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• Software Development for Windows Vista Developing on Windows XP SP2

  I will be developing Workflows to run on XP Service Pack2. I will not be using Vista. As I am not using Vista will I be limited in what I can develop ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions phone meeting

  hello i want to implement an application about phone meeting(in which more than two people talk to each other ,i dont know how to describle). i wanted to realize it based on the samples in the sdk ,but failed. who can give me some advice thank u Describing it is an essential requirement for any project. There is nothing in the SDK that will help you do this. Concentrate on the hardware. ...Show All

• .NET Development Data Extraction

  hi. can anyone guide me on  how to extract data from an internet website wthiout storing it into any database, i only need certain information (lines) from the website and the source of the website is on HTML. how can i do it any example/sample would be appreciated. thanks. is there something called "HTML parser" that i could use example : http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/results.html query=USA i only need to retrieve the first and second lines of code in the box/table, which is the country name and the current time after selecting the specific city in the search result list. rgds. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How can I port Driver and OAL code ( for EBOOT )from Windows CE 5.0 to Windows CE 4.2 ?

  How can I port Driver and OAL code( for EBOOT ) from Windows CE 5.0 to Windows CE 4.2 If any body have idea, kindly inform me. Hi - please don't post your questions multiple times hoping you'll get an answer. Please go through the MSDN articles in the thread http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=541161&SiteID=1 and post more specific question. Closing this thread. Manav ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Test Case 1 - embedded manifests and MSIs

  I am able to embed a manifest into my executable with mt & a custom action, but it does not work when I put it in an installer. I can verify that the manifest is being embedded into the executable that I am building but when I create an msi, using a standard setup project, and install it, the executable no longer has the manifest. Do I need to run mt on the .msi Is the execuable being placed in the .msi before the post build events Or is there just something wrong with my setup project Thanks for the reply, but the problem is that the manifest seems to disapear from my exe.  I open the .exe that VS builds, and it has the manifest, but when I put it in an msi, and install the application, the ma ...Show All

• Windows Forms Loading Image (Visual C# 2005)

  Hey, I after these lines of code what should I put to make it load the image into a PictureBox openFileDialog1.DefaultExt = "*.gif" ; openFileDialog1.Filter = "Gif Images (*.gif)|*.gif|JPG Images (*.jpg)|*.jpg|TIF Images (*.tif), (*.tiff)|*.tif|PNG Images (*.png)|*.png|BMP Images (*.bmp)|*.bmp" ; openFileDialog1.InitialDirectory = "MyDocuments" ; openFileDialog1.CheckFileExists = true ; openFileDialog1.CheckPathExists = true ; Thanks :) oh, ok, I see, but is there a way I can make it so that the form has 2 sets of radio buttons so one set does the size and another set does another thing...so in one form 2 radio buttons would be able to be checked...but only one can be checked per set...   &nbs ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Blurry trail on sprite movement

  Hi all, I read some posts about problems with AMD processors. I am not sure my issue is caused by that because I have a different processor from the ones I read the posts about. The issue: I have a simple ball sprite. I create a pong-like game. When the ball moves it produces a blurry trail behind it. Like you have with comets in space. The faster the sprite moves, the longer and more noticable the trail. In response to this I have updated the drivers for my processor and grapics card. The result is the same. Beside the blurry trail I notice the movement is always a littlebit choppy. Not extreme, but I think it ought to be somewhat smoother than this. So no I am wondering what might be causing it. Can it be the process ...Show All

• Windows Forms Losing MouseHover events

  I want to add a floating text description when my mouse hovers over certain parts of a PictureBox and show nothing over other areas. It appears that the MouseHover events for second and subsequent stops over the PictureBox are not actioned until the cursor leaves the PictureBox. Is there a way of forcing all MouseHover events to be actioned That's what MouseHover does. If you want to track the movement of the mouse cursor within a control you should use the MouseMove event (with MouseEnter and MouseLeave to track the mouse cursor entering and leaving your control). ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums map.Find() without adding pushpins

  Is it possible to do a map.Find() and not have the pushpins automatically added I would like to have a callback on the Find() but I would like to add my own pushpins. Do I have to manually go through and remove all the pushpins it automatically entered then re-add them Or is there a parameter or property I am missing Thanks, Jason Thanks for getting back to me, i have tried putting in the full path to the image in the pushpin creation however it will still appear as the default red pin. Iv included the code i am using based upon what was posted above but with slight modification as i found the long lad did not work. //define a global bool check variable var map = null; var doIReturnPushpin = true ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System T-SQL colour highlighting

  Quick one. I've just noticed that certain fuctions such as: SUSER_NAME() CURRENT_TIMESTAMP probably alot of others (maybe all of them ) show up as pink/purple in SSMS which is useful because it differentiates them from other keywords. In datadude these show up in blue, the same as all the keywords. Can that be changed to be more like SSMS -Jamie Hi Jamie Thanks for the feedback. Can you log a connect bug on this. We can't do anything on this for the V1 release but this is something that we can look into, for future releases mairead PM, TS Data ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Error message

  Hello, I don't know if this is the right forum for my question, but I try. I use a program to convert RM to AVI files, but everytime I click on the button : Convert , the program will give me a error message. http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/7034/naamloosek0.png I have made a sreenshot of the error. Should i close visual basic or do something with the settings Sorry about my English, i'm from Holland ;) With kind regards, Snorro Hello Snorro, I am working on the same type program. Please contact me via email so I can ask you a question. My email is - "michael @ thebigonion.com" Thanks, Michael. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Custom Styleing based on data items

  What I want to do is have the color of some of the items change based on the value in the data file.If the value is positive I want one style if it is negative I want the other style. ANy ideas Here is my code so far. <Window x:Class="INVWatch.Window2" xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation " xmlns:x=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml " Title="INVTrack" Height="483" Width="792"> <Window.Resources> <Style x:Key="quantityUp" TargetType="{x:Type Grid}"> <Setter Property="Background" Value="Green"/> </Style> <Style x:Key="QuantityDown" TargetType="{x ...Show All

• Visual J# Can I deploy a simple J# app to Linux or the Mac?

  Since the concept of java is to "write once, run everywhere", is there a way to run my simple app on the mac or say the fadora 2 core for linux I don't see any packages for these systems. J# souce code is compatible with Java. It is useful to keep a compatibility with Java. For instance, C language is not binary compatible among platforms, but many people use C in oder to keep a portability. ...Show All

• Visual C# Get member value by its name

  Hi, I'm quite familiar with Reflection and types, however I'm not able to manage how to get the value from member's name. Like: namespace MyNamespace { public struct MyStruct { public string MyValue; } public static class MyClass { public static MyStruct TheStruct; } } Now, how can I get the MyValue value, if I have a string like "MyNamespace.MyClass.TheStruct.MyValue" Or if it helps, I can have the "MyNamespace.MyClass.TheStruct" and "MyValue" member name seperated. Thanks, Jan Hi all! With a little help from the microsoft C# newsgroup, that the error is in providing System.Type as a parameter instead of the instance of the User cla ...Show All

• SQL Server Createing an instance on a Sql Server 2k installation.

  I need to know if it is possible to create a Sql Server instance on top of an existing SQL Server 2k installation. I am trying to mimic a production setup completely and the database is setup as an instance of a SQL server. By that I mean that we connect to the database by specifying <servername>\<instancename>. I apologize if I have been ambiguous, or have used incorrect terminology. I am not a DBA and am trying to explain this the best way I know of. Any help that anyone can provide is greatly appreciated!! Sure, another instance can be easily installed by using the setup disk on choosing the named instance option along with the setup. If you have a default instance installed on the ...Show All