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• Windows Live Developer Forums Accessing the "personal message"

  Not 100% sure what it´s called in english version but you know, the "tagline" that doubles as "now playing". (i wanna use both "now playing" and "tagline") I´ve tried looking trough APIs but sofar no luck. Anyone have any idea on how to do it As described in the linked thread , the message to send to the Messenger now omits the format part. Why did you change the spec Even if this API isn't officially supported, there are many applications using it. If you just don't support the format part in Live Messenger anymore, it's not an excuse to break the API, but you could just skip it. Regards, Thoma ...Show All

• Visual J# J# MSPress "Build a Program Now" and J# Express edition Forum

  Hi everyone, Anyone know if there is an MSPress "J# 2005 Build a Program Now" book coming out in the not too distant future. The VB and C# books are wonderful for beginners and they have the program CD along with SQL express included for about $16. Very thoughtful of Microsoft and they should be congratulated for making it easier for folks to begin to convert over from Java taught in most lower level college classes. Also anybody know if there will be a similar J# Express forum choice to use on the MSDN forums, like there is the C# and VB Express forums John Van Kirk Hi Jaiprakash, ...Show All

• SQL Server Vacumming Question

  We have SQL NS 2005 with our ADF with the following setting: <Vacuum>    <RetentionAge>P7DT00H00M00S</RetentionAge>    <VacuumSchedule>     <Schedule>      <StartTime>05:00:00</StartTime>      <Duration>P0DT02H00M00S</Duration>     </Schedule>    </VacuumSchedule>   </Vacuum>   Shouldn't this only be retaining data for 7 days, which perhaps I should remove defined RetentionAge since that is supposed to be the ...Show All

• Windows Forms Creating Custom Dialogs

  Hi, I try to create a custom dialog in VS2005(C++), but the result is, that the dialog’s behaviour is like a "normal" control. It should behave like all the standard dialogs, which means, that you can place the control at design time on the "component tray" like i.e. the printDialog. Searching around, I found, that I have to set: TopLevel to false, and the FormBorderStyle to none/FixedDialog. But this is not working for me. What’s going wrong Best regards, Carl I believe you will need to derive from CommonDialog for this kind of functionality. (if only my machine wasn't broken I could create some sampl ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Setting combobox datasource to nothing does not clear its items

  I created a project with one combobox and 2 buttons. When I set the ComboBox DataSource to Nothing the SelectedIndex is being set to -1 and the SelectedItem is being set to nothing. But, when I click on the down arrow the list of items, from Button1.Click, are still there. (This works when compiled as a regular PC application.) Private Sub Button1_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim strAry As String () = { "a" , "ab" , "abc" } ComboBox1.DataSource = strAry End Sub Private Sub Button2_Click( ByVal sender As Sys ...Show All

• Visual Studio creating my new report (new to crystal report)

  I use vb.net and MSsql. 1. In my report's "header" field, i want to display a details of the current user. (the user name is a unique key in db table and the current user name is held in my program: datamoduleUser.userName, i can code a dataset, dataadapter to select the details, just not suer how to connect to crystal report so that the report can display the details) 2. In my report's "details" section, i want to display a details that are retrieved from multiple tables which involves 2 parameters from different table. ( here i think i need another dataset, same problem, i cant link it from program to report, also, if i SetDataSource of th ...Show All

• Visual Studio OnMouseWheel event in the text editor?

  I want my add-in to be able to respond to a mouse wheel event while a document is active in the Visual Studio text editor. My immediate goal is to bind Ctrl+WheelUp to PgUp and Ctrl+WheelDn to PgDn, but it would be nice to have this adjustable. I just don't know how to respond to a mouse wheel event. Thanks, Sam I'm actually using my implementation of this in an open-source plugin I made for VS 2005. I haven't had any problems with it at all. Here's a link to the plugin's homepage: http://djss.dynalias.net/trac/SamTools   Here's a link to the classes that provide mouse support: http://djss. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Generate Resource Task

  Hello, I get this error when I compile: The "GenerateResource" task failed unexpectedly. System.NotImplementedException: The method or operation is not implemented. at Microsoft.Build.Shared.ExceptionHandling.RethrowUnlessFileIO(Exception e) at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.GenerateResource.NeedSeparateAppDomain() at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.GenerateResource.Execute() at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.TaskEngine.ExecuteTask(ExecutionMode howToExecuteTask, Hashtable projectItemsAvailableToTask, BuildPropertyGroup projectPropertiesAvailableToTask, Boolean& taskClassWasFound) AppWinforms This is a project that has been building fine for ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot connect to SQL Express Remotely

  I have SQL Express April CTP (from VS Beta 2) installed on machineA, but I cannot connect to it from machineB using the command "sqlcmd -S machineA\sqlexpress -E".  This command works just fine from machineA. I have enabled the TCP/IP protocol for the SQLExpress instance through the configuration manager, and turned off the Windows Firewall on machineA. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong Hi, I have the same problem, I cannot connect remotely to sql server express I have done all the steps in that article http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlexpress/archive/2005/05/05/415084.aspx http://support.mi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Gridview update problem framework v2.0.50630

  Hi, I have encountered a problem using framework v2.0.50630 and the gridview control. When updating a row in the control (bound to an SQLDatasource) updates of fields containing NULL values are performed, but fields containing an actual value are not updated (the old value is sent to the SQL server, I checked with trace tool). Framework v2.0.50215 encounters no problem with exactly the same code. I upgraded to the new version for the Crystal Reports bug in the old version. Anyone who also encountered this problem Am I forgetting something, or do I have to bind all my gridviews manually using editItemTemplates Kind regards, and thanks in adv ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Any document about extensibility of profile, coverage and so on?

  We will try to support profile, coverage and so on , including Visual Studio Team Edition for COBOL Users. I heard that there is VS 2005 Team System Extensibility Kit , from a person in charge of VSIP , who is working for MSKK. But there is no document about how to extend Profiler, Coverage, and so on. Are there any documents about how to extend Team Edition. Best Regards Hi Shinya, Exclude (and include) command-line options: The /exclude (and /include options) take fully qualified names, with optional wild-cards at the end. Here are some examples: /exclude:Namespace1.Class1::Main - Exclude ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot reconfigure UNION ALL task

  If you add a "Union All" task to your Data Flow the output columns get configured by the first input you connect to it. However, if you later want to modify the input columns on the inputs (perhaps after adding an upstream Data Conversion) there seems to be no way to get it to forget the original set of output columns. Ideally, there would be a button you can press to reset the output columns based on the earliest added input. At the very least it ought to forget its output columns when the last input is removed. Other tasks offer a dialogue to resolve input / output mismatches but not Union All. or am I missing somethi ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I take the path of my program after it was setup-ed?

  Hi, How can I take the path of my program after it was setup-ed , where i used setup project in Visual C# a,d added files on it, but I setup-ed a windows service that see files in [WinDir]/System32/ directory. Regards 22DoorsDown  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Error "CallbackOnCollectedDelegate was detected" found in VS2005(final)

  could any one help me with following error: when i run an vb.net 2005 application with embeded crystal report and get following error message: "CallbackOnCollectedDelegate was detected Message: A callback was made on a garbage collected delegate of type 'CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.DataSetConversion!CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.DataSetConversion.DataSetConverter+CrdbAdoPlusDelegate::Invoke'. This may cause application crashes, corruption and data loss. When passing delegates to unmanaged code, they must be kept alive by the managed application until it is guaranteed that they will never be called." The codes throw out this excep ...Show All

• Windows Forms flickering form on resize with a background image.

  Hi, I have a background image to the form. The form is divided into two horizontal split containers the top container is fixed and both the containers are made transperent. i have a listview docked to fill in the container. when i resize the form i have a flickering issue and i see that the background image of form is being displayed during the time duration when the listview gets to the resized position of form resulting in a flickering. I have already applied the double buffering and set the styles as follows: SetStyle(ControlStyles.UserPaint, True ) SetStyle(ControlStyles.AllPaintingInWmPaint, True ) SetStyle(ControlStyles.Double ...Show All