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• Smart Device Development Drive mapping across WiFi in Windows Mobile 5 ?

  Has anybody successfully mapped a network drive to a Windows server across WiFi with a Windows Mobile 5 device Please enlighten me on what you did to accomplish this as I'm getting the error message "The network path was not found" followed by "The network resource was not found, or you don't have permission to connect to the network." no matter what I've tried and I've even configured my Windows XP Home edition to share drives and still the same problem. Thanks again for insisting on helping me with this one. Do you or anybody else know where I can find out if HP decided to include SMB in the iPaq hw6915 (I've searched high and low without finding the info so far...) Thanks, ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Merge XPS documents

  Basicly I want to merge 1-n xps-documents into a new package, either just add all source-documents or just add all the pages of the source-documents into the new package... I've tried out with following code, which writes all the source-documents-pages into a new xps-document, however this is very very slow!!! public void CreateXPSStreamPages(string targetDocument, List<string> list) { Package container = Package.Open(targetDocument, FileMode.Create); XpsDocument xpsDoc = new XpsDocument(container); XpsDocumentWriter writer = XpsDocument.CreateXpsDocumentWriter(xpsDoc); SerializerWriterCollator vxpsd = writer.CreateVisualsCollator(); vxpsd.BeginBatchWrite(); foreach (string sourceDocument in list) { Add ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Project Date Syncronization

  Hi there, we are using TFS extensively in our company, but i am running into some "wish it would work" issues. When creating a project in TFS and an adjacent project document to manage task sequences i find that if i syncronise from my project document to TFS the dates are updated successfully. If there happens to be another project document linked to the same project on TFS in which you update the task times and start and end dates the same doesnt happen when i refresh from the original project document. Okay ... simply, i can update the dates from one project doc (publish it), then from another change it (publish it), but cant find a way of updating the original doc with the changes directly from TFS. I have changed t ...Show All

• SQL Server Problems with Roles and sp_helpRoleMember

  I have a database role named gc_stationAdmin. I have a user x who has this role granted him when via Mgmt Studio under Logins. In fact I have 50+ users who have this role. 1) when I execute sp_helpRoleMember I see only 20 users who have this role when I'm expecting to see 50 and user X is not amongst the 20 2) when sp_helpRoleMember is executed AS user X, they only see 1 user with this role (and it's not himself) 3) when I drop user X from Role using sp_dropRoleMember OR using Mgmt Studio under Login Properties, it never drops him according to Mgmt Studio. When I pull up the login properties, that role is still always checked no matter what I do...although he doesn't appear in the sp_helpRoleMember result ever. What is goi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Overriding an 'invisible' property

  UserControl has a property called Text which is hidden from the user at design time. How do I override Text such that the user can 'see' it If I may ask a related question... How do you control the initial value of the Text property once it is made visible By default, it is set to the name of the control. I would like it to be initially set to nothing, such as what happens with the TextBox. I appreciate your help. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions String it together

  Hi, Please let me know if there is away to manipulate a string so that if there is a comma directly after a number [see below] then it is replaced by a space. Before AXA_Data, 39, Trust_Acc, Jersey, T=Y, ********,***,**** AXA_Data, 372, Trust_Acc, Malta, T=Y, ********,***,**** AXA_Data, 03, Trust_Acc, England, T=N, ********,***,**** After AXA_Data39, Trust_Acc, Jersey, T=Y, ********,***,**** AXA_Data372, Trust_Acc, Malta, T=Y, ********,***,**** AXA_Data03, Trust_Acc, England, T=N, ********,***,**** I hope it makes sense, Jason thanks for clearing it up. if you need to remove all commas you can do this: theString = theString.Replace(",", String.Empty ...Show All

• Smart Device Development What framework to use for an application?

  For developing a commercial quality application for PocketPC ATL->MFC->.NET(C#) There’s no single answer to that. Use whatever you feel comfortable with and/or fits you needs and/or your time frame. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Trouble Including Image Files with a Program Distribution through the Resources folder

  I'm having some trouble including three image files I need via the Resources folder. In my Resources view, the only 'Persistence' options are 'Linked at compile time' and 'Embedded in .resx' - trying either one, I get a System.ArgumentException when I try to load the images from "Resources\image.gif" - I have three other images that load perfectly find from "Resources\otherimage.gif" - what am I doing wrong Hi, The idea i gave is the one my lecturer at university told us, as a result She and the rest of the students pack a project/solution into a ZIP file by just archiving the one project/solution folder. Can you not do the same Regards, S_DS ...Show All

• Visual Basic Visual Basic Express application stops before showing form on another computer

  I have now tried 3 separate applications, one being just a simple form with no underlying code at all. All three applications will run fine on my Dell desktop (XP) and Dell laptop (2000) but will not run on my Toshiba laptop (XP). I do the development on my desktop so I cannot run debug on the Toshiba laptop. When I run the applications on the Toshiba, the process explorer shows it starting and immediately stopping. Placing a few log statements in the code, I noticed that the application is stopping when the form is trying to display. Load form is working fine but show form does not seem to be. This must be a configuration issue with the Toshiba as it is the only computer that does not work. However, I have done all MS ...Show All

• Windows Forms Using splitter: opening file using c# treeview

  I have a winform with splitter on it that divide the window to 2 parts. The left part holds a treeview that its source is xml file. the right part is the main\content window. I want that when the user clicks on a node in the treeview in the left part, a document (of any type: html\xls\word\powerpoint...) will be opened in the right part. How to do that Thanks a lot You can do something like this create an enum that has all the supported types like this enum FileTypes { PDF, XML, DOC, PPT, XSL } and create a simple object that contains class FileTag { FileType type; string fileName; } then in every treenode assign the Tag property to an object of type FileTag with corresponding filename and type. then i ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Developing Messenger bot

  Hi. I'm developing Messenger bot. It will be based on .NET 2.0 and be using DotMSN library to handle messenger protocol. I'm trying to enable activities handling in this bot. Right now I'm able to get data from activity sent using SendData method of Channel. But I need to send data to activity client from my bot. Could anyone help on this I've sniffed messenger packets and it seems that there is direct TCP connection for data exchange. Is there any docs on that protocol Thanks. i have the same problem initiating an activity invitation from bot automatically using dotMSN 2.0. did u figure it out could you share some sample code ...Show All

• Windows Forms Excel Automation from within Forms application deployed with ClickOnce

  I'm just now "finding my feet" with Windows forms application development and I'm wondering if a specific task is possible within the Forms application architecture. I would like to control Excel for custom purposes from within a Forms application that is deployed using ClickOnce. I've searched and found some posts about exporting data to Excel through a database interface, but this is inadequate for what I would like to do. I want to use Excel for rich presentation (perhaps even a chart) and want to allow users to cut-and-paste into Excel, and save the resutls. My needs suggest that I would want to use the Excel Automation Object model but I'm stumbling in the dark about whether this is possible using a Windows forms ap ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Windows mobile device center beta v2

  This update downloads but won't install I am using Vista RC1 Build 5384.... best place to ask may be here: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.mspx dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.general&lang=en&cr=US&r=2a072220-0dc1-4760-b70b-a63e791bbc79 ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies Add aspx page developed in Visual Studio to sharepoint

  Hi folks Can you tell me if this is even possible..... I have an aspx page which I have made in Visual Studio. It basically has a web form with the usual objects which are populated from a database. Now... I want to have this page within my sharepoint site, so I want to add a link to it on the sharepoint home page and when the link is clicked I want the page to load and look like all the other pages (i.e. with the sharepoint menu at the top, etc... Is this possible, and if so how The closest I have got is adding a web page, modifying it in front page and inserting my page into an IFrame, which I am not really happy to do. Any suggestions PS.... if this is not possible I would love to hear suggestions as to how to work aroun ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Problem with Connection Strings

  Hi All, I have an excel spreadsheet, which I want to use like a database table and access using ADO from another spreadsheet, but whenever I attempt to assign my connection string to the ActiveConnection property of my ADODB Recordset, I get the following error: Could not find installable ISAM. Below is the connection string: Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=\\Le09\kpl_biskra\personal_biskra\ksmith\Reporting\Weekly\Christmas Analysis\DataFile.xls;Extended Properties=Excel 8.0;HDR=Yes; Can anyone help Many thanks! Keith How you doing, This might not be the solution but your Extended Properties should be double quotes in the connection string, like this. Provider=Micr ...Show All