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• Visual Studio Express Editions How to close Explorer.EXE and restart at END

  Hello All... As many of you who have helped me before know, I am working on an app for a KIOSK. The desktop appears during form to form switches, and I tried closing the desktop(Explorer) and what a difference! Is there a way I can shut it dow when the app comes up, and restart it when and if the app is closed (for maintenance etc) Hi Renee, and Spotty...If there were a way to prevent the desktop and taskbar from making sudden and unexpected appearances during form to form transistions, that would be better. Always On Top doesn't have the desired effect sadly. Minimizing the taskbar either. Thanks all. Elgee ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Action Pane VS ModalForm

  Hi, I'm developing a User Control inside a Action Pane, but user find it's not acceptable to view so many controls (e.g. DataGridViews, ComboBoxes, TextBoxes...etc) in this little area. So I'd like to know is it possible to create a "floating" form, such that user can drag the user control into the main window, or drop to the margin of XLS / DOC file and docked. (In short, to make something like VS2005 and we can resize the "Property Window" and drag&drop freely, or docked to left / right hand side with a "shadow" image. Thanks, Hi Mohit, Thanks for your information. I just ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Web Services

  Hello, Does anyone know if it's possible to retrieve a list of Team Projects on a given TFS server using the TFS web services I've been successful in calling the various "Build" web services but can't seem to find anything on project-related information. Can anyone point me in the right direction --- Thanks, Jeff I made a tiny app that uses the object model to get the team projects @ http://blogs.msdn.com/jmanning/archive/2005/10/14/481105.aspx The relevant web service is the ListAllProjects method @ /Services/v1.0/CommonStructureService.asmx ...Show All

• Visual C++ Newbie: Can't use WinAPI because included twice

  Sorry for this lame question, but I've spent hours trying to solve this ridiculous problem. I'm trying to use the Windows API GetGUIThreadInfo, but because (I believe) it is declared twice (in winable.h and winuser.h, which I believe are implicitly included) I cannot use it. I get an identifier not found error. What do I do so I can use GetGUIThreadInfo I haven't used C++ for a long time, and I'm not sure if I ever encountered this problem before. Please help. TIA Problem fixed! Seems that the problem was in the definitions #define WINVER 0x04 #define _WIN32_WINNT 0x04 in the program's main head ...Show All

• SQL Server connecting to local server failing

  Hi, I am trying to connect to my local db server using the machine name. This at one point worked but not it is failing with windows auth. How can i change the SA password as I cannot remember this and it might get me logged in Thanks Jordna     Also, normally there is a service for SQL server under Services and I do not see this anymore for 2005. Can somebody point to where this would be Thanks ...Show All

• Windows Forms This error comes in win 2000 but not in Xp!!

  See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.    at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WaitForWaitHandle(WaitHandle waitHandle)    at System.Windows.Forms.Control.MarshaledInvoke(Control caller, Delegate method, Object[] args, Boolean synchronous)    at System.Windows.Forms.Control.Invoke(Delegate method, Object[] args)    at System.Windows.Forms.Control.Invoke(Delegate method)    at Microsoft.VisualBasic. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions 2D Arrays

  Hi all, I have a slight problem and was wondering if anyone would be able to point me in the right direction. I need to read in a .png image and store each pixel in a 2D array. I hava a function that takes as a parameter the following; void example1( unsigned char **image1, unsigned int width1, unsigned int height1, unsigned char **image2, unsigned int width2, unsigned int height2 ) I also don't really understand what the ** operator is doing. My understand is that its a pointer to a pointer, but I don't see why this is done. Any help regarding the two above issues would be greatfully appreciated. I'm new to C++ and hope these arn't ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Found the solution.. finally

  Hi, I am having problem testing my hello world website with Mozilla Firefox. It runs find with IE though.  I set my default browser to Mozilla Firefox, and when I clicked on the "run" button from the tool, a pop up shows up asking for a login and password.  Anyone know what's happening here Why can't I run it on Mozilla Firefox Thanks Damn! It took me a good whole day to figure this thing out. For whoever wants to run it in Mozilla Firefox (not sure about other web browsers), go to Website - Start Options, unclick "NLTM Authentication".. That's IT!  I guess MS does think the world only use IE. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF30177: Team Project Creation Failed

  Hi, I have successfully installed VSTS on single machine. I am able to browse my default site in IIS. My Team Foundation Server site shows as uninstall when I am browsing for virtual server. I appreciate any help or direction. Thank you. When I am trying to create a new project I am getting following error message : Error Unable to connect to the Windows SharePoint Services at MISTEST-2K3 Explanation The Project Creation Wizard was not able to connect to the Windows SharePoint Services at MISTEST-2K3. The reason for the failed connection cannot be determined at this time. Because the connection failed, the ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Help required handling OutOfMemory exception situation

  Hi. I have a C# Smart Device application [VS2003]. I have a picturebox in it. I allow users to browse for jpeg and gif images. The selected image will be loaded into the picturebox. This works just fine. The problem starts when I try to load a camera captured image into the picturebox. It throws OutOfMemory exception when I try to do so. I understand this occurs coz the size of the image is too large. Can anyone suggest me a workaround for this problem Is there any way I can compress camera captured images, so that those can be loaded into the picturebox If I am not able to load camera captued images into my application, the entire pu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem creating modular tests

  I created test1.cs to login to the application, however, when I created test2.cs and run both(OrderedTest.orderedtest), it fails on the 2nd test. It seems to not keep the login information. All test2 does is clicks on a tab in the navigation bar to go to a different page. Does anyone have any tips on what I could do Hello, I'm not sure I completely understand what is happening in your scenario. If you can clarify with more details, it would be great. I understand you have two unit tests (test1.cs and test2.cs). You put your two unit tests in an ordered test, and when you run them, the second fails. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista .icl files not supported by build 5308?

  Hi there, build 5308 does not recognize .icl (Icon Libraries) as files storing icons ... whenever I open an .icl file I get a message saying that the files does not contain any icons. I am pretty sure that it was working fine with the December CTP ... I tried it with several .icl files which are all working fine on XP. No luck on Vista, though ... Can someone confirm having the same problem with build 5308 Or can someone of MS confirm this to be a bug Thanks! Steve .icl files are not a Windows file type. (My Windows XP machine doesn't recognize them either.) On your XP m ...Show All

• Visual C++ CSplitterWnd fixed split bar?

  In MFC, is it possible to create two split windows with CSplitterWnd and make the split bar fixed (doesn't allow the user to adjust the size of the split window)   Also: http://www.codeproject.com/splitter/usefulsplitter.asp ...Show All

• Visual Basic VS 2005 seems unusable for large VB converted project. How do I turn off the background compiler.

  VS 2005 seems unusable for large VB converted project.  How do I turn off the background compiler. I have a fairly large project that I migrated from VB6 to VS2005.  This is the RTM version of VS2005.  There are many issues that I need to fix up in the code, but every time I change one line of code, my system runs 100% CPU for 30 seconds. This is not even close to usable.  You might think I have a slow machine, but I am running this in a P4 3.5 GHZ with 1GB of RAM, and a SATA 150 hard drive. I will be forced to abandon use of VS 2005 for this project unless I can find a work around for this issue. Please help! ...Show All

• SQL Server Change incorrect value in a single field

  I've written a VB.NET program that reads a comma delimited text file into an SQL Server table. I have more than two hundred such files with literally hundreds of thousands of rows of data. Unfortunately, the existing time data is in the wrong format (e.g. 0350 instead of 03:50). I haven't used TSQL in a while but I am almost sure it can do that. I imagine I would have to read each records IncorrectTime field's value, assign the two left characters in temp1 variable, assign the two right characters in temp2 variable, and then assign to temp3 = temp1 & ":" & temp2. Or something along those lines. Can anyone off ...Show All