Scorchio's Q&A profile

• Internet Explorer Development IE7: Img control NOT allowed to view local files???

  Hi, I have an image preview function (in javascript) that allows the user to view an image before it is uploaded to the web site. I use the standard upload control (type="file") which- when set by browsing to an image- is used to determine the image path on the user's local machine. For some reason IE7 refuses to display the image. This works in IE6. I have to admit that this did not work in FireFox so maybe there is some standards incompatibility that is involved. code is : var path=up.value; // 'up'is the upload control img.src=path; // 'img' is the image control I've tried various ways to modify the local path with file:/// and file://localhost/ but nothing seems to work. Any one know Thanks! Jack ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to add COM component into Toolbox in Visual Studio 2005?

  Hi all, Does anybody know, how to add COM component into Toolbox in Visual Studio 2005 It is simple in VS 2003, but in VS 2005 added component is hidden and isn't appeared at all, until I choose "Show All" from popup menu. Please, help me :) Thanks! Sorry I didn't reply sooner, George. For some reason the web site didn't alert me that there was a response on this thread. Anyway, what I meant to ask is whether the designer you had open at the time was the text editor, the Windows Forms designer, or something else This is how the toolbox determines what controls should be enabled. -Josh Stevens VS Core IDE team ...Show All

• Visual C# Make end of statement ";" optional?

  I think microsoft should make the end of line statement, (i.e. the ";") optional. If you program VB.net like I do and is inevitably forced to write/read C# code, having to write the ; after each statement is annoying. I know C/C++/java etc all have it but in an enviroment like Visual studio where the IDE makes life so much easier the end of line statement is unnecessary. Who agrees with me I know that people with a C like language background would most likely not agree but I don't mind the underscore for spanning multiple lines of code in VB, though it too can be annoy sometimes it does make code more clear (like oh, this line of code spans 3 rows). But remember I'm talking about people that comes from VB, not from C/C++ et ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions web textboxes

  Hi peeps, Does anyone know how to insert data from a vb form into a textbox on a website what I would like to achieve is automaticly log into yahoo mail with the selected username and password and return the current new messages in the inbox folder. hope somone can help, thanks. indeed its possible via say a webbrowser control. you need to know the name of that control and find it then set the innertext. : http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=965578&SiteID=1   you can also hit the submit button should there be one Dim theElements as HtmlElementsCollection = Me.theWebBrowserControl.Document.GetElementsByTagName("input") for each currentElement as Htm ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to know that a user control is in design mode

  I have a user control which normally displays a large amount of data from an application. This is similar to an excel chart. When I drop this control onto a form, I want to put some dummy data in, so that properties can be previewed. I can't see how (within the control code) to determine that the control is in design mode. How can this be determined Trev Use the DesignMode property on the control (it's actually defined on Component, which Control inherits from). Sometimes that isn't always accurate, so it's sometimes a good idea to use it together with a check against System.ComponentModel.LicenseManager.UsageMode == System.ComponentModel.LicenseUsageMode.Designtime. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How can I destroy a COM object?

  I am using the FilgraphManager and I can't figure out how to get rid of it after I use it. The following simple code shows my problem. I render a video with the Command1 Button and start the Graph playing. I would like to destroy the Graph with the other Button; Button1. Setting the FilgraphManager to Nothing just breaks my reference to the Graph. Option Strict Off Option Explicit On Friend Class Form1 Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form Private FileName As String Private FGM As QuartzTypeLib.FilgraphManager Private Pos As QuartzTypeLib.IMediaPosition Private Vid As QuartzTypeLib.IBasicVideo2 Private VidWnd As QuartzTypeLib.IVideoWindow Public Sub RndrFile() Me .CommonDialog1Open.S ...Show All

• Smart Device Development .NET Compact Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 is released and available for download.

  Please follow this link for download and list of changes: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=0c1b0a88-59e2-4eba-a70e-4cd851c5fcc4&displaylang=en Note: if you have previous version of NETCF V2 MSI installed on your desktop, please uninstall it first. Hi Guys, Do you know when the border around datetime controls and listview will be fixed on smartphone platform. Kind Regards, Tarek ...Show All

• Visual Basic Error handling in timer callback functions

  I use a System.Threading.Timer object (VB.NET 2003) to call my object's execution method every second. It all works fine until there is an error and no matter how many try/catch blocks surround the offending code, once an error is generated, the execution routine is then constantly in some error state and never recovers (even though the source of the error is gone). There is obviously something I'm missing about what happens when an error occurs on a separate thread - any insight how to handle errors on a separate thread correctly Thanks Dave Taylor There are a number of problems that could be occurring here. Can you provide more detail as to what errors continue to happen after the first Also can you post some of the ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Show of Hands! Is WF by itself a viable approach to addressing a customer's workflow needs?

  Like many of us in the forum I am in the all too often unenviable position to influence my client's decisions. I currently have a lot of customers evaluating workflow, many for the 1st time. I personally have avoided building "custom" workflow solutions whenever possible as I have had success in the past implementing packaged workflow or BPM offerings, both Microsoft-based and less recently non-Microsoft-based. It's allowed me to focus my energies on building solutions and solving real business problems, not building infrastructure. Granted, there are customer situations that don't require or afford you the opportunity to buy a packaged solution to address a workflow/BPM need, but I would argue those are/should be the exception n ...Show All

• .NET Development FtpWebRequest dies when trying to connect to vsftpd.

  I've got an application I inherited, and it was supposed to use secure ftp to get information to an ftp server. Turns out it didn't have this option set, and when I tried to get it to connect via sftp, it failed. I've run into that problem before with http requests, so found the appropriate piece of code to accept certificates (inherited from ICertificatePolicy), and set the ServicePointManager to use my new class. Well that works, but falls over when getting the response from the ftp server (vsftpd running on linux I think). The response is; 234 Proceed with negotiation. Is there some way that I can get the FtpWebRequest class to recognise this as a valid response Thanks in advance I tri ...Show All

• SQL Server Data Mining Wizard (Not Responding)

  I am trying to create a new mining structure, but when launching the wizard the "Data Mining Wizard" stops responding where the dropdownlist with the algorithms should appear. The bizarre thing is that I can access the cube and the datawarehouse just fine using the same setup, it's just the mining wizard that doesn't work. I am using SQL 2005 standard & Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite (and yes I have reinstalled SQL 2005) - no change. Are there any logs that might shed some light on this strange behavior, or is this a known issue Hi Chris The behavior of the algorithm selection wizard page is to retrieve the list of algorithm from the deployment server. If the query times out, it reverts to a list of cached a ...Show All

• SQL Server JDBC Integrated Security problem

  Hi, I am using the latest 6/26 JDBC driver to connect to sql server 2000 server. My url is jdbc:sqlserver://hostname:1433;integratedSecurity=true;. I was getting the following errors "Invalid integratedSecurity property value:true". Any suggestion to resolve this problem. Thanks. Angel, Thanks your information. As you mention, it will be a problem if our java client resides on non-windows environment and tries to access sql server. ...Show All

• SQL Server Does MS plan a GUI

  Hello all, We are planning to base a product on Microsoft SQL-2005 Notification services. However, one of the required properties from this software is to provide the client administrator a user interface to configure the Instance Configuration File (ICF) and Application Definition File (ADF). Working with XML files will not do for us, once the responsibility is delegated from a developer to an administrator. Before going into the process of writing such an application from scratch, I would like to know if Microsoft has such an enhancement on the SQL-NS roadmap, and if so, when it is scheduled to. Does anyone have any thoughts or knowledge Thanks Ziv G. Hi Ziv - ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 2D animation

  I am trying to make some simple animation, like 5 frames. I have all the bmp files with the frames I want. How do I allow them to be animated in my game and how do I string them together. Yes a png file is probably the easiest format to create which supports transparency and RGB color. I remember seeing some posts about some animated sprite editors that people had in the works (generating png files) but I can't seem to find them now. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. My 1-week XNA evaluation

  Hi! I've been evaluating XNA Game Studio Express for about a week now. Writing this little report to get some thoughts and ideas out of my system. If you just want to download the game I made, here it is: http://www.artplant.no/Johan/XNATest.rar Everything is original and copyright (c) Artplant, except for the sound assets and the sound code, which was ripped from the SpaceWar sample in XNA. Someone please give me a heads-up if that's illegal for some reason, and I'll take it out. You'll need a shader model 2.0 GPU to run the game. Also, you'll need a 360 gamepad or similar. (Don't know if XNA is compatible with other pads yet.) Both of the thumb sticks fire cannons independently when pushed. Enough of that, here's a quic ...Show All