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• Software Development for Windows Vista Rendering bitmaps - doesn't work anymore!

  As far as I remember, I was able to render bitmaps (BMPs or JPGs). That was useful to mix a still image with a videoclip using VMR9 - for instance. Today I tried to rendere a bmp or jpg file with grapedt, but Y got this error: "Cannot play back the file. The format is not supported. (return coded: 0x80040265)". Can anyone explain me what's going on on my system Thanks, Orf Quarenghi Than ...Show All

• Visual Studio Getting Validation State

  hi, i'm using the the validation feature of the new november dsl toolkit It's nice! With it, its quite easy to produce LogWarning or LogError messages. But is it possible to check the Validation Station of the model from an other class I've created a menu command which makes it possible to export my model as an xml file. So it would be nice, to check the Validation State before exporting the model Any Ideas Benjamin ...Show All

• .NET Development ComboBoxes and DataBinding

  Okay, so I need to build a database program that will only allow certain strings to be posted to the database, so I decide to use comboboxes, easy, right ... NOT! I set the data source property and the databinding properties and now it won't let me fill the Items property. Is there any way around this or am I WAY off in using a combobox Thanks. Ealdormere. Oh and given that it appears that you wan ...Show All

• Visual Studio Logos in Report Header

  Hi Everyone, I'm doing a project with local reports. In my reports the logo comes from the database thus I've to use a 'Database' image.My report logo is inside a report header alone with other info. The problem I have is that I cant refer to Database fields inside the report header. I got round this by having the other report header fields as Parameters. I also tried to cross-refer the image from an hidden image box located inside the report b ...Show All

• .NET Development No symbols are loaded for any call stack frame. The source code cannot be displayed.

  Hello. I installed VisualStudio.NET 2005 a few days ago.  ( not beta ) While I'm debugging, I'm faced with strange message box. -- MessageBox -- No symbols are loaded for any call stack frame. The source code cannot be displayed. -- Debug Detail Window -- FatalExecutionEngineError was detected Message: The runtime has encountered a fatal error. The address of the error was at 0x7a2b5aec, on thread 0x358. The error code is 0xc0000005. This ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't connect w/Visual Studio 2005

  I'm right-clicking on Data Connections in Server Explorer, and selecting Create New SQL Server Database. I've turned on the SQL Browser, so I'm able to select the instance from the combo box. I select Use Windows Authentication, type the database name to create, and click OK. I'm getting this error: "An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused b ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Adding Microsoft Chart Control to VB Express

  Hi, I'm trying to add Microsoft Chart Control 6.0 to VB Express edition. When I click Projects|Add Reference|COM I can't see it there. I've tried adding Microsoft Graph 11 and looking for it in the Toolbox|Choose Options|COM menu, but I can't see it there either. Does anyone know if this function is left out of the Express edition Or is there another way to get to it Thanks Andy hi, as far as i know its no ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Shaped Avalon application with full alpha-transparency

  Is it possible to create a shaped Avalon app Some kind of shaped opacity mask that will clip the app I also need to be able to animate this mask during certain operations. Is it possible to do this, similarly to how it' s done with WinForms apps, except with full alpha transparency Thanks for any help, Corey as of the current bits, it is not possible to do what you want to do strictly using WPF. MSF ...Show All

• Visual Studio Crystal Reports XI R2, VS2005 and x64

  I'm using CR XI R2 and VS2005, when I load the report, it throw the following exception, it only occur on my win2k3 server x64, but not on x86 windows. I've installed CRRedistx64.msi under VS2005 folder, I don't know it is suitable for XI R2 or not. Does XI R2 support 64bit windows Exception: An error has occurred while attempting to load the Crystal Reports runtime. Either the Crystal Reports registry key permissions are insufficient or th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Excel Application Object question

  I'm currently trying to make a program that interacts with Excel.  Problem is that when I'm editing a cell directly and try to change the property of ANY cell, the program crashes and says I can't edit the property (stuff like ColorIndex). How on earth can I detect if a cell is currently being edited I'm using the Excel application version that is from Office XP, not Office 2003. You might get some better r ...Show All

• .NET Development Reports Using Stored Procedures and ASP.Net (7 Days Planner)

  Good day! I'm currently doing a Reports Module in a project here in the Philippines. One of the reports is from an appointments table, I have to create a 7 Days planner. From the dates in the table, I have to classify each appointment to what day it falls. For example, there's an appointment for June 13, 2006, I have to show in a data grid under the column Tuesday. It would depend on what date the user will choose on when to start the 7 Days Pla ...Show All

• SQL Server Is it possible to modify column data type of view

  The SQL Server Management Studio shows the data type of each column of views. I am wondering how SQL server determines the types since my SQL code of views does not specifiy data types for any columns. I am much more interested in knowing whether the data types can be modified. Could anyone offer some hint Thanks, hz SQL Server uses the underlying schema information to do so unless you don’t specify a different data type than the ...Show All

• Windows Forms LIB's in a Windows Form?

  Hi folks, I'm just wondering if it's possible to add a LIB to a Windows Form project I want to add Shlwapi.h, shlwapi.lib so that I can access the useful functions: PathAddBackslash PathIsDirectory PathRemoveFileSpec PathRemoveBackslash PathFileExists PathFindFileName etc.... Is it possible I can't seem to figure out how to add a LIB and just adding the .h causes a whole mess of problems. Any ideas Hi ...Show All

• Visual C# dropdown item ID

  Hi, I am using this code to populate data into combobox but i was just thinking how can i assign an id to each item in the dropdown list like the primary id for example because i want to save both id and name of the company.. // fill the insurance company; VDBAdapter.SelectCommand = new VistaDBCommand("SELECT account_name AS insurance_account FROM accounts WHERE account_type = 'INSURANCE' ORDER BY account_name", VDBConnection); VDBDatas ...Show All

• Windows Forms Restrict datagrid for only one new row?

  Hi, Any suggestion to restrict the datagrid to allow only one new row at a time  i mean doesn't allow a new row when the old one is not saved. Thanks I added a rowChanged handler and save the row as soon as left if&n ...Show All