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• .NET Development how do i compile an xml based language

  Does anyone know how to write an Xml compiler I want to use an XML format for my own language instead of writing a traditional language and its compiler. Now I want to compile it and turn it into a binary- does anyone have experience of this and know how to start I think this fits into the way Microsoft of doing things so do they provide any guidance Let me explain... Here is an example of incrementing a counter <operation assembly=&q ...Show All

• .NET Development Thread.Sleep(1) sleeps for 15.6 ms

  How do I create a high frequency loop (e.g. 10kHz). I have the following pattern: while ( true ) {   // do some work here  // sleep until the next cycle  Thread.Sleep(1); }   but instead of the expected 1kHz, this loop only cycles at 64Hz, i.e. Thread.Sleep(1);   sleeps for 15.6ms instead of 1. The structure is efficient, e.g. if no work is done (as per example) then 1000 threads like this running simulta ...Show All

• .NET Development partial data sent?

  1 man 4 days 15 hours / day   I have this problem and think I have made no progress after 4 days.   I am having SEVERE serialization problems from Server to Client. Client seems to be the problem. I thought it could be my smartphone mobile device but no, even If I do this on the PC the result is almost the same.   When my Server serializes over a network stream, Server seems to send the data fully, Cli ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How can i add Window mobile 5.0 in smart device project VS2005

  I installed VS 2005 Professional and Windows mobile 5.0 smart device SDK. When i create a new project i can only see VB>Smart Device>Pocket PC 2003, Smart phone 2003, Window CE 2005. But I want to make project for win mobile 5.0, its not there. Please help me to create a project for windows mobile 5.0. Many thanks Hello, You will need to install WM5.0 sdks for Pocket PC and SmartPhone and corresp ...Show All

• Visual C# visual studio cannot start debugging because the debug target

  i cannot debug my program Hey howzit I am getting this error message: Visual Studio cannot start debugging because the debug target 'C:\..\..viewPDF.exe' is missing. Please build the project and retry, or the outputpath and assemblyname properties appropriately to point at the correct location for the target assembly. Its such a silly problem, because I have to rebuild everytime before running my application, ...Show All

• Windows Forms send message to other process

  Hi:( The problem is: I have two winform processes A and B. When form A is closing I want him send a message to form B, so that form B can save the data. How can I do that Thanks in advance. mm shoulnd be so hard.. but the real problem is.. if the process B is killed there wont be a closing event.. The best way i know yet(i`m far far far from an expert) is to do it with socket, i know you can do it with interprocess but that my ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office URGENT: Cannot Install VSTO June 2006 CTP!

  When I click on the setup file 'vsto3ctp.exe', I am receiving the following error message: "You must first install Microsoft WinFX Runtime Components February CTP before installing or repairing this product." yet i am running the latest WinFX runtime components 3.0 beta 2, which it says should be fine in the documentation. Can anybody please help me to install this CTP as a matter of urgency. I have a deadline in a couple of w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Need Grandtotal at the start of the page

  Hi, I am having 3 sub report. All my sub report will return amount field. I am adding all these in my main report and printing at the end of report. But this grand total i need to use in the sub report . Is it possible to calculate the grand total before execution of my report ...Show All

• Windows Forms databinding combobox AFTER combobox has been displayed, has no effect

  If I do the combobox databinding during form initialization time (c'tor), things work OK, I see the column I specified in the DisplayMember, and the values are the expected ones.  However, I don't always know which table, or even database a user&nbs ...Show All

• Windows Forms Navigating to a specific item using a binding navigator

  I have a datatable in a details view which is controlled by a binding navigator. A lookup button will open a datagrid in a new window which will allow the user to filter and select a specific row from the same datatable. When the selection is made, I want to close the lookup window and navigate the details view to the datarow that the user selected. How do I programmatically do that Thanks for the response. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Web Developer Express question

  I just installed Visual Web Developer express. I can generate even the simplest aspx style page with it. When I try to display the web page I get errors like this: Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately. Parser Error Message: Unrecognized attribute 'xmlns'. Source Error: ...Show All

• Visual Studio Release of a DSL for the Gamma et al. Design Patterns

  Hi folks, I have written a DSL for the Gang of Four design patterns. If any of you are interested in taking it for a spin, you can get the source and doc from:    http://www.clipcode.biz/workshops/dsl.html Enjoy, Eamon O'Tuathail Clipcode Knowledge Services mailto:eamon.otuathail@clipcode.biz http://www.clipcode.biz Awsome! This is excellent, Eamon. Gave me also new thoughts of finding my way th ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Verify valid network connection.

  Is there any way to verify if a device has a valid network connection C# and Compact .Net 1.0 Please define "valid network connection". For example, if you have only one active host in otherwise fully operational network, is it valid network connection How about LAN with no internet access ...Show All

• SQL Server Event Notifications are not in the SQL Management Studio UI?

  hi. can't seem to find the event notifications in the service broker folder of Management Studio..  I can get the information from sys.event_notifications, but it seems odd that event notifications are not in the UI. Hopefully I'm looking in the wrong place Event notifications use Service Broker for delivery but they are not part of Service Broker.  When you create a queue and a service to handle an e ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista View

  If a person dosnt want images and text documents to show in a thumbnail preview mode can you switch to icons I think it be neat to switch from Text Mode which is just text icon scaled to 0x0px preview mode shows the images and text documents and icon mode is icons and you can set the scale of the preview mode and icon mode, im not sure if thats how it works now cause i havnt beta tested Vista but I do gather and study the screenshots. ...Show All