Jørgen Thyme's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Is the pseudo SQL syntax necessary?

  Current LINQ syntax is like this: var upperLowerWords =         from w in words         select new {Upper = w.ToUpper(), Lower = w.ToLower()}         where w.StartsWith("a"); But I think that this is unnecessary breeding of C# with SQL. I believe that combination of methods with lambda calculus would be better: string[] words = { "aPPLE", "BlUeBeRrY", "cHeRry" }; var selectedWords = words.Select(    w => {return w.StartsWith("a")} ).Collect(    w2 => {return new {      Upper = ...Show All

• .NET Development Uninstalling .NET Framework 1.1

  I have installed .NET Framework 2.0 . Can I uninstall .NET Framework 1.1 Yes, if you are sure that you don't have any applications that depend on .NET Framework 1.1. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Unable to create cab files in visual studio 2005

  Dear All I am facing a problem when i am trying to create cab files for the smart device application. it is not showing me any option to create the cab files. it is giving me option to only build the project. waiting for your reply thanks in advance regards Mahmood          I have a few fundamental questions, just to make sure that your steps are correct a) Are you using VS 2005 b) Have you created a "Smart Device CAB" project (File->New Project->Other project type->Smart Device CAB) c) In the solution explorer, you would see the Smart Device CAB solu ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA Installation Problems?

  Hi there, I've gone ahead and installed the XNA package, following the instructions in the download. The prerequisite's, Visual Studio Partner Edt, and the XNA installer. I've however not downloaded the MechCommander2 package yet. I wanted to see if this was any bit usable without it. I fire up Visual Studio and attempt to make one of it's "content build", and am greeted with a number of exciting errors. Of note, the content build project has a generic no image icon. Two of these: --- Package Load Failure Package 'Microsoft.Xna.UI.XnaStudioPackage.XnaStudioPackage, Microsoft.Xna.UI.XnaStudioPackage, Version ... (a whole bunch of p ...Show All

• .NET Development Protecting .NET dlls and licencing

  I am little concerned about protecting my dlls from being reverse engineered. Want to know liitle more about the topic. It seems that .Net dll can be deassembled to reveal all the protected information. I want to licence my product, and thought that creating an encrypted licence file, with private key stored in resource of exe, or dll, or some constant. But i am concerned if some one can simply deassemble my dll, or even use in its own project, and access the private key to write the licence... i am not interested in buying third party fuscators, is there any better approaches to achieve this... all i want is that my private and critic ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Indigo compatibility with VS

  Hi I need to know that which version of visual studio is compatible with indigo. Thanks Hi, Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 is compatible with September CTP of WinFX/Indigo September CTP http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=C20CC6C8-1F4E-4A5C-BC79-C2FE9ABE69AA&displaylang=en#requirements Regards, Vikram   ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Why doesn't ActivityTrackingRecord.ContextGuid match any context guids in the rootactivity?

  In my system, I need to track additional information about a workflow. I implemented a custom tracking service so when the a new activity tracking record is sent, I can inspect the activity type and determine what additional information can be tracked. My problem is finding the correct activity instance associated with the tracking record. When I try to find the instance based on the root activity, the qualified name, and context guid, I get nothing. The reason for this is the ContextGuid passed into the ActivityTrackingRecord does not match any guids returned from the Activity.ActivityContextGuid dependency property. I am using a simple s ...Show All

• SQL Server Executing DTS from Stored Procedure in Sql Server 2000

  Hai .....,           I have created a DTS package in the Server machine (Server=machine7 and my machine is machine3). When i execute the DTS directly by selecting it, it completes successfully. But when I try to execute the same DTS thru my stored procedure, I 'm getting the following error message:(I Executed the procedure thru Query Analyzer window and got the following message) DTSRun:  Loading... DTSRun:  Executing... DTSRun OnStart:  DTSStep_DTSActiveScriptTask_1 DTSRun OnError:  DTSStep_DTSActiveScriptTask_1, Error = -2147220482 (800403FE)    Erro ...Show All

• Windows Forms Getting the DocumentInfo from a file

  I need to find out what tags there are in the document info pane of a file. In XP, you can set some properties to a file, like title, description and such. How can you access this though code Thanks in advance. There are many different kinds of files, each with their own way data is stored. Unfortunately this means you need to have code that extracts this information for each file type you want to discover. MS Word Documents, for example, can be handled this way: http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/MsWordAutoDocProp.asp Google searches will help show how to extract tags for JPG, BMPs, MP3's, e ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Binding still dosen't see changes

  In september ctp I was talking that binding dosen't see changes if elements it binds to dosen't exist yet.Bind ListView. ItemsSource = " {Binding XPath=something/*}" not working(ListView is still empty),if "something" does not contains a single element and you add it thereafter-XmlDataProvider.DeferRefresh()/ListView.Items.Refresh() dosen't help here too.The only solution now is explicit rebinding(not user friendly IMHO): lw.SetBinding( ListView .ItemsSourceProperty, lw.GetBindingExpression( ListView .ItemsSourceProperty).ParentBinding); where lw is the ListView. Do you have any plans to solve this issue Thanks a lot. ...Show All

• .NET Development Events in Generic List

  In a C# program I've been working on, I have a class that makes use of a couple of generic lists to store some data. When the form that displays the database is closed, I do a check to see if the class is dirty. I've got some properties set up for the singular values so that when they changed, the dirty state gets updated, but I haven't got the lists updating the dirty flag yet. The way that I'm looking at doing it is attaching an event handler the the add, remove, and so on. In the non-generic CollectionBase, these events are exposed, but not so for the generic List class I'm using. I'm looking at creating a new list class that inherits fro ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Express hangs during install

  I am trying to install SQL Sever 2005 Express and it hangs during the step where is is configuring components for the SQL Server Database Services.  Does anyone know a workaround or fix to get past this point ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions query the BackColor property of a Form?

  I am writting a simple bit of code to place a random black point on a white form each time I click Button1. I want to code it to look at the randomized location an see if there is already a black point there. If there is then make the point white. Any help would be appreciated! Here is what I have so far: Public Class Form1 Dim x As Integer = -1 Dim y As Integer = -1 Private Sub Form1_Load( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase .Load Rnd(-1) Randomize() End Sub Private Sub Form1_Paint( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.Win ...Show All

• Windows Forms Drag Drop Outlook MailItem onto Form?

  I see that this question has come up a couple of times on the web since 2003, and there still seems to be no answer available yet.  Any help or direction please The question: How do you drag an drop an Outlook MailItem onto a form control so that you can store the object as an '*.msg' file   I got to the point where I actually want to know how do you get the MailItem object from the DragEventArgs object  on .Net 2.0   Below are some sample code. Is this a bug or just behaviour that is not yet implemented Code snippit: void textBoxLink_DragDrop( object sender, DragEventArgs e) {    &nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Crystal Report Linked Image In Vb.Net

  Hi ppl, I have an application in vb.net using crystal report viewer i have used an bmp image(linked) from a path but when i change image the image does not reflect in the loaded application report i restarted the appn also Intrfestingly i did this in one of the samples of crystal report examples and it works fine there Is there some extra code or function i have to add Pls advice ppl! Dont know about VB and older version if report but this is how to load image dynamically if you dont have option to change path at runtime. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=2408894&SiteID=1&mode ...Show All