Marinus's Q&A profile

• Visual C# Compiling a native C DLL for use in VC# using DllImport

  Hi Group! I'm a C# newbie (real wet and raw) as well as a complete newbie to Microsoft OS programming. Normally I use native 'C' on Posix complient platforms - which I've been doing for many decades. Scruitinsed this BB for an answer but can't find anything close. Also burrowed around in Visual C# IDE for clues - none forthcoming. For reasons of speed and size I want to write a suite of routines in native 'C' and encapsulate them in an external module - presumably a DLL. Can someone please give me a pointer to how to get started in Microsoft products Can Visual C# IDE compile a native C routine (after all most C++ IDE's can) and what do I ha ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Working with parameters in workflow

  Hi, I am new to WWF and trying to understand in creating workflows. I was trying to build a custom workflow with Beta 2 but I cannot find the parameters attribute in the Workflow class. I believed that it was in the older beta releases - and I am using VB with WWF for now in VS2005. Thus if someone can kindly let me know how to add in the parameters in Beta 2 these days it would be extremely helpful. Many thanks, Mark Hi Mark, In Beta 2 you have to define properties on the workflow for the parameters you want to pass in. Thanks Devinder ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Progress bar control

  Hi, I would like to implement Progress bar in my PPC Apps to show the send status. I 've to send datas from PPC to server side SQL database . If i'm sending 10 records, i want to show it either as Sending record1 of record10 Sending record2 of record10.....so on. OR Using Progress bar . How to do it Thanks! There is a sample on http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/tour/vs2005_guided_tour/VS2005pro/Smart_Client/Pickers.htm see if that helps. Thanks Amit ...Show All

• Windows Forms Funky focus with select and enable

  I have a groupbox that contains radio buttons and a text box. The text box starts out disabled. Essentially all  the buttons have the same check changed event. dim enb as boolean = checkedbutton is magicbutton textbox.enabled = enb if enb then textbox.select If the select statement is commented out then things work like one might expect. As you arrow through the group of buttons (which are autocheck) the focus rectangle moves with the button that is checked. When magicbutton is checked, the textbox is enabled and the focus stays on magicbutton. HOWEVER, with the select in place, when magicbutton is checked, textbox is enabled, and the ...Show All

• Smart Device Development how to draw a persistent image?

  Hi, I have a PDA running under Windows Mobile 5 and I'm working with Visual Studio 2005. I want to draw an image anywhere on the screen, ie. even outside of the application's window, in a way that makes it 'persistent' (unless I want otherwise). Let me explain. Normally when a window pops up (presumably external to my application) at the position of the image, the window covers the image so that it disappears. But I want to prevent that from happening and make sure that the image will always stay on top whatever happens. Can someone tell me how to do that Thanks. You can do something similar with kiosk mode ...Show All

• Windows Forms Dragging & Dropping images via PictureBoxes

  I have three PictureBox controls on a form: pbSource1, pbSource2, and pbTarget. I have used this code to drag either of the source images to the target image & set the target image to that of the source: ...Show All

• Windows Forms Getting program version

  I need program to write its version. Can i do it someway  I mean the version which is specified in setup project Here's how to get the program version:         Dim strVersion As String = Application.ProductVersion         MessageBox.Show(strVersion) But as Kraggie said you are more than likely talking about the Installer&nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server Custom library Use

  When I had used SQL2K5 Sept. CTP there was an issue using custom .net framework 2.0 library. I had to register the library in GAC +  had to copy the dll into .Net framework 2.0 folder structure. I understand why we need to copy the dll on the development box so we can build packages, but why do I need to copy the dll in framework folder for production environment. Should GAC registration be enough   If this is a feature, what's the purpose of registering the dll in GAC if it requires it to be in folder hierarchy. Especially in .net framework 2.0 so that the reference dialog box can display the component. The question is if I ...Show All

• Windows Forms unable to install TaskVision in Windows 2000 Advance Server

  i have all the requirements needed including .net and sql server in our windows 2000 advance server but still i cant stall taskvision web services into it! can somebody help me thnx a lot! CHECK FOR A SOLUTION Installing Taskvision on a 2000 server I was having the same issues... could not find ASP user. One of my friend got the solution,  ...Show All

• Smart Device Development resource or assembly not found when catching exceptions

  Hi. I swear I've been able to do this before. Using .NET CF 2.0, WM5 smartphone. Anytime there is an exception being caught, I want to see the inner exception message or just the general exception message but everytime I look at it, no matter what type of exception, i always get the message that a resource or assembly could not be found. The proper namespaces have been declared, what am I doing wrong Can it be NETCF V1 application Is so, you'd need V1 resource CAB installed. As a last resort I would suggest performing hard reset on this device. ...Show All

• SQL Server Failure sending mail: The transport lost its connection to the server

  More and more often, I am seeing this error message in RS subscriptions. I would assume it means the IIS server can't connect to the corporate exchange server. However I was wondering if there is some timeout setting/configuration in RS or the IIS server (or any other kind of setting) I can change to help alleviate this problem. Has anyone else experienced this Or know how to fix it Thanks, Jeff   UPDATE: After looking closer at the subscriptions, I have noticed that subscriptions set up by a RS Admin (who is also a server admin) seem to be working fine. It is the subscriptions that are set up by ordinary users that are f ...Show All

• Windows Forms Preparing for ClickOnce?

  Hi Jamie, I'm in the very early stages of designing a smart client app for VS.NET 2003.  I'm operating under a tight budget and don't want to spend a lot of lot of time working on the setup/deployment model, especially when I will most likely replace it with ClickOnce technology once VS.NET 2005 is released.  The application will be used internall ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Publish workflow as webservice

  hello, i've always heard about publish workflow as webservice and it's so simple just right click and publish as webservice but the question here is why do i need this & what is the benfits of this and this mean that the workflow will be hosted under the webservice so should i treat is as asp.net project or what Thanks, Tamer The best thing about Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is that all applications expose their services in a common way via the common protocol of SOAP. The primary benefit of SOA is that the applications that users usually use, are user interface, that interact with th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Any way to share a folder (not just it's contents) ?

  I was wondering if there is any way (in VSS 2005) to share a folder so that any adds or deletes inside that folder are reflected in all shared versions Since it did not work for me, I assume that it's not possible, but I figured I would ask to see if there was a non-obvious way to do it. Thanks. Brian Hi Brian, I've worked with VSS for almost 9 years and never did it have that option (share file yes, folders - no !) As far as I know, TFS's source control doesn't support that either (more than that - TFS doesn't have a share option for files either). Ido. ...Show All

• Visual Studio WebForms app using ServerReport - can I dynamically assign DataSource?

  Hi All - I found tons of posts describing how to dynamically assign a datasource to a ReportViewer control for local reports - but nothing for ServerReports. Is this possible We have a great need for this. Thanks -J Brian - Thanks for the timely response. This looks promising althugh the blog has postings from a few unsucessful attempts in SSRS 2005. I will attempt this resolution and post the results. ...Show All