Quirk's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System CTP5 - Writing updates to a DB project

  I have downloaded the CTP5 and used it to a certain extent. I am happy to see some of the improvements as compared to CTP4. The 'Import Script' feature is very useful. As we all know that we can compare two databases by selecting one as the 'source' and another one as the 'target' . Once the comparison is done and the differences are selected, we can 'Write Updates' to the target to make it same as the source. However, I would like to suggest the development team to provide 'Write Updates' feature for the database project also. The most common scenario is when a developer creates new tables, strored procs, triggers or other objects on his local database, the developer should be able to compare his local database with the database projec ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Getting own Phone Number using C#

  Hi, Is there a way to get the Phone Number of my pocket pc device without having to use c++. I would really like retrieve this information using C#. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Jesse Hi, Apparently my searching abilities are not up to snuff. I found this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnnetcomp/html/netcfphoneapi.asp Arg.... ...Show All

• .NET Development STS using Wse 3.0 and WCF

  Hi, Is there anybody can give me an example for STS using Wse 3.0 and WCF Because we can not install Framework 3.0 in the client. Here is my email : yajingwang@hslcn.com ; zjl_79118@hotmail.com Thanks in advance! Hi, There is an implementation of an STS for WSE created by the Microsoft Practices & Practices team, it is available here, http://practices.gotdotnet.com/saml I also developed a similar version for WCF, http://weblogs.asp.net/cibrax/archive/2006/09/08/SAML-_2D00_-STS-implementation-for-WCF.aspx Both version were compatible at wire level in the first beta versions of WCF, but I didn't have time to perform interop tests with the WCF RC. Regards, Pablo. ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to get list of Processes and their file name/path? - Experts respond plz

  Hi All, I've spent two days on google trying to find a suitable solution for getting the full path of the running process but invain.My question is very simple I want to know the full path of the running excel instances. for example if I've 2 instances of excel running currently, I need to know the full path name including drives and directories.I can get the base exe file but not the full path i.e., I can easily get the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\excel.exe path but not some thing like "c:\rama\xyz.xls" through either vb6 or .NET solution. Is there anyway to get the full qualified path from the list of running process I used the following function but it only gives filetitle but not the full pa ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Interacting with different users based on roles

  Hello, I've designed a document validation workflow but still with no roles on it, so anyone can introduce a document and anyone can validate it. I've been searching info about roles and what I've seen is that you can say which roles can or cannot do an activity. But my application is a bit different: There are 4 different roles (ranks of the employees). Role 5 (the less "important") can post a document, that same user can modify it as many times as he wants and then send it to validate, and it has to be shown in the list of pending documents of role 4. But role 4 can as well post a document that has to be validated by role 3, and role 3 need validation from role 2 etc. I suppose there has to be a way of designing a sing ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Why ihd sim doesn't work on my computer?

  When i open a sample's playlist in the jump start, there is only black background in the ihdsim.exe window, no buttons, no menus, nothing displayed, what's wrong with it I installed ie7, wmp 10 on my computer. Anyone can help me Hi, you need Windows Media Player 11 Beta. Also check this thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=900474&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Visual C# Application.Run() without showing the parsed form

  Evening all, My question is can I have an System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(MainForm) statement and execute it without having parsed MainForm visually appear. I have attempted to set properties such as Visible and methods like Hide() in the Form_Load event to no avail. It still shows the form. //This is the class where i try and run my mainForm code Trip_GenericWebBrowser _newGenericBrowserForm = new Trip_GenericWebBrowser (); _newGenericBrowserForm.Controls.Add(_newBrowser); _newGenericBrowserForm.Visible = false ; _newGenericBrowserForm.Hide(); System.Windows.Forms. Application .Run(_newGenericBrowserForm); //This is my form code using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA Chatroom

  I personally put up a XNA chatroom to build a community that is already here and to better get to know each other. If you want to quickly inform somebody or get some information or help with something go there. The only problem for me right now is getting idlers in the channel. I know forums are a great way to help people, but sometimes just talking to each other about things like this is even better. Come and idle and help build a community even bigger and also build a place to help each other out. Its XNA Development, its for us. (That would be a sexy slogan). Server: irc.opa-ages.com Channel: #XNA You can use mIRC or any IRC clients in order to get to the chat. X-Tatic wrote: I think it' ...Show All

• Windows Forms nextItemID

  I have an event handler created with the following statement. AddHandler Me .dbOptionsDataDataSet.tblSimulationMaster.TableNewRow, New DataTableNewRowEventHandler( AddressOf AddNewSimulation) In the eventhandler I can test for the sender with if sender.ToString() = "tblSimulationMaster" .... (insert action code here) In debug mode while in the middle of this event handler I see that the dataset object has been sent to the handler as expected. Within the dataset object there is a class member named "nextRowID". Is there a way to access the value stored here If so, this would be very convenient for adding child records when needed. HI, I can't seem ...Show All

• SQL Server Error in Scheduling SSIS Package

  Hi, When I am trying to schedule the SSIS package and start the job, I am getting the following error. It is not executing properly. "The job failed. The Job was invoked by User prakash.srinivasan. The last step to run was step 1 (TestSchStep1)." Pls provide some solution to this. Thanks in advance. Regards, Prakash Srinivasan. Hi Check the service of SQL Server Agent whether it is running in your account. Regards H.SRIRAM ...Show All

• SQL Server Execution Plan in Query Analyzer: What does this symbol mean?

  Hello, I just run an Execution plan ( not a Estimated Execution Plan ). Over (at the right bottom) some normal symbols of the Execution Plan appears a little symbol. That symbol is a yellow circle, with 3 arrows aiming at the left. Could you explain me the meaning of this symbol, please Sorry for my english, I hope you easy understand. Thank you very much Jonathan It could be due to parallelism, refer to the books online and this link http://www.codeproject.com/cs/database/sql-tuning-tutorial-1.asp  about understanding Execution Plans. Also try with Estimated execution plan and see whether you get that and if you put your cursor near to that icon you will get the information. ...Show All

• Visual C# Form MessageBox mouseleave

  Hi, I am using a form's showdialogue property to show the form as a messagebox. I would like the functionality so that when a user mouse over the form and then mouses out - the messagebox would close automatically. However, the mouse out event doesn't fire all the time, it fires sporadically. I'm not in love with this event, I would be glad to use another one if it achieves the same result. Any help Basically, I just want to call the dispose method of the form when the user mouses over and then out. private void form onload() (Spelling edit) { this.mouseleave += someventhandler(someeventhandler); this.Deactivate += someeventhandle(someeventhandler); } private void someventhandler( object o, eventargs e) { ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Modifying Public Variables

  I've been searching for this all evening, and can't find it. I have an application (project) with several forms. I use one form to gather inputs from the user, and am trying to place them into another form. (My central "repository" for the public forms) I then reference those public variables using my report form. Here's the problem. When the first form (the inventory gathering form) obtains the data, it does not write to the public variables located in the second form. I have it set up so that the repository has a public class, and the variables are all declared as public. (public XYZ as integer for example) In the other forms, I declare the variables local (dim) with the local name and set them equal to the publi ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) DateTmePicker control

  I try to insert DateTimePricker control value (VB Net) to Sql server data base CType(DH_DateTimePicker.Value, DateTime) I received the next message: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: {"Incorrect syntax near '.2006'."} Can explain me the message Thanks! George Hi MIkael, Thanks! Code work and solve the problem. But ... only half of the problem. I use "dd.mm.yyyy" date format, which is not as the ANSI format of the SQL server. If date = 20.10.2006 than arise an overflow error. Do you know how to overcome it Thanks and Regards George ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can I add filled contents to drop down list dynamicly?

  When I customize process template, my customer want a field has the following features: When in a new team project or all exising work items left the field empty, the field is a common text box without dropdown list. Once we create a new work item and filled the field with a value (e.g. "Something"). After the item save and when we create another work item next time, 'Something' will be one of available suggested values and listed in a drop down list. Is it supported in customization or how can I implement this feature in my system You are working with two different entities - Workitem Type and workitem. You would like to modify workitem type based upon value set in the workitem. You can take this approach: Modify workite ...Show All