Alex61291's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista LogonUI messages

  I have my own Credential Provider for Vista. Is it possible to display messages on the Welcome screen in the "LogonUI style" For example, when you change password using Ctrl+Alt+Del, then MS Password provider displays messages like "Changing password" and "Operation completed successfully..." I would like be able to display such messages in my provider too. Many thanks in advance. No, I'm afraid not. The messages you are seeing aren't coming from a credential provider. They're coming from the system itself. When the system (winlogon.exe) gets the change password request, it ...Show All

• Windows Forms Disable input to controls on a form without disabling?

  Is there a way I prevent user input (mouse and key events) for a control (or all controls on a panel) without disabling it I have a smart client application where accesses to the server are done on background threads. To prevent new interaction with the controls until the running access is done, I want to prevent new events. When disabling the panel all controls "blink" in a rather anoying way (when they are greyed out and then enabled). Instead an hourglass and a progress indicator should be enough to inform the user that it is working. I also have the impression that the enable/disable screen updates affects the performance for fast server ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problem in Loading addin with each instance of host application

  I have created a com addin in c# for project professional, but problem is that is working only for the instance that is created when application is loaded, when i am opening a project from file menu my com addin is not getting loaded and hence not working for that instance. Found the solution to it. in the OnConnection event place this code If connectMode = ext_ConnectMode.ext_cm_AfterStartup Then Dim objAddIn As AddIn = CType (addInInstance, AddIn) ' moved to module level so OnDisconnect can see it ' Dim CommandObj As Command Try commandObj = _ applicationObject.Commands.AddNamedCommand(objAddIn, _ "PublishAddIn" , ...Show All

• .NET Development how to create ad hoc network using wi-fi

  how can we create ad hoc network using wi-fi by how i mean how we can implement a connection between two pocket pc using wi-fi give me a sample of code in any programming language that can built a connection between the pocket pc using wi-fi   Do you know what p/invokes you would use All I can find is windows vista NativeWifi and I am even having trouble finding out what dll to call it out of. thoughts thanx ...Show All

• Windows Forms A few newbie questions

  Hi all,  I'm an accomplished web software engineer of 6 yrs. with  pretty tight knowledge of asp.net, however I'm entirely  ignorant when it comes to windows development and windows  forms.  There are a few basic questions which I'm sure could  easily be answered by any win forms developer:  1. How do you pass variable/property values between  forms   When  ...Show All

• Visual C# Threading - ActiveX Events/Objects

  Hi, I have a threading problem that drives me absolutely nuts and I don't know what to do: I'm using an ActiveX object and subscribe to one of its events. Whenever I execute the method that drives the event, a couple events are triggered. The event response holds an ActiveX object which I need to work with. What happens now is that whenever the event response returns it runs on a different thread. I want to store the event response activex object in a Hashtable which was created on the main thread. Now, when all the events are done, I continue processing on the main thread. But here's the odd thing: All the actvivex objects in the hashtab ...Show All

• Visual Basic Help!! (VB 6.0)

  Hello Everyone i really need help considering project due tom. I have visual studio 6 and i installed it (custom all checked) now the big problem is everytime i open VB 6 and do anything with it such as programing or opening project a microsoft error comes up and tell me to send report. i want to program and need help fast   Hi, This forum only discusses .net languages. Questions on VB6 should be directed at the appropriate VB6 forums in Microsoft Newsgroups . Also a bit more information on what the microsoft error message said may help in getting an answer - the message could be absolutely anything. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX Extensions For Visual Studio .Net 2005

  Hello everybody, I am having a problem with my DirectX SDK installation. I installed the latest one (Feb2006), and it worked fine. Then, I installed a game (F.E.A.R.), and it seems to have installed an older version od DirectX (still 9.0c, just older). So, before the installation of the game, when I run the Visual Studio .Net 2005, it shows the list of things installed(in the splash screen thingy), and DirectX Extensions was one of them. Now, after the installation of the game, when I run the VS2005, it doesnt show the DirectX Extensions there, but there is an empty space instead(before the SDK installation the space wasnt there). ...Show All

• Smart Device Development ActiveSync4.0 error??

  Hi all, I am using visual studio 2005, and ActiveSync 4.0. From the vs 2005 beta 2. Tool-> connect to device. It's good. But like i use in Tool-> Options -> Device Tools -> Devices. I choose Pocket pc 2003 device -> properties -> configure... I choose Obtain an IP address automatically using ActiveSync. I am using O2 XPA II ( Qtek 9090 in france ). After that, i make a programme, F5 for debug mode.The program appears in the mobile device. It's good. But i use to check the Ip address of O2 XPA II is 192.168.55.101 with DNS: 127.0.0.1 It isn't normal, cos when i using the emulator pocket pc 2003 with the option Obtain an IP a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can I combine code and included objects to one program file?

  Can I combine code and included objects to one program file It seems that included objects like forms, buttons, text boxes etc. together with their properties are stored in another location than the program file. This destroys the overview of the program. For example, the name definitions of the objects are not visible from the program, so the names seem to be grapped out of the air. A class is a "blueprint" of an object, but I have a feeling of working on a single room in a house without being able to see the whole floorplan. You can click on an object and in this way see and edit the properties in the toolbox, but it would be ...Show All

• Visual C++ VisualC++ command line support

  I am coming from the Unix world. We currently support development/building in a multi-user, command line environment. Does anyone have any knowledge about doing this under Windows Is this a viable approach Will VisualC++ support multi users logging in to a single machine, and running make from the command line, for example Thanks. With Windows you can use remote terminal services to log on to a Windows box remotely: you can then use the compiler from the cmd-line to build projects as you would in the Unix world. The only issue might be if multiple users attempt to build the same project at the same t ...Show All

• Visual Basic Textbox Reading

  Hi All, i have a problem with a certain little textbox which i cant seem to get working again , i wish to read everything in a textbox before a certain character , in this case a space how would i get this done where a button is pressed and it will display only the characters before the space into another texbox eg text1 = "John Smith" where as i would like text2 = "John" since the next character was a space .. many thanks this is in VB6 (just in case) Rob I'm not sure about VB6 details, but here is something that must be close to it: dim s as string dim spacePos a ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Creating AD user with profile & home directories

  I am using Excel VBA to create AD users from a spreadsheet of names. I can create the users in the correct OU and can add the home drive and profile path to the user object. However, unlike when creating the User from the "AD Users and Computers", the folders themselves and the relevant permissions are not created automatically. Creating the folders themselves will be no problem, but how can I then assign the correct security permissions to the folders. I do not want to share the folders, just implement NTFS security rights so that the Group Policies work correctly (we redirect the My Documents to the users Home Drive) Any help in pointing m ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Best Hard Drive configuration for Single Server Team Foundation Server

  I am having a server built for implemention team Foundation server. The server that will be used has two hard drives. a 20GB and a 76GB. The 20 GB will host the OS(Windows Advanced Server 2003). The 76GB drive will host Team Foundation. Will it buy me any perfomance by partitioning the 76GB drive to seperate the Database and application file locations Since the 76GB is all contained in a single drive - partitioning it is not going to buy you a lot. One possible advantage of partitioning is that it would reduce file fragmentation in the Team Foundation server databases. Cheers ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Curley Crazy {

  What is the difference here: (they both work) { for ( int i = 0; i < listBox1.Items.Count; i++) { MessageBox .Show(listBox1.Items .ToString()); } AND/.................... { for ( int i = 0; i < listBox1.Items.Count; i++) MessageBox .Show(listBox1.Items .ToString()); { }   } } between curlies and not....this could drive me insane. Thanks! Thanks guys. I just went thru the 8 hours of Microsoft Absolute Newbie videos. They really did cover mucho , mucho... However...when a new concept was introduced...loops, if etc....the code was always pasted. Now I know why. Nobody could do it live (lol)...and Im s ...Show All