holysmokes99's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Porting VC6 Apps and DLLs to Vista

  I want to link into the new Vista-specific API by rebuilding a DLL. Can I use VS6 (or VS7.1) and just install the latest SDK I am asking all these questions because porting these apps and dlls using VS8 seems to either not build or not install correctly on Vista. My alternative is to rebuild with VS8, but am I then forced to convert to Unicode Is an alternative method to link a VC6 or VC7 executable with a VC8 built DLL that has hooks into the latest API Will that work Yes, you can use VS 6 or VS 7.1 to build apps with Vista, I already do this (although this scenario is NOT supported officially by Microsoft). The best approach if you just have one or two Vista specific APIs, just to use LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress, inste ...Show All

• Visual C# Executable Resources

  So I've written this class library that launches an external application (.exe) and does something with the standard output provided back to it. This external application I have been packaging up in the installer and gets deployed in the same directory as the hosting application, however I was working with resources the other day, and I would like for that external application to not be accessable from the user, but only from within the calling application. The calling application makes use of the ProcessStartInfo class to start up an instance of this class, but I see it only calls executables that have a file path known to them. Question : Is there anyway I can add the executable as a resource by adding a new resx file, adding t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Saving excel as an image file

  Anyone knows how can I save an Excel file to a image file (.gif or .jpg ) using VSTO Note that, I want to export the entire worksheet (there are no charts in it). Thanks. Douglas: Of course we can solve in Excel using VSTO However, I don't spend any time with an "open - ended" question unless the OP comes back and explain: using or not VSTO This is a VSTO forum which don't deal with other non-VSTO technologies. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) DATA BINDING - Two-Way binding only honors first change to Source.

  Not what I expected from a two way binding. The first time that the bound property on the Source object is changed, the binding system picks up the change, loads the proper Validation object, and reflects the change in the Target UI control. All is well. However, any subsequent changes to the Source object property are simply ignored.         <ListBox.Tag>           <Binding Path="IsValid" Mode="TwoWay" Source="{StaticResource TimingModeValidity}" UpdateSourceTrigger="PropertyChanged">             <Binding.ValidationRules>          ...Show All

• SQL Server SSAS crashes - mining predictions for large data sets

  Hi all, I am using SSAS 2005. The mining model works fine. But it crashes when I run the 'Mining Model Predictions' against large data sets. I ran it against 5,000,000 records and it went fine. But exactly same model failed for 5,100,000 records and beyound. The message is 'Query Execution Failed' and then Visual Studio crashes. Pl. let me know if anybody has the same experience or knows the solution. Thanks, Vikas You are trying to run the query inside visual studio for > 5M records It shouldn't crash (this would be a bug), but that environment is not particularly designed for vary large query results. The prediction tab is generally for designing queries and previewing results. If you want to put the ...Show All

• SQL Server Is SQL Server Express what I need????

  Hello, Someone I know told me that they thought SQL Server Express was what I am looking for. Before I get in over my head I need to know from people who use it if this is really for me. I have build my own web site using very basic HTML and CSS. Nothing fancy I am very new to this. What I want to do is have a customer able to enter their email address, once they have hit submit, I want the email address to go to a database (which I believe this software is going to help me set up ) and a document sent to them. I was thinking of a PDF attachment to an email since I have not figured out yet how to send an email that looks like a web page. I now have a customer inquiry form on my site that is sent to a perl script in my cgi bin ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET development 2.0 = 32bit ?

  Hi, I'm confused. .NET development 2.0 only runs on 32 bit .NET development 2.0 SDK runs on 64bit but needs the other version to install. This doesn't makes sense. I'm SOL I guess. hi , i didnt get ur question , .net 2.0 runs fine (AFAIK) on 64 bit machines, currently we are doing all our developemnt on 64 bit environment, we have dual core p4 x64 architecutre ,with 64bit windows xp professional, vs2005 and .net2.0. .net 2.0 provides separat command shell for 64 bit and 32bit command prompt, 64 bit runtime distributable are also available, You might run into problems where u are referencing 32 bit dll/exes, cause by default on x64 machines vs2005 generates 64 bit executables. 32 bit dlls/exe can not be loaded into a 64 bit process, d ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Can I get the text Range in smart tag Recognize2 method?

  I am writing a smart tag recognizer for Word 2007. In the Recognize2 method, I want to get the location of the text so I can recognize different tokens in different parts of the document. However, I can't find any way to get a Range object in the Recognize2 method. Is this possible For example, I only want to recognize certain tokens when they are in a table. If I could get a Range object for the Text, I could use Range.Information[wdWithInTable] to test if the text is in a table. Wow, that should work. My only worry is after you delete the private tag, what prevents Office from recognizing it again and going into an infinite loop ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies WDS 3.x keyboard shortcut

  The default keyboard shortcut to search for anything in WDS 3.X is Windows key - Shift-F Is it possible to customize this I can't see anything in the options. You can define additional shortcut keys by going to the WDS link (visual shortcut) and right click and select properties. Go to the shortcut property tab and there is a shortcut key value. There you can add a new shortcut key. cheers, Ed ...Show All

• SQL Server Running Reporting Services with

  I have a question regarding Reporting Services:  I want to run the Reports on a system that has Oracle Database but reporting Services are not installed there. Only Application exe file will be there designed in .NET Windows Forms. Reports will  access oracle Database. Hi, Since you don't have SQL Server or .NET 2.0, it is not possible to use reporting services. Either one of them is necessary. Greetz, Geert Geert Verhoeven Consultant @ Ausy Belgium My Personal Blog ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Security on Iteration node maintenance

  Does anyone know the security setting to allow the add/delete/mod of iterations. I have a user that has the ability to do anything needed with areas but cannot change iterations. I'm not sure which security setting I have incorrect. The group to which teh user belonsg is not allowed to edit project information. It seems from the docs that if I set the "DELETE" class="CSS_Node" allow="TRUE" that would apply to areas not to iterations. So... both from the chnages that need to be made in the groupsandpermissions.xml file of the team project template and via tfssecurity how can I set the user to be able to maintenance permissions and what setting must I obviously not have set not that prevents them from doi ...Show All

• .NET Development Retrieving Remote System dates...

  I want to retrieve the date/time on a remote system of my Local Network. The Name of the system is contained in a ConnectionString. So, how can I do that in .NET Hi, I should say thank you for using our technology About your questions: 1) It is important to dispose your objects as these are wrappers of the WMI COM model and also because a little bug that is jumping around that the WMI team hasn't fixed yet (as they were very busy with Vista release). It is not necessary to disconnect because you are not connected, that is just the scope that you send on your requests. You must dispose the search object and the management collection. 2) Many people asks this, the problem is that is not a ...Show All

• Visual C# inner classes

  Hello, for many years of java I haven't appreciated the inner classes feature, and took it for granted. Now when I'm using c# I know how imporatnt it is. So I tought to ask what others are doing without it. In Java I had something like this: class A { protected String myString = "A"; class B { void myMethod() { myString = "B"; } } } this means that the inner class can access any method or data member (static and non static) of the outer class, and the pointer to the outer class is created without additions to the code. I want it in c#. Is there a way to do it Thanks You have type members and instance members. Static members are type members. In class B you can access type members of class ...Show All

• SQL Server NULL in Temp Tables

  Forum, I am looking at another report code (constructed by another user) and wanted to know why the user coded the word NULL after each field in the Temp tables. What does the NULL tell me and why would the user use it Sorry for the Newb question ... I'm still learning the language and could not find any information in the help files. Report Code /* Billing Status */ SET NOCOUNT ON CREATE TABLE #Appt( FacilityId int NULL , Visit datetime NULL , OwnerId int NULL , DoctorId int NULL , CompanyId int NULL , ApptSetId int NULL , CasesId int NULL ) CREATE TABLE #Temp( Visit datetime NULL , PatientId varchar(15) NULL , PatientName varchar(90) NULL , DoctorName varchar(60) NULL , ApprovalResults text NULL , Description va ...Show All

• .NET Development using net.exe in my program

  Hello all, In my code, I use System.Diagnostics.Process p = new System.Diagnostics.Process(); p.StartInfo.Arguments = "user Administrator " + pass; p.StartInfo.FileName = @"c:\windows\system32\net"; which changes the administrator password of the comptuter using the "net.exe" in the directory C:\Windows\System32\net.exe But I'm demanded that my program shouldn't call another program (in this case, net.exe) to change the administrator password; but the proccess of changing the admin password must be done within my C# code instead. What I understand is, I must insert a code or import a dll that implements what "net user Administrator password" does, without calling net.exe to do this, which makes sense I think. net.exe s ...Show All