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• Smart Device Development SerialPort.BytesToRead max's out at 2047

  Im using a GPS receiver with a PocketPC, and experimenting with using a timer or the DataReceived event to trigger processing the data. When using the timer, and incrementing the interval each time through, I noticed I was missing data between the end of one loop and the start of the next, when the interval was > 10seconds (approx) When using the DataReceived event, worked fine when the ReceivedBytesThreshold property was quite low (<204 ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WCF and Linux

  Our company is seriously thinking about next generation of middleware and we’re considering using WCF. Here are our main concerns right now: 1) Middleware must be cross-platform. We have many C++/linux developers; we also tend to believe linux is faster and cheaper as server platform. If we will decide to use WCF, how in practice it can work together with linux I tried to find examples of communication WCF-linux and f ...Show All

• Windows Forms Strange Location Behaviour

  i make a new windows form project, I add 2 Lines of Code: Set the Location of the Form to 10, 10 Message box the location of the form: public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); this.Location = new Point( 10, 10 ); MessageBox.Show( this.Location.ToString() ); } and i get 10, 10 as you would expect. I then add: Point k = this.PointToScreen( new Point( 45, 40 ) ); above the message box call: public Form1() { Initial ...Show All

• SQL Server In cursor: help to perform proper comparison using variable

  Hi All, I failed to find record when using variable in cursor in WHERE clause: ID is uniqueidentifier field in the table DECLARE @EncounterID uniqueidentifier ........ WHERE ID = @EncounterID -> this does not work, though @EncounterID is set properly and can see its value in debugger WHERE ID = 'E3AE2C5B-06F2-4A3C-A3A4-7D6CC43DE012' -> this works fine and record found Tried to CAST(@EncounterID as char(40)) but still no luck. I would g ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VSTS Lockup on checkout

  If I check out a file from TS and then someone else changes it and checks it back in, when I perform a get latest it will lock up my local copy of Visual Studio. I don’t get an error, so I end up having to do an ‘End Task’ on Visual Studio. Anyone else run into this problem and discovered a solution Thanks, I don't think we've seen this one before. Can you tell me: 1) What version of VSTF you're ru ...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

• SQL Server is it possible to have variant condition clause in procedure?

  i want to use OLEDB to build a COM for my app in the case, i want to execute a select statement which the where-clause is variant. ex, select * from db1 where code='abc' select * from db1 where name='mike' As it's very difficult to change sql-command in oledb, i want to build a procedure like this, create procedure viewDB @filter CHAR(20) as select * from db1 where @filter go but failed! i tried EXEC( select ), ...Show All

• Visual C# Generic Horror, Inheriting types with multiple inherited constraints

  Ok, well I am having a pretty major issue getting a class with insane generics to simply compile...here's the scenario. I have an entity class, attempting to inherit from a persisted entity which on a class level accepts 3 generics, the first 2 generics have a pretty firm constraint which dictates the first type inherit from our base Entity class (which persistantentity does), and also that it has a parameterless constructor. All of that is ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro table buffering mode

  On a statement like this: IF NOT initTableEmpty TABLEUPDATE () ENDIF I get an error: This operation requires table to be opened in buffering mode . SQLBUFFERING is set to ON before the table is opened. It does not help. Actually the error happens once in a while for no reason. I cannot understand what triggers it. Most of the time the statement works. The USE command does seem to have no option for buffering either. Is any h ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Images in Work Item description?

  I've been asked to assess VSTS by my company. The first goal is to replace our aging Notes based bug tracking system. The one capability of Notes that users here are adamant about having in any replacement is to be able to paste images and rich text into the description field (screen shots, etc.). Having the images as seperate attachments is not sufficient. When I attended the "Ready to Launch" session here in Boston last week, I asked about ...Show All

• Windows Forms menu bar not showing

  I have a number of forms with menu bars that show when a project is built, however, with the last few new forms i have created and added menu bar too, when project built, they will not show   I have checked the initialise code, which ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is there a Non-Databound Grid?

  I'm looking to use a grid to display information. It would work like a list box but would have columns and headers. Surprisingly, I don't see anything I can use in VB.net. Can anyone suggest a control Thanks. The ListView in Detai ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS API: How do I list all users for a project

  I want to list all users for a spesific project. Anybody got ideas on how to do this borge3000 Hi, I tried the code in this posting and it works perfectly with one exception. I had a team project that for some reason had the "SERVER\Administrators" group as a member of the contributors group. Then i got an exception TF30290: There was a problem accessing the database on the server. See ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista 2003 Certificate Authority - Custom Policy module

  I made a build of policy module available with Micorsoft Platform SDK Samples for C++ using VC++ IDE. To my surprise, the MS 2003 Server Certificate Authority does not recognize this DLL... But the same dll is recognized by 2000 server CA. Could anyone explain me the reason for this behaviour. Reference from :Microsoft Platform SDK\Samples\Security\CertServices\Policy\C++\Windows2000, and the read me file says, the code is supported for ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to import a .DLL at runtime?

  How do I import a library contained within a .DLL file at runtime, given its path Is this even possible in VB.Net 2005 Express I found an answer here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=950987&SiteID=1 ...Show All