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• Windows Forms Text Indexer.....

  Hey all, I need the ability to index files and them make them searchable....didn't really want to go into writing this myself and was wondering if anyone knew of any open source/free distributions of such a library, preferable in .NET...... ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Sql Server and VFP

  Is there an accpect or general way to convert  - using odbc sql sever date fields (which are like timedate ) to vfp fields type date   bob Lee I was more looking for a way to get back a local vfp cursor as a DATE type field in the first place without converting it..  but thanks . Bob Lee ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Shared COM Addin with VS2005TO

  Is it possible to create een COM Add-in with Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office. Or do I need Visual Studio 2005 Proffessional for this (I am currently working with VB6 and use the project type Addin.) This COM Add-in must also work with Excel 2002. Gr. Arie       In create new project under Other Project Types/Extensibility/Shared Addin's When you create one of th ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Game Networking

  What is the best option for doing networking with managed directx Is directplay a good option Another resource (more focused on unmanaged game networking) I've made available is the GameDev.net Multiplayer forum FAQ . It lists a number of pointers to various articles that explain how it can be done different ways, as well as libraries that you may wish to use to make networked game development easier. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Web site Unit Test: Object reference not set ... error

  I tried to setup unit testing for an existing web site by: 1. Create a new websit by pointing to an existing site. 2. Create a new test project 3. Create a new UnitTestLogon.cs page (code attached below) 4. Inside the test manager and run UnitTestLogon.cs The test can be executed but get Object Reference not set to an object error when loginBox.Text = "UserName"; being hitted. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks. using System; ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't save package to Server (No description found)

  I'm getting an error, "No description found", when trying to save my package to the SQL Server (2005). It was created under the Sept. CTP (SQL 2005) and the matching BI tools, which saved fine.  But now with the RTM version I'm getting this error when saving. I'm in the process of trying different variations, i.e. saving from Sept CTP to current server....  Unforetunately I have clients in next week for training, so I have to find a qu ...Show All

• SQL Server Analysis Services

  I am trying to work through the tutorial when you load SQL 2005. I am running the 64 bit version. I have deployed my cube and am trying to display data in the browser. I move over the sales amount into the data area I get the below message. What should I do to fix this issue       The query could not be processed: Memory error: While attempting to store a string, a string was found that was larger than the page size ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to change the keys in the config file

  Hi, We are using the ClickOnce technology in Visual Studio 2005 to deploy the C# Windows applications. Here we are getting the problem in the clint site when we need to change the configuration settings. The files in the server deploy with the extention .deploy, when we open the app.exe.cong.deploy file with the notepad and change the keys and save, it is loosing some of the keys. When we try to connect to server and install the applicatio ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Hosting the workflow designer outside of VS.

  I've read some material that says this is possible, but I haven't found any documentation as to how this is accomplished.  There was a topic along these lines in MSDN, but it said content was not yet available.  Has anyone done this yet   How's it done   Was it much effort   I want to provide a friendly version of this designer to business people in a custom app. Thanks! At the bot ...Show All

• .NET Development CLR Error

  I'm doing a batch data transfer from 'server a' to 'server b'. I get the following error. Any idea what this means please The CLR has been unable to transition from COM context 0x1b1ae8 to COM context 0x1b1c58 for 60 seconds. The thread that owns the destination context/apartment is most likely either doing a non pumping wait or processing a very long running operation without pumping Windows messages. This situation generally has a negative pe ...Show All

• Windows Forms Error while executing PocketpC Taskvision

  When am trying to execute Pocket vision its throwing error "Unable to connect to Remote server". I have configured the server in my local machine.I have commented the synchronization code also.pls anyone have the solution. Also there is fullsource code&n ...Show All

• Visual C++ floating point vector optimization

  Hello code gurus, I'm a recent arrival form the CodeWarrior PPC world, and hope someone can orient me toward the appropriate docs and examples. I need to do some floating point (double preferred) operations on vectors, basic ones like vector +,-,/, *, sqrt, dot product. Vectors are sized at runtime and don't change once created. I've read about hardware SIMD instructions and want to use these. 1) Do I need to use the SIMD instructions e ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) PowerPoint to XAML converter?

  We are exploring creating an Avalon object in WPF to render existing Powerpoint slides. I saw a demo at the PDC where they achieved this. Does anyone know if this converter exists and is available If not, how would one go about taking apart a PowerPoint presentation and displaying it in Avalon The converter we used to render PowerPoint slides as WPF basically walked the PowerPoint object model and emitted com ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Beep() doesn't work, or does it?

  Using VC++,  System::Console::Beep(); produces no sound, or at least, not the Default Beep.  Anyone else seen this problem It gives me the default beep when I try it.  You should ensure that you get the default beep other places on your system.  You could also try running the application outisde of Express (from the command line) to help isolate the problem. Thanks, Luke Hoban Visual C# IDE P ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB Code to create KML/KMZ text

  Hi I am looking for some code which will convert some geographical information entered into text boxes on a standard form, (probably linked to a database for both storage and retrieval of the data),which will then at the push of a button generate a text file in KML/KMZ format for use on google earth. I know that KML is derived from XML with a KML namespace declaration. I have some code which will create an XML document with the declarat ...Show All