Symtex's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Menu strip troubles

  I keep getting the error that my frmOpen() is not defined. I'm going by the example in the help files and it doesn't show that it has to be defined. What is it asking for I've tried may different statements, Strings, Integers, etc but the error doesn't change. Can someone tell me what I should put in there Private Sub mnuOpen_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles mnuOpen.Click Dim frm As New frmOpen() frm.MdiParent = Me frm.Show() End Sub Could use the help. If you type this by hand in the sub, when you get to the second '.' (dot), intellisense will show you a list of valid form names. My .Forms.Form2.ShowDialog() ...Show All

• SQL Server Connection

  iam using an execute sql task ineed the connection to be daynamic ,changed at run time .. how can i do that Hi, The easiest way to set dynamic connection at run time is by declaring two SSIS variables 1. DBName 2. DBServer In connection properties open the "InitialCatalog" = "@[User::DBName]" and "ServerName" = "@[User::DBServer]".While running the package if you just set the value of variables dynamically the connection to the DB will be created accordingly. Using this connection in SQL task will server your purpose. This works with both OLEDB and ADO.NET connections. Thanks Mohit   ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL2005 Reportviewer source code

  I want to customize reportviewer toolbar. Anybody can tell me where I can find the source code reportviewer I have seen the SQL2000 version of reportviewer with source code. not SQL2005 version. Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Layouting problems

  Take the sample code of: /// <summary> /// A /// </summary> /// <remarks> /// B: /// /// <list type="bullet"> /// <item> /// <term> C </term> /// <description> D < description> /// </item> /// <item> /// <term> E </term> /// <description> F </description> /// </item> /// <item> /// <term> G </term> /// <description> H </description> /// </item> /// </list> /// /// </list> /// </remarks> public sealed class I {[...]} ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Rants on XNA 1.0

  This is my first reaction when I installed and tried the 1.0 of XNA. To summarize my feeling: it's still 95% for XBox and no nearer to replace the old MDX 1.0. So I decided not to migrate from MDX to XNA though I want to do that very much. I feel like MDX 2 more; amen to MDX 2. The hardest issue for me is the content pipeline, which is very necessary, but the workflow is fixed and it assumes the contents are only built before the program runs. The helper functions wrapping D3DX can only be used with types in the content pipeline. I have to utilize the full content pipeline just for generating something dynamically, of course with significant performance cost. Or I have to write those D3DX utilities my self. Currently I don't have a good id ...Show All

• Windows Forms creating typed dataset

  I wish to make a typed dataset in vs.net2005 which would derive columns from different tables in a single custom table. My queries are:- 1.Can we do so (I tried to do so using dataset schema designer but wan't been able to do so because it is one to one mapping of table represented on xsd vis a vis table in database.I am not sure whether this can be done using xml schema designer) 2. If yes, Can it be done programmmatically.I mean to asl whether instead on using any vs.net 2005 desiner , can we create a dataset programmtically and then can add one or more tables with or without columns from different database tables.Please provide me with some code on this Hi, Can you give an example of exactly wha ...Show All

• .NET Development Using == null on Nullable type

  I found using == operator to compare a Nullable variable with null always return false. Is it a bug on C# 2.0 Nullable<T> is a value type so is never null. It overloads the Equals() method: int x = null; if (x.Equals(null)) Console.WriteLine("It workz"); if (Nullable.Equals(x, null)) Console.WriteLine("This too"); Under the hood, Nullable.Equals() uses the HasValue property. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to generates app.config for Self Host with NetTCP transport?

  Hi Eveyone, I am leaning how to self hosting a service with NetTcp transport. I just want to know how to use SvcUtil.exe to generates the App.config file for client ( see server's app.config file at the end) Regards, Jdang <!-- App.config of Server application --> <system.serviceModel> <services> <service name="Company.Services.TestServices" behaviorConfiguration="DqServiceBehavior"> <host> <baseAddresses> <add baseAddress="net.tcp://localHost:8002/TestServices"/> </baseAddresses> </host> <endpoint address="" binding="netTcpBinding" contract="Company ...Show All

• SQL Server Backup and Restore using VBScript (ActiveX)

  We are trying to setup a central job server that will perform the backups, restores, and other automated tasks for all of our SQL servers. The goal is that we have one place to check the status of all of our jobs. I have a couple of problems, though. The first is that, to backup a database on a remote server, we are using VBScript as an ActiveX Script type of step. The script uses SQLDMO. The jobs mostly run fine, but there seems to be a problem with concurrent jobs running against the same server. For instance, I have 4 backup jobs that I kick off at 7:00PM. One of them (not always the same one) will fail with: Error Code: 0 Error Source= Microsoft SQL-DMO Error Description: [SQL-DMO]The application is busy. Error on Line 11. T ...Show All

• .NET Development System.Timers.Timer high resolution problem (C#)

  I want to use System.Timers.Timer in my project as a metronom with the resolution of approx. 1ms interval value. When i tried, it works fine up to 10ms, but below that value, it doesn't work. in my sample application, i am using a count value which increases every tick and when the count reaches the value of 100, i invoke a function which updates the label1. When i use the interval as 10, label1 updates every 1 second as expected but when i reduce the interval value, the time for updating the label1 doesn't decrease. For example, when i set interval to 1ms, it still takes 1 second to update label1. Does System.Timers.Timer allows interval below 10 Or is there any timer which does this in .NET framework PS: I didnt set the Syncroni ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro VFP6: Problem saving data

  Hi all The VFP database system is running in the server so that all the workstations can share it. The user complained that she could not save the data after amending. I tested to see whether I was able to save it on my side. It works successfully. I went back to the user’s workstation to verify it but still the same problem. I tried other workstations and found no problem so far. Assuming that there are a few possible causes: 1) Computer in the workstation is not maintained well. 2) Email virus will affect the database system if anti-virus software cannot detect it. 3) There is file caching problem in the workstation. The workstation will "hold" certain data and then release it to th ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Workflow Versioning on an automated build server

  I'm attempting to automate a build, and I'm having an issue with our Windows Workflow custom activities. I must confess I know little about Windows Workflow and I'm seeking some advice from others on how to approach this. It appears that an automated version incrementing task breaks the WF compile on the custom Activities with errors such as: C:\projects\Workflows\Workflow.xoml : error WF278: Activity 'SendException' validation failed: Property 'InterfaceType' is not set. C:\projects\Workflows\Workflow.xoml(4,5) : error 347: Could not deserialize object. The type 'XXX' could not be resolved. After I did a find/replace on the 'Version=1.0.0.0' tag within the XOML file with the newly incremented "Version=1.0.0.1" tag, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Move to cell in previous row?

  I need to write a code to move to a cell in the previous row. I have looked at (offset) , (currentcell) & (currentcelladdress) but i can't quite get the hang of it. This is what i have so far in a button click event:      Me.MaintableDataGridView.CurrentCell.Selected = False      Me.MaintableDataGridView.Rows(0).Cells(0).Selected = True This works great but i just want to move 1 cell up, not by coordinates. Is there some way to utilize code to mimic the arrow keys (sendkeys, etc...) Any help would be great.  Thanks Jeff This is what i have: Public Class Mainform Private RowIndex As Integer Private ColumnIndex As In ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Tool for converting animated GIFs to spritemaps/bitmaps

  I basically wanted a tool to convert animated GIFs into a bitmap so that I could use the bitmap in a sprite.  I couldn't find one, although I'm sure they do exist. In the end, I created one myself.  Please feel free to download it.  There's a link on my blog at http://blog.dunnhq.com . If you know of any other tools that do this, could you let me know Cheers, Steve Dunn. Paintshop pro comes with an animator product that lets you open animated gifs and open one of the frames in Paintshop. Once there you can do anything you like with it. ...Show All

• .NET Development Visual Basic Script Change a "fixed value" for a "variable Value"

  I would like to create a rectangle in Adobe Illustrator, but I would like the value to be variable Set rectPath = pathItemsRef.Rectangle (50,70,100,200) Exemple: the value "50" to be replace by a value link to another document ...Show All