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• Software Development for Windows Vista How do you install system fonts in Vista?

  Is there anyway for a normal (non-installer) program to install system fonts without making a separate executable that demands elevation so that it can write files in the system fonts directory or to be able to write to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts Similarly, if you want to install a font permanently for one user only it seems like you have to use the virtualization stuff (which seems like a hack that will break someday, and might not even work now, since it would only be visible to programs running in compatibility mode) or just have an application re-add it everytime that they run. Is there a better way Note that installer detection can be turned off and doesn't apply ...Show All

• Visual C++ MSVCRT80D.dll & win32 app question

  Hi everybody I just created a win32 console app and I've realized that the exe is using MSVCRT80D.dll How can I get rid of the use of that dll I think I shouldn't need a 1 mb dll to write a console hello world. I've tried using "Use Standar Windows Libraries" in project properties -> general -> project defaults -> Use of MFC but keeps asking me the dll file in other computers. (please note the app is working, I just want to know how I can make a console app without using MSVCRT80D) Thanks in advance, K Try building it in release mode, that way it will use MSVCRT80 instead of MSVCRT80D (the debug version of MSVCRT80) and while this will still tie you to a C/C++ runtime ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server takes so much time to startup

  Hi, I have SQL Server 2005 Standard edition with SP1. Whenever I start the Management Studio, it takes for ever to come up. It will take atleast 30 Sec to 1 min every time I start SQL Server. Is this some thing we have to live with in SQL Server 2005 or do I need to tweak any thing Pls let me know. One more thing, in the SQL Server logs I see the following message every day -> Source - spid36s, Message - Starting up database 'dbname'. Why do I get this message Thanks Hi Jens, Thank you very much for your reply... I did not change the Auto Close option. It is set to False for all the databases. And the database mirroring is set up on these databases and does it have any thing to cause the ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development png colors not rendering correctly in IE7.

  I generated a 24bit png file with transparency using photoshop cs2 the solid color was #373737 with a transparent gradient at either end. I then used this css: background: #373737 url(image.png); when viewed in firefox all was well and good when viewed in IE7 the solid color was no longer #373737(r:55 g:55 b:55). It was #242424 (r:36 g:36 b:36) When ever I change the solid fill color in the image I get a linear shift in the color interpretation in IE7. I was able to shift the fill color up and get it to match the 373737 background color but it no longer matched in any other browser. :-( So, clearly there is something wrong with IE7's color interpretation with regard to png images. There is a consitant color shift t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Event Handlers and Raiseevent issues

  Hi, I seem to be missing something here!! I am looking at the process of Event driven coding and I am a bit confused. If I understand it correctly all I need to do is: 1) Within the form that will raise the event declare the event with the event key word and raise the event Public Class Form2 Public Event xevent() Sub raiseevents() RaiseEvent xevent() End Sub End Class Within form1 create an instance of form2 with the withevents keyword Public Class Form1 Dim WithEvents eclass As New Form2 Private Sub eclass_xevent() Handles eclass.xevent MsgBox( "test" ) End Sub End Class The issue I have is the above only works if I call the form2 raiseevents ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem retrieving data from a linked server to Oracle

  Don't know if this is the correct section. I set up a linked server to a Oracle 9.2 from SQL 2005. How can I see the tables that can be accessed from SQL in SQL 2000 I just clicked on the linked server to see tables and views, but in SQL 2005 Management Studio I cannot see them. Then to see if the linked server is set up correctly I tryed some scripts: I do a SELECT * FROM RFVO..POKER.TABLE1 and I get all the data then I tryed the same on a different table SELECT * FROM RFVO..POKER.BOLLE and get this error: Msg 7356, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 The OLE DB provider "MSDAORA" for linked server "RFVO" supplied inconsistent metadata for a column. The column "TB_CAMBIO" (compile-time ordinal 32) of object ""POKER"."BOLLE"" was reported to have a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Colours

  Is there any other way of using RGB colours in the bitmap.setpixel function other than Color.FromArgb Its hard to customize it as it is an integer.... BMap.SetPixel(x + 1, y + 1, Color.FromArgb(&HFF0000FF)) I cannot base this off a variable by simply doing this: &HFF00 & green & 00. .... give me a hand Hi, Paste ALL of this code into a completely EMPTY code window then run the code. Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic.ControlChars Public Class Form1 Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form # Region " Windows Form Designer generated code " Public Sub New () MyBase .New() 'This call is required by the Windows Form Designer. Initial ...Show All

• Visual Studio vs2005 sp1 install fails

  On my computer (win2003) I get next message: The installation source for this product is not available. Verify that the source exists and that you can access it. On other computers it works... What can I do bye Damijan I don't have any add-on installed. The only thing I have is atlas. My VS version is Team edition for soft. dev. ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Does your WDS 3.0 index your deleted items in Outlook?

  Hi all! I am having two weird problems with WDS 3.0, but here's the first one: It seems like WDS is properly indexing my Outlook PST.  However, when searching for a file/e-mail, nothing from my Deleted Items folder pops up in the Results window. It's extremely strange.  I tried rebuilding my index, first adding only ONE inbox subfolder to the list. It worked fine. (ie. 55 items indexed)  Excellent. Now I just added my deleted items folder...  7,600 items indexed...  Excellent. However, NONE of those items appear when I do a search. If I do a search for *, I only see the 55 items there!  Not the other 7,600 in my Deleted Items. This is obviously horrendous, since I have always ...Show All

• SQL Server mdx expression

  I have a cube with 1 fact (historic sales data) and 3 dimensions (Time, Product and Customer) and i have created two calculated measures 'Bud_Qty' and 'Bud_Price' that I then multiply to create 'Bud_Sale'. I can browse the 'Bud_Qty' and 'Bud_Price' dimensions by both the Product and Customer hierarchies, but the aggregation of the 'Bud-Sale' is incorrect. I have tried a number of alternatives using various Scope, Leaves and Descendants scripts, but I have not been able to make 'Bud_Sale' calculated measure aggregate properly. Any Help is appreciated. Thanks in advance...Burnswell Thomas, The calculation for Bud_Price and Bud_Qty rely on Time Intelligence. I am not sure how to do th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Unable To Debug

  I have several projects that I used to be able to debug/run. Now when I try running/debugging, it states in the status bar that it is, "Ready", "Building", and then back to design mode. I can not get it to run. What is going on Thank you. I am running VS2005 version 8.0.5727 on this machine, and I also have VS Express. It won't run in either. I am using VB.NET. The sample code would be too large. This project has about 20 forms and three modules or more. The exact steps are: 1. Open Project 2. Start Debugging (f5) 3. It says it is building in the status bar, and then it goes back to the design mode. Nothing more. By the way, on other projects ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Security Warning Running VB Program

  Hello I have written my first a short VB program but each time I run it I get security warning box. How do I correct See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type 'System.Security.Permissions.EnvironmentPermission, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' failed. at System.Security.CodeAccessSecurityEngine.Check(Object demand, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean isPermSet) at System.Security.CodeAccessPermission.Demand() at System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation.get_UserName() at AutoBackup.Form1.Bu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Change background of Button.

  I am new to VC++. And I want to make a simple form in which there is only one button or any similar thing. And when I press that button it's backgorund color should be changed. (E.g. Default Background colour is red. When First pressed background color of button becomes green. When again pressed that button background colour again becomes red.) If anybody can help me. Mayank Parmar mayankparmar2000@hotmail.com Software Engineer. India. Yes, It's true. But if I do not put that condition the WM_COMMAND will not work properly. Can you tell me which message I get when my window will be in focus(means when I come back from other work like MSWord or Excel) again. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Mesh, and mesh optimization.

  Hello, ID3DXMesh object contains an attribute buffer. It is possible to optimize the mesh with D3DXMESHOPT_ATTRSORT. This would make an attribute related indices and vertices streamed. So it is possible to draw a subset seperatly, However, how does an unoptimized mesh's subset can be drawen seperatly You can set the entire vertex buffer, but how do you pick the correct indices from the index buffer(How does ID3DXMesh picks those indices) Thanks. We’re not given the source code so we can’t really tell what methods are used. There’s only a few ways it can actually be done. You can call DrawIndexedPrimitive() for every triangle you come across. You can create an additional index buff ...Show All

• Windows Forms Visual cue between groupings in DataGridView

  I want to give a visual cue to distinguish groups of rows with the same CompanyID in a DataGridView.  Is it possible to insert a separator on a break in CompanyID  Or would alternating background color be better/easier  What is the best way to achieve   Thanks. Thanks Ken for posting that code. I haven't had a chance to try it yet due to a higher priority project. Hope to get some time soon. ...Show All