Eric Liprandi's Q&A profile

• Audio and Video Development Writing To Persistent Storage

  I've been working on this for what seems like an eternity now, but I can't get it to work. I want to be able to write an XML file to the persistent storage of an HD-DVD player. So far, this is what I have tried. - Going from the disc, to the filecache, then to the required storage. Failed when going from the filecache to the required storage. - Going straight from the disc to the required storage. Fails instantly. - Creating a file on-the-fly, and then going to the required storage. Fails again. I am placing the file inside of a folder in the required storage. The folder name is the content ID from the DISCID.DAT. The only thing that comes to mind is that the disc has to have AACS applied for it to work. I hope I am wrong on th ...Show All

• Visual C# Where is csc.exe in NET 2.0 SDK?

  To all, I have downloaded the .NET Framework Software Development Kit (SDK) version 2.0 and there doesn’t seem to be a csc.exe. I have C# Express installed, but I am just learning the language and it is my experience that to really learn a language it is best learned without the assistance of a fancy GDE. So I just want a cmd prompt. Additionally the book I am using is an older copy of Jesse Liberty’s ‘Programming C#’ (O’Reilly, 2001) and the examples use csc.exe. From what I can tell it should be under ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin’, but it isn’t. Help John Garrett no worries. you need to download the .NET Framework, its included in that. not sure about the SDK however (wouldnt see why it wouldnt be in ...Show All

• SQL Server Trying to access SQL SERVER 2005 with Access 2003

  I am trying to connect through ODBC connectivity, but it will not allow me to do so. I have investigated this matter. It leads me back to the server, because as I was configuring my client side database. It kept asking for the DSN(datasource name), but I was unable to choose one because there wasn't one to choose. Which is my current dilemma, How can I do this and have it available to choose from the server to satisfy the Access database I went to the domain where the software resides but I don't know what steps to take I also found an interesting piece on microsoft about Kerberos, but I can't follow along according to the instructions it has. I have Access 2003 & SQL SERVER 2005, HELP...! Basically, this is right off the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'gl/glut.h': No such file or directory

  Before you ask , yes i already have search the forum, heck i even search yahoo for an asnwer. Very new to V C++ Express still, and i have the Platform SDK installed. I've seen the video, modified the proper files for VC++ Express. Im currently writing a small/simple win 32 console app, using the glut library. I download GLUT, put it into the proper location: glut into D:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\include\gl glut32.lib into D:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Lib glut32.dll into C:\WINDOWS\system32 /*beginning of my code #include <gl/glut.h> const GLsizei windowWidth = 500; const GLsizei windowHeight = 500; */ I have $FrameworkSDKDir( without the $ sign of course) variable set to D:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform ...Show All

• Visual C++ Has anybody the demo program which has a combox which can select all of the country in the world?

  Has anybody the demo program which has a combox which can select all of the country in the world The most importance thing is that it has to including all the country and regions. I apprecaite your help. These type of questions are outside the scope of this forum ...Show All

• Windows Forms Deploying a Protected executable

  Hi, I would like to use windows installer to deploy a protected .exe that uses a USB dongle. I run the protection software to create the protected .exe. I then copy the protected .exe into my Release directory, when I build the installer it will write over my protected version with the non-protected. I need the detected dependancies for this app to work right. So what I do is remove the project output from the installer and add the protected .exe. My installer than works fine, protected version is deployed. Question is, is this the correct way to do this Does anyone have a better way to deploy a protected .exe using windows installer Thanks Jeff Your protection software... is th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to search listbox for "Full Name" using lastname/firstname

  I'm using vbexpress with MSAccess backend on WINXP sp2. I want to be able to search a listbox which is pre-populated with "lastname + firstname". I want to type my search string in a textbox and have the listbox select the first occurence of a match. I know about the "findstring" method but my quest is slightly more complicated. I want my search string to be a combination of lastname and firstname with a de-limiter. For eg: Listbox contains: Bloggs Joseph; Blocks Jim; Bloggs Joe; My search string may be "Blo / Ji" where forward slash is the delimiter between the lastname and firstname. This should have "Blocks Jim" automatically selected by the listbox. NB: The delimiter can be anythin ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Can't find ActivateService

  Hi guys, I've got the tiniest little Win32 Console App made so that I can simply Deregister and then Activate one of my services. It's so simple, I'll post the entire 10 lines of code. // UpdateProgram.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application. #include "stdafx.h" #include <windows.h> #include <commctrl.h> #include <service.h> int _tmain( int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) { DeregisterService(L "FUBAR" ,0); ActivateService(L "FUBAR" ,0); return 0; } So yeah, not much to it haha. But, it tells me that DeregisterService and ActivateService are both not found. To be exact: Error 1 error C3861: 'DeregisterService': identifier not found c:\..\ ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE7 Tabs

  I am looking for a way using the SendMessage API or something along those lines to activate a different Tab from an external application, so I can detect if a URL is already open and restore that instance of IE and automatically switch to the proper tab. I would like to see a way to save a TAB GROUP and then go to Favorites->TAB GROUPS->my group and reopen all the tabs that I had saved in that group (I watch several codeplex projects of mine as well as several msdn forums, when my son reboots because his game crashes I have to manually open all those sites again:( ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Save layout

  Hello! How can i save my layout in Form1 I am using VB 2005 Express. Form1 contains about 150 TextBoxes, 50 Labels and 1 Rich TextBox. I want to save the layout as a Word document with Boderstyle around TextBoxes and Labels. Does anyone have a code example Can't get it to work! Grateful for any help. I think your barking up the wrong tree here of have a lot of work to do if you really want to do this. VB allows you to develop applications - word is a word processor. If you want to show you form layout in Word then you can do a screen capture but this is not going to allow you to do any further editing. There is no direct way to send you form layout code to word. If yo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions SendMessage Help

  My VB6 code: Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32.dll" Alias "SendMessageA"(ByVal hwnd As Integer, ByVal wMsg As Integer, ByVal wParam As Integer, ByRef lParam As Any) As Integer Anyone know how to fix for 2005 I have used this sucessfully: Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "USER32" Alias "SendMessageA" ( ByVal hWnd As IntPtr, ByVal msg As Integer , ByVal wp As IntPtr, ByVal lp As IntPtr) As IntPtr ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums bracketing "ifs" and "ands" and "ors" in VBA over Excel

  How would I write this in VBA if (code1 = 13 and answer1 = 15) or (code1 = 14 and answer1 = 16) then do ...... it seems not to like brackets and if answer1 has several possbilities if (((code1 = 13 and answer1 = 15) or answer1 = 20) or answer1 = 24) .... where do the brackets go  Thanks again, Hamish             Nice. Thanks. What about displaying messages on screen that relate to a value netered by the user. Needs to hold 100 words or more in the message. Dialogues but how Thanks agina. H. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Graph Drawing in xaml

  hello i'm trying to draw a graph using xaml, at the minute just a simple line chart will do. however the data has to be binded with (hard coded for the min) data, this data is also displayed via a list, so the user can change the data in the list and the graph will be automatically updated. the problem i am having is that i have a collection of lines that need to be drawn, (i am drawing using the polyline), i can make a template for the list and then display all of the polylines so the user can change the string which makes up the line (not very great way at the minute but that will be changed) however i cant seem to draw the polyline using this method. drawing 1 polyline using: <Polyline Stroke="AliceBlue" StrokeThickness=&qu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Report dissapear on postback

  Hi all, I am using Crystal Report for VS 2005 to develop an Asp page.Below is the code is use to display my report in a button click event. OdbcDataAdapter myAdap = new OdbcDataAdapter (); myAdap.SelectCommand = myCmd; DataSet ds = new DataSet (); myAdap.Fill(ds); ds.WriteXml( @"c:\dataset_summary.xml" , XmlWriteMode .WriteSchema); string reportPath = Server.MapPath( "Crystal/projectsummary.rpt" ); myReport.Load(reportPath); myReport.SetDataSource(ds); myCrystalReportViewer.ReportSource = myReport; The report is displayed but when i click on the Export button or the Print button, the report dissapear. Any idea why this occurs and how to solve it ...Show All

• Visual C++ VC 2005 with DDK 3790.1830

  Hello there,I'm new to driver development. and i thought of using VC++ as my tool. I know it is possible to use VC2005 and the DDK together but that needs some configurations that i couldn't find over my internet search. Could someone please help me with configuring VC2005 to work with the DDK Thanks Hello Re: VC 2005 with DDK 3790.1830 Firstly, sorry for such a long delay in anyone replying. Unfortunately such questions are outside the scope of this forum - for the scope of the VC Language forum please look at: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=789657&SiteID=1 . Therefore I assume most readers ignored your post as it does not match with the scope (and therefore the talents) of ...Show All