Michael Dye from Dyetech's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Visual Studio 2005 Professional FINAL Class Designer Problems.

  Hi there ! First let me say that VS2005 is really a good product and we have been using it since its beta1 release. Today i wanted to try out the new class designer feature for the first time, but got some small problems. Generally it works fine, but drawing Associations between two classes is just not really possible with it.. Its kind of weird its not a problem that the program does nto allow it but more of an UI glitch.. When i draw an assoc ...Show All

• Visual Basic extracting system icons..

  hi guyzz.. i am able to extract icons from any .dll file or .exe file.. but they are extracted as .bmp files n after i give them .ico extension they don't act as icon files. is there any way to extract these icons from files like shell32.dll or explorer.exe in their original .ico format.. ashtified_85 I use the ExtractIconEx API function and it saves the files as icons, the only thing is that icons are 16 color . ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server reporting services

  Can the report grouping be changed or chosen by using parameters Thank you for your help. You can reference a parameter value from the group expression. You can't turn off a grouping, but you can change the group expression to return a constant value, which effectively, would disable the grouping. ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums How to protect VBA code inside Excel?

  How to protect VBA code inside Excel I looking about it, how to stop view in .xls file VBA code without standart password protection ( demo )... This man done, but only added demo, look here, and if somebody know how done this, please write here... Thank's Forget about it! There is absolutely no reasonnable way to protect the code for real in any .xls 0r .xla file! They can all be cracked, even the one y ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting Services 2000 and Visual Studio 2005

  I am new to Reporting Services. Is it true that you have to have Visual Studio 2003 installed in order to use the Report Designer to create reports to be published in Reporting Services 2000 Is there a way around this Thanks! you need it. You really only need vb .net std 2003 ($100 retail if you can find it). I looked on ebay and found a couple copies for sale. You could probably get them for cheap. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Restore to Previous State and Updates

  Last night I published version 1.0.0.8 of my application, and this morning I updated on my test machine. As a test, I then used Add/Remove Programs to restore the application back to 1.0.0.7. This worked fine. However, when I click the "Check for Updates" button in my application (which calls CurrentDeployment.CheckUpdate()), it now tells me that no updates are available. Is that by design If the user chooses to roll-back to a previous version, ...Show All

• .NET Development the problem of parameters of OleDbCommand

  When I use the OleDb provider to insert a record to the Access by use OleDbParameter as: command.Parameters.Add("@paramname",OleDbDataType.datatype,size)="value";   but it seems not work correct. the exception message is:there is an error in your insert into satement. my question is:How to use the OleDbParameter break it out...and try again MyParam.name = "@paramname" MyParam.value ="value" don't know why but Ive' seen this issu ...Show All

• Windows Forms dir/file listing in a ComboBox/ListView

  How do you fill a ComboBox/ListView with the Directory and File info for the computer the ap is run on   I've seen it so many apps that it must be fairly easy to do. I own a copy of Salamander and use it to  ...Show All

• Smart Device Development A multithreading question

  Hi there, I'm using a printer dll (PrintCE.dll) to print into a mobile printer I have via bluetooth. Now everything worked well until I wanted to have a nice error message (and a quick one) if the terminal can't connect to the printer (if it's offline for example), What happens today is that it takes more than 60 seconds until it finally give up the try and gives the error. so what i've done is i've put the start printing procedur ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX or Managed DirectX ?

  Hello, it's my first post here ;) I've been developing in DirectX for several years (using c++). I am thinking if it's worth to move to the "managed world" I can do everything in c++ and directx but creating apps in c# and mdx is much faster and simpler. What is your opinion Is it huge performance penalty making 3D games in c# and mdx   SirMike wrote: Hello, it's my first post here ;) Welcome   SirMike wrote: ...Show All

• Visual C# locking write access to generic list

  Hi, I have a generic list that is accessed within a method for write access, as well as in a timer triggered method. The problem is when the timer triggers at the same time as the other method is triggered I get a CollectionModified exception while iterating through the collection. Thus I'd like to know if there is any way to lock the write access to the collection while one method executes and accesses it Thanks, Tom ...Show All

• Visual C++ C++/CLI String Arrays

  Hi, I am trying to learn the C++/CLI syntax. Right now I am wondering about the proper way to declare an array of String. I am using this, array<String^>^ testArray; Is that the correct way Also, is there any C++/CLI examples, somewhere I know the general scenario is that there are more VB, C# software engineers around, supposedly. From where I am at, I personnally know and work with about 50 software engineers, al ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGrid - user edits

  Sorry if this sounds a bit simple, but using a data grid in Visual Basic.net I'd like to be able to offer the user a chance to update their data once they have done some edits.  I do not seem to be able to find an event ...Show All

• Visual Basic AssemblyInfo is not a member of MyObject.My.MyApplication

  I have been reading the Freebe book "Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 For Developers". I have been trying to make sense of the My.Application object "Walk through" on page 43. When trying to add a new row to the data grid using "DataGridView1.Rows.Add( "Description" , My .Application.assemblyinfo.Description)", I get the error message "AssemblyInfo is not a member of MyObject.My.MyApplic ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) "OperationFormatter encountered an invalid Message body" on Vista Beta 2

  Hello! We have 2 different deployment scenarios for our WCF solution: 1. Windows 2003 Server SP1 + Winfx Beta 2 2. Windows XP SP2 + Winfx Beta 2 The application is hosted in IIS. On both scenarios we connect through a WPF client and client proxies generated by svcutil to the host. With both deployment scenarios everything works fine. Now we tried to deploy our server solution on Windows Vista Beta 2 + IIS 7 + Winfx Beta 2. Tryi ...Show All