Corbin Hoenes's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Switch between Portrait and Landscape mode from within app

  I expected this to be an FAQ, but couldn't find anything. I want to allow the user of my WM2005 application to switch, using a button, between portrait and landscape orientation. This must be possible: how is it done   Thanks! Julian     See if this information helps http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnppcgen/html/screen_orientation_awareness.as ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I get data from Excel file by C# ?

      My work needs get data from Excel file. After that display data on Datagrid(or update to database SQL Server). I have read MSDN document about this but I don't understand much. I expect someone help me as soon as possible. Thank you very much. (If you can please teach me clearly about this) Hi, You must first load the excel file to a dataset. Then make the dataset the datasource of the Grid... http://forums.microso ...Show All

• Windows Forms Delay display of initial form

  My application does a lot of set up stuff that needs to happen before the main form is displayed. I would like have this initialization happen in the background and not display the main form until this initialization is complete. During the ini ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista CreateWorkflow failing validation

  I am trying to start a workflow using a xoml file. I am getting Workflow failed validation in CreateWorkflow with a very simple workflow containing start, delay 1 sec and stop. Is there a trick in getting this to work Thanks. // create and start an instance of the workflow runtime WorkflowRuntime runtime = new WorkflowRuntime (); runtime.StartRuntime(); // get an XML reader to the XAML-based workflow definition System.Xml ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista SqlTrackingService Beta 2 Lab 03 exercise 2 failed

  In WF hands on lab 03 ex 2, after I added the SqlTrackService, the workflow instance got aborted. I added event handler for ServicesExceptionNotHandled, it is not called. Without the SqlTrackingService, it works fine. Workflow got completed. Comment out SqlTrackingService and add SqlWorkflowPersistenceService, the program finished with each workflow persisted and completed. But I did not see any data in the database. In all the cases, t ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to use DElphi 7 DLL in VB.Net

  Dear Frd, I have no any idea abt Delphi7 but I want to use Delphi7 DLL in VB.Net as per requirement. In this DLL there is a Procedure that return four different type of VALUES and take 11 input parameter. Please help me asap that How to use this DLL in VB.Net By the way, these below process I have already tried, 1. This DLL is not going to registered through regsvr32.exe. 2. This DLL is not going to add in the VB.Net Project through Add ...Show All

• Visual Studio Error

  Hi, I have recently converted and update a program i had using Visual Studio.net 2005 Beta 2. I have deployed the program and everything works great except the forms that have crystal reports as part of the form. I get and error "System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine, Version=10.2.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304' or one of its dependencies. The system can ...Show All

• .NET Development calling Java services from .Net

  hello I have created a client in .NET which is calling Java Web Service. I m able to establish the connection and able to access the Java Web Service thru C# Client. I want the connection to be stateful since the Java Web Service is designed like this but by default the connection established is stateless.  Every time a call is placed to the service it is being instantiated where as i want that it should instantiate ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Vssconverter migration on Dual Server setup question

  I have successfully run a  VSSConverter Analysis on the VSS branch I want to import into TFS. No when I try and run the VssConverter Migrate command, I'm getting the following error: Initializing... TF60022:  Unable to connect to Microsoft SQL Server. In the settings.xml I have specified the AppServer name when it asks for the TeamFoundationServer name in the 'Settings' section. Where do I need to specify the DataServer name ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Target Machine Link Error

  I have used the upgrade wizard to migrate my EVC 4 project to VS 2005. I have managed to get most of my projects to build but I have a couple that give me the following link error. mfc80u.lib(MFC80U.DLL) : fatal error LNK1112: module machine type 'THUMB' conflicts with target machine type 'ARM' The configuration was originally targeting ARMV4. The "Target Machine" Linker option is set to "MachineARM (/MACHINE:ARM)". And I cannot ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 is now available

  Microsoft announces the availability of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1) with Database Mirroring, SQL Server Management Studio Express, additional options for ISVs, and normal feature fixes. SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/sp1.mspx Kamran, I'm not sure what you're asking. Standard Edition is supported on Win XP SP2. As such, you can apply SP1 to your Standard installation. You ca ...Show All

• SQL Server Need help with a simple query

  Hi Everyone: I am new to SQL, and I would like to request if someone could provide me with a query that could do a find and replace in a column in MSDE. I have an image path column in a table, the current image path is set to /images/xxxx.gif I would like to add another folder so the image  path looks like this --> /images/imagesA/xxxx.gif The problem is i have 4500 records to update, so I cannot do this manually, so my quest ...Show All

• Visual J# Migrating JNI to P/Invoke

  Hi guys, I'm attempting to migrate a Java application to the .NET framework. This Java application uses some C++ code to provide functionality not present in either the Java framework library or the .NET framework. Java makes these calls via Java's JNI technology. For example: // The C++ code: JNIEXPORT jint JNICALL Java_xyzMedia_util_MyControl__1getSpectrumLength(JNIEnv *env, jclass jcl) { ... } // The Java code that calls the native method: ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Missing something fundamental?

  Hello! Im new to using the test features in Visual Studio. I tried some simple webtests and loadtests and it works good. But over to my problem: Two computers involved: 1. My computer with VS 2005 RC 2. Webserver running web application hooked to a Oracle DB. I record a new web test: 1. I enter username / password and press login. 2. I am being transfered to a page where I can perform different tasks involving a Oracle database. I do some c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions C# language translation tool

  I'm looking to build a translation tool, that converts words in a number of languages(french, german, dutch, greek) to english. The tool should make the computer say the word in english, and display a picture that relates to the word. The layout is fairly simple with only a text box where the user enters the word to be translated, and a button they need to click. I have begun this project by creating a new project, and adding the reference ...Show All