MattyBoy4444's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions prank program on my friend :)

  im making a program to pull a joke on my friend and i need a little help. the program's background is a picture of him and whenbuttons are clicked labels appear that say a 'smart' remark and other buttons appear. i am making it so that he has to enter a specific number in a textbox in order for the program's exit button to appear. if anyone can help to lead me in the right direction i would be incredibly grateful. thanks in advance problem: 1.) how to disable the ability for the program to be moved around on the screen. 2.) how to disable shortcuts such as Alt+F4 and double-clicking on the controlmenu .to minimize the mainform when it is maximized. 3.) how to disable Ctrl+Alt+Delete, or at least to change it to an inactive window when open ...Show All

• .NET Development Multiuser in ado.Net

  I have this windows forms application used by one user. Now there are 2 users on this application. Everything is running on a a small network with SBS 2003, SQL 2000 and Windows XP clients. The forms application is coded in VS 2005. As i am using ADO.Net anywhere in my application, all data is always cached in the client side . This means that the 2 users don't see (immediatly) the changes made by the other user (which is unacceptable). How should i solve this Do i really need to replace all ado.net code with custom business objects Yes it is indeed. I still have some questions. What should the server do Should it be an application which holds the state of every client, or should it send notifications to the clients Should it send ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions limited user accounts - debugging in

  Hi, I have been using VS C++ Express since March 2006 under my admin account. Recently I have created a limited user account. However I cannot debug or make changes to any solutions or projects that work fine under my admin account. All my projects are stand-alone window console programs are simply numerical algorithms for estimation and simulation. I can run each solution without problems under my limited user account. However, any changes made leads to the following error message once I try to recompile Error 1 fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'uuid.lib' hop_bm I have registered my limited user VS C++ express when promtped upon opening for the 1st time. Searching for 'limited user account' and similar has yielded few useful r ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Selling Games on Xbox Live Arcade

  Hello, I am currently putting a team together to create new Xbox Live Arcade games. They will be using the XNA development tool and the projects will be financed by myself. How long will it be untill Indy developers can sell their games online in order to re-coup some of the money and produce additional games Any help is appreciated. Regards Ian sarge mat wrote: Well first you need to make the game and talk to Microsoft about developing it for Xbox live arcade. That's a fairly steep first step. I think more clear information on how indie developers can get onto Xbox Live Arcade is definitely in order. I can't help but feel Microsoft is being purposefully tight lipped in this regard because they'd like people to hope for th ...Show All

• SQL Server Support for XPS Format

  Will SP2 support the new XPS format for rendering If not SP2, will you release a separate rendering extension on the web or will this have to wait for SP3 We are looking to make the move from PDF to XPS as soon as possible but we generate so much content from SSRS 2005 it would not be practical until it natively supports the XPS format. In our case using the printer driver isn't an option because all of the reports are generated on a schedule on the server, not by a user through the UI. Thank you in advance. We don't plan XPS support in future updates of Reporting Services 2005 . Support for XPS is definately on the radar for a future version of Reporting Services. Hope that clears things up. Thanks. ...Show All

• SQL Server Maintenance Plan Tasks In SSIS(Sql 2005)

  I am finding difficult to set Expression Property "SelectedDatabases" in Check Databases Integrity Task in SSIS. I keep getting error: TITLE: Expression Builder ------------------------------ Expression cannot be evaluated. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The data type of variable "User::varDataset" is not supported in an expression. Reading the variable "User::varDataset" failed with error code 0xC00470D0. (Microsoft.DataTransformationServices.Controls) I need the flexibilty to be able to control the Task behaviour during runtime through Variables. Any suggestions .... or even a different approach will be helpful.. cheers aigbor Hi Aigbor I encountere ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Socket connection in .net CF

  Hi, I'm trying to establish a simple socket connection between my pc (server) and my HP ipaq (client). I downloaded the sample synchronous server and client programs from the msdn. The programs work fine when both the server and client are running in the PC. However, when I run the client proggram in the pocket pc, it throws a socket exception. Can you tell why it happens. Also, my device gets connected to the internet using Wi-fi connection. But the moment I use a USB cable to connect it to my PC, to deploy my program and test it, the wi-fi connections get disabled. Only the ActiveSync connection remains. Can you tell me why it happens Any help to help me solve these problems is much appreciated. Thanks, Archana ...Show All

• Visual Studio Search in VS Help Not Working

  For reasons not clear to me, as of this morning whenever I use the Search page in the VS 2005 Developer Documentation and Help System, it finds 0 results no matter what I put in the box. Anyone seen this before or know how to fix it This just hasn't been my week so far... Regards, lm When I set to search online, I do get MSDN hits. Local help still returns nothing. I sometimes work unconnected, so this is a real problem for me. I completely uninstalled (as best I could) VS2005 a few days ago, and just re-installed today. I notice my recent projects list is there, so (I'm not surprised) presumably there is stuff hanging around in the registry or somewhere that doesn't get removed. If there's ...Show All

• Smart Device Development RTC client on Pocket PC

  Hi, I recently downloaded RTC API, is it possible to use it in a Pocket PC Hi alex, sorry if I confused you but there is a big disucssion here about using RTC in Pocket PC, I believe it supports RTP(what I need to send voice), but I did not understand from the discussion if it is feasible or not Any help. http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/transcripts/mobileembedded/embedded_050703.aspx ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums No way to pause a campaign?

  I am not seeing any way to pause a campaign. Also it does not appear there is any way to know the current status of a campaign. Is this functionality somewhere in the API Shai, -Status for all objects (account/campaign/group/creative/keyword). Do it like SNMP: administrative status (what the user wants) and operational status (what the system says) -Remove the submission step. Or add an autoSubmit flag in the order definition. And definitely remove the dependencies between order start date and submission -Partial updates: why do we have to provide the order start date when modifying some targeting attributes -Api for content match -Remove the distribution site concept. If you need that, keep it as a ta ...Show All

• Visual Studio Retrieving Project Information Using EnvDTE

  Retrieving Project Information Using EnvDTE Hi, I need some help in using EnvDTE. I want to retrieve complete information of the classes in my project (class, methods under each class, and other objects). I want to give the developers ability to modify the types or names of those objects and save the same. I do not know to what extent one can retrieve this info. I do not have sufficient knowledge on EnvDTE. Can anyone tell me whether the objective I am trying to achieve is possible If possible give me some tips to go ahead. Thanks, Sanjukta. See the "HOWTO: Navigate..." articles mentioned in this post of my blog: Common newbie questions asked in the fo ...Show All

• Visual Basic I publishing problems

  Ok I just published my program and put it online into my website. Well the problem is every time I try to access my program online it shows me a xml version of it. What did I do rounge to make do this Also I would like to write that when I published it I set it to be an online program so you don't have to install it to your computer it just pops up. You either set the MIME extensions up - or ask your web server provider to get them setup. Or if its your own box, log onto it as admin and install the .NET framework 2.0 redistributables, which apart from installing the .NET framework onto the webserver, also will setup the MIME extensions. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Saving the state of a tool window

  Hey, I've created a simple tool window which I have attached my own Form to. When I close this form, I want it to be hidden the next time I open Visual Studio. I can get this functionality by simply not creating the tool window. It seems to be persistent the entire time (after open/close). The problem lies in that I have a Form I want attached to this window (I'm using the MS Shim control). I can get the Window from the list of windows but I'm unsure how to attach a new instance of my form to it. Before, I used the mToolWindow.CreateToolWindow which returned the last parameter which I could use to call HostUserControl. Is there any way I can get access to this IVSUserControlHostCtl object Basically, I want this functionality: if ( first_t ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Switch from Live ID to .NET Passport

  Is it possible to switch it from Live ID back to .NET passport I was in the Windows Live Account Service page, I try to change my email to another one, but I only given one choice, which is to create a new Hotmail account. I remember last time, when I login to .NET Passport credential page, it do let me change the email to whatever email I want (not limited to Hotmail). Is this possible Peter Chan By the way, since Microsoft is promoting Live ID why do I need seperate authentification for the following sites: - codeplex.com (forms authentication) - www.asp.net (forms authentication) - forums.microsoft.com (passport/live id) Don't we already have enough online identities without needing three diffe ...Show All

• Windows Forms how can i change the source code of a webpage with webbrowser control??

  i want to add some source code to a webpage to add some functions for my own uses.... for example a webpage has a javascript function a(str){ ..... } i want to add an other function b to filter out some text.. so function a(str) {b(str); .... }.. Yo Scorp, I'm working on this right now as well. No help on the web either. I need to remove a javascript function from the document that's calling a pop-up before it is presented to my webbrowser control. I have the popup somewhat restrained, but It's making my web auto-processing app take focus (grrr) and now it's time to kill it. I'm going to try to modify the document.script element. I'll let you know what I come up with. ...Show All