Andrea Williams's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions some (n00b) questions

  ok sorry if it are stupid questions :( but atm theyre important to me :P 1) how do i create random numbers 2) im making a game atm and with the random numbers i want that everytime the number in the label changes(with a timer), there is a picture in the picturebox(so for example when nr1 is in the label i want a pict of a dog in the pictbox, when nr2 of a cat) without using whole time if label1.text is 1 then dog pict appears, if label1.text is 2 then cat pict appears... 3) is there maybe also some nice learning guide or something for C# (not the video one, i want to learn it at my own speed ;) (yes the video one goes to slow)) thx in advance well that was just an example, of course you wo ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem occurs when migrating a SQL Server 2000 database to a SQL Server 2005 server

  When I try to migrate a database on a SQL Server 2000 server to a SQL Server 2005 server with the Copy Database Wizard of the SQL Server Management Studio, I'm confronted with the following problem; Performing operation... - Add log for package (Success) - Add task for transferring database objects (Success) - Create package (Success) - Start SQL Server Agent Job (Success) - Execute SQL Server Agent Job (Error) Messages * The job failed. Check the event log on the destination server for details. (Copy Database Wizard) When I take a look at 'Event viewer' on the SQL 2005 server, the following error is displayed; InnerException-->An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server ...Show All

• Visual C# How to hide the first form when the application starts

  I have an application with a form, with two text boxes as an input of a username and a password. I would like to do that, if the user check a checkbox called "Remember me", at the start, the form isn't shown, but only the systray icon. I got the systray icon to work correctly, but i can't hide the form when the application starts. I tried to associate at the Form_Load event the code this.hide() or this.visible=false, but nothing, the form is still here. Can you help me there must be something causing it to still show even if you did this.Hide(). Are you meaning that you wish to save the setting next time the application starts up so if the user clicks "remember me", that it should hide the form the next time it shows up and ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to program to print this?

  I opened a text file which contained a greek character β (beta). I found that the hex value of this character is CEB2 but however, unicode value of this character in Character map is 03B2. Not sure why it is so but, I would like to know how to program in C# so that I can construct and print the beta character (CEB2) and write to file. Please kindly advice. Thanks and urgent How are you loading the text file to get the hex value for that character to be 0xCEB2 You'll have to use a font that has the lower-case beta character in it in order to print it. You can simply write the character to a file to save it, unless you want to use different encoding. ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to access the report server

  Hi Guys, After installing SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, I got the following errors: 1. When I tried to open http://localhost/reports/ , I got the following error message The report server is not responding. Verify that the report server is running and can be accessed from this computer . 2. When I tried to open http://localhost/reportserver/ , I got the following error message The report server has encountered a configuration error. See the report server log files for more information. (rsServerConfigurationError) Access to the path 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.3\Reporting Services\ReportServer\RSReportServer.config' is denied. Is there any clue for this technical problem Immediate resp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System switch between TFS and TFS proxy

  Hello, I'm not sure if this is the right forum. But i wonder if there is an easy way to switch between our configuration for TFS and that for TFS Proxy. We have 2 offices and I would like something that allows our developers to startup the vs.net using the correct settings taking into account the location they are. I was thinking of 2 shortcuts 1 which starts the vs.net without the proxy settings and than a second one that starts with the proxy settings. i really don't my developers to need to change the settings everytime they change office. Does any one have an idea on how to do this Dear Richard, thank you very much for this answer. as a result I've been able to develop my vs.net plugin that will a ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to handle failed logons

  Hi, With a secured service, what is the usual means of handling a logon failure Should I just catch an exception Should I define a separate unsecured Logon service that returns true / false depending on whether a credential set is valid And is there a way to detect whether a service proxy has successfully authenticated with the server Thanks, Kent When the server fails to authenticate using the client's credentials, it will throw an error back. The client should handle this in whatever way you think is best for your clients, such as handling it and putting the msg inside a label or some such thing. Maybe log an event. If the authentication (and authorization) is successful, then the method will s ...Show All

• Visual Basic Application attacking other users

  I have been writing an application which will control the amount of time a user has on the internet. Here is how it works...   It consists of 2 major components 1) USER INTERFACE, a completely separate application which allows the user to start and stop the program "access" (the second major component). 2) Access, another independent application which runs undetected but every .4 seconds kills any instance of all web browsers on the computer.   When the timer is on Access is not killing all internet browsers, when timer is off, Access kills every browser. If that user's time is paused and they switch users, If the other person is not an administrator, they can't use the internet because Access is on ...Show All

• Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) WPF/E Deployment

  Hello, I have created a WPF/E control that I am attempting to deploy.  I have successfully deployed the control locally.  However, I want to deploy it to a publicly visible server. A strange thing seems to be occurring.  I have validated, via javascript, that my wpf/e control is not null.  However, I attempt to access a wpf/e element via JavaScript using control.FindName("ControlElement") and the return value is null.  However, when I run the same code locally, I get the expected control. The item that is throwing me off is the fact that the wpf/e control is not null, however, I can't seem to access the elements of the control.  I have several questions, Does the hosting server have to have t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VB, VIDEO Streraming, BUFFERING AND PLAYING

  m the programer of Vb, i want to know how can buffer a video 3 sec before to play, code should buffer the data for 3 sec after my click to play button n then i want to display that buffered data after 3 sec gap i just want to play my playlist in VB where i dont want a gap when next clip gona play so 3 second before next clip, i wana hold next clip data in my buffer n then sudden first video file would be end i can display that buffer data without any single frame gap between them windows SDK, directX, or MCI wot is the basic i have to choose Thats what i want, can anybody tell me how it would possible Best regards ...Show All

• Windows Forms Removing focus from a text box

  i have a welcome textbox. it is multi lined, readonly and displays a message. Originally the whole text was highlighted. i removed this with this.textBoxWelcome.SelectionLength = 0; but the flashing cursor is still at the beginning of the text. i have tried giving focus to another control but the cursor remains. how do i go about removing the cursor Hi Speedie nice to see you on the forum again. You're going to get that cursor until focus advances to a control that can accept keyboard focus. It's Windows way of showing the user "You can type here" and is not the same as .net's concept of focus. Of course if you get real fancy you can over-ride the behaviour of just about everything -- but ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Working with classes

  Hi, I am learning C# and I am still little little confused about classes, methods... here is what I am trying to do: I have a class in seperate file. Inside that class I have a method . From that method I would like to change text property of label on my form . This form is generated with designer and is in different file and in different class but in the same namespace . Any suggestions Yeah I thought "description" like a recipe on how to create an instance of that type. You said at the begining that Form1 is type and to make it "real" I need to create an instance. But isn't Form1 already an instance (so it isn't just description/recipe/type) And the tricky part is that if I want to: ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to get ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames to work programmatically

  Hi everyone... For learning purposes I'm playing around with animation. One thing I can't get for the life of me to work is ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames. This should be relatively simple so I'm probably missing something. In the following code I'm simply trying to make a Storyboard that hides an "element" (which can be any FrameworkElement) after one second by updating its Visibility property. However it will not work. Any idea what I'm doing wrong I've only seen examples of keyframes in XAML but I believe I'm doing the same sort of things as all those. Help is appreciated! --- // Create the storyboard Storyboard storyboard = new Storyboard(); // Add keyframe to turn off from element visibility ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrame ...Show All

• SQL Server Relationships and constraints across databases

  (I wasn't sure which forum to pos this in. Let me know if you think there is a better one.) I have an application that breaks down into two sets of data, Set A and Set B, for our purposes. Both Sets currently reside in the same database. Set A is a fairly static set of data, changing maybe once a week, if not less often. Set B is empty at first but it has a lot of dependencies to Set A. Items are chosen from Set A to fill Set B but never the otherway around. Here is the problem. We continue to copy the "master" database whenever a new customer signs up. The problem is, anytime we have to update data on Set A we have to do it across multiple databases. Set B is never copied as its customer owned. What I would like to do is c ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Windows Forms and DirectX

  To use directx, you send it a winodw in the form of a control. Is there any other form type this will work with I want to have a windows form on one side, with a directx controlled draw space on the other. How would i go about doing this please Thanks, Mike How would I go about this sorry I do not understand how i would place one form into another., but this solution would be ideal. COuld you explain it to me please Im relatively new to windows forms as I mainly use it to just create a window and do the rest in directx. Unfortuneately, this approach is not suitable for my current project., but youre method sounds ideal. Thanks for the suggestion, Mike ...Show All