Bren42006's Q&A profile

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Avalon Adaptation

  Scenario Lets say that Avalon is released for XP (and in Longhorn) on time, Holiday season 2006, and that it is accepted as “wonderful” like we all know it will be. Question: How rapidly will it make its way onto the corporate desktop What percentage of corporate desktop machine will have Avalon install one year later, two years Are there any moderately reliable figure that we can use in our sales projections Anything will be helpful Tha ...Show All

• .NET Development Connecting with MSDE to MS Access database

  Hi, I must admit i'm a bit of a noob so go easy please! I've been trying to connect from a C# form to a MS access database through MSDE. I've been trawling the internet for hours and can't solve the problem. Here's my method: In .Net i've opened server explorer, right clicked Data Connections and selected add connection, opening 'Data Link Properties'. I've inputted Server Name 'WORK' Put in user name 'sa' password 'hello' At this point th ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Adding Traditional windows style controls to DirectX Apps

  I'm writing a simple app and I want to have a window with a directX display. I want to design a standard simple user interface with a traditional menu bar and dialog boxes and status bar etc, but when i try to use the Form designer it doesn't work. All the tutorials I see online deal with making a really cool GUI with special effects (geared  towards games no doubt) but I just want a traditional ("File,  Edit, Tools, Help) menustrip ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Serious Error while debugging

  Hi, While debugging the VSTO application, I am getting following error: "ContextSwitchDeadLoack" The CLR has been unable to transition from COM context 0x159ba8 to COM context 0x1598c8 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 performan ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Why Don't SmartPhone Apps Provide Exit?

  Why don't SmartPhone applications provide an exit function Would I be doing something wrong if I develop an application with an exit function Thanks, BS"D Thank you very much for your reply. As far as startup lag, I find that my Audiovox SMT5600 starts applications up very quickly. In fact, starting an application with a minimum of applications running, executes more quickly than a resume of an application at a time when&nbs ...Show All

• Visual C++ Is a .def File Required To Export Functions From DLL?...

  ...I know it is not required so long as the methods are tagged  __declspec(dllexport).  However, if the client code is a .Net C# app, I can only seem to recognize the methods' entry points if the DLL was built using a .def file.  Can anyone confirm or refute the need for building a DLL with a .def file if the intended client will be unable to link to the import library   Thanks in advance.      --Doug Hett ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Get latest before check-in policy

  Hello, I'm using the following configuration: 1. One integration project 2. Each programmer has one or more workspace on the integration project I don't want a programmer to do checkin to an unchecked work (means he didn't checked what's going to be in the interation). I want to enfore the programmer to do GetLatest operation. In this operation he might be required to do merges. How can I enforce this methodology If there is a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Adding a top-level menu to VS plugin

  When I put something in the top most menu (between Tools and Window), I get a big ugly space to the right of the menu text. Is there something I could be doing incorrectly CMDPLACEMENT_SECTION menuGrp:IDM_VIEW_CUSTOM, mainMenu:IDM_VS_TOOL_MAINMENU, 0x0700; CMDPLACEMENT_END Do you mean a package Do the steps in the doc walkthru "Walkthrough: Creating a Top Level Menu" create the same ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS SELECT / DELETE / INSERT

  I am trying to do the following for a few tables in my DB. I have an ODBC datasource and would simply like to update my DB from this datasource. I want to pull the table data from my ODBC datasource, delete any existing data in my SQL tables and then insert the data from my ODBC datasource into SQL. I am trying to create an SSIS package to do this but am not sure where to start. Any help or examples would be appreciated. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Adding databese on sql server from code

  A can create database on sql server from command line with: osql.exe -i -e script.sql (I have script for my database) How to do that from code   Gosovic wrote: A can create database on sql server from command line with: osql.exe -i -e script.sql (I have script for my database) How to do that from code Dim MyProcess As New System . Diagnostics . Process      ...Show All

• Visual Basic Could not load file or assembly "Microsoft.VsDesigner,8.0.0.0.

  My visual studio project fine on the development machine. I am able to install the project on other machines, but when loading one of the forms I receive the error: Could not load file or assembly "Microsoft.VsDesigner,8.0.0.0. This error only occurs on one form, all others load fine. I am not sure if I am missing a component, or if there is a way I can change the form to elimiate this dependency. Any help would be greatly appreciat ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Setting command-line arguments for a unit-test project

  Hi, I need to perform unit-testing on classes that access the command-line arguments. In order to do that, I need to control the command-Line arguments. Is there a way to do that (and still be able to run all the test automatically) Thank you, Sharon Hi Sharon277, I want to make sure I understand correctly. You have a command-line application with classes in it that refer to arguments they ex ...Show All

• Windows Forms .Net Application Updater Component

  Hello, I recently started using the Application Updater Component and it is actually doing the update, but just as the message box pops up to ask if I want to start using the new version of the application, the application (my app) crashes and the following error is in the appupdate.log : System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file 'C:\acashell\vs1\AppUpdater.xml' because it is being used by another process. any idea what cou ...Show All

• .NET Development exception in socket .ctor()

  Hello, Sometimes, just sometimes, my socket code throws an exception with following message: "Socket operation on nonsocket" ...or something like that, I work on the polish language pack, so this is just a translation. Wierd thing is that this exception is thrown in the socket's constructor! A bit of code: using (Socket socket = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Raw, ProtocolType.Icmp)) { // the exception ...Show All

• .NET Development I can't send mail

  I write this code but it doesn't work. It just show "Email didn't send succesfully". I didn't know how to add UserName, Password and Port. Please help me. private void Button1_Click( object sender, System.EventArgs e) { Button1.Enabled = false ; try { System.Web.Mail.MailMessage myMessage = new System.Web.Mail.MailMessage(); myMesage.To = txtDen.Text; myMesage.From = txtTu.Text; myMesage.Subject = tx ...Show All