Wink's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Scrollable charting application

  Hi, can anyone tell me which method is most likely to be used for the below posted pictures and maybe you can also post me to resources where similar samples are shown. Are these simply panels or what do you think how this is done: http://www.kingvest.de/chart1.png http://www.kingvest.de/chart2.png To elaborate what exactly I mean: If you scroll the scrollbar at the bottom&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS 2005 (Final) Install failure -- Setup Failed on component Microsoft Document Explorer 2005

  I have ran the clean up tool to remove the previous beta version of VS 2005.  So please don't suggest that.  I still receive errors while trying to install Visual Studio 2005 Final version.  This is the error log file: [11/02/05,10:50:40] Microsoft Document Explorer 2005: [2] Error code 1603 for this component means "Fatal error during installation. " [11/02/05,10:50:40] Microsoft Document Explorer 2005: [2] Setup Failed on component Microsoft Document Explorer 2005 [11/02/05,10:50:45] setup.exe: [2] ISetupComponent::Pre/Post/Install() failed in ISetupManager::InstallManagerHelper() with HRESULT -2147023293. [1 ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Using data objects from database for holding Workflow/Activity-Properties

  Hello, we are building a end-userfriendly workflow engine (with own designer) (see http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=265499&SiteID=1 ) I have only on question (at the moment). Our activities have some properties, all workflows are derived from our own base workflow (with some properties, for example a workflow object which is sent through the whole workflow). The workflow object is used in IfElseActivities. It is a generic container for any structured data. The data is updated (on demand) by a own EAI layer. So we only want to serialize the object id to the xoml. the object itself is loaded from a da ...Show All

• Visual C# Generic comparison to null broken in July CTP

  Everyone knows that one cannot ordinarily use ==/!= on generic types because these operators might be undefined. However, up to Whidbey June CTP it was possible to write (x == null) or (x != null) when x was a generic type. After all, the documentation explicitly states that null comparisons are possible (and will return false if typeof(x) is a value type). Now I've installed the July CTP, and suddenly compilation gives an error on such null comparisons! Um, how am I supposed to compare variables of unrestricted generic types to null now Is that a bug in the CTP Please don't tell me we're actually supposed to write Object.Equals(x, null)... ...Show All

• Windows Forms Create a control showing animated gifs while executing stored proc.

  Does anyone have such a control created Or any thoughts will do. I'd like to create new thread for updating gif frames (not for executing stored proc.), so that it would be easy to consume the control. Thinking correct Thanks in advance. It is possible to play animated gifs. You simply cannot do it outside the main GUI thread. Instead you  ...Show All

• .NET Development SELECT values between two selected DATES

  Hi, was wondering if someone can help me, I trying to extract values from a database, but dates beween, 2 certain dates. But, somehow, the values that's displayed, aren't the correct values. I'm using access2003, with VB.NET. the data type af the 'adddate'-column are "date/time", and I'm using a DateTimePicker to alloy the user to select their own 2 dates. this is the SELECT statement, Dim comm As New OleDb.OleDbCommand("SELECT * from labour where adddate between " & fromdate & " AND " & todate, conn) but easch time I try to run it, I get an error message, stating that "Mis ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Continuous project checkout

  I'm experiencing a rather frustrating problem with a few projects that are being automatically checked out every time I access any solutions which reference said project.  I get a specific message each time it occurs: "There appears to be a discrepancy between the solution's source control information about some project(s) and the information in the project file(s). To resolve this discrepancy it will be necessary to check out the project file(s) and update them. If the check out fails, however, and the solution is closed without saving, you will see this warning again the next time you open the solution." It forces a checkout, no matt ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Font Problem

  Hi, I tried to set a post script font to a text field. But the font name itself not coming in the fonts list. (tried for local language atm fonts pfb ) Please clarify how to set this. Hi, Visual Basic 2005 only supports TrueType and OpenType fonts - PostScript fonts aren't supported. Steve Hoag Visual Basic Express ...Show All

• Windows Forms Error in SELECT clause: expression near '['

  need help: whenever I drag a database table from server explorer to a WinForm (SQL server 2005 database), I get the following error: The wizard detected the following problems when configuring the Data Adapter for "MyTableName". Details: Generated Select Statement. Error in Select clause: expression near '[' Error in From clause: near '[' Unable to parse query text. I found the following MS fix for this problem here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325790 However once I installed service pack 1 for visual studio .net 2002, I still got the same error. Anyone know why I'm still getting this error Thanks ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies SIMPLE instructions to REMOVE Windows Desktop Search

  I have written to MS without receiving a simple, non-MIS/IT description of how to remove this horribly intrusive add-on, that installed itself DESPITE clicking on DO NOT INSTALL. So (and without getting into the politics of who is behind this), all I want is the easy way to remove this program. I have gone into Add/Remove Programs and YES, clicked on Show Updates, but there is NOTHING clearly identified as Windows Desktop Search. ALSO, and most important, I DO NOT want to disable or screwup other programs/software. HELP. What is the point of having multiple users with passwords if ANYONE can access the entire history of EVERYONE ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Loading .X meshes

  How do you load a DX8 .x mesh file   My 3D modelling program (Blender) exports to DX8 format or just .X.  I don't know what the difference is. I tried it with the same code as for one of the meshes that came with the SDK, but it just gives an error. Odd.. I tried that with 2.37a and the October SDK, but  "Mesh failed to load!". I'll get the newer SDK next time I'm at my friends house. (he has cable, I don't >.<) ...Show All

• Windows Forms input not going to text box with the caret!!!

  This is kinda hard to explain, but here goes. I have a user control, with a bunch of text boxes on its surface.  The user control is one of several in a tab control.  Sometimes, when I first bring up the usercontrol, if I click the mouse directly into a textbox that is not the first focusable textbox on the user control, the caret&n ...Show All

• Visual C++ Latest compiler creating XP-only compatible .exe files

  [had no luck on the Visual Studio Express forum...] Has the compiler for this new release version of VC++express changed since the beta On a different forum, the following posts have been made: " I always use UPX to compress my binaries, and it seems that compressing the output of the new compiler produces something that doesn't run." "Is there any managed code in it UPX butchers that as I recall as it is not actual valid machine code." "Yes, that must be it.. though I can't find any options to get rid of the damn stuff. I've got CLR support turned off in the settings, and it's exactly the same project that used to work ...Show All

• Visual C++ LNK1104: cannot open file libc.lib

  I have a project built well with VC++ 6.0. The project is built with mutlti-threaded DLL and the project depends on 4 specific libraries and serveral rouge wave libraries. Now I try to build it with VS2005 and get the linking error "cannot open file libc.lib". It seems our specific libraries is built with single-threaded DLL, I am not sure, but that is what I want to find out. I used /VERBOSE to display the progress message, but couldn't find out which library depends on libc.lib. I added libc.lib into ignore specific library and got the 127 linking errors which are related to rouge wave libraries. The following are some errors: tls77-ms ...Show All

• Visual C++ windows.h not found...

  WOW, I can't believe this information isn't easier to find.  I downloaded and installed Visual C++ 2005 Express, and then downloaded and installed the Platform SDK SP2.  NOTHING WORKS!  The Directories are not found and there is no apparent way to set them.  Apparently users have found a hack to make it work, but this is crazy.  It seems like the first Microsoft person to install this would notice that it doesn't work and would raise the flag to the appropriate people so they can take the steps to fix it for their users.  Or at least document it on the very first page where it is downloaded, or the very first pa ...Show All