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• Windows Forms DoEvents in a Class Library

  Hi, I have a VC# dll which has a while(true) loop. I was using a DoEvents in the original code, but now when I write the dll I cant use the DoEvents !! Is there a way to use DoEvents in a Class Library Thanks. Yes i know that its not good programming practice. I have a while loop which is waiting for data received (or sent) over sockets. Since I have to keep on listening for data being received, I cant think of a better way of doing this thing without using the while(true) loop. The loop terminates when the client sends an exit message. So, I am using the DoEvents before I enter this loop to allow my program to do other stuff. And yes I know that DoEvents is in Windows.Forms, but that is wher ...Show All

• Visual Studio Sandcastle feature requests

  I am now using Sandcastle November CTP with some modifications to build help for several related projects. I am using no additional software except a batch file with some input parameters which automates the build process. In order to get good results it has been necessary to make several changes to the released version of Sandcastle. Many of these changes I think should be included as standard features. I know that Eric Woodruff's SCHB does most of this stuff (and a lot more). However, I don't think an end user should have to rely on this in order to make Sandcastle easy to use. Here is a list of modificiations and extra features I would like to see as standard, especially 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3! 1 General requests 1.1 [vs2005 ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies "Modified" column show changes, but no alert

  Hi, We have a weird situation for all our files in Shared Documents. All newly uploaded document will be shown "Modified By" by userA. A new version is generated but no alert has been sent out. But alerts will be sent out for any other changes. UserA claimed no changes to the document. And there's no document approval. Is it possible to use UserA loginId to change the document without UserA knowledge and how May I know how to rectify this problem Appreciate any help. p/s: we are using wssv2 ...Show All

• Windows Forms autoincrement seed set to -1 updates db to this value

  vb 2005 hi, im read somewhere that using strongly typed datasets, you should set the PK to autoincrement but in negative numbers so that it doesn't clash with the autonumbers generated by the database. in my case, im using MySQL and strongly typed datasets. the UserID column in the database is set to autoincrement. on my typed dataset i have that column set to autoincrement but in negative numbers. now, i have a form where i would like to present the user with a textbox bound to the UserID column. so i databind it to the UserID column. my problem is, when i create a new row, the textbox shows a number like -1. worse is that when i persist to database, the value -1 gets stored instead of the normal autoincrement. i would like to know if th ...Show All

• SQL Server Replication

  does anyone know if it's possible to run a replication task with a script, and how (is there ans sp_ for this ) thanks, dont know the script..but u can use replmerg.exe to run it from command prompt... its in the com folder of sqlserver..u shud know the parameters for the agent which u can get from sysjobsteps(in msdb) ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Vector maths methods...

  Following a long day of writing and debugging some nasty rigid body physics code, and feeling the pain of the maths library I have to use for this C++ work, I thought I'd take another look at the XNA maths code to see if the results would be more readable (as you might hope ;). ... But my quick look at the framework docs seems to show more deficiencies than in the code I have been using all day... 1/ There is no Point3 class. This is a real pain as libraries that don't distinguish points and vectors are a right pain - transforming a point by a 4x4 matrix will result in a different result to transforming a vector. (And I don't want to resort to coding every point/vector as a homogeneous coordinate either!). There appears to be a ...Show All

• SQL Server Help with LinkTarget

  I am trying to access the Employee Summary Report in reporting services examples using URL access. I want to open the sub-reports in this report to be opened in a different window. Here is the url I am using http://ReportServer/ReportService2005.asmx/ %2fAdventureWorks Sample Reports%2fEmployee Sales Summary&rs:Command=Render&rc:LinkTarget=_blank I was assuming that when I click the sub-report it will open in a browser since the LinkTargete is to _blank. Please let me know why this is not working . Thanks!! SqlNew Again, the URL is wrong. Should be http://localhost/ReportServer /Adventure Works Sample Reports/Employee Sales Summary Open up IE and make sure that the URL w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Difficulties running Word Add-ins with VSTO CTP v3

  I have a Windows XP, Word 2007 PC.  On it I have installed Visual Studio.Net, WinFX CTP (Feb.), VSTO, followed by VSTO CTP. I actually had this setup working a while back (in May), and at the time created a few VSTO Word add-ins that ran perfectly in Word 2007. But now I cannot run any of the add-ins I created previously on this PC. When I open one of the .sln files, I get this VS error:  "The type initializer for Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Hosting.VCG threw an exception." The project does open, but it contains a warning: "Warning: The generated files could not be loaded and have been recreated." (And there was at one time a project warning regarding WindowsBase.dll but it went away.) I can build t ...Show All

• SQL Server Change results

  I have created query As shown: SELECT distinct [Table] FROM [Database] The results i get back are A, B & C. What i am trying to do is show a result as a different word. i.e instead of displaying A is shows in drop down list as Apple, B shows Banana. etc. Can anyone help please. Thanks Thanks for that. I can see what you've done but the fields i need are carries in a field in a table. there can be only 3 results a b or c. there are alot of records. i don;t see how i can use this to select distinct from field in table but display as something else. ...Show All

• .NET Development using xmldocument

  Hi, How can i append elements to the root of a xmldocument using a method This was my previous method: public void WritingToXMLDoc(string elementString, string writeToXMLDoc) { this.writer.WriteElementString(elementString, writeToXMLDoc); } But now, im coverting everything to xmldocument. Thanks in advance! You can create a new element node with CreateElement called on a System.Xml.XmlDocument instance e.g. XmlElement element = xmlDocumentInstance.CreateElement(elementString); then set the InnerText e.g. element.InnerText = writeToXMLDoc; then insert the new element as needed e.g. xmlDocumentInstance.DocumentElement.AppendChild(element); ...Show All

• Visual C# Chess in C#

  Someone Know where have a example a open source about chess, because I'm wanting to see a modol.. Thank you! There are many Chess applications written in C#, take your pick: Valil.Chess Yet Another Chess Board Control #Chess A Chess Program using C# Just to name a few. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. TitleLocation writeable on the 360?

  Let's say I run some code like this on the 360: string fullpath = Path.Combine( StorageContainer.TitleLocation, "new_file.dat" ); FileStream fs = File.Open( fullpath, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write ); Will this work on the 360 Or is "TItleLocation" read-only Assuming this will work are there any FileMode operations that are off limits in TitleLocation or it's subdirectories If this can be done, then is there any limit to the amount of space that can be written to TitleLocation or it's subdirectories other than the available free space on the 360 HD Thanks - Ryan Interesting idea; I hadn't thought of that. I'll have to mess around with that this weekend. Incid ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista UAC elevation dialog minimized

  Our application launches a separate executable that requires elevation. Everything works fine except that the UAC elevation dialog always comes up minimized, blinking in the taskbar (users tend to miss the blinking taskbar and think the operation failed). I believe this is a problem with Vista, as I have seen the same behavior in the Windows Explorer (Computer) when right-clicking on a hard drive and selecting "Format...". Is there a way to force this UAC dialog to gain focus immediately Or is this a bug that will be fixed in future Vista builds Running Vista build 5472 Hey Fergar, Thanks for the post, am having the same issue and the problem is i need to specify the handle as NULL ...Show All

• Windows Forms Dialog result without closing / event handling

  For reference, I'm working in VS Express, C#.  I'll try to keep background short and need-to-know.  Also, my apologies on the font size - I tried to make it normal and apparently I have failed... In my efforts to follow a good OO approach to programming a project, I have created an abstract object called Item (as in an item on a test) with an abstract method Display (which displays the item and returns an int that is the answer given).  I also have a TestAdministrator class that selects the items in a test and presents them to the test taker. Furthermore, in an effort to keep load times to a minimum, I have created an ItemDisplayForm class that gets passed into the Display function.  The idea was to have ...Show All

• Windows Forms Column Sort

  Hi, i'm new with datagrid and i'm wondering how can i make the alphabetical sort of the column to work, does .Net already hasve that functionality I don't know if this is important but the datagrid was filled with data from an array. tkns I forgot to mention that the app i'm developing is .Net 1.1 Because of that i need to detect the Header click like this: private void dataGrid_MouseDown(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e) { DataGrid dataGrid = (DataGrid) sender; DataGrid.HitTestInfo myHitTest = dataGrid.HitTest(e.X,e.Y); if(myHitTest.Type.ToString() == "ColumnHeader") { Console.WriteLine("Column " + myHitTest.Column); } } I also need to find another way to sort the col ...Show All