Ren.'s Q&A profile

• Visual C++ Putting computer into hibernate MSVC++.net

  Hi. Can someone please tell me what method is used to make a computer hibernate Thanks, The Digital Pioneer You can use the power management function: BOOLEAN SetSuspendState(   BOOL Hibernate ,   BOOL ForceCritical ,   BOOL DisableWakeEvent ); Before you must call BOOLEAN IsPwrHibernateAllowed(void) to check if HIBERFIL.SYS exists etc. Please refer to Windows power manageme ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook blocked my script help

  hello all i am developing an outlook addin and while executing him an error occured, the outlook asked me if i want to block my script in the future and i accedantily clicked yes.... now when i run my add in i cannot see the addin in the outlook screen, what can i do to restore my add in...... Please this is driving me crazy Itzik You mention a Script being blocked, this is not an Addin if the above doesn't help ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectMusic for Managed DirectX

  Hi, I have a question. Is there any plans to implement DirectMusic for Managed DirectX If so, I would like to know when. I'm a fan of DirectMusic and interactive music is important for games. Final Fantasy VIII (from Square Soft but formly SquareEnix, however, I like calling Square Soft since I don't know about Enix that much) makes use of DirectMusic for DirectX 6.1.   You could start looking at the new beta assemblies and the XAC ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Custom stack pointer

  Hello, I'm trying to port an application that implements its own thread scheduling. It calls malloc to allocate a block of memory then it changes sp to point to the end of the block. The Pocket PC 2003 emulator stops on the instruction that changes the sp register. A message box is displayed "No symbols loaded for any stack frame. The source code cannot be displayed" then the program stops. Is it a restriction of the OS or the debugge ...Show All

• .NET Development windbg/sos - !dumpheap/!dumpobj/!gcroot

  Is there any way to find the callstack that lead to allocated object in windbg/sos I can do !gcroot, but I would like to see the call stack that lead to the object allocation. Thanks for any pointers! Hi, Thanks for the links. You're right it would take more memory, but not huge amount. There is a tool called gflags.exe that comes with Debugging tools. It allows to specify stack backtrace for each heap ...Show All

• Visual C# When debugging "There is no source code available at the current location"...why?

  I am attempting to step thru my code for debugging, but keep getting the above error code right after closing an instance of OpenFileDialog. Here is my code: OpenFileDialog dlg = new OpenFileDialog(); dlg.FileName = "*.hex"; dlg.Filter = "HEX files (*.hex) |*.HEX| All files (*.*) |*.*"; dlg.Title = "Select P2140 Firmware file"; if (dlg.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) { FileName = dlg.FileN ...Show All

• Visual C++ Help with using DLLs

  Hello, since this appears to be a new forum perhaps I can get some help. I am having the darnest time working with DLLs. I have found snippits here and there, but no concrete complete example programs. My question: Can someone show me a complete program that loads a dll and then executes a function from that dll I have included my first feeble attempt at what seems to me shouldn't be so difficult. The code runs but the dll is not loaded. #inc ...Show All

• Smart Device Development DataGrid Alternation item color

  How can I change the DataGrid alternating item(row) color in Compact Framework 2.0 Thanks, Vijay Please see this: http://www.opennetcf.org/Forums/topic.asp TOPIC_ID=350 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Duplicate Project Names

  I am running TFS Beta 3. I have a situation where I have cancelled the creation of a new project (during the phase of it downloading the templates) and now I can't re-create the project with the same name. It says it already exists, although its not available as an Add Existing Project either. Is there anything I can run on the server that will  validate all existing project data in the database Regards Graham ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VS C# Express hangs during install

  I have Visual Web Developer Express succesfully installed along with Sql Express, .NET 2.0 Framework & SDK. But when I try and install C# Express it gets about 3/4 through the "Setup is loading installation components, this may take a minute or two" and then just hangs there, no errors or dialogs. Any suggestions on how to diagnose this I have cleared out temp folder and tried to re-install to no avail. Thanks. ...Show All

• .NET Development SoapOutputFilter Customization

  Here is a DotNet webservice generated SOAP XML which calls a third-party Java webservice. As per the Server side (Java webservice) requirement I need to filter the Security->UsernameToken element so that I need to pass only the Username and Password. I am trying to remove the parameters Nonce and Created from the UsernameToken. Here is the DotNet code I use to generate the UsernameToken token = new UsernameToken( _sUserName, _sPassword, ...Show All

• Windows Forms can clients access remote database (SQL)....?

  I want the clients to install an aplication that uses a database, without actualy installing the database on the local computer. therefore clients will be accessing the database remotly from our server. the problem is that it seems that clickonce does not support this service. please provide me with any tips, hints or information related to this subject. thanks for your help. Well, the thing is that i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Express permanently free

  hi, thx dan for this good news and thx microsoft, you don't know how much i'm happy to hear that best regards Microsoft Rocks. Its been taking great initiatives lately and this one by far will proove to be most useful. Atleast the guilt of a student of using a pirated software will not be there anymore :) Other stuff that microsoft is organizing like the latest "made in express" contest are really fun. IMHO Microsoft is ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to run Emulator without VS 2005?

  after reading and reading i will try with writing... i have the sdk for WM5.0, i have the images, i have found the emulator 5.3 and the deviceEmulator but how can i get them work together when i try with the device emulator, a small window with 2 menus appears, and nothing happens.. when i try with the emulator 5.3, for half a second a window opens that tells me i have not enough memory when i try it with /memorySize 256 i’ll get the same messag ...Show All

• SQL Server Database is read-only.

  Hi I have been learning on how to use the new features of the .NET 2.0, and Well I using VS2005 and everything is pretty straight foward. I did a Membership webform where you log in and create users and roles etc. I installed the SQL Server 2005 express as my Data provider and thats where my Tables are. I used the aspnetsql_reg comand to integrate the server to this application. Anyway my problem started when i decided to copy my project to my ...Show All