Santhosh Pallikara's Q&A profile

• Visual C# a dumb string question on split

  Ok I know this is stupid, but im doing this: [code] name.Split(' ', 3, StringSplitOptions.None); [/code] and its thinking to use the overload of params[] char seperator. I want it to use the split(char[]seperator,int count,stringsplitoptions) overload. Its telling me it cant convert the int 3 to a char. Either that or Im just doing something really stupid. How does intellisense and compiler know difference between params[]char, and char[] since both are arrays of chars One seperate question. If split returns an array with 2 things how do I increase it to 3 things besides copying it the compiler tries to find the closer method declaration you are trying to use just as reference - ' ' - this is char, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Checkin Policy Order

  I'm wondering if anyone has come across a way by which to control the order that the checkin policies are run I'll explain in more detail. I'm putting together a custom policy around code coverage %. This of course means that unit tests should have been run. I can turn on the polilcy for testing but don't have a guarantee it has run before the code coverage %. Secondly the standard unit testing checkin policy code does not store the trx file in the same location as when run manually it uses temporary file locations. Looking at the UnitTestPolicy via Reflector in Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.CheckinPolicies.dll it appears that it uses an environmental variable TRX_FILE. Obviously,  I wish to ensure that m ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How much of a 3D engine will be included in the XNA Framework?

  In the DX samples there are the samples framework. Will that be built upon or will there be a separate 3D engine included or downloadable - What I am looking for is some kind of scene graph - Lighting and materials - Shader loader, constant setter etc. I am guessing since Torque are releasing their engine for this we will not see a full featured engine included but will there be an embryo that is more than the DX sample framework Regards Joachim Shawn Hargreaves wrote: We don't have an out-of-the-box packaging system for version 1, but would appreciate feedback if this is something you would find useful in future. To roll your own, you'd need to do two things. Write a build task ...Show All

• Visual Basic Where do I start?

  I'm relatively new to the Visual Basic language and the Studio environment. What is the best way for me to store data that a user can view, edit, and update via the DataGridView I want this program to run solely on the end users PC with no need for an internet connection or any special database software. I would also like the user to be able to add columns to the data they're storing. So my question is, what is the best way to do this in Visual Basic add an xml file into your project: right click Project => add => new item => Xml file i think its something like that... after that you will need to create a dataset that reads ...Show All

• .NET Development XML Serialization??

  I have been doing some reading on XML Serialization and was wondering if i was on the right track as far as my understanding is concerned....basically what it does is take values that u put in a collection or array list and sorts them in XML format based on attributes that you set within the arraylist...now i am not that sure if thats how it works but thats what i am begining to understand...if you guys wqould be so kind to try and explain what i am missing or maybe shoot over some links that explains things you would use XML Serialization for Thanks! Sure. XmlSerialization is awesome. It does all the work for you and you can give it a stream (FileStream/StreamWriter/NetworkStream etc...) to serialize to. Now, basically, XmlSe ...Show All

• SQL Server toDatetime.

  Hi everyone! I'am working with DATE fields inside SQL Server. When I try to save values from my web form, look what's happen: First tried, I did not use the ' '... 1. 1/1/1901 Error = [1] - Incorrect syntax near '/'. Second, I use the ' '... 2. '1/1/1901' Error = Server Error in '/WebAppCAE' Application. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- String was not recognized as a valid DateTime. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.FormatException: String was not recognized as a valid DateT ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help needed: TCP /IP client-server skeleton

  Hi, I need to write a very simple client/server TCP/IP app in VC express. I thought it to be very easy, but it's not at least for me. (not programmin in C++ since 1999 !!) Can anybody give me a simple skeleton code to do this or a link to an example Thank u . Dario Dalla Libera Ok , I was able to work around this using WebClient Class http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tt0f69eh.aspx Should be able to twink this for my goals... dario ...Show All

• Windows Forms Dynamically adding controls to a Windows Form

  I have been developing a Windows Form Application in C++, but I recently ran into a problem. I need to add a control, lets say a picture box named pctStack1 to a form named frmMainWin. When a function is called during runtime I want to create a new picture box, assign it the normal properties, and place it on the form where it needs to be. How would I do this Normally I don't think it would be very difficult but the way the Windows Form Application in C++ works is when you place the control on the form, it generates the code for it and places it before any events or functions. I have tried a few things, but I cannot seem to get it to work without the code being with all the other code for generating controls, and any help would be greatly ...Show All

• Visual Basic how to Extract the current word

  hi there i am making an editor and i want it to autocolor some words so i done kinds of text search and it looks like nothing is flicker free so i wanna do something new here it is : i wanna search the current word and check if it is from the keywords or not and then color it so any ideas of a code for that i wanna split it for the text  not select it Thanks In Advance or you can use a webBrowser control, set it text with html font format. Private Sub WebBrowser1_GotFocus( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles WebBrowser1.GotFocus Me .WebBrowser1.DocumentText = "asb <STRONG>asdf</STRONG>" End Sub ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Help with Excel VBA Code

  I am trying to format different spreadsheets. I need the data to be in the same cells for each worksheet. This data is in column A. I need to check to see if DBCS# ( ) is above Tour, and if so insert rows until Tour is in row 175, column A. The problem is that the number after DBCS# is never the same. How can I use an IF statement to make sure that the cell above Tour says DBCS# (whatever the number is) This is the If statement that I tried. If I put DBCS#46 in my IF statement, it will not work because the number after # isn't always 46. If (Range("A174:A174") = "DBCS#") And (Range("A175:A175") = "TOUR") Then GoTo label_177: Else: Do While (Range("A174:A174") <> "DBCS#") And (Range("A175:A175") <> "TOUR") Select ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Compile programs for Windows Mobile 2003

  I recently bought an HP iPaq 1710 handheld. I have Visual Studio .NET 2003 installed in my workstation so I decieded to code something for my handheld. I downloaded "Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC SDK.msi" from MS but when I tried to install it, this error message came up: "Software development tools required to use this SDK for application development are not installed on this workstation. Before trying to run the Setup Wizard again, verify that the required software is installed. To determine which software development tools are required, see the Microsoft Web site at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ linkid=21615&clcid=0x409, which you can open in an external browser window by clicking the Open Browser bu ...Show All

• SQL Server Moving a database to new server (SQL2K)

  Looking for help on SQL 2k database users logins issues I attached a database to a new server. I want to delete the users currently in the database so I can give new permissions to a new sql server login. But a user is currently an object owner and I am unable to change ownership. I am using: EXEC sp_changeobjectowner 'table name', 'dbo' in QA. it's pointing to the correct database but i keep getting Object 'table name' does not exist or is not a valid object for this operation. I don't want to keep running into this. How can i simply moving a database over to a new server and giving new server logins access while deleting old db logins with objec ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to create Automated E-mail in asp.net

  hi all, In PHP there is ready made function is available to send the mail code in PHP is This is mail code in php $to = "xyz@yahoo.co" // who is sending mail. $from = "abc@rediffmail.com" $sub ='subject of the mail' $message = 'message of the mail'; $headers=$from; mail($to,$sub,$message,$headers); Do we have certain functions in C# or we have to use SMTP server for that. code in detail.... Use the MailMessage class in the System.Web namespace for VS.Net 2002 & 2003. For VS 2005 use the MailMessage class in the System.Net namespace. ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Program to add button on desktop search ui

  Hi, Is there a sample program to add a custom button on windows desktop search UI, and to acess the tyed in text and show custom document on the desktop search ui. regards hegdek Hegdek: This forum is for questions and discussions related to Windows Live Search development. Check the Desktop Search forums at: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/default.aspx ForumGroupID=25&SiteID=1 for an answer to your question. Thanks! ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Whether there is a way which do not need .svc file while the service is hosted in IIS?

  Hi Whether there is a way which do not need .svc file while the service is hosted in IIS If you have 100 services,so you should create 100 .svc file to map it. I think it's not convenient Thanks, Zhihao Hi Zhihao, yes, you need to have one .svc file per service. We don't support non-svc services. Actually from usability standpoint of view, you would benefit from this model since each service would have its own base address based on the .svc file's virtual path. If you don't have code in the .svc files, they would be very small physical files. ...Show All