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• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) UdpTransportBindingElement?

  Hey All - I'm trying to use WCF to locate other clients running on the network. I've been trying to follow this article from MSDN Mag, but wouldn't ya know it, there doesn't seem to be a UdpTransportBindingElement in the Jan CTP! Does anyone know where it's gone Will there be any UDP support in WCF down the road Thanks in advance, John There is a UDP transport that ships as a sample solution in the Vista ...Show All

• Visual C++ Failed to Create WebBrowser Control Using CAxWindow

  I want to make a wrapper for WebBrowser Control in a .lib, but I failed to Create it. I saw examples like CAxWindow WinContainer; WinContainer.Create(m_hParentWnd, &rc, TEXT ("Microsoft.IExplorer.4"), WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE); However, it does not work. The Create method returns NULL, indicating a failure. I checked the error code, it is 0! I guess Microsoft.IExplorer.4 is not the ProgID of the WebBrowser Cont ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista No of States

  How many No. of states that we can put in a state machine workflow Ravi, There isn't a hardcoded limit to the number of states you can use. That said, using an extremely large number of states might make your workflow hard to manage and design. Is there any particular scenario you were looking to implement with a large number of states Arjun ...Show All

• Visual Basic Modifying a specific registry key

  I am trying to write a program that edits various parts of the registry so I can control various aspects of my computer. I would like to know how to use a program to edit the registry in such as way that you can change [HKEY_CURRENT_USER]/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/policies/system/DisableTaskMgr from the value 0 to 1 and vice versa. How do you do this in VB.NET heres some interesting links about ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MS Project intagration problems

  MS Project/TeamSystemGantt Bugs 1.When deleting item it may stay not deleted 2.When close/show diagramm it contains some main parent items only(collapse,expand to see all items) 3.When project summary task is not used, but one custom summary task is used. And move level2 item to upper level (level 1) -> we don't have 2 main parent items and project plan becomes corrupted. 4.We cannot filter resources by autofilter ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions CreateUserWizard - how to get missing field error message to show?

  Hi all, I am configuring the CreateUserWizard and although there is default text in place (such as for UserNameRequiredErrorMessage), if the user hits "create" and leaves that field empty, all the wizard does is put a red star to the right of that field. It never shows the default text ("User name is required"). I've been all over this thing and don't see a way to change this behavior. Am I missing something obvious Tha ...Show All

• Windows Forms .NET Framework replacement for ScrollWindowEx ??

  Hello... Can anyone tell me what to use as a .NET Framework replacement for the old WIN32 ScrollWindowEx() function in VS.NET 2005 I need to scroll a portion of my Form - not everything. Thanks a lot, Mikael There isn't a replacement for this. You'll need to p/invoke the API. If you can redesign parts of your form, you can put the scrolling portion of your form in a panel and set the panel's AutoScroll to true.   -mar ...Show All

• Visual C# #define, #if, #elif, #error, # warning

  Hi everyone, I have some doubts about #define, #if, #elif, #error, # warning. Are are any real advantages of using these in C# programming language It doesn't happen often, but there are situations where conditional compilation comes in handy with C#. Just the other day I was writing some code that used ODBC that had to be compilable with .NET 1.0 and .NET 1.1. Since ODBC moved from the Microsoft.Data.Odbc to the System.Data.Odbc namesp ...Show All

• Windows Forms event on scaning barcode

  hi , i am using vb.net 2003 and i want to scan barcodes with the scaner i want if the scaner completes the scaning doesn't matter what the length is the next textbox is focused i tried it on different events but could not find the&nbs ...Show All

• Visual C++ Is COM interface support method override?

  same as subject.    for example   interface  ITest : IDispatch          AddParameter(float fA);          AddParameter(bool bA); The wizard donot support this, Is that can implement some way I am just guessing here: COM should be useable from different languages and not all of them support overloding. Most important V ...Show All

• SQL Server MSDE ,SSMSE connection

  hi friends, I'll be thankful if anyone solve this problem. When i developed my application, i used sql 2000 as a server side DB. Now my client want to install MSDE instead of SQL 2000. so i uninstall SQL2000 and installed MSDE . AS we all know, MSDE doesn't have GUI. So i installed Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express - Community Technology Preview (CTP) (includeing xmlparser,windows installer,.net 2.0). now i could able ...Show All

• SQL Server Get latest purchase of each vender

  I would like to query the latest purchase record of each vender.  The query is something like: Select VInvoiceID, Date, VenderID From BuyingTable Order By Date Desc If I use DISTINCT keyword, it remove duplicated row.  But I want only VenderID to be DISTINCT, not the whole row.  How can I do that Thanks. There are many ways to do this. -- any version of SQL Server / ANSI SQL select b1.VInvoiceID, b1.Date, b1.VenderI ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem changing color of tabcontrol only(not tabpages)

  Hi, How do I change the backcolor of a tabcontrol(not tabpages or tabbuttons) just tabcontrol.I set the backcolor property(which is available only at runtime) at runtime but the color does not change Supriya You'll need to draw every part of the control yourself. See the "A completely ownerdraw tabcontrol" example on my site. http://www.dotnetrix.co.uk/tabcontrols.html Alternatively, just use my TabControlEX as I've already done the ...Show All

• SQL Server SQLX Management Tools.... seriously

  So SQL licensing prices are out of control - basically Oracle territory - obsolutely no ROI for company intranet development -  which puts us to SQLExpress. The potential is there but for those of us who have several years experience with SQL Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer - where are the management tools From a speed-to-market standpoint, executing bulk import/export, backups, and various other DTS type operations are comparibly no ...Show All

• Visual C++ Error: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.

  Hi, I am getting this error in my application: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. It is an application developed using Visual C++.Net with Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 release and it uses Windows Media SDK 9.0 and has a DLL built with mixed code (native and managed). I need to pass a reference of a form to one of the methods written in mixed mode DLL. Form is a manag ...Show All