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• Windows Live Developer Forums media player

  salut je suis rachid je veut c'ils vous plais dans mon espace un media player This is not the appropriate forum for support questions about the MSN Spaces website. This forum is meant for discussion about the MetaWeblog API provided by MSN Spaces. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Selecting from a Combo Box

  I have a combo box with 5 pre-defined items. When I execute my code, no matter which item I select from the drop-down, the code always executes the first selection. cbxLength contains the values 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 which represents the # of years, and I multiple their selection by 12 to calculate the number of months. Why is the code always selection (0) as the index Thanks for any help you can provide. If cbxLength.Items(0) Then ...Show All

• Visual Studio adding empty folders

  What is the best way to add empty folders to my new project upon project creation   I have tried using the Folder element in the VSTemplate, but it seems that it doesn't show up unless it contains a child projectitem element.  I also tried adding it in the project file as an item element (code below), but it doesn't show up this way either.  Should I be adding these folders programatically, and if so, where would be the best place ...Show All

• Visual Basic synchronous vs asynchronous

  I am a newbie and can anyone explain to me the difference between synchronous vs asynchronous programming Does .NET framework (VB 2005) is synchronous by default asynchronous means the code in the background. You should use this for procedures that take a long time to run so your program does not appear to be locked up. Synchronous means the code runs in the foreground. ...Show All

• SQL Server Annoying behavior in report designer

  I have a report with a complex dataset query that involves a temp table. Anytime I make a change to that query and save or change tabs, I get this message: Could not generate a list of fields for the query. Invalid object name #[temp table name]. (Error 208) Fair enough, but the real nuisance is that every time this happens it erases all of the dataset parameters I have previously set up. I have to redefine them every time. I hope this ...Show All

• Visual Studio Error connecting to VSS test database

  I have VSS 2005 July CTP installed on a Windows 2000 Server and I had success setting up a test database. When I tried to connect to this database using HTTP access on a Windows 2000 Pro system I got this error: --------------------------- Visual SourceSafe Internet --------------------------- Cannot contact the Visual SourceSafe Internet Web Service or cannot access the specified database. The server returned the following error: A connect ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Invalid Operation Exception in simple method in httpbasicBinding

  Hi I have a simple method defined in the following interface: [ ServiceContract (Namespace = "http://www.tid.es/ACS/Server/" )] public interface IAcsService { [ OperationContract ( /*IsOneWay=true*/ )] void ConfigurationPostBack( string url, string username, string password, string protocol); } exposed in the IIS with this simple web.config: < system.serviceModel > < services > ...Show All

• Visual Studio MsBuild Task and References

  Hi, Is there a way in MSBuild task to specify reference folder to find referenced dll if it cannot find in the referenced path specified in the csproj file which it is trying to build. To state more clearly, the way we can specify References for CSC task is there something similar or a way around. Thanks MRI This is what you can do - <Project DefaultTargets="BuildOtherProjects" xmlns="http://schemas.microsof ...Show All

• Visual C++ AfxMessageBox not working

  Hi, in Visual Studio 2005 I chose new project->c++->mfc. As Projecttype I chose Dialogbased. Now I have the problem, that following code does not work, that I put on the click event of the ok button: AfxMessageBox("test"); I get an error message that not all arguments could be parsed. But I found this code on MSDN just with an other text than "test". any ideas In VS2005, you're doing a Unicode build, whi ...Show All

• Visual Basic invalid parameter

  Can anyone tell me why this throws a system.argumentexception:Invalid parameter Imports System.Drawing Public Class form1   Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form # Region " Windows Form Designer generated code " Public Sub New () MyBase .New() 'This call is required by the Windows Form Designer. InitializeComponent() 'Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call End Sub 'Form overrides dispose ...Show All

• .NET Development Add Attachments To Exchange Contacts programmatically

  I'm a junior .Net programmer who comes from the Java platform. I need to develop a component which adds contacts to an Exchange 2000 Server public folder. I chose to do it via WebDAV, but I can't work out how I can add one or more attachments to the newly-created contact. Can anyone help me, please Even just by telling me where to look for info, since I've been browsing the Internet for a couple of days but couldn't find proper information. I h ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Returning a string from within a string after a known point

  Returning a string from within a string after a known point. ok heres what I want to do: Return a string ( a fixed number of places after a fixed point) from within a long file name. In the example below I'd like to extract the string of 8 digits following the "T" but before the "300" (22951573) and then have them returned as a single string. If anyone knows how I can acheive this, I would be most grateful. Di ...Show All

• Visual Studio What does it mean for "warning MSB4098: MSBuild is invoking VCBuild to build this project."

  After running "msbuild xxx.vcproj", build is OK but one warning msg like: warning MSB4098: MSBuild is invoking VCBuild to build this project. Project-to-project references between VC++ projects (.VCPROJ) and C#/VB/VJ# projects (.CSPROJ, .VBPROJ, .VJSPROJ) are not supported by the command-line build systems when building stand-alone VC++ projects. Projects that contain such project-to-project references will fail to build. Please bui ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Project Portal bug? Cannot get Discussions onto Quick Launch Bar

  That's right. When I modify the settings of the General Discussion on our project portal so that it reads: General Settings General settings of this discussion board include its name, description, and security. Current general settings of this discussion board: Title: General Discussion Web Address: http://tiger/sites/Why/Lists/General Discussi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions If's and Elseif's

  Hello there. I made a menu strip item for word wrap and I want to have it trigger word wrap (on and off) in my textbox1... but I get the error 'Else' must be preceded by a matching 'If' or 'ElseIf'. I also get 'If' must be preceded by a matching 'If'. On top of all that, I am not even sure my coding is right because I am not able to compile with the erros. Private Sub WordWrapToolStripMenuItem_Click( ByVal sender As System.Ob ...Show All