Dale_Burrell's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Difference between SmartPhone and the PocketPC

  What is the difference between the smartphone and the pocketPC Adapterboy wrote: A quick question then, since there are 2 different SDKs, does that mean that a software developed for Pocket PC will not work on a Smart Phone (Assuming that we use all the controls that the Smart Phone supports) and vice versa How hard would it be to port from one platform to another a majority of the differences I've experienced are in styling/appearance, and of course user input. the code itself is pretty portable, but your implementation of the GUI may not be. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Open "path\filename.log" For Input As #1 Error

  My open statement is no longer working.  The path and filename are both correct. MsgBox ("SETTING cLogin")     Set cLogin = New Collection MsgBox ("cLogin SET SUCCESSFULLY") MsgBox ("OPENING LOG FILE")     Open "\\path\filename.log" For Input As #1 MsgBox ("LOG FILE OPENED SUCCESSFULLY") I put in the MsgBoxes to localize the problem and it executes MsgBox ("OPENING LOG FILE") and then stops running.  It never reaches the MsgBox ("LOG FILE OPENED SUCCESSFULLY") statement.  I'm fairly new to VB but as far as I can tell the syntax is fine.  This appears to b ...Show All

• Windows Forms Deployment problem

  I have made an application using Visual C++ 2005 Beta 1 in wich I have included the standard c++ library <locale>.  When I try to run this app on a computer without Visual Studio 2005 installed the program doesn't start.  What is my problem Thanks for the tip! However it still doesn't work. If I don't include <locale> it works ...Show All

• Visual C# Localization tool

  Hi, I am looking for a tool which helps to do a localization of an application. My idea is that it is an interactive tool which is looking for strings in source code and makes them localized. When such tool is started it offers each string found in source and asks if the string is translatable. If yes, some identifier is supplied by user to name this string in resources and new record is created in resources. The string in source code is replaced by method returning the string from resources. Such tool would decrease time needed to localize bigger application with all strings hardcoded in compare of doing all this work manually without an ...Show All

• System Center WAN linkage sizes

  Am I missing something or is 156 Mb the largest WAN link allowed in an Exchange Model   Richard Siddaway wrote: Am I missing something or is 156 Mb the largest WAN link allowed in an Exchange Model Yes this is the fastest WAN link configuration included in SCCP device configuration library. What is your link speed ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista ASP.NET And a State Machine Workflow

  I recently read the MSDN magazine article, Windows Workflow Foundation, Part 2 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/04/CuttingEdge/), where Dino Esposito demonstrates how to work with workflows in ASP.NET. Dinos' demonstration provides a helpful solution to working with Sequential workflows; however, it left me a little confused with how to work with a State Machine workflow. In the article, Dino demonstrates how to pass parameters to a Sequential workflow by using a Dictionary object, which is then passed as a parameter to the CreateWorkflow() method. The problem is that State Machine workflows pass parameters throug ...Show All

• Visual Basic need help about active x

  I made an active x control on my visual basic 6 and use it as an active x on my created webpage. The active x is running normally on my webpage, but the problem is, when I published my webpage, the active x coudn't see. what should i do As is a web page development. You may find you'll get a better response on forums.asp.net which deals specifically with asp issues. What couldnt the activex see Is it that the browser requires that you allow the activex control. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Registration process reveals information about other users

  The registration process seems very insecure. Despite being connected to a secure server, after hitting continue I got another user's information including his/her postal code. This is definitely not good. If anyone from Microsoft is interested in more information you can contact me (or post here). I'd very much like to get more information as to what you're seeing.  We haven't seen anything like this before.  Please send more information to vsrghlp@microsoft.com and I'll investigate from there. ...Show All

• .NET Development WebServer Issue

  I am trying to debug a root website ( www.example.com ) on my workstation. I have all my files in "C:\websites\example" Now using VS2005 i open this direcotry as file system. But when I hit the Run/Debug button the Development server starts with /example">http://localhost: <randomport>/example and of course all my files that link to root files do no work (404 /default.aspx not found). Is there any way to set the development server that I want to debug from http://localhost: <randomport> / Regards, Stefano Hi! Thanks for asking!  I'm a member of the ASP.NET team, and was just p ...Show All

• Windows Forms Showing Icons In A DataGridViewImageColumn

  First had this with the beta, but it's still there with the release MSVCS/framework. My main problem is that there is no background drawn in for the Icon. Hence when the control is first drawn whatever was there before remains around the Icon. If the icon changes, it overwrites the previous one. If the window is dragged the Icon and the (incorrect background) are moved. I tried converting the icons to bitmaps, but the bitmaps have alpha channels so the problem remains. I have tried setting ValuesAreIcons true on the column but to no avail. I have tried various background colours but they don't show either. It's ...Show All

• Windows Forms enabling and disabling toolstrip buttons, based on the "current" object

  hiya, I am using a single 2.0 winform for my app. <layout> forrm -->toolStrip -->tabControl     -->tabPageOne     -->tabPageTwo <\layout> The entity on tabPageONE is a simple entity, therefore I can edit it entrely in a RAD datagridView.As a result, I want to DISABLE all the "edit", "save" toolstripButtons on the toolStrip. The entity on tabPageTWO is a complex entity, therefore I need to use several sections that contain textboxes, comboboxes and datagridViews.As a result, I want to RE-ENABLE all the "edit", "save" toolstripButtons on the toolStrip. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) User controls

  If you use custom User Controls within XAML they break the Cider preview window. Sure, if I add a user control to my XAML using Mapping and then the control referance then view using the cider design view it reports "Visual Studio has encounteredan error reading the design file. The errors are shown in the task list......" The VS error list is empty. The XAML compiles and runs fine. ...Show All

• Windows Forms toolstrip progressbar

  Hey i have this "webbrowser" i sort of made myself, but i want a "ToolStripProgressBar" but i cant make it show the progress from my browser. what du i need to do what cammand will i need to call in which event //Martin The ToolStripProgressBar is used on a Strip item such as MenuStrip, ToolStrip and in your case StatusStrip. by the desinger, you should drag StatusStrip and then you can select ToolStripProgressBar to add to it or by code: ToolStripProgressBar toolStripProgressBar1 = new ToolStripProgressBar (); toolStripProgressBar1.DisplayStyle = System.Windows.Forms. T ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Dot Net Distributed Application by using COM+ (MTS server)

  Hello, we want to build Dot net Distributed application. means we want place our Logic DLL (Dotnet Assembly) in different mechine as hosted by COM+ server. and want access this in client side (in UI layer). How we can access it without using Remoting or Webservices. Is it possible How we can develop a Dot net Distributed application only using by COM+ (Enterprise) services. For remote access to a COM+ component, you need to do 3 things: 1. Your ServicedComponent needs to be a Server Component (i.e. ActivationOption.Server) 2. Using COM+ UI (Component Services MMC), you can export an application proxy for that specific ...Show All

• Visual C++ Visual C 2005 more than 3 times slower than Visual C 2003 !

  While recompiling my cryptographic library under Visual C 2005, which implements exUSSR gost algorithm, I've found that optimization in 2005 almost absent at all ! here is result of benchmarks: P4-2.0 GHz: MSVC 2003: 33433 Kbytes/sec MSVC 2005: 8960 Kbytes/sec Ratio: 3.73 times slower! P4-3.4 GHz MSVC 2003: 48691 Kbytes/sec MSVC 2005: 11520 Kbytes/sec Ratio: 4.22 times slower! It even slower than MSVC 6.0 ! Code using 2003 compiler using blend CPU optimization, with P4 optimizations the difference even bigger ! Here is my testcase: http://mike.qnx.org.ru/temp/perfomance.zip which reproduces the problem described above. Thi ...Show All