Keith Hill's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Mobile development Certifications

  Hi , I work for a software concerrn for 1.5 years in mobile applications for smart phone. my platform is .net and i want to do certifications, i am confused in selecting what kind of certifications to undergo...........pls some one help me out in this......... There is a sticky thread in the General Forum that states there;s a BETA one in place... http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=719777&SiteID=1 Thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server problems in sql server 2005 installation

  Hello everybody Ok the problem is that i have sql 2000 in a computer with windows 2000 professional sp4. i'm trying to install the sql server 2005 in other instance. When the installation begins i don't have any problem, but when it ends, y try to enter to the manage studio and is not in the start menu. Sql 2000 is ok but i can't work in 2005 i reinstall both versions but the problem persist. I delete all the files in the instalation but when i install it again the problem apperas again. how can i install both versions Well when i tried to install the sql server 2005 my windows 2000 have SP4 and all the prerequisites that are necessary to do it. The problem is that the sql 2005 instance is having problems o install. I can't ge ...Show All

• .NET Development XML scheme that causing crashing of the dataset

  When i am converting a XML having the following elements in the body: <ROOT> ... <ITEMS> <ITEM attr1="value" attr2="value"/> <ITEM attr1="value2" attr2="value2"/> </ITEMS> ... </ROOT> to dataset an artificiant key is created for the table ITEMS which connects it to the table ITEM. However, when i continue working with the dataset it display an error than a constraint is missing. What is a correct way to handle such XML in the dataset in the condition i want to be able to work with tables in the type-safe manner (.NET 2.0) and see them in the design time Hi Minherz, Initially I think you should design your dataset visually. That means create the objec ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 SP1 NOT upgrading.

  Hello All, I'm running Windows XP SP2 and I had SQL Server 2005 running on my box. I needed to run the SP1 upgrade but it doesn't seem to work. I ran Windows Update and the list showed I need to install SP1 and it looked like it ran fine but when I checked the version after the upgrade it hadn't upgraded to .2047. I went back to Windows Update and it said I still needed SP1. So I tried downloading SP1 and running it myself still no luck. So then I decided to uninstall SQL Server 2005 completely, reinstall it and try the SP1 again (using Windows Update) and nothing in fact I'm now getting the error... "Error Code: 0x2BC4" ...which I haven't been able to find anything on. Does ANYONE have any ideas on what might be happeni ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Which notebook with Vista pre-RC1 array mic support? I like to test speech recognition feature

  Will HP DV5230 or DV2050 or DV8380 or V3010 work best place to ask would be over at the appropriate communities: www.microsoft.com/communities http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/community/default.mspx remember, Windows Vista is still under development and there will be some issues. If the notebook has a "Windows Vista capable" sticker, you are set to go however this is unlikely as of course, its not given to the manufacturers for them to test out etc... not until perhaps after the pre RC1 until the systems are built for compatability for Windows Vista. At this time - it's hard to say since its still under development. If the notebook has a strong enough CPU (2GHz+) and about 1GB o ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Linq: Performance Issue

  Fellow explorers, I ran a test the other day on the performance of certain aspects of Linq. I had an object Office with Id and Name properties and then created a List<Office> with a bunch of random instance of these objects. Then I wrote 3 finders to look for all the objects with Id > 10. Simple stuff. The for test: List<Office> os = new List<Office>(); for (int i = 0; i < offices.Count; i++) { if (offices .Id > 10) os.Add(offices ); } The foreach test: List<Office> os = new List<Office>(); offices.ForEach(delegate(Office office) { if (office.Id > 10) os.Add(office); }); The Linq test: IEnumerable<Office> m ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions ??? making sense out of log files - I need some help

  OK here goes it, it's my first post and I'll start with 2 questions, sorry... these are the log files I have: Sep. 07,2006 08:08:13 ***** Start Sequencer Control Window Ver.1.49-7.5 Aug. 19, 2005 ***** Sep. 07,2006 08:08:13 USE TEMP. - VOLT. TABLE=1 , USE VOLT. OF HEAD INFO.=1 Sep. 07,2006 08:08:13 HEAD VOLTAGE No.1= 25.0 25.0 25.0 25.0 25.0 25.0 25.0 25.0 Sep. 07,2006 08:08:13 HEAD VOLTAGE No.2= 25.0 25.0 25.0 25.0 25.0 25.0 25.0 25.0 Sep. 07,2006 08:08:13 Head,Axis = FFFFC Sep. 07,2006 08:08:13 FIX data 40 400 10 255 0 40 Cartridge=1 600dpi FIFO=1 ----- Sep. 07,2006 08:20:08 [MAIN]switch ON Sep. 07,2006 08:20:40 Unit 1 - 1 4 00100100 00652985N264 00A773 Sep. 07,2006 08:20:40 Unit 1 - 2 4 00010010 00632862N262 00A717 Sep. 07,200 ...Show All

• SQL Server Triggers (delete)

  Hi, I have a parent table (Projects) and few child tables (Project invoices, Project Sub-consultants, etc). Typically, 'Projects' table contain details about projects. Other child tables contain specific information about a particular project, like invoices, details of sub-consultants, etc. I introduced a 'After Delete' trigger in parent table, which should delete all rows in child tables, at once the row is deleted in parent table. The code I have used is as follows: Declare @PID char(8) -- Project ID SET @PID = (Select ProjNo from Deleted) BEGIN delete from ProjInvoice where ProjectID = @PID END Now, when I delete a row in parent table and see the child tables, only the particular field says 'NULL' and all other field remain ...Show All

• Visual C# How to Switch between two forms

  Hello Everyone, I have two forms, first one is the login screen and second is the one where the main stuff happens... Say LoginScreen and MainScreen two forms.... If user enters the correct password I want the application to take the user to MainScreen from LoginScreen -- This works But when from MainScreen I close the application it doesnt close completely.....It wants that LoginScreen should close the application............ How can I do that.... Thanks, Harsimrat Normally, the startup form needs to be closed for the application to exit. A couple of ways to fix it, perhaps it is easiest when you just display the LoginScreen from the MainScreen's Load event with ShowDialog() and ...Show All

• Visual Basic How Can I Determine What Link The Mouse Just Clicked?

  I'm trying to create a download manager, however i don't know how to tell if the mouse just clicked a link that doesn't tell the webbrowser to go someplace. I need to know this so that i can tell the program that when this happens, to start asking to download. Could someone please help me If someone is willing to, do you need some more information ... i didn't really understand what you said, but then again i am a real n00b at this. only started a month or so ago but, ahmedilyas' advice worked. i can now experiment with it thanks anyways! ...Show All

• .NET Development [Question] Encrypt with Private key (Not Sign)

  Hello,   This maybe the stupid question, but I wonder I can encrypt a message with sender's 'Private key' not public key. Of course this is 'Sign'. But I wonder is there any way the 'Receiver' can decrypt the message with his/her public key and 'see' the original message. (Not just verify).   It maybe basically impossible, but I don't know. So please tell me whether it is possible or not.   Best regards. Just in case someone who knows how to do this ever stumbles across this, I will add "I also want to do this!". I know that normally you want to encrypt with public and decrypt with private, and that normally makes more sense, but we want to do it t ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista "Unidentified Publisher" although signed / makecert / signtool / UAC

  Hi everyone, I'm trying to get rid of the embarassing UAC "An unidentified program wants to access your computer" dialog box popping up when one of my programs is started over a network. I'm testing on Windows Vista Ultimate. Before I'm spending dollars for a real software sign certificate, I want to make sure everything works. For this, I - created a test certificate with makecert - signed my exe with this certificate using signtool - imported makecert's root certificate into my trusted root certificate store - checked that my exe is correctly signed in the "Digital certificates" tab of the exe's property pane The exe is a plain Hello World program which additionally tries to create a file under %sysvol% ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I edit a record in my db ? and an other question

  Hi all, please how can i edit a recoed in my table second Question: what is the deifferent between declaration using Public and Public Shared Thanks To update a record you need to use an update query, for instance: myCommand.CommandText = "Update [table] ([records]) Values ([values]) Where [filter parameters]=[some value]" So coded for a database, it would look something like this: myCommand.CommandText = "Update sto_Employees (ID, Address) Values (@ID, @Address) Where ID=" & combobox1.selectedvalue What I am showing here is that I want to update the sto_Employees table's ID and Address with the parameters @ID and @Address where the sto_Employee's ID is equal to the selected value of a co ...Show All

• SQL Server Programmatically Data Conversion component creation

  Hi there, I have created a package which simply imports data from a flat file to a SQL Server table. But I need to incorporate a data conversion component by which I may change the source-destination column mapping programmatically. So what I thought that I need to add a data conversion component into the dataflow task. After adding this component (I found its component id as {C3BF62C8-7C5C-4F85-83C3-E0B6F6BE267C} ) I have created a path which establishes the mapping between output columns of source component and the input columns of data conversion component. Now I am not sure how to establish the mapping between the data conversion component’s input column collection and output column collection. I am giving my code snippet her ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem with service of the SQL server 2005

  Hello, I have a problem: I accede to the SQL server 2005 having installed the SQL server locally but it does not allow me to initiate, to stop nor to reinitiate the service, that only happens to my user, however with another one if it allows. the network is with work group, that podria to be thanks for its attention You need to log in to your computer as a member of the Windows Administrators group to start or stop the SQL Server service. When you are logged in as an administrator, you can use the SQL Server Configuration Manager tool to start and stop the service or change service startup properties. ...Show All