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• Visual Basic how to convert the below line of vc++ code to vb

  how to convert the below line of vc++ code to vb 'width_mask = (BYTE)(((1 << (start_bit - end_bit)) - 1) << 1 | 1); 'tthe << character is used for bit shifting and the | character is an or. Dim width_mask As Byte = CByte ((((1 << (start_bit - end_bit)) - 1) << 1 Or 1))   In vc++ Bitwise Left Shift and Right Shift Operators:  <<, >> In vb there is no operator for this i gue ...Show All

• Visual Basic Connection String To Northwind

  Since I have been trying for some time to populate a treeview with a database, I am excited to see this thread. As cited above, I am working with the linked article ("HOW TO: Populate a TreeView Control from a Dataset in Visual Basic .NET" - http://support.microsoft.com/ kbid=320755 ), but not yet able to get it to work. The problem seems to be in "modifying the connection string to point to the Northwind database on your SQL server." When I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Error spawning 'cmd.exe'

    When I compiled the project, there was an error,----Error spawning 'cmd.exe'.   Why Hi all, I've got the same problem and i've found this solution... In the Options go into Projects and Solutions -> VC++ Directories page and place this rows: $(SystemRoot)\System32 $(SystemRoot) $(SystemRoot)\System32\wbem Bye ...Show All

• .NET Development Process.GetProcesses Exception "Feature is not supported for remote machines"

  My winform app encounters an exception when attempting to get the Process.StartTime from 4 remote computers (Exception is: Feature is not supported for remote machines). However, I can get the Process.Id and Process.ProcessName for running services on the 4 remote machines. I need the start time so I can determine when the staff started certain applications. This winform app works fine in other environments. My winform app resides on a ...Show All

• SQL Server DTExec is taking all my memory

  I have created a SSIS package that reads 500 text files splits them into 4 raw files then reads them again and writes then to 4 database tables different Tables. The reason form this is that my raw files have multiple types of records in them and it is only 1 Coolum. I split this out into the different types of records and load whole rows into the database. ie input 1 txt file <T6> 1:1000178 3:18148821-00 5:40204043 6:1 17:EX20 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Typed Dataset Generator is ignoring DateTimeMode on date columns!?

  Hi everyone, Is anyone else experiencing this Create a new dataset with the Dataset Designer and just add a table with a DateTime column. Set the DateTimeMode to anything besides the default of UnspecifiedLocal, like Unspecified or Local. Click save to generate the designer file. Now the problem.. the DateTimeMode property on the column is not generated in the designer file at all. And at runtime the mode is the default -- UnspecifiedLocal ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Custom EventSinkActivity

  Hi all, I'm trying to create a custom EventSinkActivity. But I'm wanting to define the 'EventName' in the workflow (that the custom activity is going to live in). In my custom (sequential) activity there is a requirement to fill in the EventName property. Upon checking out some of the WWF samples in the SDK - I believe that this causes the runtime to create queues in the names of 'EventName'. My problem is I would like to set this pr ...Show All

• Windows Forms oleDbDataAdapter, datasets, and multiple tables

  Hope I can explain this properly. I have a database, and in it I placed one table. Everything was working just fine and this is how I accessed the data using an oleDbDataAdapter, configuring the data adapter, and generating a datset.  Also, when I add the table (only one), it auto generates the sql statements.  It works fine..... oleDbConnection1.Open(); oleDbDataAdapter1.Fill(dataSet11); oleDbConnection1.Close(); The ...Show All

• Windows Forms Design Help - Panel and more

  Hi guys :) In Visual Studio 2005, I wanted to write a Windows Application which has the dialog soemthing like this:  ___________________ |           |                     | | Option|          List       | |______|____________| ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Same-named web service on two applications

  Hi, In previous betas / CTPs I could create a web service end point with the same name on two different applications, i.e. AppA could have an endpoint MyWebService and so could AppB. This worked, all the way through to implementation. Application Designer in the September RC forces me to name the web service differently on AppB, so the names of web service endpoints must be unique across the whole diagram (so across the entire solution). My ques ...Show All

• Visual Basic Treeview - Combobox Question

  Hi everyone. I'm new to Visual Basic programming and I have what might seem like an odd set of questions. For my main question I would like to if it is possible to setup coding for a combobox so that when it is opened it shows a treeview of all your files on the computer If so, w'hat would the coding look like Can this be used to get a path to a certain folder and list the contents in a listbox. Thanks in advance for any or all help ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Tooltip background question

  Hello, How can I set the background of a tool tip to transparent I tried the following but the background is black - which results in an ugly tooltip. (Sorry for the basic question, I am newbie at XAML) Thank you <Page xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" > <Page.Resources> <Style TargetType ="{x:Type ToolTip}" x:K ...Show All

• .NET Development Memory issue

  Hi buddies, I am facing serious issues on memmory release. Issue is after disposing the objects also the memory is not releasing. It may be my code issue. I am using IDisposable to dispose and using, [System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("Kernel32")] private extern static Boolean CloseHandle( object ClientList) to release the objects to memory, but still the app is holdin the allocated memory. Please help&nbs ...Show All

• Visual C# text with style (Word 9.0 interop)

    Hi lo all, I'm using the Word 9.0 interop (out of necessity!) to generate a Word catalog from a normal document with bookmarks that I use for a template. I'm running this against Word 2000. I can write out my data just fine, but it doesn't seem to copy the style information... so I'm trying to assign that manually. Here's the relevent code (limited to just the "PRE" section of the template, because it's all the same ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problems with DataGrid paging

  Hello, my problem consists in:  I have a page with a DataGrid legacy to a SqlDataSource object connected to the db with ODBC.  I have enabled "allow paging" and "sorting" but none of the two give to me a result.  The only result is to replace the  first page. Thanks a lot. The "DataGrid" control doesn't support paging/sorting without having to manually write code to handle it.  ...Show All