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• .NET Development Passing login information to remote windows file share

  I have looked all over the net for information on how to do this and am still lost. I want to copy files from a remote server that has file sharing enabled, however the login information does not match the local domain. So when I try a File.Copy on the remote file I get a error unless I first launch iexplore to the URL of the site ( \\10.100.1.1 for instance) and then it will allow the user to manually authenticate and after that it works. Is there any way to automate this and pass the login info Anyone Or can someone suggest another forum I could ask at The impersonate stuff won't work in this example as the remote system is on a different domain. It's as simple as logging in via the windows prompt though ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How to get a lit sphere colored sphere/cube in XNA

  I've been trying to do this for the past few days asking many questions to get to this seemingly simple goal, but i just run into problems at every step. In MDX I just created a mesh object, then: myMesh = mesh.Box(...) or myMesh = mesh.Sphere(...) In XNA I've had to go through making custom vertex formats, manually drawing all the sides of the box, and now even worse it seems I have to manually input the vertex normals and am STILL unsuccesful...i have no idea if i'm expected to do this for a sphere. This seems too massive a step back for something that is supposed to be superior to MDX, so I clearly have to be missing out on a key point... I realised MDX is being discontinued and i decided to move on to XNA, but I'm considering just goin ...Show All

• Visual C++ error in lib: unresolved external symbol

  Hi! I had a problem: cannot open LIBC.lib, so I ignored it in Project properties, but it doesn't work anyway. Now it prints : 1>jpeg.lib(JERROR.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __iob referenced in function "void __cdecl output_message(struct jpeg_common_struct *)" ( output_message@@YAXPAUjpeg_common_struct@@@Z) What can I do It seems the error is in the library which I downloaded from the web. thx Did you ever figure this out I know sources are available for that library from Independent JPEG Group's software. I'm trying to recompile that with VS 5, but haven't succeeded yet. Cheers, Frank ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Custom popups in 3d don't dock to pushpins correctly

  I have created custom popups that dock a div to the pushpin location as described in other threads. This works fine in 2d, but in 3d the popups don't line up with the pushpins correctly. It appears that the x,y values are not correct being passed by the pushpin callback function. I have not yet found how to locate the pushpins through code to dock the div to. Has anyone figured out a work around to this yet other that randomly subtracting some value from the div placement. Marc Rempel I have hit the exact same issue last week Gascho. I am yet to solve it. For me I'm tring to get my custom popups to work in 3D, I have the "shims" working for other peices but it appears that the x and y in the callback function is off. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Problems Retrieving Clipboard From a DLL Assembly, Anybody ?

  Hi, I have a problem trying to retrieve the clipboard from a dll even when the CopyToClipboard returns 1 (the data was succesfully copied to clipboard) anybody : Call pdfPage.CopyToClipboard(pdfRect, 0, 0, 100) Dim clipboardData As IDataObject = Clipboard.GetDataObject() If (clipboardData.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Bitmap)) Then <<<----- Here's the problem because clipboard is empty Dim pdfBitmap As Bitmap = clipboardData.GetData(DataFormats.Bitmap) ....... The funny thing is that running this code in a windows.form works perfectly, can data be copied to the clipboard from a dll Thanks in advance for your help. George Hi George . I am having the same problem ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions differences between VB.NEt 2003 and VB Express 2005

  what differences would I notice I will be teaching Visual Basic (using the "Code Rules" software), and was wondering for a beginning high school programming course, would we notice any differences. If so, where can I find what the differences are There have been significant improvements, many of which can be found here . Other changes include the datasources window (which simplifies access to databases and allows you to bind controls to objects) and a new resource and settings designer. As mentioned before, the .NET framework has also been improved, and now includes (among other things) layout controls (table layout, flow layout), a new cool grid control (the datagridview), toolstrip controls among many other things. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development The remote connection to the device has been lost.

  Hi, I get the following message when I run my application on my pocket P.C. It happens randomly. Sometimes it works fine. Other times I get this message. I am not using any breakpoints. At the moment it is happening when I try to add data to a database from information got from a form. The con.executenonquery line causes this error. "The remote connection to the device has been lost. Please verify the device conection and restart debugging" Does anyone know why this happens, and if so, how to fix it Michael Michael Carty wrote: Hi, I get the following message when I run my application on my pocket P.C. It happens randomly. Sometimes it works fine. Other times I ge ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problems to access TFS from Visual Studio Team Suite

  Hi, We are having a pilot projekt for a development environment for our students with Visual Studio Steam System. The students want to access the TFS both from the terminal server and the lab rooms. Here the scenario: 1. One TFS server 2. One Terminal Server with VS Team Suite SP1 + Team Explorer + SQL 2005 SP1 3. Windows lab rooms with Windows XP SP2 clients + VS Team Suite SP1 + Team Explorer SP1 4. All computers are members of an AD domain and we are using domain credentials for the user accounts. We are not able to access the TFS and the SQL DB from our Windows XP client maschines. When starting VS Team Suite on the clients the following happens. 1. When trying to add the TFS by using "Connect to Team Foundation Server ...Show All

• Visual Studio PackageLoad failure - SetSite

  I am getting this error trying to create a new project of my type in the machine where I have installed my package. SetSite failed for package [Idea.Xgen.Package.XgenPackage, Idea.Xgen.Package, Version=1.0.2403.23830, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null] Does anyone have any ideas Thanks, Mike Hi Michael, My guess is that something isn't quite right in your package's Initialize() implementation. Underneath the covers, the Package object you're deriving from implements IVsPackage::SetSite, and if this returns a failure code, that's the message you'd expect to see. The Package object's SetSite implementation is what eventually invokes the overridden Initialize() method, and if an excepti ...Show All

• Visual Basic Threading in VB.NET is complex--any alternatives?

  [Background and rant first; question below.] In VB5, I wrote a simulation model with 2-D animation on the form. I could start, pause, continue, and stop the simulation. While the simulation subroutine was running, the form controls still processed user's clicks, and the simulation could query the controls' state and pause or stop as requested. It was all in one thread; I didn't even know what a "thread" was. Now, I'm writing in VB.NET another simulation with 2-D animation. I want a "control center" form with start, pause, continue, and stop buttons, a small progress bar form, and an animation form. These have to communicate using shared data and event firing. I am spending a ridiculous amount of time learning a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Retreive Project location

  Is there a way to retrieve the location entered by the user when creating a new project similar to $safeprojectname$ ie File > New Project Or will I have to use EnvDTE to determine the path of the project Kosmo It's in a config file that is created from the Website.vstemplate The website.vstemplate does this < TemplateContent > < Project TargetFileName = " MyProj.webproj " File = " MyProj.webproj " ReplaceParameters = " true " > < Folder Name = " Config " > < ProjectItem ReplaceParameters = " true " > MyConfig1.config </ ProjectItem > </ Folder > </ Project > </ ...Show All

• Windows Forms Another ListView Question

  What member function for ListView's would I use to clear out the contents I've added (data items) I tried using Clear(), but it blanked the entire control, removing not just data rows but also column headers, and the columns themselves! Is there a member that only deletes the contents of rows ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView cell value beholds an object not existing in the BindingList that is datasource of the columns Combobox...

  Hello, two problems, one I got a solution that is not perfect, and I would like to find a better way, and the second I do not have any solution and I absolutly need some help :-) Here is problem n°1 : This problem is discussed at the following link : http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php p=2717871#post2717871 When using a DataGridView which has a BindingList as datasource and one of the columns is of the type ComboBox which has itself a BindingList as its datasource. I would like to achive that the selected object of the ComboBox is stored itself in the concerned cell, and not only one of its properties. I solved this by creating a property "self" : Public ReadOnly Property Self() As MyType Get R ...Show All

• SQL Server last 30 dates measures

  Hi all, I want to do a top / order by query like select top 30 f.measure, d.date from fact f join date_dim d on f.date_key = f.date_key group by d.date order by d.date desc you get the picture, in MDX. I know I can use now() but how do I get the dd/mm/yyyy format and use strtomember to put this on the rows axis also, I cannot get order() to order the dates axis (or any other dimension for that matter) any ideas Thanks Hi, To convert the current date, you can use something like StrToMember ("[Period].[Calendar].[Day].&[" + format(DateAdd("d",-1,now()),"yyyyMMdd") +"]") "[Period].[Calendar].[Day].&[" - represents the structure of your date ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS RC on Domain Controller

  We've just installed a brand new SBS server in our company to be the main server for MS Team Foundation System Server. What a surprise... the RC final version does not support to be installed on a domain controller and what more.. together with exchange... Why I just do not understand.. We need this TSF stuf (we used source safe but it was slow and not quiet secure) only for few employees (say 5 max) and just because of this we must have some special server Oh my! So.. is this some workaround The question is: How to install TSF Server RC on a SBS 2003 premium server even if we plan to install also an exchange server Thanks in advance!   Best regards Jan   PS: I found some threads here in forum ...Show All