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• Smart Device Development Get Your Applications Ready for the First Windows Mobile Powered Smartphones with 320x240 Screens

  Get Your Applications Ready for the First Windows Mobile Powered Smartphones with 320x240 Screens The Motorola Q and Samsung i320 bring the first landscape 320x240 screens to Windows MobileR powered Smartphones. These devices will be in the hands of many of your new and existing users. Is your app ready Adapt Your App now with the new Landscape Smartphone emulator image and Microsoft's guidance, tools, and resources. They'll help you ready your code for the latest announced devices and be well prepared to support additional form factors as they hit the market. Visit the Adapt Your App page in the MSDN Windows Mobile Developer Ce ...Show All

• Windows Forms ComboBox binding - strange behavior with user-derived Arraylist type

  I am seeing a strange behavior when a ComboBox on a Windows Form is bound to a class that inherits from ArrayList. This class (ColumnEntryList) has only one property; when this property is defined to take a single parameter, the CB shows nameSpace.listItemType for each item in the list. When the property is re-defined to take no parameters, the CB works as expected. Perhaps someone has seen this or can explain this peculiarity Here's the code used: Public Class Form1 Private Sub Form1_Load( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase .Load Dim columns As New ColumnE ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is there any way to assign two resources or more for a workitem?

  Hi there, Is there any way to assign not only one, but two or more people to a WorkItem. In Project i can assign a work to more than one people, but when i try to add a Workitem, it only permits me assign one person. Thanks, Guino. I had the same problem.Needed to assign a task among 2 developers. My workaround was done in MS Project, I assigned lets say 200% of resources to the task (2 developers assigned) , created a new column (ie. Outline Column 1) with a custom lookup values (developers name groups) and finally group the gantt chart by this column. In this way I can control the timmings and dates appropiately , I can control my sha ...Show All

• .NET Development NullReferenceException when calling PerformanceCounterCategory.Exists(categoryName)

  I am experiencing an odd error in one of my applications where I randomly seem to see NullReferenceExceptions when I call PerformanceCounterCategory.Exists() with a non-null category name.  I am working with version 1.1 of the .NET framework. I have verified that passing a null or empty category name would generate a different exception, so I am pretty certain that the problem is NOT that a "bad" parameter is being passed to this method. Has anyone seen this behavior previously and have any idea what might be causing this exception   I have multiple copies of this application running, and they are each updating counters in ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VSC++ Question

  I want to use vsc++ for c programming but when i do the gui project it compiles with cpp so how can i foce it to use c files instead of c++ files Rename the extension the file's extension from .cpp to .c. But if you don't mind me asking, may I ask why you want to compile this in C and not C++ ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Backspace in edit control

  Hi Still building an application for Smartphone 2005 in pure Win32. I now have a configuration dialog containing static fields and edit controls. Everything is fine except when I type sthg in the edit controls, I can't clear it. I can only add characters but not delete them with the back key. The back key (which is also used to switch back to older applications) is inactive. Can someone help please Hi, The back key on smartphone plays a special role. It gets used to get back to the main screen, so that use of any application doesn't interfere with the main role of the phone i.e. to make and accept calls. This is the reason it doesn ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to pass parameters to query that is build in access

  Dear all, I am using MS Access Database. I am building the queries in Access Database and Executing them using stmt "Execute QueryName". Is there Any way to pass the parameters to Access Queries. That is i want to Execute the query by passing a value to it. Is it possible to do so If so please mention it. Thanks. Thanks for heads up,  ...Show All

• Visual C# Enter button sensitivity in Console Apps (C# Express)

  Hi I've been trying to run a program which asks a user for coordinates of several lines.  The code then uses pythagoras to calculate the length of these lines.  However, the problem that I'm having is when a user enters the first coordinate and presses enter, they get no opportunity to enter the remaining ones.  It's alomost as though whne the enter button is pressed, the program thinks it has been hit more than once and skips the remaining coordinate input. I don't think it's the code - I think it may be the C# Express editor.  If so, is there anyway to alter the 'Enter' key sensitivity I'm open to suggestions. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Strange Timer Check

  I would like a timer to stop when I call a new System Process. However, when that process ends, I would like my timer to begin again. Is there anyway to do this Jason Ken, that is indeed some flashy UI you've got there.  One complaint though, you should be navigating to windowsforms.net.  Heck with MSN.  :)  - mike ...Show All

• Visual Basic Any way to save custom classs to a file?

  I THINK I saw this somewhere. I have a Custom Class and I'd like to be able to save that to a file and then read it back later. I think I may need to impelment the "serialize" interface or something like that, but can't find any info on that for custom controls. Any tips or pointers Check out the following that will probably point you in the right direction http://www.fawcette.com/reports/vsliveor/2002/09_18_02/hollis/default.asp http://uk.builder.com/webdevelopment/xml/0,39030058,39258079,00.htm http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp p=25046&seqNum=4&rl=1 ...Show All

• SQL Server Changing MOLAP dimensions to ROLAP

  I have a working SSAS 2005 cube running against a small SS2005 database and successfully deployed so that it can be seen across the internet, and Excel 2002 or 2003 with the correct OLEDB provider installed can view the cube in a pivot table. I want to be able to demonstrate that the cube dynamically updates when the underlying data changes. I have therefore changed the measure partition to ROLAP, and now realise that I need to change the dimensions to ROLAP too. I have changed all except one of them successfully. Trying to change the last one causes SSAS2005 to crash during deployment, apparently with no explanation. On some occasi ...Show All

• SQL Server launching Report Manager url fails

  Under Books online, topic "Install client and server components on a single computer" Configure the Report Server and install samples 3. Verify that installation succeeded by launching Report Manager. In the URL address, type https://localhost/reports or http://localhost/reports . You should see the Report Manager Home page. I get in IE with url http://localhost/reports : <%@ Page language="c#" Codebehind="Home.aspx.cs" AutoEventWireup="false" Inherits="Microsoft.ReportingServices.UI.HomePage" %> <%@ Register TagPrefix="MSRS" Namespace="Microsoft.ReportingS ...Show All

• Windows Forms Need a good example to apply transform programmatically

  I'm looking for a good example on how to apply a transform programmatically.  I have read a lot of the documentation on how to do this I just can't seem to get it right.  I can open and close the database but when I try to apply the transform I get an invalid handle error.  Any help would be appreciated Here is my code Module MSITransform     Private Declare Auto Function MsiOpenDatabase Lib "msi.dll" _     (ByVal szDatabasePath As String, ByVal szPersist As String, ByRef phDatabase As Long) As Integer     Privat ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VS .NET 2005 Standard + VSTF Client = ?

  Can you use VS.NET 2005 Standard edition plus the VSTF client to code team projects If it is possible, what problems are there Since static analysis is not part of the standard edition, I guess there would be issues if you had that check-in policy enabled. Are there other issues that I am missing Team Explorer will integrate into VS 2005 Standard. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=120971&SiteID=1 If you have that check-in policy enabled on the Team Project, then a user that lacks the necessary binaries to run it will get a policy failure for that policy and will have to override it. Buck ...Show All

• SQL Server SMO

  hi everybody, I want to add the Microsoft.Server.smo.dll to my VS 2003 .net project. However, when I try   to do just that, I get an exception (A reference to Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo.dll could not be added.  this is not a valid assembly or COM component etc). Any idea Ozbourn SMO requires the .NET 2.0 framework.  VS 2003 uses the version 1.1 .NET framework, so the project references in VS 2003 refer to the .NET 1.1 system* assemblies by default. It would be best to use a VS 2005 framework for .NET 2.0 projects since it understands .NET 2.0 very well.  ...Show All