Neil Harper's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Irritating Flicker Upon Startup

  I've built a WinForms app in C#. The basic startup screen is similar to that of MS Word, albeit with a gradient blue background. I just added a Splash screen. It runs on a separate thread and simply displays a borderless form at the center of the screen. It fades in, the main screen appears behind it, and it fades out, leaving the main screen. That's all fine. But what's not is that the main screen now has an irritating flicker of sorts when it appears with the Splash screen in front of it. It never used to do this. What's causing this and how can I prevent it from happening Robert Werner http://PocketPollster.com Hmmm, interesting ideas folks. I first tried the 0.99 method but unfortunately this didn't f ...Show All

• Visual Basic Printing to a Dot Matrix in Text Mode...

  Hi all, Any pointers to printing from VB 2005 to a dot matrix printer using text mode, ie. not drawing using graph mode which makes printing a lot slower Need to print bills and invoices (just like we used to do in Clipper, pure text printing). Thanks, ST Check this thread for the necessary P/Invoke declarations, I'm not sure how reliable they are... ...Show All

• SQL Server newsequentialid

  HI Does anyone know if the sentence below from BOL means newsequentialid does not generate unique id on computer with network card we have a sql database that uses newid for several tables, I want to switch to newsequentialid to reduce page splits The GUIDs generated by NEWSEQUENTIALID() are unique within a particular computer only if the computer does not have a network card thanks Pauli Hi, see this article for more information: http://sqljunkies.com/Article/4067A1B1-C31C-4EAF-86C3-80513451FC03.scuk HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Windows Forms Distributing MDAC 2.8 in my VS2005 deployment project

  I have used VS2005 to develop a deployment project. I have included MDAC 2.8 and Windows Installer 2.0 as prerequisites to be installed. When a user runs this setup on his PC, running WinXP Pro, SETUP determines that it needs to install MDAC 2.8. The install log file shows that it is finding MDAC version 2.71.9030.0 on her system. The installation log shows that setup runs the following command line to install MDAC 2.8: ' "\Temp\mdac28\mdac_typ.exe" /q:a /c:\"dasetup.exe /q /n\" ' The next lines in the log say: Process exited with code -2147467259 Status of package 'Microsoft Data Access Components 2.8 after install is 'InstallFailed' This computer is a stand-alone machine with no network connections, ...Show All

• Visual Basic 2005 Compiler not recognising code changes

  Ok you guys, I know this is probably going to be something really simple so I apologise in advance. I've recently converted a vb.net 2003 solution to 2005. everything is great and I've got rid of my pre-compilation conversion errors and warnings etc and am reading to carry on development. My problem is this - in a sub project (which is referenced in the main solution by the sub projects DLL file, but I also change the source code for the subproject whilst in the main solution (hope that's clear!)), when I change or add to the source code (in the sub project) and start debug, or even rebuild the whole solution, the new code doesn't get picked up. I've tried putting a breakpoint in the code, and it doesn't pick it up, so i tried typing " ...Show All

• Smart Device Development rapi.AcitiveSync-another question

  How can i understand/control the failure of rapi connection from the code while developing a simple device application thanks... Before any remote application function, can I learn whether I am connected to system or not. For example , I am going to call CeCopyFile function, and before calling it I want to learn if I am still connected. Getlasterror() do not cover this problem I think. Is operating system do something automatically when connection is closed ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Custom Work Item - Rules

  hi all i have an question concerning the edit of xml files. i have to provide that the field completed work cannot be filled with a number which is less than the number already filled in. are there rules which i can include in the xml file to prevent that so, this should not happen: Field Old Value New Value Rev 4 5 Completed Work 6 3 thx riv Rules based on number comparisons like this cannot be done in v1 by changing work item type xml. You could create a UI plugin to do it, but it would enforce the rule only in UI and not in Object model. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error when viewing workitem details over web

  I have my build server runingnicely, but when an exception occurs, it creates an email to me with a link similar to the following: http://<tfsserver>:8080/WorkItemTracking/WorkItem.aspx artifactMoniker=283 However, clicking the link displays the message: "The given key was not present in the dictionary." I understand that this is probably a mis-configuration of the data warehouse data, but I'm unsure where to look. Can anyone offer suggestions as to where to look first I'm very sorry, you are right again. For me, it was important that I have the same problem "Error when viewing workitem details over web" and I've ignored fact that Tim Dallmann reported the problem in context of ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Excel Advanced filter critera Question...

  Hi Guys, Just a quick one here... use advanced filters all the time and usually with data containing over 30,000 rows. I don't know of any way to use criteria such as 'Not equal to' or 'does not contain' etc. This is available along with many other advanced criteria in the auto filter > custom filter however this only works with upto 1000 rows. Any ideas how i could implement these to my filters I am familair with the syntax used in porgramming like !== etc... Many thanks Hi Andy, yes thats what i am wanting to do but when i put <> into the cell it isn't recognising it   Do i have to add something to it   I type in for exampel <>*Mr* and it should filter out all entries tha ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem:long running validation when pointing OLEDB Source to a view.

  One of our developers has written a view which will execute completely (returns ~38,000 rows) in approx 1 min out of SQLMS (results start at 20 sec and completes by 1:10 consistently). However, if he adds a data flow task in SSIS, adds an OLEDB Data Source and selects Data Access Mode to "Table or view" and then selects the same view, it is consistently taking over 30 minutes (at which point we've been killing it). I can see the activity in the Activity Monitor, it is doing a SELECT * from that view and is runnable the whole time. If we modify the view to SELECT TOP 10, it returns in a short time. Has anyone run into this problem Any suggestions It is very problematic, as if the views change we have to hack around this problem. Thanks for ...Show All

• Visual C++ Creating MD5 hash

  Hello, i'm new in C++, i want to make console program for creating md5 has, you can enter string and from that string program would create md5 hash and display it on the screen. I have searched msdn library and i found MD5 class, but i don't uderstand it well, so can somebody give some tips or some sample code. Sorry for my bad english Nishant Sivakumar wrote: With 2003, you need to use the old-syntax. Here's some code to help you along (I ported the other poster's new syntax code to old syntax) that's it, code is runing good, that's i need it, now i can implement my code and i have class for md5, thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Protect my project code

  How can i protect my project in vb2005 express In vb6 you can lock project for viewing. I don't see anything like that in express and cannot find any thing in the help. Thank you, Jeff To do the job right you need to have a source code management tool...there are alot of open source and freebies out there but the MS solution is Visual SourceSafe http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718670.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) serviceModel/Bindings error

  I am testing a clickonce deployed, Internet app on newly installed Vista Ultimate and newly installed .NET 3.0, XP systems. The app tests fine on the development machine (XP, .NET 3.0) The error message is: An error occurred creating the configuration section handler for system.serviceModel/bindings: Could not load type 'System.ServiceModel.Configuration.BindingsSectionGroup' from assembly 'System.ServiceModel, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'. (C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Config\machine.config line 102) Any ideas Thanks John Jeff I opened an admin cmd window and navigated to the app clickonce install folder. Ran the app and got the ...Show All

• .NET Development Object Already Exists error when trying to sign an assembly using a pfx file

  Hi, I'm trying to sign my assemblies using a pfx file. This was working fine, until I changed the file I used to sign it (I used to sign it using xxxx.pfx, and now I'm signing it using another xxxx.pfx, so the name is the same but the file itself is different). When I point to the new file on the signing tab and build my solution, I am prompted for the pfx password. When I type in the pwd and confirm, I get the error message "Error Importing Key" "Object already exists". For me, it is not clear what is going on. Could someone clarify what I should do to avoid this problem. I already tried to apply the workaround suggested here http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-1325523.php , but to no avail. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Windows Services - Debug

  Hi all, I'm writing a simple Service that pings my website. Now I've done the "installutil.exe /i Service.exe". Then I go to Windows Services Manager, there I manually start the service. Now I want to debug the running service. I go to my VS--> debug --> attach to Process, where I find my process however it's gray and says managed as Type. And I cannot click attach.. What am I doing wrong Greets Hi, in the same dialog, check the "Show processes from all users" option - your service, probably running under the SYSTEM account, should appear in the process list and you would be able to attach debugger to it. Andrej ...Show All