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• Visual Studio Express Editions Simple Focus form problem

  Well, I have been coming up with an error, but its not an actually error read by the program. I have the following code: Private Sub NotepadToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles NotepadToolStripMenuItem.Click DAPM.notepad.Focus() End Sub End Class Well, when ever I compile and run the exe, and click notepad menu item, it doesn't focus on the notepad form. Well, could anyone please help this simple problem It still wont switch the forms with each other. Heres my code: Public Class Form1 Private Sub NotepadToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles NotepadToolStripMenuItem.Click DAC.notepad.Select() End Sub End Class ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Power management and network applications

  Hello, I am trying to understand the affect on socket based network applications when the system moves into S3 state. Would the transition in and out of S3 be seamless for these applications (assuming ofcourse that the wake on LAN/wake on wlan driver/firmware keeps the "other end" happy. As an extension to this question: Are network interfaces brought down before the system is taken to S3 Any reading material/white papers that discuss this Are there any tools that I may be able to run to check the behavior Preliminary investigation on my end indicates that messenger type applications are happy (as long as the Wake on interface keeps the other end happy). But I wanted to know if this is by design on Windows. Is this be ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums resize/padding pushpin detail

  Is it possible to resize the the pushpin detail window I know you can add a control and make it whatever size you want but I would like to keep the arrow VE produces for the window. Also, is there any way to reduce the padding in the detail window Seems like the way it is now is that there is alot of wasted space that is not necessary if you don't have alot of info in the window. Thanks, Jason John, This is exactly what I need to display small pictures in my map project. The only problem is that it displays great in IE but doesn't seem to have any effect in Firefox. Is there a fix for this Bill ...Show All

• .NET Development How to perform a case insensitive filter when the DataTable has CaseSensitive=True

  I have a grid bound to a DataView. The underlying DataTable has case sensitivity turned on because the SQL 2005 database uses the Latin1_General_BIN (case sensitive) collation. When I build a RowFilter expression using LIKE, it is treated as case sensitive, but I want to be able to do case insensitive filtering. I experimented using a ">=" AND "<" expression, but then I lose wild card capability and I can't use that approach if I want to find all rows with data greater than (or less than, etc) a specified string. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. If all else fails...you can do something like... use "Select t.*, Upper(coalesce(t.[Description],'')) as UpperDescription from t ...Show All

• Visual Basic Clipboard Question

  I wish to be able to assign the current clipboard contents to a string variable but am running into type problems. Dim a as string=clipboard.getdataobject What is the correct format to assign the clipboard contents to a string Thanks ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. d3dx9d.dll

  Why do I keep getting an error box saying d3dx9d.dll was not found how do I fix that do i need to do somethink to the directx sdk after it is installed. dontknow wrote: I got a S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR 32Mb Graphics Prossesor. There's your problem. That card doesn't even really qualify as a 3D card. It's a "legacy" card on the S3 site (that thing is about 6 years old -- ancient in graphics years). ...Show All

• SQL Server Feeding an "IN" Clause

  I know I can supply an explicit set to an IN clause, or I can feed it with a select statement. What other ways in TSQL 2005 can I feed it One thing I'd like to do is feed an IN clause by calling a stored procedure. I'm new to TSQL, so I don't know if I can do that. I'd also like to know if there is a way to pass a variadic list of values as a parameter to a stored procedure, so that they can be used in an "IN" clause found in that stored procedure. I think the way to do that last item is by having a recordset parameter. Is that correct Any other way to do it You can use a static list of values for that: IN (3,4,5) HTh, Jens K. Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• SQL Server XML bulk load - mapping multiple times the same element

  I have 2 lines for "address" in my XML and 2 diferent fields in the database. When I'm trying to run my XML bulk load, it crashes and come out with the message: "Data mapping to column 'address' was already found in the data. Make sure that no two schema definitions map to the same column." Does someone have a clue about how to design the annotated schema to fix that follow the artifacts: XML: < xml version = " 1.0 " encoding = " utf-8 " > < root > < client > < name > anderson </ name > < address > 2, 44 queen st </ address > < address > auckland </ address > < dummy > hey </ dummy > </ client > </ root > ...Show All

• SQL Server Unicode T-Sql

  Helloo Is there a way so this query can work -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CREATE PROCEDURE test1 @search nvarchar(50)=null AS select c.cId, c.cCode, c.cDesc, c.cPresident, c.groupId, g.groupName from center c inner join CenterGroups g on c.groupId = g.groupId where c.cDesc like N@search + '%' GO -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Knowing that @search is parameter sent from vb.net application Plzzzzzz Help Try this.. select c.cId, c.cCode, c.cDesc, c.cPresident, c.groupId, g.groupName from center c inner join CenterGroups g on c.groupId = g.groupId where c.cDesc l ...Show All

• Windows Forms Change file ownership of an output file.

  My program generate a data file, (e.g .txt) What I want to do is RIGHT AFTER the file is generated, it will 1) change the file ownership to an admin account ( i have the admin username and password) 2) change the permission to readonly for everyone(domain user). This ways, I am sure the data file is safe and the data is correct. Thanks, Terrence I want to take the owner as well. So I do this. fSecurity.SetOwner( new NTAccount ( "domainName\\admin" )); However, I got this error message. "The security identifier is not allowed to be the owner of this object" Thanks. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista SqlWorkflowPersistenceService requires separate database per workflow

  Hello: Is it correct that SqlWorkflowPersistenceService requires one database with persistence tables (InstanceState and CompletedScope) per workflow I setup database for SQLpersistence for my one solution, which contained Ordering project and Workflow1 and I added following code as a part of my this project and it worked fine, application stored workflow state in SQL2000 database I just created. SqlWorkflowPersistenceService stateservice = new SqlWorkflowPersistenceService (connectionString); _WFRuntime.AddService(stateservice); I created another solution with another project containing workflow2. When I add above two lines of code, application did not persist information and gave me following error: System.Type ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro MDAC Rollback from 2.8 to 2.5

  I had a copy of Telemagic 5 (Contact Manager) on an old computer that had Windows 98 Second Edition. I have a new computer that has Windows XP and I installed Telemagic 5 on it, but I get the following error: MDAC 2.5 or later is not installed on this workstation. This component must be installed in order for certain options of Telemagic to function properly. Telemagic will now shutdown. When I click on OK, I get the following message: Microsoft Data Access Component 2.5 is already installed on the versions of Windows that you are running. When I check the version of MDAC, it shows MDAC 2.8 SP1. How do I rollback MDAC 2.8 to MDAC 2.5 so that I can get VF ODBC to run my program on my new computer with Windows XP Thanks, Is ...Show All

• SQL Server Copy and past tables

  Goodday Can anyone help please. I have made a database and need to duplicate the tables to represent new catogaries. The definitions in the tables will stay the same , just the table names will change. Is there a way to copy and past / duplicate tables without retyping all the definitions each time. Thanks Rob hi Rob, robhare wrote: Goodday Can anyone help please. I have made a database and need to duplicate the tables to represent new catogaries. The definitions in the tables will stay the same , just the table names will change. this does not seems to be a "good design" pattern... you should normalize your design where your main "object"' references another table for t ...Show All

• SQL Server How to store large chunks for binary data into the DB?

  From what I can see, the 'varbinary(max)' data type is not supported, and the 'image' data type is supposed to go away. Is there some other way to store large chunks (10MB to 100MB) of data into an SSEv DB If I have to use the 'image' data type to so this, does anyone have a code sample that would let me push an array() of numbers into an 'image' field, and unload an 'image' field into an array() TIA Pat ok but say i need to store an arbitrary large amount of data in a database and it needs to be only one file, what would you suggest ...Show All

• Windows Forms Container Control

  I have a user control containing a Panel. How do I make the panel a Container that the end user can contain controls in ...Show All