Mike Southerland's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic compatibility with spanish xp

  i have an application written in VB6.....will it run on spanish xp ...Show All

• .NET Development return "hello world"

  I've created a simple webservice which works in a browser, but how can i get it to return the string of "Hello World" into a vb.net application Erm, ok. i get that, but where does it go i'm using the following at the mo: Public Function Svc1( ByVal DocumentName As String ) As Calculator.ServerDocResult How do i return it Is it just the same Return Svc1 Apologies if it's simple but i can't find anything on this ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Using many USB Audio Devices

  I am starting to see various issues with USB Audio Devices. I am using a significant number of USB Audio devices. The devices are Turtle Beach Audio Advantage Micro and use the USBAudio standard driver. They are connected with a D-Link DUB-H7 USB 2.0 hub. 1) Using more than 5 USB devices on hub I am writing an application using the Core Audio APIs. I discover all the audio endpoints using EnumAudioEndpoints. Then I loop thru all devices and initialize an IAudioClient for each device so I can control the sound for the app per device. When there is more than 5 devices, the subsequent devices on the hub fails when calling IAudioClient::Initialize returns HRESULT 0x80070001 2) CPU Usages with multiple USB audio endpoints Without even playing a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to log worked time for each work-item?

  Hi: I want to use VSTS to log time for each employer, and generate related reports. Does VSTS provide and how Thanks Ron There is no built-in mechanism for this purpose, but there are few options: - Using custom links to store this information - one link per logged time - Using a longtext field in workitem to store this one-to-many data in xml format. Optionally using a custom control can give a rich UI to edit/view such information. In either case, the reporting isn't clean and needs work. In future versions we will have much better linking story to store such data and do rich queries. ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB.NET Language Translator

  Hi, How can I write a program that translates text from English to another language by using Google Translate Hi, See also.>> http://www.freetranslation.com/ for a free web and a free text translator. Currency conversion usng current rates too at.>> http://www.xe.com Regards, S_DS. ...Show All

• Visual Studio ReportViewer Control does not prompt for credentials in Basic Authentication mode

  Hi all, I have a simple scenario. I have a Web Form tha contains a ReportViewer control. The Report Server virtual directories are configured to use Basic Authentication. When I try to connect to one of the virtual dircetory or to the web service in IE I'm prompter for credentials. But when I run the Web Form I just have an error message saying "The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized". Why the ReportViewer control does not prompt for credentials Any help will be appreciated. Sebastien Use following credential and specify "NTLM" CredentialCache cc = new CredentialCache(); cc.Add(uri, "NTLM", new NetworkCredential("UserID", "password", "domain")); _reportViewer.ServerR ...Show All

• Windows Forms Application.Exit(); not working when backgroundWorker.IsBusy!

    Can you please tell me why is that and how can I solve it   if (backgroundWorker.IsBusy)         System.Diagnostics. Process .GetCurrentProcess().Kill(); Application .Exit(); Does the work, but I have a feeling that this is not a proper way to do it!   Please help. Thank you in advance. That's a shocking bit of code. It's waiting for the BackgroundWorker to finish so it can reenable a button; in fact, the backgroundWorker_RunCompleted event should reenable the button, so that whole while loop is entirely unnecessary. That example should be removed from MSDN, or at least fixed so it doesn't recommend such an appallingly bad ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot bulk load because the file could not be opened. Operating system error code 5(Access is denied.).

  I am facing a issue with bulk upload on Test Server. Issue: When running Openrowset command from SQL server other that Test Server query runs fine when trying to run the same command from Test Server it gives error. Msg 4861, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Cannot bulk load because the file " \\ServerName\input\FileName.csv " could not be opened. Operating system error code 5(Access is denied.). For example: If the command is run from System A connecting to SQL Server instance on Test Server Test Server it gives this error. If the same command with same rights is run from any other SQL server instance say Dev1 its running fine. If the command is run from Test Server connecting to any SQL Server instance includin ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista No show on samples

  Ok, IE file version of 7.0.5450.4, .Net 3 CTP (as sandbox instructions), card selector no show on samples, fully able to login to Kim's site, can select and send card to sandbox, but site is "Unable to service my request". Why Luke You need to see the AssemblyInformationVersion (open in reflector, and select the assembly, and hit <space>) You should see this for the July CTP: [ assembly: AssemblyInformationalVersion ( "3.0.4307.0" )] Anything other than that, and it's not going to work Garrett ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Using enter to activate a button

  Hi I'm really new to VB, so please excuse me if the question appears really basic. I have a MaskedTextBox that only allows numeric entry, but I would like the procedure on a certain Button to be executed when the user hits <Enter> whilst in the MaskedTextBox. How would I do this Hi, you can set form's AcceptButton property to the button you want to be executed when user presses Enter wherever on the form. If you need to isolate this behaviour to the maskedtextbox only, you'll need to handle its keydown event. Andrej ...Show All

• Visual Basic Pulling Infomation in DOS - Need HD SN#

  Hi, Who would of thunk but yes DOS is still needed! I have a need to pull Hard drive info and Bios Info from a dos prompt. This PC(s) will not have a OS. So I need the EXE to running in native Dos mode. Can any one help!! please......... Request: Pull HD Serial number and Vendor Pull PC Serial number from Bios Save it to a Text file. Thank you in advance for any and all help on this. Regards, Marcelo ...Show All

• .NET Development Cannot establish Remoting Connection to Service on Domain Controller.

  I have built a Service and have been running it on an XP computer for over a year. The service works great and I can establish a connection to it using remoting no problem. I have recently moved the service to a Windows 2003 Domain Controller. The service executes fine, but I can no longer establish a remoting connection over the TCP port. Is this due to a security policy on the DC What policy or permission do I need to modify to allow the remoting to work any thoughts Thanks you are correct as the problem is the firewall. I am using ISA Server 2004 and now have to figure out why the firewall is blocking access to the Service through remoting. Thanks. ...Show All

• .NET Development out of memory exception in .NET Remoting v2.0 - TCP Channel Binary formatter

  Has anyone seen this error I am getting it when the server is supposed to return a dataset with response data. The database may be large but not more than a couple of megabytes. can anyone advise what could be the issue System.OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. Server stack trace: at System.String.GetStringForStringBuilder(String value, Int32 startIndex, Int32 length, Int32 capacity) at System.Text.StringBuilder..ctor(String value, Int32 startIndex, Int32 length, Int32 capacity) at System.Text.StringBuilder..ctor(String value, Int32 capacity) at System.Data.DataSet.SerializeDataSet(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context, SerializationFormat remotingFormat) at ...Show All

• SQL Server Error Locating Server/Instance Specified from ASP.NET site

  I'm currently learning my way around with SQL Server 2005 and asp.net 2.0, and for this I wrote a little site that uses SQL Server for it's backend. I developed it on my laptop, and it works great, until I deployed the website to my test server, so it's visible to the outside world. The instance I try to access any page that invokes the database, I get the following error: An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified). The server doesn't differ much from my laptop setup, except t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Cannot send a content-body with this verb-type

  I had HTTP request with the following in the query string parameters: ProductAllocationIDs =3480 After executing the recorded web test, the request failed. The following was discovered in the details section System.Net.ProtocolViolationException: Cannot send a content-body with this verb-type. at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.CheckProtocol(Boolean onRequestStream) at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.BeginGetRequestStream(AsyncCallback callback, Object state) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.WebStress.WebTestTransaction.Execute(AsyncCallback completionCallback, Object callerState) Has anyone encountered this problem before Tester Hi, If you have added any Form Post Parameter to the reques ...Show All