Bob Surtees's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Start/stop recording via Firewire

  Hello I need my application to start/stop recording a Sony video camera. Does anyone know how to do this or has a link The Sony camera has got Bluetooth as well - will it work over Bluethooth Sony wasn't very helpful so far. Thanks! Rudi Have you checked out msdn http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/directshow/htm/type1transmitwithpreview.asp ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums working with 2 workbooks

  hello, i have a master excel file with a command button which when pressed opens a SLAVE excel file, reads one of the cell entries, closes the excel file, comes back to the master file and writes the data into one of the cells in that. now the reading of the slave file should be done in the background and should not be visible to the user of the master file who clicks the command button. this is what i wrote ... have already done quite a lot of permutations and combinations with the code. Sub open_Click() Dim sSheet As String Dim sMain As String Dim temp As String Dim xlApp As Object ' this is the full path name of the master file wi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Shell Extension Context Menu in C# strange error.

  Hi, i'm writing a shell extension in c# that will add two menu's to the right-click menu of explorer. Here is the problem. If i select one file and use the standard OPEN context menu all is well, but if i select two or more files and use the standard OPEN context menu it seems to want to run through the code for MY created menu. Here is the code in question: int IContextMenu.QueryContextMenu(uint hmenu,uint iMenu, int idCmdFirst,int idCmdLast,uint uFlags) { // The first id to use (should be 1) int id = 1; if ((uFlags & 0xf) == 0 || (uFlags & (uint)CMF.CMF_EXPLORE) != 0) { // Create a new Menu Item to add to ...Show All

• Windows Forms Combo Box Problem with String Display Member and Number Value Member

  Hi, I have been trying to figure out what wrong for a few day already. I was not able to find any answer to the problem in the forum. If anyone know of any or know what's wrong pls help me. Thank you. Table Information: PurcOrder Table PurcOrderID PayeeID (Datatype ==> Number) ... ... Payee Table PayeeID (Datatype ==> AutoNumber) PayeeName (Datatype ==> Text(72) ) I'm writing a project managment system for construction using VS 2005 and Access 2003 as the db. I have a combo box in a win form binded to PurcOrder Table. Payee ID is a combo box. the display member is set to PayeeName in payee table while the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Query result does not show all the work items for some users

  Hi there,      We are seeing very wierd problem. One of my teammate ( who is not administrator) for VSTS , ran Active Bug query, even though the total count for query result shows right, let say 17 bugs  and she sees only the bugs opened for default area path( \TeamProjectName\Project Structure) and for all the bugs which are opened for some other area path ( i.e \MSP Original\Project Structure\Blah\Blah\Blah\ ) she can not see them and they are white screened. Also if she clicks any of those white screened bugs the application crashes. Any idea why is this happening How do I fix this problem. Thanks, Anu ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to add a function to a class

  Dear all, In VC6, I could right click a class name and add a function. This function will then be automatically added in both the source and the header files. I couldn't find a similiar way in VC8 Express. Does anybody know how to do this Thanks in advance. I believe it's in there somewhere, but it's really a waste of time. If you've been coding since VC6, surely you know how to add a function And if you do it yourself, you have more control over the layout of your classes. ...Show All

• Visual C++ VS 2005 Debug Settings

  Years of experience with VS6, VS.NET (v7) and never ran into this: Simple HelloWorld C++ console application. When I try to debug it, I get "Debugging information for 'helloworld.exe' cannot be found or does not match. Binary was not built with debug information." I checked the project options and changed the linker option to generate debug info. Now it executes, but something totally different; going into file crt0.c and gs_support.c, never executing my main() program. Anybody know what's going on TIA Pete P.S. I have a more serious app that was developed with VS7 and that I need to debug. I'm running into the same problem with ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Can DX10 card emulate DX9 card?

  Hi masters,   I have two noob questions. Can a DX10 Card emulate a DX9 card for easy backward compatibity Can DX10 APIs emulate DX9 APIs   why     Best regards.. There is no emulation needed. Vista fully support Direct3d9 - it has to for the Vista shell. Therefore any D3d10 card must also fully support d3d9 D3D10 APIs do *not* support D3D9 calls in the same way that D3D9 supported previous APIs. D3D9 is provided and fully supported on vista so if you want to support both you must code that into your engine. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How can you use data from a textbox in a Word document ?

  Hello, I have a problem regarding the text from a textbox. I have a textbox on a form and a database and in C# code I am creating a word document and I want to put in it what I have in my textbox and some fields from a table from my database (SQL Server), which is something else everytime I run the application. Can anyone help me, please Regards, Monika hi, you said you have a problem is the problem in how to do it , or something wrong in your code , if its about how to do it , you can do it as the following you can use streamwriter class under System.IO name space it will give you all the options that you want to do tha ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Client Error

  Hi everybody, I keep getting sporadically the following exception the only solution I have found so far was to replace the AppID. Does anyone else have a better idea Does anyone else have this problem (I tried changing the culture info with no luck so far) System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: Client Error    at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)    at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)    at Nocturnal.com.msn.searc ...Show All

• SQL Server What-if analysis?

  Does anybody know how SSAS 2005 can be used for what-if financial analysis I noticed that that sample AW project includes a Scenario dimension but I don't know how it is meant to be used. I tried also the Excel Add-in 1.5 and its What-if Analysis feature but no matter what I do, I get: --------------------------- Report Builder --------------------------- None of the cells satisfied the all dimensions rule (i.e. All dimensions from cube in Analysis Services 2000 or all dimensions from a measure group in Analysis Services 2005). --------------------------- OK --------------------------- You can use write back feature of SSAS cube ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to set mode Password for TextBox control?

  I want to set TextBox to password mode (with * for each character). I can not find out how to implement this feature. Please help me... Thanks. The TextBox doesn't have a password mode. Instead, there's a special control for this: PasswordBox . I think the main reason for this is that TextBox supports a bunch of features that you almost certainly don't want in a password box, like multiline text, typography, text decorations. ...Show All

• Visual Basic converting datetimepicker value

  i had a datetimepicker named dtpBirthDate, and want to use this as a meduim for obtaining birthdate of a user, what i want to happen exactly is upon choosing the date, three(3) textboxes namely, tboxYears, tboxMonths,tboxDays would be fill up by the number of years,months,and days the user was. here's the code: Private Sub dtpBirthDate_ValueChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles dtpBirthDate.ValueChanged Dim dtpReg As DateTime = Me.dtpRegDate.Value Dim tStart As DateTime = Me.dtpBirthDate.Value Dim tFinish As DateTime = dtpReg Dim TotalTime As TimeSpan = tFinish.Subtract( ...Show All

• Windows Forms Static or not to static

  Hi, I have a quick question about class design in a desktop application Imagine you have a class that can load an xml document and execute an xpath. It has a property xml doxument and a number of methods to read/write the property and also to load the document and execute the xpath. My question is why should/shouldn't you declare these methods as stati ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problems adding solution to TFS source control through solution explorer

  Ive also added this thread onto the Visual Studio MSBuild forum I have read the link about VS integration with MSBuild http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=64816&SiteID=1 which was very useful but I have a slightly different scenario I think. I am using WiX to generate setups in my organisation (which basically uses XML source code to generate msi's via a command line tool). I want to integrate this into VS2005 so that when my devs do an IDE solution build, aswell as building all the c# projects' code to produce dll's, there is also a project that builds all the WiX source code into an msi. To achieve this I added ...Show All