PhilipD's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Microsoft Speech/Vista

  I loaded Vista build 5308 and it is a hopeless mess. It does install, but there are innumerable problems. I have worked with many Microsoft betas and usually by Beta 2 the software is fairly useable. This isn't true with Vista. There are countless serious glitches and the OS is extremely unstable. The new user interface is poorly designed and, when it does work, is very awkward to use. A very major problem is that the Windows XP/Windows 2 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Registration benefits

  I just read the announcement about the benefits of registration. I already had registered so of course it didn't let me register again. Is there a way to still get the downloads or should I now know never to register an MS product until they have some registration benefits announced If you are registered you can take part of the benefits. Check the registration benefit portal. http://connect.microsoft.com ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows Webforms and additional DLLs

  Hi, i show in a normal HTML Page (with the Object Tag) a Windowsform (like Microsoft Puzzle Sample http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/06/rich/default.aspx  ) I do the same now but my dll need some more Dlls to load. How can i do this I can show on the development pc the Windowsform without Problems. When i copy all needed Dlls to another Computer an test it with localhost/test/test.htm it works also. But when i call the Webpage fr ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Indigo Features Specific to Vista?

  Hi Team, As mentioned in many SDRs, there were going to be some features of Indigo that were specific to Longhorn/Vista In particular, I remember the WAS subsystem. Can anyone eloborate on this and/or point me to any materials In addition, I have installed the CTP on top of Vista 5219 successfully but Vista 5219 does not seem to have IIS anywhere!! In Vista Beta 1, as it should be, I had to enable the World Wide Web Publishing Service but that ...Show All

• .NET Development Servers, Pages and their controls and HTTPWebRequest.

  Recently I was asked how to push button on a web page control programmatically and I realized I didn’t know. For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been playing with HTTPWebRequest and getting the samples to work. That’s a wonderful class and it looks as if it exposes every possible thing that could be exposed, but I realized after all the code that I still don’t know how the pieces fit together.   I have a single XP node and I’ve set up ...Show All

• Windows Forms 'ping' automatically

  hi, I have a 'ping' program in .net 2003, and also a timer source code in .net 2003. When the program is running, i want it to 'ping' the ip address automatically for every 2 minutes. But I don't know how to write it in code. Can someone please help me Thank You Can someone help me check if i'm writing correctly Here is my code: Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer ...Show All

• Visual Basic Snipet Editor Path

  Where is the snippet editor created by default... i cant reinstall it (says there is an network error, even though being on local drive) and i cant see any shortcuts on menu There were some issues with early versions of the snippet editor. I would try using the one on the gotdotnet website . ...Show All

• Visual C# Where's my Immediate window???

  I load up a web project or a win forms project, run it and get the debugger and the project loads. I put in a break point, it stops on the break point. I go down to my command window that in the past allowed me to do things like lblSomething.Text and it would spit out the value of the .Text property and it is now some sort of shell thing with a > beside it that doesn't allow me to do this anymore.  (Even RC1 allowed this and defaulted to ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Connectivity Problem

  Hi there, I am facing sql server connection problem. can any one help Problem Details: I had install sql server in my local computer and i want to use the tables that i had create in my VBA. I tried to build many connection string but the error "[DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen(Connect()).] SQL Server does not exist or access denied" always appear. how can i solve this problem can anyone help Could you please provide m ...Show All

• SQL Server User return value of a SP in another SP (SQL Server 2000)

  Hi group, I need the result of a SP in another SP. The SP I need to have the result of does not have an output param. It just returns a result. I tried the following code: SELECT @WeightedAverage = EXEC uspCalcWeightedAverage @StartDate, @EndDate, @InMarket, @InProductType, @InWeekDay I get the following error: Server: Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 26 Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'EXEC'. Is it possible to fill a variable with the result ...Show All

• Visual Basic Getting A Form To Read HTML Files

  I would like to know what code to enter into a button to make it read a .html or .htm, and display its contents in the form, thanks. Public Class Form1       Friend WithEvents WB As New WebBrowser       Private Sub Form1_Load( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me .Load        & ...Show All

• Windows Forms Search for a value in a DataGrid Column.

  How do you search for a value in the first column of a DataGrid For example, the first Column of my DataGrid is Called InspectionID. It's a hidden Column. Lets say the InspectionID is 50, I wish to search or scan or interogate the first Column called InspectionID to find which ROW has the value of InspectionID = 50. Then I need to make the DataGrid select that row. Keep in mind that the DataGrid may have 1, 5 or 50 rows of data. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Could not load type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.SVsSmartOpenScope'

  Hi Everyone, I have just installed the "Visual Web Developer 2005 Beta 2" on my XP Professional machine. After I create a .aspx page, when I click on "Design" button I am not able to see any control on "Design" mode, but simply a blank page (I have added few controls in "HTML" mode) and get following warning... ------------------------------------------------------------------ Warning 1 Could not load type 'Microsoft.Vis ...Show All

• Windows Forms Completely stumped... reallly need some help on this one!!

  Hi all, I have an app developed in VB.Net which uses Photoshop scripting.  In the Photoshop object model there is an object called TextItem which allows you to put text on a layer.  One property of TextItem is Position which is defined sim ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to use function AfxCheckMemory()

  Hi, A few days ago I posted a message about problems with my c++ project: it gave different results depending on the location from which it was run. So far, we haven't managed to solve the problem; however, we think there might be some memory problems. According to the help index of c++ (version .NET 2003), I can use AfxCheckMemory() to check the code for memory overwriting during runtime. When typing this text in the code, it is indeed re ...Show All