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• Visual Basic Using a dialog box as a shutdown message; how do I delay its closing?

  In my Visual Basic project, when the program is exited by invoking the appropriate "exit" command, I have a dialog box with no buttons that tells me that my application is shutting down.  I have the box invoked correctly in my code, but at runtime, when I exit the program, the box only appears and disappears immediately, too fast for the eye to see.  I would like to know how I can delay the closing of the dialog box long enough to, say, allow me to play a sound as the program closes.  I would appreciate any help that you can provide. Thank you. Brandon Taylor I would tend to agree that having unnecessary dialogs is proba ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Developer Provisioning System not found

  Hi everybody, I've been trying to use the MSN Search Service but the Developer Provisioning System URL provided ( http://search.msn.com/developer ) in the MSN Developer Center ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/msn/gettingstarted/searchstart/ ) doesn't exist or it's not accessible. Please, could you help me Thanks Hi Ralph, I've solved it!! The problem had to do with the language. Loading search.msn.com from a browser configured in spanish actually loads search.msn.es, so the /developer folder is not found. Setting in English the MSN Search Engine works it out. Thank you again. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Pet peeve of the day

  Why oh why doesn't VSS 2005 install over VSS 6.0 instead of requiring that first VSS 6.0 be uninstalled Normally an upgrade of a program installs over the old version keeping all settings. - dave Hi Dave, VSS2005 reuses the Setup from VisualStudio - it cannot simply upgrade VSS6 which uses a different setup model. Even more, if you used shared databases, it's likely you don't want VSS6 model (with the database in the same folder as the VSS binaries). Some users incorrectly set up the access rights to the shared database folder, and open themselves to security issues (malicious users can replace the VSS binaries with trojans)  ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums How to change a search result?

  My site currently ranks #5 in MSN search for the keyword "computer support" http://search.msn.com/results.aspx q=computer+support+&FORM=MSNH&srch_type=0 Does anyone know how I can get the bot to show www.lowster11.com instead of the site without the www it is refering to now It appears that lowster11.com is a valid URL ( http://lowster11.com and http://www.lowster11.com/ point to the same resource). lowster11.com also appears as the top-rated item in the search http://search.msn.com/results.aspx q=lowster11.com&FORM=QBRE , as you might expect. Please note that it is followed by several hits for http://www.lowst ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Reconfiguring Team Explorer Servers

  After installing Team Explorer B3 I was presented with a dialog where you could configure Team Foundation Server addresses.  Since then, I've moved my Team Foundation Server to a different address, and I cannot figure out how to reconfigure the server locations in Team Explorer.  Every time I try to create a new team project I get a "cannot find server" error. Work arounds Regards, Roger The full instructions are Close the IDE (devenv) Go to start --> Run. Type "devenv /resetuserdata" (without the quotes) Restart Visual Studio IDE (devenv) Select the profile you want Now reconnect to the server. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Three problems with Team Build: read-only paths, missing include paths and huge checkouts

  Hi, I hope you can help me with this problem: I set up a Team Build-Server. Basically, it works, my small test-project is building fine. But with our real C++-application there are some problems: - Some of our projects are generating libs as output-files and have a common folder set as the folder where the final .lib should be stored. This folder is not under source-control, because it is empty. Now, when one of these projects is built, it tries to create this folder but it fails, because its parent-folder is read-only. I created a work-around and checked this empty folder in. But I think that's not very nice. - Our projects requ ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I convert string representation of Color object to Color object

  I try to save Color object in my App.config file. I write Color.ToString() to config file, but how can I convert loaded color to Color object Unfortunately I use older version of Visual Studio, but good to know. ...Show All

• SQL Server Reading a Filename which has a Wildcard

  Hi - I need to read a file but I do not know the whole filename! For example, I need to read a file whose name is:- Finance_200510.xls I know the prefix is "Finance" and I know the suffix is ".xls", but the bit in the middle could be anything. In the above example, it is a date which will vary from month to month. I could achieve this as follows:- 1. I already need a .CMD file which contains a DTEXEC command. 2. So, I could insert the following line before the DTEXEC command:-     DIR Finance*.xls > ListFile.txt     (Alternatively, this command could be invoked from within the Package) 3. I could read th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Reference Project dll from Separate Solution

  I have a team project with about 3 solutions.  How do I reference the output of a project in a different solution without duplicating the project Yes, that was the information I was looking for, though certainly not the answer I wanted.  :-( I realize this is V1 beta of TFS, but I hope things like this get addressed for V1.1 or V2.  I'm a single developer shop and I'm running into scalability problems such as this already.  I can't even begin to imagine problems a larger shop would run into.  Thanx, ...Show All

• Visual C++ I am use visual c++ about 3 years. I found MFC is hard to learn. I want to return to pure c++. Is anybody likes as me?

  I am use visual c++ about 3 years. I found MFC is hard to learn. I want to return to pure c++. Is anybody likes as me Yes, I feel the same as the original poster. I wonder if it ever occured to Microsoft that most of us have to develop projects to make a living and don't have the time anymore to invest months into studying new languages, new frameworks and new paradigms In our company we made the decision to continue using C++ and MFC. Frankly we're just using MSVC 8 in order to have easy access to native 64 bit compilation. Other than that, you could take all C# and .Net and whatnot and trash it. ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGrid and Custom Object (collection)

  How can I supress fields (i.e properties) while binding with Datagrid. Ex: I have 20 properties in my object and I want to show only 7 fields (properties) in datagrid.  thanx here is the code.....         Dim activityLoad As New Activity         Dim Activities As ActivityCollection = activityLoad.LoadAllActivities(xxx, , strSql)    &nbs ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to program timed events

  Hi Gang! I have been working in vb.net for a few months, and need some help.  I only have one paperback vb reference, so plase bear with me. I need to set up timed events in a forms app.  It needs to perform a certain function every two minutes or so. Can you point me in the direction of a resource that will show me how to  ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Strange problem on XP & VOB files

  Im upgrade my Windows2000 to WIndowsXP and install VS.NET 2003 after it im try to compile my old code , and its can't play VOB files anymore , SAME code compiled under Win2000+ work fine.... Also for example PlayWnd from DXSDK play VOB files , but when im recompile sample in new enviroment , sample crash on playing VOB file ;( but can play AVI without problem Any idea what happen Windows does not include an mpeg-2 video decoder (or a decoder for AC3 or Mpeg-2 audio). You must have had one on the Windows 2000 platform installed by some other product that you have not re-installed on XP. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System vssconverter error TF60702

  I was experimenting with vssconverter and importing from a VSS database to TFS source control when a power outage hit. I restarted the import, and got the following message: Initializing... TF60702: Unable to start migration. Manually delete the following workspaces and try again. Converter_WorkSpace0 Converter_WorkSpace1 Converter_WorkSpace2 Converter_WorkSpace3 Converter_WorkSpace4 Converter_WorkSpace5 Converter_WorkSpace6 Converter_WorkSpace7 Converter_WorkSpace8 Converter_WorkSpace9 I can't find any documentation on this error, nor can I find any of these workspaces on the workstation, VSS database, or TFS database. This proble ...Show All

• SQL Server SecurityFilters in Report Model

  I am having trouble creating a filter to be used as a securityfilter in the report model. I want to filter data based on the users log in ID using the GETUSERID() function. I want to create a filter that would compare this LoginID field with GETUSERID(). Using Visual Studio and the ModelTutorial (based on the AdventureWorks database), I have tried by first selecting the employee table under the model, right clicking in the attribute area and selecting new > filter. The employee with: shows up and I drag the LoginID field over to the filter area which in turn displays Login ID equals <textbox>. When I hardcode a value in the textbox ...Show All