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• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Control -> Geometry

  Hello, how do I convert control to Geometry In order to perform VisualTreeHelper.HitTest and get an IntersectDetail I need to specify a Geometry, but I I have is just my poor control, which unfortunatly is a template-based one... So I can use any of hardocded geomtries like EllipseGeometry or whatever. So, I'm looking for something: Geomtry g = MyControl.GetGeometry(); :) Thanks. There is no exist ...Show All

• Visual C++ Exception at same memory location

  I am debugging a multithreaded server application that is giving me a buffer overrun error unexpectedly when I run large number of requests through it.  I was able to use techniques suggest by a previous question I posted on this forum.  Now, the debugger is breaking on the following error: First-chance exception at 0x003a4072 (ApxString.dll) in PriceService.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0xbaadf011. void A ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System The application for project is not installed (project types .rptproj and .dwproj)

  It used to work, but then... Visual Studio 2005 was hummin' and I had a number of BI projects in both Report Services and Analysis Services. I wanted to add source control and decided to install the Team Suite and I did something wrong. I just don't know what it was. In the end, I deinstalled every Visual Studio 2005 (including, of course,the Team stuff)and SQL Server 2005 application, and reinstalled old faithful Visual Studio 2005, but n ...Show All

• .NET Development Framework 2.0 Serial Port problem.

  I cannot for the life of me figure out why my little bit of code doesn't work. Problem I'm seeing is ReadExisting() returns 1 single character followed by (BytesRemainingInBuffer-1) 0's. OnReceive events fire properly, but each call to ReadExisting returns only that one character. data = comport.ReadExisting(); bytes = comport.BytesToRead; status.Text = "READ: " + data.Length.ToString() + " EXPECTING: " + bytes.ToString(); Fo ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Date/Time & other data typesV

  Hi I'm have big problems trying to save Unicode information into my MS SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine. Alright, so the problem I'm having now is I'm working with MS SQL 7.0 and PHP5. I've trying to get information to save into MS SQL, however it is storing it all weird. When I save the information and try to view it in Enterprise Manager it shows it has random characters but for some weird reason I can output that information on the page ...Show All

• SQL Server Get last record in a SQL database

  Don't know if this is the right SQL section, but... using VBE, how do you SQL for the last record in the database Thanks. What does "last" mean A table is an unordered set of rows, so you need to indicate to SQL Server what you mean by "last"... wrote in message news:c6e41dc5-463e-4bfd-b88c-99ebbc38e746@discussions.microsoft.com... > Don't know if this is the right SQL section, but... using VBE, h ...Show All

• SQL Server IDW15: DCR: Make precedence constraint editor bigger

  Hello, If I have a fairly large expression then the box to display it isn't big enough. Please can you let us resize the precedence constraint editor DCR Thanks. -Jamie OK. Track ID 375512625 ...Show All

• Visual Basic I just want to learn Visual Basic.... Can't find "Windows Application' Template

  Hello all,  I am trying to re-learn programming after a long hiatus, so I decided to start with the newest version of Visual Basic(VisualBasic 2005). I am trying the 'Create Your First Application' Tutorial, and it tells me to go to File>New Project and choose 'Windows Application'. This isn't an available choice... My choices are: 'Class Library', 'My Movie Collection Starter Kit', 'Screen Saver Starter Kit', and 'Search Templates' ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Alpha blend working fine, but never writing value to color buffer

  I have alpha blending working as I want it to... except for the odd error that my rendered 32 bit colors always have alpha set to zero. It looks like (from my searching) that I am the only person in the world who cares about the final alpha value. Aparently eveyone else are happy if the colored pixels blend right. I have tried all sorts of combinations and the result is always the same: alpha is zero. How do i setup the device to blend ...Show All

• Windows Forms Update a combobox

  I have a toolstripcombobox with a dataset as source. When I add something in my database, I want to automatically update the combobox. How can I do that I have the feeling that it's something very easy, but I can't see it... maybe a fridayblues thanks! hi, how do you want to add in database, i mean thru a User Interface thank you, bhanu. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Another newbie question

  Hi, I have a treeview control and when user select a supplier or order from treeview, application will display supplier or order details depending upon user selection. My question is that is it better to open a new form or use panels to display supplier or order info Thanks please please please please let met know of a managed c++ sample using property grid. i've been dying looking for a c++ sample using the pro ...Show All

• Windows Forms Create an appbar in visualbasic.net

  hello can anybody help me with how to create an appbar in visualbasic .net i can't find information about how to create it in vb.net only 1 milion samples for C or C++ hope anybody can help me. Did you able to find one If yes, please help me out! Am also looking out for "Creating a AppBar in VB.net". Thank you! ...Show All

• Visual Basic searching in datagridview using textbox

  I had a datagridview which contains all the last name of a certain database.the data was displaying properly .I want to accomplished two tasks,first I want it that upon loading on the datagrid, data are sorted alphabetically already even without pressing the column header.Second I want to search the datagrid using a text box. I want like an autocomplete manner, if I type a single letter, say "B", the datagridcolumn will automatic ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Memory missing after RAM resizing?

  My team and I are doing some testing using the Windows Mobile 5.0 emulator in VS2005 (RTM) and are leveraging the RAM resizing capabilities. It seems curious to us that when we have the RAM set to 256MB, the Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Emulator shows Total Storage memory of 31.42MB and Total Program memory of 100.98MB.  If the formula is (Total Memory - InUseMemory) = OSImageSize, then it would appear that we have an image of ~120MB, which ...Show All

• SQL Server MSDE SP4 install problem

  I attempted to install MSDE SP4 (file SQL2000.MSDE-KB884525-SP4-x86-ENU) on a WinXP Pro SP2 machine. Command used: setup SAPWD="ourpw" SECURITYMODE=SQL /L*v c:\MSDELog.log Install log shows successful install. MSDE appears to function properly, service starts automatically after reboot, etc. I can open and work with DB's with a freebie 3rd party GUI called DbaMGR2K, through which I have added the necessary DB user for ou ...Show All