Greg.Duffield's Q&A profile

• .NET Development web services intermediaries

  For the applications i worked on, it's only client / server - request / response, one - one communication. But when i read SOAP specification, it may have many intermediaries between the web service client and server Here is my question - 1 -- what is intermediaries used for 2 -- Does use of intermediaries happen often in the real world industry 3 -- What are example of intermediaries and use of it 4 - ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I convert a PrintDocument to a Bitmap?

  Visual basic 2005 Express Edition: I have a PrintDocument: Private WithEvents mDoc As New PrintDocument() I would like to convert it to a Bitmap, so that I can write it out to disk as a JPEG. How do I convert a PrintDocument to a Bitmap When you print the page, you actually draw onto the printers graphic object (don't you Look at the code). Instead of drawing (text, graphics, etc.) there, ...Show All

• Visual C# Possible to disable Control-Alt-Delete buttons?

  First off, I have searched on google and have not found any answers, and all of the folks who have asked in the archives basically got a "why on earth would you want to do that " or, "Only reason to do that would be to spread a virus!", etc responses. So here's the background: I'm an instructional designer/developer tasked with implementing a certification program for my company. This includes a series of examinations, simila ...Show All

• Windows Forms To designing windows form

  Please give me tutorials or books's title to learn designing windows form like nero software or other softwares... that have nice screen forms. Thanks a lot :) Hi, two great sources of information are: http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/ and http://windowsforms.net/ ...Show All

• Smart Device Development VS 2005 Beta 2 Emulator deployment problem.

  I developed a simple "Hello World" application for Windows Mobile 5.0 for Smartphone with VS2005 Beta 2. Then, I ran the program in debug mode. The application compiles fine but the deployment fails. Here is the content of the "output" window: ------ Build started: Project: myTest, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ------ Csc.exe /noconfig /nowarn:"1701;1702" /nostdlib+ /errorreport:prompt /warn:4 /define:DEBUG;TRACE;Smartphone /reference:"C:\P ...Show All

• Visual C++ Problem with LoaderLock in C++/C# application in release build of VS Standard

  Application Description We have a mixed application written predominately in C#, with some legacy dialog MFC stuff written in C++. We have been developing this through the VS beta's to the point where the application runs and correctly works with the C++ code integrated in with the C# code, paying regard correctly (as far as we are aware) to all the issues with Managed/Unmanaged code, and such things as DLLMain. Problem Now we have recompile ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista SQL Persistence, Loading Workflows and Workflow Properties

  I have a workflow that has a bunch of properties on it. One of those properties is the name of the user that initiated the workflow (it is passed into the workflow via the Dictionary<string, object> class. I have SQL persistence working just fine (well, I can't figure out how to 'auto persist', so I am manually calling 'Unload' when the workflow idles), and I run through the list of workflow IDs persisted when my application starts up. ...Show All

• .NET Development Merging a Native dll in an Assembly file to simplify deployment

  We have this native dll and that we have wrapped around with a .Net library using P/Invoke calls. For simplifying deployement, I would like to know if there is a way to add the native code/obj/dll inside the managed assembly file and still being able to access it thru P/Invoke. So bottom line, I'd like to hide my native code inside a managed dll. I have read Junfeng Zhang's blog http://209.34.241.67/junfeng/archive/2005/05/19/420186. ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to display cursor in the datagrid cell

  Dear all, I want to display the cursor(when form loads) in the last row of the datagrid so that user can identify the position where he should enter the data.How to do this. Thanks, Maha Hi, Thanks for ur response. I got this thing wit ...Show All

• SQL Server How to restore SQL 2005 DB to SQL 2000

  Hello, I'm tring to restor a DB from sql 2005 (which is located on my local computer) into sql 2000 (which is located  on the server) and I am getting this type of message: TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ------------------------------ An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo) ------------------------------ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Too many backu ...Show All

• Visual Basic VisualBasic IDE Corrupts Form !

  Hello There ... I Was Working very smoothly and everything was Allright ... Suddenly I found that Something Corrupts the Code of my Forms ... I got arround 100 Errors (One for every Control i guess) the (Error 6 ) was Like ControlX is not a Member of BlaBla ... I then Went and had a Look at the Code behind the Form And Found that SOME Lines were Missing Like Friend WithEvents TmrTime As System.Windows.Forms.Timer Then I had to write t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problems installing Hotfix for Visual Studio.net 2003

  Hi all, I have just been sent the hotfix for the following problem: Reference KB 836454: Where it is impossible for you to download or check for updates with visual studio.net 2003. Now the problem is that when I try to install the windows installer patch, the installer starts but does not complete the installation. when i try executing the fix executable, i receive an error: " Only part of a ReadProcessMemory or WriteProcessMemory reques ...Show All

• Visual Studio Matrix unwanted rows - additional row group

  I have searched the posts and I think this has not been asked. Here is the setting. Imagine a table with 4 columns: columns 1 and 2 are used to group rows, column 3 is used to group the columns and the 4th column contains the data to display as the matrix data. I am creating the matrix with dynamic rows and columns, with an additional row group. So for every unique col_1 entry there may be several col_2 entries each with its own col_4 data th ...Show All

• Windows Forms Files

  I want to run a vb.net program(exe) file from my house pc. The pc at my house does not have .net on it, so what dll files must I put on my pc with my program to let it work Thinstall seems to be a really co ...Show All

• Visual Basic Pointers in Structures

  Could somebody please tell me if it is possible to have a structure of pointers in VB.net. I need to interface to a 3rd Party dll, which requires a structure full of pointers to be passed to some of it's functions. Thanks in Advance ...Show All