Thomas Ott's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development VB.NET

  can somone port the fixed code to VB.NET I couldnt port without erros. Thank you, Hi there. I'm afraid that no matter how many times you ask this question, the answer will not change. VB.NET does not support unsafe, or fixed. Your best bet is to write the code in C#, and call it from VB. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Project Custom Build Setup, associated file?

  In VS/VC 2003: Simple question: for the Custom Build Step for the project (right click the project in the Solution Explorer, select "Properties", select the "Custom Build Step" in the "Configuration Properties" tree at the left, then select "General" under "Custom Build Step"), what is the implicitly dependent file My situation is, there is a file I would like to copy after the build; but, only if it has changed.  I've added a "copy file destinationdir" to the command line, added "destinationdir\file" to the outputs, and added "file" to the additional dependencies.  But, the custom build step is run every time, even though my ...Show All

• Visual Basic DLL PRoblem

  Hi All, I'm newbies to create DLL file. I have wrote a custom class file, and I compiled it as a DLL. However, I just couldn't get it register with regsrv32. And I couldn't import or add this dll as a references to MS Access as well. Can anyone give me some idea on what's the basic step we have to do in order to create a Dll file and use it in MS Access REgards, silkkeng Hi, Just another quick question, as I create a sub New procedures, to load the settings and read and write procedures. how do I make sure whether the dll file resources is free from memory ...Show All

• SQL Server Report model GetUserID() function

  Guys, What is "GetUserID()" function returns when the report server, report builder and everything is using windows authentication http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms156292.aspx Enkh. "Just use USERID" What do you mean USERID Is that a global variable, windows authentication username Enkh. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Intellisense Elements Missing

  Hi all, Hopefully someone can help with this matter. I was attempting to bind a data table to a Checkedlistbox and display a selected field. As far as i was aware i could use the Datasource method to do this and then the displayMember method to set the filed i wish to display in the list. When looking through the intellisense options for the checkedlistbox I could find neither of these options. However, if i just typed them in and used them as normal, the code works fine. Does anyone know why the methods are missing from the intellisense and how (if possible) i can go about resolving this.   Many thanks in advance Gran ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista ACPI Not fully compliant for 5308

  I can't find much info regarding this issue for a M35x-S111 Toshiba Satellite. It gets as far as loading the setup files then imediately it goes to the Blue screen. Any help would totally rule. go to RUN and type dxdiag, click yes. then reply back with info on ur computer. and i'll see if i can help you out ...Show All

• SQL Server Control Flow design question

  hi all of you, I haven’t idea if the following description is a issue or not, anyway: I begin from Control Flow layer. I’ve created a sequence container and inside I’ve got two groups, one own a sql task and another one own a Data Flow task. Both are linked for a completion conector. Up to here everything is fine. But when I collapse my sequence container the arrow remains there for these tasks and you can see the sequence container “closed” and the arrow lonely. Not very esthetic, not practical. Any clarification or though will be as usual welcomed I've seen similar problems in the past. I think th ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Auto-generated Code

  Hey everyone, I have a VB2005 project with a SQL Mobile database. The database is rather large. I've created parameterized queries to load grids and selected the grid task to Generate Data Forms. I delete the New menu option and the editable form. I am just using the detail form that opens when a record in the grid is selected. My problem is that when I click on a record on the main grid during testing, it takes an extremely long time to open the detail form and populate the labels from the corresponding fields. When I originally did this in VB2003, I hand coded everything, and the searching and loading was much, much faster. I ...Show All

• Visual C++ WriteString( ) MFC Function

  Hello all, I'm a newbie to this forum and appreciate if anyone of you has seen this problem before regarding the WriteString( ) in hte MFC class and provide some badly needed help. In my app I'm using the CStdioFile::WriteString( ) function. The string being passed into this function for printing into the log file, does have the entire SQL statement. But when the WriteString( ) function writes it into the log, the SQL statement is truncated at the first non-English character. Bunch of developer whom i have spoken to think this should be a problem with either the WriteString( ) function, or with the way it is being used. We are trying t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions BackgroundWorker Problems.

  Hello, I'm working on a simple app. that uses the GUI and 2 threads(backgroundWorker) to do some reading on some ports and to handle some alarms. The problem is that when ran on the target machine, it doesn't fire the update function, until it has finished or stopped. here's the basic function. 1- GUI loads. 2.- user configures the reader thread and starts the thread that keeps reading some ports. 3.- If the thread reads nothing, it updates with some progress, and if it reads something wrong, it updates with another progress (yes, I use the progress as status code, as there's no other way to do this with it... or is there a way ) 4. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Printing Barcodes using ReportViewer controls

  I just started using the ReportViewer controls to create reports. Is there a way to print Barcodes or do I have to purchase Third party controls and/or barcode fonts. If anyone can steer me in the right direction that would be appreciated. Mike There is no built in support for generating bar codes, but there are a number of third party solutions that integrate well with the report viewer. ...Show All

• Visual C# A problem about binary file source safe versioning

  Does anyone of you ever try to check in your binary files for versioning We have this habit since the day when we work on VB projects. Since COM versioning is very important, we have very clear habit to keep different versions of the DLLs. Now in .net, with VS.NET 2003, we realize there is a very strange behaviour which prevents binary files checking from working properly. Lets say, we have 3 projects: ClassLibrary1, ClassLibrary2, WindowsApplication1 -->: reference ClassLibrary2 --> ClassLibrary1 WindowsApplication1 --> ClassLibrary1, ClassLibrary2 When I have checked out all WindowsApplication1 binary files, while leaving ClassLib ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Plan iterarion

  hi, the gantt In the project structure document is only for the actual iteration for estimate the durarion of all the project, i need to plan each iteration is this corrrect How i now the duration of the prject tks Hi Randy, With all respect to you, I am yet to see a customer who would be happy if told something like "Let's do a couple of iterations, gather the velocity info and only after that we will be able to tell what the delivery date is". I do realize this is the most accurate way, but most customers need to know the delivery date at the beginning of the project (and even worse, they stick business p ...Show All

• .NET Development Drawing images with transparency

  Is there a way with the Graphics object to draw a semi-transparent image ie. I want to load up an image from a .png or .bmp file, and be able to draw the entire thing at an arbitrary transparency level. But I can't seem to find an Opacity property or anything of the like. Does anyone know how to do this DrawImage method of Graphics class has some overloads that take a parameter of type ImageAttributes. Amongst other thing ImageAttributes can contain a ColorMatrix that can be used to alter the colors and alpha channel of the image in any way you like. See this for more details: http://msdn.microsof ...Show All

• Visual C++ vc++8.0 bug: access violation upon call of any CImageList methods

  I have sucessfully imported and compiled a complex MFC 6.0 project from vc++6.0  into vc++ 8.0 (MFC 8.0). It contains several subprojects (libs and dlls). In vc++ 6.0 those project linked MFC6.0 statically and after I imported it to vc++ 8.0 I set the linkage of MFC8.0 to "shared". However when I try to compile and link the project in vc++ 8.0 in release mode (debugmode works fine) I get an acess violation in afxcomctl32.inl. This happnes whenever I call any of the CImageList methods. When I comment out all lines that call mehtods of CImageList everything work fine in release mode too. When I look at the disassembly the crash pattern i ...Show All