Paul Hill alphacomp's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms How to: Imitate windows copy action

  Hi, I need to imitate windows copy action... I have a hotkey which I registered in my background service. In my hotkey event I want to collect marked items to the clipboard using the Clipboard.SetDataObject([marked item]) . My problem is that I dont know how to recognize/get the marked item... Thanks, Hi Naya, Watching the clipboard wont help me because my intention is to take some text data (the user gives me by marking it ...Show All

• Windows Forms LIB's in a Windows Form?

  Hi folks, I'm just wondering if it's possible to add a LIB to a Windows Form project I want to add Shlwapi.h, shlwapi.lib so that I can access the useful functions: PathAddBackslash PathIsDirectory PathRemoveFileSpec PathRemoveBackslash PathFileExists PathFindFileName etc.... Is it possible I can't seem to figure out how to add a LIB and just adding the .h causes a whole mess of problems. Any ideas Hi ...Show All

• Visual C++ ploting in visual C++

  I am plotting in the mainframe window and want to stop the acquistion via the file menu. Is it ok to do my plotting in this window I am basically using the polyline function to plot, is there more appropriate graphing techniques to use How do I go about using a second thread for my application And just another general querie - what is the difference between visual c++ and visual C++.net Thankyou Cagla Wow, wh ...Show All

• .NET Development How to use Serialport in VB?

  I've search for exemple of how to use Serialport, but all my search ended up with c# examples... Any example in VB Thanks Nico Since the SerialPort class in .NET 2.0 is not a special class/feature for C# (not like My in VB)... what you need to do is to convert the C# syntax to VB syntax. Here is an example for how to send data out of the serial port: C#: using System.IO.Ports; private static void S ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Integrate PSDK documentation into VC 2005 Express?

  I downloaded and installed Visual C++ 2005 Express and Platform SDK. I integrated PSDK directories into Visual Studio. However, I haven't found a way to integrate PSDK Documentation into Visual Studio help. When I press F1, only MSDN Express opens, without PSDK documentation. I can open PSDK documenation as a separate tool, but there is no way to search for highlighted text automatically (or is there a switch to dexplore.exe ). So, my question: ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to catch this exception?

  Hello, I use some kind of securitycheck to see if user has full trust to execute the program. I have some app in which this works fine, it gives a message like ("unsufficient rights to  execute this program"). Now I want to include the sam ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Drag and Drop Treeview Items between 2 Treeviews

  Hello I am trying to drag treeview items from 1 treeview to but no luck. I am unable to find the event ItemDrag like in the control found in VS.Net 2003. I upgraded from the Jan 2006 CTP to the Feb 2006 CTP and now the drag and drop event is executing correctly. I can now drag a TreeViewItem from the one TreeView to another TreeView in the Feb 2006 where I was unable to do this in the Jan 2006 CTP. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TeamBuild throws errors when deploying "additional files and directories" for unit tests

  I am using RC. I have configured TeamBuild to run unit tests defined in a test run configuration. All the build steps work correctly except when TeamBuild tries to copy the "additional files and directories" specified in the test run configuration it runs into a UnauthorizedAccessException. When I run the unit tests locally all the additional files and directories are correctly copied to the /TestResults/<test run name>/Out ...Show All

• Windows Forms datagrid column

  how can you inter-change the column order after the data is bind to the datagrid. that is col5 is shown first, then col1, col2 Manually add the column styles at design time, instead of allowing them to be auto-generated. You can use the designer to add a table style to the grid, and add columns to the table style. Or you can do it in code: DataGridColumnStyle col1 = new DataGridTextBoxColumn(); col1.Map ...Show All

• .NET Development Pragmatic General Multicast

  all, I've posted the following last week but didn't get any replies... Is this the wrong forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Where can I get some c# code samples using the Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) protocol (client\Server) regards -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you ...Show All

• .NET Development Finding Source Server Table of a DataTable Column

  Hi, Is it possible to find out the name of the source table in a DataTable column which was filled by a DbDataAdapter For example, suppose we have: DbDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter("SELECT [User].UserId, [User].Username, [Profile].ProfileName", con); DataTable dt = new DataTable(); da.Fill(dt); For each of the columns in the DataTable, is it possible to know that they came from table User or from table Profile, w ...Show All

• .NET Development Using in Statement with DataTable.Select in ADO.Net

  I am using this code to get rows from a datatable but it throws an exception (Cannot perform '=' operation on System.Guid and System.String) DataRow [] drows = dt.Select( "RefID in('1e1cde8e-28b6-493d-b6ce-d1b81b69e83f','1e1cde8e-28b6-493d-b6ce-d1b81b69e83f')" ); PS it works with strings and fails when working with guids. Your help is appreciated. I think this may be a bug in the DataS ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Render to texture

  this is in response to another thread that I have in this forum. I am having problem of rendering to a texture. I have a texture that I populate by using lockRect and the usage is D3DPOOL_MANAGED.  The problem is that I cannot populate this texture using lockRect and D3DPOOL_MANAGED but rather D3DPOOL_DEFAULT, which cannot be populated with lockRect.  I have to use D3DPOOL_MANAGED inoder to use SetRenderTarget 1.Is there a way to popu ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to do sound recording ?

  I want to capture sound from windows application and save into a file, like I want to save the entire voice conversation in MSN messenger. Wong,     You can use the Windows Media Encoder SDK. See the following: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/wmencode/htm/windowsmediaencoderautomation.asp Drill down into: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmencod ...Show All

• Windows Forms Logging into MDI Application

  First off, I'm just starting to learn to program in VB.NET.  I am trying to create a login for a MDI application!  My problem is once i get a user authenticated I want to open up the main MDI window and then close the login& ...Show All