MosheDeutsch's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums Windows Media Player and Messenger

  Where do I find the plug-in for Windows Media Player that lets me show contacts what music I'm listening to on Windows Live Messenger The purpose of this forum is to discuss MSN and Windows Live application development using the Messenger Activity API, and Windows Live Bots. If you have technical support questions about using MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger, please check the following resources... Messenger Technical Support is available on the Messenger newsgroup: http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/ dg=microsoft.public.msn.messenger&cat=en-us-msn&lang=en&cr=US&ln=en-us nntp://microsoft.public.msn.messenger Get the latest information on Messenger from the Messenger Team MSN Space: ht ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro How to copy one column to another

  Hi all, I would like to copy a column that has prices (fprice) for parts in it to another column within the same table.  Then I am going to do a replace on the original column (fprice) to increase the price by a fixed amount (I know how to do that).  The table has a column that is not used for anything (by us) within the application.  It is a User Character 3 field (fcusrchr3).  I need to do this so our CFO can look back at the old pricing if need be.  Any help copying the column would be greatly appreciated.  FYI, this is in Visual Foxpro 6. Thanks, Erik FYI scope clause "ALL" that is found in many commands like replace,delete etc are an easy way ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF30177: Team Project Creation Failed

  Hi, I have successfully installed VSTS on single machine. I am able to browse my default site in IIS. My Team Foundation Server site shows as uninstall when I am browsing for virtual server. I appreciate any help or direction. Thank you. When I am trying to create a new project I am getting following error message : Error Unable to connect to the Windows SharePoint Services at MISTEST-2K3 Explanation The Project Creation Wizard was not able to connect to the Windows SharePoint Services at MISTEST-2K3. The reason for the failed connection cannot be determined at this time. Because the connection failed, the wizard was not able to complete creating the Windows SharePoint Services site. User Actio ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions HELP! Print preview Dialog

  little help pls... Im using printpreviewdialog in my application. when i run the application and decided to print the document, the dialog still there.... is it possible to autoclose the dialog after printing... Public Class Form1 Public CalledDirectly As Boolean = False Private Sub PrintDocument1_PrintPage( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs) Handles PrintDocument1.PrintPage ' The 'If' statement below takes care of the autoclose If Not PrintDocument1.PrintController.IsPreview AndAlso Not CalledDirectly Then PrintPreviewDialog1.Close() End If e.Graphics.DrawString( "a" , Me .Font, ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista EventTypeId field in TrackingDataItem table?

  What is the purpose of this field what does 'u' and 'a' means in that field I can not find any relationship with other tables. 'a' indicates that it is data for an activity status change event and 'u' for a user event (ActivityExecutionContext.TrackData or this.TrackData). Thanks, Joel West MSFTE - SDE in WF runtime and hosting This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) August CTP - is it ready?

  Hello, I saw the thread on RC1 support that basically says "it's almost here!". But I also see the wiki on Channel 9 was updated with release notes for the August CTP: http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Cider.AugustCTPReleaseNotes In the above release notes there's even a link to a Cider August CTP: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=935AABF9-D1D0-4FC9-B443-877D8EA6EAB8&displaylang=en Unfortunately, the above link is not working. Is it supposed to be working Or "it's almost here" means that it's really almost here, but not quite here yet The August CTP of Cider was released today - http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Cider.A ...Show All

• SQL Server How to work out the difference of two numbers in SQL table.

  Hi I have 2 columns the first column is a counter thats always counting up like a meter, the second column is a formula that calculate the difference between the counter(column one). like Counter Difference 1 1 3 2 6 3 9 3 11 2 13 2 17 4 25 8 The first row is taken as it is, but the second row will be difference = 3-1 the third one will be 3-6 and so on. How can I do this in a SQL table or any other away Your help will be highly appreciated. I understand what you are trying to achieve, but it would be most helpful if you told us how the user is going to insert the number in the counter r ...Show All

• Visual C# NumericUpDown.ValueChanged firing twice

  I am trying to understand how NumericUpDown controls work. I have some code if (control is TextBox ) (( TextBox )control).TextChanged += new System. EventHandler ( editor.Event_SomethingHasChanged ); else if (control is CheckBox ) (( CheckBox )control).CheckedChanged += new System. EventHandler ( editor.Event_SomethingHasChanged ); else if (control is RadioButton ) (( RadioButton )control).CheckedChanged += new System. EventHandler ( editor.Event_SomethingHasChanged ); else if (control is ComboBox ) (( ComboBox )control).SelectedIndexChanged += new System. EventHandler ( editor.Event_SomethingHasChanged ); else if (control is MaskedTextBox ) (( MaskedTextBox )control).TextChanged += n ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Threadsafe-ObservableCollection

  Hello, I have started playing with WPF. It is very cool. I have a singelton collection object that is derived from ObservableCollection (let’s call it MyCache). I'd like to make sure that it is thread-safe. Seems like I have at least 3 options (I'm not sure if all of them are correct): Option 1: I can go through and make sure the users of MyCache lock the instance before using it. However this is not very appealing. Options 2: So what if I were to override ObservableCollection's virtual methods (InsertItem, RemoveItem, etc.) and lock a common instance every time someone accessed MyCache. Would that solve the problem What would happen to public (non-virtual) methods such as Add and indexOf I have a feelin ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista What cool UI stuff should every app take advantage of in Vista?

  What cool stuff should every unmanaged desktop app take advantage of in Vista And still work well downlevel In XP it was themes, new common dialogs, for example. There does not seem to be the push by Microsoft for apps to exploit or take advantage of Vista UI features as there was around the Windows 2000/XP timeframe. People were making sure their apps looked and felt like XP long before it was released. Now with Vista just around the corner, we have huge COM based shell stuff that nobody is even looking at or caring about. Devreadiness doesn't have this type of info. What are the cool things to do in every app and also have a good downlevel fallback Some stuff I've found are: - IFileOpenDialog/IFileSaveDialog - very lar ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions concerning media player

  renee where do I post pause button code ok..so as I was saying I thought I would like to be able to make the current song repeat.....if you like a song you may wish to replay it a couple of times....... but the best I can do is this....which restarts the song, . if you catch it before the next song starts can you help Private Sub btback_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btback.Click WMP.Ctlcontrols.stop() tmr.Start() ProgressBar.Value = 0 btpause.Text = "pause" btpause.ForeColor = Color.Beige WMP.Ctlcontrols.play() End Sub ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DreamBuildPlay is up!!!

  Now go register!!   Actual contest details to come the week of Feb 5th U can't do it....U can't give wrong information, as it's violation of "terms of use": MEMBER ACCOUNT, PASSWORD, AND SECURITY If any of the Services requires you to open an account, you must complete the registration process by providing us with current, complete and accurate information as prompted by the applicable registration form. You also will choose a password and a user name. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify Microsoft im ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Dictionary Extension

  I am trying to develop an application where a I can switch the main system dictionary used by the handwriting recognition engine to other dictionaries. I want to use the system dictionary so that the change is affected in all applications that use this engine. I have been trying to do some research to discover what dll's are being used, where the dictionaries are, ect. The only thing that I've managed to locate so far is the User dictionary, and I have not found any kind of resource that explains what files are being used and how. I am new to development for Tablets and am looking for any pointers, suggestions, or ideas that anyone may have to help me out with this. Thanks B.J. The handwriting re ...Show All

• Visual C# Help with strange PInvoke conversion

  Hi, thanks in advance for your time and eventually for your help. I have to wrap some c functions from a dll creating a C# assembly . I tried many forums etc etc but i didn't find any help . Here's the c funtion prototype : short SessionNew( Session *pSession, SessionNewArgRec *pSessionNewArgRec ); where : typedef struct _Session * Session ; struct _Session is not defined anywhere, so i suppose that Session is a int ptr SessionNewArgRec is a struct which im sure i do a good conversion of . this is what i've written up to now : [DllImport( "libxxx30.dll" , SetLastError = true, CallingConvention=CallingConvention.Cdecl)] public static extern short SessionNew( IntPtr hSession, IntPtr lpSessionNewArg); i don't think this is right, 'cause eit ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Game Component Design Guidelines?

  Anyone have any suggestions, tips, experiences, etc regarding designing and developing Game Components With the move of the GraphicsComponent to a service (which makes sense), one of my questions is remains: what makes a good Game Component In pre beta 1, other Game Components that were hinted at were a Camera and Fps Counter. In beta 2, would these still be Game Components, or be left at system-level Is the choice as simple as whether or not your would-be-component has an Update method that takes a single GameTime parameter Same goes for IDrawable, if a Draw method with a single GameTime parameter is sufficient, should this be a Drawable Game Component Is it a never-ending debate such as the guidelines for designing Interfaces ...Show All