J-Gaming's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Detect if a form is obscured by another form

  Hi all,   I am sure there is a simple way to find out if a form is fully visible, or if another form is over it, but it is not an easy topic to search for.   What I want to do is detect if a form is obscured by another form in any way.    For example, your application has form1 open and you also have another application open eg. notepad, calculator, whatever.     How can I detect that when form1 is being ...Show All

• .NET Development VS 2005 Time delay in calling subroutine (Office Interop)

  Hi to the group, I wrote a program originally in VB.NET 2003 to retrieve some outlook items. The program runs just fine. I have recently converted it to VB.NET 2005 and here is the issue: Program loads and runs up to the point of calling a subroutine - 'GetSomeOutlookItems'. The program has thus far taken about 1/2 second or so. The subroutine is in its own module and imports Microsoft.Office.Interop. The program now takes about 6 to 8 seconds ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Designer Problem

  I made my first program for poket pc and then when to bed. in the morning I can Only open the form in code view not the designer Thanks in advance Will we strongly recommend that you move to the final version of the product. Also pls do note to use the un-install the older Beta 2 version using the tool mentioned at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/support/uninstall/default.aspx   There were a number of bugs in Beta 2 of similar ...Show All

• Smart Device Development list view

  hi there, i have a list view with several row of item and a button, when i press the button, how can i get item or subitem for the row that i have selected and display in a messagebox can anyone please help me why there is so big changes of usage of list view when come to compact framework private sub Button1_Click() : : end sub You could try: if(list.SelectedIndices.Count > 0) ...Show All

• SQL Server Displaying a word document via Reporting Services?

  Does anyone know a way to (given a path to the file) display a word document via a reporting services report Thanks This is not possible out-of-the-box. You could implement a custom renderer to do this. You can publish Word documents into the Report Server catalog and browse them, though, you just can't embed them in reports. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual c++ 2005-Web Developer-Video Redo

  don't know were i must register my key notifacation How did you register for the product, and by what method did you install the products. Remember there is no option to enter the key in the Installed product if you used the ISO to install it. ...Show All

• Visual C++ C++ compiler /analyze switch question

  Moving question back here.  This specific to the C++ compiler. On this test, I expected it to report a use of an uninitialized variable.  Is this correct expectation of the /analyze switch   I'm using VS 2005 B2. void foo( int & x ) {    printf( "%d" , x ); } int main() {    int uninitialized;    foo( uninitialized );    return 0; } Hi Brian, ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista A question for state machine workflow

  Hi,All, I will use State Machine to bulid a human workflow. One of the police is if one 'state' is not changed in 60 days, the workflow will be terminated. It means if nobody approves or denies the request for 60 days, the workflow will be closed. How can I do this in state machine workflow I tried to put parallel activity and delay in one of branch, handleExternalEvent in another branch in state machine workflow, but it will cause the e ...Show All

• Smart Device Development RSACryptoServiceProvider.FromXMLString & ToXMLString are missing

  The .NETcf 2.0 docs say that RSACryptoServiceProvider.FromXMLString and RSACryptoServiceProvider.ToXmlString are available yet they aren't in the Beta 2 bits. What is the plan for these methods We do make use of these methods in code we port to the mobile platform from the desktop platform. Dale Larson Johnson Controls, Inc One possible workaround - the Crypto wrappers for .NETCF v1.0 which Casey Chesnut wrote in ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Unable to install "Orcas" with WinFX SDK and Runtime Beta 2

  On fresh Windows XP SP2 I have successfuly instaled: - Visual Studio 2005 C# Express edition - Microsoft Pre-Release Software WinFX Runtime Components - Beta2 - MicrosoftR WindowsR Software Development Kit (SDK) for Beta 2 of Windows Vista (6.0.5383.1.1.WindowsSDK_Vista_idw.DVD.Rel.img) in that same order. But I'm unable to install Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” Community Technology Preview – Development Tools fo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual C# 2005 Express Edition: Build a Program Now!

  Hi all, I want to get a copy of the book "Visual C#(R) 2005 Express Edition: Build a Program Now!" which is free as a benefit of registering C# Express Ed.  However, I've got VS Standard Edition and this book isn't included in the reg benefits.  I don't want to go thru the process of downloading, installing and registering C# EE just to get this book.  Anyone got any ideas on how I can get a copy without doing this Thanks, s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Problems with ODBC API, Access and using "format" on a query.

  Hi First of all, sorry if i'm posting this on the wrong section, but couldn't find any more suitable. I'm having an issue with Access, ODBC and my MFC app. Here's the setup: Acess database with the following query: SELECT format(pno,'0000000000') AS PID, pname AS patient_name, issuedate AS Date_Of_Issue, birthday AS Date_Of_Birth FROM test; The query it's named "testquery" and it runs smoothly on Access. Then, ...Show All

• Windows Forms Class is not in the assembly

  I keep getting a message that says my class is not in the assembly. Of course it is in the assembly. Does anyone know what might cause this problem Check the project properties.  There should be a property called "Default&nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server generate table or database schema

  what is the sql servre equivalent to 'describe' keyword. how do we generate the schema of the database and tables of a database. schema here refers to column names and its types. Hi, have a look at the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views, in your case the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Columns Select * from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Columns HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Visual Basic Changing the Machine ..or transfaring Project?

  Dear Team   An error raised when i transfare the project and the db to another pc  ".....faild to login user  \Computer name...\adminstrator i started the project 'datasets' from the designer by new connection  any idea thanks a lot It looks like Machine1\Administrator has access to your database while Machine2\Administrator does not. I think you need to allow access to the database to the current user of the proj ...Show All