B. Schwartz's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Remote Access Database

  I'm using visual studio .net 2005 beta 2 and i'm just wondering if its possible instead of using the access database directly if you can login to a remote version of it on a server through the datasets. ...Show All

• .NET Development Capture Mouse

  !Hello! I have a Windows Service and i would like to know how can i capture mouse movements in the screen, without a form or process launched. I readed that Framework not allow to capture this... i tried with windowshoooks and dont get nothing How can i solve this problem Thks Pavleras I believe you cannot do this but hear me out... Windows Service has nothing to do with the visual effects of the environment, a Windows Service is a process in the background that runs to do "technical" stuff that users should really not know about, such as logging events to the event log, or doing some other pr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Excel screen updates - real slow

  Hi, We are developing a modelling application where we are effectively showing a grid of data. A value change in a row item, results in the update of the correct field or property in the model and this in turn raises an event (loosely coupling) to update the values in the following rows. For example, the more people you put in the production line the more work get processed and this in turn affects the output which in turn affect the work carried forward, which affect the work brought forward into the next line etc etc etc... Basically an update results in a cascade of events to calculate the derived values in the model. On a pure Excel ...Show All

• Windows Forms How many Authenticode Certificates Will We Need?

  We want to to use ClickOnce to distribute our software on various customer's intranets. How many Authenticode certificates will we need to do that: * One for each customer's Intranet, or * Just one certificate for ALL our customers. I'm hoping it's the latter! I'm a bit confused when I go to various Authenticode supplier's sites, because some of them talk about domains and suchlike... Thanks for any advice! Hi Matthew, Once certificate should be sufficient. If you company use one certificate the publisher (on the TrustManager dialog) the end user sees will be your company name. If this is fine ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista DigitalTVTuningSpace and MSVidCtl (timeshifting)

  anyone guide me for analog tv toget for different channels and countries. As well as i have to write it in the database. ie must scan for all channels. tnx Benno ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Backup you data with Team Foundation Server Beta 3

  Since the documentation looks to be outdated: What are the steps to take to backup all the data within TFS3. It should be a backup of all tables (including SharePoint Services and Reporting Serves data) from SQL Server and a backup of Windows SharePoint Services. Is that it Are the attachements now stored within the database Thanks, Neno Yes, all of the mutable data is now within the database.  So backing up TFS is just backing up all of the SQL databases on the data tier.  Our admin and operations guide will have details on how to do that but it's pretty straight forward. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Events Triggering

  Hi I have written a simple application in VB 2005 express which work by calling a 3rd party Active-x control. This control responds to certain events with in the application and trigger these events when certain actions are completed. However when i debug the application in the MS Developer environment the events do not trigger, but when i compile (build the application) and run the application outside the debug environment the events trigger perfectly. Can anyone help Mabs Ahmed I think we'll need some more information, such as what events you are triggering, and possibly some of your code where the events are being ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is the March Extensibility SDK good for RTM

  The title largely says it all. Is the March extensibility kit from VSIP the valid set for RTM or will there be a few changes that we may need to grab Thanks Yes, it is valid for RTM. I'm sure there are errors, and I know there's lots more documentation that folks would like to have. Visual Studio 2005 SDK – March 2006 CTP for v2 For those of you who use the tfpt.exe power toy , there's an updated binary in there as well (check out the new annotate command). Buck ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions absolutly new and very confused

  hi everyone , I work in construction , and last year i developed a spreadsheet to estimate materials for different phases of my job . theres about 25 worksheets and lots of vba code . macros etc . I was hoping to try marketing spreadsheet , but ran into issues with excel and protection , liscense control etc . Sooooooo I figured vb 2005 express ...free ....i'm on it ...this will be great ... well .... i'm having issues ....and the worst issue is I dont even know which way i should be going with this thing ... do I try to build a program that opens excel and shows my SS ..... do i try to embed it , or link it ....do I have to mak ...Show All

• Windows Forms Checkboxes that work similar to radio buttons????

  I have a situation where I need two items with a checkbox checking scenario where either one or the other is checked, or both not checked. But never both of them checked. I was thinking I could just use radio buttons, but radio buttons do not allow unchecking both, either one or the other has to be checked. Anyone have an idea of how this could be done with checkboxes without putting some sort of validation script So that the checkboxes act like radio buttons, but still allow both to be unchecked Hi, you can have an auxiliar variable that points to the last clicked checkbox and in the handler of the checkboxes you can uncheck the ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Catching exceptions

      Hi, how do i catch exceptions generated by controls in a listbox bound by xaml I have image controls in a listbox that are throwing exceptions since they overload the webappp they're pulling the images from. I'd like to catch the exceptions and wait to retry. The Application.DispatcherUnhandledException event is fired when an unhandled exception is encountered by the Dispatcher.  ...Show All

• Visual C# How to expose property in C# container for webbrowser control?

  I'm trying to write an app in C# that hosts the webbrowser control (I'm using .net framework 1.1). I have worked out how javascript on a web page can call methods on the C# container and pass parameters, but I also need to have properties on the C# container exposed such that javascript on the web page can use them.  Is there a simple way to expose a public property to do this Hi KCurtis, Thanks for your posts in MSDN forum. Based on my experience, javascript can alwways call ActiveX interfaces exposed by Webbrowser. It's nice to know you can call methods of windows forms. Here's a link for you: ...Show All

• Visual C# C# and Lotus Notes

  Does anyone have any suggestions for using C# to do a lookup in Lotus Notes address book Any Help would be apppreciated Thank You It's actually very simple. Create a new project in VS.Net 2003/2005. Add a reference to to Domino to it (right click on the References in the Solution Explorer, switch to the 'COM' tab, locate "Lotus Domino Object" and click OK). Now in your code add a 'using Domino' statement on top of your class. In your method you can now create a new NotesSession object as follows: NotesSession session = new NotesSession (); session.Initialize( "" ); NotesDatabase db = ses ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions ComboBox 2005?

  I need to know how to add a ComboBox into a VB Basic Express 2005 exe application. I have tried but I haven't found any luck. Please Reply ASAP. You add the combobox the same way you do with all other versions that I know of. Use drag and drop from the toolbox or double click on it in the toolbox with the parent control selected in the designer. ...Show All

• .NET Development FtpWebRequest re-sending USER and PASS commands half way through download loop

  Well, the title says it all really: I'm using FtpWebRequest to download multiple files as follows: private string GetFile(Uri uri) { string un = Misc.ReadRegKey("ParserFtpUsername"); string pwd = Misc.ReadRegKey("ParserFtpPwd"); string file; NetworkCredential cred = new NetworkCredential(un, pwd); WebProxy pxy = new WebProxy(); pxy.UseDefaultCredentials = true; FtpWebRequest wr = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uri); wr.Credentials = cred; wr.Proxy = pxy; wr.UseBinary = false; wr.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.DownloadFile; FtpWebResponse resp = (FtpWebResponse)wr.GetResponse(); ...Show All