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• Windows Forms Whiteboard Application

  I'm trying to develop a whiteboard sort of an application where two entities viz. a sales rep and a customer can log in.  The Sales Rep can push an XML/XSLT transform document containing the sale info on the whiteboard and the customer can instantly view these details. If the customer wants to make any changes to the sale, he can point them o ...Show All

• SQL Server MS RS 2000 Matrix column comparisson

  Hi there I have a matrix report that has Machines accros the top and configuration details down the side (eg OS version, service pack) I am looking to select 1 of the machines (via parameter) to be a 'standard' and then compare its configuration to the others, then do some conditional formatting on them. I have the parameter bit done but am struggling when it comes to the comparision Any ideas/help would be greatly appreciated Thanx ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Application Error

  Hi experts, We have an application written in VBA. The application is failing with the following log entry in the event log. Faulting application: appname.exe Faulting Module: VBE6 Version: 6.4.99.72 Fault Address 0x000dc6f2 Event ID: 1000 The application is running on Windows XP SP2 with Office 2003 SP2. Help would be much appreciated. Thanks Steve Additional information: The application is not a Word or Excel application. It was written in VBA using the VBA SKD 6.2 development environment. We have vba project files that contain forms,modules similar to VB6 project files. The problem here is, ...Show All

• .NET Development How to code a connection string to a SQL 2000 database with user id using windows authentication

  Hi, need help. how do I code a connection string in asp.net in visual basic to a SQL 2000 database with user id that is set up with windows authentication the SQLConnection string requires a user id and password. According to the document, it is not necessary to login to the SQL server if the user id is configured with windows authentication. thanks... in the connection string, add in below info: "database=xx;server=xx;Integrated Security=SSPI;" ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do I use Excel from VB2005?

  I am currently attempting to port data from my VB2005 application into Excel but am unable to attain a connection from my program to Excel... I added the COM references "Microsoft Office 11.0 Object Library" and "Microsoft Excel 11.0 Object Library" and have declared the following under "Public Class frmMain" (for my program's main form): Dim Excel As New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application I have tried declaring other namespaces as well for other members of the "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel" class and have looked at several articles but basically whatever code to control Excel I write, won't actually do anything to Excel.. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Cannot install VStudio.NET Pro 2003 (Student Software)

  I am having one hell of a time trying to load VisualStudio.net Academic version on my Windows XP machine. I have a version of Visual Studio standard; however after talking to multiple students and professors they all recommend learning the differences and making the adjustment to .NET. I would love to do this but I can't install the darn thing. When the setup runs it requires me to install prerequisites. It doesn't install and says another application requires Windows to restart. I do, multiple times and it still gives me the same loop of crap. Any suggestions would be appreciated greatly! I think I found my solution, ...Show All

• Visual Basic Flusing mouse input ??

  Hello all, I'm writing a multi-form VB.NET 2003 application. I have forms A, B, and C (alongside a module that holds handles to the three forms). The app takes the user from Form A to Form B when a MouseMove event happens, it takes the user from Form B to Form C when he/she clicks a button on Form B, and finally takes the user from Form C back to Form A if a timer times out. My problem is in the last transition. When a timer in Form C times out, I close Form C and reinstantiate Form A (newFormA= new FormA then FormA.Show()), however, as soon as I show Form A, the app takes me to Form B. Debugging shows that as soon as Form A is loaded, ...Show All

• Windows Forms dynamically create control by type name

  I am trying to create a panel control with some generic layout logic that can contain a number of different usercontrols of different sizes.  I would like to be able to set the name of the particular usercontrol to be contained at design time, then create this control at run time using the name of the usercontrol class.  Thanks for any h ...Show All

• Visual Basic Where to store files that your App uses?

  I am coming from VB6, where I used to use App.path to store all of my application files (like config files, and Access databases, report definitions etc), and now I am using 2005. I am having trouble figuring out where I am supposed to put application file dependencies during development and deployment. By dependency, I mean a file the program uses, could be any kind of file, but it is a file I want to distribute with my app. For example, I have a VB project, and in the project view, I have created a folder called HTML, inside is a single htm file called blank.htm. So the directory structure is like this: Application Folder    ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Dynamic for-loop in HLSL Pixel Shader

  Hi there, does somebody know if (how) it is possible to use a for loop in a HLSL pixel shader with a dynamic count For example: int count = 5 / a; for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)     ... I didn't manage, whatever I tried the effect creation fails. Even with shader model 3. Nico Suddenly it works! I don't know what I made wrong before. Anyway, when compiling a shader with a dynamic for loop there is a lot of preprocessing. Does anybody know what is going on The more I limit the dynamic count, the shorter the preprocessing. I just waited about 5 minutes for a loop with a count limit of 80 to compile (!). So my sha ...Show All

• SQL Server Time series calculation

  Hi, is this "best practice" (adding a separate dimension for time series calculation, like described here: http://blogs.msdn.com/bi_systems/articles/187639.aspx ) still valid for SQL 2005 Or is there any better solution for that I simply don't want to write one MDX per time series calculation (YTD, MTD, ...) per measure... Thanks, Hi Thomas, This SQL Server Magazine article discusses the approach to Time Intelligence taken in the AS 2005 Business Intelligence Wizard: http://www.sqlmag.com/Article/ArticleID/46157/Analysis_Services_2005_Brings_You_Automated_Time_Intelligence.html >> June 2005 ] Anal ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WBA vs Java Applet

  Hi All, Are WBA's that run under IE's sandbox, or that run under partial trust, can be compared to Java applets's Do they behave same How about the performance for WBA Are they better than Java Applets In my opinion, WBA and Java Applets are identical in concept - to offer rich clients and the easiness of web deployment. They mostly differ by their underlying technology (WBA is .NET and WinFX, Java Applet is ... Java). Regarding the performance, it's not easy to benchmark 2 technologies ... people tried to benchmark .NET against Java and that started the flame wars. ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView: column provided does not belong to this DataGridView control

  Hi all, I've this exception sometimes with some DataGridView. The DataGridView DataSource is linked to a table from a DataSet and I've this issue if I set the 'AutoSizeColumnsMode' property to 'DisplayedCells' or 'AllCells'. But if I put 'None' to this property I don't have the exception... Any Idea how to solve it I would like to have 'DisplayedCells' on the 'AutoSizeColumnsMode' of the DataGridView. Thanks in advance for your help :) I am also having similar problem. I have dropped the datagridview control onto the GroupBox. The DataGridView is unbound but the individual columns contain DataGridViewCo ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to Soft Reset a Device programatically

  Dear all, Is there any command in VB to Soft Reset the device Please give an advice. Thank you! Hi Call the Win32 API SetSystemPowerState to reset the device Declare the Function as folllowed: Const POWER_STATE_RESET As Integer = &H800000 <DllImport("coredll")> _ Private Shared Function SetSystemPowerState(ByVal psState As String, ByVal StateFlags As Integer, ByVal Options As Integer) As Integer End Function To Reset the Device call: SetSystemPowerState (Nothing, POWER_STATE_RESET, 0) This should work on any Windows Mobile 2003 and Windows Mobile 5.0 Devices. Thanks! ...Show All

• Windows Forms External component has thrown an exception

  Hi, I'm getting this error really sporadically in my Winforms app. Seems to happen when trying to display a form with a call to .ShowDialog(). It doesn't seem to happen on any particular form, just pops up now & again. I can close the application and restart it, then I can view the form without the error The application is running in a Citrix terminal server environment, the assemblies themselves are running from a network share. Can anyone think of what would be causing this error - why is it only happening every now & then (the worst sort of errors!). One post mentions a faulty network connection to blame, but our network ...Show All