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• .NET Development Events with COM Interop & VB6.0 for C++

  Greetings, I appologize if this is in the wrong forum but this looks like the most applicable for my issue. I've written in VS 2005 C++ COM visible classes and these work great from VB 6.0 applications. My only problem surrounds events/callbacks. I've replaced a native ActiveX component with a .NET/COM visible one and everything works, except a simple event it needs. Under no circumstances have I been able to get VB 6.0 to reference a .NET class with the "WithEvents" keyword nor be able to install an event handler/callback. I need a very simplistic event or callback, which is a simple single-argument "TimeOut" handler for asynchronously processing data in the .NET assembly. It simply needs to call a given VB6.0 function ...Show All

• Visual Studio Overriding custom attribute in a derived class

  In my model, i use the base class "NamedElement" which defines the Name property for all other classes. This property is browsable and updatable but in a derived class, i want to force this property readonly. How can i override this attribut Can you explain the use of DomainTypeDescriptor Thank you, Thank you Gareth, I had seen this but i hoped a more simplest solution. Just a suggestion Is it possible to add a property modifier attribute on a domain property Then, i can override my property and add some custom attributes in a custom partial code. I need the same thing with a role definition. I want to initialize a role when it is used for the first time. The best soluti ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums If you had it, what would you do with it?

  If the Windows Live Contacts Control gave your web app programmatic access to additional information about the user or the user's selected contacts (with the user's permission, of course), what would you do with it For example, would it be useful to your web app to know whether the contacts that the user selected and sent to you were online (IM presence) If you knew a contact was online, what would your web app do with that information What kinds of "additional information" about the user or the contacts the user sends to your web app would be desirable, and why We've already heard suggestions for having access to the contact's photo, and for a unique contact ID to help correlate updates and changes. Great! Keep going. What else ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Visual Studio 2005 Pro & XNA Game Studio Express {Installation Problem...Need Help}

  I have installed Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition with MS Visual C# 2005 and MS Visual Web Developer but when i try to install XNA Game Studio Express (Beta), a message box pops up saying that setup requires Visual C# 2005 Express Edition, i already have VS 2005 Pro Edition with Visual C# so whats the problem.... Just to clarify, you'll have to install C# Express to get GSE installed. If you wish to use VS instead of Express you can uninstall C# Express after GSE is installed. You won't have access to some of the features of GSE however as they only work with the Express IDE. You can still add a reference to the XNA DLLs and create games though. ...Show All

• .NET Development error CS0246 : the type or namespace name could not be found.

  I have an abstract class call "db" where I include all my methods to call the database. Then I have a Webservice which inherits all the methods of my abstract class to made it public and call them from a web app. I have no problems to create a dll with the abstract class, but I'd like to compile the full service into a dll but I cannot. Code... [ WebService (Namespace = "http://" )] [ WebServiceBinding (ConformsTo = WsiProfiles .BasicProfile1_1)] public class Service : Intranet.Classes. db //This a reference to an abstract class already compiled. { An the message is: "error CS0246 : the type or namespace 'Intranet' could not be found. Thanks a lot. Man or astroman. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Download of 180 day trial does not actually download the file

  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx familyId=B2C27A7F-D875-47D5-B226-E2578A116E12&displayLang=en&hash=K354ZWwxHDuqsxNXA9Moy4WzxYTs8ZyyYeb5WeL9UalDDWHbm9FQu3jCK%2fQPJtAbDbqx6hsva1VKtZUGARzfRw%3d%3d Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition 90-Day Trial En_vs_2005_Pro_90_Trial.img is 8k not 2734.3 MB as indicated. Download is not any good. Anyone know what the actual link might be the actual link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=B2C27A7F-D875-47D5-B226-E2578A116E12&displaylang=en Thats the VS 2005 PRO 90 day trial for Team Suite 180 day trial: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=5677DDC4-5035-401F-95C3-CC6F46F6D8F7&displaylang=en Te ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can't disable a button

  I am programming in c#. I have a button on my form that when clicked, it plays a wav file using the PlaySound method from winmm.dll. The wav is about 3 seconds long. The problem is that if I keep clicking the button during the 3 seconds the sound is playing, it queues all of the clicks, and plays the wav over and over. My Button is named btn. So I tried: this.btn.Enabled = false; PlaySound(...); this.btn.Enabled = true; Doing this successfully greyed out the button while the sound is playing, but it still accepts clicks, so it didn't fix my original problem. Is there some way to clear the event queue Or is there something else I'm doing wrong. I just want the button to not work while the sound is playing. I have also tried ...Show All

• SQL Server SQLWB.EXE max cpu

  SQL Server Management Studio 2005 Windows 2000 when I "Open Table" to view all the records in a table, the cpu goes to 100% and the records are drawn very slowly - about the same speed as you read ! I have re-installed all the software and also tried service pack 1. SQL 2000 worked fine. any ideas thanks John, UK Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 9.00.2040.00 Microsoft Analysis Services Client Tools 2005.090.2040.00 Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2000.085.1117.00 built by: (_sqlbld) Microsoft MSXML 2.6 3.0 5.0 6.0 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2800.1106 Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.50727.42 Operating System ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Using standard gamepad on PC ?

  Still havent got my hands on an XBox - but what to buy a gamepad i can use for testing on my PC. Can i use a standard gamepad for XNA development on PC or do i need to buy the specialized controller for windows I believe he was refering to the "standard" xbox controller, as in the one in green package, versus the one in red package ...Show All

• SQL Server Scheduling the SSIS Package to run after every 2 mins

  How can i plan the execution of a package For example, i want to execute the package every 2 minutes for all the time. I do not want to use SQL Server Agent to do this. I want the package to self contained to do it. Thanks Rohit Can I use a WMI EventWatcher task for this ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums ASP.NET 2.0 intergration

  Hello! How i can to integrate windows live id authentication with web application wrote on asp.net 2.0. *also using basic authentication system (such as membership, roles etc.) in case it relevant Thanks! Hi Josh, I made some trials with the Client SDK and it seems that I can use the built in authentication forms with it. However, with this solution, I just get one side of the requirement answered. My scenario has one other major requirement that is not yet answered and another that may even not be considered by the Live team: 1. The Client SDK provides me a way to log in using Live Id for my desktop application but parts of the features I want to implement are website based and ...Show All

• SQL Server Could not create Maintenance Plan

  Hello, if I try to create a Maintenance Plan from my local workstation I get the following Error Message: TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ------------------------------ The action you attempted to perform on a remote instance of SQL Server has failed because the action requires a SQL Server component that is not installed on the remote computer. To proceed, install SQL Server 2005 Management Tools on the remote computer, and then try again. For more information, see "How to: Install SQL Server 2005 (Setup)" in SQL Server 2005 Books Online, or find the article on MSDN at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ LinkID=57083 . (ObjectExplorer) For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ LinkID=57083 On my loca ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem with MDX query using date range from Date dimension table.

  We are facing problem with MDX queries using date range. We have a Date dimension table populated with dates from 2005-01-01 to 2020-01-01 Date dimension table contains dateid as the primary key, which is associated with dateid column of fact table. Following is our MDX query: WITH MEMBER [DATE].[Date].[DateRange] AS AGGREGATE ( STRTOMEMBER(@startDate) : STRTOMEMBER(@endDate), [Measures].CURRENTMEMBER ) SELECT NON EMPTY { [Measures].[PRODID Count] } ON COLUMNS, NON EMPTY {[PRODUCT].[PRODUCT NAME].[PRODUCT NAME]} ON ROWS from [PRODUCT] WHERE ([DATE].[Date].[DateRange]) where startDate and endDate are my query params. startDate=[DATE].[Date].[All] endDate=[DATE].[Date].[All] We have data from 2005-01-01 to 2005-01-31. If we give startD ...Show All

• Visual Studio Custom Guidance Package Deployment

  Hi, We have received a Custom Guidance Package developed by one of our clients and want to enable it for Visual Studio 2005 at our development center. After installing the Custom Guidance Package (SmartClientDevelopment.msi) along with the pre-requisites like GAT / GAX / CAB, we are unable to see the package inside visual studio 2005 (Tools > Guidance Package Manager > Enable / Disable Packages...). When we create our own Custom Guidance Package and install it using the setup.msi it shows up without any issues. This issue is bugging us for the last couple of days now and we have tried our best to get rid off the same, but, without any success. Requesting all you guys there to get me out of this issue / problem. Reg ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to increase the clipping area over the amount given by onpaint?

  I have a program, where the whole window should be redrawn, if something changes. But if i increase the Window size, only the new parts are redrawn. The graphics.ClipRectangle is private, so i cannot change that. Merry Chrismas wishes, maxmus Tell Windows that you're entire window needs to be repainted, not just the parts that became visible: private void Form1_Resize(object sender, EventArgs e) { this.Invalidate(); } ...Show All