martinig's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions what did I miss in com interop?

  I am just trying C# express 2005 ( beta 2) from a limited XP pro user account. I setup a C# assembly as COM component for interop with some legacy application that can use either COM interface or the traditiona Native DLL interface.  I ran into some rather unspecified errrors.  I suspect its either the name space that I got wrong or something with my code or project setup. what did I miss in the following project info    P ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectDraw Overlay Surfaces Problems

  Hi everyone,     I got problems when using DirectDraw overlay surfaces, in my case, I program with ATI Radeon Serie Cards. when create DDOverlay Surface over certain screen value (960x720) , the graphic data filling to the surface will be displayed in distrotion. every thing showing in blur, however the data itself if ok, so long you got them displayed within (960x720). I also checked the DDCAP data, showing t ...Show All

• SQL Server importing from access error

  Let me describe my situation I am running SQL Server 2005. I created all the tables/columns/keys I needed. I export the data to Access. In Access, I add all the data for the tables. Then I use SSIS to import-append the data back in to SQL Server 2005. I get this error: ------------------------- - Pre-execute (Error) Messages Error 0xc0202009: Data Flow Task: An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E21. An OLE DB record is available. Sou ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums list object

  Sir I have a list object in excel. i want to make the alternate rows of the list object to display different background color pls let me know Per our support engineer: Thanks for using Microsoft ISV Community Forum, according to your problem, I think you can take the following steps to achieve what you want: 1. Select the whole list object. 2. From the menu, choose ...Show All

• SQL Server Running Sum on DataReport

    Hye Guys,        I am a beginer programmer.. I have started 2 build a simple database application. I am now in the stage of showing the data in reports 2 print. I am suggested to use datareport available in VB. I also did my some of the report in it. It worked fine. But now I am stucked in one step..of displaying the calculateable field in the detail section.. Eg. in database: Item   & ...Show All

• SQL Server How to find out the total number of commited transactions on SQL2k??

  Dear all, Previously I posted this issue on SSIS newsgroups and I did not obtain any response so that I'll do here. Using this system function (::fn_log(null,null)) you can find out how many transactions have been confirmed in your .LDF. Although by means of another system function you can see further information, such as statitical. Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks in advance and regards, ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro use file index file, sets no order

  Hi all; I am running the following command from the command box: use files1 index file1 seek "ABC" I get an error: Table has no index order set. When I do the same for other files, like use file2 index file2 seek "ABC" I get no error. Both files have a number of tags in a CDX, but also a single IDX file. What could be the reason for this kind of behavior Thanks. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Using PocketPC serial port

  Can anyone give me some advice about using serial ports in VS2005 beta 2 on a pocket_pc. At first glance it seems easy, just declare an object as System.IO.Ports.SerialPort with events and process the datareceived event. Simple enough. However, putting this code in a class and tring to generate an event based on the DataReveived event results in   "An unhandled exception of type ' System.NotSupportedException occured in System.Drawing.dll" ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Approachses for assignments

  I would like to create worklist for activities.  What would be the best apporach to doing this   Would I impliment my own activity that creates a workitem with a URL for a user to navigate to What about getting context into the system of who the current user is and making workflow decisions based on this information Any direction in this area would be helpfull. Thanks in advance, Mardo Mardo, There are several ways to design a s ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Persistence in Web Service

  I would like to implement the workflow SqlStatePersistenceService on a web service (that hosts a workflow). Can someone please point me to an example on how to activate the refered service Please keep in mind that the host is a Web Service. Txs. John I tried to host workflow in a web service. Hosting workflow in a web service is very similar to hosting in ASP.NET Web site. You can place the service con ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Accessing data from excel

  Are there any new classes available in vs2005 for accessing data from excel file or still need com interop libraries I need to extract values from the particular cells of an excel worksheet.   Thanks To extract values from the Excel sheet you still use interop libraries.  Managed code allows you to get values from a batch of cells in one call instead of making one call per cell. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Can VisualBasic send an SMS message?

  Can VisualBasic v8 (.NET 2005) send an SMS text message to a mobile phone# Mine's running on Windows server 2003. This would be ever so cool !!! Well, yes, Visual Basic can certainly be used to create a program that sends SMS text messages.... BUT... You need to talk to something that knows how to send SMS messages. This something can either be a mobile phone that is connected to your computer (exactly how you talk to ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to control the location of ClickOnce installation?

  I successfully installed my ClickOnce application from a remote site.  However, it is be default installed in c:\Document and Settings\myloginname\....  How to change the installation location to be under c:\program files\... Thanks How did you find the location of the application I can currently do it from with in the app but for that, the app needs to be run atleast once before the location entry is created. I am using a cust ...Show All

• Visual C++ BUG: Potential Memory Leak generated by STL deque

  BUG: Potential Memory Leak generated by STL deque. FIX: Add a little code and it will work pretty well. I submitted the problem about 4 years ago, but VC++ SP5 still has the bug. ISSUE: STL map and STL set are not ready to be exported from DLL. FIX: Modification must be made. Please report the  issue at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/default.aspx  so that the owners would take a lo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions you must have a license to use this activex control

  I'm very new to C# so this is probably a simple thing. I am working on a project that uses an activex control and some other third party dlls. Whenever I click on the main form window I get an error telling me I must have a license to use this activex control. Of course, I do have the license but it isn't doing it's trick. Some background.... The sample source I'm working on was created in an earlier version of visual studio. T ...Show All