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• Internet Explorer Development window.opener.closed and 'Permission denied' on IE 6.0

  have a simple javascript that will reload the parent window. It works fine when when the parent window is open, but I cannot find a way to check if the parent window is closed in IE. The code is: if (window.opener && !window.opener.closed) window.opener.location.reload(); I am getting 'Permission denied' on the window.opener.closed statement. I don't think it is a cross domain issue because the reload works fine when the parent exists. How can I check if the parent exists on IE I tried window.opener.location and window.opener.document.all Thanks Thats just sort of the way IE works. Ive been through all available documentation on IE in MSDN numerous times as I develop HTAs regularly and I havent c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office ClickOnce Compatibility With VSTO Add-ins

  will I be able to utilise ClickOnce technology with my Outlook 2007 add-in thanks Wee Bubba, You could also write your own clickonce style app rather than wait for orcas http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1753127&SiteID=1 Denis ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office visual studio tools for office

  I want to call a print dialog box from a command button in an excel sheet. I cant see the common dialog control in the control tool box. How can I add a custom control to my work sheet I used the commands as follows to get the print dialog box when I click the print command button but it doesnt recognize these commands (appear in red color in the visual basic code window in excel). Do I have to import any system libraries How to do that Private Sub printButton_Click() System.Windows.Forms.PrintDialog pd = new PrintDialog(); pd.ShowDialog(); pd.Dispose(); pd = null; End Sub ...Show All

• .NET Development protect database file

  hi I am working in dictionary program ...working by vb.net I have my database and fineshed the project...the problem is: when the user install the application in his pc, he can find the dic.mdb file and he can access it or open it without the program.... I want to prevent the user to use my database out of my program... password is no enough protection nither cambiar el extintion of the database file.... I sow smiler programs and could not find or access thier databas file...I do not know how can I do that.... may u tell me about that thanks alot Is this a question to the Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals forum or is it a general question (ACCESS DB) Why is the password ...Show All

• Visual Basic Recent Projects List on Start Page is not being Populated

  The Projects List on my Start Page is not being populated with the Projects I open. It's empty. Does anyone know what could be the problem I can see the entries being recorded in the Registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList But VS isn't reading them in for some reason. I'm running Visual Studio 2005 Professional. Thanks. Hey rufdog30, Do recent projects properly show up correctly in the File -> Recent Projects list Also, there's a known issue regarding projects that are opened from Source Control not showing up on the Recent Projects list. Could this be your issue Thanks, Michael ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista VIDEOINFOHEADER does not update image dimensions

  I have some DirectShow code that loads video clips and plays them onto OpenGL textures. The problem I have is that the VIDEOINFOHEADER returned from the SampleGrabber does not update the bmiHeader.biWidth when changing from a 640x480 to a 720x480 clip. I release the SampleGrabber and all DS filters before rebuilding the chain and clear out the AM_MEDIA_TYPE structs before calling the SampleGrabber's GetConnectedMediaType method. I have the Windows Server 2003 SP1 Platform SDK, have built the DS samples as debug and develop on XP SP2. Any insight into this problem would be greatly appreciated. This may actually be a codec specific problem. I'm using ffdshow for MJPEG decompression and it has this problem. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Inheriting Composite activity

  I'm having a problem inheriting from a composite activity - here are the details: 1) I created a composite activity and it worked great. 2) I then created another activity that inherited from my first composite activity. 3) The VS 2005 designer re-initialized my custom properties, etc... so my project wouldn't compile. 4) I manually deleted what was basically being initialized twice and it then worked great. I compiled and ran my project without problems. Now here's the issue: if I use VS 2005 to edit my inherited composite activity (for example let's say I add a code activity), the designer will once again add all of the code to re-initialize properties, etc... Again I get a bunch of errors since these objects are now initi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Error when creating custom outlook toolbar

  I've been trying to work with VSTO for just over a week now, getting the basics out of the way. Using sample code provided i managed to make the customer menu bar fine, however i keep getting the following error when i attempt to generate the customer toolbar sample, also provided by MSDN. Here is the sample code: Imports Office = Microsoft.Office.Core Public Class ThisApplication Dim commandBar As Office.CommandBar Dim firstButton As Office.CommandBarButton Dim secondButton As Office.CommandBarButton Private Sub ThisAddIn_Startup( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me .Startup AddToolbar() End Sub Private Sub AddToolbar() command ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE generating a lot of data traffic

  I am web-developer and wondering how to solve this problem. If I look for data-traffic on my site it was a lot more than expected. My webpages have some javascript and r.a.d. controls, I run in debug=false. I noticed that whenever someone uses the "open in new window" functionality, a *lot* of data is passing the line. As if the cache is not working at all. Doing some researh I found that most sites on the internet are suffering from this behaviour. To give you an example. Go to www.asp.net doing some search in some forum. See the big difference in clicking on a link and right-click on the link and choose "open in new window". As if all pictures/scripts/resource files are loaded AGAIN. Doing the same with FireF ...Show All

• Visual Studio MSB3108 ?

  What can cause a MSB3108 I have a custom build that just failed with the above error, until now it has worked nicely, but this time it failed and left the machine in a totally messed up state (I however was accessing the build machine via remote desktop) Sizevise we're talking perhaps 30 C# projects + 50 C++/CLI projects.. I'll try again and see what happens... EDIT: what's funny is that neither Google nor MSDN seems to know anything about such an error code... C:\Gsp\Build\Wrappers\Wrappers.sln : error MSB3108: Error executing the CreateTemporaryVCProject task. Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service.             CreateTemporaryVCProject is a ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Where's the Texture2D.Pitch? & Shader Problem

  I am trying to build a Texture2D. However, the function that I'm trying to work with from Direct3D pushes the bytes in using the D3DLOCKED_RECT. This struct has two members, pBits (which is the pointer to the bits), and the Pitch (which is the width of a row, right ). So, I can certainly create my texture with the same format: D3DFMT_A8R8G8B8, which I assume is SurfaceFormat.Color. So far so good. However, I'm trying to convert this function but there's no concept as Pitch in the new texture object. Is Pitch = 4 automatically in the Texture2D class Here's the function in C++: .code {word-wrap:break-word;margin:10px;padding:10px;border:2px ridge white;background-color:#eeeeee;font-family:Courier New;font-size:10pt;} ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Code for "Pong" Game in Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition

  hey peepz... i really need help in making in the Pong game..or to make it specific..i need the code..so...if u guy arent busy..please help..its like a project worth 25% for my computer programming class...worth than my examintion so if u could help...please dont hesitate to think twice....asap for help..thnkz!!mwaaahhhh.... [katie14] katie_13, Please ask the specific question during your project development but not the whole task. I totally agree with spotty. However, we are glad to solve the problem the hardest part you are not able to solve. Please do it by yourselve firstly, and if you have any problems during your development, just post in this forum. Don't forget describe your question should be specific in this pr ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Animation not holding.

  I implemented a menu tray that raises and lowers. It worked in the first version of the iHDSim, but in the new version the menu tray raises and then disappears. Then the lower tray button key assignment will make the tray appear again and then lower. Why is the tray not staying visible <style id="BUTTON_TRAY" style:backgroundImage="url('MENU/BTN_TRAY.png')" style:position="absolute" style:x="190px" style:y="720px" style:width="900px" style:height="200px" /> <!-- effects for raising and lowering menu tray --> <g id="RaiseTray"> <animate style:y="720px;520px" /> </g> <g id="LowerTray"> <ani ...Show All

• Visual Basic Change system time using vb.net

  Does anyone know how to change the system clock using code. I want to be able to set the date and time in my code. Any thoughts Thanks!!! here is what i have Global declared Public theCustomDateTime As DateTime = New DateTime(Today.Hour) i have a button and a textbox in the button code i have txthour.Text = theCustomDateTime.AddHours(1) when i click the button 1 displays in the textbox but when i click it again nothing happens. I want each time i click the button the hour increases by 1 and goes until 23. This should be changing the system clock so that whatever hour i put it as the system clock will change to that hour. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Can't deploy to Xbox 360 from GSE

  All Apologies but this is a repeat post from 31-Jan buried inside another thread that appears to have died. I can't push code to my Xbox 360 from GSE.  This issue has been reported by other people and their problems boil down to either having entered the 25-digit code incorrectly or, in one case, that their router didn't properly support UPnP. I've regenerated, accepted and reconfigured the key *many* times, making sure I don't have any 0's, 1's, 5's or 8's in the generated key to avoid confusion.  I understand this is a one-time key so I'm not reusing an old key.  I am most definitely getting the key right and choosing accept, not cancel. I have downloaded and installed Windows Media Connect (I'm running Windows ...Show All