higgins427's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help to Convert ASCII to UTF-8 - Should be Simple

  how can i convert like " A! " to " " and like " Uc" to " " And so on.. Its like turning it into ascii instead of what its supposed to be   OK !!! Now we're getting somewhere....... For a moment let's talk about three things. The inputs, outputs and your display. What is the input and the input datatype   What is the output and the output datatype What are your display needs In your words, that determines what it's supposed to be Information about your architecture is needed.   ...Show All

• SQL Server "Failed to load expression host assembly. Details: StrongName cannot have an empty string for the assembly name. "

  I previously had an ASP.NET 1.1 site running on my IIS 6.0 server ( not the default website) with Reporting Services running in a subdirectory of that website.  I recently upgraded to ASP.NET 2.0 for my website and was greeted with an error when trying to view a report.  The error was very non-descript, but when I checked the server logs, it recorded the details as "It is not possible to run two different versions of ASP.NET in the same IIS process.  Please use the IIS Administration Tool to reconfigure your server to run the application in a separate process."   First of all, I could not figure out where and how to ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to display a MessageBox as topmost window

  Hi, I'm looking for a way to display a MessageBox as the topmost window. Any Ideas on how to do this using .NET / WindowsForms Thanks, Erik Thanks for your research and giving use a good information... ...Show All

• Visual Studio CR and VS2005

  I have VS2003/CR app that I'm converting to VS2005.  On my test machine the app runs fine, but on our production server I first got error messages dealing with CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.dll v10.2.510.14.0 CrystalDecisions.ReportSource.dll v10.2.510.14.0 CrystalDecisions.Shared.dll v10.2.510.14.0 CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms.dll v10.2.510.14.0 where not found, so I included them in the deployment project.  now I get the following. See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.TypeInitializationExc ...Show All

• SQL Server Express reporting services

  I'd like to graduate from using access as my back-end db to using sql express however i'm concerned that I won't be able to create reports with express.  Is this true   And if it is, is there some third party tool (preferable free) that will allow me to create a reports....Or can I link access to the sql server tables just for reports Thanks,. Hi, SQL Reporting Services will be added to the Express product later this year when we release Service Pack 1. You can use Reporting Services in Express to create reports against your SQL Express databases. You can also create linked tables to your ...Show All

• Windows Forms ClickOnce Deployment Error

  Can anyone help with the following error   It's happening when a user launches the application from IE. "Unable to install or run the application.  The application requires that assembly stdole Version 7.0.3300.0 be installed in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) first." I am getting a similar error: "The application requires that assembly Micrsoft.mshtml Version 7.0.3300.0 be installed in the Global Assembly Cache" I have no idea what is causing this. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Pixel width "Thickness" for shapes

  Is it possible to draw shapes with a single pixel width I am working on an engineering program in WPF and need to scale drawings. The current thickness of 1 is more than one pixel (presumably anti-aliased) and is very "fuzzy" - that's an engineering term! The same drawing drawn with GDI looks much crisper - another engineering term. Ideally there would be a special thickness, say 0, which would always draw at one pixel width no matter what scale transform was applied. Hi Seema Can you elaborate on "Depending on how the Zoom:Thickness binding is specified" please I am currentl ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) LINQ Preview removes Refactor from VS context menu?

  For some reason the Refactor item disappeared from the context menu that appears when you right-click in the Visual Studio editor. I'm guessing that this was a result of me installing the new LINQ Preview today. Uninstalling the LINQ Preview did not restore the menu item. I had to do a "repair" of Visual Studio to get it back (always a time consuming and fun process). Try the solution in this thread - it should solve your problem: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=412559&SiteID=1 - Scott ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office [Urgent] How to trap Excel Window Scroll Events

  Hi all, Does anybody have any idea about how to trap the window scroll-bar events and mouse scroll events for an excel sheet through VSTO We can also make do with any events related to change of visible range. We are in real soup now. Any little help will be appreciated Thanks in advance Sangeetha Hi Sangeetha, Excel doesn't expose scroll events through the OM. If you need to know when scrolling as occured, you will need to subclass the workbook window and handle the WM_HSCROLL / WM_VSCROLL messages yourself. System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow class provides a convenient way to subclass from man ...Show All

• SQL Server Help with setting Algorithm Paramteres

  I was walking through the Text Mining example - which at one step required me to set Algorithm Parameters - MAXIMUM_OUTPUT_ATTRIBUTES=0. When I tried that the project would not build giving an error - Error (Data mining): The 'MAXIMUM_INPUT_ATTRIBUTES' data mining parameter is not valid for the 'XYZ' model. I was getting the same error when I tried to set it for Microsoft_neural_netowrk - Hidden_Node_ratio. When I do a properties from "set Algorithm Properties" from Mining Model, I do not see these properties set as default. I have installed SQLServer 2005 Standard Edition Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 9.00.1399.00 Micro ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Force Feedback not working with October SDK and managed code

  Hi, I am trying to get the force feedback feature to work with VB.Net but not able to do so. Basic features work fine. The C# sample provided with the DirectX9 doesnt seem to work. I am using Logitech WingMan Cordless Rumblepad 2.4 GHz and am getting an error on a particular line of the sample (code on this link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp url=/archive/en-us/directx9_m_Oct_2004/directx/input/directinput_forcefeedback.asp )         // Create the effect, using the passed in guid.         eo = new EffectObject(ei.EffectGuid, e, joystic ...Show All

• Windows Forms Setup Project, Custom Actions Editor

  Hi, I try to use Regedit.exe in custom action. I add it from "Windows folder" (after I add it from the Special folders) but at the property sourcePath of this custom action I get the absolute path (C:\Windows\regedit.exe) instead of the relative path. If I try to install on windows 2000 the installation failed because the path is incorrect. (c:\WINNT\Regedit.exe). Any suggestions...  (I Don't want to call regedit.exe from installer class after I get the relative path. it's cause me other problems). Thanks, Eitan   Eitan, the source path refers to where it is on th ...Show All

• Visual C++ ShellExecute problem?

  I'm trying to use the ShellExecute API call to run a DOS command, and it doesn't seem to work properly. I have code which worked fine under VC6, and it either doesn't bring up the DOS window at all, or it runs the DOS command incorrectly so that no output is printed in the window. Is ShellExecute working properly in the latest VC2005B2 with latest PSDK Is it something I'm doing or is there a bug Hi, ShellExecute is Windows API and part of Platform SDK. VS2005 ships Windows Server 2003 SP2 PSDK and it is possible Shell team has changed how ShellExecute works in a period from VC6 till now. I would recommend you to do two things. First, a ...Show All

• .NET Development asking mac address of connecting device

  Is it possible to ask the mac address of connecting device on a server (to secure web services and let them use for a few devices based on MAC address) Normally it should with wse 2 from opennetcf technology but I don't found examples for this thus I'm trying something my own update: I found already something, but I'm looking for the Ipaddress from the remotemachine/pda source:http://www.csharpfriends.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx PostID=7224 Query = new ObjectQuery("Select MacAddress,IPAddress from Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration where IPEnabled=TRUE"); query1 = new ManagementObjectSearcher(remoteConn,oQuery); ...Show All

• Visual C# Generic collection interface rules

  I am having some problems understanding how to use interfaces within the generic collection framework. I expected the code below to work.     public interface Reader     {         string GetValue();     }     public interface ReadWriter : Reader     {         void SetValue( string value);     }     public class MyReadWriter : ReadWriter     {         private string value;    &nbs ...Show All