PaulWong's Q&A profile

• SQL Server SQL Mobile query hangs PPC 2003 device

  I've written a query to pull data from a SQL Mobile database which seems to completely hang the device when I run it (I waited several minutes before warm-starting). Yes, it's a bit complex, but it works fine on the desktop version--completes pretty much instantly. Are there any limits to SQL Mobile that might prevent me from writing such a query There are not very many records in any of the tables (all are <20, except one which is ~2500) ...Show All

• .NET Development ASP.net 2 Xams

  Do any body Know when Visual studio 2005 exams will be available and VS 2003 exams will be expire From http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/newgen/faq/ : Professionals who hold any currently recognized Microsoft certification do not need to renew their credentials. Your current credentials will be recognized as long as they are in demand, and they will continue to be supported by Microsoft. Microsoft continues to recognize the followi ...Show All

• Visual Basic WMP10 SDK How to?

  Hi, I have downloaded the Windows Media Player 10 SDK to add a video player, and I have no idea how to add it into my current project. I have downloaded and installed it to default directory and don't know what to do with it now. Plus the documentation on the Microsoft site is for VB 6 and talks about functions that have changed in the 2005 version. Could anybody help Hi, A quick search on http://msdn.microsoft.com will give you this: Usin ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Emulator won't run without internet connection

  I would like to debug my program on my laptop using the emulator. I am currently using Visual Studio .NET 2003. Visual Studio will copy the program out to the emulator, along with all the necessary files, and even install the CAB files, but it will not launch the application for debugging. I have to run it manually, and of course, that doesn't help me debug. What's going on here I can't belive Microsoft requires a live internet connection just ...Show All

• .NET Development Errors creating new data source

  I've been writing OOP code for 10+ years, and am now excited to learn C#. To help me get going, I recently installed Visual Studio 2005 b2, and have been studying ADO.NET & working through some MS Access projects. I've followed several tutorials on the Data Source Config Wizard, searched MSDN and other online sources, but have come up dry trying to figure out why, whenever I click the Wizard's FINISH button, I get this error: "An error occ ...Show All

• .NET Development Remoting Questions

  I have a remote object that must be used by multi ple client possibly at the same time for across the net.My object only has 5 functions .The finally step(function does a sql process that is ran by an exe that I call from my remote object on the server.For some reason when one client is doing this process and the next client tries to just get connect to my object they get a remoting error and can not connect. Remote object <code> Imports S ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Catching Word Exceptions

  Hi there, how do I catch Insufficient Memory exception in Word 2003 VSTO here is my code: .... try { //do something BAD for the performance XmlNode.Range.***.Delete(); } catch { MessageBox .Show( "There we go" ); //never hitted } ..... by some reason I can't catch that exception, even though I have no exception filter specified/// Any thoughts on that Thanks, Dmitry ...Show All

• Visual Basic Convert a long into a dword

  The registry setting below hides\shows the my document's icon on the desktop. I'm having a problem entering the appropriate values. Both methods below give aconversion error at runtime. If I don't specify the value type, a reg string value is created, but the value needs to be a dword. Private Sub HideShow( ByVal iconvisible As Boolean ) If iconvisible = True Then My .Computer.Registry.SetValue( "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mic ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista and workflow

  I just installed Vista beta2. I want to get windows wokflow started. Does anybody know how to install all software and do all settings Thanks, Jian First you need to enable WinFX. From the Control Panel choose Programs. Under Programs and Features click on Turn Windows features on or off. Scroll down, find WinFX, not sure of the exact title because I don't have a computer with Beta 2 installed, make sure it is checked and click ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Print() Method in VB.NET

  Hi. Is there any way to make the equivalent of the print() method in VB.NET VB 6 has a print() method, which, from what I can tell puts out text to the form without any labels or whatever needed. 1. Is my assumption correct 2. If it is, can it be done in VB.NET also 3. If it can, HOW Thanks, The Digital Pioneer Option B failed me. More details on option A please. In other words, the File.Encrypt method didn ...Show All

• .NET Development Help: Could not find schema information for the element 'microsoft.web.services2'

  (Sorry I may have posted this in a wrong forum earlier) Hi, I've got this problem, trying to add a simple user authentication feature to my web service. I added the code directly copy-paste from MSDN as well as trying load of other ideas why this might happen... I've been getting these "information messages" that practically disables my client application from connecting to the web service. (I'm developing this on my PC, visu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS Beta3 setup failed with 28905 error

  I try to install TFS and get error 28905. Something about "list fields" and "localization". System has location "Russia" and language for non-Unicode programs "Russian" and SQL Server has Cyrillic collation. First I reinstall SQL Server with Latin collation. And when I install TFS I get same error. Second I change Location to "United States" and language for non-Unicode programs to "English" and setup completes without error. I install ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Is there a kind of control which it can create chart like Excle?

  Is there a kind of control which it can create charts like Excle Thank you. Please take a look at available 3rd party libraries, you'll find several chart controls: http://www.pocketpcdn.com/libraries/index.html ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Changing default SPS Portal for TFS

  I want to configure Team Foundation Server to work with another SPS Portal than the Default Web Site http://localhost:80 because I want to run my existing ASP.NET Projects as before. Whenever I run the existing applications I get: Runtime Error Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Dynamic databind in Expressive Interactive Designer

  Hello! I'm not sure this is the right forum but I'll give it a try. I am using Expressive Interactive Designer January 2006 Community Technology Preview. My problem is that I want to generate TextBlocks from the content of an xml-file. The databind in itself is no problem, I can get the data from the xml-file to a ListBox. Generating TextBlocks in the c#-code is no problem either, but I don't get the databind for those TextBlocks to work ...Show All