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• Smart Device Development CameraCaptureDialog Issues

  I've been having some issues using the CameraCaptureDialog class on an HTC Apache device (rebranded as the UTstarcom 6700): 1. After exiting my application, the device's camera capture screen comes into focus. This happens whether I dispose of the class instance or not, and the Close() method is protected, so I can't call that. Any ideas on getting rid of this lingering capture screen 2. On a seemingly random, intermittent basis, an InvalidOper ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions public vs. private methods

  Hi I am going through the video tutes here, and reading the supplementary material in the PDF, but im still confused about the differences between creating a public, or private method. what is the difference are they both used, or is one preferred to the other thanks for any tips. DA Dan, Private methods can only be called by other methods in the Class. Only that class can see the method. Public methods ...Show All

• SQL Server ASP.NET and OLAP offline cube

  Hi, I would like to know the provider for OLAP offline cube, I mean to say that how I would able to connect to offline cube from asp.net, Please help me on this. Jag Use OLEDB. There are many examples on the Internet so search for: asp.net oledb. Here is an overview of the architecture: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174518(SQL.90).aspx You will also need a local cube engine (ms ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to read and write a text file without screwing up the encoding

  I am writing a program that reads in a text file, makes some modifications, and then writes the modified version to a new text file. The problem is that any non-english characters in the text file get turned to gibberish. I know this has to do with the encoding of the text files, but I can't figure out what I am supposed to do to keep this from happening. What class do you use to save your upda ...Show All

• SQL Server ASP.NET ReportViewer / Non-String parameters

  I am displaying a local report in a ReportViewer control on an asp.net web page. My report contains non-string parameters. How can i set a non-string parameter value on a local report That would result in a string being passed to the report. I want to pass a float or a datetime to the report. The only way i've been able to get this to work is to create a typed dataset with the "parameters" i want sent ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Take an incomming call on a smartphone

  Hi, I'm trying to make a program in VB using SmartPhone functions. For instance, I succed to dial a call with PhoneMakeCall function : http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/APISP/html/sp_phone_phonemakecall.asp I'd like to know if it's possible to take an incomming call, I can't find anything about that on MSDN.. Does someone could say me if it's posible, and how do that. thanks S ...Show All

• Visual Studio Auto addition of new files to project?

  Let's say I add a complete folder as a project to a VSS database. Then I check out that entire project. Then in the course of development, etc. I add another file, or multiple files, to that checked out folder. Is there a way automatically have VSS add those additional files into the project Thanks! No. But if you use VisualStudio projects and add new files to the controlled projects, VS will track for you ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Activity Property values not available at runtime

  I am currently experimenting with a custom activity. We have a number of business rule objects which implement various, relatively complex data validation rules. The custom activity allows these business rule objects to be assigned to the activity and for parameters to be assigned as part of a workflow that links together a number of these business rule classes into a sequential [potentially brancing] workflow. So I basically have: BRActivity ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Multiple requests clogs w3wp.exe

  I'm running a workflow application from a Web application. The workflow does not scale well. When simultanious requests are made the results are: - 1 user. Response time around 10 seconds. - 2 users. Response time around 15 seconds. - 3 users. The Workflow Runtime appears to get stuck in a loop and the w3wp.exe process hogs all server resources. The only way to free the resources is to restart IIS or the server.   Has a ...Show All

• .NET Development Client found response content type of 'text/html; charset=UTF-8', but expected 'text/xml'.

  my company has a soap webservice exposed.... a python webservice... my duty is to have my application consume the exposed service. c# is unable use the service whe i try to set the reference to the service. Client found response content type of 'text/html; charset=UTF-8', but expected 'text/xml'. that's the error that am getting ... any one knows how to consume a pythong web service Thanks guys girls Hi Gary ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office help regarding MS ACCESS

  can any one tell me abt how the access table can be updated using excel file or spead sheet Hello, Excel files can be imported into Access through File > Import. Brian ...Show All

• .NET Development How do I implement a custom tag?

  I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question, but I apologize if this question should be asked in a different place I would like to create a windows application that uses a custom tag that will exist in web pages and email texts (e.g. Outlook emails). Basically, instead of the regular http://www.somesite.com it will become mytag://www.somesite.com . When the user clicks on the link with the custom tag the application is trigge ...Show All

• Visual C# Why all these get/set-methods instead of public variables?

  I've started to use classes to structure up my programs and all tutorials i've read says that i should do like this: class Spelare {    float positionX;    public Spelare()    {       positionX = 100f;    }    public float PosX    {       get       { & ...Show All

• Windows Forms Name all the methods of deploying a .NET assembly

  Could anyone name all the methods of deploying a .NET assembly Thanks. This is a technical question that came up at a job interview. Any help is appreciated. ...Show All

• Visual Studio MsiProductCheck element

  Hello, I'm preparing custom package for Bootstrapper. I need to check if such a product was installed already (using my application or another installation). Product redistribute as msi file. I added folowing section to product.xml: <InstallChecks> <MsiProductCheck Property="ComponentsInstalled" product=" "/> </InstallChecks> <Command PackageFile="Components.msi" EstimatedInstallSeconds="60"> <InstallConditions> &l ...Show All