rosevines's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Packetising MPEG4 stream data

  Hi,    I am working on a Video System project.  I am having a hardware MPEG4 encoder card which gives me out MPEG4 encoded data stream.  This encoder data stream I am storing in a buffer. Now I have to read this data fr ...Show All

• Architecture External Authorization manager

  Hi All, I was just wondering what will be a good approch to Externalize Authorization from application code. Is it possible to do a application context sensitive rule based authorization via an external Authorization manager. XACML maybe If we narrow down the domain to just web services, can WS-Policy be used to create and enforce general purpose authorization policy Is there already something out there Regards, Rana ...Show All

• .NET Development Inserting string from XML file to System.Drawing.Image

  What am I doing wrong I simply want to add the "im" field at the end of the path, so that the correct jpg is shown.  I've created filestreams and everything works fine for the the text fields.  The images are located in the "Program Files\SmartDeviceApplication1" directory, as is the XML file.  If I type in the actual name of an image, it works, but of course the image is shown for every entry.  (So I know the directory ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Pricing

     What are the price level on this product going to be Hi Nicolas, Windows Workflow Foundation is not a product. It's a technology which will be part of WinFX. WinFX is the managed code developer platform Windows Vista (the next version of Windows) and there is no additional charge for WinFX. Windows Workflow Foundation will also be available as the WinFX Runtime Components ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Bluetooth Printing Bitmap

  Hi there, im currently developing an application which prints to a Zebra QL320 printer via bluetooth. im using Opennetcf's bluetooth and socket libraries. So far i can discover the bluetooth devices available, and also print text and barcodes, using the StreamWriter class with a combination of CPCL (printing language), However i need to be able to print a signature which i capture on the device. The signature is captured and saved as a .bmp( ...Show All

• Visual Basic I'm in the same situation

  Hi, we are currently migrating our VB.NET VS 2003 projects to VS 2005. Some of our developers are experiencing performance problems with their VS 2005 IDE. These problems are becoming a blocking issue since it slows down their development time... The performance problems are multiple: slow builds, slow Intellisense, ... but when opening a designer screen with a PropertyGrid (eg. the "Properties" - "Compile" window of a VB.NET ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Serious Error while debugging

  Hi, While debugging the VSTO application, I am getting following error: "ContextSwitchDeadLoack" The CLR has been unable to transition from COM context 0x159ba8 to COM context 0x1598c8 for 60 seconds. The thread that owns the destination context/apartment is most likely either doing a non pumping wait or processing a very long running operation without pumping Windows messages. This situation generally has a negative performan ...Show All

• .NET Development Remoting Singletons vs True Singletons

  We have a remoting service which provides singleton access to a collection of remote objects. These objects also need to be able to interact with each other and must be singletons in both the internal and the remote case. The issue we're having is that this leads to two instances of the object being created - one through the remote interface and another for internal calls. Is there a way to force the remoting service to use the instances already ...Show All

• SQL Server DTS to Excel (replace existing rows)

  Hi, I am using a DTS package to output a view to a pre-determined Excel file. Currently it just adds the output to the bottom of the current table in excel but i would like it to delete the contents of the worksheet before adding the new rows. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks Greg So in other words, if a row already exists update it, otherwise insert. Is that correct If so, read this: http:// ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Programmatic authentication on TFS

  I've got a single-server deployment of TFS set up, as per instructions. I can use Team Explorer to access this server's projects using any account. I need programmatic access to TFS though. Specifically, before I can do anything in TFS, I need to log in to the server. I have a user account in the same domain as the TFS server. I also have Administrator and TFSSETUP accounts. I use the code below to try to authenticate. It's from the web. using S ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual C++ 2005 Express and Platform SDK testing problem

  Hi, Sorry, I've posted this in another forum here and have gotten no responses as of yet. Anyway, I downloaded and installed Visual C++ 2005 Express and was looking at the Start Page and clicked on "Download the PSDK". I did so and followed all the instructions except I had trouble with Step #5. I couldn't find lines 441 - 444 described and when building the Application the 2 mentioned check boxes for Windows Application and ATL ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System IdentifiersShouldDifferByMoreThanCase

  have run FxCop on a project below is a section of the code from that project that FxCop picks upon:   protected string reportName = "";             protected string reportDescription = "";             protected int reportGroupID = 0;             p ...Show All

• Smart Device Development LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file '.obj'

  Hi, I am building a project in VC++ 2005 smart device and got ths linking prolem. LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file '..\..\CoreSys51VS2005\CoreSys51VS2005\Pocket.obj' I did not intend to create such Pocket.obj file because no file has name like Pocket.* in my project. I read some thread and it may be due to the old cl.exe, link.exe or lib.exe but I am building inside VS 2005 not at command line. I think this must be ...Show All

• Visual C# hiding console window?

  Coding an app to keep Tor open, due to a bug in my router or my ISP being annoying (not clear which) the tor client disconnects after about an hour. So every hour the Tor client has to be reopened; now I don’t want to have a console window sitting around all the time, so how can I keep the console window for the current app from being displayed (I figured out that I can do it by having one app asynchronously open another as a with WindowStyle.H ...Show All

• Visual Studio Customizing "Search Page" in Document Explorer 8

  Hello, if you use the search functionality in Document Explorer, you have the possibility to restrict the search by selecting attributes from three categories: Language, Technology, Content Type. First question: Is it possible to add a fourth category with a number of different attributes Which modifications do I have to make Second question: If first solution is not possible, can i extend one of the existing categories with a new ...Show All