ColinSK's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Timer in VB.NET

  I recently upgraded an application from VB 6.0 to VB.NET. This application contains a timer in its form (only one form is there). But after upgrading, the timer is not getting activated. Form is using DefInstance as follows: frmMain.DefInstance.Show() There are 2 timers (system.windows.form type), both are enabled (set ot true) and interval is set to 1. Timers are set to a value of 5000. I added break points in VB 6.0 application to see the process flow. The timers are getting activated after the form is loaded and before the 'Exit Sub' is executed. But in VB.NET application, the application is exiting and the timer is not gett ...Show All

• Visual Basic HELP WITH AUTORUN.INF file to start a VB setup

  Hi Friends, I have a installation program that installs MSDE and I need to restart the computer upon successfully installing MSDE.But the problem is the "AUTORUN.INF" file does not start with any program on computer restart. Is there any parameter I need to add in the .INF so that it can detect a restart and appropriately load setup/.exe or entry in registry so that the computer can start a program on restart Thanks in advance. SK The only way you'll be able to tell what program launched another is by the command line arguements passed to it. Atleast, i'm pretty sure. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Integrated Windows Authentication in IE hosted Windows Forms Control

  I'm developing a web application based on a Windows Forms Control embedded in an HTML-page to be hosted by Internet Explorer. From this application I'd like to make web requests for web pages at the same site as the page with my application. These pages can only be accessed using windows integrated security so I'll need to pass Credentials with the request. The page hosting the application also demands Windows Authentication so the user will already have logged in to the site, through Internet Explorer's standard log-in dialog, when the application starts up. The problem is that DefaultCredentials aren't accessible when the applica ...Show All

• SQL Server About SQL Mobile Server

  I need to export(import) data from Pocket PC(SQL Mobile Server) to SQl Server 2005(central data storage) in real time, if anyone knows how it would be better and faster to do...Maybe someone have done something like this... Sorry for my English, I use it at first for last 6 years...))) What's "real time" in your case Also, since you have to have connection at all times for "real time" synchronization, why could not you use SQL Client to talk to SQL Server 2005 directly ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Jan CTP

  Does jan CTP have xaml design mode improvements http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=5A0AE4CD-DC79-4B12-8A05-B6195F89FFA2&displaylang=en Ah, thank you for that pointer, that works great. I actually don't consider that a "cheap workaround" since the documentation does say "Grid lines are intended as a design tool to debug layout problems. They are not intended for use in production quality code." Does this mean that ShowGridLines was on by default in the December CTP, or was the Grid being rendered differently in December than it is in January This is more of a ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB 2005 Window Stay On Top?

  I was trying to get my form (the main form Form1) to stay on top all other windows windows(such like the Windows Task Manager) but with no luck. I tried Google and came up with several approaches: One used the SetWindowPos API call but that generated some insanley cryptic message that the call '...unbalanced the stack...'. I also tried setting the form's TopMost property to true, but that only made the main form stay on top the other forms, in the the same project, not all other windows at runtime. So far I have nothing so if anyone had this problem before please say what I'm doing wrong (or not doing at all). Thanks in advanc ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server Install Breaks WSS 2.0 SP2

  The Sharepoint site no longer works after installing TFS.  When I try to navigate to the site where Sharepoint is installed, I get the following web message: The virtual server that is referenced here is not in the config database. Previous to installing TFS, I could navigate to this page with no problems.  Even when physically at the computer, I get this message when I try to go to localhost.  Any help would be greatly appreciated. Hello John, Can you please confirm the following: 1) In IIS, is the Default Web site started or stopped 2) What Application pool is the Defaul ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unable to check-out some files

  I have server and project administrative rights; however, I can't check-out or delete files under a particular sub-folder within my project. I'm getting "This item is checked out to another workspace." However, Source Control Explorer does not show anyone checking-out these files. And my other workspaces do not involve these files. Originally, I allowed multiple checkout, but then my boss wanted exclusive checkout. If I enabled multiple checkout, everything works fine. But I get the same problem again as soon as I switch back to exclusive checkout. Any help and/or suggestions are greatly appreciated! Thank you! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Action Pane in SmartTag without VSTO

  Hi @ all, is it possible to create a Action Pane for SmartTags in Outlook, Word, Excel etc. I don't find any opinion yet for this. kind regards   You don't need VSTO to create SmartTags or use the ActionsPane. You can create COM objects or managed code that implement ISmartDocument etc. http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/smarttags/ VSTO however makes this a _lot_ easier to do and gives you lots of support for managed code. Why do you not want to use VSTO to do this Ade ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB Express 2005

  Hi all, I just downloaded and installed VB Express 2005 Bata 2. When I ran it and select "New Project" and "Window" app, I get 5 dialog boxes that says: Title: Package Load Failure Package 'Visual Studio common IDE package' has failed to load properly (GUDI - {6E87CFAD-6C05-4ADF-9CD7-3B7943875B7C}). Please contact package vendor for assistance. Application restart recommended, due to possible enviroment corruption. Would you like to disable loading this package in the future You may use 'vbexpress /resetskippkgs' to re-enable package loading. 1. How do you notify the vendor I can't find a place to do it. 2. I restarted and get the same thing ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Is there Speech Recognition for Windows Mobile 5.0?

  Hello, I am wondering if there is sdk for windows mobile 5.0 that uses speech recognition to interface with an stand alone application installed on the device Thanks in advance. John Not from Microsoft. There are some 3rd party SDKs like Fonix ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to manage the "cross" button?

  Hi. How can I set the properties of the botton with a "cross" sign on the top right hand corner of a window. In my programme, when the user click that button, the window will hide. But what I expect is to let it close rather than hide once the button is clicked. in Visual Basic e.cancel = true me.hide ...Show All

• .NET Development convert double to string using "." as decimal seperator regardless of locale

  Need help to convert a double or decimal to a string using the "." as decimal seperator regardless of the locale settings of the user. Any ideas In VB this can be done using the Str() function which is under the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace, however I would like something more generic. Indeed it helps! Thanks. I was thinking to use the following but the approach you the specific article recommends seems to be much more elegant! decimal num = 23.343 ; return num.ToString().Replace(System.Threading. Thread .CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.NumberFormat.NumberDecimalSeparator, "." );   ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL query

  I have the following table and I'm trying to identify sessionid's where the group of category name(s) in one searchcriteriaid group differ from another searchcriteriaid group, in the same session. In the example below the user searched in the same session (5575628) twice (searchcriteriaid 60658874 & 6068961) and used the same 2 category criteria (Land, Multifamily), therefore, I’m not interested in identifying these. But, in the last sessionid (51478216) it shows that within the same sessionid (58040575) the user searched twice and used 2 distinct category criteria in each search in the same session, this sessionid should return. Thank ...Show All

• Visual C# Please read This!!! Buttons question

  Ok i make a buuton for every process that has the MainWindowTitle.Length>0 like This:: int x = 0; // X is the X coordonate for pozitioning the buton Process[] pros = Process.GetProcesses(); foreach(Process b in pros) { if (b.MainWindowTitle.Length > 0) { buton = new Button(); panel1.Controls.Add(buton); buton.Name = "buton"; buton.Text = b.MainWindowTitle; buton.TextImageRelation = TextImageRelation.ImageAboveText; buton.Size = new Size(160, 28); buton.Location = new Point(x, 0); buton.Click + ...Show All