MStrange's Q&A profile

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Working with Outlook Public Folders from Excel

  Can anyone point me in the direction of some example code Instead of sending an e-mail which has a large attachment to a distribution group, I want to post it to an existing Outlook folder. The code will be placed inside an excel workbook, which creates the attachment file. Thanks in advance Hi ADG, Can you please provide a more detailed example for the engineer If you want to send a screenshot you can em ...Show All

• Visual Studio msxml for 64bit

  Is there any msxml parser for win64 If so where can I get one sdk and redist. Thanks in advance, Robin. No, there are no plans to release an x64 bit MSXML4. Please consider moving your app to MSXML6 at the earliest convienience. Regards, - Umut Alev ...Show All

• .NET Development No Processor performance counters

  I'm just starting to use .NET (in C++), and wrote a small windows forms app that displays CPU usage. It runs fine on the computer I wrote it on, but on another computer it crashes because there's no Processor category for performance counters. How do I add this category Hi, I've run into this same problem.  For a quick check, on the computer that it fails on, try going to the start menu->run->perfmon. ...Show All

• SQL Server Generation of a report in background or asynchronously.?

  Hello, I have a report that takes many seconds to generate, as I am making an spanish application I dont want the user to see that the report is being generating, I would like to put my own message and then show the report when its ready. Any ideas If you are using the report in a windows application I would suggest using the new backgroundworker control.  It is very easy to use and works great!  You could also you the subscripti ...Show All

• Visual C++ VS2005 B2: System crashes when debug stops

  Hi! When I'm debugging my application, the system crashes when I press the 'stop debugging' button, or click 'terminate all' and reboots. After the reboot, some file that were involved are 'empty' (0 byte). There are no code changes that could be the root of this problem. Since one week the error occurs. Btw: I'm using VS2005 B2 on WinXP Pro x64. Thanks a lot for your help! Hi, Please open a bug on http://la ...Show All

• Visual C++ Averaging Ques???

  I was wondering, what is wrong with my code....I want to input 10 ints and return the sum and avergage to the screen... main() { const int num = 10; int sum; cout << "Enter 10 numbers" << endl; for ( int item = 0; item < num; item++) sum += num; cin.ignore(); cout << "The sum is"<< sum <<endl; cout << "The average is" << sum/num << endl; cin.ignore(); return 0; } ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Sprite.Draw2D and Alphablending?

  I'm trying to do alphablended sprites (not color keyed sprites), but it doesn't seems to works. I tried to load .dds with alpha channel and .bmp (32bpp, last channel should be obviously alpha, but i don't know if TextureLoader.FromFile() understand the last channel as an alpha channel). I've put the device's renderstate at alphablendingenable = true (don't have any PS GFX card). But it doesn't seems to work. Am I missing something Maybe should I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VS2005 stuck in Team Foundation mode!?

  I previously installed Team Foundation Server, but didn't complete installation when I realised my machine didn't meet the requirements. I then downloaded the Team Suite and installed. On the PC where I had Team Foundation Server installed, VS2005 seems to be running in a 'Team Foundation' mode where it wants to connect to a Foundation Server and doesn't have the usual local options for viewing a project with the View > Solution Explorer wind ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Windows Vista Installation process - almost there - needs improvement

  I love the new installation process.  The imaging, the simple GUI, and no more blue screen for loading the GUI, are all good steps.  I couldn't be happier with a next, next, next, next, and then finish approach to installing an entire operation system, however, it needs some improvement still.  For example when I use other imaging applications they tell me the estimated time remaining and it is fairly accurate.  Where was th ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2005 Very Slow on Itaniam 64bit

  Hi, I am facing a very wierd problem with SQL 2005 Itaniam 64bit with 4 processor machine. A simple SQL Select Statement: Select * from table The statement takes almost 45 minutes on a table of 7 million records, while on SQL 2000 32bit 2 processor machine it takes 10 minutes. The checked the index, and rebuilt it several times and still the problem persists. I tried the database fine tuning wizard but still no effect. Tried ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How can i validate images

  Hi I have to validate the images in the response. Do you know any way please help me. kaja Thank you very much Slumley So we can't validate the visible ness of the images no ...Show All

• SQL Server Under Linux, can I connect to SQL Server which is authenticated by windows only?

  Hello everyone, In out product, we need to connect to a SQL Server from a Linux box. But that SQL Server is configured to authenticate by windows only. If it is authenticated by SQL Server with Login ID/Password, I think JDBC driver for SQL Server can do this job. Now for our situation, can JDBC also handle it And how Is there any C/C++ ODBC API for Linux that can also do this work Thanks a lot! Have a happy day! ...Show All

• SQL Server Retrieve SQL servers in the network

  Hi all Is there any way to retrive all available SQL servers on the network without using the SQL DMO objects Thanks in advance. I don't know for sure but I am guessing that the UDL dialog uses the ODBC Function BrowseConnect or NetServerEnum. You need to call these functions via PInvoke from managed code with Fx 1.1 with Fx 2.0 there is a managed API. Http://www.sqldev.net has further explanations. -Euan ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Calling DllImport("rtcdll"), to call IRTCClient::put_Volume to set the volume.

  Hi all, it seems that I need to do a DllImport to set the volume on the device programatically, but am having problems calling the method, as I don't know what types are used in the method call. I have the following link that defines the required method, but am bit lost from here. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/rtcclnt/rtc/irtcclient_put_volume.asp Hope you can help. Thanks Tryst Please look up waveOutSe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions I may have found a way (Excel to Form Controls) but one problem...

  I just coded a functionality in my program that with a click of a button pulls up Excel, takes all values as strings and populates the spreadsheet in a particular format, with column names, and even makes a line chart out of two column's data. This was pretty hard to find out how to do but after fits and starts it finally works great. My question now is... I'd like to go in the reverse direction - to open a particular spreadsheet (which will ...Show All