curtKauf's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Unexpected error when load Installshield project to VSS with VS2005

  I have a solution with a C# project, a dotfuscator project and an InstallShield 12 smart device project. When checking in the solution both C# project and dotfuscator got upload to VSS 6.0. But when at the installshield project VS2005 throw this error: --------------------- Unexpected error encountered. It is recommended that you restart the application as soon as possible. Error: Unspecified error File: vsee\pkgs\vssprovider\cmsscciabstractionlayer.cpp Line number: 4260 ---------------------- Any suggestion I think i find out what make the error appear at least on my end. If you already have a solution in VSS and you try to add a setup project and then try to upload the whole solution to ...Show All

• Visual C++ trouble with scrollwindow...

  Hi all-- I have a problem with the scrollwindow function. I basically wrote a test program that draws 100 lines of numbers from 0-99 and want to scroll it. But the problem is, when I check the SB_LINEDOWN event and call ScrollWindow(hwnd,0,-cychar,TRUE) it fails to repaint the numbers below what was visible in the window even though I'm drawing all the strings in my WM_PAINT event, not just the ones that would be theoretically visible... here is my code (I apologize...I can't make it stop double spacing the code!!! (even when I switch out all the <p></p> with simple <br> in the html code!): #include <windows.h> #include <string.h> #include <math.h> #include <stdio.h> ...Show All

• Visual C# Is instanciating to null BAD??

  is instanciating a variable to null is a bad practice RizwanSharp wrote: Yes, because its not needed when you create some object of a class it has already holding a null: for example: FileStream fs; if(fs == null) // Yes, True FileStream fs = null; // Makes Nulll again the same thing and should not be used. I hope you understand! Best Regards, Wrong, in C# the line with the "Yes, True" comment will contain a compile error "Use of unassigned local variable 'fs'". ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums how do i save msn emotions

  like to know how i would save msn emotions...i format all the time then have to get all emotions back on msn from friends which takes a lot of time and youve lost all yor wicked emotions......is there a way to save them to put back on your msn messenger yourself thanks in advance..... I have a strong feeling that your question is not related to the development of Windows Live Messenger. These forums are not for technical support queries such as yours therefore you should ask your question to the correct guys: http://support.live.com ...Show All

• Visual Studio Too much network I/O

  Hi All... I'm running Visual Studio with Sourcesafe 6.0. I've just loaded a project from sourcesafe. When I go into Windows Explorer and browser to where the project is stored, it looks like all the files are there. But when I try and open the web.config file from the solution explorer, the network traffic goes through the ceiling and the Studio pretty much just hangs. I'm working remotely from the sourcesafe database so I'm sure that doesnt help. I've also implemented some of the tricks found on the web like specifying temps files to be local - to make sourcesafe run faster. It runs fine on another machine thats still running dev studio 6.0.... So what's it doing with all this network I/O Thanks! -- Curt ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Loading November CTP for WPF and WCF on production development system

  Generally we have a practice of not loading CTP or Beta software on our production systems we use to write code with every day. However we would really like to have access to the WPF features in this CTP and I notice that the download page does not have the normal, do not load this on a production system caveats. Is there any advice on using the November CTP WPF/WCF tools on a production system Thank you in advance. The EULA you're presented with when you install this CTP was updated to cover this topic. It covers the scenarios where you may or may not use this CTP for production applications. I'd encourage you to read the EULA in detail and let us know if you have anymore questions. antonio ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Registering user GameComponent with GameServices

  I'm finishing up work on porting some of my libraries as XNA GameComponents and I'd like to register some features with Game.GameServices . I've tried looking at the IGraphicsDeviceService definiton but came up short. Does the GraphicsDevice actually implement this or is it a separate object the GraphicsDevice privately creates and registers Can someone provide me with an example on how to do this I'd like to see creating the Service Interface and/or object When to call GameServiceContainer.AddService Any events I should create/use Thanks MS, services could definitely use a tutorial. please! I'm trying to create an ICameraService that will provide the View and Projection matr ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista ShellExecute of MS Office Word fails from Win32 Service in Vista

  Hi All, We have a Win32 service from which we invoke ShellExecute to print from MS Office Word. It works fine on Win XP SP2 but fails on Vista. Can anyone please help. Thanks and regards, Mridu Hi Matthew, Thanks for your reply. Our main objective to run ShellExecute from a service was to hide any dialog/print progress to the logged on user. Because we are doing a print automation without the user realizing about it. So we do not want to redirect the dialog to the desktop. ShellExecute works fine with Notepad, but the problem is with MS Office applications. Using Office COM automation also does not help in Vista, though it works fine on Win XP. Could you please help us. Otherwise we m ...Show All

• .NET Development TypeConverter bug?

  Hello forum. Can somebody explain me, why following code cause an error : decimal d1 = 1000.55M; string s1 = d1.ToString( "N" ); TypeConverter cv = TypeDescriptor .GetConverter( typeof ( Decimal )); object obj = cv.ConvertFrom(s1); While the next code not: decimal d1 = 1000.55M; string s1 = d1.ToString( "N" ); decimal .TryParse(s1, out d1); Through reflector I found, that TypeDescriptor calls internally following: internal override object FromString(string value, NumberFormatInfo formatInfo) { return decimal.Parse(value, NumberStyles.Float, formatInfo); } while Decimal.TryParse calls: public static bool TryParse(string s, out decimal result) { return Number.TryParseDecimal(s ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Newbie: Package 'Visual Studio IDE Package' has failed to load properly

  Hi, I had Visual Studio loaded on my machine and decided to try XNA Express. I downloaded and loaded C# express, the SDK and XNA Game Express. When starting XNA Game Express I get the following message and can't get passed it: "Package 'Visual Studio IDE Package' has failed to laod properly (GUIS =....) Would you like to disable loading this package in the future Then there is a series of similar popups saying things didn't load. Yet C#, and XNA Game Express gave me the thumbs up that it loaded properly. These messages pop up when I begin a File-New Project. What went wrong Any clues Thanks, Ted7 Tried Control Panel removal of the whole of Visual Studio Academic, Several .Net frameworks 1.1, 2.0 etc. removed C# Expr ...Show All

• Architecture are smart client apps with multiple .dll versions possible?

  Say I have a deployment of 10 clients using a smart client app. They are all running on version 1.1 of whatever.dll. Then say I add some additional functionality and deploy version 1.2 of whatever.dll. However, I only want 2 of the clients to get the new .dll so they can test it. I want the rest to continue using the older version until I do "something". Is this type of thing even possible If so, how would I get the rest of the clients to get the new .dll once i was confident it was ready to go. Please don't remark on how this is not the way to develop/test/deploy software through the dev lifecycle :) I know it's not. I just want to know if this sort of architecture is possible, and if so how to do it (in general). If s ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Can get IP from router, but cannot connect to Internet

  I have installed Winows Vista Ultimate (32-bit) on an HP Pavilion a1610n with the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200 dual-core CPU. 2 GB RAM, 250 GB HDD. My wireless NIC is a Netgear wg311v3 PCI card, and my wireless router is a Netgear WPNT834 RangeMax 240 (802.11b/g). I am running DHCP and Shared WEP (128-bit) on the router. I can connect to the router and get a dynamic IP address. However, I cannot ping the router and I cannot ping the IP assigned to the NIC. I can ping localhost (127.0.0.1). In Vista network settings, the WLAN shows up as "Unidentified Network", Access is "Local Only", and the network keeps switching to Public, even if I manually switch it to Private. Obviously, I cannot surf the Internet since ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions making sounds in vb express

  making custom sounds I'd like to make simple custom sounds and generate them within the program -- similar to the old "play /frequency/duration" in dos basic. All of the references that I find talk about playing various external sounds -- I'm afraid that these would be too slow and uncontrolled. Thanks! Try Console . Beep ( frequency , duration ) where frequency and duration are integers. ...Show All

• .NET Development Windows service

  Hi, I have windows service project that makes an object of a class in a Call library project. it all works fine if i use a windows application project to make this object but with the windows service it gives me Type Load exception "Could not load type 'SeekWare.Engine' from assembly 'SeekWare, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'." Seekware is the class library and Engine is the class inside it that i want to make an object from. ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot Re-establish a user that is deleted and readded to active directory in reporting services

  The permissions granted to user 'xxxx\yyy' are insufficient for performing this operation. When a user is deleted and then readded to active directory. Reporting services returns the insufficient permissions granted error. In dbo.users in the sql database there are 2 entries for the deleted user one with UserType 0 and another with UserType 1. How do you clean up reporting services or sql to allow the reciently re-added user to re-connect to reporting services. We use the MY-Reports option of reporting services but cannot delete the home directory for this user either in report Mgr. The same error is returned for this action. Yes you have to do some manual cleanup ...Show All