redman_12's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Search

  Ok i was wonderin. Can I, and if so, how do you search or if you like 'Scan' a hard drive with vb for a filename such as lala.exe or what eva. I'd love to know! Directory.GetDirectories and Directory.GetFiles can be used to recurse over a directory structure and apply a search string. ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums IsBirdseyeAvailable() does not work

  In my BODY ONLOAD I call a function that loads a map. I want to determine if a Birdseye map is available for the location loaded; however, it never works (I know this because I have tested it against locations that have Birdseye maps). Here is my code (GetMap() is called from BODY ONLOAD): var map = null; function GetMap() {     map = new VEMap('myMap');     map.LoadMap(new VELatLong(33.85, -84.363192), 10 ,'h' ...Show All

• Visual C# How to display lenghthy text in dropdownlist box's dropdownlist

  Hi Developers, We are trying to display lenghthy text items in dropdownlist box in user interface. But the texts are not getting displayed completely. Ex: we have an item like " annapragadaChandrasekhar". but we could see only "annapragada" in the dropdownlistbox and as the width of the dropdownlist is 11(it should be in this case), we could not see the remaining text. Is there any solution for this like w ...Show All

• Visual Basic ADO/Access Questions

    I've had a moderate amount of of experience with access databases in vb6. We'd declare a file system object and from that declare a workspace and from that a record set descriptor. One could picture and understand what was happening. VS2005 is different though. You could create and delete tables and define them dynamically. VS2005 seems to be different. It seems that things are done up front in the IDE Almost as if the relatio ...Show All

• Visual C++ VS2005 - stl map iterator - Compiler oddity when migrating to VC8

  When compiling: std::map<int,int>::iterator it = 0; // compiler error in RELEASE build, OK in DEBUG while std::vector<int>::iterator it = 0; // compiler error in any build. same problem for const_iterator. I understand that '= 0', should be removed anyway, just that there should be consistent compiler errors. Using release version of VS2005 here. Version 8.0.50727.42 Just an addition note: ...Show All

• Smart Device Development No Error Icon in DataGrid for rows with RowError?

  Hi folks, I have a DataGrid bound to a table, and one of the rows in that table has an error - its RowError property has been set. There is no red error icon in the row-header for that row, like there would be in the Windows Forms version of DataGrid. Is this right If so, how do I show the user which row has an error Ta, Matt DataGrid in NETCF is limited and has no support for that (and many other things). How ...Show All

• Visual C++ customize codepage used by "cl.exe"

  I'm using Visual Studio 2005, I'm wondering whether there's anyway to set the codepage used by "cl.exe" instead of the default system codepage. For example, the system default codepage (ACP) is 936, but I want the "cl.exe" to use code page 1252 instead. Any suggestions Thanks in advance! As you probably are aware, the compiler uses the codepage corresponding to the setting under the "Regional and Language Options" co ...Show All

• .NET Development How to uninstall .NET 2.0 beta?

  Hi, Since I have no clue where to post this, I'm taking a chance and post my question here. If this is not the right place, please tell me what is. It appears that the .NET 2.0 redistributable package is finally available here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&DisplayLang=en#related . When I try to install it, I get the message that I should uninstall the beta version first. Howev ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Challenging Topic: Online Gaming Portals!

  This is one topic that I have not found any resources on. I am interested to know if any ISVs have actually designed any gaming portals, something similar to msngames.com or pogo.com, further to that, I am interested in knowing more about the architecture of such gaming portals. I hope architects be among those who reply ;) Hi, Unless some of the other community members can share their experien ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions usefull for development

  Hi, i need ti develop a software,client-server,can i use visual c# express to develop a full fledged application any issues i can face thks Hi, Visual Studio Express edition is the best choice for students, or for individuals who work from home, on personal projects, and don't want to use Visual Source Safe, or Team Foundation server... Some other limitations in Express Edition are: - you don't have support for Mobile Devi ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Inheriting from StateMachineWorkflowActivity

  Hi all, I'm wanting to supply all child state workflows with common props + methods. I'm looking into inheriting from StateMachineWorkflowActivity. All goes well except....(there's always a 'but') 1) when creating the 'parent activity' - e.g. class CoreWorkflow : StateMachineWorkflowActivity That project wont compile as it needs an initial starting state. I've tried a few fudges that 'sort of' work - but nothing I feel confident with ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Custom Serialization of an Activity

  How does it work Given the following code snippet I must do something wrong...would be great if someone can help. What I want to achieve is to add some data into the XAML of an activity as a XMLCDATA section. MSHDesigner class and MSValidator class do get called but MSHSerializer not ... [ Designer ( typeof ( MSHDesigner ), typeof ( IDesigner ))] [ ActivityValidator ( typeof ( MSHValidator ))] [ DesignerSerializer ( typeof ( MSHSerialize ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Sending SMS

  Hello Everybody Can any body help me in writing VB.Net code for sending SMS over GSM through .Net compact frame work Thanks Hai Shibu Bhattarai, I tried with the same webservice but it is displaying the result like "Message sent successfully" but I am not receiving any sms to any of the mobile phones. Can you please guide me to solve my problem....Even if it is possible can you please give me the a ...Show All

• Windows Forms making forms dynamic

  Hello, as you know, the design code is generated automatically and if you change the code and recompile the manual changes are gone.I think the designer.cs is not develloped for this purposes but how to work around. I'm looking to a way make a dynamic form. for example if (this is true) { this.listbox1.datasource= customColl1 } else this.listbox1.datasource= customColl2 generate things based on some condi ...Show All

• .NET Development Application Configuration Settings error "is a type but is used like a variable"

  I'm trying to write to an application settings file.  I'm using VS2005 and am following the example found at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171565.aspx I added a settings file to the application and it modified my app.config as you see below: < xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" > <configuration>     <configSections>         <sectionGroup name="userSett ...Show All