LucVK's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Creating a binding with a dynamically assigned port

  Is it possible to create a binding for a service such that the operating system assigns an available port to it (similar to the way the socket APIs treat the port value 0). A service needs to have a well known address for the clients to connect to it (more below). The client will choose a random port to talk to the service's port. A well known address means a unique URI. WCF has a port-sharing feature that ...Show All

• Visual Basic Trace Listener Class - Attaching to a Process

  Hi All, I've created a Trace Listener application that streams to a text file. The app is working but now I am at the point where I need to attach it to a certain application running on the target machine. Do I 'HAVE' to attach my Trace Listener to the process in order for it to capture the target app's trace messages Or should the Trace Listeners collection just pick up any trace messages from all applications on the machine... I found ...Show All

• SQL Server How to capture What time zone by DB Server is using?

  I need to capture the time zone of the DB server and adjust some date columns in some of my tables to make sure all the dates are using PST. My database is distributed into different smaller databases (example into laptops, PDAs etc..) around the world. End of day I will sync all the databases in PST time zone. Is there a command in SQL to capture the timezone. Thanks Not without reading the registr ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums InlineShape.AddOLEObject method formatting wrong

  I'm trying to write a macro to embed OLE objects into word. I want the object to show up as an icon, ("display as icon option") but without any icon label. (The default behavior adds the file path as the icon label, and it does not matter whether or not the 'auto caption' option is enabled). It is easy enough to remove the text of the label itself, but the icon still retains the space for the label, such that the size of icon object is ...Show All

• .NET Development Network Stream Read

  I am using the networkstream to read a message sent. When ever I get messages back-to-back in a short period of time, the stream still does not separate the messages, which is causing me errors when I try to parse the messages and save information into a data base. I know this is probably a logic problem, but I am not fimilar enough with network steams to figure out what I can do to have the network stream just send on message at time to be proc ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions File Copying

  Greetings, I am writing code that allows a user to copy a selected file. My problem is that when I check to see if the file exists, I get an error saying the file not accessible because it is currentlly in use by another process. Dim fsrc As New FileInfo(txtSource.Text) Dim fdes As New FileInfo(txtDestination.Text) If fsrc.Exists Then If MessageBox.Show("File exists, overwrite ", "Overwrite ", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo, ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Today background image transparency level.

  When you select an image as the background image for the today screen using the "use this picture as background" option, the image appears washed out. The transparency level is not set to 0. Where is this transparency value coming from Is this a registry value   Thanks It's unsupported, but try setting HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Today\Watermark\Transparency to a value between 0 and 255 ...Show All

• Windows Forms new control debugging help.

  I have a question on debugging Window User Controls. I seem to be able to build the control and add a ref to that dll in another solution and comsume that control.  But if i want to just debug the control by itself (not add  ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to check if the 2 objects are equal

  Hai ....,       I have defined a class CustomerInfo which inherits from IInfo as follows: Public MustInherit Class IInfo End Class Public NotInheritable Class CustomerInfo Inherits IInfo         I have also defined an Add Method to my Customer class which takes argument of type IInfo . When I check for the object type, it always fails thoug ...Show All

• Windows Forms Read line by line

  Hello I have a TextBox full of lines of text and now all I want to do  is just read them Line by Line ! Regards Here is some sample code that might help you with your issue: string[] strArray = MyTextControl.Text.Split(Environmen ...Show All

• Visual Studio Project References Guids?

  Hi, I have created a solution that contains multiple project references, I can use the following < ItemGroup > < ProjectReference Include ="... $ProjectName$. proj"> < Name > $ProjectName$ </ Name > </ ProjectReference > </ ItemGroup > to create references between projects but... How can I propagate the guid of the project when it is created into the projec ...Show All

• Windows Forms Inserting Data to Word 2002

  Any one know how to insert particular words to a word document from an sql database I am moving this thread from .Net framework and Data Access forum to Windows Forms Data Controls and Databinding forum. Hope you can get your answers here. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Testing for an running build

  Is there any way I can test if an existing build is currently running on the build machine when I am doing scheduled build I would like to not build if it is already building, and maybe log this info so I can adjust my scheduling. If you are willing to write up some code, you can check if a build is in progress by making a call to StartBuild web method on the Team Foundation Server. The web method will thro ...Show All

• Visual C# Communication beetween WebService and Windows application

  Hi all. I'm writing a very simple instant messenger. I want to use WebServices as a proxy for users' messages. Windows application invokes a method in WebService, then WebService sends the message to each connected user. I don't know how to send the message from WebService and recive it on Windows application. How to do that I've got no experience with communication in the Internet. I've got also the second problem. How to get an IP address of t ...Show All

• .NET Development Preventing user from typing in a datagrid cell ?

  Hi, I have a normal vb.net datagrid. I do not want the user to enter any value in the first column of the grid. At the same time I cannot set it to readonly= true for some reason. How can I prevent the user from entering any value into the cells of only that column The keypress or keydown events of the datagrid are not working. Can you please help me. Prasad First, I think it's not so normal datagrid ...Show All