ShadowOfTheBeast's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Bug in webclient?

  Hello, i have a problem with System.Net.WebClient object I am doing something like downloader, but there is one thing I can't understand. In few web pages, its method DownloadString() returns no text. One example is http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2616754/2/ try this piece of code for example System.Net.WebClient wc = new System.Net.WebClient(); MessageBox.Show(wc.DownloadString("http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2616754/2/")); that should show the HTML code of the page. But it does not. If you try System.Net.WebClient wc = new System.Net.WebClient(); MessageBox.Show(wc.DownloadString("http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2616754/3/")); it does show who ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to disable support for C99 extensions / force compatability with C89?

  Hello, I'm working on a school project that requires use of C89 and does not allow use of any C99 or non-standard language extensions.  I'm a C++ programmer that is just learning the differences in C, so I would like to just have this enforced by the compiler.  As such, is it possible to disable support for the C99 extensions on the compiler   I'm using whidbey beta 2. Thanks, Byron I've just happened upon this thread while trying to find out about C standards compliance in Microsoft compilers and I have to say this is one of the the most ignorant, arrogant, head-in-the-sand posts about the m ...Show All

• Visual Basic Using Access in VB

  Hi, I have an application that uses an Access table and query it.  Now I need to use the application on a machine that does not have Access installed on it.  I was wondering if that is somebody can tell me if I the application can work on a machine without Acess software. Any help would be really appreciated. Sohi. Yes you can use an Access Db without Access installed....you will have to have a provider installed though...Jet or ODBC are prefered....MS offers the MDAC for distribution ...Show All

• .NET Development Easy GAC question

  When i register a .NET component in the GAC, is a copy of the DLL placed in a "special place" (e.g., c:\windows\assembly) or does it work the same way as COM components and the Registry I'm wondering if I move/delete a DLL, will the GAC entry be invalid. thx in advance. todd I believe it is copied to the assembly's gac directory so as to prevent versioning problems and so everybody can find it. ...Show All

• Visual Studio visual studio 2003 add-in

  I have an add-in that I wrote in VS2003. Is there a way to make active a specific category of the TaskList Currently I am making the TaskList window active after my process finishes running. I would like to be able to make the TaskList window active with a specific category selected. Here is the code I am currently using to activate the TaskList window: applicationObject.Windows.Item(Constants.vsWindowKindTaskList).Activate(); I tried recording a macro to get the code to do this and converted it to C#: When I run this code I get an exception: "Trying to revoke a drop target that has not been registered". applicationObject.Co ...Show All

• Visual C++ lnk 2019 error

  hey guys, i was wrapping a native dll inside a managed c++ dll. i was compiling to test how i was going, and it got a weird lnk error. it is the following: error lnk2019 : unresolved external symbol _main referenced in function _mainCRTStartup. so how am i suppose to solve this issue imusing the VS 2003. thx and the way i experienced until now, in order to load or make an object from native dll in managed C++, u have to put __nogc before the managed class that will wrap the native, right but by putting __nogc this also means that the class isnt managed, so C# not seeing its contents might be abit obviou ...Show All

• Windows Forms Thread Error!

  Probelm: When I update the progress bar, with vs2005 b1 I've an error saying that the thread that tries to update the progressbar is not the sampe that has created the control. this is the code. Have I to create the control programmatically at run time  if yes, why Thanks /// Angelo sub xxx (...,...)         'Progress Bar       ...Show All

• SQL Server MDAC won't play

  Trying to set up a harware testing machine. OS is 98SE, the test software (Sandra MAX 3) won't install as it "requires MDAC 2.5 or greater". Tried install ing MDAC 2.8, it just sits there doing nothing in an open window. Same result with MDAC 2.7. Tried installing Component Checker, nothing at all happens! MDAC 2.8 installed fine on another 98SE just last week. Anything else Um ... both machines are running NAV 2005. So I'm a bit stuck for ideas. Anyone have any advice, please Ray You can try to install MDAC 2.1, then 2.5 and then 2.8. Hope may help! Infosteo ...Show All

• Visual C# C# literature for a beginner

  Hi all,     I was just wondering what books you might recommend to an aspiring programmer. I thought that i would start with C# as it seems to be pretty popular. Any info would be greatly appriciated. Thanks -Brandon Hi, The books recommended cover C# language well, but you need to understand that knowledge C# without a very good knowledge of the .NET Framework will not help you much. You need to go through books which provide a thorough coverage of the Framework and how to consume it using C#. I'd recommend the following books: 1. C# and the .NET Platform, Second Edition Andrew Troelsen 2. Programming Windows with C ...Show All

• Windows Forms a small listbox clearing prob.

  hi i am even ashamed to ask such a small prob.. but for my listbox (llist) i cant seem to get it to clear its elements. i need to clear its elements so that i can put in a new set of elements.(items) i am using llist.items.clear(); command.. and still the darn list box is there stairing at me with the old items in it. help plz. i know i am missing a dumb thing.. point it out.. just calling list.Items.Clear(); works like a charm in a small test application i made. So it must be something else in your project. For instance, if you clear the list just before you do a lot of process ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions connecting to a database

  is it possible to connect to a DB hosted by SQL Server 2005 Express, rather than just connecting to an MDB thanks Yes it is but the database must be hosted local to the machine for the wizards to work. If you do wish to connect to remote sources you will have to build your own data layer and bind to the objects exposed. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Dragging slider makes items in TreeView appear blurry

  One other quesetion, however, when I drag the slider quickly from a large value to small one and hold the mouse down, the items in the TreeView appear blurry. Only after I release the mouse are they rendered nicely. Is this a bug Text and other primitives are usually pixel snapped when we render them, effectively meaning their rendered position is rounded to the nearest pixel.  We do this because the quality of pixel snapped text is better. We would always do this, but in slow animations you can often perceive pixel snapped content jumping around on the screen.  So to get around it, we use a h ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Membership Provider..?

  Hi. I created an Login-Form in Visual Basic.NET Express edition. Now I want, that the Application validate the typed username and password in the login-form with an online MySQL database. I already found an tutorial from MS, but it wasn't usefull, becouse i needed MS Visual Studio. Can anyone help me Micronax Yes.. I tried again and there was an web.config. Sorry But I saw, that these two links and the tutorial are onlky for C#.NET But im seaching for a solution fur Visual Basic.NET ...Show All

• Smart Device Development web service with dime attachment for ppc

  hi all, I need to upload a .wav file in a pocket pc to a server with a web service. I have problems with dime attachments. Have any sample code for this Or any idea Why not simply create a web method that takes a byte array and pass your wave file to this method. Granted, there'll be an overhead of about 60% because of MIME encoding, but this is so much easier than DIME. If you insist on using DIME, I recommend taking a look at OpenNETCF.org SDF library, in particular OpenNETCF.Web.Services2 namespace. ...Show All

• SQL Server HRResume sample problem

  Getting 404 error on the line: int [] lcids = webService.FullTextLanguages(); Any suggestions Hi Daniel, One way to receive an error on that line is if you have not run the installCS.sql script located in the Scripts directory under HRResume.  Were you able to run that script successfully before running the sample Renee ...Show All