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• Smart Device Development Cannot compile in Visual Studio 2005

  Hello, I unzipped a Microsoft Visual 2005 solution from a fellow worker.  I am able to open up the solution and everything looks fine.  When I try to build anything I get a message box with the following information The operation could not be complete. Unspecified error. If I change the solution back to Pocket PC 2003 I can compile.  I need to build this solution for 2005 Thanks, Joe Hi Joe, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problem installing .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2

  Hello: I hope that I'm posting to the correct area... I'm trying to install Visual C++ 2005 Express Beta 2 and the installation process fails.  The failure occurs after the download is complete and the installation of the .NET framework has commenced.  No error information is displayed, other than the notificaton that the error has occurred.  I've turned off Spybot, for what that's worth.  Any ideas on how to procee ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Errors using Inspectors in Outlook AddIn

  I am using the Application.Inspectors Object to get the Event NewInspector“ With this Event I can add a Button to the Appointment-Form and setting a Reference Object to the opened Appointment Form so I can get the Information from this Form as Date/Time ... It is working great, except one thing. Opening a Note (passing thru the same NewInspector Event as well) causing an Error when closing Outlook “Outlook cannot be closed, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem with RC during project creation

  Okay, I installed the RC (from scratch since I was using the December CTP and I couldn't upgrade from that) on a clean box. The box is a virtual server on my local network, but I am accessing it via the public IP Address. I received the following error during the creation: Error Unable to connect to the specified SQL Server Reporting Services at xx.xx.xxx.xxx. Explanation The Project Creation Wizard was not able to con ...Show All

• Visual Studio Customize project item context menu

  Hi I have used the below VS 2005 Macro code to successfully add buttons to every context menu _except_ the context menu I am interested in - namely the VS project item context menu (open, open with, refresh, view code etc etc) I am referring to the toolbar as ' Cross Project Project Item' - is this perhaps incorrect Code is below - any help much appreciated Sub AddButton() Dim commands As Commands2 = CType (DTE.Commands, ...Show All

• Smart Device Development installing .NET CF 2.0 on a Pocket PC

  hi how do I install the CF 2.0 on a Pocket PC it's currently running Windows Mobile 2003 SE thanks, well, i try to uninstalled from 'Control Panel', however, in my ppc, .net cf 2.0 still exist I use this way to check: http://msmobiles.com/users/1/archives/2005.4.20_19046/netcf2.gif does it have any affects when I using vs.2003 to write code because I think I am just gonna use cf 1.1 at the moment as I do ...Show All

• .NET Development StreamReader encoding detection problem

  I am having a problem with automatic BOM detection that used to work in 1.1. A trivial way to reproduce the problem is to do the following StreamReader sr = new StreamReader ( "c:\\somefile" , true ); If you put a breakpoint after this line of code and look at sr, you will see that its internal member _detectEncoding is false and as a result encoding detection is never done. I dont see (using Reflector) anything in the logic of ...Show All

• Visual C# Modify Unix Attributes for ADS users in C#

  I'm writing an application to create Active Directory Users from line-separated text file list of users, grabbing addition info for users from a central LDAP server. It is required that these users are able to log in to *nix workstations authorized by Active Directory. All of this is not a problem if the user's unix attributes (gid, home directory, unix groups) are edited manually. However, I would like to set these unix attributes programm ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB2005 manual

  G'day I have been struggling with VB2005 express for the past weeks or so. I have made lots of progress by just referring to "VB2005 for dummies" and some VB6 books. Is there somewhere where I can dowload the full Syntax manual and hopefully lots of code snippets on how to do things I have ordered VS 2005 standard edition but the delivery has been postponed for a week in Australia. Going to the launch on Monday, perhaps I can annoy someone ther ...Show All

• Visual C# Unable to update the dependencies of the project

  I have had this error every time I try to check my program into source control after making changes. The project builds and works fine until I check it in and check it back out then it won’t build. I have deleted the setup project and built a new one only to have the same problem after checking it into source control. It also givs me a warning that " Assembly ' FolderName\FileName.exe ' is incorrectly specified as a file. Any suggestions would ...Show All

• Visual C# How to interface to DLL which has pointers using PInvoke?

  I am trying to write a C# call to the following DLL function: ------------------------------------------------------------- extern "C" __declspec ( dllexport )    HANDLE MPUSBOpen(DWORD instance, // Input    PCHAR pVID_PID, // Input    PCHAR pEP, // Input    DWORD dwDir, // Input    DWORD dwReserved); // Input <Future Use> --------------------------------- ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions extract an image from the internet

  Hi there is a web page only containing one imge. The image is updated very 5 minutes. I want to extract this image every 5 minutes and save it on disk. How to do this in C# Thanks Yuelin Have a look at the following piece of code it should do what you are asking. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System ...Show All

• Windows Forms TaskListControl

  I really like this control and would like to incorporate it into my own ppc2002 application. I wanted to check that it was ok to copy a control out and modify it without impacting any license issues.  I read the license agreement and the&n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Process template: Sharepoint navigation setup?

  In constructing a modified process I have added and removed document libraries in the Sharpoint part of the process definition (Wss/WssTasks.xml and added the relevant templates etc.). Everything almost works fine inside Team Explorer - only I get 3 libraries I never asked for: Development, Test, and Project Management.  The are no longer in any definition file, the are empty, but appreantly impossible to get rid of. And worse, inside the S ...Show All

• .NET Development NetworkStream.DataAvailable

  Hi guys. I've done a client server application. On the server I'm reading from the NetworkStream using Read method. Before this I'm making a test : if NetworkStream.DataAvailbale then start to read. I've noticed that this test is slowing down the performance. Do you know how can I avoid this Thank you. Mircea Thank you for your answer. I've done some research and I've noticed the problem with the DataAvailable. ...Show All