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• Software Development for Windows Vista Recommended order of tutorials/sample code for complete beginner?

  It is with some frustration that I post this message asking for help. I have browsed the MSDN site endlessly for the past few days looking for a way to get started programming in VC++ express. I have tried the videos, which were helpful in learning to navigate the basic IDE. I have written and compiled a few of the basic tutorials. But what it doesn't show you is how to get started learning the language of programming in windows. For example, I ...Show All

• Visual C# Question about making object instance visible to other objects

  I have 3 classes: MainClass SettingsClass FormClass Now, Mainclass handles most operations and does it's job well, upon being instantiated it creates an instance of SettingsClass, we'll call this instance _settings.  SettingsClass holds global settings for the application... like the user name, state of various things, that sort of stuff.  During the lifetime of MainClass, a FormClass may or may not be instantiated as well.  FormC ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Error starting my project ...Root element is missing ...

  If anyone knows how I can get my project back working It worked fine. Stop working at it. Restarted it a while later and I get ... {"Root element is missing. (C:\\Documents and Settings\\jmwatte\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\EyeToEar\\EyeToEar.vshost.exe_StrongName_withABunchOfNumbers\\1.0.0.0\\user.config)"} ... And I pray on my knees that somebody knows how to get everything back to normal again . I work in C#2005 Express Edition Beta ...Show All

• SQL Server Using MS Access 2003 Project with SQL Server 2005

  I continue to receive an error that states "The version of Microsoft Access doesn't support design changes with the version of Microsoft SQL Server your Access project is connected to. See the Microsoft update website for the latest information." I'm using Access 2003 that I ran a database through the Upzinging Wizard with a copy of SQL Server 2005. I have searched the Office Update pages and can't locate anything that helps, alt ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB 2005 Syntax reference PLEASE!!

  Hello again This is getting ridiculous, I'm spending hours just to do the simplest thing and the VB 2005 espress help is USELESS. I would like to get my hands on a syntax/reference manual PLEASE or I'll electrocute myself eg how do I: SerialPort1.Write(Chr(Origin_Address)) send Origin_Address as a binary byte value (0-255), chr chops it at 127. Get the value of a 2 byte variable into 2 single bytes eg high CRC, Low CRC, where CRC is a 16bit va ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) leasing mechism in WCF

  Hi everybody, In a WCF lecture I presented last week for the local Visual C++/C# user group one of the attenders asked me the follwing question: I wanted to ask about the alternatives I have in WCF for leasing CAO. That is, I have server instance per client (similar to DCOM), and I am using the leasing mechism in order to know (at the server side) when the client died. Thanks! Ido Samuelson http://www.devauthority.com/blogs/sam ...Show All

• Windows Forms Process.GetProcessesByName doesnt return MainWindowHandle

  Hi, I have the following lines of code ************* Process process = Process.Start(processInfo); Thread.Sleep(10000); Process[] procs = Process.GetProcessesByName("iPassConnectEngine"); if (procs.Length != 0) {    IntPtr hwnd = procs[0].MainWindowHandle;    SetParent(hwnd, pbDisplay.Handle); } ************* The ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Graphics character of a checked checkbox?

  Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition: I want to print a checkbox in a RichTextBox. I don't expect the user to check or uncheck it, I just want to display the graphics character of a checked checkbox or an unchecked checkbox. I'm not really sure where you want to go with this. If you want to show a manual of some sort, you could load a "RTF" document containing both text as well as pictures dir ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Missing x86 MFC in PlatformSDK

  I installed VC++ Express Beta 2 yesterday, then the PlatformSDK 5.2.3790.1830.15.PlatformSDK_Svr2003SP1_rtm.img and i could not find any MFC libs for the x86!  The MFC libs are only in the IA64 and AMD64 folders. Has anyone else had this problem Dave Kaplan, your posts were moved to the DirectX forum . ...Show All

• SQL Server Null Problem

  Hi, i have this problem (I'm using analisys services 2000) i have a fact table Services with two dimensions Clasifications, and Prices. The fact table has three dimensions IdServices, IdClasifications and IdPrices, idclasifications and idprices are fk to the tables of Clasifications and Prices. I wan to count the services so i have measure on the field IdServices wiht count. The problem is that it doesn't count all the services, all the ...Show All

• Windows Forms License agreement in setup

  Hi, How can i add license agreement screen to the setup Thank's Alexei Hi, I have found the solution. I need to add license agreement dialog in User Interface of setup project. Also set file to license agreement file. Thank's Alexei ...Show All

• Visual C++ _beginthread() issues...

  I am having trouble sending parameters to a thread via the _beginthread(void(*)(void*),unsigned int,void *); call. I just want to send a single integer... this is how I do it now: void main(){ int x; _beginthread(threadMain,NULL,x); } void threadMain(void* x){ //blah }; I have tried every form of casting that I can think of, in both the parameter sent and the parameter received. ...Show All

• SQL Server OLAP Connection in c#

  Hello, I'm trying to connect to my OLAP Cube with a c# project.   This is my code: private void Page_Load( object sender, System.EventArgs e) { ADODB.ConnectionClass conn= new ConnectionClass(); conn.Open(ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["connection_string"].ToString(),ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["user_conn"].ToString(),ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["password_conn"].ToString(),0); try {A ...Show All

• Visual C# using "user controls" on webpages

  Hello All, I recently made a user control using c#. I want to know if it posible to put it in a webpage. Actually the problem is this user control is not registered on the system. I do not know how can I register this user control. I do not want to use IIS also. To summaries my problem: I want to put a user control in a web page directly. Hi, You can host Windows Forms Control within IE.  Here is a sample below and some links that ...Show All

• Visual Studio Using SQL with VS .net 2003 Pro

  I am trying to link to the SQL pubs database that is specified in the VS walk through "Creating a Web Application Using VB".  When I come to the step "add and configure a data source" the Data Link Properties Window opens to the connection tab; step 1 "Select or enter a server name". I do not find any reference to my local computer in the drop down list. I did install the SQL component that comes with VS .net 2003 Pro. ...Show All