Tony P's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Installing .. advpack.dll

  Not sure if this is where to put this question but I can't find anything else on these forums (shrug ). I'm trying to install the 2.0 redistribution package and get an error with c:\windows\system32\advpack.dll when trying to install. Any suggestions The reason I'm looking to install it is because I have an application that requires it. Maybe I actually need something different Ugh. lol 1. Remove advpack.dll (use Unlocker if it says the file is in use) 2. Place the advpack.dll from here in the spot of the old advpack.dll which you ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to make subroutine calls from one form to another non-blocking?

  Not sure if this is possible, but I have 2 forms, F1, and F2.  I would like F1 to make a subroutine call to F2 and while F2 subroutine is running, i would like F1 to continue to execute it's code.  My understaning is that VB is single-threaded but i thought i had read somewhere that this is possible to do this. Any help would be appreciated. thanks bc Even calls to a control will typically be single-threaded, i.e. the call will block. Threading in VB6 is mostly done with non-UI DLLs on the server side. If you really want to do threading with a Windows Forms client app, you really should consider us ...Show All

• Visual Studio Should the LAN Booster Service work in Beta 2?

  I tried configuring VSS 2005 to enable the LAN 'booster' service but it didn't seem to have much effect.  Putting network monitor on the line it looks as though Visual Studio 2005 is still using SMB to communicate with the VSS Server. Is there some configuration I need to do on the client end to get this working   The Visual SourceSafe help file doesn't say too much more than that the booster service is optional.  I took that to mean I didn't need to configure it at the Visual Studio plug-in end but perhaps I'm wrong   Alin Constantin - MSFT wrote: the 06ba error is RPC_S_SERVER_UNA ...Show All

• Visual Basic Socket Encoding and Decoding using Ascii Encoding

  Hi All fairly new to VB .Net and have been trying to port code from vb6. I have picked up the sample application for sockets and my problem is I have a string which come come in with binary data packed as bytes i.e 10101010101001 and the bytes would appear as .>D.... .. .B..." compressed bitmap. It would now appear that I cannot see the full string I have some characters missing and when I read through the data and build a response I cannot pack the binary data to its original state. Can Any one give me any pointers as to where I am going wrong. Sample Code for getting stream state.sb.Append(System.Text.Encoding.ASCII. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Wait until form is displayed

  Hi out there, i want to display a dialog at startup of the application. It should behave as the dialog in powerpoint where you can choose between different types of opening  or creating a presentation. I placed the ShowDialog-Call in the Load-Event of the main-form. But in this case the dialog is visible before the main form. I want wait for the m ...Show All

• .NET Development Use JScript from code

  Hello, I have a few question about using JScript from code. In early versions this could be done by using the scripting runtime DLL by adding code and objects to a moudle and running the code after it. my question are: 1. How can I do it with .net - I mean adding objects and code to a module and running it. is there a code example 2. Is there a way to parse the script before, or I must run it to know if it is written correctly 3. Is there a GUI component with syntax highlighting that I can include in my application Thanks.          Before 2.0 there was a perfectly good solutio ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System is CLR console application the old console application(.net)?

  I installed vs2005 team beta2 yesterday. but, i could not find any place to create 'console application (.net)'.  instead, i found 'CLR console application'. Is it the new name of  'console application (.net)'. did i miss sth important in the dvd i got yeah, i am attempting to create vc++ project. more exactly, 'console application (.net)'. so......u meant that the CLR console application in beta2 is the console application(.net) in beta1 and the win32 console application is just like before, the native or traditional c++  application. am i right this time ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WCF SoapExtensionReflector

  How do I apply a SoapExtensionReflector at runtime to a WCF selfhosted service without config files. Do I use ServiceHost. Extensions.Add or one of the AddServiceEndpoint params I don't see anyway to do this.. SoapExtensionReflector is ASMX's way of manipulating the WSDL description of a service. It's a part of the ASMX programming model, not the WCF programming model. The WCF equivalent is IWsdlImporter/IWsdlExporter. ...Show All

• SQL Server Finding Stored Procedures that use linked servers

  Is there any way to find all stored procedures that use linked servers or a specific linked server For specific it's easy: SELECT name FROM sys.procedures WHERE object_definition(object_id) LIKE '%specific_server_name%' wrote in message news:c59eaf10-c092-4cde-8f5d-2e7a483ad8e5@discussions.microsoft.com... > Is there any way to find all stored procedures that use linked servers > or a specific linked server > > ...Show All

• Windows Forms Datarepeater

  Is there any word on whether a datareapeater will be in VS2005 Ryan ...Show All

• Visual Basic Saving variable values

    Hi Again, I want to know in Visual Basic 2005 how to save variable value(s) into a file (of any arbitrary extension) and retrieve the value(s) later. So basically, a value I/O to a file. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Arun. Hi Peter, I just want to randomly write and retrieve values into and from a file of any arbitrary extension. It would be helpful if you could also pitch in as to how to save and retrieve values as properties of an object. Regards, Arun   ...Show All

• Visual C++ Assertion failure in Visual C++ 6.0

  Hi, I am trying to buid a gui(.EXE file) using MFC in Visual C++ 6.0.The code compiles and builds fine but when I try to run the .exe file it gives me an assertion error which indicates error in dlgdata.cpp file(line 43). I have gone through msdn resource which indicates that I need to add AFX_MANAGE_STATE(AfxGetStatic ModuleState()) in some functions. I am not too clear with where exactly I need to add this statement-Is it in the source file of my application or the MFC source file or elsewhere I added it in the dataexchange function and a couple of other functions in .cpp files of my application, but it did not work. The deb ...Show All

• .NET Development Messaging between two apps on same pc

  I am new to the c# world so bear with me. I need to setup a c# service on a windows server 2000 pc.  On the same pc I need a seperate c# executable for a GUI that will communicate with the service.  The GUI will be launched by an unrelated app, but it will communicate only with the service. What should I use for the messaging/communications mechanism between the service and the gui I have looked around and I always seem to end up looking at .net remoting.  I don't know if this is best because it seems to be geared toward client/server communications across a lan or wan with multiple clients.  Although... I bel ...Show All

• Visual C# Well Done !!!

  Well Done Microsoft!!! I think The graphics class is the most iritaiting class of all, when u need an object of it you have to do 30 other things to get an graphics object, no offence but if u wanted to make the hardest thing to draw something u really done it, and i`m not talking about Paint Event Why didn`t let the constructor of the graphics class public (maybe u did have your reasons, mabe it was the only way, but heck man u are the MICRSOFT) Anyway, Thanks for the best Language of all ahmedilyas you are really funy MS PAINT :))))) ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How I can create sample certificate for using with WCF Infocard Message exchange.

  I am using WinFx Dec 2005 CTP. I have created a hello world WCF application as mentioned in help docs that uses Infocard. I have also created two certificates one for service and one for client using makecert.exe. The commands are specfied below: Client: E:\>"E:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Stud io 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\makecert" -n "CN=MyInfocard1" -sky exchange -ss My -a sha1 -pe  -sr CurrentUser Server: E:\>"E:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Stud io 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\makecert" -n "CN=MyInfocardServ" -sky exchange -ss My -a sha1 -pe -sr LocalMachine I am using server certificate with service and client certificate wi ...Show All