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• Windows Forms Form Appearance Design (Create jazzy Looking forms/controls)?

  Hi, i am looking for some good tutorials or examples on how to create of nice looking forms, ie. shiny gradient backrounds ect like you have with powerpoint slides and nice control mouse rollover colours ie. like when you move the mouse over a button. Thanks. Here are 3 other great resources! Google Talk styled Windows Form Irregular Shaped Form Creating a non rectangular form using GDI+ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Number to text

  hi friends i need a code that convert number to Text for ex. if i supply 3456 to the Function it gives me three thousand Four Hundred and Fifty six.. i was trying this myselt but i was unable to sort this out. help Rajnesh ' Make a form with two textboxs with the standard names ' textbox1 and textbox2. ' Textbox1 is the input numbers box. ' Textbox2 displays the words spelled out Public Class Form1 Public Arr1() As String = New String (20) { "" , "One" , "Two" , "Three" , "Four" , "Five" , "Six" , "Seven" , "Eight" , "Nine" , "Ten" , "Eleven" , "Twelve" , "Thirteen" , "Fourteen" , "Fifteen" , "Sixteen" , "Seventeen" , "Eighteen" , ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Reading excel file with Lat Long and Label

  Hi all: I would like to know if there a way to read an excel file with Lat, Long, Label data and display them directly into VE Thank much! -Peter A couple of ways that I know of: 1) Directly read in the file, parse the lat/longs and output it into html using stringbuilder. A sample application of that would be: http://blogs.msdn.com/mappoint_b2b/archive/2005/12/06/500751.aspx (You can ignore some of the AJAX techniques mentioned there, since your not grabbing from MWS, but the stringbuilder thing is there) 2) Find a way to convert your excel file into a GeoRSS xml file. More details on what it looks like here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa973241.aspx You'll also need to uploa ...Show All

• SQL Server Top 5% of Sales for each salesman

  Above says it. I'm trying to select a random 5% of sales for each salesman for the last day serviced. I've got it all down, but I can't get it down to salesman. I'm using a basic select: name, address, order, order_id, etc where order_id in (select top 5 percent order_id from MYSERVER group by salesman, order_ID order by newid()) The actual statement's much longer and has more where statements, but the pertinent info is above. All I can manage to do is create very long-winded ways to pick a random 5% of all sales. Using the Northwind sample database to demonstrate, with SQL Server 2005: select O.* from Northwind..Employees as E cross apply ( select top (5) percent * from Northwind..Orders as ...Show All

• Windows Forms having an issue loading a jpg resource in XBAP on Server 2003

  the original thread is at the WPF forum : http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1169054&SiteID=1 but there doesn't seem to be much XBAP chatter there Thanks, casey ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Databinding in derived control

  Below is a control I created that is inherited from Label. This compiles though it doesn't look right in the XAML designer (the gradient colors do not show up). When I add the control to another project I get an error message saying "Cannot create instance of type GradientLabel". What am I doing wrong with the binding GradientLabel.xaml: <Label x:Class="ui.GradientLabel" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" > <Label.Background> <LinearGradientBrush StartPoint="0.5,0" EndPoint="0.5,1"> <GradientStop Color="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Mode=FindAncestor ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How do I upgrade the OS on my SmartPhone?

  Greetings, I got a Qtek 8010 SmartPhone running on Windows CE 4 and would like to update the OS to CE 5 to be able to develop Windows Mobile 5.0 apps. The problem is that I'm really new to smart device development and haven't got a clue as to how to upgrade the OS. How is it done Do I run the installation on my desktop PC and it upgrades the phone through ActiveSync or do I copy an entire image to the phone and run it from there Are there any other issues I should be aware of concerning the upgade of a SmartPhone OS Thanks! This forum is smart device development related. Since your question is not related to smart device development, it's off topic here. Please post to relevant for ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. I am new in this programing language and would like to seek help

  I am new in this programing language and would like to seek help...... I want to build an online game compatable to all users of the internet can anyone help me with a test game I am in major help! There's no specific site that I would recommend (and I'd be careful about giving out your email like that in forums, good way for spammers to pick it up). Really, I'd recommend finding a book off of Amazon (used ones would work just fine) and working your way through that. There's also a good chance that you could find some C# books at your local library. You can also do some searches for C# tutorials in Google and I'm sure you'll get plenty of resources, but I can't recommend any myself because I really haven't used any. Usually local ...Show All

• .NET Development Better way of removing commas

  Here is the situation, using C# and VS2005, one has a string that contains a number. Unfortunatley the originator of the string is ouputing commas within the string such as "1,234,567.89" What is the best way to strip commas from a string Below is a method I have come up with that seems like it is overkill... Can it be replaced with an easier, meaning less code on my side, way of doing it advTHANKSance TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text.Replace( "," , "" ) It replaces comma(,) with nothing. ...Show All

• .NET Development WebService client uses 50% total time to unserialize XML

  I .NET 2.0 web application uses a web service (also .NET 2.0) to get a Dataset. The SOAP xml is about 0.5MB. The web application is taking to long to create the page. after profiling, i've noticed that 20% of the time is waisted here: 19,66% SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke... - 5765 ms - 1 call What can i do to improve performance Maybe use an alternative XML serializer / unserializer Thanks The service takes about 0.3s to output the soap. But SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke... takes almost 6s. Maybe it's the xml unserialization on the client side. ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE7 and issue with TrackPopupMenu(Win32) within ActiveX-control

  Hello. I have a trouble with calling win32-function TrackPopupMenu from ActiveX in new Interner Explorer 7 (RC1 and all betas). The situation is: I have some ActiveX-control - "MyPopupMenu". This control is being used to show context popup menu. To do it, it used win32 function from winuser.h. There's an issue with one of them - TrackPopupMenu. Control has worked fine in IE6, but in IE7 it doesn't. When TrackPopupMenu is called in non-dialog window, nothing happens! There's no popup menu (it was constructed by calling CreatePopupMenu and InsertMenuItem previously). But popup menu still works fine in dialog windows (ones that created in script by window.showModalDialog). Can anybody help me THX. Actually, t ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Indexing Server Prot Number or PDF IFilter for x64 OS

  This has burned up much of my time this week. I am migrating an ASP.NET site to a Windows Server 2003 x64 box. The site makes use of the Indexing Server to search on PDF files. Everything went smoothly except the fact that Adobe doesn't make an IFilter for PDF files that's compatible with the x64 OS. I have tried several solutions, but none seem to be working. My solution now is to index the files on a different server and query the remote machine. I have this all working good on the internal network, but when I try to query the server with the external IP address, I get a "Network Path Not Found" error. I'm guessing this is because the port that the Indexing Server uses is closed. I have tried Googling it without any luck. Does ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2005 Developer edition fails with fatal error

  Hi, I created one Installation file with below settings [Options] USERNAME=Developer COMPANYNAME=Worldspan INSTALLSQLDIR="C:\SQL Server\" INSTALLSQLSHAREDDIR="C:\SQL Server\" INSTALLSQLDATADIR="C:\SQL Server\" INSTALLASDATADIR="C:\SQL Server\" ADDLOCAL=SQL_Engine,SQL_Data_Files,SQL_FullText,Notification_Services,NS_Engine,NS_Client,SQL_DTS,Client_Components,Connectivity,SQL_Tools90,Tools_Legacy,SQL_Documentation,SQL_BooksOnline,SQL_AdventureWorksSamples,SQL_Samples SAMPLEDATABASESERVER=".\LOCALDEV2005" INSTANCENAME=LOCALDEV2005 SQLBROWSERACCOUNT="NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" SQLACCOUNT="NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" AGTACCOUNT="NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" SQLBROWSERAUTOSTART=1 S ...Show All

• Visual Studio Stepping through Error List

  Hi In Visual Studio 6 when your compiled program had errors, they were listed in the Build window. Pressing F4 it would jump to the source code where the error was. Repeated pressing F4 stepped through the error list jumping to the source code each time. VC2005 uses the Error List but is there a short cut key to step to the source code as before. David Try CTRL->Shift F12 to see if that is what you are looking for...otherwise double clicking on the error in the Error List will take you to the individual error. Note there is no assigned keyboard command to step back and you will need to assign it (View Error Previous). Also if one wants to have the error list displayed, type in the finger twist ...Show All

• SQL Server Books Online

  I have registered to use SQL server 2005 Express Edition.  I want to download relevant documentation for books online. The guidance for this is to download the 'SqlServer2k5_BOL_Jul2006.msi' software. When I initiate this download:- (1) I get a message from my ISP (I.e AOL) saying the publisher coud not be verified, and asking if I wanted to run this software. (2) when I press 'run' software is downloaded to a tmp file, and I get the option to install. (3) On clicking the install button, a Windiws Installer message appears - this states that ' the installation package cannot be opened and suggests contacting the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer Package. How can I  access the ...Show All