MrBillFromOverTheHill's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Custom MessageBox on Pocket PC

  Ok here's the case: I need to show a messagebox, that looks just like the ordinary Pocket PC (or smartphone) MessageBox. Only difference should be, that the messagebox should have timeout time and it could be playing sound in a loop. I can handle those, but the look and feel of the message box causes me problems. I have tried to make a form, that looks like message box, and show it using ShowDialog method. In Visual Studio 2005 designer it looks almost like message box, but when i show it, it fills the whole working area. When I set the border style to none, the size and location will remain, but the title bar is still in the top of the scre ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. October 2005 DirectX SDK is available!

  The DirectXR Team is pleased to announce the release of the DirectX 9.0 SDK October 2005 Update! The October Update includes the first public release of the XInput SDK.  This SDK will allow game developers to fully support Xbox 360 Controller for Windows.  To download or learn more about this release please visit http://msdn.com/directx/sdk .   Features added in the October 2005 DirectX SDK update - XInput XInput is an API that allows applications to receive input from the Xbox 360 controller for Windows. Controller rumble effects and voice input and output are supported. For a quick start guide to using the XInput API, see ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions DataDirectory for Connection String

  It's easy to change the location/name of a dataset using the project properties - but how can you change it during run time The property shows Data Source=|DataDirectory|\filename, but there is no apparent way to access 'DataDirectory' in the code. Any ideas hi, the table adapter has connection property you can use it Public Class Form1 Private Sub Button1_Click( ByVal sender As System. Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click '//edit the connection string fron user entery then reconnect again Dim conStr = "C:\Documents and Settings\Haitham\Desktop\dateTesting.mdb& ...Show All

• Visual Basic Memory usage

  When creating global variable there seems to be 2 options. Option 1 Global myVariable as String Then as needed in the code put in lines such as myVariable = "LeftHanded" or myVariable = "RightHanded" Then when you retrieve these variable they have some meaning. Option 2 Global myVariable as Integer Then as needed in the code put in lines such as myVariable = 1 or myVariable = 2 Unfortunately, if there are a lot of choices besides 1 and 2 it may be hard to remember what integer represents what.  This can be solved by declarings constants such: Global Const conLeftHanded = 1 Global Const conRightHanded = 2 My question is: Which of t ...Show All

• Visual C++ recompiling legacy C++ 5.0 files on VB C++ Express

  I am new at this, so excuse my "dumb question" I have some old legacy files compiled using MS-Visual C++ 5.0 Project settings, and MS-Visual C++ 5.0 Workspace settings. When i try compiling with express i get errors that has to with "windows.h" file.  What do i do Visual C++ Express does not include the Platform SDK: you need to install that separately. This page explains how to do it: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/visualc/usingpsdk/default.aspx ...Show All

• SQL Server Revoking All Permissions - Secure by Default

  I am designing my software to be 'secure by default'. I only grant permissions to entities that actually require them, to help prevent unexpected attacks like injection attacks. To do this, I have a SQL script that configures all the permissions on my database. It is basically a series of GRANT commands. Every time I modify a stored procedure or perform a similar action that causes the permissions on an object to be lost, I run the script and it reconfigures all the security correctly, on every object. Over time, permissions have been granted that are not necessary, or no longer required. This may have happened for many reasons, development ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView

  Problems keep coming on me ... how can I make a row highlighted on mouse over I was looking for the past hour for answer ... no luck .. Well, an easy way to fake it, is probably: Set the DataGridView SelectionMode to FullRowSelect and hook to the CellMouseMove event like this: private void dataGrid1_CellMouseMove( object sender, DataGridViewCellMouseEventArgs e) {   this .dataGrid1[e.ColumnIndex, e.RowIndex].Selected = true ; } That selects the full row, when the mouse is hovering (you should put in some checks if the indexes are valid, but that is the basic idea....). Maybe that ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions MIcrosoft Visual C++ Runtime Library

  I am getting this error when trying to open my newly installed quickbooks: Runtime Error! abnormal program termintaion Any Ideas on why this might be Thank you Chris This is not a VC2005 issue. Contact the author of the application. Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Hyperlink to Pocket PC CF App including Command-Line parameter

  Hi, I'd like to be able to start a CF application on a Pocket PC from a hyperlink in Internet Explorer running on the Pocket PC and include a command-line parameter.  Further, when the application is already running I'd like to be able to click a different hyperlink and send a different command-line parameter to the running application and have the application act on it. I've achieved this on Windows to a VB6 application.  I had to modify the registry; under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT I added AppName\Shell\Open\Command keys and added the necessary values so that the following hyperlink <a href=AppName:Parameter;>R ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What version of TFS is installed?

  Rather sheepishly admitting I've kind of lost track with which version of TFS I have installed it is definately either beta 3 or beta 3 refresh, could you tell me a way I could check Click Help/About Visual Studio, select "Team Explorer" and see what version is reported (it should be something like 8.0.50727.147). I don't know off hand which build number corresponds to which release, but if you post the version you have, I'll look it up. ...Show All

• SQL Server Sql Server 2005 - 1 processor license on a dual processor server.

  Can I install a Sql Server 2005 - 1 processor license on a dual processor server (physical processor, not dual core). Is sql2005 clever enough to restrict itself to just one processor Or is it a breach of the license agreement thanks hb If both CPUs are used by the operating systems you need dual CPU license for SQL Server. http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/processor.mspx ...Show All

• Visual Basic Positioning the text cursor in a TextBox control

  Hello I have a routine that iterates thru a collection and I want to print each iteration into a TextBox without having the second iteration overprint the first and so on. How do I position the text cursor between each iteration thru the 'For Each' that I am using Thank you for each ... TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text & CStr(...) next ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Newbie: Using Opengl

  i've been programming with Opengl in other enviroments like Dev C++ and other and recently i've been trying to migrate to Visual C++ (i'm using Visual C++ 2005 exprees edition). - already downloaded the SDK - already have the Win32app template My questions are: -how do i LINK the libraries needed  (i was used to simply write somewhere what library you want to link, but in vc++ i cant find where and the msdn help is ..... bad) - what should i know before using Vc++ 2005 (Diferences between Vc++ and the Open Source Alternatives, the basics, etc...) - Why it's so complicated to write a program (maybe it's part of Microsoft policy) Please ...Show All

• .NET Development BindingSource and BindingNavigator

  I've got a datasource that is bound to an object.  I'm getting my results to a detail view fine.. and can use the bingingnavigator to click through each row.  I'd like to be able to click on the + sign in the binding navigator and go to a new, blank "row" that I can later save.  I've got a click event for the add sign, and did a Me .CampersBindingSource.EndEdit() this is creating the blank row at the end but I can't figure out how to get the UI to go to this last record.  I've tried the movelast and position, but I'm not doing something right.  Can someone help please.  do i need to use a currency manager to m ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do you connect to a server using ftp in Visual Basic Express Edition?

  Please help. Why do you want to use out-dated ftp This How-To might help: ms-help://MS.VSExpressCC.v80/MS.NETFramework.v20.en/dv_fxmclictl/html/b3ec38cb-f509-4d0b-bd79-9f3611259c62.htm ...Show All