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• Smart Device Development How to retrieve IMEI of pocket pc phone ?

  Dear all, In addition to the unique device identification number, I would like to retrieve IMEI of pocket pc phone, please advise (using native VC++ and VS2005) Hi The extended TAPI API lineGetGeneralInfo returns the requested infos. There is a sample in the Windows Mobile 5.0 (Pocket PC and Smartphone) SDK under <.\samples\CPP\Win32\Cellcore\Extapi> This a privileged API - depending on the d ...Show All

• Visual C++ The private property data members are showing up as funny small sqares in some of the method codes?

  Hi, I'm coding in a C++/COM using only standard C++ library in V.S. 2005. The program creates a Dialog page for extending Active Directory property page. I have a few property data member declared as wchar_t*. In the 1st meothod(LoadInitalData) code I assign data to those members and used MessageBox to output and examined those data that they worked just fine. When I code the other methods to save the controls valuse and I need those private ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Found conflicts between different versions of the same dependent assembly.

  Is there an easy way to determine which assembly or assemblies are conflicting When I double-click on the error message in the Error List panel, a message box pops up and says: One or more dependent assemblies have version conflicts. Do you want to fix these conflicts by adding binding redirect records in the app.config file Under what circumstances would I want to do that And what are the alternatives Us ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Directx 9.0 with C# 2005 Express

  I saw some great Webcast videos on MSDN Introducing 2D Gaming with C#. I have downloaded and installed, DirectX 9.0. The videos referenced Visual C# 2005 Express. I downloaded some sample code and tried to run it. The error was it couldn't find the Microsoft.DirectX referenced. I tried to add the referenced in the .NET tab none of the DirectX assemblies were available. One possible problem is the webcast videos referenced an earlier version o ...Show All

• Visual C# how to count elements inside an array?

  if I have an array of 32 byte for example. but there's only 8 slots used. How can i count the number of slots used. .length() or .getlength(0) only give me the total size of the array. Thank ya'll Donkaiser You could also use a Nullable Byte array. static void Main() { Nullable<Byte>[] nullableByteArray = new Nullable<Byte>[32]; nullableByteArray[0] = 1; nullableByteArray[5] = 2; ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Profiler instrumentation of C++ classes

  Can someone point to the documentation describing. Specifically I need to explicitly include member functions of some template classes. The command line says: /INCLUDE:funcspec+ Simple functions work fine, but I can't find the way to supply template functions (e.g. map<string, double>::find) Also, it there a way to supply response file (configuration file) rather than spelling out everything on command line ...Show All

• Windows Forms Copy Datagrid data to clipboard

  I can open a form - populating the datagrid with the required data, select the upper left corner (which highlights the entire datagrid), then ctrl-c to copy the data to the clipboard.   Does anyone know how I can make these last two events happen programtically (the Mouse click and the ctrl-c to the clipboard) Thanks, bob Mark, I am trying to do the same thing ie. copy ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions What is the best book for Visual Studio C# 2005?

  Hi, I can program in C++, and I would like to know more about Visual Studio C# 2005. Could you tell me what is the most suitable book available nowadays Eric One of my fav books are the Wrox's one http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-0764578472.html http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-0764575341.html and there is another book from Microsoft Press named C# Reference written by the C# Archi ...Show All

• Visual C++ _tmkdir

  Can any one tell me if write permissions to the particular directory are sufficient for _tmkdir to create a new sub directory or are any higher permissions required. Thanks, KarthikR Hello KarthikR, The access rights for a directory are assigned by the administrator of the computer and generally should not be reassigned by a program. You'll note that C++ does not provide a way to alter or even read these access control lists. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Can't Deploy to SmartPhone Emulator or Physical Device

  My project compiles, the emulator is launched, but I get a dialog box which states: The operation could not be completed. Alternatively, I won't get the dialog box, but I'll get a status message in the IDE which states: Connect to device failed. The log messages (see below) state that all attempts to connect have failed. It indicates that it has attempted to contact the device on IP 169.254.19.106. I'm not surprised that this would fail. I have ...Show All

• Visual Studio How would I receive messages sent to IDE windows?

  I want to receive the messages written to the Output window when I build a solution. I'd also like to somehow access the edit windows and capture the syntax errors that are detected by the IDE. Can anyone point me in the correct direction My goal is to have an application that monitors the activities described above. I need the diagnostic messages that the IDE generates as a developer writes and compiles code. Thanks, Bill Ni ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to replace Unit Test Template code

  I have created a new MyUnitTest.cs file that want Visual Studio to insert when I run the Create Unit Test (or Add New Test -> Unit Test) Wizard. In other words, I want to replace the code which is automatically inserted by the Unit Test Wizard. Since I do not want to create a whole new test type or need to impliment the IWizard interface, I thought I would be dealing with just a file-replacement exersize. Based on reading a few articles i ...Show All

• Visual Studio How can I listen to the key strike events of the code edit window?

  I want to listen to the events which happend when key strikes in the code edit window Through the Automation Object Model  Chart, I only find the class TextEditorEvents is related, but it is not strong enough to fulfill my work. I believe that there exist any means to get some information when key down, key up or something else, cause the famous add-in CodeRush has done it, But I don't know how.   ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem with creating a merge publication

  Help!!! This is really frustrating me down! I was trying to follow the MS official tutorial "Creating a mobile application with SQL server mobile" could be found in this link http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171908.aspx In the step of creating a merge publication, as I noticed, the snapshot agent is started sucessfully. But very soon later (few seconds), it was shut down with an error message. I checked in the error histo ...Show All

• Windows Forms Something like stylesheet?

  Helo! I'm new in VB.NET.  I will have to make a serious application with unique look. What I mean is, that every form has the same colour, uses same fonts, same size of the fonts... How can be this done in VB.NET  I'd like to be able& ...Show All