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• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) ListBoxItem selectable by right mouse button?

  Hi,    I've added a ContextMenu to a ListBox. The notion is to have the right click on a ListBoxItem select an item and then present a context menu specific to the selection.    Default behavior of ListBox is to select a ListBoxItem by the click of the left mouse button. Can a ListBoxItem be selected by the right mouse button Many thanks in advance, Rana Rana - True, but I can think of ...Show All

• Windows Forms Installing Data Files

  Hi, I have just finished the development of a windows application, I am no trying to write the installer.  The windows app provides a simple search function, and the result set contains links to a bunch of PDF.  So, I've looked around trying&nb ...Show All

• SQL Server Client Report Builder Framework not being picked up

  Just a question regarding what is required to use report builder from a client pc. If i sit at client pc, and then click on the report builder, it promts me that framework 2 is required to run report builder. I then proceed to click on the given link to install framework 2 beta 2 , but yet once the install is complete, even after a reboot, if i click on the report builder button again from within RS , it still prompts me to install the framework ...Show All

• Visual C++ Can not add control based variable in Add Variable wizard

  I have a wierd problem. For some reason I am unable to add a member variable that is a control.. the check box is disabled when I click add variable. Some context here: I have a project that has a rc file included in the projects rc file. i.e. resource.h myprojectname.rc The commonresource.rc is included in the myprojectname.rc file. commonresource.h commonresource.rc Also the to prevent compliling the commonresource.rc we have ...Show All

• .NET Development Best way to provide assembly during serialization?

  I am creating a script system for a game engine based on C#. Scripts are written in C#, they are loaded, compiled, and objects are created at runtime. To create the objects I must compile the .cs files into assemblies. When trying to serialize the objects (loading) I get "Unable to find assembly" errors. This makes sense because the assemblies are not referenced. How can I intercept the creation of the object when loading so the sc ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Express 2005 & Reporting Services

  Hi, Can you tell me if having SQL Express as your database will provide suffient licensing rights to use Reporting Services 2005 Thanks, Robert Bruckner MSFT wrote: Announced at TechEd 2005 last week: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/jun05/TechEd2005Day2PR.mspx "With this CTP, customers and partners will be able to test the business intelligence components included in SQL Server 2005. To increase customers' and ...Show All

• Windows Forms RichTextBox Length

  Hi! I'm currently programming a text editor that needs to display very large files... The one that I'm testing with is a log file that's about 55 MB. The StreamReader can read the entire file just fine, but I can't seem to get the entire text to enter into the RichTextBox. Here's the code I'm using: Dim openstream As New FileStream(filepath, FileMode.Open) Dim opensr As New StreamReader(openstream, True) Dim NewWin As New ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Using Pocket PC Phone as modem from within device application.

  I have a Pocket PC Phone running Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition (Sprint PCS PPC6601) and I would like to know if there is a way to access the modem functionality built into the phone from within a .Net Compact Framework application running on the phone. I would like to be able to dial out and receive regular data calls from this application. Notice that I am not trying to connect to the Internet or any other TCP/IP network. Any help would be ...Show All

• SQL Server Database Diagrams

  TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ------------------------------ Database diagram support objects cannot be installed because this database does not have a valid owner. To continue, first use the Files page of the Database Properties dialog box or the ALTER AUTHORIZATION statement to set the database owner to a valid login, then add the database diagram support objects. ------------------------------ BUTTONS: OK ----------- ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How do I debug my C++ DLL

  I have a project that for a PocketPC that consists of a VB app and a C++ DLL.  I have the source code for the DLL.  I have created a solution with both the DLL and the VB code projects.  Both compile ok.   I am having two problems- 1) I am having trouble deploying the compiled DLL to the emulator.  I have added the DLL to the VB project and it is marked as content, but it is not being copied to the project ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Anonymous Structs

  Is c# 3.0 going to support anonymous structs ever. like: struct { int ; int ;} bgHome = new {42,21}; If not why not It seems like a great alternative to always goin the var route. If you are going to support it, will you also provide support for using them as return types. Giving us this ability allows us to expicitly define our anonymous types upfront, hence we can pass them and argu ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Getting rendered graphics (quickly) from the card

  I had a thread about thins some days back, but for some reason I can not write into it now. I am faced with the task of rendering some graphics with directx and then copying that graphics into another card which generates a video signal. I need to feed it a new frame 25 times a second. The size is 720*576 The rendering does not have to be any faster that this. I have tried two methods of geting the pixels, and both are much too slow. On ...Show All

• .NET Development RPC in VB.net

  Hello. if any body can help me in how to do such Remote Procedure call in VB.NET, i think it is called Remoting in .NET, but how it works, if any code example. Note: I need it for a simple networked PCs, with windows applications. Thanks in advance. Hello, Have you had any luck with this Thanks! Sabman ...Show All

• SQL Server Am I missing something when trying to connect via ASP.NET 2.0??

  I am at my wit's end trying to set up a simple test to retrieve some records from with ASP.NET and C#. I'm using the Express Edition on my development laptop. Whenever I try to run my application, I get the following error: ERROR: An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote ...Show All

• Visual Basic Limitation of Code lines in Class File (VB6)

  Anybody know, if there is any limitation of no of lines of code in Class file I am facing some issues, my class file contains 52535 lines of code. When I compile the code, VB6 compiler hangs. When I comment one of the procedure/function (almost 100 lines of code) anywhere in file, I am able to compile the project. Not sure whats happening.. Anybody faced such issue Any idea guys Please read the comments at t ...Show All