Ganesh sethuraman's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Blog Auto Poster for MovableType Blogs

  Hi, I want to create a simple vb app that can automatically post articles to my MovableType blogs. Simply put, I want to store my articles in a directory on my computer and for the app to check the directory twice per day, and if there are any articles their, then post them to the relevant blog. But, where do I start in writing such a program - I'm familiar with vb, but could do with some help and sample code. Obviously, it involves multiple form filling, so some help here would do.. Many thanks. There are tons of samples and tutorials on the MSDN site... I would start here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/code/101samples/ ...Show All

• Visual C# query regarding system time

  hi how to get the current system time and date in visual c# i used SYSTEMTIME stime = new SYSTEMTIME (); GetSystemTime( ref stime); but what does GetSystemTime contain Is this correct or is there any way of doing it you should use DateTime.Now which gets the current datetime, is this not what you are after MessageBox.Show(DateTime.Now.ToString());   you can also format the way the datetime string should be shown: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/97x6twsz.aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx   ...Show All

• Architecture Still unclear on how to use Typed Datasets in BLL...

  OK, I have decided to use typed datasets in my data access layer (DAL). So, my question is, do I really need to create a business logic layer (BLL) From what I have read, you can extend the dataset classes in the DAL using partial classes and place business logic there. Doesn't this combine the DAL and BLL into one component Or is there something I'm missing Do you create the BLL and start by referencing the DAL project and inheriting the classes from the DAL and extend the classes there I don't get where one ends and the other starts. OR, if it really makes a difference. ...or do I even know what I'm talking about... Background: VB 2005, Winform app, expertise level: intermediate+, small application audience, single develo ...Show All

• SQL Server Schema Ownership

  Hi, I have this user that was given ownership of a couple of schema's and now I want to delete the user but an message appears saying I need to transfer ownership before doing so. The boxes that where ticked in SQL Server won't untick so how do I go about removing ownership of the schema and which user would of had ownership prior, it would have been the inital default user. Anyone...please... All objects, including schemas, have to have owners. If you could just delete the owner of the schema, it would no longer be owned by anyone and the security functionality relating to ownership chaining would stop working. So before you can drop the owner, you have to assign ownership of the schema to another user. You can do this ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. if (XNA < DirectX) { drool; } .... DirectX or XNA?

  I have been wanting to develop a game for a while now, and I am finally getting all my technologies together. Basically, I want to create a simple RTS that models that of starcraft because I am a major fan of that game. The problem is, I can not seem to decide if XNA will be able to do what I want it to do, or will I have to move to DX9c. I want to have multiplayer support as 1 of my big things, since the best thing about Starcraft is it's multiplayer, and I see that XNA does not have support for that sort of thing and certainly not an easy way to implement it. If you have any suggestions I would appreciate them, thanks. PS: My C++ skills are absolutely terrible, so I would probably have to learn C++ to use DX9c unless you can ...Show All

• .NET Development make an internet dialer in c#.Net

  hello all, I am to make an application using C# .Net which automatically dials the isp(internet service provider) and connects to internet. If the internet disconnects, it redial again automatically and reconnect. It is totally new taks as I am working in web page developement and have almost no idea of such tasks. Please help me and assist me. Thanks to all indeed, This is called a RAS dialier which is used to connect to ISP server. There is no such class in FCL which provides you to develop a RAS dialer directly but this can be done easily using Win API ras32.dll. I have developed such Dialer in C# using P/Invoke and ras32.dll from windows API in one of my project which had to dial and connect to different computers ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Excluding Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook.dll

  I'm building a WM5 app that doesn't reference the PocketOutlook dll directly but it's always included in the output of the project when it is built. Is this assembly required or might another dependency be referencing it I'd like to exclude it to cut down on the size of the package if possible. Thanks. This DLL is in ROM on WM 5.0 device, it should not be in your package (CAB file) even if you actually use it. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Datagrid View

  Morning all, need help with the datagridview component. I have 5 Columns: QTY / ITEM ID / DESC / UNIT PRICE / TOTAL. How can I make this do the calculation QTY*UNIT PRICE and put the result in the total column, Then add all the totals from the datagridview and display in a textbox on form1. I look at it and that was a silly question what I asked lol. thank you for the reply ReneeC I have had to modify the code as TextBox1.Text = total.ToString because the csngl statement didnt work. One last question Please if anyone can help On my calculation if I enter 22.40 it will only show up as 22.4 is there a datatype I can use that will keep all 0's after the decimal place. Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I select rows in DataGrid with values

  Hi, How can I select all rows on tableviewgrid However, I don't want to select a new row i.e: colunm1 | column2 ------------------------------ 1 | 'xxx' 2 | 'ddd' * null | null -> new row When I use selectall(), new row is always selected, but I don't want. How do I select rows with values cheers, SelectAll will of course select all the rows, even if no data is there/new row. why dont you, when processing the selected cells, check to see if the last row contains data and if not then skip it and do the rest of your process request i will see what I can come up with - not thinking the usual self at the moment!   ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Insert image with dlinq

  I want to do the following var qry = from c in db.Customer select c; foreach ( var cust in qry) { cust.Photo = pictureBox1.Image;// won't compile why }; isn't this the way it should work cust.Photo.PropertyType = System.Byte[] cust.ServerType = image the compilation error is : Error 1 Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Drawing.Image' to 'byte[]' the type of picturebox1.image is not definied yet, it will be loaded at runtime, will be a bmp ...Show All

• Windows Forms Properties.Settings.Default.Save() folder

  How can I determine or change the location that Properties.Settings.Default.Save() will save my user.config file.  Everything I have seen says it will be stored in a folder based on my application name but in my instance it's including my companies name as well and I cant figure out where it is getting that info from.  I would like to store all my local data in the same place so I want to know where the data will be stored so I can save other stuff there as well.  For example; I have a winform project named XYZApp which generates XYZApp.exe. AssemblyInfo.cs contains the following: [assembly: AssemblyTitle("XYZApp")] [assembly: AssemblyCompany("Software Company International, Inc.")] [assembly: AssemblyProduct("XYZApp") ...Show All

• Windows Forms ClickOnce application read data from cd rom

  I have an app that is meant to run from a CD as I do not want to copy the contents to the users pc. If I use click once to deploy, it checks the prerequisites, which I need it to do, but then runs from the Cache. This causes problems as all the materials I need the app to access are on the CD. How can I tell the app after the click once has run, where it was installed from, so it can read the folders and files on the cd Or is there a better way to run an app from a cd and check that .net is installed!!! ...Show All

• SQL Server Combining Peer-to-Peer Transactional Replication with Standard Transactional Replication

  Hello, I'm interested in combining the Peer-to-Peer Transactional Replication and Standard Transactional Replication to provide a scale out solution of SQL Server 2005. The condition is as follows: We may have 10 SQL Server 2005 (1 Publisher + 9 Subscriber) running transactional replication in the production environment and allow updates in subscribers. To offload the loading of the publisher, we plan to have 2 Publisher (PubNode1 and PubNode2) using Peer-to-Peer Transaction Replication and the rest 8 subscribers will be divided into 2 groups. The subscribers 1-4 (SubNode1, SubNode2, SubNode3, and SubNode4) will be set to be standard transactional replication subscribers of PubNode1, and the rest 4 subscribers (SubNode5, ..., SubNode8) wi ...Show All

• SQL Server Failed to Start Package

  Hi, I am getting the following error message, when I was trying to execute an existing SSIS Package which was working properly before. "Failed to Start Package Cannot communicate with the debug host process. Failed to obtain child process active object. (Microsoft.DataTransformationServices.VsIntegration)" So I tried creating a new package and execute it, still I am getting the same error message. If anyone have come across this problem and rectified it, pls let me know. Thanks in advance for your help. Regards, Prakash Srinivasan Looks like installation of DtsDebugHost.exe (this is the host process used when you debug packages in BIDS, and it is the one mentioned in ...Show All

• Visual Basic Listview remove multiple items

  I everyone... i've got this code to remove all selected items in a listview... but i like to know if there is any more simple code to do this ... My code: Dim i As Integer With frmMain.FeedsList For i = 0 To .Items.Count - 1 Try If .Items(i).Selected = True Then .Items.RemoveAt(i) i = i - 1 End If Catch End Try Next End With Thanks Often creating small projects with a few lines of code to test a principle is the way to go - it avoids a lot of confusion with other code an sticks immediately to the point in question. You can iterate through either the items and check if its selected before removing them or simply iterate throu ...Show All