TiborK's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic VB 3.0 migrating from NT 4 to 2003 DLL question

    Does anyone know if we migrate a Visual Basic 3.0 environment from NT 4.0 to 2003 if we need to update the VB DLL's Not clear exactly what you are asking. Are you looking to migrate a VB 3 app to Visual Basic 2003 If so, this isn't supported. Or are you talking about running the VB 3 application on Windows Server 2003 - Steve Hoag ...Show All

• Visual C# Howto create a thumbnail from a wmv file ?

  I would like to create a thumbnail (any image format) from a Window Media Video file (wmv). Explorer does it when miniatures view is used so maybe there's a API that does this Thanks. Use the AxMediaPlayer to open the wmv file and navigate to position 0, here is a little example. You can find a releted newsgroup post here . ...Show All

• Windows Forms Win32 API to launch Windows Form immediately

  Hi, I have created an application in VB.NET which should open a splash screen before opening the main form. The splash screen should come as soon as the .exe is double-clicked so that the user knows that the application is loading. Right now, I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MSF v/s CMM

  Hi, i would like to know how to make sure applicability of MSF Agile and/or MSF CMMI for a given project.Do we have industry standards/criterion in order to figure out candidature of one of the two processes for a project. Is it possible somehow to migrate from existing process of a team project to desired one. say for example i have been using MSF Agile for my project but soon it is realized that CMMI is better suited to the kind o ...Show All

• SQL Server xmlSchema - undesired namespace

  I have a problem using xmlschema when it adds an undesired namespace xmlns:sql="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:mapping-schema" to my annotations. My Schema is as follows: < xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16" > <xsd:schema xmlns:ms="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-data" xmlns:sql="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:mapping-schema" xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes" elementFormDefault="qualified" targetNamespace="myform" xmlns:xsd=" http:/ ...Show All

• Visual C++ Accurate Timer (ON_WM_TIMER) / Pending Timer Queue

  Hi, When using SetTimer and KillTimer, the MSDN reference for KillTimer says this, "Pending WM_TIMER messages associated with the timer are not removed from the message queue." How could I flush pending WM_TIMER messages associated with the timer There is no way to remove them from the queue Thanks, Jason You can use PeekMessage with the PM_REMOVE to search for specific WM_TIMER messages for a window, but with this function you ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Word - Cursor Position

  Hi, I'm trying to get the cursor position after the last typed character in a line, using the code: Range range1 = this.Application.Selection.Range; but the returned Range has wrong values! for example: Text: aa| (pipe is the cursor) range1.Start -> 130 range1.End -> 130 I think the problem is that the document need to be update. But how can i do that Bye, Thank you, Pedro Rocha Hi Pedro Why do ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I know if the Microsoft Media Player 10 has been installed in user's PC? thanks!

  How can I know if the Microsoft Media Player 10 has been installed in user's PC thanks! Player.versionInfo  <CLICK THERE ...Show All

• Visual Basic Upgrade visuals from 2003 to 2005?

  Hi all, I recently converted a 2003 project to 2005 which was easy enough but now when I compile the project in 2005 it still displays the 2003 style form objects. In the design screen however my old forms contain the new-style form objects they just dont display when I run the program. Is there anyway to fix this without redesigning my forms Mak. Go to the Main method of your project and add the followin ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem getting SQL Server Express Service to Start

  I have had SQL Server 2005 (Full Version) installed along with SQL Server Express and suddenly SQL Express quit starting and will not start manually. I have reinstalled VS 2005 (Team Edition for Software Dev) and tried to reinstall SQL Express but the installation fails when it tries to start the service. Any suggestions Keith If it had been working for a while but stopped, and it logs on with an account other than local I would check t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Duplicate Project Names

  I am running TFS Beta 3. I have a situation where I have cancelled the creation of a new project (during the phase of it downloading the templates) and now I can't re-create the project with the same name. It says it already exists, although its not available as an Add Existing Project either. Is there anything I can run on the server that will  validate all existing project data in the database Regards Graham ...Show All

• .NET Development Preserving Isolated Storage between Versions?

  I have a problem with an applicaiton that I have written to log time spent for a user. The application is designed to work disconnected, and caches a list of tasks the user can work on in Isolated storage, as well as writing work data there to synchronize when next connected. The problem occurs when I deploy a new version of the application. The app is deployed via ClickOnce, and set to update on startup. If the user connects after a period of d ...Show All

• Windows Forms Drawing a panel outside window bounds

  I am trying to update/Refresh a moving panel that is  within  a windows form that exceeds the forms bounds.  I  would like to know how to reset the bounds...or have the  panel drawn.  Its not visible at the moment.  Thank you. ...Show All

• SQL Server Many-To-Many Self-Join

  I hope somebody can help me with a rather complicated problem I am having involving triggers and foreign keys. I am working on a database that manages projects in terms of Tasks and the other Tasks (I call them "Pretasks") that must be completed before the Task in question can be completed. Any Task can be a Pretask for one or more other Tasks, and any Task can have any number of Pretasks, which calls for a many-to-many self-join on ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Offline binding

  Is there any means to initialize "offline" binding for elements I've created in code through .baml/xaml parsing or imperative What if I've <ViewBox/> with some resources+binded elements-all self contained but I created it from "sratch" and it's not displayed on screen.Now I want to simulate "complete" cycle of rendering to get RenderTargetBitmap of my ViewBox...well you get idea All work nice except {Binding} ...Show All