a module in our business-application, that automatically installs merge replication of the business-application's database, both at publisher and subscribers. It's intended for Sql-2000. Now we need it to be applicable also for Sql-2005, so the module requires some changes, because, as we noticed, sql-2005's replication technology differs from Sql-2000's one. A few questions to experts, familiar with Merge Replication in SQL-2005: 1. Is it possible to create hybrid replication , with publisher running at SQL-2000 (MSDE) and subscribers running at SQL-2005 Express Merge publication is not supported in SQL 2005 Express, but some users may require option to use the application at free-of-charge database platform. 2. ...Show All

• Visual C++ what is supported by GDI

  I want to write a project that has some function likes WordArt of Microsoft Words. it can fit the text to any pattern I want to use GDI to deverlop my project. so, could you tell me, what is supported by GUI (not use GUI plush) . thanks & regards!!! i'm very unpleasure with your answers. I think you don't know what is WordArt. So, can you tell me where in this forums i can asks about GDI (Graphic Device Interface). thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server Can SSIS save the context of errors at the package level?

  Lately, I have been experimenting with SSIS and I created a generic custom error logging component that saves all offending data on data flow component failure. However... Instead of re-directing rows at the data flow level and handling/logging the data at that level, is it possible to catch all of this information at the package level and handle/process it there If so how would you do this Thanks! Tony sorry let me reword my questions..i think you misinterpret them. Jamie Thomson wrote: tchen777 wrote: Yes I have seen that link before. 2 problems with this... 1) It seems I can only access data at the package level if it is saved in variables. Does this mean I must save all data flow erro ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can I Record Test case of DeskTop application

  Is it possible to create/record test case for Windows based Application (Desktop Application/.exe) in Team System - Testers. I m using this tool for test Web Application. WebTest is simply record HTTP requests but on other hand we have tools like WinRunner from Mercury, Any possibility in Team Suite to test desktop application like Winrunner doing for Web and DeskTop applications. ...Show All

• Visual C++ native WIFI -- wlanapi

  Hello there, I am trying to write a small software that manipulate the wlan configuration in windows XP. I download the beta version of Wireless LAN API for Windows XP SP2. While I am trying to give it a shot, I read somewhere that WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) is not supported in this API. Since I am not 100% sure, can anyone give me any information about it Thanks a lot. I have forward this my question to this email address. Thank you a lot! Math23: Will let you know if I get an answer. ...Show All

• Visual C++ C++/CLI problems/issues

  I have some questions on C++/CLI issue. Let me explain my situation: I have an existing native COM dll that contains my logic. It has been tested and works fine with native C++ client using CoCreateInstance. I would like to add a new logic and notice that BCL has a class that I can use. So I add a new source file and header which I compile with /clr since I need to use one of BCL classes (actually, at this point, it is just an empty shell). When I tried to CoCreateInstance in my native client, it couldn’t create. But if I go back to my COM dll project and take out the /clr in my new source file, it works fine. After some debugging, I found out the problem and have been able to fix the issue. However, I would like to get more detai ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS FTP Task Variable Remote Path invalid

  I am working on the SSIS FTP Task that transfer file from one FTP server to local location, rename the file name, and finally transfer the renamed file to another FTP server. So I defined 2 FTP tasks. For the FTP file receive operation, I need the remote path to be updated by a script and pass to the user define variable. So I set TRUE to IsRemotePathVariable. In the RemoteVariable, I set User::FTPSourcePath where the variable is set in the script with "/DMFTP/filename1.jpg" For the FTP file send operation, I set TRUE to IsRemotePathVariable. In the RemoteVariable, I set User::FTPDestPath where the variable is set in the script with "/DestFTP/" After all the setting, the FTP Task box show me the error as " ...Show All

• .NET Development Linking to unmanaged DLL from Web Service

  I have a web service which needs to link to an unmanaged dll to perform some operations. The problem is that I cannot add a reference to the dll from visual studio (as it's unmanaged), and so when the web service is run, the dll is not copied into ASP..NETs temp directory where the rest of the services files are temporarily loaded. I'm not interested in solutions that involve copying the dll to the temp directory, I want a more 'clean' solution. Is there any way for the web service to link to the dll, so that it can access it at run time without requiring a manual copy of the dll to the working directory. Thanks, Nathan Actually solution is embarasingly simple. Just add the dll into the bin directory ...Show All