Arjuna_M's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms "Run time Error '49'" "Bad DLL calling convention"

  Using Visual Studio 6 I declare a C function in a DLL as extern "C" TEST_API int fname(long nValue); in VB I Declare thje DLL function as: Private Declare Function fname Lib "O:\Documents and Settings\...\test.dll" _     (ByVal nValue As L ...Show All

• Visual C# Outlook-esque minimize control

  hey howzit. i am looking for a control that mimics the functionality of Outlook 2003. When you are viewing emails in inbox, one can minimize the previous days emails. Where can I find such a countrol Take a look at some of these controls, i don't know a exact control like it but you can modify these controls: Adding XP Themes to Custom .NET Controls .NET ExplorerBar Control Windows XP style Collapsible Panel Bar Themed Windows XP s ...Show All

• SQL Server Parameterizing the XPath for a modify()

  Hi all, I'm trying to write a generic stored procedure which will parameterize the XPath in my XML file so that I can update a value by giving just its path and the new value I wish to store: Here is the code: CREATE PROCEDURE ModifyLoanXML @LoanNumber char(60), @XPathQuery varchar(300), @Value varchar(300) AS UPDATE Loans SET LoanXML.modify('replace value of (sql:variable("@XPathQuery"))[1] with xs:string(sql:variable("@V ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Tracing persistance erors

  I have the following switches set in my WF host app config file: < system.diagnostics >   <switches >     < add name = " WorkflowTraceToDefault " value = " 1 " />     < add name = " Host " value = " All " />     < add name = " Runtime " value = " All " />     < add name = " Tracking " value = " All " />      ...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

• Visual Studio Team System Attach a note to a work item

  I do not see any functionality to attach a note to a work item. In my view this is "must have" for any modern tracking solution. And it is available on many systems. When a bug is submitted - we need place to post qwestions, clarifications etc. What is the approach in Team Studio Is any way to do this or such feature have been just pushed to to future releases Alex. But what about snapping in my own grid ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Resources bug?

  I have a Controls Library I've built. The generic.xaml file has the visual part of my controls. Since it is getting rather large, I've tried to extract the several controls styles to some corresponding xaml files, then I included the files in the generic.xaml resources by merging the resource dictionaries. Unfortunatly, it doesn't seem to work, and I've rolled everything back. Here is the xaml I've included in the generic.xaml file. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Help, How to implment this problem?

  my Application.Run() method in FrmMain.cs Starting FrmMain From when run this application. in my FrmMain_Load() method included a check codition like: static User currentUser = new User(); // not defined in FrmMain_Load(); if(currentUser.Id == 0) {     Login login = new Login();// Login is a Form for user login.    login.ShowDialog(); } //... others.. oak, that had occured some problems. ...Show All

• Windows Forms hidden text in richtextbox

  Hi, I am working on a text editor in which I would like to have the option of making text in a selection hidden. How to accomplish this with richtextbox Thanks for the reply. But if the selection is removed & stored somewhere else, then the unhide action can be difficult. The key required to look up for the correct hidden text need not be unique. And it can end up in retrieving the wrong text ...Show All

• SQL Server Report Sort Order

  I have a invoice reprint report that I'm using to reproduce invoices for a group of customers. The Stored Procedure sorts the raw data according to the Customer's name, but when the report comes up the results are not sorted. Any ideas what I can do to correct this David Arrrgh.  Quite possibly the worst user interface design imaginable for getting to that properties dialog. So, what's one to do when i ...Show All

• .NET Development Common Language Runtime Debugging Services

  Hi, We have installed a software PCDCTfor window and we are getting error on exe failling Reports. But failed and give following error message whenever we try to run a big reports/processes: PCDCT for Window.exe - Common Language Runtime Debugging Services Application has generated an exception that could not be handled. Process ID=0x710 (1808), Thread Id=0xa8(2688) Click OK to terminate the application. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Bypass the Pocket PC Network Log On dialog box.

  Is it possible to programmatically send the User Name, Password and Domain when doing network file IO functions I am creating an application that appends information to a text file located in a shared folder on our network and would rather not have the operator enter the information using the Pocket PC Network Log On dialog box. VB examples would be helpful. Thanks I dont know if this is supported in t ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) CPU overworking when running as service with MSMQ?

  I have a Windows application that can alternately run as a Windows service, which loads about 10 WCF Services when it launches. Most of them are NetTcp listeners, one also listens on a private MSMQ queue. All on the January CTP. If I load the app normally, everything works well - it runs under my user account and everything is fine. If I run it as a service, though - or even if I use at to schedule it to run under the localsystem account, I s ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Exception while creating proxy

  Hi I have a java app that exposes web services. I want to consume those web services. When I ran svcutil against the wsdl I got the following error. Warning: Unable to import wsdl:portType Detail: An exception was thrown while running a WSDL import extension: System.Se rviceModel.Description.XmlSerializerMessageContractConverter Error: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. XPath to Error Source: //wsdl:definitions[@targ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions What to do?

  A little story: - I have on my computer 2 OS (Windows XP SP2 - with all the things: .NET Framework 2.0, Visual Basic Express Edition 2005, all updates and Windows XP SP2 - without .NET Framework and Visual Basic) I maked a program in Visual Basic (ok...is running) but on the other OS (without .NET Framework) is not running.What I can do to make the program running on all computers without installing .NET ...Show All