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• .NET Development XML Data affecting bytes? Also - Visual Studio makes larger XML files?

  I need to read an xml file, and read a pdf file (both into memory as bytes), and then write them back out as one file with the XML File first and the PDF second. So, essentially the PDF gets appended to the xml. The problem is, when I write the data back out to the single file the PDF gets messed up (characters are dropped/changed) if it is the second thing I write out (as is my specification to work with). If I write out the pdf and then the xml the pdf is fine. I have, with no success, tried forcing encodings, etc., on the readers and writer. No go. I finally noticed that this only fails when the xml file was created with visual stud ...Show All

• Windows Forms no-touch deployment!

  I was trying no-touch deployment on the TaskManagement application which is found in Microsoft site at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vbtchno-touchdeploymentinnetframework.asp I did all the changes which is told in this site on my machine it worked ,when I accessed the same application from other machine in my intranet(local network)  “Microsoft .net security& ...Show All

• Windows Forms Newbie question -- data scraping from a website

  I quite new to .NET but have been developing in Visual Basic for Applications - Just curious what pointers or advice I could get regarding the development of a small tray application that simply reflects a website's data.  For example, to keep myself from checking yahoo.com every 10 minutes, I simply want something running in the tray that will have th ...Show All

• Windows Forms Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object.

  Somebody got a clue about this message:  Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object. regards remco I inherit from panel and added a few controls on it such as labels and the like a few properties and subs and thats it, nothing fancy In an other project i got the same error when inherriting from panel It compiles and works fine but when i enter the designer i got this error When i click on the error on the tasklist nothing happend Remco ...Show All

• Visual Basic save as text file

  Another quick question as part of a form I'm designing I capture some info: name, email, job, amongst others, which will appear on a registration sheet. I want to give the end user the opportunity to save this as a .txt file (so convert the info grabbed and save as txt with registration number) can any one help thanks, chris thanks Vikram, I'm still fairly new to coding so i'm going to have to try to see how it works. I don't really get how to implement it from the example. ...Show All

• Visual C# sql question

  if i develop a c# with sql database app.. and i send to some one .. he instals the sql express.. and make create some new database.. but then he choose to backup up from a database i send him.. will something be changed like connection string or.. i mean can the database file be portable If SQL Express is installed on target machine, you can simply distribute the MDF file along with the application. You can then use AttachmentDBFileName attribute to specify path to your MDF file. Eventhough the following article on MSDN is titled "Using SQL Server Express Edition with ASP.NET", the concepts are very well valid for Windows ...Show All

• Windows Forms Help with C# syntax

  Hi, i'm developing an ebay application and trying to utilise sample code from thier documention, however the samples are C# and I only know VB. Could anyone help me translate the following statement into VB, i've tried loads of combinations but always get a syntax error DetailLevelCodeTypeCollection detailLevels = new DatailLevelCodeTypeCollection(new DetailLevelCodeType[] {DetailLevelCodeType.ReturnAll}); Many Thanks Ben Hi, Try this : Dim  detailLevels  As  DetailLevelCodeTypeCollection  = New  DatailLevelCodeTypeCollection( New  DetailLevelCodeType() {DetailLevelCo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error installing TFS final release

  This error occurs during health check, "The SQL Server 2005 KB Update is not installed on this computer" We have SQL 2005 Standard installed....is there an update any ideas -Jim On a single server install, report server is configured by SQL, not by TFS install. Before you install TFS, you can try the following to ensure that the report server is installed properly and running. 1) run http://localhost/reports , you get "SQL server reporting services" home page displayed, 2) go to Start\Programs\Microsoft SQL Server 2005\Configuration tools\Reporting Services Configur ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro 2 open files for a foxpro.exe file being used by a particular user

  When you run a foxpro application exe file that is located on a server from a workstation it will display 2 instances of the application being accessed by a particular user. You can verify this by going to: Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Managment/Share Folders/Open files. You will see 2 open files for a foxpro.exe file being used by a particular user. This seems to only happen with foxpro applications. Why is this By default resource file name is foxuser (dbf and fpt). Be sure resource setting is off (config.fpw might have been compiled into exe without resource=off setting) . ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Binary serialization

  Hi there, On my first experiment, I have been using DataContract and XmlSerializer to serialize objects passed to/from a WCF endpoint. Is there also a way to perform binary serialization, perhaps using the Framework binary formatter Thanks, v. In WCF, whether or not the result is "binary" or "text" depends on the choice of encoding, not on the choice of serializer. When using either the DataContractSerializer or the XmlSerializer, you may select the "binary" encoding on your binding. (I believe some standard bindings like "basicHttp" don't let you make this choice. Other bindings, like ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions "More data is available."

  Not quite sure if this is the right forum, but anyways. I downloaded Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition on Windows XP Home Service Pack 2, and I meet all of the system requirements. Loading this program up, everything works fine aside from the compiler crashing, and if I make a new Windows Application project and click "View Designer" for Form1.vb, the compiler crashes and there's an alert saying "More data is available", and then nothing happens and the MSVBEE keeps running normally. Everything else I've tried seems to work fine, including editing the code for ...Show All

• Visual C++ how to know the window type?

  Hi forum members I have a doubt, how i can get the window type from a window handle , i mean to know if the owner of a window handle is a dialog box, button, edit text, listbox or static. Thank you The window type can be found by using the Win32 function GetClassName() .  Window types provided by the system will all have the same class name ("edit" for edit controls, "button" for various button types, etc). Additional information can be found from the window styles, which can be obtained via the GetWindowLong() function specifying GWL_STYLE for the nIndex parameter.  For example, pushbuttons and c ...Show All

• SQL Server Hundreds Of VIEWS

  What are the downsides to have many multiple views on a SQL Server Database It was somebody's design decision to create 10 views for each vendor in our database- that could range from 20 to 500 vendors ... which means we could potentially have 5000+ views in our database. What is the downside/problems with doing this generally, I would say no, not much downside. Depends on if they are indexed or not. if they are indexed views, I could see some slowdown as datachanges are made, but an increase on selections. this is with regards to SQL 2000 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/ ...Show All

• Visual Basic Casting from String to custom object

  Say you have a simple class somewhat like this: Public Class Person Public Sub New(Name as string) me.Name = Name End Sub Public Name as string Public Age as integer End Class I want to be able to CType from string to my Person class. I want this to work: Dim person as person = CType("Joe Schmoe", Person) The Person class is just a simple example, the real reason I need CType to work is that I'm writing a custom listbox, and VS 2005 tries to cast a string to my custom ListItem class. You'll need to implement a Type Convertor. There an example on msdn which explains pretty good how it wo ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Smartphone not showing window

  Hello, I am attempting my first VB.NET SmartPhone 2003 app and am running into a bit of a snag. I have a Sub Main that my app runs from. I am attempting to display a form using the Form.Show(). It doesn't give an error but the form does not display. Form.ShowDialog appears to work fine. I don't want it to be a ShowDialog because that suspends the processing in the Main - which I need to continue so I can pop-up, close windows, and communicate with my server as needed. I feel I am missing some basic piece but for the life of me I can't figure out what! Thanks in advance, Bob We'd need ...Show All