ramsarvan's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Gonna make me sound stupid

  I know this is gonna make me sound stupid, but I have to ask anyways because I have no clue.  I new at creating programs in Visual Basic. And I was wondering how to complete a program so that you can run it without having to open it with Visual Studio. For instance lets say that I wrote and alarm clock program for my labtop. Now how do I make the program so that it will work as a stand alone program without the need for Visual Basic Remembe ...Show All

• Visual C++ What's wrong here with _wfopen

  I have this code line with very strange behaviour: FILE* fp = _wfopen(( const wchar_t *)_T("c:\\Hello.txt"), ( const wchar_t *)_T("r")); Here fp pointer is always equal to null. When I debuged i found that filename was with strange symbols, not normal letters. I'm on Windows XP SP1. Please somebody help me. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Why are using the _T macro If your are using an unicode function version you ...Show All

• Visual C# program crashes when other users run...

  Ok, I created a simple program the other day with nothing complex. I have already been using it for a week or so and now another user wants to run this application. That is when the program crashes. The error I get when debugging is: An unhandled exception of type 'System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception' occurred in System.dll It works normally when I (Administrator) run it but when I run it as another user (both Guest and Limited) the program ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Problem with P/Invoke when double types are passed by value

  Hello All, I am using P/Invoke on native dll which is developed in C. I have one query. When I try to call function which takes arguments as double, I get "NotSupportedException". According to following article, we can't pass double type as value to core function. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnnetcomp/html/netcfmarshallingtypes.asp "Long types (64-bit integer) and floating-point ty ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Development Suggestions

  I could use some help from those of you who have SSIS deployed in a production environment. The developer creates a SSIS package on a workstation with BIDS. Package accesses a network drive and a SQL database on a development server. The developer can test the SSIS package successfully in BIDS. The only way to use the ServerStorage protect level is that the developer needs to save the SSIS package directly to the development server (we ar ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do you open an embedded resource?

  I am trying to make a program that will will make it easier for me to access some of my smaller frequently used program. I am new to Visual Basic and just discovered how to embed a .exe file into the project. I just dont know how to open it now. Basically there is a button and when it is clicked it needs to open up a .exe file, lets just call it 1.exe. I have looked around everywhere on how to do this and all I found was some resourcemanager com ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Performance WCF vs .NET remoting

  Hi all, I did a small experiment to compare .NET remoting with WCF , just to see what it would mean performance-wise when switching technology to WCF. The test was carried out on one PC, a client app (console app) talking to a server app (console app). I build it against WinFx February CTP. The endpoint on the server exposes a single interface with one method with a nearly empty implementation (just increasing a counter). In all ...Show All

• Visual Studio Selection formulas vs. Stored procedure

  Folks: I am a little new to CR.  I am writing a bunch of CRs with VS .NET 2005.  All of my reports have parameters.  I am currently using Selection formulas approach.  I would like to know if there is a big penalty in performance if I am using this approach vs. callling stored procedure, and bind it to the report. Most of my reports returns > 2000 records if no data are filtered.  I speculate right now that the CR eng ...Show All

• Windows Forms dataGridView; changes by the end user

  I have a dataGridView with many records. How can I change those cell values to red color that has been either added or edited by the end user This is to get the user a summary of changs made to the grid prior to saving the grid.   This is when the Value of the cell is null. just add a checker: object cellValue = dataGridView1.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[e.ColumnIndex].Value; if(cellValue != null) { _oldValue = cellValue.T ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Cannot connect to device. Error: 0x8007064a

  I run into this error with VS 2005 and WM 5.0 PPC SDK and therefore am unable to launch emulator. Anyone have seen similar error I haven't seen this error code before... it decodes as Win32 ERROR_BAD_CONFIGURATION, and I don't see any place in VS or the emulator where that message is reported. Can you try using the Device Emulator Manager to launch the WM 5.0 PPC emulator and see what happens If it f ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do you download iconbuffet_studio.zip from Microsoft Registration Benefits Portal?

  It downloads instead an ASP.NET server page that basically does nothing. Help connect.microsoft.com/download Hi, The downloading page has been up and down for a while so please check back frequently. Also, downloading anything from Registration Benefit Portal requires installation of an ActiveX download control from Microsoft. Check if your browser is blocking that option and allow it for that page. Best regards ...Show All

• .NET Development Switching the Authentication type from Form to Windows

  Hi, I am working on two web applications. The first one (WebApp1) will have a link to the second application (WebApp1). The user will login to WebApp1 using form based authentication. But when he clicks on the link to WebApp2 the security context should be changed to Windows Authentication for accessing WebApp2. WebApp2 supports only windows authentication. I tried using the System.Security.Principal namespace for accomplishin ...Show All

• Windows Forms Change UI Culture after Usercontrol or Form is loaded and displayed

  Hi! I need to change the current thread's UICulture and somehow reload all resources after a form or control is loaded and displayed. Is this possible Thanx, Dimitris It's very difficult to do this using designer generated code, because everytime you change your UI, the designer regenerates code.  What you would have to do is copy the InitializeComponent code to another method and call it each time you need to reload the user int ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Designed for Windows Mobile Requirements

  Not sure if this is the right place to ask.  But I need to go over the necessary requirements for the 'Designed for Windows Mobile Logo'.  There are some areas I'm not quite sure of. 1) -Required: Provisioning XML File Must include Install CSP XML with NoUninstall Parm I checked my XML file included in the CAB, and I do not have this parm.  Do I really needed   What does it mean   and how can I include it 2) -Require ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums MS Access key problem

  I'm doing a little work for a lawyer that has an Access VBA system to handle billing and printing of some legal documents. I am not an Access VBA expert; I'm a C++ expert who has picked up a few Access skills. When his secretary adds a new client, she has to pick a record key, which they call MGMT_CODE. It is a four-character text field. Most of the existing MGMT_CODEs start with 0 and consist of four numbers. Some of them start with 9, though, ...Show All