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• Smart Device Development Microsoft.CompactFramework.Design.Data

  Does enyone know what assembly shoud I reference for the clases in the "Microsoft.CompactFramework.Design.Data" namespace I'm interested in this because I wanted to extend the typed dataset clases generated for compact framework projects and used System.Data.Design.TypedDatasetGenerator class, but I found out that the code is incompatible with CF 2.0 . So I'm now considering to use the same generator that VS 2005 uses for Typed DataSets fo ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to make your application appear in the Start Menu?

  I'd like to make my application available to the Start Menu. How can i do so Do i have to program it somewhere Is it related to the MSI package Really clueless here ... :( Thanks, No, it's not related to MSI unless you want something in start menu on desktop. To make your application appear in a start menu on device, simply create shortcut to your application and put it to the start menu folder. You can do ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions C# networking help

  Hi everybody... i just wanna your help with a piece of code.... client/server program, that the client wanna log in on a server ( send a username and a password) and the server verify if the username and the password match. if they math, the server sends to the client that the usernaem and password are correct. else, it sends that they are not correct. the suernames and passwords pairs are stored in an array or in a Hashtable in the ...Show All

• Visual Basic My Object not responding

  When attempting to use "my.", Intellisense only offers me my.resources and none of the other My Object areas. What am I missing   Open the .vbproj file in notepad, and see if you have the following line:     <MyType>Empty</MyType> If you find this line, replace it with this:     <MyType>WindowsForms</MyType>   and then reload your ...Show All

• Visual Basic Do I have to worry about monitor resolution settings?

  I plan to write a program in Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition and market it to medical doctors. I am developing it on a 17" CRT monitor set at 1024x768 resolution. Do I have to worry about my application not running properly if a customer has his monitor set at 800x600 only if you are worried about aesthetics or ease of use for your customers....If developed @ 1024x768, any customer with lower resolutio ...Show All

• SQL Server Sql 2005 Developer install issues

  I've just installed SQL 2005 32-bit developer edition on my WinXP pro w/ SP2 machine. Previously, it had an instance of Sql 2000 with VS 2005. I am looking to use the XML features of SQL 2005. However, a "FOR XML PATH" query gives me an error "Incorrect syntax near 'PATH'". The properties for my local, upgraded instance show a version of 8.00.760. However, all that appears in the SQL Server Configuration Manager is Integrati ...Show All

• Visual C# stream writer problem

  i have a text.txt file with this text: Name1 Name 2 Name 3   How can i add at the end of the file : Name 5 the streamwriter only writes on the beginning of the file replacing the Name1 Anybody has ideea   Hi, If you open a filestream, you can indicate the mode and access you want to have to the file and then you just have to create a new streamwriter from the filestream you created before: FileStream s ...Show All

• Windows Forms Loading numeric data from in-project array into DataGridView

  I am trying to display the contents of a local 11 by 11 array of double precision numbers in a local 11 by 11 DataGridView in VB 2005. I was able to read data from cells within a local array and write it into cells in the MSFlexGrid in VB 6.  The closest similar display in VB 2005 seemes to be the DataGridView.  I have not found, in books or in help, any way to do this same task in VB 2005.   I find that there are t ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Messenger Development APO

  Hello Folks I am willing to integrated an existing webbased system with MSN Messenger.I am willing to use MSN messenger for notification purpose. can any one guide me regarding development API Thanks Adnan You can have a look at the activity SDK in the messenger developer center . ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to create my own DataGridViewRowHeaderCell

  Hello! I'm looking for an example how to customize the default RowHeaderCell. I want to display icons instead of the '*', pencil and arrow symbols and add some extra functionality. I think I have to derive from the DataGridViewRowHeaderCell class and override the paint method But which event shows me, that the row's state has changed, so that I can paint another icon Second, I was wondering how to change the row header in a datagridview so ...Show All

• .NET Development Terminating Processes from a Windows Service Cleanly (c#).

  Hi, Recently, I have created a Windows Service in C#; that calls a process (writen previously in c). It starts fine, however im unable to terminate the process cleanly, when the Onstop() is called.   Process.Kill() works, but prevents my process from shutting down cleanly (loses data - that I need). Ideally I need to use the CloseMainWindow() method... but this does not seem to work within a service (as a service does n ...Show All

• Windows Forms Dark (abnormal) Selection grabs of controls in a container control

  Anybody who has experienced this and knows the cause Snapshot included. <a href="http://www.freefilehosting.net/play.cfm id=F64D402B-CF1F-D571-A36C5E07BC0698E4">view image</a> I have never seen it but it looks like something either forgot to erase the selection rectang ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Is it not possible to update tables with ListObject without dataset (created through wizard)

  Hi, I am new to VSTO. I am still not getting any suitable answer for my earlier posts. Let me expalin my actual problem: I have used following code to bind the ListObject: DataSet dsTrims = new DataSet (); dsTrims = MyDataAccessLayer .Provider.ExecuteDataSet(System.Data. CommandType .Text, strWhere); this .bindingdataSource1.DataSource = dsTrims.Tables[0]; myListObject.AutoSetDataBoundColumnHeaders = true; myList ...Show All

• Visual Basic Creating Short cut keys in windows forms

  Hi, We are trying to migrate a project from VB to VB.NET. Lot of short cut keys have been used for buttons in Visual Basic. how do we implement the short cut keys in VB.NET windows forms Thanks, Kris I just forgot to add that we need hot key functionality for tab controls in windows forms. How do we implement this Thanks, Kris ...Show All

• Visual C++ Has anyone at Microsoft actually used VC++ Express B2?

  I haven't used Microsoft's Visual C++ since version 6. I've always thought Microsoft makes the best software development IDEs by far, but the compiler was extremely lacking. I figured I'd try Win32 GUI development again (I do mostly Unix or cross-platform non-GUI), so, 1) I downloaded Visual C++ Express Beta 2 and installed it. 2) It didn't compile anything successfully, including  "Hello, World" (See this thread for those looking for a ...Show All