Dan Krause's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) "late binding" communication and more questions

  I have several more basic questions concerning indigo: 1. Does the WCF provide a way to communicate to a slick way to communicate to a web service which is discovered during runtime. As an example: somebody provides a WSDL and an operation he wants to call from this service as well as a XML message he sends to the service and a XSL that he wants to apply to the response message. Currently I do something like that with a manual HttpWebRequest. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VB Newbie - Database Application

  I'm a beginner with VB alltogether, and I'm in need of some direction please.  I've worked the VB Data Access samples, but they don't provide me with the information I'm needing. I have a MDB with two tables.  The City Table contains the following columns: ZipCode, CityName, State, Latitude, Longitude The FCC table contains a list of FM Antennas across the United States along with the Latitude and Longitude of each. I want ...Show All

• .NET Development Read by serial port

  Hi, I'd like read and write one byte by serial port and I’ve some problems. I'd hope you can help me. private : System::IO::Ports::SerialPort^ serialPort1; ....... private : int LeerAngulo(Boolean estimulo){ int anguloRecibido; Byte buffer=System::Convert::ToByte(estimulo); serialPort1->Write(buffer,0,1); anguloRecibido=System::Convert::ToInt32(serialPort1->ReadByte()); return anguloRecibido; } ...Show All

• Visual Basic First Chance Exception passing page class as parameter

  I'm trying to upgrade our application from 2003 to 2005 and I'm having a horrible time getting anywhere. One issue I'm having is I'm getting a ton of "First chance exceptions", which is, if nothing else, severely slowing down the debugging processes. I know the main cause of these is that within the codebehind, we call worker classes and pass "me" as a parameter, which is read as a Page class. For instance: Public Function Test4Function ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Clickable 3D Cube

  I'd like to draw a simple cube with "dynamic content" on each face. I'm using a Viewport3d with the mesh of a cube, and on the GeometryModel3D.Material I draw the user-interface. This solution does not seem to work because it simply draw the scene, without giving the user the ability to interact with it. What do you suggest me to draw different content on each face of this cube I attached below the code used by now. Thanks fo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Extensibility: how to write an add-in for VS2005

  I do not know if this is the right forum for this. How do I even begin my first steps to write a visual studio 2005 add-in Is there a sample example somewhere. I can create a sample add-in from the Visual Studio when creating a new project but after that there is not any good information in help or on MSDN. I want to basically add a new menu item to the context menu in the solution explorer and when the user clicks on it, I need to create a ne ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can I install Express side by side with VSTS?

  I have VSTS installed on my work computer. I'd like to install the Express editions as well, because I think they are lightweight and are suitable for small and quick tests. My question is - can I install them side by side with VSTS   Yes they can all be installed side by side. They are considered to be seperate products. I currently have all of the express systems install as well as VS2003 std, and VS2005 Pro editio ...Show All

• .NET Development Getting back the string that will be displayed by Graphics::DrawString

  I have a string that's too long to fit in a control, and want to lop off the end and tack on an ellipsis. Graphics::DrawString does that beautifully. But I don't actually want to draw it, I want to get back the modified string as it would be displayed. Can someone point me to a method that will do that My "brute force" approach would be to call MeasureString in a loop, dropping one character in each iteration, until MeasureString co ...Show All

• Windows Forms Terrarium Status -- Contest, Framework 1.1

  Can anyone provide an update on the status of the Terrarium regarding the contest for the Pocket PCs and the new version for the 1.1 version of the Framework I am also interested in the contest I was quite excited to fi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Instant messenger for a network

  Hello, I have a question about sending messages over a LAN. Is there some way to send text to another IP address and, if the program is running on that computer, display the text in a popup window (almost like Windows Instant Messenger, but for a home network). Thanks! Check out http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/aspplus/default.aspx url=%2fquickstart%2fhowto%2fdoc%2fTCPUDP%2fbroadcastChatClient. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Datagrid ColumnStyle MappingName To SubClass of A Collection?

  Hello: I am binding a collection of strongly typed objects to a datagrid without a problem.  However, when I attempt to set the mapping name of a column to an object property within the base class the mapping does not take.  For instance:& ...Show All

• .NET Development Data accessing

  Hi,     Im actually an MBBS student (IIIrd yr).. I had this great intrest in computer programing and so i learnt VB6 long back..before millenium.. i Know to use data accessing by DAO method.. Like, i know to create an access database and use it.. but now when i use the same method, im gettin many errors in VB .net 2003.. like the recordcount feature not working.. :( i don hav intense knowledge in VB as my proffession is di ...Show All

• SQL Server SORTS: Change the temp sort file

  Hi, When I use the sort object multiple temporary files get generated in a temp folder below 'local settings' under my profile.   Where can I change this defualt location to a drive that has more space Could someone point me to documentation that explains how to modify the SQL statement on the advanced tab in 'Lookup Transform' sucessfully and how the Lookup actually works.  i.e does it just pull back the fields that you hav ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WCF to communicate with Workflow

  I am trying to create two workflow hosts. One on a server and another on a client. I am currently trying to use remoting based on the expense report smaple included with wwf. The problem I get is trying to add an event listener on the client for events that happen ont he remote object. What I would like to happen is when the workflow on the server ends, it calls a method on the service. That method would raise an event that would start a ...Show All

• Windows Forms System.Security.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent() - returns nothing under win98 - a bug? or just my ignorance?

  the following code (vC++ .net)... WindowsPrincipal * wp = new WindowsPrincipal(WindowsIdentity::GetCurrent()); String * username = wp->Identity->Name; MessageBox::Show(username); normally gives me something along the lines of 'DOMAIN\username'  ive tested this (working) on windows nt4, nt5, 2000,& ...Show All