pritha's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Horizontal table

  I have seen the blog article about creating  horizontal tables but it says that you need to have a static number of rows. Is there a way to do this if you have dynamic rows   I need for information to flow down the page and then start at top of the next column and then flow down again. I need 3 columns. Unfortunately, there can be very little or a lot of information in each section.  I need to do this: Contract 1                          Contract 4                         ...Show All

• Visual Studio Accessing parent project from invoked child project

  When a project calls msbuild on a child project - is there any way to access anything in the invoking/parent project Is there any way to determine the project filename, or anything about the parent project This could be either via the msbuild XML or from a custom task, ie via the object model. I've been looking at the object model and at the internal classes but haven't found anything appropriate. /marcus Will this work for BinariesRoot and SolutionRoot We are trying to call a child project so we can build some C# projects in the child project and put the binaries in the same output folder as some C++ projects that are built in the parent project. So far nothing happens when the child project builds and ...Show All

• Windows Forms Forms in different dlls needs to communicate

  hi, I am fairly new to Visual Studio (2005, c++) and I have a large application that needs to be ported to this plattform. Most of the application we need to rewrite from scratch (as it contains very bad code). But since this application is large, I need to devide it into several dlls (assemblies) and I also need to put forms in the dlls. I have tried to search the Internet for this, but I can't find out how the forms can communicate with eachother! Do you understand my problem Well, I have three dlls; A,B and C. In each dll I have one form AF, BF and CF. AF is a mdiparent and BF and CF are childs. This works and I can show them and operate with them, but I cant get BF and CF to send data to eachother. I tried to u ...Show All

• .NET Development timestamp

  Hello, I was hopeing if someone might be able to tell me what the datatype should be if I want to set hold the value of "timestamp" from a data record from a SQL Server 2005 database. I'm using VB.net. I want to use the field in a "update .. where timestamp = <old timestamp>" type of update statement. Thank you Hi, Thank you. So in this example ' timestamp' is actually the variable name I thought a byte datatype could only hold values from 0 to 255 Does dim timestamp (7).... make it an array of bytes thanks ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Libraries for Win Mobile

  Hi there. I've had some trouble with an application I'm working on. Hope you can help. See I'm using a library that uses sys/types.h library among others. Getting a missing library error I look for it and found it under vc/include but when I add the path to the additional include paths the following errors pop: Error C2084: function 'errno_t wmemcpy_s(wchar_t *,rsize_t,const wchar_t *,rsize_t)' already has a body altcecrt.h 375 Error C2084: function 'errno_t wmemmove_s(wchar_t *,rsize_t,const wchar_t *,rsize_t)' already has a body altcecrt.h 380 Error C2065: '_ALLOCA_S_MARKER_SIZE' : undeclared identifier malloc.h 194 Error C2664: 'wcsftime' : cannot convert parameter 3 from 'const char *' to 'const wchar_t *' atltime.h 402 Error C2 ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) DataContract versus Serializable

  Okay, I LIKE and PREFER Data Contracts versus Serializable. I have built and tested many scenarios and the tests work great and I like the level of control. Now I am looking at converting some existing functionality and am also looking at 'backwards' compatibility and the question I am going to ask does not seem to be clearly answered (at least where I looked). If I use the DataContract to establish serialization, what happens with non-WCF access to the class. Are classes marked with DataContract also Serializable I also noticed that DataContracts support .NET 2.0 featues like nullable types. If I add nullable types and they serialize fine for WCF - again - what happens with the class when it passed to non-WCF membrs that require ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Pocket PC Screen Size

  I've developed a pocket pc application which works fine on emulators, but when running on an o2 xda exec (larger pixel screen size) the screen sizes all halve, how can i get the program to run on all pocket pc's no matter what size of screen As far as I know, you must test the application on each device, and move UI elements around accordingly. However, you can minimize your work by docking/anchoring UI controls rather than setting absolute positions. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista wwf

  hi, i want to learn more about windows workflow foundation. i want to learn how to create a simple web form with wwf. can you help me... As of today, my Pro WF book by Apress is also now available. Bruce Bukovics http://www.bukovics.com Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 3.0 http://www.learnworkflow.com .NET 2.0 Interoperability Recipes http://www.interopbook.com ...Show All

• Visual Basic coding charts with data in datagrid: is there a good way?

  I have actualy posted something like this before but i think i asked the wrong questions....here the scenario: i have managed to make my app draw out data from an access file based on user input. my lecuturer have ask me to make the app able to generate charts on that data based on further user input. I realised that the data is now in the datagrid and no longer in access. There were some suggestions from this forum (thanks guys ) that the best way to go ahead with making charts is using the pivot table (note: i fully intend to use/intergrate axcel or execel features with my app) with some input from the user. is there any way of doing this without any complications my vb.net skills are quite rudimentary at best. From where i am ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Unable to Import System.Workflow in aspx.vb page

  this simple but I just cant make it out... Was wondering why I cant import System.Workflow in an aspx.vb file. I did add Reference to System.Workflow.Activities, .ComponentModel & .Runtime ... any clue thanks moredotnet Have you tried importing as System.Workflow.ComponentModel, or System.Workflow.Activities, as opposed to just the base namespace The only two assemblies you should require are System.Workflow.ComponentModel and System.Workflow.Activities. Thanks, Angel ...Show All

• Visual Basic text box help ...

  These are very basic questions, but im just starting out. Q1: How do i limit a textbox to only allow numbers to be entered in it, and, how do i limit a text box to only allow a certain amount of numbers in it, so that if the person doesnt enter the CORRECT amount of numbers, either below or over, an error is reported when they press the SEND button. Q2: How do i make it so that when my SEND button is pressed, it searches threw the text boxes, to make sure all the data is correctly entered, then displays this in a text box, that says "THIS IS THE DATA YOU ENTERED, ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO SEND THIS DATA" and if yes is pressed, it sends it, if no is pressed it stops, and lets them check over there data. Q3: How do i ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Can anyone help with video and clip path?

  I'm trying to display a video which is clipped by a text path. The effect I'm after is to display the moving video on the 'surface' of the text. Should be simple eh I see the text path but no sign of the video. The events attached to Window.Loaded and MediaElement.Loaded fire as expected, and the video is loaded. Can anyone help me get the video displayed Thanks Dave Arkley XAML and code-behind are: XAML < Window x:Class = " VideoText.Window1 " xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation " xmlns:x = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml " Title = " Video in Text " Background = " Black " Name = " my ...Show All

• Architecture What is Architecture and Who are Architects?

  In the software/IT industry the notions of "Architecture" or "Architects" are certainly not very well defined. The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) supports four groups of enterprise architects -- business architects, data architects, application architects, and technology architects. Microsoft Certified Architect program so far designed for two certifications (solution architects and infrastructure architects), and one more certification, messaging architect, is coming soon. Different companies use titles such as "Chief Architect", "Industry Architect", "Integration Architect", etc. Job recruiters announce "Web Architect", "Software Architect", and "Dat ...Show All

• Visual C# Getting started with Business objects

  Hi guys, i m trying to get started with Business Objects, but i m a little bit lost here.. hope you guys can help me out. So far all the tutorials i read on the internet just show you how to make an "employee" or a "product" class, coding that is very simple, and i don’t have any problems using them and even binding them to Windows Forms using BindingLins<T>, etc... i ve been testing it out and it works fine. But right now i m trying to make something that have some relations, and i cant figure out how i am supposed to do it, what i m trying to do is a simple "Order" class that is related with a customer and some products... something like: Order Customer Products So, could you guys help me out with this ...Show All

• .NET Development Forcibly resize a program problem.

  Hey, First of all, sorry if I am posting this is in the wrong place. I'm having a bit of a problem with something I am trying to do: I want to make an application that waits for a process to start. When it sees that this process is launched, it should forcibly resize the window of this application to new size. The reason why I want to do this is simple, this program, a game, in question only supports one size in windowed mode, 640x480. I find this silly since this game uses Direct3D for its graphics, so resizing the window would be very simple. So I'm trying to do this myself with C#. The problem I'm having is that after receiving the handle to the window I want to resize, and after resizing it, the actual viewport of the DirectX's r ...Show All