Brian P's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Is it legal to manipulate a control (listbox for example) from a DLL written in c++ using SendMessage

  Hello and good whatever time is at yout place Is it legal to manipulate a control (listbox for example) from a DLL written in c++ using SendMessage like so: in the VB part: Declare Function TestSendMSG Lib "MyDll.dll" _ (ByVal h_wnd as int32) As int32 calling this function like: (in some sub) TestSendMSG(MyListBox1.hWnd) In the DLL: unsigned long WINAPI TestSendMSG(unsigned long h_wnd) { ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Mech commander 2 question

  i built the MC2 project and decided to play it all the way through. i bought the game in ages past and love it, so i wanted to play it again before i dive into the source code. there seems to be an issue with the mission 17 .abl file. it crashes with an error about fadetocolor at line 755 having an integer out of range. i looked at the numbers in the mission file and they were within a normal long int range. i changed them to be within a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Web test comments

  I like the idea of comments in web tests. Is there any way to include these comments in the results It would make it far easier when reviewing the results if this were possible. Maybe in the next release (wish list) Thanks, Tomk Hi Tom, unfortunately there's no way in the current version. Hopefully next rev. We also want to make it clear which requests were from the test and which ones were redirects. Thanks for the sugg ...Show All

• Visual Studio VSS 6 and Ms Access

  I tried for the first time the latest stable VSS version with service pack 6 and with integration to Ms Access 2003.  I could have selected other products but my thought was that I want a good integration with Ms Access. I have to say, that so far, VSS caused me a lot of grief.  Quite frankly I am surprised that this product is considered 'stable' by Microsoft, so much for "Stable" - 1.  I have created a new database from Ms Acce ...Show All

• Visual C# File name on the Tabs of VS2005 IDE

  Hi all Everything is good with my VS2005 experience except the FileName on the tabs for my Web/c# project. My actual file path for a aspx.cs file is as follows. C:\IMIS.NET\Asi.WebRoot\AsiCommon\Controls\Commerce\Order\ShippingInformation.ascx.cs where as the file name that is displayed on the tab is AsiCommon\Co..ation.ascx.cs It will be like that for all the tabs .. making it very difficult to navigate quickly to the file ...Show All

• Smart Device Development [SOLVED] xmldocument.load - Anyway to get bytes loaded?

  I'm using C# to make an app for the Pocket PC (funny enough) and was wondering when using xmldocument.load , how I can get the number of bytes loaded A 300kb XML file can take a few seconds on the pocket pc so I wanted some way of getting the bytes loaded to make a progress bar. I was thinking of timing the first time the xml file was loaded and then storing this and using it as an estimate (I can see the problems with this) but sur ...Show All

• SQL Server Why use nested table?

  Hi, all here, I have a question about nested table use. I dont quite clearly see through why the nested table is very much necessary I mean if we need information from both the current case table and nested table for mining models, we can just join both tables Thanks a lot in advance for any guidance and help. Nested tables are useful in two ways: 1. As a natural modeling concept for one-to-many relationships - examples: product ...Show All

• Visual Studio disable button...

  I am trying to programatically disable my custom wizard page's Next button using the EnableStep method of the wizard class. this .EnableStep( false ); But this isn't working. Is there any other way to control the enable property of the different wizard buttons Try this: bool enable = /* however you want to set it */ false; Wizard.EnableButton(Microsoft.WizardFramework.ButtonType.Next, enable); ...Show All

• Visual C++ error LNK2005: "void __cdecl bp5(void)" (?bp5@@YAXXZ) already defined in test.obj

  Hi All, I generated a simple SDI skeleton using the wizard, and tried to #include some of my libraries. It gave me a bunch of 'LNK2005: ... already defined ' errors. I repeated the basic SDI generation in another project and this time only tried to include a single, trivial header file: mytest.h #pragma once //#include "stdafx.h" void bp5(){  int a = 0;  a+=1; } I include this file in the testDoc.h file of my test p ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Set a mouse cursor position ?

  hi, 1. I want to set the mouse point to a specific position. For example, set the mouse cursor to (798,871). How can I do it 2. I want to simluate the keyboard pressing. For example, press RIGHT arrow. How can I do it These problems make me confused a lot. Thanks. for #1, you probably have to use interop to do it. using System.Runtime.InteropServices; ... public class MyClass { ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can't Install TFS RC on a Domain Controller???

  We can no longer install TFS (RC) on a domain controller This worked in earlier betas and CTP versions. But now I'm told with the installer that this is not a supported configuration, yet the installation guide talks about installing on a DC. I wasted all this time setting up the DC system and get to the point of running TFS install and am told I can no longer do this I've seen Microsoft respondents in the past indicate that you can install on ...Show All

• Windows Forms Which Port is used by ClickOnce?

  Which port is ClickOnce using when installing or upgrading an application if you know the port, you can configure the firewall / proxy properly (provided you are authorized to do that), so that ClickOnce -Deployment can be used from anywhere.  Or is this a naive thought hope somebody can help me greetings daniel i may not have the question right but i will share anyway... with firewall on, the application will be block ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Testing: Call Context is lost

  i need to store application information so i can reuse it in the next test. but when i execute a series of (unit) tests it seems that each test is executed in a complete new environment thus loosing any information such as the call context. since i'm storing relevant application information in the call context this information gets recalculated before every test what is very time consuming. i don't understand the reason for this behaviour; ...Show All

• Windows Forms Printer Driver in Longhorn

   Dear Friends,                         i want to know the Printing system thats going to come up with LONGHORN. if any one know then please tell me from the scratch !!!!! Thanks  Cheers&n ...Show All

• .NET Development Integrating perl and .net

  (1)I wanted to know whether it is possible to integrate perl with .net(the specific reson for integrating perl is that perl makes file parsing and searching,regular expression pattern matching extremley easily with the minimum amount of code) (2)I would also like to know whether i can use the Test::Harness module provided by perl to test the functonality of .net applications or routines.If it is possible, can somebody provide me with some exampl ...Show All