Alex Prado Romero's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Visual basic calling a DTS Job

  I am working on a Visual basic program and wanted to know if someone can help me. Is it possible to save the file you are creating with DTS in a user defined place instead of where the DTS job specifies I can create a DTS job, but are having issues getting VB to call the job. Any help with that would be great as well. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Retain data during Deploy or Writing Schema changes

  We have a database project where changes to tables are constant. When the changes are saved we (the developers) need to deploy or write the schema changes to our local database to work against. This worked fine until we started have lots of test data. With the test data is a pain because if you deploy you lose your data and you can't Write Schema changes to table which have data in them. Besides manually scripting each table, is there a way to retain data while deploying or writing schema changes How is everyone else handling this Darin, I routinely make schema changes to tables that have hundreds of thousands of rows of data, or more, and never lose data in the process. What kind of changes are you m ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Bot Platform SDK

  Hi, Can I made my own SDK How Thanks Erik Here's a pointer to some other posts on how to get started building a bot. You should also check out the Robot Invaders web site and look at how you can win some prizes if you get your bot built and submitted by September 15th! Cheers, Todd Biggs, Windows Live ...Show All

• SQL Server linked servet to informix error with oledb

  hello everybody I set up a linked server with odbc for infomix but cant make a linked server with oledb and I cant insert into infomix tables ...Show All

• SQL Server rsInternalError (RSClientCOnnection.GetProperties)

  Hello, We are converting from 2000 to 2005 and are getting the following error when attempting to run any RS reports. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ************** Exception Text ************** Microsoft.SqlServer.ReportingServices2005.ReportServiceDetailsException: An internal error occurred on the report server. See the error log for more details. (rsInternalError) ---> Microsoft.SqlServer.ReportingServices2005.ReportServiceMoreInformationException: An internal error occurred on the report server. See the error log for more details. (rsInternalError) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.RSClient.RSClientConnection.GetProperties(String Item, Property[] Pro ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Custom Enum Property Does not appear in Property Editor.

  In the release version of 2005 I am developing a control. The control has at least one property that is of a custom enum type. When I attempt to use this control at design time the custom enum property does not show up in the Property Editor. A property that is of a default type does show up in the design time editor as I would expect. Thanks for your help Rob     Hi Rob, I did the following: 1. Create a VB PPC2003 Smart Device Class Library (netcf v2) 2. Add a UserControl to the project. 3. Add the following to the UserControl class: Public Enum MyEnum ABC DEF End Enum Public Property MMM() As MyEnum Get End Get Set(ByVal value As MyE ...Show All

• Visual C++ Exception handling showing undefined behaviour. Help !!!

  Question #1 : The following code crashes in Visual C++ compiler. It fails in the expression _BLOCK_TYPE_IS_VALID(). It means that, it is deleting a bad pointer. When I give a copy constructor, it works fine but the control does not even go in the copy constructor. Why is it showing this behaviour Question #2 : If I throw a local primitive type like an int, the address of that variable matches in the catch block if I am catching by reference. But for objects, the address for the variable in the catch block changes. Why #include <iostream> using namespace std ; class Exception { char * m_pszError ; public : Exception ( const char * p ) { cout << "Exception::E ...Show All

• Visual C++ Getting Hardware Serials

  Hello, I am trying to get the hardware serials for the harddrive, video card, sound card, etc etc. I have been trying to the WMI, but for things such as the Video Card, Harddrive, and Sound Card, they have the option of getting the information for the DeviceID, but that doesn't give the serial. It just tells me stuff such as "VideoController1". I need to know how to get the hardware serials, can someone please help me I would greatly appreciate it! (I'm trying to make my own software protection that locks the software to the hardware.) I thought NIC cards had a unique ID I know motherboards and Harddrives do. How could I get the ID or whatever from the Graphics Card ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How can I simulate a pressed hardware key with C#

  Hello everybody, Is there a way to simulate that a hardware button is pressed with C# thx in advance & kind regards In that case, you may get a better answer from one of the WindowsMobile newsgroups: Windows Mobile API : microsoft.public.pocketpc.developer microsoft.public.smartphone.developer Windows CE API : microsoft.public.windowsce.embedded General programming (not VisualStudio related) : microsoft.public.windowsce.embedded microsoft.public.windowsce.app.development Native compilers : microsoft.public.windowsce.embedded.vc ActiveSync : microsoft.public.pocketpc.activesync ...Show All

• Windows Forms Drag Drop Event not getting generated the first time.

  Hi, This is a project done in VC++ 2005, which uses drag and drop features for six of its rich text control boxes. The problem is that the drag and drop works fine with the exception of the very first time immediately after the start of the application in which if you drag a text from one text box to the other, despite the cursor changing shape to indicate the drag, still the drop after release of the mouse button does not happen. Also when entered the target text box, the cursor does not change shape from the default crossed circle to the arrow. It seems as at the beginning despite the DragOver event being called twice, the DragDrop event does not get generated. Then, after the first drop in any of the controls irregardless, the ...Show All

• Visual C# VB translate to C#...

  I got sentence by VB like below: Page_Header(Me, False, progname) would like to translate this to C# I tried this sentence page.header(this.false,progname) and I got error message "page.header is a attribute can 't not difine as a method" can you help me to correct this sentence please thank you Hi, JC There is no grammatical counterpart in C# as Optional in VB, but there is type in C# to define nullable object ( references ) and params to define variable number of arguments ( references ), they can help you to implement the function by using optional in vb. Thank you ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can PREfast for Drivers Version 8 be used in Visual Studio 2005 projects?

  Hello, I am currently using MS Visual Studio 2005, and I am aware that it does not contain PREfast with it. However, I found out that PREfast is installed in the Driver Development Kit, which can be downloaded for free. Right now, the most recent version of PREfast is in PREfast for Drivers Version 8, which is in MS Windows 2003 Server SP1 DDK. So, I'm sort of wondering if I can just download the DDK and use the installed PREfast there to perform static code analysis on my VS2005 projects. Is that possible I'm really looking forward for your reply... Regards, doyle Rather than use the code analysis environment, you can use the environment in the Windows SDK; it contains the necessary changes to the compiler to support ...Show All

• .NET Development IPC Remoting with a Browser Helper Object (BHO)

  Hi. I'm trying to use .NET remoting to communicate between a standalone executable and a BHO I'm writing. I'm doing this all under a beta of Vista, so that may be causing my issues, not sure. Previously I did the communication entirely in the BHO, and that worked fine. As it is now, if I run both the executable and IE using the vista "Run as Administrator" option, it works fine. However, if I only run one (either one) or neither as administrator, I get a RemotingException when trying to call a remote method. I'm sure it's some sort of security configuration setting, but I've tried about every solution I could find on the web and can't get it to work. Here is some of the code... In server executable: System.Collectio ...Show All

• Visual Studio Simple change

  Hello ! a newbie question. 1. I have used a "Minimal Sample" example. The DslDefinition shows an "Example Shape" that has a "Light Blue" color. I have tried a lot to change it to "Red", and to see the change in the VS test instance (after F5). No way to see the difference... 2. I have added my own domain class, and its own shape. The two are linked... but I cannot see it in the VS test instance... What did I miss Thanx a lot for any answer/clue/wish/prayer... Messaoud. Select all .tt files inside the GeneratedCode folder, right click and choose 'Run Custom Tool'. This will regenerate all templates and all changes should be committed/generated. Christoph ...Show All

• Visual C# Code Definition Window Background Color

  Question When I fire up the code definition window, the background color is an off beige. I would not mind, but my syntax colors in my IDE for code coloring are set with black as the background. That coloration (light foreground colors) that look great on the editing window become a washed out document on a off-beige window. I have been unable to find where the background color setting for this window resides..can anyone direct me to that WHY I do inverse colors (black background/white foreground) because I don't like to look at a white spot-light all day long while editing. Call me crazy.... Platform VS2005 advTHANKSance OmegaMan, Actually, using inverse background/foreground is quite common which is why we've tried to mak ...Show All