Xelestial's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Running a batch file

  Is there a special way of running a batch file I have tried process.start but it is not working. The batch file works when I double click it but not when I try to run it through my program. Thank you, Troy L The following will work without any clicking at all and will start xyz.bat with no arguments. Process.start("xyz.bat","") If your requiring a double click - then its probably something in your code or the bat file as process.start should not require any user involvement. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I put bytes together in a string?

  I have many data bytes coming in and I need to put them together as text not add them up... Display = ascii1 + ascii2 + ascii3 + ascii4 does not work, i thought maybe: Display = ascii1 , ascii2 , ascii3 , ascii4 but that doesnt work either, can anyone help me Carsten, When you get new toys do you read the instructions I'm having a little trouble now the text box, I send a space either " " or 32 as a byte but it doesnt actually display the space. For some reason it bunches them together, do I have the box settings incorrect Thanks Elliot ...Show All

• SQL Server Programming SQL Express

  Hey, i have an installer that places ms sql express onto a machine. thats is fine. i want to create a post setup application that runs after ms sql server is installed. what for example i want to do is be able to create a user and have the DB allow remote connections. i can provide instructions for a 'peon' to make the required post setup changes but i want to see if i can cover that with an application. thanks Charles Rezsonya ok. i'm not finding the dll to include the smo namespace using 'using' in the sql sdk directory. and when i go to the studio and go to projects -> add reference its not listed "microsoft.sqlserver.etc etc"....... where can i download this dll any add'l source on connect ...Show All

• Visual C# 2005 Standard Edition compatible with C# Express Projects??

  I had C# Express Edition installed and thus have a bunch of projects that I did for school and work. I now have C# 2005 Standard Edition installed. When I try to run a project done in C# Express I get an error. Is this a known issue Thanks! David Yes that is correct. The error I'm seeing: Microsoft Visual Studio has encountered a problem and needs to close. From the Error Signature: AppName: devenv.exe AppVer: 8.0.50727.42 AppStamp:4333e699 ModName: mscorwks.dll ModVer: 2.0.50727.42 ModStamp:4333e7ec fDebug: 0 Offset: 0009aac4 I guess if need be then I'll re-build the solutions ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Remote Data Binding

  I have a windows application that writes to a sql express database, is it possible to have an application on a ppc to run a query on that database and display the results in a datagrid Is it possible for my windows app to directly communicate with my ppc app (eg. tell it to update its datagrid when new data is added to the sql express database) im running windows mobile 5.0, sql server mobile edition, sqlserver express sp1, and i can run any version of windows that will do what i need any help is greatly appreciated so i figured out the whole database query issue was just network settings but i am still wondering if its possible to trigger the ppc to update the data from the computer the data ...Show All

• Windows Forms Print Page confusion

  I'm trying to create a printable report and am getting very confused about setting the print line. The code below is as far as I've gotten because even though I've set the escape char tabs, the line looks fine when I stop the execution at the last line of code to view the prtHeader variable, but when I get the page from the printer, all of the text is printed as if no tabs were inserted. What am I missing private const string prtHeader = " ID " + "\t\t" + "Member Name" + "\t\t" + "Address" + "\t\t" + "Phone #" + "\t\t" + "Date Joined/Status" + "\t\t" + "Natl Du ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Package Designer performance after installing SP1

  Hi, When I installed SP1 on my SQL Server 2005, the performance of the package designer dropped enormously. I have to wait like 30 seconds after I drag-and-drop a datasource from the toolbox to the design area. Also it takes a very long time to run the very simple package. Not to mention opening some complicated package that was done before applying SP1. The package scheduled in SQL Agent went from 3-4min to 5-6min. Can anyone address this issue Maybe there's something I did wrong While installing SP1 I ecountered strange behaviour (some messages about file locking, rebooting and stuff), but in the end it said that it was successful Best Regards Wojtek Hi Swoopske, If I recall, the file loc ...Show All

• Windows Forms Databinding, does anyone use databinding for commercial applications?

  I'm running into this same problem: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=356806&SiteID=1 Databinding seems useless. The idea of the disconnected data model is a really difficult process, mainly because of relational databases. Many of my tables have identities, and if multiple people are hitting the database at once, there is no guarantee that the identity generated in your datagrid is going to be the same when you actually submit the in memory dataset to your database. This makes it a real pain to update related records. Can anyone shed some insight on complex databinding with identities and relationships Perhaps, someone has some good documentation on some methodologies used to create windows forms applicati ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Limit the allowedvalues list by validuser group

  Hi, Is it possible to limit the allowedvalues list by the validuser rule E.g.: a projectmanager can select other or more values than a developer. Thanks. In your work item type definitions, you can use for attribute in the allowedvalues tag for this. <FIELD refname="MyFields.Field1" name="Field 1" type="string"> <ALLOWEDVALUES for="[Project]\<group 1>"> <LISTITEM value="val 1" /> <LISTITEM value="val 2" /> </ALLOWEDVALUES> <ALLOWEDVALUES for="[Project]\<group2>"> <LISTITEM value="val 3" /> <LISTITEM value="val 4" /> </ALLOWEDVALUES> < ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Orthographic UI

  So...in OpenGL I would use glOrtho(0,1,1,0,0,1) before processing my UI draw calls to set up my screen to be: 0,0 . . 0,1 . . 1,0 . . 1,1 that way, I could tell a UI component to be at 0.1, and it would make it so at any aspect ratio, any resolution, that UI component would always draw 10% to the left of the side of the screen. I want to do something similar to the UI system I'm working on for XNA, but I'm not sure how to setup the XNA camera to switch to an Orthographic projection before I process my UI components using the sprite batch. Anybody know Yeah I can. I was just hoping to keep the mouse units constant. That way people don't really need to know that the mouse press came at 10,10 based on some ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to stop vs 2005 publishing vssver2.scc!

  How does one stop vs 2005 publishing the hidden system file vssver2.scc! Is this just broken, or is there a work around to stop vs 2005 spublishing this unwanted file.. Thanks. Build/Publish is not a feature owned by source control. You have to post in the forum matching your project type and see if they have any way of excluding certain files from a publish command. If I look in Project/Properties/Publish/ApplicationFiles/ShowAllFiles I see that pdb files are automatically excluded, so there probably is a way to get more files to appear in that list. BTW, I've tried this on a C# console application and for me it published only some *.application, *.deploy, *,manifest setup.exe files. You ...Show All

• .NET Development Is there anyone with good sample C# code to select records from 2 tables and populate a checked list with Doc Name. I have a dat

  Hi all Is there anyone with good sample C# code to select records from 2 tables and populate a checked list with Doc Name. I have a dataset with 2 tables, NoteAttachment and Note . Below is a simple SELECT statement to retrieve records. SELECT NoteAttachment.DocName, NoteAttachment.ID, Note.ID AS Expr1 FROM Note INNER JOIN NoteAttachment ON Note.ID = NoteAttachment.ID Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks Hi Jonso, I have CheckBoxList in my ASP.NET webpage. this .List.DataSource = values; this .List.DataValueField = "id"; this .List.DataTextField = "name"; this .List.DataBind(); foreach ( Item item in valuesinjoin ) { this .List.Items.FindByValue( item.Id ).Selected ...Show All

• Visual Basic Line Drawing: STILL not working as I want it

  Dear all, despite my previous mail, I still have big problems with line graphs. I posed a Q some time ago on line drawing ( Can I set userscale of picbox, like possible in VB6 ), got some answers, but not the ones I need. Task: drawing a line graph of some variable that changes over time. The graph will contain 10^8 or more data points. I used to do this in VB6 in a picturebox. First I defined the scaling as userscale: leftbottom=(0,0), top right = (1,1) picbox.scalemode = 0 'userscale picbox.scaletop = 1 picbox.scaleheight = -1 picbox.scalewidth = 1 and then, using line(x1,y1)-(x2,y2),vbcolor I could simply add the additional data points by drawing line segments from the previous point to the curren ...Show All

• Visual C++ trying to built a release

  hello when I try to compile a release of my MFC application, I get all compiled but a Linking error. What is strange now is that I get my release .exe created eighter, but when I try to open it, only a console shows for a blink of an eye and I get told that "program has no memory". The debug version is OK. Linking... LINK : error : Internal error during ReadSymbolTable ExceptionCode = C0000005 ExceptionFlags = 00000000 ExceptionAddress = 004623F2 NumberParameters = 00000002 ExceptionInformation[ 0] = 00000000 ExceptionInformation[ 1] = 00000008 CONTEXT: Eax = 005B0E60 Esp = 0012E6D8 Ebx = 00000002 Ebp = 00AD05AA Ecx = 005B0E60 Esi = 007D1D64 Edx = 00000000 Edi = 007D1D64 Eip = 004623F2 ...Show All

• .NET Development Critical Finalizers are not called

  Hi, I have tested the new CriticalFinalizer feature of .NET 2.0 to improve reliability. But so far I am less than impressed that if any normal finalizer screws up by throwing an exception the Finalizer thread dies. This behaviour is quite unfortunate when you try to do something in a reliable manner where you expect to be called even if somebody did screw up. More details can be found here: http://geekswithblogs.net/akraus1/archive/2006/10/30/95435.aspx Is there a way to resurrect the finalizer thread or at least handle the exception inside the finalizer thread and continue with the CriticalFinalizer list Yours, Alois Kraus   < TaylorMichaelL@discussions.microsoft.co ...Show All