disneystar's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista

  How can I get the Windows Vista Beta I can't understand the page: msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista !!!!!! I click "Download the windows vista beta". And than I can't understand what the page want to. The Vista beta isn't publicly available yet, but a public release is planed in the next month. (Abwarten!) :-) ...Show All

• Visual Basic removal microsoft.visualbasic namespace

  hi, well, i dunno what ive done, but every time i create a new class in my asp.net project, i see Imports Microsoft.Visualbasic by default. At the properties page in the project there isnt an automatic reference for this assembly, and in the web.config there isnt any automatic import tag, so it must be something in the IDE options settings.. please help. thnxs In vs.net 2003 it was automatically available to all ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows Forms Book

  Hi I am looking to purchase a book on Windows GUI in C# as I start learning how to program in this new environment.  And I was wondering if any one has any suggestions   Neil FWIW, I am really loving all four books:  ...Show All

• Visual C# Compiling a native C DLL for use in VC# using DllImport

  Hi Group! I'm a C# newbie (real wet and raw) as well as a complete newbie to Microsoft OS programming. Normally I use native 'C' on Posix complient platforms - which I've been doing for many decades. Scruitinsed this BB for an answer but can't find anything close. Also burrowed around in Visual C# IDE for clues - none forthcoming. For reasons of speed and size I want to write a suite of routines in native 'C' and encapsulate them in an external ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is it possible to hide the top part of the tab

  I have a tab Controls with different tabs is possible to hide the top part of it,this is the part where the text of the tab appears. Thanks as usual Yes it is panel ,however for what I need to use it a tabControl is more appropriate.and it will save some coding too. The scenario is this, TreeView On the left and tab Control on the right. Depending on the item in the treeview that is clicked ...Show All

• Windows Forms Table information doesn't show...

  Hi, As you understand from my question I'm very new to VB and data grid binding: I've created a simple program that has a grid which is binded to a table in a Access DB. The following DataGrid members were initialized - DataSource was given the ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WPF and non Microsoft OSes...

  Hi, We just started to make a web / win application with WPF. I know that you've to install WinFX on Windows XP to see the web application, but what about the non Microsoft OSes. Will be there a player like "Flash Player" or something else for this OSes   There are no available runtimes of WPF/E available yet.  We'll make sure to update this forum when the first preview version ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Debug ATL control in Pocket PC 2003/2005

  Hi, I am kind new in developing ATL control for Pocket PC 2003/2005. I have been able to generate a .dll activeX control and I can deploy it in the device. My question is how can debug it throug Visual studio 2005. When I started debugging, a message "a non-executable project cannot be started directly. Please set a command to use to start debugging this project" pops up. Anybody have an idea about this Do I need to write a prog ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Sockets.BeginConnect question

  Hi, I have a question concerning on subject above. How can I correctly declare and use callback functions under VC++ EE If someone have a working example to study, it sould be nice! Thanks a lot, Lacko Are you having trouble creating the AsyncCallback delegate Delegates are quite an advanced topic in .NET. Nobody seems to have written an article on C++/CLI delegates ( Nish's article seems ...Show All

• Windows Forms display contextmenustrip on status strip item

  I have a status strip with four labels in it. On right click of the filelabel i want to display a list of file names. I have a contextmenustrip attached to the status strip. How do I only display the contextmenu strip if I right click on the filelabel. Currently it displays when I right click on any label. I tried to override the contextmenustrip opening to check for the sourcecontrol. Struggling my way around it. ...Show All

• .NET Development XML DOM = load of c**p

  After years of hand-cranking XML I thought I'd give the DOM a try It's RUBBISH! Why can't you add a node & value with one simple line of code Why can you not set a xmlNode.value, but have to use InnerText Why is it the other way round for attributes Was this written by a bunch of monkeys with no input from MS It works nothing like anything else in .net It's unintuitive and illogical.  I've been coding VB4-vb.net for years and I shoul ...Show All

• Visual C# Calculating direction from 1 point in a 3d space to another

  I am looking for a way to calculate the direction from one point in a 3d space (xyz) to another point, so I can use that data in Mesh.Intersect(Vector3 rayPos, Vector3 rayDir). The direction parameters are in radians. it's not a bug, when y > 0 it will also return 0 :p but i'm doing it in a different way now, so i dont really need them anymore at the moment.. but i now need matrix to pitch/yaw/roll, lol :p ...Show All

• SQL Server Debugging / Breakpoints

  Hi, I didn't play around with breakpoints to much, yet. So today I created a package with 2 variables, which both raise their change event. I added a event handler for that just to show the name of the variable which initiated that event (system::variablename) in a messagebox. I added two scripts to the main workflow, one changes one variable, one the other. To see what's happening I placed a breakpoint on the script in the event handler. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Q: Is there an (un-)official place (other than the Starter Kit stuff!) for VBE IDE templates?

  Hi Experts. As we all recognized, the built in templates in VBE are limited, even with all starter kits installed. So here is my question: Is there an (un-)official place (other than the Starter Kit stuff!) for VBE IDE templates In paticular I need a up-to-date template to build a service, with controller and installer. I had an old demo service project, which I've done with the trial version of VS.Net 2003. I migrated it to VBE. I got it to wo ...Show All

• SQL Server Report Corruption When Exported to Excel

  Hello. Anyone please help me with my problem with regards to exporting reports to excel. My report consists of two tables, first table is just plain data displaying from the database; however, it has drilldowns. My second table consists of graphs. My report generates big size depends on the parameters selected by the user. The design of this report is the requirement of our clients, so i cannot do anything about it. So, here comes the probl ...Show All