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• Visual Basic Sending data to serial port using vb6

  Hello everyone.I am interested in knowing how to send data to serial port using vb6.I would appreciate it a lot if i could obtain a sample code.It is the first time i work with vb6.Thank you for your help These forums are more for VB.net related issues. However, there is an OCX control, Microsoft Comm Control, that you can use for this purpose.  if you look in the docs there are examples. Toddap_MS ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Asp.net Unit Testing

  Hi, I followed the guidelines for creating unit testing on ASP.net pages. When i configure a test method for a page with the AspNetDevelopmentServerHost attribute, the Unit Test for an ASPX page is working but as soon as I remove this attribute i get the following error :- The web site could not be configured correctly; getting ASP.NET process information failed. The server may not be running a version of Asp.Net version 2.0 or greater. Requesting 'http://localhost/test/VSEnterpriseHelper.axd' returned an error: The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request. Is there anything that i need to set in the web.config file I've a ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Starter Help

  Hi, I have been in development since last one year. now I want to make a 3D game with my skills in Vb.Net only. Can any one suggest the correct roadmap for me to become a Game programmer / 3D game programmer. Where can I find good tutorials on it. Thanks, HI, Well In India Such books are available but They are hard to find soon after it release. But I will surly get that book. Thanks Mr. David for such as good book..:) ...Show All

• Visual C++ Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite

  When I compile my application it display only result not compiling process. How do i set compiling process for each file in Visual Studio 2005 team Suite in output pane Build Window display only this message ---------------------- Done ---------------------- Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped please tell me how do i solve this problem Tools + Options, Projects and Solutions, Build and Run. Choose a setting in the MSBuild Project build output verbosity combobox. ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem Read form the serialport

  Hi, iam trying 2 read data from the serialport but everytime i run my program it freezes. is this the right way 2 read data from the serialport or is there anything els i have done worng iam trying to view the recived data in the Listbox Imports System.IO.Ports Public Class Form1 Dim inString As String = "" Dim Ports As New Collection   Private Sub Form1_Load( ByVal sender As System. Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase .Load End Sub Private Sub TextBox1_TextChanged( ByVal sender As System. Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) End Sub ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System cannot create a new team project

  Hello. I installed TFS successfully into single machine and could connect to TFS using TFSSETUP account. But once I tried to create a new team project, I got an error message. "Project creation failed with error: "Initialization failed for plugin(s): 'Microsoft.Pcw.wss'"" The TFSSETUP account is a member of Administrators group and Namespace Administrator(ADAM). My environment is below. - Windows Server 2003 with SP1 - IIS 6.0 - SQL Server 2005 April Ctp - Windows SharePoint Service 2.0 - Team Foundation Server Log messages are atacched. Please help me. ---------------------- 05/02/2005 11:41:10.437 | Module: ELeadServiceMediator | ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to use Books Online search function

  I am unable to use the search feature in Books Online.  Every time I click the "Search" button, I get this error message: Package "Visual Studio Common IDE Package" failed to load Anyone have any ideas on what might be causing this error Hmm, this is strange. I know that you have already gone through an uninstall/repair/install cycle and I am sorry for the trouble it has caused. Is it possible to uninstall Books Online again and send me the registry entries that are left behind under the following registry key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\MSDN\8.0 For speedier communication and resolution of this issue, y ...Show All

• .NET Development Typed-dataset/Table Adapters - multiple database vendors - how?

  Hello here is my objective.  I want to take advantage of the visual tools in VS 2005, specifically the dataset designer. Also also want to develop an architecture that will allow us to target multiple databases ( primarily SQL Server and Oracle ) with minimal recoding. Normally, we would create some sort of provider model (similar to DotNetNuke). With VS2005, the code generation could save us a lot of time. However, here's what I'm finding. When we drag a table ( or select procedure ) from our SQL database onto the designer we get the typed-dataset as expected.  In the same file, we get a TableAdapter. Now, as far as we ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro GRID REFRESH

  Im having problems refreshing a grid.i have placed a table in data enviroment.then i drag and dropped all of his items creating a grid.then in a button i have a select...where..into this table.this way i put new values in the table,basically i overwrite the entire table.at that time grid becomes white,no values i tried grid.refresh nothing i tried to grid.recordsource="" select where into... grin.recordsource=mytable  still nothing is there a way to make the grid to reload the table Hi before the update or  set the source to 0 ex:    thisform.grid1.RecordSourceType= 0 ... do anything wit ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Management Studio install problems

  Hello, I received the Visual Studio 2005 Standard and SQL Server 2005 Standard from the Microsoft Launch event in Anahiem. I was able to install SQL Express via VS 2005 without any problems. I am able to install SQL 2005 Standard without any problems the only problem I have is that I cannot install the Management Studio. I uninstalled SQL Server 2005 Standard and installed the SQL Server 2005 Express managment studio and it installed without any problems. Is there any reason why I can install SSMSE but not SSMS Let me know what information you need besides what I have provided below. Error message I recieve when trying to install ...Show All

• SQL Server inserting date through "insert" query-urgently

  when i add a date(Like 15/8/2005) through insert query it adds date as "1/1/1900" which make troubles for me. so please tell me that solution   Creative wrote: i am executing this query from "Query Analyzer" of SQL Server 2000 Why are you posting on a SSIS newsgroup then  Is SSIS involved at all Did you try Evan's suggestion of putting apostophes around the date -Jamie ...Show All

• .NET Development System.IO.Compression not as good as compressed folder

  I'm getting much better compression when I make a compressed folder (Windows XP) than I am using DeflateStream or GZipStream.  I thought these were the same algorithms used in PKZIP and for compressing folders.  Why such bad compression DeflateStream: 3544Kb -> 1261Kb GZipStream: 3544Kb -> 1261Kb Windows XP: 3544Kb -> 804Kb So how can I get the same compression ratio as Windows XP Thanks, Jeremy Apparently you can't.  What you see in the Deflate/GZipStream classes is all there is as far as the .NET Framework is concerned.   However, this result i ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting Services Configuration -- Database Setup

  Hi, I have installed SQL Server 2005 EVAL edition in my machine. I am not able to configure the Database Setup Page in the Reporting Services Configuration. When i am doing configuration it is displaying the following error. If I selecct Credentials type as Windows or SQL Server the error is "Using other editions of SQL Server for report data sources and/or the report server database is not suported in this edition of Reporting Services." if i select Credentials type as Service Credentials the error is "A virtual directory must first be created before performing this operation." Thanking you. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System instance field naming convention

  In the following code sample, class TestClass { private int age; public int Age{ get {return age;} } } If I decide to use Age for the public property name, what is the recommended naming convention for the related private instance field Any comments are welcome. Microsoft does not provide naming conventions or guidelines for internal members, however, I have seen the following used internally: private int _Age; private int _age; private int m_age; private int m_Age; It is really comes down to a matter of choice and what you feel comfortable with. ...Show All

• Visual Basic File Open Dialog

  I am trying to code to get the File Open dialog.How do I do it Can anyone post a sample code, please Thanks a ton for all your help. I tried this one and was successful. Using the CommonDialog Control I was able to bring up the Open Dialog. CommonDialog1.ShowOpen ...Show All