jmatt001's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Photo Printing Wizard

  It seems that the output from the desktop source, with or without installer, lacks the ability to configure a client to support WIA, whereas the msdn FotoVision Desktop.msi distribution does. I created a custom version with installer and deployed on client.&n ...Show All

• Visual Basic PropertyGrid problems

  Hi, I am currently using the propertygrid control to browse an object containing many properties of different types, some being structures which contain properties of their own. The first problem is that when I create a class inheriting from ExpandableTypeConverter, and use this class as the type converter for a property in my base class, I cannot find a way to unbold the display text using the DefaultValue attribute... The second (mor ...Show All

• Windows Forms VS 2003 and framework2.0

  Hi, How can I point VS2003 to framework 2.0 I have both 1.1 and 2.0 installed on my development machine and for some reason I cant install VS2005. How can I point VS 2003 to 2.0 framework. In this scenarion, will I be able use new features of 2.0 such as datagridview, enhancements in ADO.net and other new features Thanks, I am very sorry but you are not going to be able to get Visual Studio 2003 t ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to hard reset WinMobile 5.0 device?

  Hi Friends, In my application i am hard resetting WinCE4.2 and WinMobile3.0 devices by calling APIs SetCleanRebootFlag and KernelIoControl. It is documented that these APIs call will not work for WinMobile 5.0. For hard reset WinMobile5.0 i am calling ExitWindowsEx API but it only soft reset the device. How to hard reset WinMobile5.0 device . Thanks, Ram Did you take a look here http://forums.microsoft ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Workflow items: First required then readonly on save

  Hi All, I added a new workflow state that has a field that needs to be required once I transition into the state but after the state is saved then it becomes readonly How can I accomplish this Thanks BTY, I am using the Process Template Editor by Imaginet Resources. I haven't tried anything like this yet, but can you use the <FROZEN/> tag to accomplish this The "Authoring Work Item Types.doc& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problems when building a asp.net project

  Hi, everyone, I encountered a problem when building a asp.net project (just a simple test project) using the team build. Whatever the build type I choose, ( I almost tried every combination: "debug|Any CPU","release|x86", and so on), I got a warning said: warning MSB4126: The specified solution configuration "......( The configuration type here )" s invalid. Please specify a valid solution configuration us ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Package Load Failure

  Howdy.. Just got this nasty error and wondered if anyone could help me to resolve it fast I have been running Expression Interactive Designer on a test box along with the Cider extensions for VS.. all running sweet... I installed SQL2005 on the same box for some further testing and now when I go to open a XAML page in designer mode in VS, i get a Package Load Failure with the specific package being.. PresentationDesignVisualStudio Anyone Anoth ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2005, multiple instances - what about ports?

  When multiple instances of SQL 2005 are installed on a cluster or standalone server, is it best to have each instance configured to listen on a different port or will one port for all do We don't use port 1433 and the port we do use is blocked at the firewall. I'd like to standardize on one port for all instances but I'm not sure of the ramifications. Any thoughts Thanks. Most apps are web based now so there ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Moving Canvas child around programatically.

  In my Window's constructor, I create a new instance of a custom Avalon control and add it to my Window's canvas: Window2 w; public Window1() { InitializeComponent(); w = new Window2 (); mainCanvas.Children.Add(w); } Now, is it possible for me to change the Top and Left properties of w which correspond to the Canvas it's a child of E.g. w.Top = 45; Thanks, Johann Yeah, the syntax is more cumbersome than ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Alpha-Blended DirectX Overlay

  Hi, I would like to create an overlay with a surface that overlays another surface. The specific application is to take the video rendered from a AX control drawing using DX, then create an menu overlay with another DX surface and have the menu alpha-blended over the video surface. So far I have tried a transparent dialog box, but the video underneith flickers as the region is invalidated. The overlay box fades in and out perfectly, b ...Show All

• Windows Forms ContextMenuStrip for treenode

  Hello, I'm using a contextmenustrip for a treenode; how do I figure out which tree node currently has the context menu strip for it I'm trying to use the contextmenustrip location, but it references the wrong tree node. Thanks. Hey Jason, Just add the following event handler to your TreeView (the control which holds all your nodes) control (switch the code to C# language): Private Sub YourTreeVi ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Speech recognition

  I am using speech recognition and there is a problem with building the grammar. I want the application to recognize a command and the commands are , for example: "new", "first", "last", "select <file><rank>". I build the grammar like that // toolbar commands Choices toolbarCommands = new Choices("new", "first", "last"); // sele ...Show All

• .NET Development XSD: Reading string in ROOT of XML

  Hi all, I posted this question in: MSDN SQL Server SQL Server XML XSD: Reading string in ROOT of XML But sadly enough with no results. I wonder if there is anyone here that might help me. Original post: I am making a import from XML to SQL. I have chosen to do this via a XSD file, but I have a problem with the ROOT file of the XML XML: <Dogs bulkmode="0" xmlns=" http://scheme01.isp.com ">   <UnderDogs>     ...Show All

• SQL Server Removing Administrators access to all folders

  We would like to not allow our administrators to see sensitive Payroll information in Reporting Services. I have removed 'BUILTIN\Administrators' from all folders, yet those in the Domain Admins group can still see all of the adminstrative functions, as well as all of the folders. We don't want them to see some of the folders. Does this have to do with the Domain Admins having local Admin rights on the server ...Show All

• Visual C# "æ" and "§" --- What's this ?

  Hi PPl, Have any body got Idea about the special character "a" & "§".what's the usage i found this in a Web Service. It goes here, { strReturn += PwdReader["STAFF_ID"] + "a" + PwdReader["EMPLOYEE_CODE"] + "a" + PwdReader["FIRSTNAME"] + "a" + PwdReader["LASTNAME"] + "a" + ...Show All