jwdenny's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Packaging applications

  Hi, I have the Microsoft Visual Studio software. I am trying to create an application (looking into msi apps) that when run will unpack a whole bunch of files into a folder and create a shortcut of an executable (which is part of the package) on the users programs list in the start menu. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks Yenan This MSDN resource should help you out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/html/vbconthefilesystemeditor.asp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Fatal error by opening a EAP file

  When I open a file with "eap" extension, I receive the following error: Fatal error: "The Microsoft Jet database engine cannot open the file \\itsrv\Proyectos\temp\sst1B.EAP . It is already opened exclusively by another user, or you need permission to view its data". When I try it from another computer, the file is opened but with some strange character beginning by Standard Jet DB". It doesn't matter if Enterprise Architect is installed or not, I get the same error. Is it possible to configure VSS in order to recognize these types of files ( I tried to add the eap extensio ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. can i coding the rumble pack by using directX

  hi, i wish to use the 'rumble pack' to give the force feedback effect for the player..... i just wondering the 'rumble pack' is it can program by DirectX..... The link below are some rumble pack..... can anyone told me which rumble pack can program by DirectX... http://games.idealo.com/2048R148K4-Game-Hardware-Nintendo-64-Rumble-Packs.html Thank you :P See http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=267712&SiteID=1 And please refrain from asking almost the same question in multiple places. ...Show All

• .NET Development My Application works in Debug mode only

  Hi all, My .NET application works in debug mode only. If I build my application without the "Generate Debugging Information" equal true, the application start properly, looks like everything is just fine, I can use several commands of the same type, but it stops working, I mean it goes in a loop or something. If I run the same application with debug option equal true and I do the same test everything work just fine. This is a problem because a cannot debug the issue using VS. About the application: Language is C# IDE is Visual Studio .NET 2003 Type is a Windows Forms graphical application to draw vectorial persistent ...Show All

• Windows Forms {SOLVED} which control 2 use : windows numeric like clock

  Can anyone pls. help me what control to use to create windows numeric clock with numericupdown control.How to split numericupdown controls into parts so it works separately on hours,minutes and seconds like in windows clock. Thanks Dude Gr8 this helps :) using format propert to time and showupdown to true that is what i wanted :) thanks again ...Show All

• Windows Forms Creating A New User

  How would one go about creating a new user, I know I could simply create a form that contacts the web service and validates that the new user being created does not exist then create the user, but what really baffles me is this hash stuff, really dont userstand it. ...Show All

• Windows Forms the value of datagridviewcomboboxcell is invalid error

  I get the above error whenever I use a comboboxcolumn in a datagridview. I set up the datasource, displaymember and valuemember properties properly. But, when I run the app, I get this error... what is the reason of it  anyone who knows the fix of this problem... Or is this bug in VS.NET 2005 Beta.. I have a variation on this problem. I had filled my dataset with the ...Show All

• .NET Development Web Service call trace in Production

  Hi, We have a WebService in Production where in calls are made by many users. I am generating a User Model for Performance testing of this web service. Is there any way by which I can find out how many calls are being made to my Web Service in Production over a given period of time. Is it possible to get this information from IIS logs. Thanks, J Take a look at this chapter in Patterns and Practices on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnpag/html/scalenetchapt15.asp Daniel Roth ...Show All

• Windows Forms Deployment - Multiple Sites (ex: QA/Production)

  How do you deploy multiple versions of the same application to different web servers   For example lets say I have 2 QA sites that will run the same version or different versions of the application. Currently I am getting the following error:   + Inplace update of an application is not possible, please revise its version. I have two sites: qa1.app.com qa2.app.com I have even gone as far as changing the .application name from app.application to app.qa1.application and app.qa2.application and changing the Name,  ProductName and Start Location.  Is there anything else I need to change   I a side-by-side deployment ...Show All

• Visual Studio Shared files are not marked with any special icon

  I noticed that source safe shared files are not marked with any special icon in the solution explorer. This is very inconvinient, since anybody can forget that a file is shared and harm other projects using it! Thanks for reporting this. I opened a suggestion bug for this, but it's unlikely we are going to change this behavior for VS 2005 release. Hopefully we'll fix it in next realease... Thanks, Alin ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) InfoCard UI fails to start

  This is in my event log. you should reference System.ServiceModel and System.IdentityModel.Selectors. You don't need a reference to Microsoft.InfoCard assembly. Cheers, DonRajah ...Show All

• Windows Forms Setting DatagridView column type as Combo after databind

  Hi, We’re using a datagridview in our winforms prj .. Problem is this .. We have a grid say with 10 columns .. 3 columns are combo’s. ways to go about it are .. 1. set the column heading and column type at design time .. retrieve the records then databind. But in this case .. a new set of columns will be created. In this scenario, is there a way where I can set the column type of the datagrid view to a datagridviewcombobox column after I do the databind 2. Have a blank Gridview.Retrieve the records and bind the table to the gridview. Here again I face the same problem. In this scenario, is there a way where I can set t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office vsto code

  i have a range object in excel vsto appln alternate rows in this range should be displayed in different color what is the code Hi, Here is a good article that explains how to do it. http://www.ozgrid.com/Excel/alternate-row-color.htm Also here is some code to get you started in VSTO. You may need to tweek the formula a bit but this should get you started. 'Set the list color MyListObject.Range.FormatConditions.Add(Excel.XlFormatConditionType.xlExpression, , "=AND(MOD(ROW(),2),COUNTA($A1:$C1))" ) MyListObject.Range.FormatConditions(1).Interior.ColorIndex = 6 ' Yellow ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Gprs/EDGE connection problem

  I have a problem when i use a gprs connection. Sometimes it works fine, but sometimes there is a problem. I use VS2005, i develop in C# and my smartphone is a SPV C600. I use the connection manager (of OpennetCF) to connect my smarpthone by gprs, and when i'm connected, I log in to a ftp server. After this, I send pictures by upload to this server. But sometimes, i have this error : "couldn't open passive data connection, no DataConnection IP was given." Is someone have the same problem Maybe it don't use the correct way to establish a GPRS connection. here's my code: public bool connectGPRS() { label1.Text = connMgr.S ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Conversion problem

  I am trying to convert my VSTO 2003 projects to VSTO 2005 and failing one after another.  VS says it converted them successfully, but the Solutioin Explorer shows they are unavailable. Attached is the log of one of the conversions. If I remove the unavailable converted proejct and try to add it back, then I get the following error: The operation could not be completed. No such interface supported. Could anyone offer any hint Thanks, H   Project: AB5000Centers Filename Status Errors Warnings AB5000Centers\.\AB5000CENTERS.XLS 0 0 Conversion Issues - AB50 ...Show All