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• Visual Studio Express Editions increasing the counter??

  hi there...   need help in increasing the amout of times a button is clicked to  be shown. the concept is this. when a button is clicked firsttime, the text that been displayed in the treeview will be "Subscriber station 1"and the consequent time it increases the number. sample coding is below. pls help.   private : System::Void add_subNode() {         array <TreeNode^>^ subNodeArr = gcnew array <TreeNode^>         {                gcnew TreeNode ( "Subscriber Station" )        };     &nb ...Show All

• SQL Server Problems Using Temporary Tables

  I am declaring a temp table in control flow via Execute SQL task. I then want to use that table as a source in a data task, keep it alive going back to control flow and use it as a destination in another data task following. I am having trouble just getting the first data flow to access that temp table. In my Execute SQL task, I'm creating a simple temp table. After executing that task, I can head to the data task and change my OLE DB Source to point to that temp table, but I recieve an error about an invalid table name when I attempt to map columns or hit "OK." Is there something else I need to do to use that temp table as a source or can I only reference it through SQL queries Thank you. Alt ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions MessageBox Centering

  Is there a way in VisualBasic 2005 to bring up a message box centered related to my application, rather than centered relative to the entire screen I'm using 1280 x 1024 screen and my application (with a fixed size) doesn't cover the entire screen. Most of the times, my application window is closer to one of the edges of the screen and its message boxes pop up away from my application, in the middle of the screen. Thanks in advance for any tips. I've been toying with this for a while. Can't say I'm thrilled about the result but it does give you a centered message box. The idea is that I start searching for a message box when the form loses activation when it is taken over by the message box. Unfortu ...Show All

• SQL Server Inconsistent stored procedure syntax error

  We have a stored procedure that is being called from a vb6 application. The exact line of code is below. mats_Reports_CSR_OB_Hourly_Percent('11/1/2006 4:51:27 PM','12/1/2006 4:51:27 PM') when executing this in query analyzer it will always fail due to the parenthesis. However when this same line of code is passed to sql server in the vb6 application it usually works. There are times it fails with a syntax error message similar to: Incorrect syntax near '{ I fixed the problem last time by removing the parenthesis in the vb6 code. However I can now put the parenthesis back into the code and it works again now. Prior to my recent intervention the code was not being changed as it will work for days and then randomly stop working. ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Windows messenger dial and wait symbol

  Hello, maby someone can tell me is it possible to use some character in phone number wihic i'm dialing to I use Windows Messenger 5.1 on Win XP, my messenger client is connected to SIP server and if i choose "Actions-> Make phone call" and enter local (the same city where server runs) number and dial to that number everything works fine. But if i want to call to other city, SIP phone line goes through another station, so i need use code, and after code when i get dial tone, i enter the number. the problem is that i don't know and can't find anywhere symbol which emulate wait symbol. I've tried 123#12345 and 123w12345 with no success, messenger dial 123 goes to status connected and i hear continiously beep and everything fro ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Does the deserialization support ISerializable?

  I experienced that it does not help, when I implement ISerializable for my custom activity classes. ISerializable.GetObjectData is not called on deserialization. Does the deserialization of the workflow foundation not support ISerializable Right - implementing ISerializable on any type that derives from Activity will be a total no-op. The normal serialization rules apply of course to any .net types that you have as fields in your Activity derived classes (or used as DependencyProperties ). If you write those types - you can either mark them with Serializable or implement ISerializable. If you didn't write the type in question you can build a SerializationSurrogateSelector and SerializationSurrogate for that type. ...Show All

• Visual Basic vista style gel buttons...

  like I see in Windows Media Player 11 and elsewhere The play button and other controls are gorgeous running on XP. Are those commodity items yet I would love to make some custom forward/backward buttons and see the blue bleed out effect in my current controls in my vb.net winforms app. 1.  Are they simply standard .bmp or some other format that can be easily added to an existing .net control such as a button, checkbox or radio button array 2. Are there tools that make this doable for the developer or is this still in the domain of a graphic artist or developer in the know I don't have the time, as is the usual case, for an immersion course in a graphics package such as Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. Thanks, -Gre ...Show All

• .NET Development Web service how to monitor http request?

  Hi everyone, I have a web service running in my host (accepts SOAP requests).... I just want to monitor/read (store the HTTP url) the urls comes from my clients. How to do this in my server side not from the client side. Please help me. thanks Hi, You can do that with a SoapExtension. A SoapExtension is a mechanism provided by ASP.NET to intercept all the SOAP messages that goes to an specific web service. This sample in the MSDN shows how to implement a SoapExtension to trace all the SOAP request/response messages. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemWebServicesProtocolsSoapExtensionClassTopic.asp Regards, Pablo. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Device Emulator COM port problems

  I'm using Pocket PC 2003 device emulator v8.0.50727.42 and am trying to use the COM ports by mapping them to COM1 of my PC I can successfully create a handle for serial port 0 (COM1) or serial port 2 (COM3), but it fails for serial port 1 (COM2 ). In addition if I try and write to serial port 0 I get the first byte out of my PC COM port but then my application on the emulator appears to block on the call to WriteFile. If I click on the emulator frame a few more bytes get sent and then it blocks again. If I write to serial port 2 the application appears to successfully send the data i.e. no block this time, but nothing comes out of my PC COM port. I've run the application on a HP Pocket PC using it's COM1 port and the application works fine ...Show All

• SQL Server RFE: SSIS should recognise YYYYMMDD HH:MI:SS & YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MI:SS

  Hi, I've found a bit of an inconsistency between the way SQL Server treats dates and the way that SSIS treats them. As stated here: http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson/archive/2005/04/26/1337.aspx the only totally unambiguous datettime string formats that SQL Server accepts are: yyyymmdd hh:mi:ss yyyy-mm-ddThh:mi:ss Given that then, its a bit annoying that, as stated here: http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson/archive/2006/06/26/4141.aspx those two formats are not accepted as valid datetime string formats in the SSIS pipeline (check the bottom data viewer in the screenshot at the above link). I know that there is no strict requirement for SQL Server and SSIS to do the same thing as each other in situations li ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Removong Projects

  How can I remove projects from MS VB2005 Express Edition. I removed them once before using the Registry, however, I have forgotten that procedure. Any help appreciated. To remove the project from a current solution right click on the project name in the solution explorer and then click remove (as ahmedilyas stated)   To remove the file from MRU list... Edit the registry at your own risk....take a look at Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\PrijectMRUList ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook property page does not show correct

  Hi all, i added a new property page to Outlook (developed with VSTO in C#). This page shows up, but it has a little bug. There is a small part which is not shown correct. I’ve added a picture which shows the problem. http://img.langalaxy.de/ppage.png What can I do, that the property page looks like "Outlook" property page Thanks Just checked my Outlook standard pages: they all do not cover the bottom part of the page. Nevertheless the whole page including the bottom is display in one background color. How do the other pages look like at the bottom What kind of control would be displayed at the bottom Wha DPI size do you use for your display Standard size 96 DPI or a higher resolution Mayb ...Show All

• Visual C++ Strange thing about strlen() and strcpy_s()

  For example this code is given: baseDNA::baseDNA(const char* l, int r) { label=new char[strlen(l)+1]; cout<<strlen(l)<<' '<<strlen(label)<<endl; // 10 3 strcpy(label,l); rating=r; }; testing sample: baseDNA shirt("portabelly", 8); it executes well, except for the label's new length, it always show 3, there was simlar question before but didn't get the point. Because strcpy is deprecated, the code is beeing rewrited this way: baseDNA::baseDNA(const char* l, int r) { label=new char[strlen(l)+1]; strcpy_s(label,strlen(label),l); rating=r; }; The code is also executed but then windows error encounter. Thank You for answering. Hi Tomay, The rea ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Line does not show till click on map.

  Hi, Just started using the Map Controls. Adding a line to a map, following the instructions in the "Virtual Earth Map Control SDK, version 3.0" help file, and compared my code to various examples. Code runs okay (no javascript errors), loads & shows the map, but the line does not show till I click on the map. The line will also disappear if you move the map with the navigation arrows at the top. Same problem in IE 6 and Firefox 1.5 Example is here http://www.stroud.gov.uk/mapviewer/live_maps.htm You can view source to see my code. Cheers Mike Okay, I've now found a way around the polyline disappearing when the map is moved. On the onchangeview event, I call a function that deletes the cur ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Developer Edition from a Disk Image

  Hi all, I have a rookie question. I'm setting up PCs for a team of developers - all of whom will have the same hardware and software setup. I'd like to just install everything on one PC, then make an image of the PC to apply to the others. I will be installing SQL Server 2005, Developer Edition. From a SQL Server installation perspective, what special considerations will I need to make to get this going Any suggestions or links to online documentation would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, John It is not supported to install SQL Server 2005 on multiple machine at the same time. Neither SQL Server 2005 can be cloned accross machines. However, if all of your PCs are in a cluster, then it you can install SQL Server 20 ...Show All