stephQc's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Wireless Keyboard Issues

  Firstly can I apologise if I have the wrong forum for posting this, I'm new here and UI (user interface) seemed to be an appropriate place to post this. If it is the wrong place a suggestion as to where would be more appropriate would be appreciated. I am evaluating Vista Beta 1 ... and I am getting problems with my keyboard (a Microsoft "Wireless Natural" Multimedia Keyboard) where I have to virtually fight with the keyboard to get it to accept key presses (I just keep having to hit keys repeatedly until a key gets recognised). I figure it can't be an issue with the keyboard itself because the evaluation is on a multi-boot system (se ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Where is OpenFileDialog?

  I need to open some files in a standard WPF application, and found some examples in the WinFX SDK directories. These examples used System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog, but for some reason my application/compiler doesn't seem to "think" the OpenFileDialog class exists in the System.Windows.Forms namespace (okay, where is it located then ). I'm sure I'm not the only one needing to select and open files in WPF, so, what do you guys do here Anybody got a XAML file open dialog Thanks, Tor. You don't need to bring in Windows Forms to use the OpenFileDialog - you can find another wrapper that the WPF team prov ...Show All

• Visual C++ Detecting Colours

  <BladeMaster@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:15b0c6af-d5d4-4dbb-8c2b-96cad754fa45@discussions.microsoft.com > Hello, I've been wondering if it is possible to detect the RGB value > of > specified pixels. For example, If I am viewing a blank internet page, > the colour in > the middle of the screen would be white, is there a way to find this > (In VC++) GetDC(0) gives you the HDC containing the snapshot of the screen image. From here, you can use any GDI function, e.g. GetPixel -- With best wishes,     Igor Tandetnik ...Show All

• .NET Development SmtpClient sends mail more than once

  I am using the system.net.mail to send email to one or more recipients. Recipients receive the mail twice. I discovered that the only way that the recipient receives only one time the mail is to play with TimeOut property of the SmtpClient Class When setting this poperty to less than 100 ms, the recipient receives the mail only once. This method works fine in a windows form application, but do not provide the same behavior in an aspx web page. In an aspx web page, the TimeOut must be set to 20ms. But then I discovered that the result depends of the overall CPU charge. However 9 times out of ten an exception is thrown when the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Debug ASP page with .NET COM obj using VS2005??

  I have classical ASP pages using .NET object through COM interop. I used to be able to debug these .NET ojects by navigating to the page in IE, opening the solution of the objecst in VS2003, attaching to the process, and setting break points. I have now installed VS2005 and would like to accomplish the same thing, but the "dllhost" process of IIS does not show as running .NET/managed code anymore and I am not able to attach to it. I did find another couple of threads about problems with debugging classical ASP pages, but it wasn't clear if/how they applied to my situation. Is there any chance of getting this to work, or do ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Debugging

  I'm having trouble with debugging my code. All my breakpoint turn in to a red circle with a yellow alert icon on top. Here is what the tooltip of the icon says: At 123.cpp, line 451('HandleMsg(PUSHMSG *pPushMsg), line 3) The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No executable is currently loaded at this location. Can someone please help me I'm using VS 2005 building a C++ application Oystein Can you bring up the modules window (Debug | Windows | Modules) while your app is running to see if symbols are being loaded for your executable/library If they aren't being loaded, then you can right click o ...Show All

• Windows Forms Closing/Opening/Switching Forms

  Ok im sorta new to VB 2005-im used to 6.0. How would I write this 6.0 code in 2005 : (this code is executed from Form1 to go to Form2) Load Form2 Unload Me Form2.Visible = True all this does is switch between 2 Forms, but i dont kno how to do it in VB 2005! could somebody please help! You can set your project up to support more than one main forms. Your other option is to impliment your 'main' forms as user controls and switch their visiblity on the main form. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System download visual studio team foundation server

  I've been trying to install TFS for the past three days, but failed. Now I decide to start from scratch instead of updating here and there. I re-installed the whole OS, now I try to download TFS from msdn. But weirdly, it cannot be found anywhere in msdn. I swear I downloaded it two days ago from msdn, but somehow it just disappeared today. Can anyone give me some help on what is going on You may want to wait about 2 weeks. The RC is supposed to be out in very early Feb and its supposed to resolve some of the installation problems people have been having, especially with Sharepoint and Reporting services ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Installing Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 1

  There have been several threads with questions about installing Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 1.  I'm hoping to summarize the installation instructions for anyone else that might be having trouble.   These instructions are also available on the WindowsWorkflow.net community site here .  James Conard Architect Evangelist - Windows Workflow Foundation http://www.WindowsWorkflow.net http://blogs.msdn.com/jamescon -------------- Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 1 is compatible with the .NET Framework and Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 (builds 50215.44 & 50215.45). Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 1 is not co ...Show All

• SQL Server Parallel activations with GET CONV GROUP

  Hey guys. I'll try to keep this as short as possible. Was testing out some thresholds with a simple service broker application and ran into something interesting that I'm trying to find a workaround to. I setup a simple service on a single instance, and am transmitting messages to/from the same instance. I assigned a procedure to be activated on the queue, with a max of 20 parallel activations. The procedure originally was reading messages off the queue by following a process with major steps outlined here: Start loop until no more messages to process Call get conv. group with 3000 timeout into variable x If group retrieved ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums a big thank you!

  Hi All, I just wanted to express my thanks to Derek and all of you who have stepped in to help your fellow coders! It takes some time on my end to escalate these questions and I'm so glad that many of you are getting answers to your questions more quickly with the help of other community members. - brenda (ISV Buddy Team) Derek, have you considered becoming a Microsoft MVP If so, I would be a happy to recommend you for the program. -brenda (ISV Buddy Team) ...Show All

• Visual C++ Active X

  Hello,       Does anyone know if it is possible to use an ActiveX with an MFC multiple document application. If so does anyone have a good site which would show me the way. I know how to use activeX with the a MFC Dialog Base application. Thanks in advance, maldini Hi Maldini, I found those 2 links but not sure 100% if that is what you need: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/workshop/browser/webbrowser/tutorials/wbtutorial.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vccore/html/vchowCreatingWebBrowserstyleApplication.asp Thanks,   Ayman Shoukry   VC++ T ...Show All

• SQL Server Foreach loop with parallel execution

  Is is possible to get the iterations in a foreach loop to run in parallel What I need to do is to spawn an arbitrary number of parallel execution paths that all look exactly the same. The number is equal to the number of input files, which varies from time to time. Any help is appreciated! Regards, Lars Ronnback Code Snippet Imports System.Diagnostics Public Sub Main() ExecuteProcess("dtexec.exe", "SSIS package...") Dts.TaskResult = Dts.Results.Success End Sub Private Function ExecuteProcess(ByVal exe As String, _ Optional ByVal args As String = "") As Stri ...Show All

• SQL Server Insert into Table with no values using the identity column

  Hello Everyone! SQL Question: Can you insert a record into a table that has an identity column with no values (on condition that the other fields in the table allow null or have default values). Such as: Insert into Table () values () //Auto increment record with no other values Possible Let me know if you need additional information. Yes, you can do below: insert into table default values This will populate the table with only one identity column. If the table has multiple columns then NULLable will be set to NULL and columns with default will have the default value populated. ...Show All

• Visual C# using MSMQ (Messaging queue)

  Hi all, I want to use Messaging queue, I created my queue in the System MSMQ. My question: Can I create the Queue in the network server, and refer to it from the users. I mean User1 can send message to the server queue, and user2 can recieve it. Please help... Regards... That scenario would require a message queue for each workstation, since you can't read a message from a queue without removing it. That would be hard to set up and maintain, for example if you add/remove workstations later. Maybe you could add a special notifications table to the database, but the apps on the workstations would have to poll ...Show All