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• Visual C# Converting .mak to Wis Studio '05 project

  Hi all, Not sure if this is correct place but here goes: Is there any way of converting a .mak file into a fully blown VS project, the .mak file is quite old (~2002), it doesn include .sln files for VS 7 but these are just wrapper and only have the .mak file in them. The .mak files are from an external librarby that we use. I can't find any information on howto do the conversation, I am contemplating doing it by hand, but really don't want to ...Show All

• Visual Basic What is the difference between <Me> and <MyBase>?

  I have noticed that the VB .NET compiler/IDE allows both the <Me> and <MyBase> keyword in some situations.  The situation I am talking about here is the following: you have a base class and a class that derives from the base class.  When you are coding in the body of the derived class and you access one of its own members that was actually defined in the base class (an inherited member), you can use both the <Me> and ...Show All

• Visual C++ How do I set security permissions upon file creation?

  I need to create a file in %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\ that can be modified by all users of the system. A Restricted user needs to be allowed to create the file and grant these permissions. It's easy for me to do this in Windows, I just set the file permissions for Everyone to Modify. How do I do this through code I'm looking for a simple solution that can work in 9x, XP, and Vista. It's probably also important to mention, I am not t ...Show All

• Visual Basic clearscreen()

  I want to clear the user typed content of a textbox and the results which appear in labels as a result of the code in my command button. I thought I could create a command button, label it btnClearScreen and code it ClearScreen() however, when I do this, VB.Net tells me that ClearScreen() is not declared.  I thought I read that ClearScreen() would clear data on a form but not save it.  I take it ClearScreen() is not a built in (method) ...Show All

• Visual C# Beginner

  hi all, I've just got myself into dot net (C#), do let me know the online resources available, for me to get acquainted with the technology.  Regards Arun msdn.microsoft.com google www.codeproject.com this site. The best book on C# is Inside C# by Tom Archer.  If you're serious, you should buy this book.  If you're just mucking around, try www.codeproject.com , which has a lot of sample code you can download.  Try CP a ...Show All

• Smart Device Development getting linking errors

  I m trying to make a dll targetting Win Mobile Smartphone 2003. I am developing using embedded Visual C++ 4.0. Here i m using the sms api. I m quite new to this sort of programming. So to call the sms api, I m including <sms.h>. I am not able to find a way to add sms.lib as dependency, as we do in Visual Studio. I am not sure whether i have to do that in eMbedded Visual C++. The code is compiling, but it is giving following linking errors ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can I use the font files of Hard-disk for RichTextBox?

  Hi I'm making a program like "notepad.exe" with C#. You may know, "RichTextBox" control can change the font of text. but, the font is brung font from 'Fonts' folder. (like C:\windows\fonts) I want to use font files which is not on 'Fonts' folder without copying to 'Fonts' folder ! (like C:\MyFonts\00.ttf, C:\Documents and Settings\admin\04.otf, or E:\03.afm) I heard Visual C++ can solve this problem. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Deploying application developed in VS.Net 2005 By selecting Pocket PC 2003 into Win CE 5.0

  Hi, I developed an application in VS.Net 2005 by selecting the project type as Pocket PC 2003, and now want to deploy that application into Win CE 5.0 device. But it is not allowing to deploy. Please suggest me the steps or any tool for doing this. Thank you, Prashant If you right-click on the project in Solution Explorer, you can select to change the target platform. You should be able to change to ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Migrating from VC++ 6.0 to VC++ 7.1

  Hi, We currently have VBA SDK 6.3 support in our product that is compiled under VC++ 6.0/SP5. When I compile the VBA code in VC++ 7.1, I get the following errors. We are using un-managed code in our application. Is there a patch or a newer version of SDK that I should be using   Is there a migration document that shows how to convert existing applications from VC++ 6.0 compiler to VC++ 7.0/7.1 compiler Thanks for your help, - Vittal Sriniv ...Show All

• Windows Forms Embed progress bar into a tabular structure

  Hi, I want to have a tabular structure with only a couple of fields, but i want one of the fields to display the data as a progress bar. Is there any quick way of embedding a standard windows progressbar into the column Thanks Thanks for the reply. Hmm, i'd really like to use the built in 'xp' progressbar. I only require a very simple table structure, it doesnt have to be sorted or anything. I want to use it to ...Show All

• Visual Basic help

  how can i do to find crystal report for vb6 becouse my vb doen`t have crystal. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Name ________ is not declared

  Hello I just recieved Visual Basic Express and am attempting my third program of any kind off the tutorial. Public Class Form1 Private Sub Form1_Load( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase .Load Dim A As Double = Textbox1.Text Dim B As Double = Textbox2.Text MsgBox(A + B) MsgBox(A - B) MsgBox(A * B) MsgBox(A / B) End Sub End Class I' ...Show All

• SQL Server Grant on all tables

  Hi, is there a way to grants object privileges on all tables of database to an user like this: grant select, insert, update, delete on <all tables> to usernamedb go thanks!!!! No. You can add user to db_datareader and  db_datawriter roles. This will however provide SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE permission on tables/ views / table-valued functions etc. See Books Online for more details on the permissions / roles. Also, ...Show All

• .NET Development Validating XML using custom XmlReader

  I wrote a custom XmlReader derived from XmlTextReader.  It implements a SAX-type parser that allows me to call one method on it to parse the entire file, pushing events to my handlers. I want to use this as a validating reader, but I can't set the XmlSettings on it, they're read-only.  If I create a reader with XmlReader.Create passing it my custom XmlReader class and the XmlSettings, I can no longer get to my custom XmlReader methods ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System FxCop, TFS & VS2005

  Hi, we use in our environment the following components: FxCop, TFS, VS2005 ( Some projects and a Web Site, File System based ) After spending hours of testing how do use FxCop on Website i got the tip from David ( thanks again ) how do I configure it. The problem is now that I still don't know how do I share the same Web Site rules with all Team Members, then the "Migrate Code Analysis Policy Settings to Solution" doesn't m ...Show All