Mr Plow's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problems with Downloading Registration Benefits

  There have been several reports of problems with accessing and downloading registration benefits.  We have investigated the issue and have news to report.  This sticky thread will be updated with additional information as it becomes available over the next few days. Background In order to negotiate deals with partners and authors to provide the highest value benefits, we must must be able to guarantee a secure download center that li ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Messenger Add-In SDK Where??

  Hi All, Does anyone actually know where to download the Messenger Add-In SDK from. All the links actually just end up at the documentation Rick Having the same problem here. I just can't find the Add-In SDK. I would also like to know if the Add-In SDK can be used to directly build the bot for Robot Invaders instead of relying on third party SDKs. Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual studio insall bug

  When I try to open help, as well as look in to the properties of a project, it appears that components of Visual Studio did not install properly.  I had Studio Beta 1 installed, this may be related to the problem, though it has been uninstalled. This is the message I get: Message box title: Package Load Failure Message text: Package 'Visual Studio Common IDE Package' has failed to load properly (GUID = {6E87CFAD-6C05-4ADF-9CD7-3B7943875B7C} ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System beta2, personal website starter kit problem

  downloaded latest team system beta 2 today, created new personal web starter project, when i attempt to create an administrator account here: http://localhost:1689/asp.netwebadminfiles/security/users/addUser.aspx no mater what i type, it continues to say "please enter a different password".  you are instructed to create an admin account for your personal web site by the new starter project.  ideas ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Windows Workflow Foundation from a business perspective

  As a developer I am really enthousiastic about the new Windows Vista related technologies, and especially Windows Workflow Foundation. Being a developer, I have lots of stuff to read about this subject. There are many good-quality articles, whitepapers, webcasts and forums such as this one to help me get started. The problem is, however, that if I want to convince the management team of my company that WWF and WCF are the way to go (which ...Show All

• Windows Forms missing storage-class or type specifiers error

  i have declared a child form in the parent form 'Form1' . ' public: static Form2* childform; ' but in the line of ' public: static Form2* childform; ' where i ve defined the pointer, i receive the error 'missing storage-class or type specifiers' . i ve already included Form2.h in Form1.h and i create an instance of Form2 in Form1's constructor with 'new' operator... so why i receive this error... regards. ...Show All

• SQL Server Having trouble using my component

  Hello, I have a component that I've built on one machine, compiled it, added it to my toolbox and it works fine. Now, I've ported (i.e. copied and pasted) the code to the project environment. it still compiles OK but for some reason it isn't made available when I go "Choose Items..." I've a feeling this is a problem with strong naming or something. In my AssemblyInfo.cs file on my laptop (where it works) I have the following: [assembly: Asse ...Show All

• Visual C++ atl

  hi  i want to know that where i can get the help of atl classes any weblink or documents You find everything in the MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/vcrefatlreference.asp A good book is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201695898/102-4209893-4800921 v=glance ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Hyper link Macro

  I am new to this stuff. I want to add hyper links to a series of numbers.eg 100 101 102 103 etc There is a number folder for each hyperlink in excel. So the 100 hpyerlink will open the 100 folder and so on. I can do i Macro to do one folder. How to i get it to do hundreds without repeating myself. Thanks for you help, cheers thanks mate that is great. THis little intro has got me keen as to learn ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Visual Studio 2005 Team System RC VPC

  Hi! I download Visual Studio 2005 Team System RC VPC from MSDN Subscripbers dowloads site. When I try to start the VPC and login with: User: Administrator Password: pass@word1 the system deny this account. What wrong This account present in MSDN Subscription downloads site and in Readme.txt file dowloaded with VPC. Thanks. I should point out that the readme file that came with the MSDN download lists the password as pass@ ...Show All

• Visual Basic Print directly to LPT1 on Visual Basic 6 urgent!!!

  Hi, I already managed to print directly to LPT1, however, I need to specify the font type, wether to use italics and bolds, etc. Can anyone help me Thanks a lot. These forums are for VB.NET and there are better places to find answers for older versions of VB. Maybe the VB6 newgroups - http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx dg=microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion&lang=en&cr=US There are plenty of VB6 sites ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to get screen metrics on user's PC?

  There has to be some way to do this -- In fact, this is already in my "bag of tricks" for HTML/Javascript development -- but I don't know how to do it in Visual Basic .Net (2005) yet. It's gotta be pretty simple -- I just want to know how big the user's screen is. Say I have a 500 X 500 window. If they're in 1024X768, I want to place this window at (524, 0). But if they are using 1280 X 1024, I'll place it further to the ...Show All

• Visual Basic generate a collection class from a Stored procedure

  Hello everyone. I am new to collection class, but what I have done and used I like a great deal. Now the one thing I have found ( and this is more then likely a problem with my programming then the concept) that when I create a collection class is very slow to start with. Now I do not mean the actual coding, but rather when I create the class in when I load the app. Example: Sub Frm_load() Dim colEmployees as new Employee ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions A newbie's question on localization

  I tried to created a localizable click once application. It finally worked out with double resx files (one for greek one for english and a default). The runtime seems to be able to see the correct language from the resource files. But I cannot access them programmatically. I try to do the following: ResourceManager resources = new ResourceManager("TecGoblinUtilities", System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly());     &n ...Show All

• SQL Server Detect whether runtime or executiontime in custom component

  In my custom component in the validate() method I want to determine whether this method is called during runtime or during designtime. I Can't find a property for this on PipelineComponent or ComponentMetaData. Is it possible Regards, Henk Ok, I lied I don't use variables in Validate, but I do in AcquireConnections, so still in a component, and that is called during design and execution times. if (Variable ...Show All