Joe Kingsly's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Active X Problem

  Newbie alert...Apologies in advance. I encounter problems w/ applications that appear to point to an issue with "Active X" e.g. Norton will not fully load, Turbo tax will not finish, Logitech VideoCall will not work. The common symptom is that the app reaches a screen where nothing appears inside an area where data s/b. The apps are working, no freeze up, no errors. I have scoured numerous help databases to no avail. A couple of ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Forms Server for Office 2007: Installation error

  When I tried with Office 2007 Beta 2 to install Forms server I got the "Invalid key" error  But it was verified with the key given for the product and it's nothing wrong! Did anyone face this sort of error during installation of Office 2007 Forms Server Plz help me to sort it out. Thanks in Advance, Muruganandan Kandasamy, Covansys India Pvt Ltd,   Muruganandan, I am sorry you had trouble with Office 2007 B2 F ...Show All

• SQL Server Missing image in PDF Export version

  I have an ASP.NET application that passes stored procedure params and generates a dynamic report with one or more Image controls. The image paths are created with absolute references to their locations in a separate web directory, the one that the .NET app calls the report from. So the stored proc returns a string similar to http://mysite.com/myimage.jpg , and with an expression I wrote in the report designer, I assign this to the Image contr ...Show All

• Windows Forms WinForm Class Library and AppUpdater component

  Ok I have an app that I put the AppUpdater component on (http://windowsforms.net/articles/appupdater.aspx).  This worked just fine and I'm really happy with the results.  I then decided that I wanted to make a project to display an About Dialog Box.  ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Read data file located on PC from emulator?

  How do you read a data file located on PC from the emulator Or how do you save a data file on the emulator from the PC Thanks, Pete_M You have couple options: 1. You can access network drives on PC from emulator or device by specifying path as follows: " \\host\share\path\file ". That would work for Pocket PC, but not SmartPhone as it has no support for that. You can try it from File Explo ...Show All

• Visual Basic C# Conversion - AddressOf Delegate

  I am looking for help converting the following block of C# code to VB.Net: public static void CloseSplash() { frmSplash formSplash = SplashInstance(); if (formSplash.InvokeRequired) formSplash.Invoke(new CloseDelegate(CloseSplash), null); else formSplash.Close(); } I have used various C# to VB Converters... They return the following: Public Shared Sub CloseSplash() Dim FormSplash As frmSp ...Show All

• .NET Development Where is ICLRRuntimeHost::GetDefaultDomain?

  I'm trying .NET Beta 2 CLR hosting. Why is there no ICLRRuntimeHost::GetDefaultDomain QI for IID_ICorRuntimeHost on ICLRRuntimeHost returns E_NOINTERFACE. Calling CorBindToRuntimeEx twice is not allowed to get both pointers. Is this just for beta2 How would I create/manipulate AppDomains from unmanaged code otherwise Thanks Thanks! Binding to both interfaces is much more acceptable than using ...Show All

• Visual Studio Inserting images into a html file using Help Integration Kit

  Hi. Is there an easy way of inserting a picture into my html file which is part of my help integration kit project I am writing a large userguide for a system I built using Visual Studio .NET 2003 and it includes many, many picture files to show the user how to do the topic being taught. I am hesitant to have to type the <IMG> tag every time I need to insert a picture. And also, when the project is compiled, will the end product be ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Compile ANSI C Code, and call from .NET

  I need a compiler that can compile ANSI C Code such that I can compile an older app for all processors available for Pocket PC.  Is there such a compiler (free), or is the only one available MS Embedded C++. I recongize this is an MS forum, but free is far better for something that is a quick 2 second job. Thanks. EVC is free. The only processor available for PPC since PPC 2002 is ARM. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Sercuirty errors after installation

  All seemed to installed ok but when I restart the server I get erros in the Application log like: Failed to update cache entry for S-1-401977462-46866157-3208048606-1100053607-523015102-1955007240 with 10 retries. System.Security.Authentication.AuthenticationException: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. ---> System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryServicesCOMException (0x8007052E): Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. ...Show All

• SQL Server Replication agent failure alert

  Hi There I have a publisher, remote distributor and subscriber all running SS2000. Under replication monitor on the distributor, under replication alerts i have enabled the "replication agent failure" alert. All i need to know is should this alert trigger if the distribution agent that runs on the subscriber not the distributor fails I have add occurences of the distribution agent failing and the alert is not triggerred, is this becau ...Show All

• Windows Forms Deployment problem

  I have made an application using Visual C++ 2005 Beta 1 in wich I have included the standard c++ library <locale>.  When I try to run this app on a computer without Visual Studio 2005 installed the program doesn't start.  What is my  ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Administrator security issues

  Maybe it's me...  then there are only 7 posts before me on here, so now I am worried there will not be an answer.... Trying to install a simple antivirus program before I really start to test.  I am the administrator account, but I  do not have sufficient rights to write....hence install fails. Anyone else seen this...   Did they enable the upgrade route for install yet or is it only a ful ...Show All

• Windows Forms Inherits form - The variable 'panel1' is either undeclared or was never assigned.

  In runtime the app is working perfect! Trying to se the inherit form i the Windows Form Designer - I got the error message. In my base class, the variable is defined as: Public WithEvents panel1 As System.Windows.Forms.Panel In the inherit form I make panel1 using new and using it (setting the size etc). I just wonder why I got the error message when I try to look at the form in then Form Designer. Is there a solutio ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Dropdownlist and Paging

  Hi! I am trying to execute different "Where" statements using a dropdownlist and using a datagrid to view each result. It works fine when first populate the datagrid but when you use the paging and index to the next set of data it does not pass the correct SQL query. Whatever am doing wrong I know am overlooking something. Thanks... If you have SQL Server with Northwind database you can try it use the code below. Code C#: (c ...Show All