wirebarbed's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) What I would like to see in ADO.NET 3.0

  Hi; I think the following would be a gigantic help for a lot of people (all being standard calls so we do not have to write selects on a per vendor basis): Enumerate servers works for all ADO.NET clients (ie - it's a required feature). For a given server - enumerate all databases (schemas in Oracle's case). For a given database/schema - enumerate all tables, views, and stored procedures - can filter by user vs system ones. For a table/view - get all columns. Get an autocreated primary key from an insert. Create a connection string form standard parameters (server, database, uname/pw or truested). Run a script (to create a database, etc). The script would be vendor specific but being able to ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Activity.DesignMode true when initializing the workflow

  Hi all I am working on a custom Activity which implements switch functionality. I am going to implement validations which involve Reflection to check if the case value suits the switched object (binded to a workflow property). So I don't want those validations executed on runtime. I tried to place the validation logic inside an if(validatedSwitch.IsInDesignMode) block where IsInDesignMode just exposes the protected activity property DesignMode. But it appears that prior to execute the activity, WWF initializes it and meanwhile the DesignMode property returns True. And that is when the validator is called. Any ideas how to distinguish the [real] design mode from this [fake] one would be highly appreciated. Thanks. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista difference btn activitybind and workflowparametebinding

  In some examples, ActivityBind and WorkflowParameterBinding classes are used for binding properties. In some other cases, ActivityBind class is used to bind the properties. Can you explain when and why will use these two classes -Chakri. ActivityBind is used as glue to databind two activities' properties to each other. This is the way you can create a unified workflow from un-unified component parts (Activities) and still have those un-unified parts communicate. I think of ActivityBind as inter-Activity communication. WorkflowParameterBinding is specifically to bind values to a WorkflowParameterCollection. So it is intra-Activity binding (binding properties inside of a particular activity) - alt ...Show All

• Windows Forms Code released for .NET Terrarium?

  Does anyone know if the code for the Terrarium was ever released   Is there going to be a new one for .NET 2.0   Can you guys at least open source since it was pretty cool and I think there would be an audience for it if it were to be maintained and improved.     Check the website:  Terrarium  regularly, and hope they update it rapidly. :-) ...Show All

• .NET Development download a file from http -file type

  Is there any limition on the file type that can be download from http My program can download a doc, pdf, txt, html file from http. However, for some extension such as dwg, it will return a 404 error(file not found). Anybody know why And what I should use to download other type files. Ying ...Show All

• Visual C# Installing MSI in remote machine using WMI

  Hi, Scope: I've developed an application which install a MSI package on remote machine. For this, i used WMI. This application was developed on .NET 2.0. Problem: I'm not able to install MSI. I met one of the following error. Details: Consider the following case: Machine A: The application is running. Machine B: where the MSI file (eg: TestAppSetup.MSI) is placed. Machine C: target machine on which i need to install TestAppSetup.MSI A, B & C - Running Win2003 Server with WMI Installer Provider. S.No Scenario Test Result Return Value 1 Running application in A. MSI file in B. [Accessing this in UNC file path format] Target ...Show All

• Visual C++ Linking with release version of runtime DLLs in debug

  In the Visual Studio 2005 documentation it states: "If you include one of the Standard C++ Library Header Files in your code, a Standard C++ library will be linked in automatically by Visual C++ at compile time". This sounds reasonable enough. What I am trying to do is create an app that links to the release version of the C runtime DLLs while running in debug mode (including have _DEBUG) defined. This would allow us to provide internal end users with an executable that has significantly more debug information, while satisfying the requirement of using the Microsoft allowed redist for the runtime libraries and satisfy the WinSxS requirements. The problem that I am running into appears to be that because of the statement I cited to start w ...Show All

• Visual Basic Multi Text Boxes Validation and error provider

  Dear all, I don't know what is the problem with following code I'm using for validation. can any one solve this please It works for txtProdName only. Private Sub txtProdName_Validated( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles _ txtProdName.Validated,txtPrice.Validated,txtSize.Validated If txtProdName.Text.Length = 0 Then erpProductDataForm.SetError(txtProdName, "Required Field") ElseIf txtProdName.Text.Length > 0 Then erpProductDataForm.SetError(txtProdName, "") ElseIf txtPrice.Text.Length = 0 Then erpProductDataForm.SetError(txtPrice, "RequiredField") ElseIf txtPrice.Text.Length > 0 Then erpProductDataForm.SetErro ...Show All

• SQL Server Between + '%'

  helloo I have this table Id Code -- -------- 1 10101001 2 10101002 3 10102001 4 10102002 5 60101001 6 60101002 7 60102001 8 60102002 9 60201001 10 60201002 11 70101001 12 70101002 I need to query this table by the following (select id, code from table1 where code between '1' + '%' and '7' +'%') to get all values of codes between (code starting with 1) and (code starting with 7) or for example: (select id, code from table1 where code between '602' + '%' and '7' +'%') ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Im not getting correct answers or let be specific in the second query im not getting codes starting with 7, im only getting codes >= 602 but less that 7, so 7 is not incl ...Show All

• Community Chat .NET Web Browser Effort - First Preview!

  Hi Guys, A couple of months ago I started an opensource effort to create a Web Browser better than IE7 in .NET. So far its going GREAT, with a team of 3 including me. As of now, source code is not offered - it will be once I get it to a Beta 2 state. Also, if anyone would like to join the project please send an email to netwebbrowser@gmail.com or add mateuszrajca@msn.com to your MSN/Live Messenger contacts list(email is preferred) Here are some stuff you can help in: Write code(C#), fix bugs in code(C#), make sourcefourge web site, report bugs, optimize code(C#), make app more responsive, make installer, graphics (icons logos) and whatever else you can come up with! Download Now Preview 1! ~Matt ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can't Change the Update Action for certain objects in Schema Compare

  I don't know if this is by design or not, or whether I am doing something wrong, so any help will be greatly appreciated. I've imported an existing database schema into a new project. I then used the schema compare tool to identify differences between my project and another copy of my database. The comparison tool works fine, identifies all of the differences. The issue I am experiencing is that for certain objects (this happens for tables, views and sprocs) I am unable to change the Update Action from Create \ Update to Skip. For other objects (again, tables, views and sprocs) I am able to change the Update Action at will. I am not sure what the difference is between the objects whose Update Action can be changed and the one ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. What does creators club include right now?

  I'm a little puzzled about what the creators club actually includes, I've checked the FAQs and can't really find an answer. I have however managed to find the following: "The XNA Creators Club is available on Xbox LiveR Marketplace for $49 (U.S.) for a four-month subscription, or $99 (U.S.) for an annual subscription. Both subscriptions provide aspiring game developers with access to thousands of game assets from Microsoft and key partners such as Turbo Squid Inc., as well as white papers, specialized starter kits, samples and technical product support to help turn Your World, Your Game into a reality." I signed up for a year because it sounds like quite a good package, however there seems to be no information provided on ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Negative value from GameTime.TotalRealTime.TotalSeconds?

  Has anyone ever seen TotalSeconds return a negative I'm using the TotalSeconds to keep track of the last time a button was pressed and only allowing another action after .5 seconds. This seems to work well except I've seen a few times where the button seems to stop responding. This last time I set a break point and I saw that TotalSeconds was negative. Any idea why Here is the line copied from the debugger: gameTime.TotalRealTime.TotalSeconds = -52.562761099999996 "gameTime" is the variable passed into the Update() method. It happens consistently for me after just slightly over 5 minutes. If you continuously print the values out to the console for example, they don't make any sens ...Show All

• Windows Forms Datagridview won't sort when bound to array of objects in VB Express 2005

  Hi all, I'm a relative newcomer to Object Oriented Programming, and am currently using Visual Basic Express 2005. I have a class called sBid which exposes a number of public properties. I have an array called bidList() as sBid I have a dataGridView dgvBidList which binds to the bidList array. I have also tried binding via a bindingSource, but both seem to have the same effect. The DataGridView displays fine (although puts the columns in a strange order by default). However, I can't sort by clicking on columnheaders, even if I set a column's sort mode to automatic. What am I doing wrong I dont know anything about vb but I have this in C# DataGridViewColumn oldColumn = testtabelDataGri ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Need binaries for WAP in sources folder on build machine

  I am building multiple app types in one solution, one of them is a WAP. I have an Installshield project that combines them all into an install package. I have this working on my desktop with msbuild from the command line. It fails when I run it through TFS on our build server. Here is the reason… The WAP binaries are …\<project root>\PrecompiledWeb\... on my dev box. I have pointed my install project here with relative paths. On the build machine the install project is looking for all the binaries in the ‘Sources’ folder, but it is not there. The binaries are in the ‘binaries’ folder in ..\binaries\Mixed Platforms\Release\_PublishedWebsites\<product name>. I don’t mind it being here, but I need it to still be in the s ...Show All