JimmyDe's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Deployment Issues (Major Headache)

  Can someone please help me to fix this issue I'm having in launching a setup package for my application.  When I attempt to build my setup files I get the following error message: "An Error Occurred While Validating HRESULT = '80040155'" Has anyone run across this kind of problem   If so please help. Thanks,          David Watson ...Show All

• Visual Basic text animation

  How do I animate text  I want to make a flying banner. Well yes.  Assuming you haven't changed my code much, then it will remain the same. basically, You have to animate the position of the text. In the example, when you drawString, the last 2 arguements are X ands Y Position. What you have to do is passs differnt values to the XY coords for earh letter. If the String is "Hello", then... H= (X=1,Y=1) E= (X=10,5) L= (X=15,10) L= (X=20,5) O= (X=25,Y=1) THis would look like...  H       O   E   L     L  It's your responcibilty ...Show All

• Visual C# Call .bat files

  Hello All, I have set up a way to script iTunes through .bat files and was wondering if it was possible to call a batch file from a GUI C# program. IE Button1 user clicks button1 along with doing the other things button one does it runs my bat file. If anyone would like to point me in the right direction i would be rather appreciative. Thanks Thomas Process.Start will attempt to execute any sort of file, for example if you pass it a .doc file, it will open in Word. It will run a batch file for you. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development update date in .net compact framework[vb]

  hi all, I m using the datetimepicker control to display the date and time[assume user din modify it] ...but dont know how to update it...Can it be done by using a timer Can anyone show me the code Thanks in advance!!!   If you need to update the date/time displayed by the DateTimePicker periodically, then you can add an event handler to the Tick event of a Timer and set the Value property of the DateTimePicker using the DateTime.Now value. ...Show All

• Visual Basic How Can We create Stand Alone Application(Running without installation from CD)

  Dear All, I actually want a application to run on user's pc's from CDrom only. bcz I have lot of images in a .mdb and I don't want users to install all these mdb and application into their pc's. Just I wanted to run my application when the CD rom is inserted into pc without installing it. Just Like macromedia flash Projector.exe. Is there any solution in VB dot net 2003 Please . Also my application has some features which will be lost, if I use VB dot net express 2005. Thanks a lot in advance Hello. If your application is build purely on the .NET Framework and doesn't make use of a bunch of COM Interop dependencies this i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System mstest with custom test type and metadata(vsmdi) file?

  I'm trying to use mstest.exe to run a test from the commandline. The test was created as a custom test type that I have created via the extensibility SDK. I've done a lot of investigation and here's the results: 1) inside VS I can run the custom test fine. 2) I can run the custom test fine using the /testcontainer: option of mstest.exe. 3) I can run a generic test using the same vsmdi file with mstest.exe. 4) trying to run the custom test type with the vsmdi fails with an "Test <foo> cannot be found" error. I ran scenarios 3 and 4 (only difference being generic test vs. my custom test) under cordbg. Here's t ...Show All

• Visual Studio .

  I have existing xml files that I'm loading into my report. I am NOT using any datasets. I still get login prompt on client installed program. How do I set this or get around it for anyone wondering the solution is to set the authentication mode in the project properties>application tab to "Application-defined" rather than "Windows". Not sure if this will impact anything negatively or not though. I do use a web service to get new data so there shouldn't be problems. Also, for some reason it seems to require the use of a dataset regardless of whether you need one or not and you'll have to set the table ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problem Installing C# Express Beta 2

  I've had C# Express beta 1 installed for a long time.  When I noticed the February 2005 CTP of Avalon and Indigo was released to the public, I downloaded it and the Beta 2 of C# Express (IExpress Setup 2.0.50215.44).   C# installed without any problems, but it installed a version too high for the Avalon CTP.   I tried forcing the install of the Avalon CTP, which installed but never actually worked.   I wanted to use the CTP, so I tried uninstalling everything and tried to install C# via the 2.0.50110.28 installer.   It downloaded everything and began installing, but after a few seconds I get a small queue of message ...Show All

• Windows Forms Effective way storing information to disk

  Does anyone knows a good  way of storing application information to a diskdrive. Application I'm working with requires a database functionality .I could use mysql as a database.  but application is too small for that. So I decided to create  a InMemory DataTables and to use them in my application Using some methods, I created 3 datatables ,read some  information to&n ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Custom Reset Timer

  Hello everybody I'm researching about reset timer on Windows CE 5.0. I'm nedding implement the reset timer but, some counter I can't reset. This is a customization of my project. Anybdody has or know a link or documentation that I can research Thank Mauricio   Sorry but I don’t know what you are asking about. NETCF has two types of timer: System.Windows.Forms.Timer and System.Threading.Timer. Search msdn for them and you’ll find details. If by any remote chance you are asking about watchdog, see this: http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2004/12/watchdog-design-for ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Express on Win XP Pro 64

  I installed SQLExpress Advanced on my Win XP pro 64 machine, and database eninge seams to eb running fine (i can open Server Manager). However I am unable to open SQL Server Configuration Manager (so i can turn on TCP/IP connections,...etc) I get an error message saying Cannot connect to WMI provider. is there an 64biut version of this Configuration manager or is there any other way for me to change configuration. thx Is the "Windows Management Instrumentation" service up and running on the Windows 2003 Server System, for security reasons it is sometimes disabled which can lead to ...Show All

• .NET Development How Strict is Private Access Modifier?

  Hi! Can anybody tell me how strict is private access modifier, because i tried to access a private field in a public property I couldn't find it in intellisense but when I changed its access modifier from private to internal it was visible there. I'm trying to access field in same class. regards. Are you sure you didn't just mistype the beginning of the variable name or something A private variable should be accessible anywhere inside the class and in any nested types (with the obvious exception that you can't use instance members from static methods and so on).   ...Show All

• SQL Server Download database to local and use

  I have SQL database hosted by my ISP. Every now and again we log on and create new tables using user XXX1. After getting a backup of the database, I have restored it on my local machine. When running the application on local, I get an error because there is a new user in database called XXX1. I would like to change the user from XXX1 to dbo on my local machine for all tables, stored procedures and views. How do I do this easily Thanks in advance! Dave Hi, http://groups.google.de/group/microsoft.public.sqlserver.programming/browse_frm/thread/f1625d70fb765701 HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. --- http: ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) consolidating web services

  We currently have several web services we need to publicly expose.  Are there guidelines in practices of how to minimize & organize the exposure of many services (e.g., thru a router) In other words, if i have 10 web services, is there a "guideline" of how to expose only one endpoint to the client, but have the message routed to the correct webservices once received on the server, thus minimizing the security footprint of your services   You could write a router that receives messages from clients and routes them to the right backend. See the WCF router sample at http://windowssd ...Show All

• Windows Forms Creating Windows forms without Visual Studio ?

  Hello, I am an ASP.NET developer, but I know nothing about Windows Forms ... I am used to programming in NotePad, so I wonder if it's possible to develop Windows applications on NotePad too. I do not own Visual Studio ... Thanks all check out <a href="www.icsharpcode.net">SharpDevelop </a> or Borland C# Builder for alternative IDE for Wi ...Show All