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• Smart Device Development Focus problem!

  Hello. Im making a smartphone program for Windows Mobile 5.0 using C#. In this program there is a form. I open other forms on it as a dialog: using(MyForm form = new MyForm()) { form.ShowDialog(); } Here is my problem: when i have opened a dialog on the main form, and press end button(red phone), program losts its focus as it should. But when i give the focus back to my program by pressing its icon, program acts veird: ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Visual Studio Only?

  Is Visual Studio .NET 2003 or above going to be a requirement for MSN Search API developers   I know it's early yet, however that's the only SDK I see and there's no information indicating anything else will be available. I ask because some of us have been developing API's (Google, Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon, etc, etc) for a long time now.  You're going to be missing out on an awful lot of really good developers if you're going to have the r ...Show All

• Smart Device Development error

  Hi, all I installed VS 2005 beta 2, and make some example program for pocket pc 2003. Each time i compile, i appears a lots of warning, did you see this Like the SDK pocket pc 2003 in visual studio 2005 miss something If you met this, what did you do to pass it However, the program still run. Julien   secchk.lib(seccinit.obj) : warning LNK4099: PDB 'secchk.pdb' was not found with 'E:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Smart ...Show All

• Visual Studio C#'s ".xml" documentation format + Managed Package Framework

  Here's a real quick-and-easy one: is there an API available in the managed package framework that will parse C#/VB.NET's ".xml" document format and return any of the relevant entries like the <summary> or <example> or <remarks> section I've scoured the documentation but I'm not exactly sure what the format is called, much less what the API method names would be. ;) Or will I just have to role my own ;) ...Show All

• Windows Forms How I can know any point COLOR on a form, if a form has gradient fill?

  How I can know any point COLOR on a form, if a form has gradient fill I'm sorry for my English... See this sample: [DllImport("Gdi32.dll")] static extern int GetPixel(IntPtr hdc, int nXPos, int nYPos); static Color GetPixelColor(IntPtr hDC, int  ...Show All

• SQL Server Execution plans - SQLCE 3

  Does SQLCE 3 cache execution plans Or even make use of them Thanks Tryst This quesiton is better suited for the Sql Mobile forum. I'll move it there. Thanks. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development resource or assembly not found when catching exceptions

  Hi. I swear I've been able to do this before. Using .NET CF 2.0, WM5 smartphone. Anytime there is an exception being caught, I want to see the inner exception message or just the general exception message but everytime I look at it, no matter what type of exception, i always get the message that a resource or assembly could not be found. The proper namespaces have been declared, what am I doing wrong Please see this: http:/ ...Show All

• SQL Server Date Comparison in Stored Procedure

  Hello, I want to compare 2 datetime but only on Date part, excluding Time . For example Date 1 = 07/01/2004 14:00:00  Date 2 = 07/01/2004 16:00:00 I want have true for Date 1 = Date 2 How can I do Excuse my bad English I could not understand the below code given by you in your post... where datecol >= convert(char(8), @date, 112) and datecol < convert(char(8), @date + 1, 112) will this not give a conversion error, if ...Show All

• SQL Server Add user to Local Group Error

  Guys, I need help installing SQL Server 2005. I meet all of the pre-req's and setup seems to run normally until it starts installing the services and database engine. I receive the following error: SQL Server Setup was unable add user NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE to local group SQLSERVER2005DTSUser$server. It repeats the error for for the other groups that are created with SQL install. Am i missing something that's obvious I couldn' ...Show All

• Visual Studio Inheritance Restriction?

  Hi all, I' am having some troubles. maybe somebody can help me out. When compiling my DSL I got the folowing error: Architecture.ServiceModel.Designer' already contains a definition for 'ServiceOperationHasRequestMessageAddRule This error is caused by the "ViewFixupRules.cs" file. I already tried to find a double definition in the model but cannot find it. Also there is NO double "ViewFixupRules.cs" file in the project. The problem is caused ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can Microsoft.Ink recognize geometry?

  Would be possible to recognize an approximated geometric element like a segment, arc or a circles from an Ink Stroke I never used Microsoft.Ink Thank you Andrea Try posting to the TabletPC dev forum instead. http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx dg=microsoft.public.windows.tabletpc.developer ...Show All

• .NET Development WSE 3.0 Attachments - Status Update & Cancelling

  Does WSE 3.0 Attachments provide status updates on the transfer of large files   Is it possible to cancel the transmission of the file   What is the file size limit I did a quick search on the web and was unable to find the answers. Thanks, Drew The transfer of large files is now done using MTOM, not attachments. This provides for security of the data being transferred, and also has the ...Show All

• Windows Forms Create an appbar in visualbasic.net

  hello can anybody help me with how to create an appbar in visualbasic .net i can't find information about how to create it in vb.net only 1 milion samples for C or C++ hope anybody can help me. Did you able to find one If yes, please help me out! Am also looking out for "Creating a AppBar in VB.net". Thank you! ...Show All

• Windows Forms How will I center a text box and a button on a form at runtime?

    I have a form 'Form1' with a textbox and a button control on it. These controls are aligned vertically, one under the other. How will I make sure, that no matter what the size of the form Form1 is (either maximized or less), the text box and button remain always centered on the form By 'centered' I mean, centered horizontally and vertically. Here's the final 'generic' method I came up with. It first orders the controls collec ...Show All

• SQL Server Replication distribution cleanup error

  I used the SQL Server 2005 publication wizard to set up transactional replication. It scheduled a job called "Distribution clean up: distribution" that calls sp_MSdistribution_cleanup. The job fails every time it runs. The xp_cmdshell is enabled and SQL Server Agent runs under an account that has sufficient privileges to execute it. The account also has full rights to the repldata subdirectories. I have applied service pack 1. I loo ...Show All