lextm's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Detecting incoming calls using SystemState (CF2.0)

  Hi guys, I've been trying to do some testing with the state and notification broker in the WM5.0 emulator. Specifically with the phoneincomingcall changed event. When I make a call from/to the emulator using the 4250010001 number, the event doesn't seem to fire...I've successfully managed to handle other changed events, such as the call going on and off hold, but not a change in the incoming call status. Is this the correct property t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to determine solution workspace?

  G'day, Let's say I have two workspaces in my workstation. I have opened solution 1 in Visual Studio by using "Open from SC" in workspace1, worked with it some, then switched to solution 2 I have worked with previously, which happens to be in workspace 2. When working with version control solely through the Solution Explorer, one has no problems. However, in the TFS Source Code Explorer you have workspace selector combo box. Now, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Network drive issue?

  I want to use VB 2005 Express for a high school intro programming class, but I seem to be having severe issues running some programs. A little searching seems to indicate that .NET apps don't like being stored on a network drive. We have "My Documents" mapped to a network folder for student and teacher accounts. Some of my quick sample apps are failing on start up with: An error occurred creating the form. See Exception.InnerException for det ...Show All

• Visual Studio Get pinned version of VSS through automation

  I have a script that searches through a release branch of our software, and detects the difference from the branch to the common dev dir (diff on all files) so i get the file... try to figure out the pinned version to diff it with the one in the other directory. There the problem starts. I cant figure out the pinned version. There is a MSDN KB article, but they say that the Action of the version starts with "Pinned" or "Unpinned".. this does not ...Show All

• Visual C++ Sometimes I need to do a clean/build on VS2005. Why?

  I've noticed when working on my VS2005 C++ application, that sometimes the debugger will report memory leaks or heap problems. I've learned that if I do a project clean and rebuild, that these problems go away. There are also cases where my app will get ASSERT failures that I resolve by doing a clean and rebuild. I have not been able to firgure out what I'm doing that is causing the incremental builds to produce these errors. Has anyone el ...Show All

• SQL Server Design and Performance Question

  Hi, I have a basic DB design question. First, my application has 100's of customers, all of which will be adding thousands of records each day. My question is, because of the eventual size of some of these tables, should I have a separate DB for each customer or should I design one DB to hold all customers I am worried about some of the massive joins that will eventually take place, also what if I have to do a restore on just one customer's da ...Show All

• .NET Development Accessing the registry from a Web Service

  I'm fairly new to this Web Service game so please feel free to suggest something different if it looks like i'm completely off track! I'm trying to write an application that runs on a Pocket PC that is accessing data stored in a SQL server database on a seperate server (not on the pocket pc). This will be deployed to lots of customers sites so I can't hard-code the location of the database in the program. I wrote a seperate little app to ...Show All

• Smart Device Development I have to reboot every time I recompile

  In my target device there are 13 tasks. One of them is called services.exe and runs my DLL (httpadmasp.dll). Everytime I surf to a certain webpage located on the Win CE device (hosted by it's webserver), it runs the DLL so I can't replace it after I recompile without rebooting the Win CE device. Is there any way of freeing my DLL in some other way Killing the services.exe task kills all services. If I try to run services.exe from the commandl ...Show All

• Windows Forms licensing context

  Hi i have my own licenseprovider class is it possible to somehow get the name of the host app of my component in the : "public override License GetLicense(LicenseContext context, Type type, object instance, bool allowExceptions) " when the app is compile ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions PictureBox-GetPixel-Color Problems

  Hi everyBody, I am new to VB2005. I would like to ask some question about Get Color in Picturebox. i had see some previous Thread for Get color, which say that using GetDC(0) and windows mouse pointer to get the X ,Y for the Full Screen But i only want to loop a Picture(BitMap) Size 50,20 pixel to get which Pixel have color or not Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click ...Show All

• Visual Studio Publishing a ClickOnce project with command-line MSBuild

  You can build the Publish target of a .csproj with the command-line MSBuild.exe, but when the Visual Studio IDE publishes a project it also copies it to a designated location and in Beta 2 appears to do something clever with preserving old .application manifests. Is there a way to have MSBuild.exe perform these extra steps from the command line Perhaps I'm building the wrong target Couldn't you use msbuild to ...Show All

• Windows Forms treeview "AfterSelect" runs when the form is loaded

  hiya :-) I have a treeview that handles the "AfterSelect" event. In the "AfterSelect"  event, I want to obtain the value of e.Node.Tag. The problem is that this event seems to run when the winform is initially loaded... When this happens, it&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to add template menu item to custom solution

  I'd like to see the "Add View (Presenter)" menu item to my custom solution. How to do it Download the Smart Client Software Factory and play with the guidance package included with it. It contains lots of examples such as this one. http://practices.gotdotnet.com/scbat HTH ...Show All

• Visual Basic toolbox items greyed-out

  I have just installed VS 2005, and I am trying to add dateTime Picker to the form, but this item is greyed out. How do you activate greyed-out items in a toolbox tab Thank You, Kamal I have created a web form, and it's in the design-view mode. I see dateTime Picker under "Common Control" tab, but it is still inactive. Is this control available for web forms How do you check the version of the ...Show All

• Visual Basic help !!

  hi, is there any way, that i could type something in a dos program, from vb or vba, like, say i wanted to chage the directory from d: to c: ina msdos window, or an dos exe, is it possible to pass the command from vb or vba to change the directory automatically please help Hi! Check System.Diagnostics.Process class in MSDN about running other applications or run command line commands. Check System.IO.Directory for information ab ...Show All