TomJ72's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Uniscribe under .net 2.0

  Hi; We have a library that is at present 100% managed code. However, we need to get the runs in bi-di (Hebrew/Arabic) text. (Long explanation as to why.) Uniscribe seems like the best way to do this. Is there a .net equivilent of uniscribe or do we have to become 98% managed code I hate to do this because less than 100% is a security "opportunity." thanks - dave Don't feel too bad about the 98%, Dave. There would be a whole lot of unmanaged code under any managed wrapper that existed. Perhaps your wrapper will even better than ours would have been. :-) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Upgrading vb6 projects

  I was unable to upgrade projects from vb6. I get an error when "invoking upgrade engine". Error occurs in vbu.exe. Error message: Enexpected exception ocurred during upgrade engine operation: Error in remote procedure call. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BE). Using: XP Pro Spanish Version VB 2005 Express V8.0.50727.42 VB6 projects made with VB6 Enterprise Edition (SP6) Spanish Version. Hi Samer, The warning issued from RegAsm for the VBUpgrade.Engine.DLL is expected. We're actively trying to reproduce the problem here and so far have not been able to. We're working with Cristian offline to determine ...Show All

• SQL Server ANYONE PLEASE - Local Synchronization Between SQL Mobile and Local SQL Database

  Hi Everyone I am at the stage of architecting my solution My goal is to develop the system on a windows application and pda There is a central server which will create a publication called inventory The laptops which host the windows application will be subscribers to the central server using merge replication The client now wants the PDA using SQL Mobile to synchronize with the local subscirber database on the laptop using active sync. They dont want to do it via WIFI to the IIS Server at the central server I have been reading for days and I am still unsure whether this is possible to do. I know Appforge provide a condu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Getting the ID from a newly entered record

  I hope this describes what I am trying to accomplish, on a form I want users to enter information in fields that will be used as header information then enter information in fields that will be detail records and each of the detail records need to have the ID = to the ID of the header record. I created a simple form to try and test this but I need a little help if someone could be so kind it would be most appreciated. Private Sub Form1_Load( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase .Load 'TODO: This line of code loads data into the 'StrangDataSet.Quotes' table. You can move, or remove it, a ...Show All

• .NET Development ilasm.exe /OWNER parameter

  Hi, There used to be a parameter call /OWNER in the ilasm.exe which allowed me to assmble a dll/exe so that noone else can disassemble it without the correct /OWNER. What happened to it Will it be added when 2005 is released Is there a way to protect my code (besides obfuscation) from being disassemble with ildasm.exe or Reflector tools Thanks, Alex Mattias, What do you mean by " it didn't provide any real protection anyway" Alex ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How do I access child ui elements of a ListBoxItem

  Is it possible to get the child UIElements from a ListBoxItem created via a DataTemplate The Context property in this case is set to the bounded data object. Do you mean you want to get to the ListBoxItems (and their content) generated by a data bound ListBox If that is the case, please see my blog post in http://www.beacosta.com/Archive/2005_09_01_bcosta_archive.html  with title "How can I get a ListBoxItem from a data bound ListBox " If this is not the scenario you are asking about, can you please explain a little bit more what you are trying to do Thank you. ...Show All

• Visual C++ CComboBox dropdown won't stay down

  I construct and create a CComboBox in a dialog (not from a template) and load it with strings (CBS_DROPDOWNLIST style). I give the box plenty of vertical size (~150 pixels) to draw the dropdown. I want to use the combo box to overlay portions of a list control to allow chosing options for "fields" in the list control. The combo box appears in the proper position, with the proper size, with the loaded strings. When the dropdown arrow is clicked, the dropdown list appears only momentarily and immediately closes up. It doesn't stay "dropped down." I can otherwise select entries in the box by typing or scrolling but I can' ...Show All

• Windows Forms TabControl bug?

  I've come across some odd behavior involving DataGridView controls and TabControls. Have I stumbled across a bug, or is there something I don't understand about these controls My app uses a TabControl with five TabPages. Each TabPage has its own DataGridView, which I bind to DataTables in the main window's FormLoad event. I  set the HeaderText property of each column of the DataGridViews at run time, because I don't know in advance what the columns will be. I get the header text from the DataColumn Caption properties in my DataTable. Data binding works fine on all grids, as do other properties, such as caption alignment ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Sending Bytes down Serial Port

  Hi there, I've so far written this: Imports System Imports System.IO Module Module1 Public Sub Main() Dim Synk As Byte = 255 Dim Servo As Byte = 1 Dim MoveIt As Byte = 100 Dim Bite() As Byte = {Synk, Servo, MoveIt} ' Send commands to a serial port. Using com1 As IO.Ports.SerialPort = My .Computer.Ports.OpenSerialPort( "COM1" , 9600, Ports.Parity.None, 8, Ports.StopBits.One) com1.Write(Bite(2)) End Using Console.WriteLine(Bite(0) & Bite(1) & Bite(2)) 'Junk to stop the console closing Console.WriteLine( "Press Enter/Return to close" ) Dim PressEnter As Str ...Show All

• Visual C++ Why isn't this call working properly?

  I'm building a project for myself really; however, this problem is sticking me in the side. Can anyone tell me why this particular problem isn't working #include "pl_en_stats.h" // in *.cpp file for icPlayerInformation_Data struct usage. // in *.h file for Class definition. class LoadGameData { private: char PlayerInformation; icPlayerInformation_Data* pl_statistics; public: LoadGameData(); bool load_SaveData_Open(); void load_SaveData_Variables( icPlayerInformation_Data &pl_Statistics ); bool load_SaveData_Close(); ~LoadGameData(); }; ==PathRemoved==(24) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' befor ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Connecting to access mdb file problem.

  I am having some trouble connecting to my Access Database from Visual Studio Express 2005. I can add a connection if it is a sql database, but when i change the Datasource to the access option and hit ok i get a window that allows me to change my Connection string, and thats it. If i cancel it exits the wizard. Also the only data provider i have is .net framework provider for ole db. Should i have a second provider The other software i have installed is access 97,and access 2003 both with their corresponding developer software. I also have an educational version of visual studio .net 2003 and i can connect to the db using . ...Show All

• .NET Development Encryption and decryption in VB.NET 2005

  Hi everyone, I want to have a nearer look on encryption and decryption with VB.NET 2005 with System.Security. I want to decrypt some text into a file and encrypt it some times later with a password. Is it possible Can somebody offer me some code Thanks and a great christmas time Check out the  Cryptography Application Block thats part of the Microsoft patterns & practices Development Center.  The URL is http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/crypto1.asp While its in C#, most of it is related to the framework, so it should work just as well w ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Deploying VS2003 app(converted to Vs2005) in CE5.0 Device

  My application was developed in vs2003 C# CF1.0 and Sql Server Ce with SQL Server 2000 for synchronization for PPC2003 devices. I am trying to convert that project to VS2005 sothat I can deploy it on Windows Ce5.0 device. The conversion wizard didn't successfully convert the project, it kept throwing the error Compact Framework 1.0 is not installed on the computer even though I had it and I can compile the project in Vs2003.     So I installed VS2005 on other computer and successfully converted the project. But still it didn't give me the option to connect to Ce5.0 device. So I created new Vs2005 project for Ce5.0 devices a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Keyboard event capturing

  Hi, I am currently developing an add-in for debugging LUA (scripting language) code from within the visual studio environment. However, i cannot seem to find any way to capture keyboard and mouse events, can someone please tell me how to do this because i need to provide the default F10 key for stepping through the LUA code within the VS environment. In addition i would also like to know the type of object that represents the left window pane i.e. the area where break points and debugger -> (current statement) indicator appears. Can i use the default -> indicator for my own usage, if yes then can someone please tell me how and what ...Show All

• Visual C# help neeed in creating triggers

  i want to creat a application in C# .net which changes data in the database. When ever the data get modified in the databse, it should automatically display the data. Can i use trigger for this If so how to implement that one in C# thanks in advance. by singam Triggers are special types of Stored Procedures that are defined to execute automatically in place of or after data modifications in a database , but they cannot be used for refreshing information on the screen or a form of a c# application , You cannot call a C# applciation through a trigger , The simplest way to implement this is to add a code to r ...Show All