Wardster's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Given XML, how to build schema and data tables?

  I'm looking for the "proper" way to do this: I've been given a web site that generates some XML. I need to load the XML from the site (that's trivial, of course) and then populate a database table with the information contained in the XML. For example, the XML looks something like this: <OutputData>  <Response>   <Result code="0">Operation Successful</Result>   <Agents>    <Agent code="452">Bill</Agent>    <Agent code="999">Fred</Agent>   </Agents>   <Stats>    <UpSince>3993848</UpSince>    <LastHi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Child Window Doest Recieve Messages

  Hi, I have made a previous post related to this and did not get a positive solution. My prev post is here I am trying to include WinForms (.NET 2.0 forms) inside visual basic 6.0 's MDI form. The child is behaving differently. I have done some googling plus some research and found that the window is not recieving any WindowMessages (Tab and Enter keys). This is something done by the Windows OS. private void txtNum1_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e) { MessageBox.Show(e.KeyCode.ToString()); } When I execute this under .NET application and hit the tab key, this doesn't show the msgbox. Instead it puts the cursor to ne ...Show All

• .NET Development Redistributing MSXML4

  Hi, I have written an application which is redistributed via an MSI. I merge in the MSXML4 merge modules. I have discovered that if I add a manifest assembly reference as follows: /manifestdependency:type='win32' name='Microsoft.MSXML2' version='4.20.9818.0' processorArchitecture='x86' publicKeyToken='6bd6b9abf345378f' language='*' My app doesn't work. I think that this is because these DLLs already exist in the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 directory and it is not installing them into C:\Windows\WinSxS. Shouldn't the merge module detect this and install into both places Thanks Mark MSXML4 is ...Show All

• Visual C++ Error PRJ0002 : Error result 1 returned from 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe'

  I keep getting the following error message every time I try to run or build a C++ application in Visual Studio 2005: Project : error PRJ0002 : Error result 1 returned from 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe'. It only comes up with a C++ program. VB seems to be fine. I was working on a "Class Library" when it first started so I tried creating a new project. I tried doing a build before doing anything and the error message still came up. Then I tried creating a brand new "Windows Form Application" and running it without any modifications - same error. I tried uninstalling and then reinstalling Visual Studio 2005 ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Sample: MSN AddIn - Outlook Calendar

  Description A simple msn live addin that will integrate with Outlook Calendar. Set it up so that it's enabled when my status is anything other than "online" or "appear offline". Now when someone sends you a message the addin will check outlook to see if you currently have any appointments and reply with something like this: [15:33] dan (work): Auto-Response: I am currently in a meeting (test) scheduled to end at 4:00 PM If no appointments are found no reply is sent. The addin also keeps an internal list of users that it has replied to so that it doesn't send out the same info more than once to each person. This list is ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Restrict on Blocked properties in Outlook?

  I am trying to restrict contactitems based on an EmailAddress. I know EmailAddress1, etc are blocked and I have to show the security warning or use redemption, etc. Should my restrict be failing at all because of the block or does anyone have an idea why a simple restrict returns nothing Example VSTO code: string filter = "[Email1Address] = 'me@MyCompany.com'"; Outlook.Items items = this.Session.GetDefaultFolder(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts).Items.Restrict(filter); I found my own mistake. You need to be careful about the format of the email address. Someti ...Show All

• .NET Development web service access issues

  first I'd like to apologise if I'm starting a duplicate thread here, but after searching for a half hour I was unable to solve this issue. I am new to developing in a microsoft enviroment, more used to unix so please bear with me. I have written a web service using visual studio 2005. Just a sample to try get things working. I then consume it in a windows app (also in VS2005). Both using C#. at first I was using the ASP.NET development web server that launches with VS2005 to serve the web service locally, which was fine. I decided to install IIS (5.1) on my windows XP machine to serve the web service across the network to do some speed tests ...Show All

• Windows Forms Proof of Concept: MDIForm does not call MdiChildActivate event

    Goodday, I've got a strange problem! I've got a MDIForm which has form docked to it. The only thing this form does is to be the default background of my MDIForm (I realy don't know how to set the background of the MDIParent) I Don't want it to be clickable so I set the .Enabled propert to false. Now everytime I make a new form and show it in the MDIParent and I'll close that same form the MdiChildActivate event isn't raised. If I set the .Enabled property of the (background) form to true then it will raise the MdiChildActivate event !!! You can help me also by giving me a example how to set the background of an MDIParent. Thi ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. LNK1104 and LNK2019

  I've been trying to compile a program I recieved from my professor but it has been giving me linker errors related to LIBCD.lib. I understand from reading around that this library package is no longer used in 8.0 but it would be a great help if there was a workaround I could use to compile the program. I tried using /NODEFAULTLIB: "libcd.lib" in my link list but this produced two LNK2019 errors. The output of compiling with the /NODEFAULTLIB argument follows. Linking... glui32.lib(glui.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol ___glutCreateWindowWithExit@8 referenced in function _glutCreateWindow_ATEXIT_HACK@4 glui32.lib(glu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions AutoscrollMargin & dyn. add elements

  Hello, I've an mdiParent with children. A child has the option Me.Autoscroll = True The autoscrollmargin width = 0 and height = 50. In design mode, I added elements. In the runtime, I add dynamically elements. Dim intHeight As Integer = 603 ' 603 = y-position of lowest element + 15px The first dynamically added element has an y-position of intHeight. In this situation, the y-position becomes + 50 of the scrollmargin. If I use Dim intHeight As Integer = lblLastElementInDesignMode.Top + 15 Then, the first dynamically added element has an correct y-position Is this an bug I'm struggling to understand you ...Show All

• .NET Development TCP Async Callback problem

  hello; this suppose to be an echo server but it doesn't work, it connect and send the welcome message just fine but doesn't receive any data i don't know why, the client send data because i have tried the client by console server and it worked fine but when i use the Asynchronous methods it doesn't work here its my code private byte [] data = new byte [ 1024 ]; private string strdata; private Socket srvr; private void SendData( IAsyncResult iar) { Socket client = ( Socket )iar.AsyncState; client.EndSend(iar); client.BeginReceive(data, 0 , data.Length, SocketFlags .None, new AsyncCallbac ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VISUAL Studio VB.Net Quiz application

  Hi, I am making a quiz in VS.NET visual basic,the quiz got 200questions divided in 4 groups each divided in classes of 10 questions,i was wondering where should i put my arrays with data and how can i retrieve it(notice the performance) for example this arrays i got: question() answer1() answer2() answer3() answer4() correct() objBg() but i first placed them in the loading of my form (sub on form_load) but that really makes my program slow,so where could i put the data then Also,the program will be for a windows 98 will that work thanks in advantage ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Performance Profiling

  I've been testing various parts of Beta 2 and decided to give the performance explorer and profiling a go.  It doesn't work because I am running my Beta 2 on a virtual machine (I get a dialog that says it can't start vsperfmon and then a second dialog that says can't run sampling on a virtual machine). Why doesn't performance profiling work on a virtual machine Thanks. Bob. Short answer is that the VPC doesn't emulate all the parts of a PC that we need. See this blog post. ...Show All

• Visual Basic 2005 .Net Nightmare

  As a visB programmer who has been happily coding very successful applications for many years, I have been shocked at the verbose incomprehensibility of the .net framework. Where is the wonderful Basic language that has served so well for so long Is there a way to disable all the garbage in VisB 2005 in order to just write simple single thread applications in the Visual Basic language I have been unable to get even the simplest microsoft SDK examples to run in .Net. I really don't want to invest in learning a language as complex and dense as the .Net applications, I don't believe I will ever need ANY of this functionality. The whole IDEA beh ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions A reinstall wipes all the user settings

  I'm using C# Express and I'm using the user level configuration feature to manage various user settings. The settings are set as use scope. When I release a new ClickOnce installer for my program and then do an install over the old version, all the user settings are reset to the default values. Is there a way that I persist settings across installs Thanks, Rich Balch ...Show All