Romit's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista SDK compatability with VS2005 RC

  First of all, the software looks great. The time and dedication is evident with the thoroughness of the design. Currently, we have our own proprietary workflow engine and were about to look at re-envisioning our designer as a DSL. With this announcement, we will have to re-evaluate our position.  We have a few guys at PDC this year and they have been very impressed with the demonstrations and labs (I just had to pick this yea ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to have an Object share by multiple forms ?

  Hi I have a Winform app with 5 forms. I would like to have a global object and the forms to access and change some attribute of this object I don't know where to declare it. Any help is welcome. John There must be a class  ...Show All

• Windows Forms Visual Studio.net cannot find "System.Drawing"

  It says that VS.net 2003 can't find  system.drawing; what could be the problem I am having this same problem in VB and I tried your remedy, but it doesn't work. Is there something else I need to do Thanks ...Show All

• Visual C++ "Dynamic" creation of variables through macros

  Hi, I wanted to know if something like this is possible: #define CREATEVAR(X) X##__LINE__ but expanding the __LINE__ macro. I'm trying to create a variable's name through a macro that could be called different times creating different names: int CREATEVAR(a); int CREATEVAR(a); (of course, in this case it would only work if the macro was called in different lines). The thing is that after the concatenation operator ## the macros don't get exp ...Show All

• Windows Forms Replace value in MergeAction enum

  Am I missing something or does the Replace merge option not work as advertised.  If I create a sample (in Beta2) with: - ParentForm form as a MDI container, with menu strip containing:    + File menu, containing    ++ New menu that creates a new ChildForm as MDI child    ++ File2 menu that does nothing - ChildForm as MDI client, with non-visible menu strip containing:    + File menu, containing &nbs ...Show All

• .NET Development Can Somebody Help Me?

  Hi everyone, Here i have problem related to Programming with selected data retrival from SQL server. I have one Textbox on the form, and connected with the sql server. Now, i want that when i pressed any character,it should searchout in the table for particular field and show list below. after the selection from the list the list will be automatically hide. i wanted to make a control like excactly windows having in Run command . when you t ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Device Unique ID

  Hello, i'm trying to get the unique DEVICEID from some PocketPC with the function: KernelIoControl(IOCTL_HAL_GET_DEVICEID, IntPtr.Zero, 0, OutputBuffer, OutputBufferSize, ref BytesReturned); ...this works fine. ...But for some OEM device this function returns always the same code... How can i get a unique identifier for that device thanks for suggestions Andrea C. You can not since OE ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Fix for roaming profiles

  Hello all, I'm happy to announce that Microsoft has introduced a hotfix that addresses the problems that occur when users with roaming profiles attempt to access WDS from a new machine. The hotfix, as well as further information about the fix can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;en-us;287497 It should be noted that this fix is intended for enterprise users currently running at least WDS version 2.6.5. Hom ...Show All

• Visual C++ menus

  im using visual c++ to make a win32 app. ive got my window up and the menu is defined in the .rc file. when i open that file, it displays the menu where the source code usually is. i was wondering how i code the buttons i.e.: how to close a window when exit it click, also, when i run the window, and click on file then click somewhere else, the menu changes to a white background, not the greyish color it was. how do i fix this ...Show All

• .NET Development Identity from Access

  Hi, I have been searching around for a solution to this problem with not much luck. From what I have read, I don't like the answer, but I thought I would check just in case. I have been given the impression it is impossible to retrieve the identity value from an Access database after an insert. I have been purely using the dataset designer and using the tableadpater methods I have created in the designer as I am still getting to grips with the w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How can I kill Selected process ?

  Hello, this code get a list of runing processes : Process [] pArry = Process .GetProcesses(); foreach ( Process p in pArry) { string s = p.ProcessName; s = s.ToLower(); listBox1.Items.Add(p.ProcessName); } so how can I kill the selected processName from listBox1 Best Regards Try something like- Lets say the user clicked a listbox item and you get the name of the process.Lets say it is selecte ...Show All

• Windows Forms Invalid Resx file. Absolute path information is required. ??

  I'm trying to convert a 1.1 project (RssBandit) over to VS '05, and I'm getting a strange build problem: It says "Invalid Resx file. Absolute path information is required." It's an MSB3103 error, but I can't find anything with that error code in the help. The location it pionts to is the end of the following data tag:   <data name="resource.CustomSettings" mimetype="application/x-microsoft.net.object.binary.base64">  &n ...Show All

• SQL Server Clustered Index or NonClustered Index

  Hello I want to learn disparity clustered index or nonclustered index and in queries which one run better. example select * from orders where orderID=5 to this query clustered or nonclustered thanks Thank you very much ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions connect in ide to sql2000

  Hi, I know that it is not possible to connect in ide(vb2005 express) to a remote sqlserver. The 1 million dollar is ... can i connect to a sql2000 server that is installed on the same pc as vb2005 express I know I can do it through code but I would like to try this in the ide. Cheers, Frank Hi, I know that it is not possible to connect in ide(vb2005 express) to a remote sqlserver. The 1 million doll ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Is there anyway to control the animation in code-behind?

  I test it with the following codes: namespace AnimationDemo { /// <summary> /// Interaction logic for Window1.xaml /// </summary> public partial class Window1 : Window { DoubleAnimation _animation = new DoubleAnimation(); Storyboard _myStoryboard = new Storyboard(); public Window1() { InitializeComponent(); _animation.From = 100; _animation.To = 50; _animation.RepeatBehavior = RepeatBehavior.Forever ...Show All