Kevin2437's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development loading controls and using load, activated and sub new()

  Hi, i'm developping an application for pocket PC using VS 2005 Beta2 and here is (are ) my problem(s ) I set up the first page as, let's say, "loading", once I launch the application, I want to first of all check if a login is set, if it is, show the login form ("login") and if not, load all the controls on my loading form, once they're all displayed, load the data from my database to finally show the welcome page ("welcome") now, here's my method (all of them are into the "loading" form): in the sub new() : check if the login is set, if it is, show "login" in dialog mode if not or if the login is correct, exit the sub new() in the sub l ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Quality Indicators Report

  I'm feeling mad, no where can I find an help / doco / explanations for the TFS Reports. Specifically, I have questions about the "Quality Indicators" report. It looks bloody lovely & useful; it is working superb for "Code Churn", "Code Coverage", "Tests Past", "Tests Failed" (Nighly Build). ... but... "Active Bugs" is always zero. Yet if I look at the default Active Bugs WorkItem Query, we definately have some. "Tests Inconclusive" is always zero. Yet I have no idea how to affect this. If anyone can give me some pointers to the doco or perhaps bash ...Show All

• Visual C# Page rage!

  Hi everyone, Can anybody out there help me with this one:- using the following code: wordApp.Selection.get_Information( Word.WdInformation.wdActiveEndPageNumber ); I can get the current selection page number. Easy enough. Now, if I try and late-bind that, it all goes pear-shaped and I get unknown name exceptions: Object selection = wordApp.GetType().InvokeMember("Selection", BindingFlags .GetProperty, null , wordApp, null ); Object pageNo = selection.GetType().InvokeMember("get_Information", BindingFlags . InvokeMethod, null, selection, null); Any ideas why get_Information() doesn't work i ...Show All

• SQL Server Using Symmetric key problem with encryption, decryption works fine

  Hey I had a table with a column of data encrypted in a format. I was able to decrypt it and then encrypt it using Symmetric keys and then updating the table column with the data. Now, there is a user sp which needs to encrypt the password for the new user and put it in the table. I'm not being able to make it work. I have this so far. Something somewhere is wrong. I dont know where. Please help Thanks. I used the same script to do the encryption initially but that was for the whole column. I need to see the encrypted version of the @ inTargetPassword  variable. But it's not working. It doesn't give me an error but gives me wrong data... ...Show All

• Visual Basic add .dll

  My visual studio project fine on the development machine. I am able to install the project on other machines, but when loading one of the forms I receive the error: Could not load file or assembly "Microsoft.VsDesigner,8.0.0.0. This error only occurs on one form, all others load fine. I am not sure if I am missing a component, or if there is a way I can change the form to elimiate this dependency. Any help would be greatly appreciated.Mark It is not installed on the target machines, thus the error. I guess my question is how to add it during setup Is it part of one of the components When adding ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. firstperson camera lights

  if I set the lights like this device.Lights[0].Direction = camera.LookAtPoint; device.Lights[0].Position = camera.EyeLocation; this should set the lights to where ever the camera is and looking right also is there a good way to slow down the mouse movment im using the sampleframework and C# The Light.Direction member is a direction, not a location. You would instead want to do something like: device.Lights[0].Direction = camera.LookAtPoint - camera.EyeLocation Note that only lights of type LightType.Spot use both the direction and position properties. You can, however, achieve a percept ...Show All

• Windows Forms Using Windows.Forms-Designer to create an office-CommandBar??

  Is it possible to use the Windows.Forms-Designer to create a CommandBar, that can be added to the commandBars in MSOffice I know how to create a new commandBar and how to add it to the commandbars in office, but it's a lot of work to do it by hand. So it would be nice, if I could create the buttons and actions in the Forms-Designer and afterwords add it to the new commandBar. Is there any way to do this You can't use the WinForms designer to do this, but you could use the VSTO (Visual Studio Tools For Office) api to get some help with this. Here's some sample code: http://www.outlookcode.com/vsto/too ...Show All

• SQL Server Data Flow Source for dbf (DBASE IV) files

  We're trying to read DBASE IV files as a source, but can't find any providers for that format. Will these be included in the final release Is there another way DBASE has always been supported, so it's kinda stranged. Thanks, Dirk Has anyone had any trouble moving a package using a OLE DB Connection Manager reading DBASE IV files While developing I never had a problem, the confiugration string described here worked just fine. Now I'm finding as I move my package to production I can't access any of the files. I will always get a error as follows... The AcquireConnection method call to the connection ma ...Show All

• Visual Basic Build Complete Notification Sounds - another workaround

  I just upgraded to Visual Studio 2005 from VS6.0  and I cannot find any documentation for Visual Studio sounds schemes.  In VS6.0 I could have seperate sounds for "BuildComplete", "BuildError", and "BuildWarning".  In Visual Studio I can only create a sound for VS_BreakpointHit  Are any of the others available The three I mentioned in my post BuildComplete, BuildWarrning, and BuildError.  I found I didn't need notification for every warning or error durning the build, but an all done sound was very usefull.  Some sounds when doing a "Find in Files" would be nice as well. &nb ...Show All

• Visual Basic Missing a DLL? A vital one?

  Ummm. I think this is a newbie question.... Well, I made a program... Then I copied it onto my JumpDrive... Then I excuted it onto someone else's computer to show him what the program was... Then there is like a popup telling me that a DLL is missing... Although I copied the whole project folder on to my JumpDrive... What's happening Thank You Keehun Nam Newbie question requires lots of information as a reply. Probelm     1. Your not giving us the name of the DLL.     2. I don't think you get the idea that VB is a Program and your project are the files that work with your program(VB) to create a New Pro ...Show All

• Visual C++ Controlling settings for all the vc8 projects from a common place.

  Hi, Issue: Controlling settings for all the vc8 projects from a common place.    I have heard about property sheet for vc. Can anyone explore about property sheet for VC In VS2005 MS has provided MSBuild but it is not supporting VC projects. Thanks in advance. Regards, Madhur To inherit from a property sheet, switch to the Property Manager window and select all projects / configurations you want to have the same properties, right-click, and choose to inherit from a property sheet. In answer to your second question, you can automate the upgrade process using vcbuild.exe. Type "vcbuild / " at the command-line for mo ...Show All

• .NET Development Cannot start X2 service on machine ‘.’

  I have created two services X1 and X2.   Stop and start operations of Service X2 should controlled by X1. I have written the below code. System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController sc = new System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController("X2");                                                 // check the current state of X2 service, either manually started by any one         ...Show All

• Windows Forms Show icon/text while dragging

  Hi, in good old VB6 I could set the Control.DragIcon property to an image of the text/icon or whatever being dragged, to achieve the effect which exists in windows explorer when dragging and dropping files, where you actually drag a "snapshot"-view of the filename around along with its icon. I can't seem to find any way to do this with Windows For ...Show All

• .NET Development Embeddable database or DBF Library?

  I have been using the Pocket Access database format for my applications as they do not need SQL Server and the customers do not need SQL Server / MSDE on their desktop. I don't feel that XML is a valid option for a database but I may be wrong. Any alternatives to Pocket Access and or SQL Server would be appreciated. I was wondering if anyone had seen a DBF library in C# that can be used in the Compact Framework. Thanks in advance for ANY help or suggestions. RE: I could accomplish the same effect with code as you stated above but I would basically be writing my own database correct Well, .Net handles most o ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) When will the C# version of LinQ be ready for VS.NET 2005 RC0

  I am very excited about LinQ and would like to use it asap. Since I have to use the VS.NET 2005 RC0 version to create demos, I would like to inquire when will the C# version of LinQ be ready for VS.NET 2005 RC0.   Yes, I know that LinQ is already compatible with the VB version of the RC0 VS.NET release, but I would like to show Java programmers a flavor of what they are missing ! If the normal CLR metadata could encode a type declaration w/o a name, such that all types with the same signature (across all modules) would become the same type, then the anonymous types could flow freely outside the me ...Show All