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• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Sparkle Interactive Designer (on Windows XP)

  I am trying to install Sparkle onto my laptop, it is xp (sp2) iwth Office 2007 beta 2, VS2005 and the various .net frameworks and betas including WinFX Runtime Components Beta 2. Everytime I try to install the error asks for me to install "windows presentation foundation 6.0.5295.60113". I am puzzled as I had no problems with Graphic Designer or Web Designer and all 3 betas will install fine onto my desktop Can anyone pin ...Show All

• .NET Development need help with net framework 1.1 and 2.0

  when i go to windows update it tells me that optional downloads are .net framework 1.1 and .net framework 2.0.  When i install 2.0 and go back to windows update to see if there anymore downloads, it tells me that 1.1 is available.  Why is this.  if i have 2.0 then why is 1.1 available to download.  wouldn't that be downgrading.  also do i really need framework.  im just a regular home user that surfs the internet an ...Show All

• Visual Basic Migrating Access Form to .NET

  In the article found on this webpage ( http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2000/Deploy/accessmigration.mspx ) it says, "Re-create your forms using .NET and migrate your reports to Microsoft Reporting Services. For more information, see the Microsoft white papers , “How to Migrate Access Forms to .NET” and “How to Migrate Access Reports to Reporting Services.” But when i do a search on that article, i find nothing. I've tried ...Show All

• Visual Studio Reverse Engineering – Auto Display Class Associations

  When you reverse engineer a project, i.e. show the class diagram, the inheritance tree is presented but class associations are not. It appears that you have to right click on the member variable or property within a class and indicate that you would like to show the association. Is there any way to have all associations shown automatically Wow this is awesome, just what I was looking for. Thanks very much. ...Show All

• SQL Server How can I use SemiAdditive aggregations on a dimension other than Measures?

  Our cubes include a dimension that needs semiadditive aggregation (inventory calculation) on some of its members. As I read the documentation (what there is of it), it seems the only way to do this is to make my dimension a parent-child dimension of type "accounts". Unfortunately, we have several levels in this dimension, each of which needs the functionality.  SSAS tell us that we can have only one attribute in the entire dimension ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. I need e-book for directx programming

  hi.... i need e-book for directx programming on C#... please help me! Yes Glenn's blog is now at http://www.virtualrealm.com.au/ I will edit that old link out of the posts. You are correct that after it expired it was taken over by someone else. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WPF, Refactoring, Projects and Solutions.

  I've just spent a good 2 hours refactoring my code and then putting it back to how it was before Are there any known issues with having stuff spread across different projects A bit more context If you have resources (like styles/templates/etc) you need to mark your assemblies a certain way. What are you trying to refactor ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView set index of Row Selector

  Hi All, In VS2005 VB or C# I can select rows in a DataGridView, so the row is "Highlighted": DataGridView1.Rows(1).Selected = True But the RowSelector (ie the little black arrow in the Left Margin) does NOT change to the selected row.  I'm having extreme difficulty changing the rowselector's index, I've tried lots of things & based on a post Regis Brid made I thought this method might be the trick... ...Show All

• Windows Forms WM_GETTEXT Usage

  How do I get the text of a textbox using WM_GETTEXT & SENDMESSAGE in VB.NET Thanks in advance Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices     <DllImport("user32")> _     Public Shared Function WindowFromPoint(ByVal xPoint As Integer, _  &nb ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Locking up

  Posted - 12/25/2005 :  10:54:44       My ADO based C++ application works fine for sometimes 15+hrs just fine. Im using SQL 2000. All of a sudden I dont know what happens all update operatins and insert operations start failing with 80040e31, timeout expired errors. It seems as though the whole database is locked up. And after 1hr or sometime 2 hrs everything is back to normal without an ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Question reg BeforeDoubleClick event in Excel

  A user doubleclicks in a cell and if the cell contains a certain value, i want to move the user to another cell. When you doubleclick you enter the cell and can type a value to the cell. Tried to use activecell but it seems when in 'typing mode' you can't move from that cell unless user hits ENTER or clicks another cell. Can this be done in code Private Sub Worksheet_BeforeDoubleClick(ByVal Target As Range, Cancel As Boolean)    If ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Upcoming Chat: Visual Studion Team Edition for Software Architects

  Just wanted to let you know that our team will be holding a public chat next week. Please join us if you can. Also, please feel free to reply/email me topics that you would like to see chats about...  - Dina Holan (Program Manager, VS Team Edition for Architects)  MSDN Public Chat: VS Team Edition for Architects Just back from TechEd 2005, team members from the Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Softwar ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Set pixel of a window

  I'm trying to learn basic C++ so that I can make DLLs for use in another programming language. I've had some success, but got completley stuck when trying to set a pixel on a window. I thought this would be a very easy task, so maybe I'm missing something basic. Anyway, here's the entirety of the code I'm trying: (the window and hDC are already prepaired by the other language) #define STRICT #include <windows.h> #include <stdio.h ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Using POOM in Visual Studio 2005 for PPC 2003 Projects

  Hi guys, I'm using Visual Studio 2005 to write an PPC 2003 application. Now my major problem is to create tasks and items in the calendar. Are there any tutorials about doing this in an easy way I did not find an easy to use solution using google. Thanks to you all!! Ralph This library works like the WM5.0 libraries but also supports WM2003 devices:- http://www.inthehand.com/WindowsMobile.aspx Peter ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Developer - Processor usage

  I installed SQL Server 2005 Developper Edition on my Laptop (Win XP Pro, SP2, 3.2GHz, 1.5Mb Ram). Since then, the SVCHOST process (connected as NetworkService) is constantly using around 30 percent of my processor. I uninstalled SQL Server 2005 and nothing changed. What is this process doing, and what should I uninstall to get full usage of my processor again Hi, look here: http://support.microsoft. ...Show All