Simeao's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Application guidline to create a market ready application.

  Hi, I developed a game for WM 2003 and WM5.0 in C++.This is my first application on Windows mobile.But i am not sure about Microsoft mobile application standards and also test cases used by authorized testing labs (NSTL). I mean if i want to make my applicaton market ready i need to pass standard Test cases. So please if any one who already developed a application for Windows Mobile guide me for related documents . I had a query on: 1. Is it necessary to handle Screen orientation for games also. (If yes how beacuse it is almost impossible to handle such a hughe graphics for diferent display modes) 2. What shoul ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Express 2005 & Reporting Services

  Hi, Can you tell me if having SQL Express as your database will provide suffient licensing rights to use Reporting Services 2005 Thanks, Robert Bruckner MSFT wrote: Announced at TechEd 2005 last week: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/jun05/TechEd2005Day2PR.mspx "With this CTP, customers and partners will be able to test the business intelligence components included in SQL Server 2005. To increase customers' and partners' abilities to utilize business insight capabilities, Flessner also announced that Microsoft will extend SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services from Standard and Enterprise Editions to all version ...Show All

• Visual C++ msvcr80.dll Problem

  Hi there, can someone possibly tell me why Noton WinDoctor is telling me that 10 executables in the .NET Framework 2.0 cannot access the necessary dll file msvcr80.dll I see that the dll exists in the WinSxS directory and I'm running XP pro. I didn't have this problem until I downloaded the 2.0 framework at windows update. Any advice appreciated. Thanks. Naolin I am having the same problem... I even uninstalled it.. and it didnt show a problem then I reinstalled the update and it showed up as a problem in the Windoctor again... any ideas as to what is wrong with this update Im sure its a simpl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Random datasource

  Currently I am using a .txt file for users for a webtest. However, this does not allow me to choose a random user from the text file. What type of data source should I use to allow me to choose a random user from a list ~Todd Hello, I think you have several options for what you're looking here. One of them is to use a declarative web test and implement code for a "Web test request plug-in", which will allow you to move between different rows in a data source. For more info on this take a look here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=422972&SiteID=1 I also recommend ta ...Show All

• SQL Server SQLEVN70.rll Error When system is booted up

  I'm having the same problem as others have stated; when I start up my computer: "Your SQL Server installation is eigher corrupt or has been tampered with (could not open SQLEVN70.rll). Please uninstall then re-run Setup to correct this problem." This message does not tell me what am I suppose to "uninstall" and "re-run Setup". Re-run setup for what and another message I get: "Application failed to initialize properly, SQLManager.exe" Also, when working with Outlook & Small Business Contact Manager I get the Startup Wizard that then informs me that it cannot find my database nor c ...Show All

• SQL Server Catastrophic failure

  Hello there! We have recently upgraded our SQL server to SQL server 2003. Not entierly without problems i might ad.. The latest one is if you via Excel (2000 or 2003 is tested) try to make a local cube file, using the built-in query wizard, you get an errormessage that only say "Catastrophic failure" and nothing else. If you instead of using the wizard, do the same thing directly in MsQuery (uncheck the box at the first "new database query window") you dont get the error. Why! Many of our users does not have the knowledge on how to write SQL querys and find the wizard very useful. So it is not an option to hav ...Show All

• Visual Basic App.config VB2005

  I was using VB2005 and i noticed that when i do this Dim connect As String = System.ConfigurationSetting.AppSettings("connstring") I am told that is an obcelete way of connecting to my DB through my app.config file....and it refers me to the Configuration manager Any help on this topic http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/search/ query=ConfigurationManager Don't forget to add a reference to System.Configuration.dll if you want to use it... Best regards, Johan Stenberg ...Show All

• Visual Basic Inheriting generics: how to use different objects

  Hi, I've created my own 'ItemList' which inherits from Generic.List(Of Object). I'm not interested in adding different objects into a single collection, but i want this to be type safe and so would like to implement the list(of T) which is possible when declaring a standard list, collection, queue etc... Is it possible currently my declaration is: Dim Lst as new ItemList when i want to be able to declare it like this: Dim Lst as new ItemList(of myObject) This list is currently used for about 4 or 5 different objects but i don't want to write individual collections for each type. Try this: Imp ...Show All

• Visual Basic strongly typed collection wierdness, vb.net 2005

  Ok, I'm really stumped, and I'm probably gonna feel like a fool when someone explains it to me. I've created a strongly typed collection in vb.net (all lower case for ease of typing) public class Foo    public name as string    public line as integer end class public class FooCollection    inherits collectionbase    public sub Add( byval aFoo as Foo )       me.list.add( aFoo )    end sub end class Assume that I load a bunch of Foo's, all of which have the same name but have different lines.    dim f as Foo &n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Adding controls at runtime resulting error

  Hi, We are working on Word Customization using VSTO 2005. We binded a XML Schema. At runtime we are inserting label control inside some type of tags as like below, this .Controls.AddLabel(nodeRange, 50, 10, "LabelName") The following error comes, "Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component." The stack trace details are Stack Trace : at Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.InlineShapes.AddOLEControl(Object& ClassType, Object& Range) at Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.ControlCollection.CreateInlineWrapperAndGetCookie(String name, Range range, Object& outObject) at Mic ...Show All

• Visual C# I want to list all the files of a directory

  Hi, every body this is the first time I log in these forums,and I need help in the fastest way, I want to design a program in c#, to open a directory and list all the names of its file in a listbox ,but visual studio has only openFileDialog and does not allow to return a directory name, so plz help me plz note that I,m still using visual studio.net 2003 You can use the Directory.GetFiles method to get all full file names in a directory. string [] fileNames = Directory.GetFiles( @"c:\mydirectory" ); foreach ( string fileName in fileNames ) { string name = Path.GetFileName( fileName ); myListBox.Items.Add( na ...Show All

• Visual C++ iostream.h

  Ciao a tutti, sto provando a usare visual c++: ho creato un'applicazione console con il seguente sorgente: // // PRIMO.CPP // Il primo esempio in C++ // #include <iostream.h> main() { cout << " CIAO MONDO! "; return (0); } Ma compilando mi da errore: dice che non puo includere il file iostream.h Io pensavo che le librerie venissero trovate in automatico. Cosa devo impostare grazie ciao:) Ted. wrote: #include <iostream> using namespace std; And also int main . ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) looking the difference between Asynchronous Message Exchange Patterns and Asynchronous Operation Implementations

  Hi I had readen the WCF documentation about asynchronous calls but I can't undestand well the differences between Asynchronous Message Exchange Patterns and Asynchronous Operation Implementations. Is there a sample of Asynchronous Message Exchange Patterns Thanks Javier Yes. Have a look at Steve's quick discussion here. http://hyperthink.net/blog/2005/11/27/A+Little+Bit+About+Async+In+WCF.aspx . If you wanna ask questions, come on back and we'll be glad to help. Simple contract that specifies an async message pattern : [ServiceContract] public interface AsyncMessages { [OperationContract( ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB 2005 Express App not responding

  Hello! Just downloaded VB 2005 Express and SQL Server Express for evaluation. When creating a new VB app project and making my first click in the window I get an hourglass and message: Application not responding. Ref XP Pro Pentium 4 Cpu 2.25 GHz 256 Mb RAM. What have I been missing! Kurre A 2.25 Ghz with 256 Mb  Your system does seem undersized but I wonder if would be "almost lethal"  I used to run photoshop and Win 95 on 48M and was slow and nearly ate the disk alive but it ran! The minimum memory for vs2005 is 196 MB and recommended is 256. I don' think that's the problem. ...Show All

• .NET Development Formview Control Inserting in wrong fields

  Hi there, I have a Formview Control with several bound textboxes. ID <----autonumber field NEWCODE <----Primary Key Code Name Country My Insert query looks like this: INSERT INTO Licensees(NEWCODE, CODE, Name, DO_Code, UltimateCountry) VALUES ( , , , , ) Note that I have left off ID, since it's an auto number... Once I perform an insert using the Formview control, the results have: - ID field = an auto number value, correct. - NEWCODE = the value entered in the textbox BOUND to the ID field - ...and all the other fields are offset accordingly with the field before it I have tried not using the ID Bound textbox, except that i ...Show All