Baldwintm's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development IrDA connection and Emulator

  Hi all! I can't figure out how to emulate the IrDA port in the Device Emulator that is shipped with Visual Studio 2005. I have installed AciveSync 4.0 but, every time I call the IrDAClient.DiscoverDevices methods, it doesn't recognize any device, unless there is a mobile phone with a IrDA port (Nokia 6610). What is the problem Marco Minerva, marco.minerva@tiscali.it Let me investigate a little and I'll post a reply back to this me ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Problems with DirectX 9 and Visual Studio Express

  I'm trying to compile some sample code in Visual C# express with the DirectX 9 SDK. The problem is that the sample code gives me errors like the following: "The type or namespace name 'Font' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D'" "The type or namespace name 'Mesh' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D'" Now of course, Font and Mesh SHOULD exist in Direct3D. My ref ...Show All

• Windows Forms Licensing components - Aspose & cpSphere

  Has anyone ever used either of these components  I'd like to get 1 working, but there is no documentation for either one to get you up and running.  I'd really like to set up a serial server, and I don't know if I can do it  ...Show All

• Visual C++ Property Sheets - A problem

  Compiler: Visual Studio.NET 2002 Hi everyone, I am having trouble teaching myself Property Sheets. I thought I grasped the ideas but I get a 'First-chance exception' in the Output window when debugging. I do not think I am doing anything special, my code is: CPropertySheet propsheet(_T("Property Sheet")); MyPage pageFirst; // derived from CPropertyPage MyPage2 pageSecond; // derived from CPropertyPage propsheet.AddPage(& ...Show All

• .NET Development Active Directory Syntax

  I am doing Active Directory Integration in C#, and facing a small issue: Returned properties of an users such as "memberof", "telephone",... are not recognized as singularly-valued attributes so normal syntax like "memberof=MyUserGroup" will not work. If anyone has come accross this problem, or can refer me to another forum to get help,please give me your insights. Thanks. PS: I could filter the returned objects ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Compile without using .NET-Framework

  Hallo everybody, I want to develop with Visual Basic. I saw that Visual Basic is OOP since Version 7.0... right But I want to compile the application that it works (for example) on Windows 2000 where the .NET-Framework isn't installed. Is it possible to re-configure the Compiler-Settings that the application is independet to the .NET-Framework I hope you understand my bad english :) Cheers, Adrian Adrian85 ...Show All

• SQL Server Importing from a Flat File

  I have a flat file which has five fields, and need to import into a table that has 6 fields, the first of which will be data from a variable. i have Used a Dataflow task which has a flat file source task . i need help to get the data from that into the table Table field1 field2 field3 field4 field5 field6 @Variable File Col0 Col1 Col2 Col3 Col4 can anyone explain how i can achieve thsi I ...Show All

• Smart Device Development MFC 3.0 and VS2005

  I have an MFC base project (main app , 5 dlls and 3 static libraries and several external (third party ) dlls) that has progressed from PPC 2000 to wm2003 without major problems, until now. I've encountered all of the problems outlined on this forum (and more). Originally all I wanted to do was debug the app to see why it didn't run on WM2005, I then found out that a major rewrite was necessary to just get it to compile , much less link with the ...Show All

• SQL Server Troubles with XML Bulk Load

  Hi: I have the following xml file: <countries> <country> <code>004</code> <description>Spain</description> <iso2>null</iso2> </country> </countries> i need that when i'm doing the bulk load the value of iso2 element would be stored at BBDD like null value and not like 'null' string. somebody could help me ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services and Importing Access Reports

  I have installed SP2 Reporting Services Evaluation and just installed Access 2003 in order to be able to import some access reports from Access 97. I realise I will probably have to update the Access 97 databases, but I cannot see the Project->Import Access Reports option on my Menus in Visual Studio 2003. Does anyone know how to get the extra menu option to show and work, as the documentation suggests as long as you have office 2002 or la ...Show All

• SQL Server Enabling the Service Broker

  I'm trying to enable the Service Broker for Sql Server 2005 because I want to be able to use a SqlDependency object. I ran the following query to see if my local sql server service broker was enabled: SELECT is_broker_enabled FROM sys.databases WHERE name = 'dbname'; It came back with a value of 0 (which means it is not enabled). I tried executing the following sql command to enable it: ALTER DATABASE dbname SET ENABLE_BROKER; The qu ...Show All

• Windows Forms Modified collection serialization

  Hi folks, I have to create a special type of collection in which each item has to have a reference to the owner collection at construction time. Here are some parts of the C++/CLI code. public ref class ScopeChannels { public : property ScopeChannel ^ Item [ int ] { ... } } public ref class ScopeChannel { public : ScopeChannel( ScopeChannels ^o ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions "Application Folder" error when running vc# express

  Hi, I installed C#Express from an admin account and am able to run it fine from that account.  When i try to run it from a normal user account(acct1), i get an error saying "Application data folder can not be created for Visual C# Express" and the app doesnt run.  The funny thing is i am able to run the app from another non-Admin account (acct2). Also as a test, I tried to run after making the first non-Admin acct (acct1) a m ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to call a B function/method of a MDI parent (Form1)

  How to call a B function/method of a MDI parent (Form1) from a MDI child (Form2) of that parent (Using C++.) I already attempted to use examples of this site but it somehow does not work for me. Please, how can one refer to Form1's method Thanks for any guidance for a beginner. You've asked this a few times now. I'd say that you need to post some code to make more clear what you're trying ...Show All

• .NET Development Inheriting Forms

  Hi, im using VB.NET2003, I want to add muliple forms to my project, (that I can do), I can add the forms, display the forms, and everything. But I don't want to use the new keyword, like : Dim frmtest as new form2 this way of displaying a form can cause trouble, I want to call the form only once, but when I want to hide, or close the current form and frmtest.show the new form, I don't want the Dim frmtest as new form2, to create a ...Show All