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• Windows Live Developer Forums WML keeps on hanging .. Pls help me

  My Live Messenger keeps on hanging just minutes after i log in. Ends up I have to reboot the machine bfore i can try to log in and the same problem repeats. Someone please help me. Why is this happening The purpose of this forum is to discuss MSN and Windows Live application development using the Messenger Activity API, and Windows Live Bots. If you have technical support questions about using MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger, please check the following resources... Messenger Technical Support is available on the Messenger newsgroup: http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/ dg=microsoft.public.msn.messenger&cat=en-us-msn&lang=en&cr=US&ln=en-us nntp://microsoft.public.msn ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Error when using the Live Labs STS

  Hello: I'm trying to use the Live Labs STS, however I'm getting an error when I try to use the issued managed card. 1) I was able to generate the card your site 2) I was able to import the card 3) When I try to signin in the Live Labs Relay, the CardSpaces UI appears correctly. 4) I'm able to choose the card. 5) The CardSpace correcly prompts me for the password (it was a password based managed card) 6) ERROR: i) The CardSpace UI notifies me with this error message: Your data could not be retrieved from the (...). Check your network connection and verify you have supplied the correct authentication credentials ii) There are two events in the Application Event Log 1) A token could not be created. Identity provider requested for an un ...Show All

• Visual Basic Closing a Form?

  Hi every one, I have a problem with closing form in vb.net.I have tow forms ,form1 with botton1 and form2.I have this code in botton1 to open form2 Dim newmform As New form2 newmform.MdiParent = form1.ActiveForm newmform.Show() but the problem is I want to close form1 after openning form2. this issue was very easy in vb6 with the event form1.close but I cannot do that in vb.net. so please give your help. thanks you would pass a reference of form1 to form2 and then you can control it. To do this, you would require say, a property in form2, which you will set from form1 when you are going to show form2: //form2: dim theMainForm as new Form1() .. .. public property TheMainForm() As Form1 get ...Show All

• SQL Server Checking to see if a record exists and if so update else insert

  I've decided to post this as a sticky given the frequency this question is asked. For those of you wishing to build a package that determines if a source row exists in the destination and if so update it else insert it, this link is for you. http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson/archive/2006/09/12/SSIS_3A00_-Checking-if-a-row-exists-and-if-it-does_2C00_-has-it-changed.aspx Thanks Jamie! If you want to do a similar concept to Jamie's blog post above, but with the Konesan's Checksum Transformation to quickly compare MANY fields, you can visit here: http://www.ssistalk.com/2007/03/09/ssis-using-a-checksum-to-determine-if-a-row-has-changed/ Phil Sudhir Kesharwani wrote: Hi phill, Great article, I loved it. This is what ...Show All

• Windows Forms Another ListView Question

  i have setup a ListView control after much hard work but stumbled onto a problem, when you add new items then close the application then run it again the items are no longer remembered should the ListView control remember whats been added and if so how can it be done thanks btw im using MS VS 2005 C++ it's ok, i'm thinking about not using a ListView now. think i preferred the older style ListView as it was easier to use and less time consuming but looks as though i cant get it on this version of MS VS 2005 maybe if MS thought about problems like this then more peeps would use it WITHOUT the problems. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Creating a Function to return a result

  I have a process in an appliaction that needs to determine some file names, based on a numeric index. I would like to build a function that i can place in a class, so it only has to be coded once. At the moment, each time i need to check the file names, i am running a select case statement Select Case Value Case 1 Filename = "c:\test1.txt" Case 2 Filename = "c:\test2.txt" ... End Select Can someone help me build a function that i can call from whereever in my application so i don't need to code it each time There are 255 possible file names... Cheers Mc For what you show a select case probably isnt needed as you can calculate a filename ba ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problems accessing TFS from a Web Service

  Hello, I have a application that connects to the TFS and retrieves a Work Item. (it's a web service that subscribes to the WorkItemChangedEvent, but since the event does not contain all custom fields of the Work Item, just the core fields and the changed ones, I have to call TFS to get the rest of the fields...) The application has worked for two months, but now I'm running into this every now and then (i.e. some calls succeed, and some fail): Offending code: workItem = workItemStore.GetWorkItem(tfsWorkItemID); Exception: "Cannot pass a GCHandle across AppDomains" Now, I have SP1 installed which is supposed to take care of this (before SP1, you'd get this error every time - it was impossible to access TFS from a web service). Whe ...Show All

• SQL Server ERDs - Entity Relationship Diagrams

  So what's the favorite tools out there for distributing ERDs to customers, business partners and such. SQL Server's always had some ok diagramming tools - least i think so - but its always been a drag trying to get them out of SQL Server for distributing to those who dont have the client installed. I see in SQL 2005, we can now "copy" them to the clipboard, but that seems like a hastle to pull them all out.... What's everyone else use Thanks! -- Curt I did an article on this topic here: http://www.informit.com/guides/content.asp g=sqlserver&seqNum=62&rl=1 There are some links at the bottom of the article that might help. Buck ...Show All

• Visual C# Solving Systems of Linear Equations

  Ok .. I need to solve for F and A in this problem below. The question is how do you program that Equation 1: 190 = (F/2) + A Equation 2: 169 = ((F/2) – A) * -1 BTW I worked it out with pen and paper (Substitution Method) the answers are: F=21 A=179.5 Thx again guys ... been a really big help! -Avotas How to program something like this Easy enough: First of all make the user enter the equation in a normalized form, e.g. for a equation with 3 variables: a*x + b*y + c*z = d e*x + f*y + g*z = h i*x + j*y + k*z = l where the user is asked for inputs a to l. Then systematically eliminate variables: take the first equation and eliminate "x" in all other eq ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problem linking Win32 application

  I've followed the instructions here to set up Visual C++ Express with Platform SDK to build Win32 applications: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/default.aspx I can create a Win32 application using the Win32 wizard. When I try to build the application, the Linker gives this error (any many others like it) unresolved external symbol __imp__TranslateMessage@4 referenced in function _wWinMain@16 It seems that the linker is not able to find the libraries which include the Windows API functions. It is as if the include and library paths have not been set but I have made sure they are pointing to the Platform SDK paths as per the instructions on that page. What could I be doing wrong Why can't the linker find these func ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem when exporting data into Excel file from SSIS

  I have problems when exporting data into Excel file from SSIS. It all works fine with numeric columns but an apostrophe is attached at the beginning of each text cell. I tried using derived columns and data conversions but it didn't work. It seems to me that problem is in 'excel destination' task... I saw many people had this kind of problems too... Is there any solution possible Thanks. This inconvenient behavior of the Excel driver is mentioned in the BOL topic on the Excel Destination, and appears to be an attempt by the driver to force the output to be treated as string data (since the destination column does not really have a built-in data type), using the convention of the single quote that dat ...Show All

• Visual Basic Online Tutorials & Books for Networking in VB.NET ?

  Hello I am looking for tutorials online on networking in VB.net and Books for same Any help would be great. http://www.google.com/search hl=en&lr=&q=.net+remoting+%2B+vb.net&btnG=Search Will reveal lots of links. http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/RemotingTech.asp http://www.developer.com/net/net/article.php/2201701 http://www.csharphelp.com/archives/archive157.html http://www.developer.com/net/vb/article.php/3452471 http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp p=102172&rl=1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How do I AutoSize a CustomTaskPane?

  How do I auto-size a CustomTaskPane for a Word 2007 addin I tried setting ctp.Control.AutoSize to true, but it didn't do anything (see code below). CustomTaskPane ctp = CustomTaskPanes.Add( new UserControl1 (), "Test" ); ctp.Visible = true ; ctp.Control.AutoSize = true ; // THIS HAS NO EFFECT ctp.Width = 600; // THIS HAS A BIG EFFECT! Hi Cindy, I want the entire custom task pane to resize depending on the controls that are in it. I was hoping to avoid calculating the maximum width of the controls and assigning it to ctp.Width. I thought that setting ThisAddin.ctp.Controls.AutoSize = true would cause the task pane to resize to the width of the largest embedded control, but it didn' ...Show All

• Windows Forms help in launching application from the desktop icon

  hi there , here is a prob. i m facing and its urgent i have created a setup for my gui app. and from the User's Desktop option in my setup project i created a shortcut for my desktop and similarly for programs menu too also from the properties of my shortcut i changed the target to application folder now my problem is when i install my application an icon does get created on the desktop but on clicking instead of launching the app. it opens my application folder , any suggestions what i am missing thanks gurpreet hi , i ve found the solution to it myself , may be somebody else dosent gets trapped in the same prob, so here is it when you try to create the shortcut directly from users desktop section you d ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista not using release()

  Hi, In some of the directshow documents, the authors use release() method after they are finished with some interfaces. For example: // get next filter EnumFilters -> Next (1, & Renderer , & fetched ); Renderer -> EnumPins (& EnumPins ); EnumPins -> Reset (); numoutputpins = 0; while ( EnumPins -> Next (1, & InPin , & fetched ) == S_OK ) { InPin -> QueryPinInfo (& pinfo ); pinfo . pFilter -> Release (); InPin -> Release (); if ( pinfo . dir == PINDIR_OUTPUT ) { numoutputpins ++; // we can jump out if we found an ...Show All