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• Visual Basic How to halt a program???

  Let say i have two program called program A and program B, i run program A, but inside program A, i use [call shell(C:\....\programB.exe)] at the 2nd line of my codes in program A, how do i stop program A at 2nd line, until i finished running program B then only continue execute the rest of the code from 2nd line in program A Please help, if you dun understand wat im saying above, u can ask ...thanks a lot!!! You can use Process.S ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Displaying Static Background with DirectX9 Example?

  Can someone help this poor DirectX newbie by pointing me to an example of how to display a static background from an image file using C++ (or C#). I've read that the way to do this is to create two triangles from vertices, load the image into a texture and map the texture to the surface. This sounds great but I can't figure out how to do it from the DirectX docs. Currently, I'm trying to do it by loading the image onto an offscreen surface and u ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET Compact Framework Size Limitation

  I am working on a Windows CE platform project.  I am using the "one form with many panels" type interface.  I have come to the point where if I add one more control, the program simply will not run.  I don't get any errors.  It just deploys, starts to run, then quits.  I remove a control (any control) and it will run again.  I check the programs vs data setting on the device and i have not bumped into that ceiling y ...Show All

• Windows Forms database usage...

  Hi, I want to create a program to manage an access database... I don't know the structure of this db in advance. What is the best way to do this  should I use datasets The db is large, with many tables, and some relations... Huge Thanks ...Show All

• .NET Development How to use wse2.0 + vs.net2005 beta2(C#) ?

  I create a webservice using wse2.0 and vs.net2003(C#) secussefully. But when I create that by using wse2.0 and vs.net2005 beta2(c#), I can't find the "reference.cs" file in the folder "Web References"  which appear in vs.net 2003. Who can help me to find the differences between vs.net 2005 beta2 and vs.net2003 at using wse2.0 ======================================================== The codes are as follow:  string Username ...Show All

• Visual Basic Creating Zip Files

  Is there access in VB2005 that allows creation of compressed (Zip) files, or at least has access to the windows-based utility that puts files into a compressed folder You can download one from here: http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/Default.aspx . ...Show All

• .NET Development VS 2003 error .. web developers can u help ?!!!

  hi there .. in order to work on asp.net webforms i've done it all to install the webserver on my XP sp2 istallin the IIS, fp exs and the VS 2003 ... after doin all of that succefully and when i try to establish a new asp.net web application i get the following message : [the web server reported the following error when attempting to create or open the web project located at the following URL : 'http://localhost/webapplication1'. A con ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Tailoring Code Analysis

  Hi, I understand that you can tailor the code analysis for a specific project. However, I've been asked 2 questions and do not know how to work it out: Can the configuration made by someone in a specific project be exported to a different project Is it extensible so that internal coding policies be checked And if so how can I do this Thanks, Luis Hi Luis, you can write Check In Policy ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Custom Work Items

  I have several custom work items created. One in particular I want to create another tab with an Html control in it, but I want the Html control to hold a default value. I can create the tab and control fine, but how do I assign a default text value to that control I am new to this but there are a couple of ways I know of. 1. When you create your field, You should have code that looks like this in the <Fields> tag of your XML. ...Show All

• Windows Forms PrintSetupDialog

  Does anyone have experience of using PrintSetupDialog control to adjust the margin of a PrintDocument I find this control has very strange behaviour.  The first time I read the left margin is 10.  I set it to 20 and press OK and leave&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions change of size of PictureBox? (error in code, or in .NET2.0?)

  Hi, I have a simple project in WinForms (C# Express) .NET 2.0: vo form I have inserted panel (panel1) and in panel there is PictureBox1 Panel1 has property Dock = Fill PictureBox1 has property Dock = Top on Resize event for picturebox I have: /*----------------------------------------------------------------------*/ 1        private void pictureBox1_Resize(object sender, EventArgs e) 2&nb ...Show All

• Visual Basic Open File

  Hi, I have just recently downloaded the Visual Studios 2005 Beta version, so i don't really know if this counts. I am looking for a code line which will let me open a microsoft word file of course actually on word. Any suggestions Of course - this only works if you have word installed on the machine... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Extending Application Designer

  I know of one technique explained here on the forums on how to make Class Libraries appear on your Application Designer but that's not what I'm looking for. Is it possible to extend the Application Designer to support adding Class Library projects to it Has it been done already Thank you, Sammy Hi Sammy, Thanks for your question.  This has come up frequently and been a matter of hot debate!  The pur ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to capture mouse events on shapes or regions

  I am drawing irregular shapes at runtime  (VB.NET 2005 beta2) using the FillPolygon command. I want to link these shapes to mouse events. Say if the user clicks on one of these shapes it triggers an event. I have read a lot about events, but could not find out how (or even if) I can make these shapes trigger an event. I do not want to use User Controls as it appears that they do not support transparency when overlapping other controls, ...Show All

• SQL Server semaphore timeout

  Hi, I'm having a problem copying a file from the operating system to another system within the same domain.  I've set up an Operating system job that sometimes returns this error: Executed as user: MEDSHARE\SQL. The semaphore timeout period has expired.          0 file(s) copied.  Process Exit Code 1.  The step failed. I have looked at the transfer settings on the disk (Dell 1850 blade ...Show All