C-J Berg's Q&A profile

• Architecture A good second book about arquitecture

  Hello I have finished "pro scalable application in .net 2.0" which was nice. Now I want to read another book about architecture. What do you recomend I think Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software is a good option, do you know another Thanks. DDD is a good book - however it deals with a certain narrow aspect of architecture. I would recommend reading "Software Architecture in Practice" by Len Bass, Paul Clements and Rick Kazman before that. Arnon ...Show All

• .NET Development Using System.Net.Mail class to send mail.

  Hi, I was coding a class to send mail via SMTP, but I found that in Framework 2.0 you have System.Net.Mail to do that task. The classes works fine to send mail on a server that does not require authentication. Unfortunatelly, I can't get it to work on a base64 encrypted server. The process of logging in that type of server is easy, so I expect an bool attribute, let's say, "IsAuthRequired", but it does not exists. From what I've read on MSDN documentation, the way to do that is to have UseDefaultCredentials to false, and Credentials must not be null. The problem is that my code do have both these requeriments, but I still can ...Show All

• Visual C# VS2005 Image Library Gone!

  Hey fellas, I've got the beta2 Team system thing, - nearly had a heart attack watching the MSDN.TV thing regarding the image library.. but my install didn't include it for some reason, and ideas or suggestions why - it's not somet silly like an extra download from somehwere on msdn is it Thanks,   Did a compelte install, must have missed it - will try again when i got a spare bit of time to reinstall - thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server DCOM error

  I just installed sql server 2005 on a windows 2003 server.  I chose the option to install but do not configure.  After restarting, I used the Reporting SErvices Configuration Manager and it all looks ok.  When I browse to //localhost/reports I get a rs page with the message of: The request failed with HTTP status 400: Bad Request. One slightly unusual thing is SQL Server 2005 was installed as a named instance ("(local)\SQL2K5") - the server's default instance is a sql 2000 installation, which had RS installed and running.  Before configuring RS for 2k5, I deleted the VDs for Reports and ReportServer ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Serialization error and SQL persistence service

  Recently, I've been tearing my hair out because of strange serialization errors being reported when I start my workflow which is hosted to use the services of the SQL persistence service. In trying to track down the issue I deleted most of my code but still got the errors - which reported references to deleted code! I tried deleting any cached DLLs, clean rebuilds etc to no avail and then seemed to stumble on the answer - which is unfotunately inexplicable. It turned out there were entries in the SQL InstanceState table from previous tests. The instance state data would have been for old versions of the workflow. Although it is d ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Using Multiple UV Coords per Vertex

  hi, i am trying to create my own Model Format, the Engine loads the Vertex, Indexes, Normals, Materials, Textures, Effects and "UVs". The Problem is: the modeling program use per-face Mapping, so, some vertices can have more than one uv coord. How i can apply this to my FVF struct MyVertex { float x,y,z; //Pos float nx,ny,nz; //Normal float u,v // UV } #define D3DFVF_MYVERTEX (D3DFVF_XYZ|D3DFVF_NORMAL|D3DFVF_TEX1) If you need more than one texture coordinate per vertex you have to replace “D3DFVF_TEX1” with the “D3DFVF_TEX ”. stands for the number of coordinates you ...Show All

• Windows Forms TextBox Context Menu

  How do I remove the context menu of a textbox in VB.NET How do I disable/remove individual items in a textbox context menu Using your custom properties inside WndProc method has no conflict, logically it should work.  Be reminded that the other window messages (WM_PASTE, WM_UNDO, etc.) are the actions not the context menu entry itself.  You& ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums ActiveX RICHTX32.OCX

  I am using  the RICHTX32.OCX in a vba application.However, when I installed the program on a new pc with WinXP SP2 this ActiveX was different from the one on my SP1 machine.ThisActiveX was suddenly not allowed in VBA. Why Please, what is a "Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 UserControl control", or where is it ... Thanks RESOLUTION If you design solutions for Microsoft Office, you must avoid using this control directly. If you have to provide the functionality of this control, create a "container" control, such as a Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 UserControl control, an ATL 6.0 Composite control, or an ATL 7.0 Composite control that ca ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WWF or Skelta

  I need to design a workflow application. If we set aside the fact that the WWF is still in beta phase, what would you recommend ; skelta or WWF. I think that WWF misses some features like email etc but has a strong support. Skelta makes the work very tedious like mentioning the workflow variables in different xml's, using its own libraries to access database etc. Please give recommendations with reasons in support Thanks in advance hi Johnson I will definetly recoomend WF , well the feature like email is provided as "Custom Activity " which is freely available for download not ...Show All

• Visual C++ Convert Class to BYTE* vice versa

  We are facing a problem in serializing the CString variable. If you have any idea to solve is the issue, please help us. struct temp { CString name; CString desc; }; temp obj; //Object stroed with values obj.name = "dfjdsflsdkjf"; obj.desc = "fjdsfj"; // Converted to byte array BYTE *x = new BYTE(len); temp *j=new temp(); // Byte arracy converted to obj memcpy(j,x); // We have to retrieve these value. But we can able to get this… j.name j.dec Chandra Murali wrote: Is there any other way to handle this situatio ...Show All

• Smart Device Development SQL for Windows Mobile 5.0?

  hi there, I'm developing an application which includes database manipulation, but very short database, might be a 1 or 2 tables with not more than 10 fields. Which database I can use, considering the Device having very short memory and processing power & what are supported by Windows Mobile 5.0. What will be the easiest way to get it done. Plz help me. Thanx in advance. Regards Harish Sharma If your database is indeed small (up to 1000 records), you can use DataSet which you can persist to XML. That is easy to work with and reasonably fast. If your data can grow beyond that, you can use SQL Mobile. Rule of thumb: i ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Japanese characters

  Hi, I am using Mobile web project to develop a portal to be compatible to J-sky (j-phone) emulator. I have to use shift_jis charset, as supported by device. I am using Microsoft IME 2000　７．０．１ to switch to Japanese language. Direct input mode works fine, I am able to input in japanese through Emulator. but when I switch to Hiragana or Full-width katankana or half-width katankana, characters are shown in the emulator, but on press enter, these characters are converted into . Surprisingly, it works fine on IE. Page level <%@ Page language="c#" Codebehind="MobileWebForm1.aspx.cs" Inherits="MobileWebApplication2.MobileWebForm1" ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Why does Bug Workitem not have any completion time associated with it?

  Why does the bug workitem not have any completion time associated with it (Agile) ...Show All

• Windows Forms is is the DotNetBar Suite you are referring to :- New control

  The Ribbon Toolbar has been introduced in Office 12 . Would we be able to implement the same in VS 2005. How If not, would it be made available at a later stage. hi, thanx for the info, but does this mean, I have to use the DotNetBar Suite when availalbe as stated at https://www.devcomponents.com/blog/ Please let me know, would this suffice. ...Show All

• .NET Development Urgent: MSI forms Memory Leak: Major Issue

  Hey guys, We have, a windows form application in VB.NET. The way this application is structured is, there’s a MasterForm which contains a Main menu and acts as the mdi parent to around 20 windows forms. We have a BaseForm with some controls on it inherited by 20 other forms. The problem we are facing is, as we work on the application, as new instances of the forms are created, the memory used by the application keep on increasing (Memory leak happens). We have even run QTP scripts and observed the Memory usage on TaskBar. It just keeps on increasing consistently. On some of the forms we have like around 30 labels and equal number of textb ...Show All