tjk_2's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Using LUA/UAP in custom applicatons

    Hi, The December CTP of Vista has a modified version of UAP/LUA. There's a shield icon (windows colors) next to any setting that requires aleveated status (brings up the verification dialog instead of an earlier dialog that asked for admin password). Also, for other tasks such as opening a file, modifying registry, modifying the drive, etc the dialog pops up asking the user to verify the action. The question being, if I have seve ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problem porting a Visual C++ 6 application to Visual C++ 2005

  I'm trying to migrate a project made on Visual C++ 6 to Visual C++ 2005, but even with no compilation errors, the application don't work as the VC++ 6 project. My application is a project about API Hook, and it's not working on Visual C++ 2005. What can I do to maintain compatibility So, does anyone know how can I do a Visual C++ 2005 application to work with API Hooking and prevent .EXE files execution Or with C# Anyone ...Show All

• Visual Studio T-SQL Debugging on VS2005/SQL2005

  Hello, I can't seem to debug an SQL stored procedure using VS .Net's 2005 debugger. When I Step into stored procedure the breakpoint turns to a question mark and  says "The breakpoint will not currently be hit.  Unable to bind SQL breakpoint at this time.  ...Show All

• Visual Basic Weird Change in Form's Height

  Hello ... I've a Project where all my forms are set to 1024*768 (FormBorderStyle= 0-None) when i run the program I see that it doesn't cover all the screen when i check the height i see that it's 753 even when i end the Program and get back to the visual basic i findout that it had been resetted to 753 ! Now I've searched the Web if there is a Limit to the height when using 1024 as an example ... but i didn't find any clue I can fix this by set ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Foxpro ODBC error

  I have a problem connecting to a free table directory, foxpro database developed in Foxpro 2.6 for DOS from an Access 2003 database (Don't ask why it's a long story). I was able to connect to this database via an ODBC connection using the visual foxpro driver (6.01.8629.01) but after installing .net and other packages I now get the error              [Microsoft ][ ODBC Visu ...Show All

• Visual Basic Automatically remove unused events

  Is there a setting on the IDE to remove unused events when a project is built I've come from a borland background and loved the way that when I accidently created an event it would be removed automatically by the ide if it wasn't used when I compiled the project. not that I'm aware of, though there are 3rd party tools such as http://www.aivosto.com/project/project.html  that can do this (and much more) ...Show All

• Windows Forms MDAC Prerequisite package

  Hello I'm deploying a .net 2.0 winforms app via a setup and deployment project, into multiple operating systems - 98, 2000, XP. I need to include the MDAC 2.8 prerequisite for 98 and 2000, as I'm using the oledb driver. My question is, is there a bug in the out-the-box MDAC prerequisite package, as the product.xml file doesn't contain any InstallConditions for checking the operating system. And MDAC_TYP.EXE fails with an error if you ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. WinCE 5.0/DirectX 9-based Dreamcast game?

  (I did a lot of research on the topic, but since i'm not a developer, i may be wrong about a lot of things.) http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnce21/html/dxinwince.asp -- This article is very outdated, but a part of it got my attention. "The Dreamcast console does not actually ship with Windows CE built in. The operating system, DirectX, and the game itself are built as one image and stored on the GD-RO ...Show All

• SQL Server JDBC: Retrieving stored procedures column information returns "-9" data type for nvarchar

  Hello, I'm using the latest JDBC driver for SQL server 2005 (1.0.809.102). Retrieving stored procedures column information returns "-9" data type for nvarchar: public class driver { public static void main(String[] args) throws java.lang.Throwable { Class.forName("com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver").newInstance(); java.util.Properties properties = new java.util.Properties (); properties.put("user ...Show All

• Windows Forms No Touch Deployment Not Working

  I have a NTD application which is not running on one of the clients machines (Win2K).  The exe is pulled down into the download cache but no other assemblies are deployed.  Almost seems like the application does not run.  NTD workes f ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Questions about using Windows Workflow Engine in ISV app.

  Hi, We are a registered partner getting ready to launch our first application in August, 2006. We are looking at using WWF in the application. I see we can likely get GoLive licenses for the application for that time frame. I am wondering is there a limit to the number of installations we can distribute on the GoLive licenses Will there be a general release date prior to Vista launch or will it be rolled in to Vista Any other risk areas, ...Show All

• Visual C++ Help needed with "error C2784"

  . I am going to address your core question: There is already a lot of discussion in the C++ community that #include <iostream> already pulls in way too many other headers - and believe me it was not designed this way. Why should <iostream> pull in <string> The two are not related and there is really no reason why one should depend on the other. We do provide every STL function and algorith ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) LINQ Overview at San Jose C and C++ Users Association, Tuesday, December 13th

  I'll be giving an overview presentation on C# 3.0 and LINQ at the C and C++ Users Association in San Jose on Tuesday, December 13th. This will be a high-level cursory look at LINQ, not the deep dive that typically happens on this forum.  If any of y'all are in the area and would like to add to the presentation, please come by.  Having more LINQ smarties add their voice to the dialog would be great. More details here: http://codebetter ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to get files with multiple conditions

  Suppose i want to GetFiles from a folder where FileName starts with 'A' and ends with 'A'. How do i do this Is this possible to do using Directory.GetFiles() ~nhd You can't you can only give a search pattern to find the matching files. Just iterate over all files and filter it out by code. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Application Config File is deleted when I debug.

  When I compile my Windows applicaiton, the config file is deleted. I followed the same procedure to add the config files as I did in VS .Net 1.0, but in 1.1 the file is deleted when I debug. Has anyone else seen this Tha ...Show All