callaway59's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Winform design standards?

  Hello, I am trying to research what are the latest designs for .net winforms, such as standards or style guidelines. Does anyone know of any such items or is there as yet nothing written down, the general consensus I’m getting from searching pages&n ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Windows Workflow Foundation Runtime Components Beta 2_2 Installation Issues

  Hello. I am working on installing Office SharePoint Server 2007 and this is one of the pre-requisites. The issue I am having is that when I attempt to run the "Windows Workflow Foundation Runtime Components Beta 2_2(EN) for x86.exe" file, it fails when it tries to run the WinWF_3.0_x86.msi file. The error I get is as follows: A network error occured while attempting to read from the file: C:\docume~1\Admini~1\Locals~1\Temp\IXP000 ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Print folder files to a file

  Hi all, I am trying to print a folder files and sub-directories to a xls or csv or txt file. I know i can do it through the Command Prompt, like that: c:\>dir /s >"File List.csv" This code under command prompt, will print all the files and sub directories and thier files of c: to the file: "File List.csv". i want to do the same from VBA, through excel, or stright through VB exe file. pls advise Than ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Is Popup.IsOpen asynchronous?

  I implemented a non rectangular splashscreen with the Popup class. Unfortunately if i call "popup.IsOpen = true" the splashscreen does not come up synchronous. It pops up later at an undefineable timepoint . Is there a way to force initial popup or is anything wrong in my code when are you calling isOpen = true it's possible that if you're calling it very early in the program, other things are happe ...Show All

• Windows Forms Unhandled Exception when running on another machine

      I am trying to install a program on another machine besides the developer. I keep getting the unhandled exception error whenever I try to start it. Runs fine on the development box. The other pc has .NET framework 1.1, MDAC 2 ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Link for Changes comparision from beta1 to beat2

  Is there any link which tells the changes happened in beat2 to compare from beat1. You can find a link to the upgrade document on Paul Andrew's blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/pandrew/archive/2006/01/19/UpgradeWFBeta2.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio MSDN Installation issues

  Hi, Though Installation of MSDN April 2003 succeeds, I am not able to see any contents in the MSDN GUI ( Blank - About says unknown user and Unknown product ID). I am able install October 2001 MSDN properly. Please let me know the reason for the same. Thanks Sujatha, thank you for posting this question. In order to better troubleshoot the problem you are seeing, I suggest that you uninstall the April 2 ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Upgrade path for CF 1.1 design time capable custom controls to CF 2.0

  Does anybody know of one I read in this post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=129715&SiteID=1 of the genasm.exe tool, but searching on http://msdn.microsoft.com/ for it produces no results at all. There also does not seem to be an automatic way of creating the necessary *.xmta file outside of VS2005. Can anybody give me a heads up on this one please It does seem a bit ridiculous that none of the work I put in to create ...Show All

• Visual C++ Isolated Application? What is it?

  Hi, plz allow me to ask all of you a very simple question. What is an isolated application   Who isolates our apps from who Some docs start with the following sentence; An application is considered an isolated application if all of its components are side-by-side assemblies. Do you understand this Me No, I do not. I suspect that these days Microsoft is encouraging us to write manifest-based apps. If I am right, y ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB6 groups?

  Do any newsgroups specifically for VB6 exist yes but i don't think they are web-based you should use thunderbird or some other NNTP client to get at the microsoft.* newsgroups ...Show All

• Visual Basic Generic Collections In vb.net 2005 Help

  Hi, Getting to grasp with Generics.Could somebody help as follows: In vs 2003 I used to write strongly typed collections now I could simplify it all with generic. I am trying to write some base collections What is the difference between inheriting from collectionbase  and list I have tried to implement the IEnumerator in my collection but the for each still doesnt work Can somebody provide a good example of collections using generics ...Show All

• .NET Development restriction base invalid, error

    Anyone know how I can get rid of this error   I included the beginning of a schema below that raises the following error in VS.NET 2003.  I don't understand where this error is coming from.  I tried changing the schema fro xs:string to xs:anyType, but that didn't get rid of the error for me. Neither did changing the xs: prefix to xsd: . Thanks, Paul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ...Show All

• SQL Server Query Regarding Condition 'Between '

  Hi I have a table(CNT) with record in Cnt_Number (Varchar) as 'CNT01/2006','CNT02/2006','CNT03/2006','CNT04/2006','CNT05/2006'. When i use the following query it is returning only three instead of only four it should. How to resolve this select Cnt_Number from CNT where Cnt_Number between 'CNT01' and 'CNT04' It returns only Cnt_Number CNT01/2006 CNT02/2006 CNT03/2006 My Expected result was CNT01/2006 CNT02/2006 ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Convert Animation from XAML to C#

  I’m trying to convert this XAML code to C# code, to be able to add my animations at runtime. What happens is that the C# code is semantically correct, but the “c# animation” does not begin. The same XAML code works instead. Am I missing something Thanks Giorgio I'm not up to speed on WPF animation, but try attaching it to your UI, worked for me when I translated animation from XAML to C#. Name the rectangl ...Show All

• Visual Basic Read a random Line From A File

  I am attempting to write a BOFH excuse generator as a console app so I can run it's output into another program (an IRC client) but am having a problem figureing oput how to return a random line from the text file I am useing for the excuses. can anybody point me the right way thanks Wolf I think the best way to do this, is to quickly count the number of lines, perhaps storing them in memory in ...Show All