Parmenides's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Error 32000 During Installation of TFS Beta 2

  I've done some searching but can't find a resolution for this issue yet. I've tried uninstalling ADAM, rebooting, and restarting the install. No go. During the installation of TFS, I get the following error: "Error 32000. The commandline "(temp)\getadminport.exe /vstf" returned non-zero value: 1" where "temp" is my local user's temp folder. When I run getadminport.exe thru the command line myself, I see this: Setting NTAuthenticationProvider ...Show All

• Visual Studio can i use inputs and outputs

  I know the inputs, but I do not know the outputs until I'm in the logic of my custom Task. Is there anyway to still use inputs and outputs in my .targets file to control when things will build, or do I need to implement this myself in my Task class Thanks, Mike We have a VS Package that we are developing for our language. The class we inherit from for our project system is ProjectNode. This class has a pr ...Show All

• Visual C++ Image generated from scanner/fingerprint device

  Hello, i would only need to get an image generated by a fingerprint reader. - If it worked like a scanner device, would i be able to get the image ( example fake funcion "::BitmapGetFromClipboard()" ) - Otherwise, have you suggestions Thanx Lewis As this question is not specific to Visual C++ you would be better of asking your question in one of the Win32 programming newsgroups. Here is the list of su ...Show All

• Visual Basic Rename a Table in MS Access using VB or SQL statement

  Hi all, How can I rename an MS Access table in VB or thro' SQL statement I have 2 clues as given below, but I am not able to get to use these ideas. These statements does not seem to refer the ADO library and hence, I do not know how to arrive at framing a program for these statements. Please help me in using these clues by guiding me how to frame a program around the statements or please let me know if there are any alternative ways. Clue 1: T ...Show All

• Smart Device Development RSA Encryption

  Has anyone used RSA Encryption/Decryption for cf Thanks, Paula Yes. I'm trying to get it to work using the openCFNet objects and I'm having problems. I've never had any luck getting answers on their forum, so that's why I asked if anyone here had done it. I can encrypt data without any problems, but when I try to decrypt it I get a 'bad data' error. For proof of concept purposes, both keys are hardco ...Show All

• Windows Forms Textbox Validating event

  Is there a way to obtain the original value of a TextBox control from within the Validating event What I want to do is restore the original value in the Validating event if the current value is not valid. I know I could store the original values myself but I am looking for something more generic. you can try to bind TextBox1.text property to an Application Setting. here is an tutorial http://msdn.microsoft.com ...Show All

• Visual C# ManagedThreadID doesn't work for interop for SetWindowsHookEx.

  I am converting a VB6 program to be C#. Therefore I was looking up how to hook the application for mouse, key activity and I found this article by Microsoft. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318804/ In the code it uses AppDomain .GetCurrentThreadId() to set a callback thread for Hooking. It uses interop to the user32.dll. I modified/used the code and it works. However, the compiler insists that I should not use this function (GetCur ...Show All

• Visual C++ __w64 int ( What is it )

  I have been working on porting application. I have been facing warning related to "__w64 int" conversion. I wanted to know whats __w64 and what care needs to be taken to correct the warning. The warning i am getting is warning "C4244: '=' : conversion from '__w64 int' to 'int', possible loss of data Any help on this regards is highly appreciated. Thanking in anticipation. Regards, - Imran. The problem is that in 32bit a pointer values fit ...Show All

• Visual C# Cryptography

  System.Web.Security; string value = "3131" in a web app.  this function FormsAuthentication.HashPasswordForStoringInConfigFile ( value , "sha1") encryptes into a fantastic string of more than 20 meaningless characters.. I tried the same thing in windows application and it doesn't work. System.Security.Cryptography doesn't have something like that... anyone out there knows and equivalent to this function ...Show All

• .NET Development Best Practice Architecture Question (Distribued Application Cache)

  Hi, Im in the process of developing a distributed application that has dynamic web menus and other components that are stored in my sql database. the menu is set at load time on the master page, and as you can imagine this will become a big problem having to query the db everytime I load the page. So I have created a cache to store the menu to save on db access. The question I have is: In which of my application layers should I place the cache ...Show All

• .NET Development Detecting Proxy Server in VB Net 05

  In vb net 2003 I utilized some autoproxy routines written in C++ for detecting the proxy server standing between a client computer and the internet.  How has this technology changed for net 05 Thanks, Fred There is a great article by a member of the System.Net team that you can read on this subject.  It can be found at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/08/AutomaticProxyDetection/default.aspx ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Can the state-transition workflow designer control be extended (using code) to support "swim lanes"?

  http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/hfws.aspx AssetID=HP815503021033  is an example of an UML 2.0 Activity diagram ...but don't get caught up in all the details you see in the diagram. However, do note that the activities are aligned into 2 role-based groups (vertical columns): Program Administration and Test Administration.  These vertical columns are often referred to as "swim lanes". Is it possible, in a custom WinForms desi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Change font but keep old

  I have a richtextbox and let's say a word that is selected is already bold. I want to keep it bold but ALSO underline it. This code removes the bold and underlines it. rtfMsg.SelectionFont = new Font(txtMessage.Font, FontStyle.Underline); Is it possible to read what font is there if any and add the new one I added a fontDialog but also want the seperate buttons. Thanks, Zath Try this: ...Show All

• Visual Studio TechEd Hands On Lab 2005 - Exercise 2 - Code Snippet Issue

  Hi, I am currently getting a feel of GAT by going through the sample exercises. I am stuck with an issue with the "dataclientrecipe" code snippet. The snippet was indeed copied to the target VS folder when I run setupLab.bat. I even verified if it is existing using the Tools->Code Snippets Manager and it is. However, when I follow the exercise 2 stated in the accompanying manual, the code snippet for this does not come up. Can y ...Show All

• Windows Forms Getting Bindings

  upfrontinfo = (XP Sp2 | VC# Express Beta2 | SqlExpress Beta2) I have a form with many controls, several of which are TextBoxes. The TextBoxes are bound to a SqlExpress Database using a DataSet, BindingSource and TableAdapter. Everything works fine as far as&n ...Show All