sewyew's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Open USB port

  I'm developing an application in VB 6.0, where I have to communicate with a device site in a USB port, but I don't know how open, write, read, and close this port in VB. If someone know how do it, or has sample code, I was very gratefull. Thank you very much! Best Regards I think you need a special cable to communicate pc to pc over USB (Analogous to an Ethernet cross-over cable). Look to http://www.ramel ...Show All

• SQL Server Pixel to inch.

  Hi, I am using SSRS 2005 + SP1. Is there any better way to convert pixel to inch or cm Thanks n Regards, UT. Thx for the reply. I was given a spec with all the unit of measure was in pixels. That's why I need to convert it into cm or inch. Thanks and Regards, UT. ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to get the ContentType (MineType) of a file

  in winform, is there any api to do this  thx thomas ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Instantiate Argument Exceptions Correctly

  Hi Guys I've struggle to see what this exception is looking for currently I have the following code in a property, this is just one of many Public Property DateOfBirth() As Object Get Return _DateOfBirth End Get Set ( ByVal Value As Object ) If Value Is DBNull.Value Then _DateOfBirth = DBNull.Value ElseIf TypeOf Value Is Date Then _DateOfBirth = Date .Parse( CType (Value, String ), CultureInfo.CurrentCult ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WCF Extensions for the real VS 2005?

  Hi I'd like to know if one can install Development Tools for WinFX extensions for the retail version of MS VS 2005 and WCF GoLive binaries. Previous version of the VS extensions is not even being installed since it's MSI-installer does need VS Codename "Orcas" to work with. Thanks. Actually, Beta2 didn't ever been on that computer. I've ran both: CleanupSharedWinFXFiles and vs_uninst_bet ...Show All

• SQL Server Setting DTS DataType on added column: codepage.

  When writing custom component, and and adding a column to the output, the DTS DataType must be set using SetDataTypeProperties. One parameter is codepage (int). What value(s) can I enter there  Where can I find this information   It will really depend on where the data originates, but I should say it would be a good bet for most situations, as people normally work in one codepage accross most ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Passing parameters to child activities

  Hi, when i did the following activities i got null reference exceptions, any kind of help is appreciated. Step1. my client code is initiating a sequential workflow with students array in the dictionary Step2. In seq work flow i have a child activity,and a while loop. what i intended to do is for each student do some operation on child activity. so for this i created a dependency property in childactivity called student. Step3. In th ...Show All

• Windows Forms problems with multithreading, datasets and datagrids

  I have a method that fills a dataset. I’m calling this method asynchronously using BeginInvoke. I put the dataset in an EventArgs derived class object and pass that to another method. This second method switches back to the UI thread and uses t ...Show All

• Visual C# Adding Dialogbox

  hi i have created installer package for my application. I want to create the new dialog box which is not in add dialog box pane. How to add new dialog box . In Add dialog pane set of dialog box is available. My requirement is i want to add new dialog box. How to do that Pls tell me It's not possible using the Visual Studio Setup project. You will need to use a custom tool such as Wise for Windows Installer or  InstallShield . ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Implement the Workflow in web application

  sir I am new to workflow, Now I am using beta 2 version. I download the leaveApplication ( HumanEmailWorkFlow ) and try. It is not working fine. Inside the listener activity, after the receiving activity it is not going to the next step. so please give me some tips for solve this problem. And I am excepting some url for learning Workflow And another one things is in our Project we plan to implement the workflow in web application. s ...Show All

• Windows Forms transparent panels

  Hi, I've been using a tutorial which can be found here, http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/TrulyTransPanel.asp, to try and make a transparent panel. However, I've noticed that you can't "clear" out the graphics on this transparent panel, that is whatever you have drawn previously remains on the panel. The only way, it seems, to clear out what you've previously drawn is to do a g.fillRectangle over the entire size of the panel, but on ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Setting the Version Information in the exe file

  I am currently using the express edition of Visual C++ 2005. Is there any way of setting the version number, description, company, etc. that appear in the Version tab of the properties dialog of the exe There doesn't appear to be a resource editor in the express edition. Is there an alternative or would I need to upgrade to the full Visual Studio to do this Mog0 Yes,That is the correct way. I did it but ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Installing VirtualPC on Vista 5270

  Hi guys, I realise that VirtualPC isn't supported on Vista, but has anyone managed to get networking support running My development environment is totally upside down - I want to run XP hosted in a VM on real hardware running Vista. Regards, Gavin Some further information - VirtualPC seems to work fine except for networking. I can access files on the host OS (Vista) using VPC's shared folder mechanism, but ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) foreach or yield on a 'stream' instead of an IList?

  I'm a recent exile from Java land and would like to know the following for C# (2.0 ... can't use LINQ in production yet :( ): What is the best way to not just iterate through a list, but keep track of new entries to it and 'process' those as wel.  In other words, I would like to do something like this: foreach(Data d in myList) Console.WriteLine(d.somevalue); The above line will just go through the list and display the 'somevalue' attribu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions runtime redistributable?

  Hi, anybody know where I can find the runtime distributables described in "redist.txt" which is in the folder "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8" Thanks,     Andres Yes you are right! I just revied the SDK docs about private assemblies: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/sbscs/setup/private_assemblies.asp There are more locations but the solution you are sear ...Show All