michaelleewebb's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Connections to SQL Server Files (*.mdf) require SQL Server Express 2005

  When ever I click on an MDF file in VS2005 I get the following message. Required Components Missing. Connections to SQL Server Files (*.mdf) require SQL Server Express 2005 to function properly.  Please verify the installation of the component or download from the URl: http:go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ linkID=49251. I think this may have been due to the install order and options I selected. 1. VS2005 Pro, without SQL Server Express 2005 as I was planning to install SQL2005 Developer. 2. SQL2005 Developer. I then noticed the above problem and installed SQL Server Express 2005 from the VS Pro DVD.  I still have the problem.  Any ideas how I can fix this i have sse installed after vs so after I ...Show All

• Windows Forms Performance Combobox 11000 Values

  Hey guys, I am using a datagridviewcomboboxcolumn which is bound to a datatable containing 11,000 entries in a datagridview. This column is causing alot of performance issues, when the user moves through this column it really slows down the datagridview. Can anyone suggest any ideas to stop the column from slowing down the grid Cheers Kris almost similar problems, they have been using   top (25)  in their select commands,. you can write code for your combo to select the next 25 records when you flowing down and reach an index, and redisp prev 25 when flowing up and reach an index, well this is just an idea,. you can think about it, chek this web out, its done with a grid,. http://www.pcreview.co. ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies limit on number of files indexed?

  What is the limit on the # of files indexed My count for # of items indexed (in wds v2.6.5) never exceeds about 11% of my actual file count. (164,832 indexed of 1,500,000 actual files) Yes, I'm selecting all file/drives to index against. Yes, I've rebuilt the index more than once. I'm guessing that for folks here thinking of indexing their entire business' file sets, be they on servers or local, the index has to scale well beyond anything I've seen so far, and yet... Thanks Jeff, This is the perfect place to report this feedback. I'll be getting your information over to our development team ASAP. It might help if we could contact you directly. Would you mind sending me an email a-paulny@micro ...Show All

• Visual C# Windows Service Install and verifying help

  Dear All, I am creating a windows service. So I have put my supposing code in the protected override void OnStart( string [] args). The problem now is how can I verify if my code is working or not because I tried to use MessageBox.show but is not available. So how to run my windows service base on interval of every 20 minutes. I dont how to go about installing it and testing it. Any help please. Thanks. Dear Henock, I have manage to build my windows service with the install. But the problem when I start to install with the installutil.exe it as me for user name and password . So here I get stuck I put my login name but it rollback. I use the startup type as automatic. Mu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions edit a datarow on a new form without useing a datagridview

  i kinda new to vb, i have vb 2005 express. On one form I have a listbox bound to my a column in my datatable, when you select an item in the listbox, other information from that datarow is displayed in textboxes. What I,m after is when I click a button on the form, a new form opens with all the data from the table of the selected row from the listbox so that the data of that row edited then saved back to the table. Or in an easier explanation, form1 is search for a datarow from a listbox, I want to open that datarow in a new form for editing can some shed some light as how I might be able to that Nightman28, According to your multi form project, I just divide your problem into several parts: 1. Bound a column of ...Show All

• Windows Forms Just a simple quote

  Hello, I have 2 forms, the first form (MainMenu1) contains an usercontrol with a listView. The second form (AddContact), here you can fill in fields and add a contact to the database. When a user has inserted a new contact, I want that the MainMenu1 reload the usercontrol, so the new contact will be visible in the listView. This is the public function in MainMenu1; public void reloadListview() { // Clear panel panelContent.Controls.Clear(); // Create usercontrol UserControlContactListView ucContactListview = new UserControlContactListview (); // Add usercontrol to panel panelContent.Controls.Add(ucContactListview); } After inserting fields in database from the AddContact form, I cal ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Viewing Pre-rendered 3D Scenes

  Can someone tell me or even better point me to a tutorial on how adventure games like Safecracker (2006 version) allow players to scroll about a scene I'm thinking in terms of a fixed camera in the center of the pre-rendered scene with no fish-eye. Is the whole scene essentially wrapped around a "skybox" Are the scenes exported as stills that are drawn in a kind of tiled approach Please enlighten me on how to accomplish this! Thanks so much. Do you have an example video or something (you can use http://www.fraps.com to make one and put it up on youtube or something) I looked at the screenshots http://www.gameboomers.com/Pressreleases/Safecracker/safecrackerscreens.htm - seems to me that ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) XAML Browser Applications - Do they need .NET to be installed in the client machine?

  I want to develop a XAML application for my users to use through their browsers. Do they have to install .NET Framework on their computers What if I am designing a public website (say, web-site for a retail shop), how will .NET 3.0 help me develop the UI. Note: I am not talking about the back end or web-service design stuff here. just the UI experience Thanks Chad, The links you have provided are useful. Specially the comparison between "WPF", "XBAPs" and "WPF/E". ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem with calculated columns - no automatic refresh

  Hi I have three tables tbl_customer_visit (master), tbl_customer_visit_parts (detail) and tbl_customer_visit_services (detail). That have 1-many relations using customer_visit_id column in each table. I am using calculated columns in both the tables as following: tbl_customer_visit_parts and tbl_customer_visit_services have calculated columns for calculating the total cost for each part sold and service given for a given visit. then I have aggregate calculated columns in those tables to calculate the total costs for each table for a given visit. Then I have calculated column in tbl_customer_visit to take the totals from the detail tables (respective calculated columns) and give me the total amount due for ...Show All

• .NET Development Windows user control

  Hi all , I need a help in using windows user control. I built a user control of simple keyboard . I seems like the windows calculator . My target is to pass the value I typed in the keyboard control into the textbox that called this control. In other words, when the click event is called in certain textbox, the user control will appeare, and after pushing close button on the control the value I types will passed to the textbox. How can I link between the calling textbox and the usercontrol result. Best regards... You need to provide a delegate, a method that is called from the control to the parent. You could even create an event that is the same as the key pressed event and hook tha ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Windows Desktop Search Tool Tray Admin

  In order to try to get WDS to run properly I tried to Uninstall and then Reinstall the program. Now it won't run at all . I keep getting the error message "Windows Desktop Search Tool Tray Admin has encountered a problem and needs to close". Help!!!!!!!!!!! Hi Paul, I followed you instructions and it worked, but my computer is so slow now and the internet too. Would you please let me know what I have done wrong, or how to fix this problem It is a new computer and have a lot of space. I am looking forward for any help!!!! Please!!! ...Show All

• Visual C# stdole.IPictureDisp to Bitmap/icon conversion in C#

  I am having a 3rd part DLL which contains Icons. I have to use this DLL to get icons in C# application. That DLL returns the icon wrapped as an object of stdole.IPictureDisp. Now how to convert this to get the bitmap or icon. I am trying for image option but runtime exception comes as cant cast it. any Help. this is correct. But my problem is first I have to convert the stdole.ipiscuredisp object returned by the mehtod to some object which C# can understand. Now to convert i am using the protected function System.Windows.Forms. AxHost .GetPictureFromIPicture(stdole.ipicturedisp obj) which returns the Image object(I dont know why ). And that stdole.ipiscuredisp object contains I ...Show All

• Visual Basic Can't save changes made through Combobox

  Hello everybody, I am very very new to VB2005. But I love the designer. My problem is the following: I have a form: form1 based on Table1 through a Dataset, Bindingsource, etc... all set in the designer. On that form I have some fields: -ID -Item_ID I also have a comobox on the form that is bound to another table: Table2 I set the following properties of that Combobox: Datasource: Table2 Displaymember: Table2_DescriptionField ValueMember: Table2_ID When I start the form and I navigate through the records it works fine. But when I hit the save button I get the following Error message: "Update requires a valid UpdateCommand when passed DataRow collection with modified rows." I hope I descriped My problem good enough. ...Show All

• Visual C# Launching an application from within a C# application

  When you want to launch an application from within Visual Basic 2005 you use the following format: Process.Start("......"). How do you accomplish this using C# I haven't been able to find an example. Brendan, wish that was the case for the "My" namespace. That conveniently organized all relevant computer information and methods into one namespace, now I have to go all over the place to use those things. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. will i need to learn the basics for c#

  before i can start developing games or will the software help for new begginers. i am learning (supposedly the basics of c++ this year) but not c#, althought microsoft just donated sum stuff to my high school so i imagine it will be microsofts visual c++. i was just wondering if im going to haft to go through the hardships of learning c#. I would aprreciate it if anyone could give me a good website to learn the latest version of c# or atleast were u learned i would appreciate it thanks I run the www.learn-XNA.com site, over there we have 2 videos up so far. The first is about geting C# and MDX installed (pretty easy to do) and the second video was just put up today and it is the first of three videos on le ...Show All