MBoy's Q&A profile

• Visual C# Accessing fingerprint scanners in C#

  Hi, I'm working on a fingerprint recognition project in C#, How can we access a fingerprint scanner - USB port interface in C# and capture raw fingerprint images. please help (i'm thinking of buying microsoft fingerprint reader) I did download an SDK from Griaule Inc, but it provides only an encrypted image, Is there no way to do it without an SDK. Cant we use the Windows Image Acquisition librar ...Show All

• .NET Development Socket crashes on AccessViolationException when the peer side aborts (net2.0 beta2)

  Hi,   I experienced a weird problem with socket on my machine. On my colleague's it works like a charm.  When I have socket, waiting for incomming data (after I called BeginReceive) and the peer side aborts - eg. I kill the telnet.exe who I used as a client, the socket throws AccessViolationException on unknown module. The crash itself is in > imon.dll!20b0cd39()   did anyone experienced something similar, or it' ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) FooLinq

  So we've had long discussions about Linq, XLinq, and particularly DLinq. It's probably a good exercise to forget about databases, ORMs, and XML files, and spur the masses into thinking where else they think Linq would be useful. Maybe someone here will take up one of the suggestions as a project... Doing poor man's design by contract will be easier expressing pre/post conditions and invariants concisely and declaratively with Lin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can't Install Team Foundation Server

  hi; i install the team foundation server,but system prompt " setup has detected that previous version of the following product(s) are currently installed uninstall these applications before continuing with setup. For more information,see the readme.htm file,This file can be founded at the root of the DVD or cd1,On the web download site for the product, or on a network share ,depend on how you install the product.    -Microsoft .Net Fra ...Show All

• SQL Server System Process issues "RESOURCE MONITOR" command and blocks a process

  I have a process which is getting blocked by a System proces. The only information I have about the system process (from the Activity Monitor) is the Command field which is "RESOURCE MONITOR". I've looked up "resource monitor" in books on-line and it says something about clustered servers. I don't have a server cluster. This server is severely underutilized -- the sql server is currently using less than 1 GB of 10 GB avail ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MSSCCI provider for VS6

  I have a question about release date of subject. When it will be available Or where I could see pre-release version of this plugin Hi Eric, Thank you for fast answer. I would to know additionally, from where I could know about releasing of this beta Kind regards, Deforge ...Show All

• Visual Basic File Conversion

  How can I save .Doc file to .HTML with VB.NET   I'm not sure what the 2nd parameter of function SaveAs() should be.  I tried and all I got is "Type mismatch" error.  ...Show All

• Visual Basic conversion

  when iam trying to change textbox caret i got this error messege : Conversion from string "System.Drawing.Bitmap" to type 'Long' is not valid. my code : CreateCaret(TextBox1.Handle, PictureBox1.Image, 10, 10) ShowCaret(TextBox1.Handle) any idea about converting (system.drawing.bitmap) or (picturebox1.image) to long or integer You need to pass the pointer to the Bitmap instead of the actual Bitmap to Create ...Show All

• Windows Forms Async Web Service Calls

  Hi, I read that that in 2.0 there are new possibilities to do async web service calls. For example I want to make a Web Service call to retrieve a long DataSet and I don't want the UI to freeze ... how would I go forward doing th ...Show All

• Visual C++ Set VC++ Directories in Options dialog (Visual C++ Express)

  Is this bug going to be fixed anytime soon Using VC++ Express 2005 v8.0.50215.44 (beta2.050215-4400) and .NET Framework v2.0.50215 on a Win2K SP4 test box. I've tried the solutions from both Boris and Chaos to workaround the problem and neither appear to work. I've been charged with evaluating VC++ for our enterprise, ( I'm principally a gcc user), and a rudimentary bug like this ought to get squashed pretty quick IMO. [EDIT] OOPS! Sorry ...Show All

• .NET Development FQDN

  Hello, how may I obtain the fully qualified domain name of the computer on which the ASP.NET application is running, in string format I need to email a link to the webserver to people using my application. Thanks for any help Simple: Use this code to get the full path (including port number) to the current server string serverPath = Request.Url.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Authority);   Hope this helps! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System .Net Runtime 2.0 Error

  Hi all, I keep receiving these errors, approximately once an hour, on our Team Foundation Server machine.  We have a clean build of Team Foundation Server and SQL running a single-server installation of Team Foundation.  Ever since we installed it we have been getting the following error: Event Type: Error Event Source: .NET Runtime 2.0 Error Reporting Event Category: None Event ID: 1000 Date:  12/12/2005 ...Show All

• Visual C# Getting a COM dll's version from it's COM registry entries

  We currently have some code that goes like this: object savePath = null ; // get smartconnect type from prog id of COM component SmartConnect.dll Type smartConnectType = Type . GetTypeFromProgID ( "SmartConnect.CSmartConnect" ); // create instance of smartconnect Object smartConnectObject = Activator . CreateInstance ( smartConnectType ); // get the save path savePath = smartConne ...Show All

• Windows Forms Run a program in the background

  How can i run a program in the background I've putted 0% oppacity but when i press alt+tab it shows that there is something running. Thanks, Guilhreme Run in the background in what way Have no UI at all Just not show up in the alt+tab display You may want to look into running it as a Windows Service or perhaps adding a NotifyIcon (so as to give the user some way to get to your running app) and hiding any for ...Show All

• .NET Development Update not writing default values to the database

  Hello,   I'm using a TableAdapter to update a table which has some default values set in SQL Server. However, every column that I leave blank gets inserted with a null value instead of the defined default value for the column. Is there anything I am missing or is this the default behaviour Thanks in advance for any help given.   Regards, paulo Set the DefaultValue proper ...Show All