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• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) EID Slow when on two monitors

  So, this behavior caught me off guard. EID is maximized on my secondary monitor. Undock the properties window and drag it to my primary monitor. EID gets unusably slow. Drag the properties window back onto the original monitor and in a second EID is back up to normal speed.... July CTP XP Pro, 3.4 P4, 1G Ram, 256 MB Radeon X600, split for two monitors you could post it on the EID newsgroup for a faster reply http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx dg=microsoft.public.expression.interactivedesigner&lang=en&cr=US ...Show All

• Architecture Where can I find older versions of Microsoft Products?

  Hi All, I don't know if this is the right place to post this question, if the moderator thinks it's not, please move it to the right one. I wanted to ask you guys if you can post some urls where I can download older versions of ALL microsoft products. (DirectX, Windows Media Player, MS Office, etc ...) I need these to test my apps that it would be backward compatible to older releases of the products. If you can point me to an archive site where microsoft keeps their older (even unsupported) products (if there is one), I would gladly appreciate it. You will find that if you have an MSDN Subscription you should be able to get hold of the older products that are still active, As to older versions you mi ...Show All

• Visual C++ Heap memory question

  My OS(XP) plus program chews up all 2 gigs of my RAM My program will crash and fail while trying to realloc more memory. My question is, I thought windows will access the hard drive for virtual RAM when my physical RAM runs out. Am I to assume that each program is only allowed so much HEAP allocation and that is it Any help appreciated Hello Re: Heap memory question Such questions are outside the scope of this forum - for the scope of the VC General forum please look at: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=19445&SiteID=1 For such issues please use the newsgroups at http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups . OTP Thanks Damien ...Show All

• Windows Forms get index in listview

  Hi Guys, I am trying to somehow get the index of the item which has been clicked by the mouse (single click). The list view has around 20 items and i need to show the description of each item in a seperate textbox, that means i should know which instruction has been clicked and for that i need the index. I am using visual studio express edition 2005 and C++. Any suggestions how i can do it Cheers! Maybe you could use FocusedItem property FocusedItem property determines which item was last clicked in the ListView control. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.listview.focuseditem.aspx You should also check this: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows. ...Show All

• Visual Basic I'm bored, so does anyone have any ideas on...

  I'm bored with Visual Basic, so I was wondering, what do you people program in VB I'm just bored. I don't know what to do, but I want to use all this programming power. Any ideas Thanks. try learning C# - move on up the scale know about sockets/networking ever created webservices or use Xml ever created ASP.NET sites Worked with SQL Tried re-creating some games or some applications which already exist, but your own version Tried creating a client/server application Tried Windows Mobile Development ...Show All

• Visual Basic movie collection starter kit

  Hi there I trying to run movie collection1 and I have a problem When I try to add some dvds to the collection via online, I get a error message saying that the movie cannot be added to the collection, and it is not. It adds some dvds and I get the error message with others. For instance, it cannot add the sound of music or The Firm to the list, but I can add DUEL All of this is with the movie collection template I downloaded. Any suggestions Thanks Hi, I just downloaded the movie collection starter kit. I am experiencing the same error. The only time I can see the properties you describe above is when I am in DEBUG mode. So I cannot make any of the suggested changes. How do I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Why would I be getting these errors?

  It seems strange to this newbie why these errors are popping up in a Windows .h file. Can someone enlighten me ------ Rebuild All started: Project: Driver, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ Deleting intermediate and output files for project 'Driver', configuration 'Debug|Win32' Compiling... driver.cpp D:\WINDDK\3790.1830\inc\ddk\w2k\ntddk.h(7944) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int D:\WINDDK\3790.1830\inc\ddk\w2k\ntddk.h(7944) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'InterruptTime' D:\WINDDK\3790.1830\inc\ddk\w2k\ntddk.h(7944) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int D:\WINDDK\3790.1830\inc ...Show All

• Visual C# prevent multiple instances of an application

  How can I prevent multiple instances of a C# windows forms application. VB.NET provides My.Application.StartupNextInstance Event to do this. Is there any C# equivalent as well Thanks you could do this... Process[] theProcesses = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName(Application.ProductName); //maybe add .exe at the end of Application.ProductName if (theProcesses.Length > 1) { MessageBox.Show("There is already another instance of the application running"); Application.Exit(); } ...Show All

• SQL Server Package crosstalk?

  I'm trying to convince myself that I am not crazy... I'm having some odd things occur with a couple of child packages being called from a parent package. Inside the master package, I have two different Execute Package tasks that are contained in two different ForEach Loop containers. Both of these containers are downstream of another container. The only Precedence Constraints on either is "Successful". One of these child packages loads a Household dimension table. The other loads a Customer-to-Account bridge table . I built each child package with a template, so there are many of the same variables, containers, etc. The first time I ran the master package I noticed my Household package failed because its Flat File Connection Mana ...Show All

• Visual Studio vs2k5: Symbol not found error with web service

  Attempting to step into a web method, receive: "Unable to automatically step into the server. Unable to determine a stopping location. Verify symbols are loaded. Symbol not found: Service.HelloWorld()." I notice though there are .PDB files in the virtual directory for 2 DLLs that the web service is dependent on, there is no .PDB file for the service's own App_Code.dll file. Since the PDB file contains 'symbolic debugging info' I wonder if that's the cause of the error. Do web services emit PDB files, or do they work entirely differently I do not see anything in the property pages of the web service project addressing debug build configurations etc. like in other project types. Am I mistakenly NOT getting a debug build of the web service An ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions inputbox for a password

  Within a console application, I would like to have a prompt for entering a user password. If I use inputbox the password is not displayed with characters like "*". How can I have a proper password input box so that the password is not displayed as it is written Alternatively, I know how to design a form with a password textbox. How can the console module control the loading and unloading of that form Thanks, Antonio Yes, let your console app display a login dialog. Use Project + Add Windows Form to design your login form. Then use code like this in your Main subroutine: Imports System.Windows.Forms Module Module1 Sub Main() Do Dim login As New Form1 If lo ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Drag n' Drop files in Vista RC1?

  Dear all, I find a very strange issue in Vista RC1. If we wanna add "requireAdministrator" in the program, (Ref http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnlong/html/AccProtVista.asp ) The program will still fail to get the "WM_DROPFILES" message from Vista. Does anyone have the same problem ...Orz Best Regards, Shuyang p.s. The following is my manifest < xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" > <assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0"> <assemblyIdentity version="1.0.0.0" processorArchitecture="X86" name="Microsoft.Windows.XPStyle&q ...Show All

• Smart Device Development SQL Server Mobile Deployment Issues

  Hi all, I am having issues installing SQL Server Mobile 2005 on an iPAQ hw6965. I have the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 installed on the device. I have copied over sqlce30.ppc.wce5.armv4i.CAB & sqlce30.dev.ENU.ppc.wce5.armv4i.CAB to the device and run the installations. Both installations run correctly. I then copy the Northwind.SDF file to the device. When I try to open this with query analyzer, I get the error 'Failed to initialize the provider. Please make sure that SQL Server Mobile Edition is properly installed.' Any ideas Thanks, Evan Please try installing sqlce30.repl.ppc.wce5.armv4i.CAB as well. ...Show All

• Visual C# NoOp for specified amount of time

  hello, Once I reach a certain point in my app, I need all of my threads to keep running for a specific amount of time (in this case, 2 seconds). I think I want to NoOp, since have the threads sleep, or wait, or do anything where they aren't actually doing their task won't work. Is there some easy way to do this Thanks for any help. I realize that, but I need the current thread to keep executing. oh! will making a new thread, then making that one sleep and the current thread wait for the new thread allow the current thread to continue for the time ...Show All

• .NET Development FileNotFoundException while calling web service from web service

  I have system which runs self standing asmx web service on desktop (I have simple web service web server implemented with http.sys, modified version of system described in http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/12/ServiceStation/default.aspx). This system works just fine with simple web methods in my service, calling for example methods from my other custom assemblies etc. But now, when I add web reference to another web service (AXIS 1.2RC3, running on tomcat), I got exception when calling webmethod that deals with creation of proxy instance to my AXIS service. That AXIS web service has been throughly tested and there should be no problems on it (I have created basic windows form application and added web reference to it and it wor ...Show All