simsdn's Q&A profile

• 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 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Extracting HTML from a MailItem object.

  Hi, I am trying to extract the text from a Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem object where the MailItem.BodyFormat is Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlBodyFormat.olFormatHTML . I would like the text to include the HTML tags but they are stripped out when I reference MailItem.Body.ToString() . Any advice Thanks in advance, Dave You need to use MailItem.HTMLBody. It is helpful to r ...Show All

• Windows Forms in arrays...

  Hi, I'm trying to read a text file, somewhat like this: #15-07-2001 sdkfhksdfhsdc cskjmcdfcsd #13-12-1999 asljkdaksjxd dcjdvf etc... I want to save the dates... so I put up something like this: string line; string date; StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(...); while((line=sr.ReadLine()) != null) {  &nbs ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Thread Syncronization

  Anyone know what means are provided for thread syncronization in .NET CF Thanks, Jeff. They are almost the same as in the "big" .NET. Monitor or lock statement, WaitHandle, etc... ...Show All

• SQL Server "Deserialization failed" error

  I have been dealing with this error in BI Studio under different circumstances. One way to create it, also the way that frustrates me most, is copying and pasting. I can copy and paste data sources, data source views from one project to another without any problem; but when it comes to cubes and dimensions, I consistently get the following error: Error loading 'MyDimension.dim' : Deserialization failed: The method or operation is not implemen ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unit Tests and Nightly Build

  Using VSTS for Developers. I have a solution with a test project for my unit tests. When I create a new build type and select the metadata file, (".vsmdi") the "Test list to run:" list is always empty. The only mention that I can find about test list says to create them within test manager. But I do not see a test manager tool within VSTS for Developers. Does anyone have some insight into getting my unit tests to run during the nightly build T ...Show All

• Visual Basic Shell Commands in VB

  hi all i have a small question cant seem to find the answer anywhere. i have been using shell commands to open notepad to view logs and creating a copy of the log so that changes are not saved however i was wondering if it is posible to open the text file as read only e.g. notepad "Log.Log" << thats my current command but its editable and not very safe when it comes to logs. Thanks Stu Hello I'm not totally sure what a process class i ...Show All

• .NET Development Excel like auto filter for Recordset and Dataview

  Hi, I have looked around everywhere and have yet to find something that really filters a dataviews content like excel. I have a dataview that is bound to a recordset. I want to be able to use multiple filters to narrow down the results. for example i select from a drop downlist a certain value. The results get filtered to show only rows that contian that value for that column. then i select from a different combo box a different value, a ...Show All

• Windows Forms Please Wait at least 5 minutes ?

  I am attempting to run a server on our internal network. I was able to add a plant and herbivore, but everytime I try to add a carnivore I get an error telling me I must wait at least 5 minutes when adding a new species. Wel ...Show All

• Visual Basic Creating a program that can save in a specific file format.

  Hello, I was wondering how (and if) to create a program that will allow me to type some text, make some selections, and then save it. What I need to know is how to save the program then be able to re-open it properly. Thanks for any help.   Hi X, I hope you don't think me picky. I think there is a clear way to state this and the people who answer your questions will apreciate the clearly. You may ...Show All

• SQL Server RE-Using passed parameters

  Hi All  I link to a report passing parm a,b,c (3 parms) a (Hidden), B(Multi Selection), C(Single selection), the report display correctly  and the parm selection boxes display with available options. I would like to be able to choose from the selection boxes and replace the initial (passed parameters) B and C would have a new value, and display the same report using the selected criteria. Thank you Trentino &nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office 1 Add-In uses .net 1.1, a second uses .net 2.0

  Hello; I just created a simple Add-In using VS 2003. I also have VS 2005 & .net 2.0 (release) installed on my computer. The .net 1.1 Add-In would only run if I created a winword.exe.config file setting the runtime to .net 1.1. Without that Word would exit during it's startup (no message, no crash - just exit). With the config it runs fine. So, what if someone wants to run two Add-Ins with Word, one built under .net 1.1 and one built under .n ...Show All

• Visual Basic ActiveX License problem

  Hello all, I recently purchased Visual Basic .net 2003 and installed it. I am working on a project where I need to use the serial port to communicate with a remote device. I added the 'Serial Communication' to the toolbox sucessfully. However when I try to add the 'serial communication icon' to my form I received an error message that I do not have a license for this application. Any ideas what my problem is I don't know if this is rele ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. .x exporter for 3dsmax 6

  Hi, Anyone know of a good free exporter to export 3ds max 6 models to directx9 .x files I've seen plugins in directx sdks for max versions 4,5 and 7 but not 6. I've heard of panda exporter but have also seen many people who have difficuly getting their stuff to export correctly. Thanks. the other one didn't work for me. http://www.tiburongx.com/ good, but you have to be careful of the dimensions it exports. 3ds ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Express on VISTA

  Greetings! I tried installing SQL Server 2005 Express on my VISTA Beta 2 Box but before doing so, I checked if IIS is already installed and running. During the assesment of my current configuration, SQL Server 2005 Express is still looking for IIS. Are the conflicts regarding IIS 7.0 to SQL Server Express or the feature is not yet available. I will be continuing to do experiments with this one and hope there will be people who can share their ...Show All