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• Visual Basic Find path to windows folder using VB2005

  How can I get path to the windows folder using VB2005 thanks Either grab it from the environment: Dim WinDir As String = System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable( "windir" ) Or, as the previous sample shows (albeit in an incorrect way), from the parent path of the system folder: Dim WinDir As String = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(Environment.SystemDirectory) Note that neither approach is 100% failsafe: ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA & MDX = ?

  Which role will Managed DirectX play in the XNA Unfortunately, anybody who knows the answer to that question isn't allowed to answer it in public. The XDK is separate from the DirectX SDK, though obviously they both have DirectX 9 included and several of the tools and APIs (PIX, XACT, XInput) are now becoming common. However for Managed DirectX to be a part of the XDK it would indeed require the ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is there BeginUpdate() functionality for the DataGridView?

  I have a DataGridView bound to a DataView. A certain points I temporarily sort the DataGridView on specific columns to build filter lists. During these "temporary" sorts on the DataView I would like stop the sort from being applied on the DataGridView, which causes it to redraw. Then after the filter list is created I reapply the DataGridView's last sort. ComboBoxes have BeginUpdate() and EndUpdate() for when changes are made t ...Show All

• .NET Development I have one question: How to create object WScript...

  Greetings Scripting Guys! I have one question: How to create object WScript (WScript. ScriptFullName, WScript. CreateObject. etc), not in script Windows and we shall tell in HTML, HTA or a.exe (JScript. NET). Yours faithfully Eugeny. <Genja@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:d392e44c-f0d6-4e72-8867-c6995bbc5aab@discussions.microsoft.com > I have one question: How to crea ...Show All

• SQL Server How to browse a cube using a web browser

  Hi, I would like to know how to browse a cube using a web browser. So far, my company is using excel to browse the processed cubes but they want to extend the access to other departements and therefore accessing and browsing cubes using a web browser would be more appropriate. I thought using Reporting Services. Unfortunately I don't know the steps to follow. Thanks. Yes, you can use Reporting Services. I would start by checking o ...Show All

• Windows Forms Make custom panel class appear in VisualStudio

  Hi, I have a simple question. I have made a custom panel class. And when I add it "codevise" to my form it does not show up in the Form editor in VisualStudio. How can I make it appear there What I've done befo ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Sort of a noob-ish question

  I have a bit of a sad question. I am storing some information in a cursor, and need to store that information later on a SQL server. All I need to know is how I can go individually though each row in the cursor, one by one, so I can later make modifications I need for it. Thanks in advance! ...Show All

• Visual Basic So where are the tutorials? (DirectX)

  So I've downloaded visual basic several weeks ago, done alot of tutorials, and downloaded the directx sdk (april release). So where are the tutorials for vb Do you have to download them somewhere else There are some in the coding for 4 fun developer center . ...Show All

• Visual Basic Program execution in multiple forms

  I am writing an program where in Form1 i call a procedure an in htat procedure I goto Form2, but I dont want the rest of procedure in Form1 to finish until I am finished with FOrm2 app. THe problem is that my procedure in FOrm1 goes ahead and completes before I get finished with Form2 app. Is there a way to pause the procedure until I return back from Form2 app Is that the same as the Form1.show() command That i ...Show All

• Windows Forms search in a list

  Hello, I am beginner with WinForm, I want to make a form with 2 parts : At top, a textbox and below a listview when typing a charactere in textbox, i want to filter the list displaying only row responding to the filter. for example if "a" in textbox only the name beginning with "a" in the list. I don't know how to begin . Can someone help me Thanks a lot Yes, you can do this. If you are using .NET 2.0 ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) BehaviorExtensionSection for Web Service

  Hi there, I have web service i want to implement Behaviour Extension for it. How to do it. I have created three classes Following are its brief details 1. CustomBehaviorSection : BehaviorExtensionSection protected override object CreateBehavior() { return new CustomBehavior (); } 2. CustomBehavior : IEndpointBehavior , IServiceBehavior //IEndpointBehavior Members public void ApplyDispatchBehavior( Servic ...Show All

• Windows Forms 70-210 study guides

  hi, i am looking for 70-210 best and updated study guide, can anyone tell me from where can i get best and updated study guide. bye ...Show All

• Windows Forms MaskedTextBox and the Decimal Type

  Hello All, I'm hoping someone can help me with this one. I have a model object that represents a stock part. This part has a price. The price is stored on the database as type money. The price on the object is stored as type decimal. I have a binding source that has this object as it's datasource and it is bound to serveral controls on the stock part view. The bound control for the price is a MaskedTextBox. When I input a price, say 2.35, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Mass renaming files in Visual SourceSafe 6.0

  Is there a command to change all file names to lower case in Visual SorceSafe 6.0 I have looked in multiple places but have not come up with anything. Thanks, Reid Hochstedler Hi Reid, You can be logged in as anyone who can rename files. The VSS credentials are passed in when the database is opened    myDB.Open("C:\SSDB\srcsafe.ini", "guest", "") (in this case, guest account is used with&nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Connection Object and Expressions

  I have been writing a custom source adapter that uses a file connection within the connection manager. If I hard-code a specific file then the component works. However if I use a file connection that has an expression defined which updates the connection, for example when you have a for-each loop looping over a set files. The file connection doesn’t seem to re-evaluate expression each time you access the file connection via the code. Is there s ...Show All