Bryan Johnson's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Download UI Spy (UISpy.exe)

  Hi , Currently I'm looking for UI Spy for UI automation latest version and where to download it. Your help is very appreciated. Regards Hash007 it appears UISpy is part of .NET 3.0, from a quick google search. The latest version would be bundled in the .NET Framework 3.0 beta/RC release. I could be way wrong however but that was the first hit on google ...Show All

• SQL Server View Designer Locks Interfere with Log Shipping

  Hi all, A client of mine loves to use the Query/View Designer to prototype queries against a Log Shipped copy. Of course, the log shipped copy is READ ONLY and he can't really apply any changes (and he knows that). When he does this, the SQL Agent job fails to restore the transaction log backup due to something--presumably a lock he's inducing. Once the Designer is closed, SQL Agent cleans up the mess and all is right with the processing again. So far SQL Profiler or checks for locks/blocks/latches has yielded any answers as to why this is happening. Any ideas are appreciated. Even though the secondary database is in standby where it allows for READONLY purpose, during the transaction log rest ...Show All

• SQL Server Sum on conditional Values

  Hi I have a table with Records for employees and evry record has a record type now i need to have a sum in the table footer or in a group for all employees of Amount Column when Record type is "E" and the conditions is if this employee by RecordType "D" the amount column is not 0 else then shuld be 0 is it posible with SSRS Thanks Jhknys Hi, In the table, add a group in the group expression set to Fields!RecordType.Value and in the group footer Write this expression:Sum(Fields!Amount.Value), This will sum based on the record type value i.e you will get the 'E' count,'D' count. Hope this helps. Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Label

  I know theres a way to chage the text of a label while a programs running, something like text.label ="something" but i dont remeber how... It depends on which technology you are using. C++/CLI does it like: labelVarName->Text = "Text"; MFC does it like: staticClassName->SetWindowText("Text"); Windows API is: SetDlgItemText(hDlg, nDlgItem, "Text"); Thinking about it, since this is the express forum you wont need the MFC version. ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums NUMBER GENERATOR HELP NEEDED

  Hi, I'm looking for a letters generator from a to g. Or a numbers generator. 1 to 9. I have a scoring system for a horseshoe game I created in excel 2007 beta. I need the letters in column d3 to d13 to update once a round is completed. Which happens ok. But once a team is eliminated. I dont want a letter assined to the cell. If anyone could take a look will understand my issue. I will email you the workbook if you think you can help me out with this. I don't no vba yet but am trying to understand it. my email is trobert672@comcast.net Hi, To produce random integers in a given range, use this formula: Int((upperbound - lowerbound + 1) * Rnd + lowerbound) Dim upperbound As Integer upperbound ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WPF and Directshow

  I have previously asked this question in a Directshow forum, but got no answer. I have made my own movieplayer control (Directshow library with .NET 2.0 wrapper) and now I am trying to get it to work with WPF. However whenever a WPF control is placed upon the video, the overlapped region starts flickering :( both with and without translucency. Any idea how to solve this I can see that Microsoft do not have this problem with their MediaElement control, but have not been able of figuring out how they do it. Using MediaElement is not an option, since I have some features which are not available to MediaElement. hi Principhre i think, the best way to implement media player in wpf is by using medi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help in disabling Alt+f4 in my vb 2005 express application

  Can anyone help me disable the Alt+f4 keys for my application. I'm using vb 2005 express. Your help will be much appreciated. Tnks. not sure this will work but worth a shot. Implement the keydown event and check to see if the Alt key has been pressed as well as the Keys.F4. if e.Alt = true AND e.Keys = Keys.F4 then e.Handled = true end if now in order for the user to close the application correctly say from a close button, the above method may not work quite so well. What you could do as an alternative is to place a bool value globally to indicate if the user pressed the close button, if so, then only then can they close the application. So... 'declare globally: Dim IsToExitAp ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista CallExternalMethod is not called

  Hi! Good Day! I'm new to WF and so far I have developed a sequential workflow, something like a helpdesk application, and I would like to ask for your help regarding some issue that I encountered. Basically what the system does is the system will wait til a User creates a ticket. Then it will be approved or disapproved by another user (Approver). If the ticket has been disapproved, the system will send the User the status of the ticket. But if the ticket has been approved it will go then to another user (Provider) to give solution or escalate it. Then it will send the status to the User. Here the problem goes, the CallExternalMethodActivity is called only if I press the button twice to Approve the ticket, which internally call ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Reduce Messages Size

  I have created an application that use a DataContract tag. I use a default DataCOntarctSerializer for serialize objects. I used a ReferencePreservingDataContractFormatAttribute for  serialized cyclics references. I used tcp Binding.   My messages size is too big. I want optimized a message size. I must increase a messagesize over 1 Mo and the real size of my objects is much smaller  than 1 Mo. I would like improve performances.   I  will like to know if somebody already had this problem Thanks       Hi, WCF includes some features for it problem, using MTOM or the binary format is more easy to optimize the exchange of big ...Show All

• SQL Server How can I print table structures in SQLExpress

  I need to get a print out of column names, types, and properties for each of the tables. We just started using SQL Express from Access. I cannot find any reference to printing the structures in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express. Thanks hi, this is actually non avaliable at all.. you can have a "similar" result via SQL Server Management Studio Express ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=C243A5AE-4BD1-4E3D-94B8-5A0F62BF7796&displaylang=en ) "Diagrams" features.. add all required tables + views and print it out.. not very beautifull but available.. or get them to clipboard and pasting them into Paint or the like... regards ...Show All

• Windows Forms Clearing a form

  Using VS2005 Can anyone help in making this code more generic private void fnClear( Control _parent) { //for all the controls on the tabcontrol foreach ( Control _ctl in _parent.Controls) { if (_ctl.HasChildren) { foreach ( Control _child1 in _ctl.Controls) { if (_child1.HasChildren) { foreach ( Control _child2 in _child1.Controls) { //do the tab control if (_child2.GetType() == typeof ( TextBox )) (( TextBox )_child2).Clear(); if (_child2.GetType() == typeof ( ComboBox )) (( ComboBox )_child2).SelectedIndex = -1; if (_child2.GetType() == typeof ( MaskedTextBox )) (( MaskedTextBox )_child2).Clear(); if (_child2.GetType() == typeof ( D ...Show All

• SQL Server management studio does not work

  Hi, I get TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ------------------------------ Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. (SQLEditors) ------------------------------ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: An error occurred creating the configuration section handler for system.data: Column 'InvariantName' is constrained to be unique. Value 'Microsoft.SqlServerCe.Client' is already present. (C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Config\machine.config line 128) (System.Configuration) ------------------------------ Column 'InvariantName' is constrained to be unique. Value 'Microsoft.SqlServerCe.Client' is already present. (System.Data) ------------------------------ BUTTONS: OK -------------------------- ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Access to an panel inside a ItemsPanelTemplate

  I have the following code: < Grid Name = " GlobalGrid " > < Grid.Resources > < ItemsPanelTemplate x:Key = " AnimatedItemsPanelTemplate " > < AnimatedPanel:AniTilePanel ItemWidth = " 110 " ItemHeight = " 100 " x:Name = " ListBoxAniTilePanel " /> </ ItemsPanelTemplate > </ Grid.Resources > < ListBox x:Name = " MasterList " ItemsPanel = " {StaticResource AnimatedItemsPanelTemplate} " IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem = " True " /> </ Grid > In my code, I want to access to my AnimatedPanel so I've try the following: ItemsPanelTemplate template = this .GlobalGrid.FindResource( "AnimatedItemsPanelTemplate" ) ...Show All

• Visual C++ WinForms app - first chance exception

  Using VC++ 2005, I've create a new WinForms project and executed it in a debug session. The debug window has outputted a "first chance exception of type "System.DllNotFoundException" as below. How are do I fix the exception 'test.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\WINNT\assembly\GAC_32\mscorlib\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\mscorlib.dll', No symbols loaded. 'test.exe' (Managed): Loaded 's:\vob_product_ais_plus\test\debug\test.exe', Symbols loaded. 'test.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\WINNT\system32\msvcm80d.dll', Symbols loaded. 'test.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\WINNT\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\System.dll', No symbols loaded. 'test.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\WINNT\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Window ...Show All

• SQL Server Query Notification does not work due to failure to authenticate the user ?

  I tried using Query Notification on my computer at home: * Win XP Pro with all the SPs and hotfixes * SQL 2005 with SP1 qand hotfix Query Notification worked fine. Then I tried using it at work: * Win XP Pro with all the SPs and hotfixes * SQL 2005 with SP1 qand hotfix and I see the following error in the SQL server log file and notification does not get to the client app: ---------------------------------------------------------- Date 9/1/2006 10:18:30 AM Log SQL Server (Current - 9/1/2006 10:18:00 AM) Source spid17s Message An exception occurred while enqueueing a message in the target queue. Error: 15404, State: 19. Could not obtain information about Windows NT group/u ...Show All