Mary Hinge's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Basic Excel Project

  Ok, I have posted many times on this forum for this subject, but so far I am yet to find the answer I'm looking for. I am trying to create a very simple application with Visual Basic 2005. I have a number of Excel workbooks and simply want them to be opened from a command button within my Visual Basic project. However, I would also like it to meet the following conditions: 1. The application should open on any computer, ie. the probl ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Bluetooth Managed Classes & API

  I want to develop applications using Bluetooth interfaces to other devices but I've only been able to pick up bits and pieces about how to proceed. Will Visual Studio .NET 2005 have Bluetooth Managed Classes and API Will it be compatable with different stacks like Widcomm and Drakar Does anyone know of a good reference that covers this No, VS 2005 does not have BT classes. You could use this with Microso ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Multiline Text box repaint Issue Windows mobile 5.0

  Textbox doesn’t paint properly in T9 mode on Windows Wobile 5.0 (Imate-sp5) In my sample app, I have textbox txtMain. With txtMain.Multiline = true. I call txtMain.Refresh() on Got Focus event. The problem is the Textbox area is not repainted properly. I can see the background of the previous application. Environment: .NET CF 1.0 Any suggestions Thanks in Advance -Raj This is ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums List Box Selection via Code (Access 2003)

  Hi i would like to change the selection of the list box via the code so i can grab the last saved value and check they are different. I tried using: lstbox.Selected(row) = true but this does not help as it just checks they are selected or not. any help would be much appreciated thanks again all in advance :). You want to use ListIndex property, it's the index of the selected item, change the index you change the selected item. ...Show All

• SQL Server Uninstall of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition CTP fails

  I'm trying to remove this before installing the RC version of studio 2005 but the uninstallation fails, presenting a dialog with... The setup has encountered an unexpected error in datastore. The action is RestoreSetupParams. The error is :Failed to read property "Installlds" {"MachineConfiguration", "", "DEVVII"} from cache Unable to write property into cache: IsClustered Unable to write property into cache: "IsClustered" XmlRW Error: Failure ...Show All

• .NET Development Update Dataset

  I have a program that uses the same database for each computer the program is run from. The program uses datasets but the problem I am running into is storing (updating) the new data. For example if program one stores a record with the primary key of "A". But Program two already stored a record with the primary key of "A" after program one's dataset was filled. When the 2nd record is added with the same primary key NO exeptio ...Show All

• SQL Server Lookup and OLEDB Command components programming

  I need some help on SSIS programming. Can anybody give me a short example or tutorial how to write a code, which will show me use of "Lookup" and "OLEDB Command" components   Erch wrote: And how can I get a code from SCD Wizard You can't. The SCD Wizard produces components, not code. So am I correct in saying that you want to build a package programatically that contains a data-flow containing a LOOKUP and an OLE DB COMMAND ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista hiya my first post and just got invited to the beta from technet =)

  hiya I was wondering can I dual boot Windows Vista and Xp on a single hd cause I have a 1 year old hornet pro with a 250gb hd ATI Radeon X1600PRO 512mb agp version, 1gb of ram, ATI HDTV Tuner will that tuner work with vista as well with their tv software if the beta comes with it and my cpu is a p4 2.8ghz 800fsb and I did a beta scan and it says my system can run it =) please lemme know if I can dual boot without having to format the whole if I ...Show All

• Visual Basic Inputbox

  Is it posible to change the size of an inputbox Not that I am aware of. You could however just create a new winform and bring that up instead of an input box. You would then have total control over the dialog. Good luck. ...Show All

• Windows Forms ToolStripMenuItem keyboard shortcuts swallow ListView/TreeView label edit shortcuts

  When the user enters label editing mode for a TreeView or ListView control, I would expect that keyboard shortcuts such as Ctrl-X, Del etc would be handled by the label edit control. This was the case with the beta 2 framework. However the behaviour of the 2.0 release framework seems to have changed in this area. It now seems that if the TreeView or ListView's parent form has a menu strip or context menu strip, then any key presses are first ...Show All

• SQL Server How to create an SSIS package correctly by programming?

       Recently I try to create a package completely by c# code,not the ETL tool.      The package is designed to transfer data from source table to destination table.      And I wrote the following codes by referring to the msdn library,but unfortunately,it doesn't work.       //this is my code //////////////////////////////////////////////// ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Cylindrically project 2d image

  HI I want to project 2d flat image cylindrically on mesh object. E.g., on cat or Dog face. I am using managed directX Can anyone help me on this manner thnx The article is up http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/gamedevelopment/zmanTextures3/default.aspx ...Show All

• SQL Server About Login Account

  Hi everyone, I have a simple question for you which is too important for me. My question is about logins in my own(local) server. I know that my local server(my computer's server) has to default login account which are called sa and BUILTIN/ADMINISTRATOR. While I am using my own server, I do not know which default login account is used by my Server since I use windows authentication while connecting to the Server. Another question is that while ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System WSS account creation in AD for TFS

  Hi, Would it be possible to deploy the SharePoint service portal site generated by TFS application tier to support account creation in AD like http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/wss/2/all/adminguide/en-us/stsc05.mspx In other word, can I invite developers to my project with TFS just like ISP prvoviding web site owner the ability to invite users not already have accounts in the domain for collaboration Can TFS utilize this ne ...Show All

• Visual C# Windows Service that watches the keyboard

  Hi there, I have a working windows application which implements a global-system-hook-class to watch the keyboard and log the pressed keys. The statistics are used for language analysis. In order to automate this process a little bit more, I want to write a windows service which does the same monitoring. I worked with servies before, but last time, I used a timer, because the service was supposed to work in a certain interval. This time, ...Show All