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• Visual Studio Express Editions VBE Lesson #6 - Classes and Supplementary Material

  I'm looking for sources that better explain the necessity of custom classes and the supplementary material from the course because I can't seem to grasp the use of any of it. I'm new to programming and I've played with VB MANY years ago but I just DON'T see the rationale behind creating a custom class as indicated in the Lessons. It seems non-sensical and unnecessarily complicated. If I wanted to create an application that allowed me to input ...Show All

• Visual Studio setup.exe "not a valid win32 application" - SOLUTION

  I'm trying to install visual studio on desktop with an AMD64 processor (but using 32-bit XP Pro), and when I try to install Visual Studio 2005, I get a "not a valid win32 application" in a dialog box. I get the error "D:\ is not a valid win32 application" when I try to use autoplay, and "D:\setup.exe is not a valid win32 application" when I try to run setup directly from the disc. Any ideas ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I call a java .bat program from c# ?

  Hello, I am trying to start a java .bat program from my c# code. I tried the following : Process process = new Process(); process.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false ; process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true ; process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardError = true ; process.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true ; process.StartInfo.FileName = "java"; process.StartInfo.Arguments = " -classpath .;placelab.jar; rssiTest"; process.StartInfo. ...Show All

• SQL Server dynamic change of graphs type

  We have a requirement where we show a particular simple graph in type columns. we wanted to give the user a parameter like Type: which has some or different charts in it. i would like to give a user a feature of dynamically changing the chart type. hope you understand me. let me know which is the property i need to assign the parametere value and where i should write that there is no such property availab ...Show All

• Visual Basic Windows Positioning on distributed software

  I noticed that when I complie an application and distribute it to my fans (My Family :) That the windows display differently depending upon the screen resolution of the client computer. Is there a property besides the center property of the form that I can use to assure that the program will look the same on all computers. A third party add-on, or something I'm over looking in the property settings of the form. Thanks in advanc ...Show All

• .NET Development new to Web App - problem w/ IIS

  Hi out there - - This is the message that comes up when I attempt to Open a new Project as a ASP. NET Web Application rather than a Windows Application: Visual Studio .NET has detected that the specified Web server is not running ASP.NET version 1.1. You will be unable to run ASP.NET Web applications or services. Looking in the 'About' area of Visual.NET I read that I have the: Microsoft Development Environment 2003 versio ...Show All

• Visual C++ Batch Build Broken

  Re Visual Studio 2005 Standard: I'm testing with a large project (240 components), and I found that parallel builds don't work from the Batch Build box, no matter what setting I use (1-32) for the number of builds. Oddly enough, parallel builds worked fine in Beta 2, and they still work if I choose to build a "solution." When I do a batch build, however, I'm back to one CL process at a time. This same project took 3 minutes to build in Beta 2. I ...Show All

• SQL Server MSXML6 breaks viewer used with Microsoft Electronic Learning Library

  Installation of SQL 2005 Express resulted in the failure of the viewer used with the Microsoft Electronic Learning Library products. The viewer runs under IE and is driven by an XML file. This has been verified on several systems. I uninstalled only MSXML6 and the viewer worked normally. I have no idea if the problem is with the viewer script, the XML file driving it, or MSXML6 but obviously this might be a breaking change to the product. ...Show All

• SQL Server Query Runs Perfectly in SQL 2000 but not SQL 2005 (but runs fine in Query Analyzer for 2005)

  The following query: SELECT TOP 1 a1 . AccountType as 'OtherAcctType' , a1 . ListID as 'OtherAcctName' , a2 . ListID as 'AgCommAcctName' , a3 . ListID as 'AdminAcctName' , a4 . ListID AS 'InsAcctName' , v1 . ListID AS 'OtherAcctVendor' , v2 . ListID AS 'AgCommAcctVendor' , v3 . ListID AS 'InsAcctVendor' FROM tblCommissionStructure LEFT OUTER JOIN tblAccounts AS a1 ON a1 . ...Show All

• Visual Studio Why is MessageBox undefined after importing System.Windows.Forms?

  I am new to Visual Studio.  I have VS 2005 Beta 2 installed.  I have a simple exercise from a book which Imports System.Windows.Forms at the top and then calls MessageBox to display results.  Here is a code snippet: Imports System.Windows.Forms Module Module1     Sub Main()         Dim amount, principal As Decimal         Dim rate As Double   ...Show All

• .NET Development how to check the internet connectivity

  My computer in connected to a LAN which inturn is connected to the internet through the gateway router. so the IP address i use is the private IP address. I want to check the internet connectivity from c#. How can i know whether or not the internet connectivity is working although my LAN connection is working very well Please help me with this problem. While mechanisms exist for determining if there is a net ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Getting the depth buffer's content

  Hi, I have a GeForce 7800 GTX 512 based card and was surprized to find out that the driver for it states ( in the caps ) that there is no support for D3DFMT_D16_LOCKABLE . I want to get the content of the depth buffer - How can I do that Thanks' In Advance : Lior Canetti . You could easily retrieve the depth/stencil surface using the IDirect3DDevice9::GetDepthStencilSurface(&userDefinedSurface) or the Device.Depth ...Show All

• Visual C# Commandbar event trigger- help please

  I'm building an office add-in in C# and having trouble completing the project.  I've successfully built a new toolbar with buttons and functionality to launch a form, but what I want to do is also tap into the default methods of create a new page through the default (standard) command bar and file (Menu) command bar. I've searched my heart out for this and was hoping that using the new version of Visual Studio would be helpful but an still ...Show All

• Windows Forms Control the size of the Context Menu Popup?

  I have a context menu: m_AddRowContextMenu = New DMS.ToolBox.ContextMenuStrip() Add some Items (200 maybe...): For i As Integer = 0 To 200 m_AddRowContextMenu.Items.Add("Item" & i.ToString() ) Next Show the context Menu: m_AddRowContextMenu.Show(Me, mousePoint) The popup is HUGE! I want to show about 20 Items, with scrolling. I can't figure out how to change the size of the popup. It makes i ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro editbox programmatic change

  I am looking for an easy way to determine if I've made interactive change in an editor box. The issue is that there are about 16 controls on a container, they are initialized from a table record thus their values at activate time generally are not trivial default. I have to save the changes with a SAVE button if I made any but I want this button's click method to quickly determine which control values have been changed. I do not want to do REPLA ...Show All