TRLHobby's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Error 1335. The cabinet vbsetup1.cab required for this installation is corrupt...

  I downloaded de ISO image for VB 2005 and got this error when installing. I only install VB not MSDN or SQL Express. I am using Daemon Tools because I don't have CD burner on my machine. I tried to install from a folder. No luck. Any suggestions I also had the same issue. I have checked the CRC and its correct. I extracted the contents from the image using Microsoft Virtual CD and burnt it in a CD. When ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Flash in C#

  Hi, I would like to know how can I put Flash Animations into a C# application , and the other problem is the I have to have the Flash Player for play the animation in the C# application Thanks Well, it looks like I just had to build the project before using the COM object. Now it works perfectly...10x for the suggestions thou ...Show All

• Visual Studio Cannot add Reference shape to DSL Diagram

  All of a sudden I cannot add Reference connectors (embedded or otherwise) to my diragram anymore. I click the reference tool, then click on an object in the diagram, and everything (all the toolbars/dockers) flashes like crazy for about 3 seconds, then nothing, I have no connecting line to move to my destination object... Ive tried reinstalling the DSL sdk, resetting all my VS environment toolbars... and fiddling with various settings but ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista...acquiring it...

  Hi Everyone....just joined the team, I need some basic (newb) answers first off, where do i acquire Vista I go to the January CTP but it doesnt work, will the SDK install Vista...my guess is no, it is not installed on my computer and I'd like to test it, plus write some feedback Thanks ~alex~ That is correct, Installing Vista by itself won't put SDK bits on the system. You have to download and install that separately. We post ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Camera Capture for Eten G500

  Hi! I used Camera Capture sample from Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK for develope app with PDA Eten G500. The same action with imate K-Jam was s uccessfully. But with Eten G500 the sample does't work. What can I do May be it is nessesary to change this code CGraphManager::GetFirstCameraDriver( WCHAR *pwzName ) { HRESULT hr = S_OK; HANDLE handle = NULL; DEVMGR_DEVICE_INFORMATION di; GUID guidCamera = { 0xCB998A05, 0x122C, 0x4166, 0x84, ...Show All

• .NET Development WebService inheritance+WSDL

  I got some classes which I use as return types for web methods - works all fine - but the WSDL of the web service reflects too much of the structure in my opinion like inheritance which is visible trough the extension base. Is there a way to "flatten" the structure described by the WSDL So that something like Class A with property PA Class B inherits from class A with addition property PB (where class B is used as a return type f ...Show All

• Visual Basic Monitor SQL Jobs

  I am wondering if there is a way to get the status of a sql agent job with vb.net. I have several sql jobs that run and my boss would like a report in the morning with the status of the jobs. I know with agent I can set it to send an email of status for each job, but my boss would like just one report that he can browse instead of 20 or 30 emails. Matt, You can use the SMO (Server Management Objects) to do ev ...Show All

• Visual Basic Weird Change in Form's Height

  Hello ... I've a Project where all my forms are set to 1024*768 (FormBorderStyle= 0-None) when i run the program I see that it doesn't cover all the screen when i check the height i see that it's 753 even when i end the Program and get back to the visual basic i findout that it had been resetted to 753 ! Now I've searched the Web if there is a Limit to the height when using 1024 as an example ... but i didn't find any clue I can fix this by set ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB 3.0 migrating from NT 4 to 2003 DLL question

    Does anyone know if we migrate a Visual Basic 3.0 environment from NT 4.0 to 2003 if we need to update the VB DLL's Not clear exactly what you are asking. Are you looking to migrate a VB 3 app to Visual Basic 2003 If so, this isn't supported. Or are you talking about running the VB 3 application on Windows Server 2003 - Steve Hoag ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Workflow Startup in transactional way...

  Hello, My WWF usage scenario requires me to startup workflow in a transaction - that is workflow should start, it should be persisted and then my startup procedure completes making completed() vote in bigger transaction. I was thinking about following solution: Let's assume that MyStartWorkflow() should work in transactional way. MyStartWorkflow() starts up workflow using workflow runtime and hangs up on an event (for example AutoRes ...Show All

• Visual Basic Making a picturebox have a transparent background

  I have a picture of a panda with a pink background (panda_down.bmp) and I was wondering: how do I get that pink background to be transparent Draw the image yourself in a paint handler, and use the imageattributes class to make 255/0/255 ( magenta ) transparent. ...Show All

• Visual Basic imagelist icon to be blank

  How do you create an icon that is actually blank so that I can reference it in my imagelist and when I use it, it is blank next to the node text Or does someone have one that I can use I tried to take an Icon and remove the color/lines ect... and saved it and it was displayed with weird shades. Any ideas or suggestions Thanks Theresa You might find the following link helpful; it describes how to create ...Show All

• SQL Server Nulls when summing a group in an expression

  Hi guys, I know this has been discussed before, but not in a way that solves this particular problem. I have some data in a table that is grouped by rows, but when i sum the fields in the group i am getting an error because one of the grouped rows contains a null. Now when i have a one to one relationship between a dataset field and a table cell, checking for a null is easy. But how do you do it when you have several fields that are being ...Show All

• Windows Forms Call function on Parent form

  I have an application in C# where I make changes to a database in a child form.  When I close the form I want a function to be called on the parent form to refresh the view it has of the database.  However, I can't figu ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. MDX DirectInput

  Hello, I've downloaded and installed C# Express 2005 and the Feb '06 DirectX SDK. I create a new project, add a reference to DirectX 2.0.0.0 but everytime I try to create a DirectInput keyboard it fails on the Aquire call. I've used the same code that everyone seems to recommend: keyb = new Microsoft.DirectX.DirectInput.Device(SystemGuid.Keyboard); keyb.SetCooperativeLevel(this, CooperativeLe ...Show All