Lakmalk's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can you package an App as a Self Contained .exe?

  I would like to develop a small program that would be a self contained .exe, and would be able to run from that without installation. I was wondering how I can package it like that in Visual Studio (C#). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Two points. This is the VB Forums, so asking questions about using C#, your in the wrong place. If your asking can you create stand-alone applications using VB.NET or C#, the answer is no. The applications are dependent upon the .NET framework being present. So if you know the .NET framework is already installed on you machine and you machine has no dependencies on other dll's sure you can just copy the .EXE and run it, but without the .NET framework ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Upgrade from VB 5.0

  How can I upgrade my VB 5.0 files to VB Express edition. Since it contains quite a few images, I would like these to remain intact. Thanks a lot in advance... Try opening the project (.vbp) in VB Express. The Upgrade wizard will walk you through the upgrade. The larger the project, the more work that may be necessary to fix any and all errors and warnings in the project. The images that already exist should upgrade OK. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Access Denied starting MS Outlook from Windows Service

  Hi everybody, I am writing windows service where fileSystemWatcher monitors certain folder on our network. If file occurs, i want  service to open new outlook mail window. I logged service with my username... (i have also administrator credentials in domain) but i got the answer Access Denied. Here is the code for FSW_created method:   Dim pass As New SecureString() pass.Clear() pass.AppendChar( "p" ) pass.AppendChar( "s" ) pass.AppendChar( "s" ) pass.AppendChar( "s" ) pass.AppendChar( "w" ) pass.AppendChar( "o" ) pass.AppendChar( "r" ) pass.AppendChar( "d" ) Dim psi = New ProcessStartInfo() psi.FileName = "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\Outlook.exe" ...Show All

• SQL Server If Else

  All, looking for help with outputting different text value into a cell. e.g. a column of a table will only ever have two values, Y & N. I am looking to populate a CELL within SSRS with Yes or No using a seperate Dataset. SELECT 'Yes' AS [LookupValue], 'Y' AS LookupCode UNION SELECT 'No', 'N' This gives me my two column to lookup which is what I want. However, i need this to populate a cell with Yes instead of Y. I have tried using it as a parameter but to no avail. Anyone got any ideas Duncan, Have you tried using the Switch statement instead  =Switch(Fields!LookUpCode.Value = "Y", "Yes", Fields!LookUpCode.Value = "N", "No") Hope this helps. Jarret ...Show All

• SQL Server Requirement to use Management Studio

  What are the requirements to use Management Studio /Management Studio Express for local instances Are the requirements same for both studios and same for all OS Based on my own testings: Remote connection is required for Management Studio in Windows XP SP2 . But it is not required in Management Studio Express in Windows XP SP2 . For Windows 2003 and 2000, remote connection is not required for Management Studio. Have not tried Management Studio Express yet. Peter This is additional info to clarify the issues: I'm testing the following in a Windows XP SP2 with SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition SP1: Scenario #1 1. Checked Local connections only in SSSAC for a SQL Server 2005 loc ...Show All

• SQL Server Issue when exporting to Excel

  Hello I have created a SRS report which I export to Excel. I have noticed that Excel has added additional columns and the data appears to be overlapping. (link to screenshot below). When I attempt to create a pivot table from this data, I receive the error: "The pivot table name is not valid. To create a pivot table report, you must use data that is organized as a list with labelled columns. If you are changing the name of a pivot table field, you must type a new name for the field. What have I done wrong http://www.adlibsoftware.com/KATHY/excel_output.bmp I think the problem is related to merged cells. When exporting, the Excel renderer tries to recreate the report visually as closely as possible. To arrang ...Show All

• Visual C++ VC++ migration problems

  I'm trying to bring a project from VC6 to VS2005 Pro. When I first imported the project there was, not unexpectedly, a long list of compiler errors and warnings, and I modified the source code to get rid of all of them, and am now left with 2 problems I'm not sure how to fix. 1) I get an error during the html help phase of compilation to the tune of "windows can't find hcw" - that's the executable for the help workshop. I see that hcw.exe was installed in the Tools/ directory of VS6, but I can't find a comparable executable anywhere in the VS2005 directories. (This problem does not stop compilation) 2) Much more disturbing than the above problem is that once the program compiles (0 errors, 0 warnings) it immediately crashe ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro fox table question

  hi, I need some code that asks if there is a field in a fox table and if it isn't, it must add a field to the table. Thanks, The easiest way is to check the size of the field (0 if it does not exist). Open the table EXCLUSIVE If Fsize("mycolumn") = 0  Alter Table mytable add column mycolumn C(10) EndIf Conversely, if you want to delete it. If Fsize("mycolumn") > 0  Alter Table mytable drop column mycolumn EndIf   ...Show All

• .NET Development how to create tabs in a web page using java or vb scripts

  can anyone tell me how to create tabbed browsing just like wht microsoft  has done so tht there is no need to open another page and things can be seen in the main page itself every help will be most welcomed...plzz help me help me understand the code too......i m working on it from weeks but no result hope someone will surely help me out with this i m using Visual Web Developer to create javascript. plz reply please please please please please Hi, I recommed you to take a look at ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit ( http://ajax.asp.net/toolkit/default.aspx tabid=47 ) It provides a tab control that will help you. Apart from that, posting in http://forums.asp.net yo ...Show All

• SQL Server How to reorganize Database files?

  Hi, I have the database server with DB size of 150 GB. This contains 3 Primary datafile of 50 GB each and on logfile 1GB. Due to this large files I am facing various problems relataed to infrastructure management. Can someone help me how to rearrage this in to 8 data files of approx 20GB each without any change to the data Thanks a lot for your kind suggestions Best Regards Dhundiraj ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies WDS can't search IM, other email clients?

  Hi, After reading a review that WDS is the best tool for searching my harddrives, I decided to give it a spin. Installed. Ran the indexer with the options that mattered to me, all hard drive locations, and email. Tried the search after indexing completed. Simple terms turned up some files. Immediately noticed nothing from email. OK.. so WDS only works with Outlook What a drag, I don't use that software. I do have a very large IM chat history in My Documents->My Received Files. I tried a search for text in the IM logs. Nothing comes back from WDS So.. basically, this software out of the box is not returning much in terms of useful results. I moved My Documents to G:\ which is a different hard drive from the Windows XP C:\ default. Is ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Extracting DVD video

  Hi everyone! I'm trying to write application to work with dvd disks recorded with camcoder. Its quite simple all i want it to do is to save save selected chapter to disk and encode it. To make it more convenient encoding will be done in 2 steps : copy selected chapter/title to the disk encode file in backgroup thread or even by service And here is the problem - i need copying to be performed as fast as possible, but using DVDNavigator i couldnt do that - when i tried PlayForward with high speed but i get a rapid clip. I also tried SetSyncSource(null) but i get empty file. Does anyone have any idea about how to do that Set the clock to NULL using the IMediaFilter::SetSyncSource method on the DirectShow filter graph ...Show All

• Visual Basic How Do I: 1 Form 1 UserControl - 2 Instances of UC on Form Each In its own Thread?

  I have a User control that does some heavy Database work, I have two of them on the form, (a source and destination) being that they pull from different servers, I wanted to beable to let each one load at the same time, I'm not new to threading, but I'm no Expert. I tried putting Attributes on the UserControl MTAThread() I tried changing the ApartmentState of the CurrentThread . I was hoping to find a more professional method, than putting a timer on the control and having the button enable the timer, which fires the Load method. (Load just fills a DataTable, but its Thousands to Millions of records) Any Guru's want to take a Stab at it -Thanks ThreadConfusion Why should a 'user control' have its ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Xbox 360 Project to Windows Project

  I was wondering if there is a easy way to recompile an Xbox 360 project to a Windows project, because I can't always be connected to my xbox to test out what i'm working on since the xbox is shared by the family. So can I make a change to my program an recompile it for windows so I can see if my change worked and once i'm done making changes to the program I can then build it for the xbox and try it out. Thanks That approach kind of works, but there are some gotchas that might trip you up (which is why we didn't do this by default). Stephen wrote a post explaining the issues that can come up with this. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Windows ME

  Is there a Visual Basic that can be run from Windows ME I have the same problem. I am currently using windows ME, and would like a visual basic program to make programs. I have tried downloading various programs but none of them work on ME. Is there a visual basic program that works on windows ME ...Show All