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• Smart Device Development WMP10 on WM5 doesn't like http://x.x.x.x:xx Streams

  Hi Everyone, My app - ASP.NET for mobile - provides users with links to mms and http streams and we have found that anything that is in the format http://x.x.x.x:xx is just plainly refused with WindowsMediaPlayer 10 on WinMobile 5. I have users that can open these streams with WMP 10 just fine on their Pocket PCs with 2003SE installed. Any ideas Unlikely to get a reply on this forum for this question. ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Worlds Best App Contest Winners

  It’s time to announce the winning applications for MSNR Messenger’s Worlds Best App Contest , which MSN ran from September through December 31 st , 2005. There were a lot of great entries, hard work and interesting new ideas for building new applications and games within Messenger. Submitted applications were judged based on the official rules and judging criteria which included creativity, launches during the contest, suit ...Show All

• Visual C# Unrecognized configuration section 'connectionStrings'

  Hello ,can someone help me in the following :  I have some pages that have been created with VWD express but when I try to test these pages with Dreamweaver or when I upload these pages on to a Host provider I get the following error message: Configuration Error Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify y ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Deleting a record from dataset

  I have a table in an Sql database with 2 columns. One column is the record ID and Primary key the other is the information item I am storing. I have a form with a List box that is populated by the dataset and displays the information column from the above table. When a user selects one of the items in the list box and clicks a Delete button I want to delete the record for that item. What I have found is that I can delete the item but someti ...Show All

• Windows Forms Datagridview with gradient background

  hi, how can i implement a datagridview with a gradient background i can not raise the OnPaintBackGround event... Thanks Hi, You can write code in the Paint event handler as shown below: Private Sub DataGridView1_Paint( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs) Handles DataGridView1.Paint Dim lgb As New Drawing2D.LinearGradientBrush( New Point(20, 20), N ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Activity

  Are query logs the only why to tell who is accessing MOLAP cubes in Analysis Services I know I can use the Activity Monitor to view SQL Server activity; however, users accessing MOLAP cubes are not displayed in the Activity Monitor. What happens if someone creates the MDX query from hell and it needs to be canceled or if I simply wanted to know who is using the majority of resources in Analysis Services ...Show All

• Visual Studio Syntax coloring for .ReportTemplate (T3) files (contribution)

  Hello. This time Modelisoft has created, a syntax coloring editor feature for the .ReportTemplate files that are generated in the Debugging solution. (and more generally for the T3 files)  It enables the C# transformation code to be visually distinguised from the Template content. We think that this (again very simple) tool might be as helpfull to others that it is to us. You can find it at http://www.modelisoft.com/ColorizedT3.aspx Enjoy ...Show All

• Visual C# socket exception

  ok made a very very good class server it can handle to 3879 clients but when it reach 3880 it throwes an exception like that says that it cant perform operation on a system socket because the socket`s quenque is full hi, you can ask this question in .net networking forum http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx ForumID=40&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO 2005 Infopath project template missing

  I have installed Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition (release version), Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office 2005 and Office (and Infopath) 2003.  In the "Visual Studio installed Templates" for Office, I have templates for Excel, Outlook, and Word (and they are all working fine), but I do not have a template for Infopath.  Do I need to install something else to get the Infopath templates and be able to create Infopath projects in V ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Device Install problem - previous version of Windows Mobile software

  I know I have seen the fix for this before, but I'm not sure where. I created a nice app for the PocketPC and decided to make a cab file for installing it on a few different PocketPC's (all had PocketPC Second Edition and where Dell Axiom). When I put the cab file on the device and click it, the installation works, but I get the classic pop-up: The program you have installled may not display properly because it was designed for a previous versio ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro VFP 6.0 Coding help

  I have made a module used for deleting a member from a database. It is shown below (btw,am using this type of coding instead of forms,etc... because the module is meant for newbies in programming).When it is run, I get the first screen asking for the ID but the problem is that it does not show the record and the module is cancelled by itself. Can anyone help btw, the ID I am inputting exists in the database. ** Module: Delmem.prg ** ** ...Show All

• Visual Studio LocalReport Error - A data source instance has not been supplied for the data source

  I have just installed VS 2005 RC. Tried using the LocalReport control using the exact sample code provided in the help for the Render method. I keep getting an error during the LocalReport.Render method call - InnerException = "A data source instance has not been supplied for the data source". The dataset and table supplied is valid as it works with the Reportviewer control. Is there something I am missing or is the sample code wrong ...Show All

• SQL Server combining 2 select with count and datediff into 1 select. need help.

  I have created two select clauses for counting weekdays. Is there a way to combine the two select together I would like 1 table with two columns: Jobs Complete Jobs completed within 5 days 10 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SELECT COUNT(DATEDIFF(d, DateintoSD, SDCompleted) - DATEDIFF(ww, DateintoSD, SDCompleted) * 2) AS 'Jobs Completed withi ...Show All

• .NET Development TCPClient just "hangs" when unable to connect

  I am developing on a WM5 smartphone device. I have not had this problem for WM2003SE smartphone devices, infact the code is the same except the .NET CF versions are different (1.0 and 2.0)   Problem is, when I try to connect to a computer from the WM5 device, I do this:   this.theTcpClientProtocol = new TcpClient(someServerName, somePort); this.theNetworkStream = this.theTcpClientProtocol.GetStream();   pro ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Work Item rule change works ... most of the time

  I changed the rule for Tasks, so that when the state goes to "Closed", the "Assigned To" field is not cleared. Most of the time, it works. On a few work items, however, it consistently clears out the field if it is set to "closed". They all appear to be tasks that were created prior to changing the rule, but most of the other tasks that were created at the same time work correctly. Any suggestions Has anyone ...Show All