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• Visual Studio Express Editions Notifyicon with contextmenu and no form.

  Hello, i just downloaded and installed the Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition (C#). I want to make a small app, where a small notifyicon is the "program", it should poll XML/RSS feeds, and then show up in balloontips. But i can't find a way to remove the form, and only startup the notifyicon. this.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized; this.ShowInTaskbar = false; notifyIcon1.Visible = true; You can set the no ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can't get images on toolbar buttons when running

  Hi everyone,  I have a VB.net application that has a toolbar with several buttons.  The first two buttons are the standard "save" and "print", with those typical images.  My problem is they show up and work fine in the form designer,& ...Show All

• Visual C++ ODS_SELECTED for MFC CMenu::DrawItem no longer works?

  Hi all, I write an application with MFC owner-draw menu. Under windows XP it works fine, but under windows Vista Beta2 5320, my DrawItem() no longer receives the selection status of the menu item. The code looks like this: ...(omitted) if (lpDrawItemStruct->itemState & ODS_SELECTED) { (draw selection rectangle) } After tracing, I found that itemState will never have ODS_SELECTED turned on. However, non-owner-draw menu wor ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Centre text on screen

  I'm using screen coordinates to draw a line of text to the screen. How do I determine the width of the text (based on which font I'm using), so that I can precisely centre it on the screen Do you use ID3DXFont to draw the text or any other text engine ...Show All

• .NET Development Using CPP dll from C# (Catch PostMessage)

  hi, i had used cpp dll that use the function PostMessage in order to signal the wrapper cpp aplication (window app) that something happened (when the dll recieved new file). now i need to use the same dll but with wrapper application that need to be written in C#, but my problem is to catch the PostMessage that been sent from the cpp dll file in the C# app because i dont know how can i get the handle to my C# window and i dont know if ...Show All

• .NET Development Convert Integer value to byte Array

  Hello I have an integer value and byte array variable like this : int intSize = 11522; byte [] _Size = new byte [4]; How can i to convert the integer to byte array Thanks one way: _size[0] = intSize & 0x000F; _size[1] = (intSize & 0x00F0) >> 8; _size[2] = intSize & 0x0F00 >> 16; _size[3] = intSize & 0xF000 >> 24; or _size[0] = intSiz ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) C# 3.0 Feature Suggestion - symbols

  I was playing around with ruby the other day and was reminded of the ":" symbol as in "abc".send(:length), although ruby doesn't care if the :length symbol actually exists on the target, it gave me the idea that we could really use a language feature that would have compile time checking for class members to be used as an alternative to passing around field/property names as strings that are later used in reflection apis, O/R ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Beta2: Cannot create a Team Project

  I am not able to create a new team project. I'm logged in as a domain user with local administrator membership. On the last screen of the wizard I get this Process creation failed with error: "Initializaton failed for plugin(s): "Microsoft.Pcw.wss"" Here's the log content: 04/22/2005 01:48:54.478 | Module: ELeadServiceMediator | URL for eLead web service retrieved as " http://syd-3rtest:8080/bisserver/EleadWebService.asmx " from the registr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System WebTest Recorder with XmlHttp?

  Hello everyone, My team and I are starting to look at VSTS, it seems very promising, great work.  One important question:  our application is a postback light, xmlhttp callback heavy kind of environment, so in order for the test tool to be really effective, we would need it to support the requests made by the xmlhttp com object in the browser. However, this doesn't appear to be happening.  I've started to homebrew a recorder, ...Show All

• SQL Server Can multiple Reporting Services use one SQL Server?

  I'm working with a team that's trying to get a new set of development servers working and have run into all sorts of issues, mostly w/ Team Foundation Server and RS, but it has caused to us to ask a number of questions about the use of RS. All our servers are virtual servers, running W2003. We have: + one SQL 2005 server installed w/ SSIS, SSAS, and just the RS databases. + one Web server (IIS6) hosting multiple websites. I installed th ...Show All

• SQL Server Does anyone knows how to FTP a report from Reporting Services?

  Does anyone knows how to FTP a report from Reporting Services I have several FTP sites I need to send reports to, but I cannot find a way to do it. I have tried to search the net for the answer, but I keep reading that you can FTP a report. But It does not say how. Help! thank you drey Hey Drey -- Unfortunately, there is no direct support for this "built in" to SSRS. If you are willing to invest a little time, you can implement this funct ...Show All

• Windows Forms Any Difference between Form.Close and Form.Dispose?

  Can anybody tell me is there any difference between Form.Close and Form.Dispose  I know inside Form.Close, Form.Dispose will be called. Any extra things processed inside Form.Close not in Form.Dispose Form.Close() sends the proper windows messages to  ...Show All

• .NET Development return argument has an invalid type

  I'm having some trouble with a .net remoting issue. Our code connects to an Active Directory DB in which records are stored. There are two spots that we have to do this. First there is a Windows Forms User Control that is sitting on a form. The second, and you're going to love this, is the same forms user control embedded into a webpage through an object tag. The scenario with the control and form works without a problem. We are able to connect ...Show All

• SQL Server Query XML type with values from another XML type

  Hi - I'm using SQL Server 2005, and I have a view with an XML data type column. I would like to write a stored proc that takes an XML data type as a parameter and return the rows from the view that match the columns in the parameter. At this point, I'm just trying to get the syntax correct, so I started with some simple queries. Below are the queries: declare @params xml declare @view xml set @params = '<HierarchyTypes> ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Wait for a thread to complete

  When an application is exiting, how can I ensure that a thread that was executing has run to completion C# Thanks. ...Show All