CRathjen - MSFT's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Playing sounds

  HI im writting a new program and i need to be able to play sound files. Mp3 files prefered but i can use wave files or anything else that works. Forgetting to post probably ill put it in my sig. I use vb.net 2005 for smartphone 2003 Thanks all I simply lost the dogbark.wav file on my smartphone when I did the reset. Can anyone please tell me where I can download it or a way I can retrieve it again. I searched the device and for some reason it has disappeared. I called Cingular and they wont help me and said I should call Microsoft. I called Microsoft and they wanted to charge me like $70 bucks to send me the file. All I need is thi ...Show All

• Visual C# proxy problem

  Hi all, VS 2003, windows application that uses Internet. I create an application to merge pdf files downloaded from Internet (which give me one file for one page). I'm behind a proxy server. The problem is: when i request a file, the web site creates a temporary file with the page (xxxx.pdf, where pdf are numbers). So these files are also on proxy server and sometimes i have some error because (i think) the page is got from proxy server. How can avoid this problem Turning off the cache of proxy Or from code (c#) Thx manuel0081 wrote: I'm behind a proxy server. The problem is: when i request a file, the web site crea ...Show All

• Windows Forms Welcome to the Whidbey Forums

  Please use these forums to discuss Whidbey features, ask the Windows Forms team questions and report any bugs found. thanks  - mike hmm, I didn't concider partial class as a step toward Xaml. <a href="http://www.myxaml.com">www.myxaml.com</a> uses on the run compilation of it's inline code, does this mean that one could at runtime create add-onns& ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can I have one event for a group of controls

  I have a windows form user control that has about 45 textboxes on it.  I would like to bind all 45 textboxe's lost focus event to one sub routine.  Is there a way to do this without having to use the "handles" keyword for each textbox identifier   In VB6 you used to be able to handle this with a control array. ...Show All

• Visual C++ unable to find ximage.h file

  hello frnz, i have downloaded 1 project from net. when i run its exe, it runs fine and when i open the code in studio and try to run it from studio, it gives an error "Unable to find ximage.h header file" when i included the file after downloading it from net then it gives error unable to open it gave me error that " cannot open cxImaged.lib ". i am not able to find this file. please tell me where i am doing wrong. any help will be of great help. http://www.google.com.au/search hl=en&q=cximage&meta = CXImage is a free library which is, IMO, made redundant b ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Can't install WinFX extensions for VS2005

  Getting this environment set up is painful I'll tell ya.  I've finally got a successful (clean, fresh) install of the WinFX December RTC, followed by Visual Studio 2005, then the SDK... took me several tries to get that far!  But now, when I try to get the last step installed - the WinFX extensions for visual studio - it fails to install because it thinks I don't have the SDK installed What gives Forgive me if I sound patronising but are you installing the right thing. With the December CTP you need to download Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” Community Technology Preview - WinFX Dev ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System adding existing manual test (word doc) to TS

  I have set of test cases in Word and i want to add them to test project in Team System. How can i do it Thanks They need to be in .mht format -- specifically, They need to be MHT format wiht some specific additional custom word properties. Take a look at a sample MHT for information on these properties. The bare minimum involves a test ID and a Test Type. Is there an automated way to do this Not today. You can easily create a VBA macro do automatically convert all of the files as needed using the word object model. ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Help

  I have developed a FOX PRO 2.6 Version application which has developed the following error message when updating the cashbook receipting module.The message is " TOO MANY FILES OPEN".The application is on WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL it is running well on WIN 98 with the modification of config.sys " FILES = 100".I have done the same to XP but in config.nt and it still gives the error message what could be the problem . The total cashbook module prgs and database files are 69 in total. Which config.nt did you modify You must do it in C:\WINDOWS\system32 folder. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Quckfind

  There are times that quickfind cannot find strings that are right in front of me. For example, below is an excerpt from a project file. </ PropertyGroup > < ItemGroup > < Reference Include = " System " /> < Reference Include = " System.Data " /> < Reference Include = " System.Drawing " /> < Reference Include = " System.Web.Services " /> < Reference Include = " System.Windows.Forms " /> < Reference Include = " System.Xml " /> </ ItemGroup > Quickfind will not find "it ...Show All

• .NET Development Assembly cant load for Policy Assemblies - .Net 1.1

  Yes I know this is typically for 2.0 but I hope someone can help. I can add the assembly in GAC. when I try to add in Runtime Security Policy\Machine\Policy ASsemblies, I get: --------------------------- Cannot Add Assembly --------------------------- Unable to add the selected assembly.  The assembly must have a strong name (name, version and public key). --------------------------- OK   --------------------------- but it is signed with a version and a public key!! here is the manifest: =================== .assembly extern mscorlib {   .publickeytoken = (B7 7A 5C 56 19 34 E0 89 )       ...Show All

• Windows Forms Stored Procedure Failure

  I have the following stored procedure to insert new users into a database. CREATE PROCEDURE spWebUsersInsert @strUserID char(10), @strPassword char (10), @strDescription varchar (50), @strAccessLevel varchar(20) AS INSERT INTO WebUsers Values(@strUserID       ,@strPassword       ,@strDescription       ,@strAccessLevel) GO I'm using the following code to submit the data to the stored procedur ...Show All

• Visual Basic Trying to write an Excel Formula using a VB.Net variable

  I am trying to add a formula that will subtract Column C from B through code, but I don't know how to format the formula using a variable in my code to move to another cell. I more then likley going about this wrong, so any help would be appreciated. The following works with the exception of the formula. Please Help. Dim xlApp As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application Dim xlBook As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook Dim xlSheet As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Worksheet Dim lb As Integer xlApp = CreateObject( "Excel.Application" ) xlBook = xlApp.Workbooks.Add() xlSheet = xlBook.Wor ...Show All

• SQL Server Error creating view from DB2 Linked Server if table has large number of rows.

  I have successfully created a linked server entry for a DB2 server via Microsofts Microsoft OLE DB Provider for DB2. I am also able to create a view based on a table that has 100's of rows. I am UNAble to create a view based on a db2 table that has 1000's of rows. I get the following timeout type of error. First a " Timeout Expired " error, then this: TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ------------------------------ User canceled out of save dialog (MS Visual Database Tools) ------------------------------ BUTTONS: OK ------------------------------ I am able to do a select and retrieve the entire ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Could just be a bug! - loading webtest to loadtest

  Hi guys, I'm using a trial version of Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition. I was trying to create a new load test using the wizard. Then, I want to add a recently created Webtest (in vb code - which has been successfully compiled). I realise that I couldnt find the webtest from the list (Test Mix - Add - /All Loaded Tests - Available tests) I then restarted Visual Studio 2005 Open up the load test and edit the test mix - now I can see all the Webtests, including the recently added one. Does anyone have the same problem Can you still reproduce this   Are you certain the web test build had completed ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Branch with DLL's files

  Hi, How can I branch folder with all the DLL's files Making branch from the IDE does not copy the DLL's file (RC version). Thanks Michael, I'm not sure what you mean. The command-line 'tf branch' command is always recursive. ...Show All