Phillip Cave's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Calling DllImport("rtcdll"), to call IRTCClient::put_Volume to set the volume.

  Hi all, it seems that I need to do a DllImport to set the volume on the device programatically, but am having problems calling the method, as I don't know what types are used in the method call. I have the following link that defines the required method, but am bit lost from here. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/rtcclnt/rtc/irtcclient_put_volume.asp Hope you can help. Thanks Tryst Thanks for the reply, Ilya. I found this link, http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/coredll/waveOutGetVolume.html, which was very useful! Tryst ...Show All

• Visual Studio Installing Platform SDK (May) on top of DevStudio .Net 2003

  I have a project written in c++/c# on DevStudio 2003. I would like to migrate it to x64 but I am not ready to move to DevStudio 2005 yet. The idea was to use the latest Platform SDK (which has tools for x64) and make it work with DevStudio 2003. However, this simple task proved to be rather difficult! In order to compile x64 target, Microsoft suggests two ways of doing it: - invoke tools from command line. For that, I would have to run a batch file first(SetEnv.cmd) that would essentially set environment variables depending on the target I choose as a parameter. It would also use nmake and I need make files that I d ...Show All

• SQL Server Seeking help with "inserted" table

  I am writing my first trigger ever and was trying to use a cursor to read through the "inserted" table, but got errors. Is it possible to do this successfully I have found very little information and examples for using these special tables. Indexed views do not do the same work "over and over again".  The aggregation is materialized once and then incrementally kept up to date each time you modify rows.   You do have a point on the history, though.  If that's what you need then you'll have to roll your own.   -- Adam Machanic ...Show All

• Visual Studio Project References Guids?

  Hi, I have created a solution that contains multiple project references, I can use the following < ItemGroup > < ProjectReference Include ="... $ProjectName$. proj"> < Name > $ProjectName$ </ Name > </ ProjectReference > </ ItemGroup > to create references between projects but... How can I propagate the guid of the project when it is created into the project reference tag < Project > $ProjectNameGuid$ </ Project > Thanks in advance, Mark Project references should be added during the unfold ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Trying to branch

  Hello I am trying to code with the VS2005 SDK(TFS part ) but its not going the way I wanted it to. The documentation is still very poor and most objects don't have any documentation. The examples area is also slim. If anyone has examples or links on how to checkin\out\branching it would be great. Thanks Avi Branch, Checkout, Checkin, etc. are all methods of the Workspace object. Here's an example: http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2006/03/15/552288.aspx ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista MSDTC error : Import of MSDTC transaction failed: Result Code = 0x8004d00e.

  Hi everyone! I suppose you've allready heard of this error, I've searched for answers on many other forums and groups but I didn't find a clear answer. So, for something to begin with - I am working on a VB 6.0 - 3 layered application and I get the error when the business layer is trying to persist some data. The broplem is that the transaction is not persisted - the application hungs and returns the "server busy" error. The wole application is blocked after this - when trying to save some data i keep getting this error. The persistent objects MTS transaction mode is set to "Requires transaction" an ...Show All

• Visual C++ Help with using MFC classes in Visual C++ 2005 form applications

  I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but what's the right way to use a class from MFC to a form application that is created under Visual C++ 2005 I would image the CLR option should be set to mixed (/CLR) but besides that I'm not so sure what header file or library to include, I can not find much help from the MSDN documents. When I ported the MFC files into the Form solution it doesn't seem to recognize type like HWND, CList, and it can not link to functions like OpenClipboard, EmptyClipboard. I have even tried to include <windows.h> but that only got rid of some errors. I also played around the "Use of MFC" options to other valu ...Show All

• SQL Server SSEUtil.exe SQL Server Express Utility

  All, When I try to start the SQL Server Express Utility (SSEUtil.exe), I get the following crash output message below ... I have checked all of my instances. The all work with windows authentication and sql server authentication. I have used the surface area configration manager to allow 'everything' and rebooted my machine. I have tested each through osql. I have turned my firewall on an off. The problem stilll persists. Could this have something to do with my SQL Services running under the local account Y:\All_DatabaseMSs\SQLServer\SQLServerExpressUtilityJan2006Extracted>SSEUtil.exe -consolewnd -server HOME -user sa ...Show All

• .NET Development How to pass objects across applications

  I am having one windows application which calls an asp.net webpage. i want to return a file stream object form asp.net page & want to access that filestream object in windows application. can any body tell me how to do that. i am calling the webpage like this. Dim url as string url = "Http:\\localhost\Sample\WebForm1.aspx" Dim WebRequest As HttpWebRequest = HttpWebRequest.Create(url) when i try to get response stream like this Dim stream As Stream = response.GetResponseStream() it returns nothing how can i get filestream object returned by asp.net page in windows app. Thanks ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Architecture - what it is and what it will be

  As an initial discussion which can be helpful to all of us I would like to hear opinions of my colleagues regarding the basic question of just what is Architecture and what we would like it to be in the future. Regards, Behzad Architecture....according to me is a blue-print of a product. Caring less about the technology involved to convert the blue-print takes virtual form, all it does is dictates how the system should be implemented. -S ...Show All

• Visual Basic changing image inside a button

  hi there, i would like to change my display image inside a button when the button is clicked..how can i do it programatically for example: a button with text "Log In" and image LogIn.ico, when clicked, it will change to text "Log Off" and LogOff.ico can anyone please help me this beginner thank you thx Dustin..it does help...however, how if i want to use a image from Resource folder of my project, what is my path... ...Show All

• Visual C++ Using Bookmarks in VC 8.0

  I am switching to .NET 2005 from using VC 6.0 and for a short while VC .NET 2003, but I use the IDE for also reading through logs and loved the bookmark feature for this. First I had to figure out how to get the function keys back to the way they worked in VC 6.0 (Ctrl+F2 and F2), but now that they are working I was looking for a way to get the bookmark stepping to work as it did in VC 6.0. It used to let me set bookmarks and then step through them in the order that they appear in the log, but now it seems to go through an order list of the bookmarks and shows them in the order that they were set, even jumping to other open documents. ...Show All

• .NET Development C++ /CLI signed assembly issue 2005 beta2

  I cant send  C++/CLI assembly to Gac — error  "The check for signature failed for assembly Name.dll" I cant use reference to this assembly. I add the reference to this assembly in   c# project -  it compiles ok, but  if i invoke method from this assembly inside c# project  - I get error {"Could not load file or assembly 'Name, Version=1.0.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=2fce200b3162ab9d' or one of its dependencies. Strong name validation failed. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8013141A)"} I sign assembly using *.snk file and  AssemblyKeyFile attribute. in this sutuation assembly written in c# works fine! ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Modal Windows And Transparency

  Hi, Seeing as you have to make Transparent windows by doing native methods (Gadget example), I would like to know the following: 1) Is it possible to improve the appearence of the transparent window seeing as controls on the transparent window appear with a few pixel errors here and there. 2) Is it possible to make the modal Thank you very much Jaco This functionality is important to me also. I need to create transparent, modal windows. Joe ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Changing Texture ColorKey (D3D/C#)

  Hi, Is it possible to change the ColorKey of a Texture after it has been created, or can it only be set at load time I primarly want it to provide the good ol' "top-left pixel is ColorKey" functionality to my users. Thanks, Jonas Ah, so that's how it works! I'll definitely preprocess myself. Thanks a lot. ...Show All