Col38983's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Cannot activate express products

  Hi everyone, When I click on the "Register now" link in the Help->Activate Product... menu for both Visual Web Developer Express and Visual C# Express nothing happens.  IE is my only installed browser. Is there a link on the Express product web sites that would allow me to actiavte my 2 products   Or any idea on why clicking that link would not take me into my IE Thanks, Mike Hatfield When are ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows Authentication

     Using the below code I can determine if the user is a member of a built-in security group, i.e. Domain Users. However, when I try to determine if the user is a member of a custom security group I get false, even though&nb ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Windows.Forms.InputLanguage not available in CF 1.1

  ' The following, tested on Windows, doesn't respond to changes in the language setting: ComboBox1.DataSource = System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.MonthNames ' This doesn't respond to the current languate setting either: Dim di As New System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo ComboBox1.DataSource = di.MonthNames() ' This works fine, but I don't want to hard-code the language: Dim ...Show All

• SQL Server AS2005 Performance issues

  Hi, We are currently looking into AS2005 performances for one of our client. For some reason the 'cubes' are not giving us the performance we were expecting. Her is some info about our environment. Server: 2 * Dual 2.8 GHz with 4 GB of memory The fact table has around 30 millions of records for three years worth of sales history, and we have created 1 partition per year. We are using MOLAP with aggregation level at around 40%. The bi ...Show All

• Visual Basic Edit Data in a .NET VS2005 Visual Basic ListView Control

  There is a very nice article on the Microsoft WEB site titled: "HOW TO: Use a ComboBox Control to Edit Data in a ListView Control in Visual Basic .NET" Looks like it was last updated July 30, 2003. I would like to apply the concepts listed in this article to an application using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Visual Basic Forms. Is there an updated version of this article that will work with Microsoft Visual Studio 200 ...Show All

• .NET Development SQL to retrievedata

  Hey Guys: I have seen this done in a program and at one time i did it but not exactly get it right. I have two tables in my data base. The first is a table with the PubID and a number that corresponds with the second table with a list of titles. table1---is PubID----and number of title is 10----so when i enter the number 10 in the column i want the title to appear in column 3. PubID TitleNum Title 1411 10 ...Show All

• .NET Development Create p7m envelope

  Hi all, this is my first attempt at using pkcs classes to create a p7m envelope.I am trying to accomplish the following 1. sign a document with a certificate 2. envelope the signed document in a p7m file that is viewable using p7mViewer or SignoReader What I want is a valid p7m file with NO recipients, that is I do not intend to send the file to anyone, but only store the signed file in a DB. I create a SignedCms, pass my document by ...Show All

• Visual Basic register ocx files

  Hi, I try to register some ocx files and get the message "Loading in memory of library (filename.ocx) has failed. Illegal access to memory location." I checked the dependencies and they are all OK. What can be the cause of this error     Thanks in advance. Jan If you are proficient with using the debugger can you do the following in Visual Studio 2005: From Main Menu select File->Open Project, ...Show All

• Visual C++ Putting something in stdin

  Hey, I'm writing a cli, I use getc to get the input from stdin. Now when a tab is pressed I call a function that sees if any completions for the (partially) typed in command are available. If completions are available I want to put them on stdin so that getc processes them, how can I do this Thx, Steven You should probably add some abstraction. If getc() calls a function HandleChar() the auto-completion fu ...Show All

• .NET Development XmlDataDocument and EncryptedXml Problem

  Hi there Gurus! Well, this is a new thing happening, and I believe it has not happened to anyone before because I did not find anything related to this problem on the web: I have this simple code. Dim Doc as XMLDataDocument Doc = New Xml.XmlDataDocument(Ds) Doc.PreserveWhitespace = True Doc.Load("file.xml")  'This file IS ALREADY ENCRYPTED Dim exml As New EncryptedXml(Doc) exml.AddKeyNameMapping( "some key" ...Show All

• Visual C++ What is the status of STL .NET in VS2005?

  Thanks, hdp. Take a look at Nikola's blog post at http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2006/02/07/527193.aspx Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• Windows Forms main form losing responsiveness

  Howdy all. I'm building an app and this is essentially how it works. I've got a winform. On the left is a tree control. On the right I've got a panel, which I call ControlHoster. What I do is change the content of the panel's control& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Excel Automation Plugins, Deserialization fails

  Hello Question on writing excel interop automation plugins. I wrote a plugin which requires serialization/deserialization. When I attempt to deserialize an object, i get 'assembly not found' exception. From what I understand, the serializer embeds the assembly identification in the serialized file, and when i try to pull back the object it can not locate the definition. Does anyone have a workaround on this the assembly is strong-name ...Show All

• Visual Basic GenericIZE This...

  I am betting this is a very hard problem for 99.9995% of programmers. It's supposed to be simple and supposed to be one of the benefits of generics, yet generics will not work with this incredibly simple case. If you can get it to work, I'd love to see it. Take the class below and convert it to accept generic arguments of <int> or <double> or <long> or whatever. You'll find a big surprise when you you get it coded up and try ...Show All

• Smart Device Development PPC device problem w/ VS2005 application

  hello all, i have a program that i upgraded from eVC to VS2005 using the eVC++ upgrade wizard add on. i was able to successfully upgrade the application (or at least i think i did), and it compiled correctly in VS2005. when i transferred the app over to the PPC device (running PPC magneto) and tried to run it, i get the following error message: "The file 'app name' cannot be opened.  either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, ...Show All