l_d_allan's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Lost in a while loop!

  Please help me, I'm lost in a while loop! I have a basic workflow I am designing. It is designed to send an email to a person, and then wait for some time before checking a database. If the database has been updated, the while loop ends. Otherwise, it sends the email to a different person. My problem is with the SendEmail activity posted on the workflows site. Specifically ...Show All

• .NET Development IO serial ports

  Hi all, I want to ask about using the IO serial ports, I'm using this class to communicate with field device through RS232 interface. My question: What happen If I want to write a value to the device and in the certain time there is a reading action from the device. There is a timer thread reads data from the device each 2 seconds. What happen when trying to write to the PLS. Best regards The te ...Show All

• Windows Forms Paint Event Problem

  I have a Windows application that overrides the Paint method to change the presentation of the form. Basically, it paints a red border around the edge of the form. I also have a couple of panels that fill up the form. One is docked to the left and the other fills the remaining space. Each of these panels also has an override to the paint event. The overrides are in the Form1 class. The problem: The project solution compiles and runs just ...Show All

• Visual C# How do I change the default language in Visual Studio 2005?

  How do I change default language in Visual Studio 2005     When Visual Studio starts it display information about C++, but I would like to change this to C# I did it and it worked good...but when i'm selecting the settings, there's some with a Warning icon with the message "Some categories may contain settings that could compromise the environment or your computer and data" when i ...Show All

• .NET Development Interframework operability

  Can a v1.1 Dll reference and call functions within a v2 Dll Assuming of course that both frameworks are present on a given machine. Rory Becker Yes. But you must have some considerations. This article will answer your question. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconnetframeworkassemblyunificationoverview.asp Good luck, ...Show All

• .NET Development HTTP Module from MSDN sample

  I'm trying to implement an HTTP Module to perform authentication/authorization using SOAP Headers based on the MSDN article Securing XML Web Services Created Using ASP.NET The problem I'm having is around the WebServiceAuthenticationEventHandler. From what I can tell, an EventHandler is never added for the "Authenticate" event. Going by the MSDN example code, what method should be called for the "Authenticate" event ...Show All

• Visual C++ Dialogs in Dialogs

  If creating a MFC application, is it possible to put dialogs inside an other dialogs (sub dialogs) Yes, it is possible. For further investigation, you should consider working with the MSDN Discussion group for Win32 UI issues: http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx dg=microsoft.public.win32.programmer.ui&lang=en&cr=US ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Cecil project from Mono : better than Linq ?

  Hello, Will the Linq team include the Cecil functionnalities It is so much more powerful than Linq. Basically every code is accessible as an expression, visitable, and modifiable at runtime. This links to my former proposal of being able to publish a select subset of variabl es then expresses iself as a subset of Cecil. Apparently Cecil is being used in db4o, an object database, which by the way, has what they call "native querie ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System 64 bit Source control with web interface?

  Hello. I have a few 64 bit servers, and I would like to have some source control on one of them, and using the web component. To my knowledge there are 2 different programs that would be able to help me: VSS and Team Foundation Server. I have used VSS for may years, so I decided to try it with VS 2005. But in the instructions for installing the web componen of VSS 2005, it needs me to change my IIS to work in 32-bit mode. Unfortunate ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office access [contextual||context||right-click] [menu||commandbar] of chart?

  Hi, I would like to add an item to the chart contextual menu, but I don't know where to find it! The cell/worksheet contextual menu is accessible via ((Excel.Application) xl).CommandBars["Cell"] whilst ((Excel.Application) xl).CommandBars["Chart"] points, not to the contextual menu, but to the floating toolbar menu. "Chart Menu Bar" is, of course, the top level menu bar (File,Edit...), and so I appear to have run ...Show All

• Windows Forms binding to a combobox

  beta2 seems to be a step backwards from the feb ctp I was using before.  When I configre a table in the dataset to the controls I want, sometimes I choose a combobox. When I drag it to the form, beta2 sets the databinding to the text, rather than the selected value.  Of course, it displays all wrong.  So each time I have to change the databinding to the selected value.  Is this a bug dennist ...Show All

• .NET Development Creating .DLL

  Hello Anyone know how to create a .DLL using Visual studio2005 I am trying to build the project class but when i see bin folder no dll exists. Thanks   abhilash Is your project type a class library Unless you change default settings, the .dll will be in the bin\debug folder. Mike ...Show All

• Visual Studio i have the some problem on win 2000 platform

  At first time my computer opened, i can open web forms in design mode. But when i attempt to close and open another web project (by closing VS developer environment editor), i get this message : "Package 'Visual Studio Common IDE Package' has failed to load properly ( GUID = {6e87cfad-6c05-4adf-9cd7-3b7943875b7c})." i tried to: uninstall and reinstall vs.net 2005 remove Visual Studio Common IDE Package and reinstall it only al ...Show All

• Windows Forms GraphicsPath Fill and Outline

  Hi, I have GraphicsPath object returned by a function (a rounded rectangle). I know how to fill it with a color but I would like to fill with it witha  color and have a different outline color. how can i do that. Thanks. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development threading

  Basic question again, I press on a button with as but to load a new form: private void btnTreg_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { Tijdregistratie tijdReg = new Tijdregistratie(); tijdReg.Show(); this.Hide(); Sessie.cachedForms.Push(this); } How can I do some threading in this situation - Putting the threading stuff in the Load event of the NEW form. Thus using the code fr ...Show All