Dean Hiller2's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development enable wifi programatically

  hi there, how can i enable wifi connection programatically. i have a pocket pc application, i would like to enable wifi connection when i click on a button, how is the code looks like Turning on the actual WiFi card is different for each manufacturer. Sometimes they have an API available, or there is an executable you can run using CreateProcess. For setting the WiFi connection to a particular SSID yo ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Problem with ActivateDevice(Ex)

  Hi, I have a utility that allows me to select the COM ports for my driver. To make the changes in the registry, I deactivated the device by using the DeactivateDevice function call, performed my operations and then reactivated the device using the ActivateDevice call. I am calling ActivateDevice with fisrt parameter as "\\Drivers\\BuiltIn\\MyDriver" . When I do FindFirstDevice for COM* FIRST TIME the entry in the szDeviceKey in the DE ...Show All

• Visual Studio Add-In

  I am trying to create an Add-In item in Tools menu of VS 2005. I have installed VS 2005 on Windows Server 2003 O/S. I created a very simple add-in projetc using extensibilty option and Add-In wizard in VS 2005. I have just added one MessageBox using Windows.Forms reference in Exe method of Connect.cs class.. I also created and added resuting xml files to Addin folder (for example, \Documents and Settings\All Users\My Documents\Vis ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums how to import .xml file to excel and grab data from the .xml file?(All use macro)

  Anyone have any coding example for that topics thanks You might take a look at the topics on http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010864661033.aspx or http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;EN-US;Q307021 -brenda (ISV Buddy Team) ...Show All

• Windows Forms dataGridView + mousewheels

  It it possible to scroll the dataGridView control using mousewheels He must have gotten stumped. I'm trying to figure out why, without any code, some grids work with the mouse wheel and some don't. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Shell Method

  How can I load a folder up in the windows explorer Your first line, should be... Dim sFile As String = Me .TextBox.Text.ToString() Don't forget to add the .Text  before the .ToString(). If that doesn't help, debug the code, and check the value of sFile at the If statement. ...Show All

• .NET Development No Managed DirectX for 64bit?

  I posted this issue back during Beta 1 and was told that Microsoft will look at making a 64 bit Managed DirectX after the OS and the development environment was released. That is way too late for those of us looking to release a 64 bit application any time soon! Is there any update from Microsoft on availability of even a Beta Managed DirectX for the x64 Thanks - John Sigh... I'm Still getting the BadImageFormatException with DX SQ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System UsePropertiesWhereAppropriate vs PropertiesShouldNotReturnArrays

  Hi, I'm converting some code to match FxCop rules but I've one problem with 2 looping rules. Here is the code : public decimal[] GetValues () {     return m_values; } public void SetValues (decimal[] value) {     Debug.Assert(value != null && value.Length > 0);     m_values = value; } Warning message is : Cause: A public or protected method has a name that begins with "Get," takes no ...Show All

• SQL Server Strange cube processing error

  We have a bit of automation that creates a relational star-schema database and deploys and processes an SSAS2005 database (using an XML/A deployment script). Sometimes (but not always) during this process an error is thrown: Errors in the high-level relational engine. The following exception occurred while the managed IDbCommand interface was being used: A transport-level error has occurred when sending the request to the server. (pr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions adding photo's to photo album

  can anybody tell me how to add photo's to my photo albums,I'v started a web site from template and not uploaded it to my server yet but cant find out how to do the photo album,any help much appreciated I assume you're using web developer express There reason it's not in the list is that ASP.NET related questions belong at www.asp.net . You should try over there. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Target Machine Link Error

  I have used the upgrade wizard to migrate my EVC 4 project to VS 2005. I have managed to get most of my projects to build but I have a couple that give me the following link error. mfc80u.lib(MFC80U.DLL) : fatal error LNK1112: module machine type 'THUMB' conflicts with target machine type 'ARM' The configuration was originally targeting ARMV4. The "Target Machine" Linker option is set to "MachineARM (/MACHINE:ARM)". And I cannot ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. HLSL pixel shader: possible to not set output color?

  Is it possible to somehow not set the output color in a HLSL pixel shader without getting an error message It is possible with a CG shader. The effect is a transparent surface at pixels where the output color is not set/computed. Nico Thanks for your suggestion. Maybe I will try that some time. At the moment I just render one object, so I simply set the output color to the background color. ...Show All

• SQL Server Client Requirements if ReportViewer is used for Web Forms

  Dear Anyone. Does the client machine require any additional software updates if it tries to access a page that contains a reportviewer control Aside from .Net 2.0 Thanks, Joseph The client machine does not need any software to access a page with the viewer - the .Net framework does not need to be installed on the client. Client side printing does require downloading an activex control. The user will be prompted to download i ...Show All

• Windows Forms Using custom properties in forms when it has been opened by name

  I usually open forms by name, and get the type in a variable type. How can I access the custom properties on each type, if all I have is the Form object, and the Type object The following snippet of code crashes because, obviously, GI is not a property belonging to Form Type dim frm as form;dim T as type frm= Openformbyname("MyForm", T) messagebox.show frm.GI ' GI is one of the custom properties thanks N ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET as a DLL compiler

  Hello Arkin, No, it is not currently possible to create a DLL that contains only native code and contains no references to the .NET Framework libriaries nor the Common Language Runtime. While ngen support [along with the runtime JIT] enable native code gen of 'managed code', the platform is built on a set of reusable libraries. What kind of scenario are you trying to enable Thanks, Stephen Microsoft Common Language Runt ...Show All