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• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Specifying Window icon via string isn't working

  Using Feb. CTP: I have a WinFX control library which contains various Window objects. The project layout looks like this: - DefaultUI.csproj - LoginScreen - LoginScreen.xaml (Window) - Images - icon.ico (Resource) Unfortunatly, I can't figure out how to specify the Window's Icon property in XAML. In other control libraries I was able to use Icon="/Images/icon.ico" and it would work; however, in this particular project that fails with a BamlParseException in InitializeComponent: "Error at element 'LoginScreen' in markup file 'DefaultUI;component/loginscreen/loginscreen.xaml' : '/Images/icon.ico' string is not a valid ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. MDX 2.0 FrameHierarchy problem...

  Hello everyone, I'm playing around with MDX 2.0 and while converting my code from MDX 1.1, I suddenly got an error while trying to load a FrameHierarchy from an .x-file. I've adjusted the code according to the changes in the api and the code compiles just fine, but when it tries to call the Mesh.LoadHierarchy method, it gives me a DirectXException. The ExceptionHelper doesn't really live up to it's name in this case as it offered me no further understanding and I can't find any information on the internet either. Does anyone know if I have to change something in the code to adjust to MDX 2.0 or if there's some kind of bug with this method si ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Building Avalon applications in VS2005

  What softwares are required to develop Avalon applications in VS2005. I have installed Windows Runtime Components 3.0 -Beta 2. Also VS-2005. But while installing Windows SDK ( after mounting it to virtual drive) , I get following error message "Windows SDK could not be configured, see the 'Installing the SDK' section of the Samples\Setup\HTML\ConfigDetails.htm document for more information. In order to create samples or use tools that depend on WinFXR, the correct version of the WinFX Runtime Components must be installed. Please consult the Windows SDK readme for details. " Please help me out of this proble ...Show All

• SQL Server Can not connect to SQL Server

  I installed SQL Server 2005 (server and client components) on Windows Server 2003 with SP1. I can connect to this sql server from any other machine. However, I can not connect from this machine to sql servers on other machines. I have tried named pipe and TCP/IP. Neither of them works. The error message is can not establish connection. Any suggestion Thanks, Hello Emanuel, thanks for your reply, and I checked sql server is not started on this server, and if I am trying to start it, i get this error message. "ERROR -2 SYSTEM CANNOT FIND THE FILE SPECIFIED" But as I told ...Show All

• Visual Basic Refactor slow and not quite stable

  1. Opening VS2005 is slower, and opening a project is slower. No big deal, but if you start opening files before DXCore is finished loading, it hangs for quite a while. 2. Cursor movement is jerky, and somewhat annoying. This is on an AMD 3200+ w/GeForce6200. 3. Several times I accidentally hit both mouse buttons and/or keyboard keys, causing an IDE crash with loss of data. I mention this only FYI; these would not be big problems if I had found it useful (especially given that it is given.) The uninstall seemed to have worked. I will mention the IDE itself is very stable compared to Beta. Bravo! ---Mike ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Explorer: what if I'd like to install just Primary Interop Assemblies for Excel and Project 2003?

  Hello everybody, let's suppose on a machine I just want and install, not entire Team Explorer, but just Primary Interop Assemblies required to make "Team" toolbar appear in Excel 2003 and Project 2003. Is there any setup I can launch by Team Foundation Server CD ...Show All

• Visual Studio Difficulty in Installing VS .Net, Bundled all Cds into a single folder

  Hi      As per the document (ReadMe) in the installation cds of my VS .Net, I copied all the contents of the Cds into a single folder (overwritten  files if asked). When i started installation from the hard disk, it was successfull. But when I made the folder into a single Dvd... and started the installation, it regularly asks for the next cds... i changed the baseline in the setup.ini as ../WCU ... as per the readme... Please help me You can't put the CD files on a DVD because the MSI itself has logic in the media table to either work from a hard drive or a CD. ...Show All

• SQL Server Is there a way around using MAX Statement on Report

  I have a report that due to being unable to find a successful solution across the web relies on me using a value in a box as shown below; =MAX(Fields!budgeted_net_rent.Value) The problem I now have is that I have another field on the report and want to a =SUM on it and it tells me that you can't do that unless it is a header or footer and something about being part of an aggregate function. How can I fool SSRS into placing the value for this field into a sperate box so that I can complete the calculation I need to do. This report uses various drill throughs etc. If it is relevent, the value that I want to perform the calculat ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Receipt Printer Problem

  Hi to All! I am using Epson Partial Cut receipt printer for our POS system. my problem is that the printer will eject or automatically cut the paper when the lenght of the paper riches 11 inch from the start of printing. the result is ok if the customer will buy only a few items, but when the customer buy plenty of items the problem start on, the receipt is cut every 11 inch of lenght.i already select the paper for Receipt when i design the frx however the same problem arise. How to prevent the printer not to eject or cut the paper when it riches 11 inch size or How to continue printing in receipt printer until the end of record T ...Show All

• Visual Studio MSDN pages do not open when selected.

  Using the MSDN Library included with Visual Studio.net, the left side panel works but all pages selected,  by index or search or from the table of contents do not show in the right pane. There is a flash in the lower task bar and the title of the selected page does apear and remain in the field above the right panel. I appreciate any help you can offer. Hello lle, Sometimes your IE cache is the casue for this type of issue.  Close MSDN, empty your IE cache and then restart the MSDN library. Thanks Khairun Jamal ...Show All

• Windows Forms User Control loading

  Am trying to replace a user control with another user control within a form. The user controls fill the whole form and when the user clicks a button the user control being showed in the form is changed. My problem is, is that the child controls in the user control are not showing straight away and are just showing a transparent rectangle where they should be showing the form background. Is there anyway around this. For example is there a way to not display the user control until everything is fully loaded so i get a smooth transition from one user control to another. At the moment i am just using this.controls.remove(ctrl1); this.co ...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. #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <iostream> #include <windows.h> #include <psapi.h> using namespace std; int main(){ HANDLE hPsapi = LoadLibrary("C ...Show All

• Visual Basic Get information from database

  Hello I was using Visual Basic 6 and when I want to get information from a database, I write: Dim Con As New ADODB.Connection Dim rst As New ADODB.Recordset Set Con = New ADODB.Connection Set rst = New ADODB.Recordset Con.Open "Provider=MSDataShape.1;Extended Properties='Jet OLEDB:Database Password=111';Persist Security Info=False;Data Source=D:\Programs.mdb;Data Provider=MICROSOFT.JET.OLEDB.4.0" rst.ActiveConnection = Con rst.Open "Select tab1.* from tab1 wehre tab1.Name='Example'" MsgBox rst.Fields("FileName") When I wrote that in VB 2005, it said about this line (MsgBox rst.Fields("D ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Memo File Corruption on VFP9 ONLY

  I am just beginning work for a new client.  This client wanted a VFP5 app upgraded to VFP9..they're using Novell (lastest version).  After the conversion (very little changes needed to be made), they started getting file and memo corruption errors as well as indexing errors.  I took a copy of the data and tried a recopy using SCATTER MEMO MEMVAR to a new fresh data file (using GATHER MEMO MEMVAR) in VFP90.  I got the same errors. (Running XP Professsional) So, just to be sure (my version of VFP9 is new), I tried the same thing on VFP8.  NO ERRORS!  Then I took the new data file (8.0) and ran it through the same ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to scan files for a virus programatically

  hi guys,      I have an immediate requirement in my project.I need to scan any file for virus.if a virus exists then that file should be deleted and not saved in the server.this should be done within the code.plz any help in that would be appreciated Netsoft MCP Maybe this will help   http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/05/VirusHunting/ ...Show All