robinjam's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Connecting to Access via the wizard

  I was attempting to use a DataGridView and am having troubles connecting to an Access Database. I'm running the Data Source Configuration Wizard. I get to Choose Your Data Connection. I click New Connection. I click Change. I select Microsoft Access Database File. I click OK. Here is where my problems start. My box says Add Connection. In it is a field to enter a Connection String. It also has 3 buttons -> Test Connection, OK, Cancel. And it has a disabled Advance button. I have 2 computers that show this. 2 other machines display what I expect. The box says Add Connection. It has the Change button that I clicked previously. It has the Browse button to search for my Database. It has the 3 buttons and disabled Advance butt ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System No Update Deployment in Configuration List

  I'm using CTP5 and trying to do an Update Deployment build to create a sql script with only the changes I made. When I display the properties for the project and click the Build tab, I notice that the Configuration list shows "Active (...)" but does not have any other entries in it. I expected to find Update Deployment in the list. Do I need to create configurations or is there a problem Yes the notes are correct. We'll have our help docs updated shortly. mairead PM, TS Data ...Show All

• Windows Forms run time error (book1.xls) invalid attachament type but works when continuied

  I have a vb app that creates a xls book1.xls and then sends an email and attaches book1.xls then goes and then goes to the next customer and drops book1 and creates a new book1. my problem is that during the run (200) customers i get an error at this point Dim oAttch As MailAttachment = New MailAttachment(sfile, MailEncoding.Base64) but i click continue and it still attaches book1.xls and will loop through 10-20-30 customers then pop the error again I press continue it my go to the end of the list or it may go 1 - and pop again then i click continue it attaches book1 and rusumes is there a way I can check for a specific error code error code -2147467259 and just tell it to contiinue I have ...Show All

• SQL Server Error after migrating to SQL Server 2005

  I'm trying to migrate MS Access 2003 query into SQL Server 2005 view. I'm getting error for the following query. ERROR: Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'LEFT' MS-Access query: SELECT tbl.*, tblP.ParticipantLastName, tblP.ParticipantFirstName, tblP.ParticipantAmount, tblP.SocialSecurityNumber, tblP.Comment FROM tbl LEFT JOIN tblP ON tbl.AutoNumber = tblP.RecordNumber WHERE ToBeProcessed='YES' and [Cancel]=0; SQL Server View: CREATE VIEW dbo.[qryReport] AS /* * Generated by SQL Server Migration Assistant for Access. * Contact accssma@microsoft.com or visit http://www.microsoft.com/sql/migration for more information. */ SELECT tbl.*, tblP.ParticipantLastName, tblP.ParticipantFirstName, tblP.ParticipantAmount, ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Video card question:(

  I have gotten interested in C# and XNA so I started reading up on it and watching tutorials. I have been doing this for about 3 days and I understand it slightly when it comes to reading it. So I started making Pong for my first game to hopefully tie some different aspects together for me, I had an error during debuging and says you need a a vid card that has Directx 9 and shader model 2. Do I necessarily need a better card to continue or am I screwed I currently have onboard graphics and it can barely run N64 games. I could be wrong but I believe XNA requires at minimum a video card that supports DX 9.0 and a minimum of Shader Model 2.0. You probably will need a new video card, the on-board vide ...Show All

• Visual Studio Report without as Datasource

  I wont to create a Report without a Datasoure and set the Datasource in the code. This steps i make 1. Create a Report -> Report1.rdlc 2. Create a simple Textfield to fill -> name ID ..-> Value = First(Fields!ID.Value) 3. Save the Report ... without a Datasource .. 4. Create a Form with a Reportviewer -> Reportviewer1 in the Form1-Load Sub i put the following Code: Dim ds as new Dataset () --> PersonalDataset <- This dataset/Datatable has the column ID with the’Value 11 .... fill the dataset ...... ds.DataSetName = "MyDS" ; Me .ReportViewer1.LocalReport.ReportPath = "Report1.rdlc" Me.ReportViewer1.LocalReport.DataSources.Add( New Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ReportDataSource( "My ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Xbox360 to PC Comparison

  Does anyone have an idea what performance I can expect from the Xbox360, I am writing my game purely for the console because I dont want to have to write a load of code for dealing with different spec machines (throttling the number of creatures, etc) and different types of input. The game I am porting is this (original is in vb.net and MDX) - http://www.entombed.co.uk I have managed to port the models, parrallax occulsion mapping shader and per pixel lighting. But I dont know how the Xbox360 is going to perform. My PC is this spec ( cr@p ish) - Intel P4 2.4 (400 FSB) ATI X800 XT PE 768 MB AGP x4 I am receiving an excellent frame rate from my PC and wondered what I should expect from the console, will it be twice as quick or mo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Platform SDK

  What does the "Platform SDK" contain that would make it valuable or necessary, if I already have Visual Studio 2005 Professional Right now the only thing I'm aware it "uniquely" contains, is DirectShow. Ok, so if I'm making a DirectShow application, I'll need to install the DirectX SDK and the Platform SDK. But other than that, I don't know what I'd need it for. Is there a web site that lists explicitly the contents of the Platform SDK - particularly pointing out what items in it are unique - not available elsewhere Very good. Thanks for validating my vertigo about the naming convention for the SDK. Chronological is much more intelligable. Although that "web install" version doesn't at all behave t ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA Game Studio Express will not install

  I have installed Visual C Express but I am still getting the error telling me that the install is required... I've done it... how do I fix this Thanks "... Visual C Express..." There is no Visual C Express. It's either Visual C# Express or Visual C++ Express. Are you sure you have installed Visual C# Express and not the other one ...Show All

• SQL Server i have a practice!

  create a table and name it Salary Information. Add an Employee Name and Salary column to the table. Create a column in the Employee table and name it Salary. Create a trigger that updates the Salary table with the employees's name and salary each time u insert data into the Salary column of the Employee table. I tried but it didnt work! Pls, help me! Thanks man, but i would like to let you know, if you find the suitable answer, please mark it as ANSWERED, so that others can have the view of the problem, whether its been sorted out or not Thanks. Gurpreet S. Gill ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions auto yes security alert

  in my program when i go to a site it comes up with security alert this is what it says "You are about yo be redirected to a connection that is notsecure. The information you are sending tot he current site might be retrandsmitted to a nonsecure. Do you wish to continue " Now in my help i say that to use the program yoiu need to hit yes and that you have to understand that it is not secure. so is there a way to just have it click yes all the time once the person is aware of it What you are asking is to change the behaviour of another program - Internet Explorer. Not only that, you want to bypass a very important security message. There are several problems with doing this, but ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file " ?.exe"

  I made a project that was Win32 Project for Visual C++ in VS2005. It had codes that was made by wizard and I don't select any option. I built it. but I found error - fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file " .exe". It's setting was correct. Output File : $(OutDir)\$(ProjectName).exe recently, this job was success but I setup VS6.0 and DirectX SDK Summer 2003. Visual C++ 6.0 is no longer a supported product. Please read this link about upgrading C++ , as well as this link about linker/compiler issues . ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) RichTextBox How To!

  Hi, I have searched the net and the documentation that shipped with Beta 2 and have not found any results or information that was able to aid me.  Hopefully there are some RichTextBox experts that could please help me with the following things: How can I make the RichTextBox single line   (this was possible in Win32, and no, changing the control template to a textbox does not work!  Because then it essentially is a textbox!) Why is it so difficult to control drag/drop operations in both the textbox and RichTextBox   I would like to control over what is dropped onto the textbox, for instance if images is dropped or texted I would like to be able to Is it possible when doing a drag/drop operation, I de ...Show All

• SQL Server Reading Data at specific interval

  Hello there I'm having data store in database at interval of 2sec. hence if i read data for 1 week(7days) it returns me huge amount of data so what i want to do is to read data at some varying intervals e.g 30 sec or 50 sec for perticular datetime range Please tell me suitable query to have such selected data base Thanks in advance AVD Implement a paging solution which includes Server paging only pulling those values that are actually need by the client. More information can be found on various sites: http://www.google.com/search q=sql+server+paging+&meta = HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development Alternatives to IELaunchURL: use CoCreateInstance to create a WebBrowser object running in Protected Mode?

  Originally posted in this thread , but got no response after 5 days. Sorry for the long-windedness, but I'm getting desperate for some answers. I'm revising an existing application for Vista-compatibility. This application makes extensive use of the IWebBrowser2 interface and IE to display web pages, primarily from the company's own site (like an about page), but it could potentially navigate anywhere. The app is written in C++ and runs at medium integrity level (medium IL is required for most of what this app does). The problem occurs when the app navigates to a URL in a zone that requires IE Protected Mode. Because my app runs at medium IL, the WebBrowser object I obtain via CoCreateInstance is in an instance of IExplore.exe runnin ...Show All