ooboyle's Q&A profile

• Visual C# What database are you using?

  Daer Srs. I actually would like to know what databases do you usually use.. or what would you recomend for a not very simple winapp how do you mean "what database do you usually use" Everyone has their own way/product they use. It also depends on the type of application. Please tell us the type of application you are creating. Some people use Xml to store data locally, which is ideal for a mini mini database some people use MS Access locally to store data instead of using SQL Server - this would be a better approach if you are not doing major database stuff some people use SQL Server because not only is it industry standard but because it is good at managing and processing large amounts of data, which has more potenti ...Show All

• Windows Forms progress bar not working

  Hi I have a button on a form...From the buttons click event loads another form that displays SQL data. This form takes a while to load. I would like to add a progress bar to the buttons click event to signal progress on the current form while the SQL form is loading. I have dragged the progress bar onto my form. but it doesnt display any progress bars while the form is loading I am using vb express and sql express. Please help:( Thanks you would have to develop the progress bar on how to behave. here is a simple examle of a progress bar in action. http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/NeverEndingBar.asp ...Show All

• Windows Forms !!!HELP!!! Is ClickOnce useless? Publishing a Clickonce application after certificate renewal.

  I recently renewed my certificate through thawte and found out after signing our clickonce application that clickonce does not play well with the renewed certificate. The problem seems to be that during the process of renewal, thawte and apparently others require a new private key to be generated for the renewed certificate. So it seems there is a critical flaw in the ClickOnce architecture if it requires your code to be signed but can't handle the industry standard of renewed certificates. The only other option is to be your own certification authority but that requires distributing your CA certificate before clients install your application. If we have to have our clients uninstall our software and reinstall it because of this, then ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Single Sign On into AdCenter

  Hi, I was wondering if AdCenter has plans to support Single Sign on If so what would be the time frame Thx Gautam ...Show All

• Community Chat Zune Subscription

  I've been scrounging around online and thought I might be able to get a definitive answer here. Currently, I have Napster-to-go with my Dell DJ. The DJ is on it's way out the door, and I'm looking at getting a Zune. Will this Zune subscription thing for 15 bucks a month allow me to transfer music to the player itself, or is it simply to let you listen to music on your computer In other words, will there be something like napster-to-go that works with the Zune TIA! Hi - somewhat related question about previously purchased (prior to my Zune) wma files form MSN Music store: I expected Zune to automatically add my purchased .wma format songs (about 70 of them) to the Zune library. It did not happen. The ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Retrieving Data from SQL any where using PPC2005 help please

  Retrieving Data from SQL any where using PPC2005 help please   Hi,   I’m new to this to be genital pleases.     Ok with the following code I can get a list of uses in to the data grid for all uses that have the id 10   System.Data. DataSet sqlDS = new DataSet ();   SqlCeConnection sqlConn = new SqlCeConnection (DB_Connection_string); System.Data.SqlServerCe. SqlCeDataAdapter sqlDA = new SqlCeDataAdapter (“Select name From data where user_id = 10”, sqlConn); sqlDA.Fill(sqlDS, "table" ); dataGrid2.DataSource = sqlDS.Tables[ "table" ];   what I would like is to be abol to get a string that containes the first user name returned with o ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Webbrowser.Document - Click handler keeps multiplying

  Hi There, I'm trying to record web page navigation so I can play it back like in an automated test tool. I've dragged a webrowser tool onto the form (webbrowser1) and set the url to the starting webpage. I then created the following code which adds the id of the element you have clicked on into a listbox(listbox1). The first page works fine but when you navigate to the second page you get two entries per element in the list box. Then when you navigate to the third page you get three entries per element in the list box. I think it is being caused by the AddHandler which is called every time you navigate to a new page and so it keeps adding more and more event handlers to the click event but I don't know how to stop this happening. If ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Native Client automatic failover only works when both servers are plugged in

  I have setup a database mirroring session with witness - MachineA is the principal, MachineB is the mirror, and MachineC is the witness. Each SQL Server instance is hosted on its own machine. The mirroring is working correctly. If I submit data to the database on MachineA, and then unplug the network cable on MachineA, MachineB automatically becomes the principal, and I can see the data that I originally submitted to MachineA on MachineB. All the settings are showing correctly in Management Studio. My issue is with the SQL Native Client and a front-end application that needs to make use of this database. I have setup my front-end application to use the ODBC client and specified the failover server in both the ODBC setup and the connecti ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums [CSS BUG] Trouble with a map loaded in a hidden div

  Hello, I am very fan of your VirtualEarth service but unfortunaly, i am confronted with a bug than is cause by the way you use CSS (I think) I know that all of your teams are celebrating the Vista worldwide availability… but I expect that the VE team will take a look on this bug. I attach to this mail two examples showing and reproducing this bug (vmap_good.rar et vmap_bad.rar) All the problem is the way that the map is loaded/matched in a div with CSS property “diplay:none;” Hope you will resolve it. Thanks Th. /* GOOD SOURCE CODE */ <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" " http://www.w3.or ...Show All

• SQL Server How to brute force delete subscriptions ?

  Hello, I restored a huge ReportServer backup on a dev machine and I do not want the subscriptions and their jobs. I already changed the SMTP server address so emails will go to nowhere. Now What is the best sequence to get a rid of all subscriptions Delete records (or truncate) from the ReportServer.Subscriptions table then delete all the subscriptions jobs or the other way around BTY, a centralized management of subscriptions as well as stuffing all these jobs into a folder would be a welcome addition. Thanks, Philippe Igor Taranov -- MSFT wrote: Safest way would be using a simple script for deleting all subscriptions via DeleteSubscription() SOAP API and rs.exe. Thank you ...Show All

• Visual Basic Redirecting Processes's StandardOutput! Need a help here.

  Hello VB developers! I got a problem redirecting processes's standardoutput! I'm trying to put all the output of a console application in a textbox in my project, but I can't! =/ I have developed this code in Visual Basic .net 2003 to do it: Dim Proc As New Process Dim pInfo As New ProcessStartInfo(Textbox1.Text) 'In text1.text I got the file path pInfo.UseShellExecute = False pInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = True Proc.StartInfo = pInfo Proc.Start() Textbox2.Text = Proc.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd() But I think nothing is changed in the textbox. Hugs! Yeah. I think you're right! Thanks guy, I'll make changes in my project and test it, by the way, I'm marking your posts! Hugs. ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView row automatically selected

  This seems to be a really simple issue, but for some reason I've failed to find an answer. I have a DataGridView with MultiSelect = true and SelectionMode = FullRowSelect. I'm binding a business entity collection to the DataGridView. The collection may or may not be empty when it is set to the DataGridView DataSource, or objects may be added to the collection later. The problem I'm having is that as soon as the DataSource is set, the first row on the DataGridView is selected. I've done a few tests and it seems like no matter what happens with the DataGridView, as soon as something is bound to the data source something (first row or cell) will get selected regardless of the SelectionMode. Is there anyway to have nothing selected Ok ...Show All

• .NET Development How to convert string to SecureString?

  I want to pass a string password in System.Diagnostics.Process.Start. The problem is that the defined password parameter is SecureString not string while my password is string. Normal casting evaluates to errors. Please how to cast string to SecureString Many Thanks in Advance. Bishoy try this, SecureString theSecureString = new SecureString(); theSecureString.AppendChar('h');   then give this object to the StartInfo.Password property:   theProcessStartInfo.Password = theSecureString; does this help ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Binding Hierarchical data to item properties

  I'm trying to do something I would think would be common, but I haven't found anything yet on how to do it. I have a menu structure in XML that has the Header and the Command for each menu item. I want to bind this to a <Menu>. I'm having some troubles binding to a MenuItem's Header and Command properties. The following sort of works, but inside the HierarchicalDataTemplate I don't really want to use a TextBlock - that doesn't allow me to bind to the MenuItem's Command property. Any ideas on how to get this to work < Page x:Class = " WinFxBrowserApplication1.MenuTestPage " xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation " xmlns:x = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml " Title ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DBP Submission Platform

  I have a question about the dbp challenge. My xbox360 has just fallen prey to the dreaded " three flashing red lights on the ring of light " issue and, I suspect, will have to be sent in for service. I'm working with support and awaiting their response, but that's not really the issue. I really really wanted my game to be cross platform such that the same code-base built for both windows and xbox360. Would I be penalized if I my submitted solution had projects for both xbox360 and windows, and the xbox360 version was borked I mean, I think I've gotten a pretty good appreciation for what issues must be taken into account when developing for the 360, but since it's out of commission for the time being I obviously wouldn't be able ...Show All