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• Visual Studio Team System The graphical representation of MSF4ASD

  Hello MSF users,   In my research of Microsoft Solution Framework I discovered that there is little information of this meta process. Therefore, I do my own research, where I compare the Microsoft Solutions Framework for Agile Software Development (MSF4ASD) and the well-known Rational Unified Process (RUP). Whereas RUP has a graphical representation of their process, MSF4ASD has none. Last weeks I conducted a graphical representation of Microsoft Solutions Framework for Agile Software Development as shown below. Note that, it is a simplified illustration of this software engineering process.     ...Show All

• .NET Development FTP Help in asp.Net 1.1

  Hi guys I am fairly new to ASP.NET so please feel free to let me know if there is something that i have overlooked. I need write an asp.net page where i will need to retrieve from and upload files to a ftp server. I've had a look in google and the forum, and I am struggling to find any useful reference to write the FTP module using .net framework 1.1. And the only thing that seem to be useful was with .net framework 2 with the FtpWebrequest module. Does anyone knows any good reference, or is able to shed some light on this topic please. Best Regards Jason Jason, unfortunately FtpWebRequest is only for 2.0. The good ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to Soft Reset a Device programatically

  Dear all, Is there any command in VB to Soft Reset the device Please give an advice. Thank you! Michael Koster wrote: Hi You need do add an Imports statement at the very beginning of the file. Add the following line at the very beginning of your .vb file: Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices Thanks! Michael Great! It works like a miracle. Thanks again Michael. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectInput not recognizing wired Xbox 360 controller for Force Feedback

  I want to implement force feedback in a game I'm working on. The controller is reocignized fine without checking for force feedback. So if I write... //create force feedback capable joystick device. foreach(DeviceInstance di in Manager.GetDevices( DeviceClass.GameControl, EnumDevicesFlags.AttachedOnly)) { joystick = new Device(di.InstanceGuid); break; } if (joystick == null) { //Throw exception if joystick not found. throw new Exception("No joystick that supports forced feedback found."); } It recognizes the joystick, but if I modify that foreach statement to... //create force feedback capable joystick device. foreach(Devi ...Show All

• Visual Basic using code written in C#

  Hi. I'm trying to use a code library written in C# in visual basic, but i cant figure out how to do it. Here's the library: i want to be able to use the functions in it in VB. I've tried compile it into a class library and then add it as a reference in visual basic, but it still doesn't work. mattias Where is the library There is no reason why you shouldn't be able to import and call a C# library from VB.NET, in fact to VB it will look the same as if it was also written in VB, as it's been compiled to the same IL. You need to define 'doesn't work'. Can you import it Can you call it Do yo ...Show All

• .NET Development newbie question related to ecommerce

  hi i have my ebook and i want to sale it on the web. user will click on the download link. he will have to pay for the book. and after successfull payment the downloadin will start automatically. now the problem is how to include the payment system in my website. and is there anyway i can track either the download was successful or not. thnkx Smart developers don't reinvent the wheel, they learn where to innovate and where to reuse existing work. To take credit card payments, you need to talk to a bank about setting up a payment gateway. It's doubtful this will be economical for you, you'd ...Show All

• Visual Basic Display Files From Directory Faster

  I am using a listView control to display files from a directory on the hard drive. For each file in the list, I need to display the CreationDate the FileName and the FilePath and also the appropriate icon for the filetype. This is the approach I have used so far: Me .lstNewFaxes.BeginUpdate() For Each fiFile As FileInfo In My .Computer.FileSystem.GetDirectoryInfo( My .Paths.NewFaxes).GetFiles      Dim imageIndex As Integer = 0      Dim lstItem As ListViewItem      Dim lstSubItem As ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem      If fiFi ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Workflow with Visual Studio Express

  Is it possible to use Win Fx with the Visual 2005 Express versions If this is possible, what can I do what software I need No. Here is the text from the installation point for the February CTP on the supported versions of Visual Studio:   Required Visual Studio Versions: The released version of Visual Studio 2005 is required. The December CTP version of WinFX is NOT compatible with this version of Visual Studio 2005. You must uninstall the WinFX CTP and Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 1 before installing Beta 2 of Windows Workflow. The Express Edition of Visual Studio 2005 is not compat ...Show All

• Visual C++ Automatic closing of command window

  I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to VC++ been trying to pick it up over the past few days through some interesting tutorials. Anyways....my problem should (hopefully) be a very simple one. Im trying out a couple of simple programs of the HelloWorld flavour (you know, the basics) and I'm compiling them through VIsual Studio 2005. The problem is that post compilation the command window just auto closes (thats command as in command.exe or cmd.exe however the program actually being run is the exe for my code, obviously) I was wondering if it was possible to make the window stay open long enough for me to actually read the output with the Press ...Show All

• .NET Development about collection and template variable

  Hi: I am using Visual Basic.Net 2005 and Framework 2.0. Now I design a class as following: public class para(of T) dim ab as integer dim content as T end class and also I have another class public class equipment dim id as integer dim name as string public paracol as New System.Collection.Generic.list(of Para) end class Here, I have a problem. Because my class para includes a template type T, when i create a collection, I can't do that Anybody knows how to do that Thank you very much! Well, either you know what type you are going to use as the type parameter in ...Show All

• Visual Studio Setting report viewer width

  I am trying to set the width of my report viewer in my asp.net page and for some reason it is not seeing it. It always comes up as 869px. I tried setting it at runtime in the code and in the properties of the reportviewer but no luck. I veiwed the source and saw that crystal injects it's own style in a div like so: <div class="crystalstyle" style="width:869px;height:629px;position:absolute;top:0px;left:0px">  <div id="ReportHeaderSection1" style="z-index:3;clip:rect(0px,864px,50px,0px);top:0px;left:0px;width:864px;height:50px;"> is there any way around this Thanks, Sam Hello Sam, The Crystal ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to implement mouse over for GroupBox Control

  hi I want to implement mouse over event for groupbox control.Also i am not that good VC++ so anyone who provides a solution , explain in detail please.As there is no mouse over event in VisualStudio2003 for groupbox, how do i implement it. About the application. I am making a dialog based application in VC++.There i want to use a groupbox and use mouse over event. Thanks Sonu You're better off directing this question to the Win32 newsgroup, since this forum is oriented around C++ language questions. Here's the link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/topic.aspx url=/MSDN-FILES/028/201/015/topic.xml . Th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office functionalities in Excel Chart

  I am trying to programmitically add some functionality to excel chart that I am creating, one thing I am trying to do is to have the tool-tip/bubble show up for every time series being plotted by moving the mouse in the x-axis of the chart(line chart). Say I have 3 time series data and I created a line chart, so X-axis is a time line and say y-axis is share price, we will have three lines for 3 time series, if I place the mouse on any one time series, it gives me information about that point of that time series(with a pop-up or tool tip, I heard people are calling it bubble), it doesn't show me anything about the other 2 time series at the s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Append to XML file

  I'm trying to make an application to keep track of recipes, but I can't figure out how to append to an XML file.  I've searched online, but I'm not coming up with the answer.  Someone suggested a dataset, but I can't figure out how to use that to append to an XML file.  I'll show an example of the code and what the XML file currently looks like. Private Sub Save_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Save.Click Dim xtwcurrent As Xml.XmlTextWriter Dim lines As String () = Directions.Lines Dim clines As String () = Comments.Lines xtwcurrent = New Xml ...Show All

• Visual C# Method being invoked not supported in release build at this time

  Hi everybody ! If any body has seen and came across the error like below: "The method being invoked is not supported in release build at this time. Please use a debug build to enable this method." Please revert back..I am calling a function inside a DLL referred, it throws this error on function call. Same function was successfully executed on other remote machine. Please reply if any body knows any solution. Thanks. What DLL are you seeing this on Is this from one of the DLLs in the .NET Framework Is it from a 3rd party library Is it from a DLL produced internally in your co ...Show All