Colin McC's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ how to compile C code using Visual C++ 2005 beta 2 ??

  first should say am not a professional in writing codes or preparing other stuffs like that (like header files and thiiings like that)! am novice!!my problem is that can not compile my C codes using visual C++ 2005 beta 2!the first problem have encountered is that can not see any button or right click or left click menu for compliing the code like had been doing while using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0!Secondly, I did open new project and file to wr ...Show All

• Windows Forms Custom Paint MDI Window Background

  How can i paint simple gradient on MDI Window Background You don't say if .NET 1.x o 2.0 (and I don't know if there's a difference), but if you refer to the area of your main window behind MDI children, see this article on The CodeProject: http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/mdiclientcontroller.asp I hope it helps! Luis Alonso Ramos ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Windows vista - Windows Workflow Foundation

  what is the relation between Windos vista anda WWF Is it true that WWF wil come included in windows vista when release and if it is so, how Hi Viviana The WF will be available with WinFx RTM which infact will be available with Vista. So yes WF it will inlclude with Vista as WinFX will be present. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Document protection

  Hi, I have problems with the Word document protection mechanism inside VSTO Beta 2. When I open a Word document inside the Visual Studio IDE and I try to apply document protection, the button "Yes, Start Enforcing Protection" is always grayed out. Furthermore, when I programmatically protect the document (Document.Protect) and allow specific sections to be edited (Range.Editors.Add), those sections have a strange behaviour.  ...Show All

• Visual Basic books..?

  Good morning, can anyone recomend any good books for vb, i have never done any programing before, went through the online training offered, but now would like to work through a book or 2, thx Hi, Wrox's Professional VB2005 should be a quite good one http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-0764575368.html ...Show All

• Visual C# simple question in windows hooks

  ok i`m confused on the following thing.. they say you cant make hooks other then mouse and keyboard hook.. in .NET Framework.. and only works ina native dll now if i create a library class in c# and the hook procedure goes there.. and i create a app that will use that managed dll.. will it work to hook other hooks then mouse and keyboard .. like CBT Hooks CBT hooks are possible in C#- Check out this- http://www.codeproject.com/cs/mi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How I can create a file association?

  how i can associate a file type with my application ps: I wan't somethink easy.. Amazingly I have been unable to find a piece of sample code on how to do this in C# in managed code... instead, try this old school and trusty VB6 code from Microsoft that provides the basic steps required. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Concurrency error

  I'm fairly new to .Net and am busy updating a complicated DB that had Access as the front end. Progress with .Net is slow! I have a main table with a number of 1 to many relationships. I have arranged Datasets for my form through the IDE. On my main form I have two fields from the main table (the primary key and a name) and a number of other fields from the related tables. Everything works fine if I change anything from the related tables. Ho ...Show All

• .NET Development Can I depoly WSE 2.0 in ClickOne?

  Hi, Can I depoly WSE 2.0 in ClickOne No, version 3 is not really different in that regard. WSE 2 should work fine in ClickOnce, so long as you ensure that your calling code runs with full trust. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Intellectual Question??

  Hi There Below Is a Is a Generated VB Simple Program. - A Windows Form with a Rich Text Editor Control loaded with the Text - "Hello World Without A Printer"....... < Global .Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.DesignerGenerated()> _ Partial Class Form1 Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form 'Form overrides dispose to clean up the component list. <System.Diagnostics.DebuggerNonUserCode()> _ Protec ...Show All

• Visual Basic receiving email with .NET VisualBasic

  How can a .NET VisualBasic application or web app receive email you may try 1. your VB application connect to a Exchange Server using Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) and Internet Message Access Protocol 4 (IMAP4) protocols as well as support for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/evaluation/whatis.mspx 2. create your own SMTP server http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Code/2003/Sept/SMTPPOP3MailSer ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Question on listview (re)population - performance issue

  Hello, I'm new to UI programming in general, and smartphone UI programming in particular. I have a  question relating to performance of listviews. I have a listview object that has around 200 items with 2 columns each. Displaying this takes quite a while when I test it via the emulator (unfortunately I don't have a WM 5.0 device to deploy to and test on) -- to the order of almost a minute before the listview is displayed the first time whe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Code Analysis check-in policy and Unit test projects

  We have enabled "Code Analysis" as a check-in policy for our Team Project. We have also created Unit tests. When we are about the check-in the Unit test projects the Team Foundation Server prompts us to run Code Analysis on the projects, so we enabled the Code Analysis on the Unit test projects. We get a few warnings on the generated Unit test projects. Such as: Warning 85 CA1304 : Microsoft.Globalization : Compilator_DD_LogOn_FChangePasswordAcc ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro SELECT statement is showing unwanted display of data and is not passing data to a table.

  I'm using a SELECT statement to pull out data from a table... that is working great. What I'm trying to do is feed the selected data to a different table using REPLACE so that it can be used by a report. All of this is triggered from a command button on a form. Here's the code for the CLICK property of the button: SELECT store, stock, year_1, make_1, model_1, auction1, transport, recon, sold_for, fees, net_check, result ; FROM wholes ...Show All

• Windows Forms Inserting animated Gif images into RichTextBox

  Hello, I am new in here and I have a question regarding the RichTextBox class. Is there a way I can insert an animated gif image into a RichTextBox programaticaly. I forgot to mention tht I found an article on http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/csexrichtextbox.asp but wich converts the animated gif into a non-animated ones and it is useles. I tryed to change the image type in the rtf header into jpegbl ...Show All