Lee Edlefsen's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Is there a kind of control which it can create chart like Excle?

  Is there a kind of control which it can create charts like Excle Thank you. Please take a look at available 3rd party libraries, you'll find several chart controls: http://www.pocketpcdn.com/libraries/index.html ...Show All

• Windows Forms Clickonce not updating all clients

  I have a fairly simple application that is being used by about 50 users which I deployed using ClickOnce. The internal users clicked on the "publish" page to install the application and are now starting it by clicking on the icon under Start, All Programs. I have been regularly publishing updates to this application using VS 2005. I wanted to "force" every update on the users (make them mandatory), so I have been incremeting both the Publish Version and the Minimum Required Version. This seems to work well for 95% of my users - every time the application is run, it checks for a new update, downloads if necessary, and r ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to force visuals to get rendered?

  Hi, I’m programmatically creating shapes, like rectangles, and putting them in a canvas. I now want to be able to call functions like VisualTreeHelper.GetDrawing and VisualTreeHelper.GetContentBounds. The problem is that GetDrawing for my rectangle returns null, since it has not been rendered yet. I’m using VisualTreeHelper when I’m writing unit tests, so I somehow need to force WPF to render the visuals, without actually having the canvas rendered visibly. I’ve tried InvalidateVisual(), but I guess it just thinks that it doesn't have to be rendered so it does nothing. Is there a way around this / Joel I'm ...Show All

• SQL Server SqlDeveloper/SqlExpress Conflict.

  Hi, Background: I'm on a Pentium 2.4 with 1024 mb Memory and 160 Gb harddrive, running XPPro with SP2. I started a project in VS2005Beta2 with Sql2005Beta. When the RTM versions came along I ungraded to VS2005Pro, and tried to upgrade the SqlDeveloper. This ran amuck, but I could still access my database, so after three attempts I gave up temporarily. When it looked as if I was actually going to finish my project, I decided to sort out my Sql. Still had the same problems, but found the Cleanup Utility, which did a great job of cleaning up the residual stuff in the registry. I downloaded SqlDeveloper, and ended up with file reference ...Show All

• Visual C# How do I login to a website and download files in C#?

  Hi, I'm trying to write a C# program that can supply a username and password to a website's login screen. After my C# program logs into the website, it needs to select a checkbox next to the file name it wishes to download. Then my program needs to select the download button at the bottom of the web page so it can download the file to a local path. The name of the website file my program needs to download from this website changes on a regular basis. That is why I cannot programatically specify the name of the file I want to download using WebRequest or WebClient objects. I must instead make my program select the checkbox nex ...Show All

• SQL Server How to pass .net application's parameter to a TRIGGER?

  How can i pass my .net application's Userid to the trigger I have a audit trail trigger on myTable.  I dont know how to pass the userid (not the sql server user) to the trigger when a user delete a record from the application(.NET Application). The trigger saves the modifications on the table including the userid of one who does the changes. There is no way to send a value to a trigger directly other than in the inserted table by adding a column to the table. This is proably your best way to do it anyhow, to add the userid to the table of the person who last updated the row, then you will have it for the delete. There i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Newbie understanding of Excel and VSTO

  I'm a newbie to VSTO and could do with some input. I originally bought VSTO so that I could write .net applications that utilised excel workbooks. What I was originally after was a solution that: Collected data from a user using a windows form. Identified from the user input a workbook required to perform some calculations. Opened that workbook. Added the necessary data to the workbook and collected data from specifed result cells. Peformed iterative functions on data until an acceptable response was obtained from the workbook (for example design a component to withstand a given force, if the first set of dimens ...Show All

• .NET Development Access Database and x64 OleDB Connect

  Hi, i've written a programm wich access an .mdb Database with OLE-DB. Under Win x32 everything works fine Under x64 no Database is found. Is there no way to access an mdb Database from x64 There is no way to access a .mdb database from 64bit. It has been decided to not port the Microsoft Jet Database engine to 64Bit. Brad Rhodes This message is provided as is.... ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to deploy a SSIS package on 64bit Enterprize

  I have developed a SSIS dts package, its running fine from my computer, but the problem is when I am deploying it on actual server then giving me error for connection scenario, development env: dev006 three servers: srv01 (64bit), srv02 (32bit), srv03 (32bit) in development environment, same package is getting data from srv01 and pushing it to srv02 and srv03, but when i am deploying it on srv01 then it fails to establish connection with srv01. If I have a Business Intelligence Studio on 64bit then I will check it but that Studio is available for 64bit environments. Try posting on SQL S ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista VMR9 and HD Resolution Video

  I've been having some problems with displaying DivX HD Video in my application that uses DirectX9 together with VMR9. I have been talking about problems with VMR9 before and that the only solution so far have been putting a Sleep(10) in the render loop to get rid of (I guess) blocking problems. The blocking has for me caused problems with the video not playing in full frame rate. Now, the problem is that to get DivX HD (for example) content to play smoothly I have to Sleep(25) or more, and this is a problem because I'm trying to run DirectX at 60hz or more and then everything else will not be able to play smoothly. Windows Media HD works nic ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Zoom Effect

  Hello, I am working on a project in C# on creating a zoom effect with a jpg image (taken from an SQL database) in a picturebox. The image is shown, however, I would like to zoom on the image, or at least the part of the image (preferably where I clicked it with the stylus). I used the following website as my guide to do this. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms229648.aspx I used: private System.Drawing.Image bmpZoom; private System.Drawing.Image bmp; as my global variables, but I'm not sure if they are correct. I'm having some trouble defining/calling the following in the examples microsoft has given ...Show All

• Visual C++ good books on win32 programming

  i am a computer engineering student and i have been a .net developer for a few years now. i want to delve deeper into the world of windows api programming using vc++. please suggest good introductory texts, books and resources for begining my journey. please recommend books for windows api porgramming and not introductory C++ stuff. See http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=107484&SiteID=1 for recommended books. If non looks enticing then the folks at the windows newsgroups at http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups should be able to suggest more books. Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• Visual C++ passing arguments to a System(something.exe) function

  Background : I have an MFC application and a c++ program (separate entities). I did a build on the c++ program, and copy pasted the resultant 'exe' formed in its debug folder into the MFC application's folder. Now in the MFC, I am calling the function "System(mt.exe)", which is a call to the exe that I had copy pasted. Question : This exe (ie the c++ program) uses a variable 'counter' at some point in its execution. Is it possible for me to pass an 'int' as an argument to the exe when its called from the MFC, so that the 'counter' within the exe takes that passed integer as its value So effectively, first time the exe is executed, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error checking in Setup Project

  We were setting up a new team project, and went to attach the solution, including the setup project, to our team project. Everything was fine, except the setup project sent several errors up on the screen, and now the references are wrong. The error that we received was: Error 1 error(s) encountered attempting to perform the undo operation on 910 item(s) First Error Encountered: No pending changes were found for C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\template\layouts\1033\styles\iaccms\style.css See output tool window for information on any other errors Has anybody seen this or had the same ...Show All

• SQL Server XML Configuration Files -- BIDS vs. dtexec

  Hoping someone can help me out quickly on this. I have a package with package configurations enabled.  I have an XML file specified for a configuration, with the connection string being loaded from the configuration.  After configuring this, the package knows that the connection string for the connection should be loaded from the XML file.  When I run the package within BIDS, it finds the XML file at the specified path, grabs the connection string, and runs fine.  Assume for the minute that the XML file is located at c:\config\datasources.dtsConfig. Now, I want to run the package using dtexec and I thought I could specify ...Show All