Indigo Cowboy's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Am I missing something on Install

  Bought VB 2005 express edition and started install, it installed Net framework,Web developer MSDN 2005, But never Visual Basic!! How many disks are there in the package I have three, the install disk, a getting started disk, and a Cobis image disk.. I am A total loss on how to install the VB Part. Help!!! Dave I went up to the web site and downloaded the free version of the program. It installed and registered o ...Show All

• Visual C# USB Connection

  Hello Everyone, I have a device which connects through USB. I was wondering if any one can provide a code how to connect to USB and open channel for any data Transfer........ Any help, highly appreciated... Thanks, Harsimrat does the devide get a Drive Letter assigned to it It should, and you can use System.IO Namespace to traverse the directory and get the directory and file structure. H ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Setting the start Action when debugging a DLL

  In VS 2002 I was able to set the Start Action to start an external application. I can't seem to figure out how to set this up in VB.Net 2005 Express. I tried to follow the help but when I went to Tools>Options there was no topic for debugging, and when editing the debug properties of the project or solution I don't see this option. TIA hi, you can try this System.Diagnostics. Process .Start("n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Explorer - red cross on "documents"-folder

  Since installation of TFS I am unable to see the content of the documents-folder (teamexplorer) on a client-machine. There is always a red cross on the folder! If I start the team explorer on the server the documents folder is shown correctly. I tried to copy the http-url ( http://[servername]/sites/[Project ]) to an IE on a client and there the sharepoint site is shown without any problems. I did the changes required after installation of ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to draw to non-client portion of a form using VB.NET

  Did anybody knows how to draw into non-portion area of a form using VB.NET  I searching through the internet, and found some samples, but it using VC#.NET, and somehow there's some command/syntax that cannot be performed on the VB.NET. So, is there  ...Show All

• .NET Development Timeout on connecting to non-existent server

  I am trying to make a simple single-server, many client program. When the client starts I would like it to check if the server is running or not. It currently does this by attempting to connect and trying to catch a socket exception. However, this takes a long time to return a negative response if the server is not running. Is there a better way to check if the server is running or not Thanks, Aero In V2.0 of t ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Strange Visual FoxPro provider error

  Hi, I'm getting a really strange error. I use the Visual FoxPro OleDb provider to access a FoxPro .dbc database. I have a table where I have several Numeric fields that're giving me problems. When my application tries to access the .dbf table, most of the time it runs OK, but on certain rows the provider cannot access the data in them and throws an InvalidOperationException. For example, I have a field called BMI, type: Nume ...Show All

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• Visual Basic GenericIZE This...

  I am betting this is a very hard problem for 99.9995% of programmers. It's supposed to be simple and supposed to be one of the benefits of generics, yet generics will not work with this incredibly simple case. If you can get it to work, I'd love to see it. Take the class below and convert it to accept generic arguments of <int> or <double> or <long> or whatever. You'll find a big surprise when you you get it coded up and try ...Show All

• .NET Development signedXML and Namespaces

  I have to send out a SAML message to a server I do not control.  I was given a sample XML message that includes namespaces in the digitial signature portion. So think of everything as <ds:ElementName> instead of <ElementName>.  How can I modify my code so that the signedXMl document will create the signed portion correctly with namespaces in the elementnames.  While still maintaining the correct digestvalue.  I a ...Show All

• Visual C# OLE Problem

  Hello,        I am working with COM interoperability. i.e, i am trying to access objects exported from unmaged code, from C# . But i am getting a Run-time error as "Specified OLE variant is Invalid" i go through many web-sites and forums. i failed to get my luck. Finally, i decided to post in microsoft forums, as this is belongs to microsoft product. Please help to solve this problem. Thanks in ad ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Aborting an Animation

  Is there a way to stop an animation object before it's duration causes it to stop without using storyboards Outside of Storyboards, you can control animations by using the ClockController object associated with Clocks created via Timeline.CreateClock(). This allows you controls such as Pause, Stop, or Remove. Thanks, Ed ...Show All

• Visual C# System.Security.Permissions.SecurityPermission problemm

  Hi everybody. I have a (c# VS 7) Web app that uses an Internet Explorer hosted Windows User Control. I am setting a cookie on clients' machine from the IE hosted windows user control using InternetSetCookie method: [DllImport("wininet.dll", CharSet=CharSet.Auto, SetLastError= true )] public static extern bool InternetSetCookie( string lpszUrlName ...Show All

• Visual Studio Charts are not rendered in CR for VS2005 Beta2 Version

  After much newsgroup searching, I was able to make CR work on my web server. However the charts (images) inside the reports do not show up. The src attribute for these images look like this: src="//CrystalImageHandler.aspx dynamicimage=cr_tmp_image_5f03e8ad-37b4-4b16-923e-264e3b3a0314.png" And obviously is not finding anything. Hence 2 questions: 1. How can I specify the domain name for the URLs or tell it to use relative path 2. Where can I fin ...Show All

• Smart Device Development porting of eVC4.0 project to VStudio 2005

  I'm trying to port eVC4.0 project to Visual Studio 2005 (beta-2). I was told that I have to install the following add-in: eVC Upgrade Wizard (beta). The problem is, my system drive (D) is different from the drive, where Studio 2005 is installed (F). In the add-in installation I browsed to F\Program Files..., but it still installed itself on system disk. When I copied zip file to the drive F and run the install_eVCUW.bat file, I found out it supp ...Show All