Loren Shumway's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Dual boot vista works only with dvd in drive

  ok... this is a strange one I have Windows XP (32bit) installed on my primary SATA drive (c) I then installed a 2nd SATA drive and created it as a primary partition (v) I could not install Vista (64bit) with XP running as i got the error "not a valid 32bit application" so i installed vista by booting to the DVD. After it installed and rebooted it gives me the boot manager and vista loads fine. When i choose the option in the boot ma ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Registering DLL with VB .NET Express Edition

  I may have asked this before, but I don't think I got an answer, and I just reinstalled my OS, so I don't have any of my old stuff.  I made a DLL in VB Express edition, and I need to register it with COM.  I tried regsvr32, but it said something like "The DLL was loaded but the DllServer entry point could not be found".  I made a DLL in Visual Studio awhile ago, and I seem to remember that there was a check box that said "register ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista using accept method of winsock in loop free way

  Hello everybody i have a small problem. I am developing a server and client application where both can message(in my case file) to each other. Evetually i will put this application in windows programming GUI (that is GUI built with win api's). Now according to their philosopohy, everything is message based. You cannot have something which will sit in a tight loop in one particular message handler. Now accept method in server remains in tight ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF Utility Exit Codes

  Any chance we could get these documented for those of use you need to script against the TF CLI Send it to me bharry@microsoft.com and I'll make sure it gets to the right people.  I'm also working on getting a place put together for community uploads for TFS add-ons, scripts, utilities, etc.  Once we get that in place, this would probably be a great thing to put there. Thanks! Brian ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Internal Statement Parser

  In spelunking the WorkFlow dll's I have noticed a Parser (System.Workflow.Activities.Rules.Parser to be exact) class that is used by the RuleSetDialog and RuleConditionDialog to parse the rule condtions/action text into CodeDom expressions. It is also used to provide Intellisense support etc... Is there plans to make this class public It would allow developers to more easily write custom rule editors, as well as write in-code rules easier then h ...Show All

• .NET Development How to attain external IP address as I am behind a router.... ?

  I asked a question here : http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=115743 and I got a great response but the coding for vb 2005 only returns the internal ip address ie 192.168.x.x can anyone help me in vb 2005 to return the external ip address ie the one that your ISP assigns you If the router is on the edge of your network and you have a domain name assigned to it, you can do something similar t ...Show All

• SQL Server Convert UTC time to local time

  Hello, I am new with the reporting services. I am creating a report and I need to display date/time on the report. But the servers stores those date/time in UTC. How can I convert them to the local time in my report.   Thanks for your help.     You need to use System.TimeZone.ToLocalTime(UTCTime). See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.timezone.tolocaltime.aspx . ...Show All

• Visual Studio DataSet objects created in .NET IDE's "Design" view not checked in to VSS

  Background We set up our development environment according to guidelines set forth in “Team Development with Visual Studio .NET and Visual SourceSafe” ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/tdlg_rm.asp ). Multiple developers working on a common project use the "isolated development model," as described in this document. All code is under source control. IDE Microsoft Development Envi ...Show All

• .NET Development Sending Email using C# help plez.

  i am trying to send Email using vs2005 & C# in windows Application this is my code : try { MailMessage mai = new MailMessage ( "kimo.am@gmail.com" , "kimo_am@yahoo.com" , "hi from star" , "kokowawa kyky" ); SmtpClient sm = new SmtpClient ( "smtp.google.com" ); //sm.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("user name", "password"); sm ...Show All

• Visual C# very slow setpixel and getpixel method of bitmap class

  Hello, I am working on graphics assigment in that I am using Bitmap class and setpixel and getpixel members but this two members are very slow degrading the performance of my application. Does anybody know the substitute for this function. Please let me know.   hi, Thanks for your reply. I had  gone through the link it uses lockbits member of Bitmap class. But the problem is that I am developing ap ...Show All

• Visual C# the type initializer for <Module> threw an excpetion ...???

  Hi All I have .Net solution with bunch of c++ and c# projects with .In Debug mode the application  is working fine.When I build the solution in release mode and try to run the application I am getting the strange error "The the type initializer  for <Module> threw an excpetion  The C++ Module failed to load during   native initialization".The problem with it is not throwing any error in deb ...Show All

• Visual C# How do I share a class between projects

  This is probably a really silly question, but I'm fairly new to C# and .NET. I have a solution with two projects in it, both windows applications. I have a class that I want to be available to both projects, but I can't work out how to do it. I can't reference one project from the other because they are .EXEs not .DLLs, and I can't add the class to both projects because that creates two separate source files, which obviously defeats the purpose. ...Show All

• Windows Forms fast question on datagrid properties

  in a datagrid i don't want to see the first grey default column, the column of the selection where there is a black arrow how can i do this, want property i have to set or desect thanks a lot RowHeaderVisible is the property. You can also set the the width of the rowheader through RowHeaderWidth property ...Show All

• Visual C# Does using(IDisposable) induce boxing?

  If I have a value type Foo: struct Foo : IDisposable {     void Dispose() {}; }   And I place an instance of Foo in a using block: Foo bar = new Foo(); using (bar) {     ... }   My understanding is that bar.Dispose() will be called at the end of the using block. My question is, does this induce boxing Since Foo is a value type, and IDisposable is not, will the C# compiler cast bar to type IDi ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Messenger API call function?

  I'm not really familiar with the messenger API, but is it possible to : - develope an application that can triggers the messenger API to make voice or video calls (using the messenger's native function) If so, which document describes how this is done -JM I am not faimilar with this, but several days ago I've just bumped into the following document. Real-time Communication (RTC) Client It's not directl ...Show All