Tobbeswim's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista i AM LOOKING FOR VISTA BETA 2

  If anyone can help please let me know I was on beta testing cant find all my info I have Beta one versions, Thank you! Sincerely, Eric Powling Its true that we've only being doing CTPs for a while now, but there is a Beta2 on the horizon. The next CTP - creatively named "February CTP", in only a few (4 or 5) days away. Stay tuned for that a ...Show All

• Visual C++ registry keys?

  I am trying to add a registry key to make my application run on startup. I am also trying to test first if the key is already added for autorun, if it isnt then add it. Can someone point me in the correct direction -edward http://thecodeproject.com/system/CPPRegistryWrapper.asp That's one of many wrappers on that site.  You can either use it, or you can pull it apart, and prod it with a stick to see how it works.  The article ...Show All

• .NET Development No RowUpdating when working with the ADO.NET 2 factory ?

  The ADO.NET 2 way to create ADO.NET objects with the factory is neat and great. So, I decided to use CreateFactory, CreateConnection, DbConnection, DbDataAdapter, etc. instead of OleDbConnection, OleDbDataAdapter to achieve provider independance. Great ! But : there is no way to catch RowUpdating and RowUpdated events while using DbDataAdapter objects, though it's feasible using SqlDataAdapter and OleDbDataAdapter. Than ...Show All

• Visual Basic switching keyboard languages

  Hello, I have a windows form with several textboxes. On this form the user can choose his prefered language English, Arabic, or French and write in the textboxes in the corresponding selected language. If the user chooses Arabic, then he/she have to press (Ctr + Shift) so their keyboard will write Arabic. I was wondering if there is a way in VB .Net to check what language is selected and when the textbox gains focus the keyboard settings a ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) xaml web app calling Indigo Service problem, help!

  hi, I have built a winfx web browser application, and an IndigoService. the folowing problem appears when I tried to execute the web method in indigoservice   System.Security.SecurityException: That assembly does not allow partially trusted callers.   anyone got a clue   thx You cannot use Indigo in regular Web Browser Applications because of the security restrictions (Indi ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. What the heck has happened to utility.timer and directxtimer?

  I've been working through an introductory Managed DirectX book and there is some code that refers to a thing called "utility.timer" and a call to "DirectXTimer.GetElapsedTime". Neither of these things compile for me in VS.NET 2003 with DirectX 9. I can't seem to find anything at all on the utility function, and damn little on DirectXTimer. Obviously these things have become defunct, but what has taken their place Where should I be looking ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to test Smart Client Windows Forms using VS 2005 Tester

  Is there a way to test a Smart Client Windows Forms application (one that is not invoked through IE) Or: How can we test web services directly from VS 2005 Tester without using IE as the interface Thanks, Burkhard   Microsoft Partners such as Compuware and AutomatedQA will offer integration packages for functional UI testing - TestPartner 5.4 from Compuware, TestComplete 4 from Automated Q ...Show All

• SQL Server Extended Stored Procedures and VB

  I have two functions in a .DLL created in VB6 I want to use. I create two Extended Stored Procedures using: sp_addextendedproc 'MyFunctionA', 'MyFunctions.dll' sp_addextendedproc 'MyFunctionB', 'MyFunctions.dll' When I run: EXECUTE @ReturnValue = MyFunctionA @Paramate1 I get: "Cannot find the function MyFunctionA in the library C:\Program Files\MyDLLs\MyFunctions.dll. Reason: 127(The specified procedure could not be found.)" What am I missi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Creating / Modifying Alerts

  Our CSR's, Testers and Developers need to be notified whenever: A Work Item is changed by anyone. A Work Item is Create etc. Currently, if I edit my own work items, a notification is not sent out. Is it possible for us to create a new Alert that will fire whenever any type of Work Item is changed... even if it's a spelling mistake that was changed. Yes, you can create custom subscriptions using the BisSubscribe.exe tool that ha ...Show All

• SQL Server Transfering and verifying data using temp tables

  Hi, I need to write code that uses temp tables to check data and transfer it to another table. As I understand, data has to be transfered to temp table, and then a loop will check each row for data integrity and move the valid rows into a new table. The code looks something like this. The problem is with this code, the destination table (table 3) contains only one record instead of 375. What am I doing wrong Select CustomerID, StaffID, Sequen ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Fork and parallelism

  Trying the product and then reading some comments I realized that the activities in a fork does not run in parallel, instead they run from left to right, and top down. Why is the purpose of a fork if it doesn't run in parallel   If I would want the current deterministic fork behavior I shouldn’t implement it a as sequence instead of a fork Is there a simple way to implement the desired parallel fork behavior Maybe I'm missing some co ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Custom ActivityValidator crashes VS.NET

  Hello, I have Jan CTP and I am building a new activity validator for my custom activity. According to several articles I write the following code: public override ValidationErrorCollection ValidateProperties(ValidationManager manager, object obj) { MyActivity activity = obj as MyActivity; if (activity == null) { throw new InvalidOperationException("the parameter obj is not of type MyActivity"); } ValidationErr ...Show All

• .NET Development Accessing C# classes from IE (JScript)

  Hi, I'm looking for a way to access some C# from JScript. I tried to wrap the class with COM proxy by using some COM attributes (ClassInterface, InterfaceType ...). When I try to instantiate the object from within a C++ program, I succeed. when I try to declare the class as an object in HTML page and access it from JScript, I do not succeed. When I try to use the ActiveX Control Test Container, it would not succeed creating the object. attached ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problems Installing Terrarium Server

  Hey Guys,      I have been in the process of setting up a Terrarium Server for my school.  I was able to get the whole thing installed on a fresh copy of Windows 2k3 Standard and with SQL Server Enterprise Running.  Now  ...Show All

• Visual Basic Using the dialog boxes

  How do you use the dialog boxes in vbexpress 2005 to adsd things like open and save actions Any help appreciated. Sorry for the late reply, to do multiple extensions, just change the code above to OpenFileDialog.Filter = "JPEG files (*.jpg;*.jpeg)|*.jpg;*.jpeg| Text Files (*.txt)|*.txt|All Files (*.*)|*.*" Best regards,   ...Show All