CzechMate's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Setup Wizard in VB 2005 Standard SP1

  This one is aimed at Matthew Gertz in VB Development Team. Yes, I am aware that the Christmas Holidays are near but I hope your response will be quicker than last time. First two points and then my query 1. Despite ticking the Alert Me box, I am not getting Alerts when you post responses. 2. The first time, I opened VB2005 after installing SP1, I got the error message "Run Time Error/Program C:\Pro\R6025 - pure function call" and VB closed. The second time I got an Report Error toMicrosoft - which I did. Third time the programme loaded and ran OK. Curious QUERY I have read extensively in the help file about using the Setup Wizard but the reality does not match the reporting. Page bf5cf02e-b0b7-4a99-ba9c-bcf9d383b7d ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Modal Dialogs and UI automation

  Hi, I am playing around with WPF and Automation trying to do the following. Application A: Display a WPF window with a Button. The button has a handler - when clicked you get a message box. Application B: Automation Controller (unit test). The code starts an in instance of A, and programatically (AutomationElement) pushes the button, which launches the message box. So far all of this works. When I use the UI Spy program, I notice that when I do things manually, the message box is a child of the main window in the visual tree. When I run things through the automation controller, the message box seems to be a sibling of A in terms of Window hierarchy (and no longer modal!). This sort of makes sense, but the documentation (Invoke ...Show All

• Smart Device Development System.TimeZone.CurrentTimeZone

  I am writing an application for a Windows Mobile device using C# and .Net Compact framework. I need to obtain the system timezone or timezone that the user specifies in the Settings/Date and Time area. System.TimeZone is an abstract class and if I do try to call System.TimeZone.CurrentTimeZone I get a NotSupported exception. I have also tried p/invoking GetTimeZoneInformation() and also received a NotSupported exception. I went to pinvoke.net to see what methods are available under coredll.dll and GetTimeZoneInformation is not there, so I have no idea how I am to get the timezone. Thanks Harry NETCF V2 is required in order to run V2 applications, V1 naturally won't do. And you did not use the _ same ...Show All

• .NET Development Connection String for oracle in asp.net

  Hi, I have an asp.net application. I want to use the back end as oracle. Can anyone help in establishing a connection string using Oracleclient. Is it necessary to reside oracle database in the development computer or not. Its not necessary that the oracle server have to reside your development pc. It can be install in your pc or any other pc in your network. A typical connection string of oracleclient is: OracleConnection con = new OracleConnection("Data Source=Oracle8i;Integrated Security=yes"); I am listing some valid property of the connectionstring Name Default Description Data Source -or- Server The name or network address of the i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Excel: Smart Tag icon not visible in worksheet copies

  Hi everybody,(I'm using VSTO 2005) In a very simple Workbook test project containing a SmartTag wich inherits Excel.SmartTag and overrides Recognize, everything works perfectly as far as I type my text in the 3 default sheets. As I copy an empty worksheet (i.e. sheet3) and try to type the same recognizable text in the newly added worksheet (i.e. sheet3(2)) : 1. The smart tag still always recognize correctly every cell (I put a breakpoint on the line where I perform the PersistTag method in the Recognize override). 2. On the newly created worksheet the smarttag icon (and relative arrow and menu) doesn't appear anymore 3. On the original worksheets (1,2 and 3) the icon remains visible only associated to text previously typed but as I type ...Show All

• SQL Server SS05 SP1 and Visual Studio

  I installed SP1 to fix a few problems, including one where the help button did not work from dialog boxes in Business Intelligence Development Studio. The installation of SP1 did not fix the help button problem so I decided to uninstall sql server development tools and reinstall them. Well, now I can't reinstall them because of a build block error that states I am trying to install an earlier version of Sql Server on top of a new one (which, of course, I am (in a way)). Is there any way to get around this I assume that you still have some SQL Server 2005 components on you machine In that case you need to go through "Add/Remove Programs" -> Choose SQL Server 2005 and Add the Workstartion comp ...Show All

• SQL Server Should I keep using MS Access 2000 or upgrade it to SQL server?

  Hi I would like to get some advise on the capacity of concurrent users on Access 2000. Here is my situation: - I have a vb6 application that connects to one database(currently is a access 2000 mdb) via Adodc . - There will be 6-8 copies of this application running on different PCs and that database is shared . - All 6 PCs read/write to that database concurrently. I wonder would Access 2000 be a reliable choice Thanks for your time Thank you for your advise The primary reason I stay away from SQL server is, the client has no IT department and the software is being used in a factory located at rural area. There will be no one adminstrating the SQL server if there is one. I think that is the disadvantage of using SQ ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. am i dumb?

  hi i am asking this question becuase i came across xna by accident,i have installed it and it works this is why i am asking if i a dum because its a typical microsoft thing you get the program then theres no mention on how to use it. i have gone to the xna game studio help and its a load of [removed] wheres this [removed] spacewar then that i can load and use. from a non programming person beleive me you should get this right straight away as joe bloggs like me wont even bother to look start making life simple please microsoft or is it just im so stupid that i cant see whats in front of me. yes i have it installed but hay wheres the great easy to follow instructions on how to make the damn games wheres the great source c ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Learning a programming language AND game programming concepts simultaneously a pipe dream?

  I'm tryig to learn C# programming with the aim of creating games, but boy is it a struggle. I think the stumbling block for most people (and I include myself in this group) whose primary interest in programming is games related, is that a large conceptual leap is required between document-based programming and real-time programming - and there simply isn't any sufficient discussion or tutorials explaining the fundamentals of the concept to ease the transition. The basic problem is anyone who starts out learning a language like C# pretty much finds themself with nothing but books teaching the language from the perspective of programming forms, event-handlers, interacting with controls  and basically looking at exer ...Show All

• .NET Development access files with a web service

  I want my web service to log every call to it, in a file on the server. e.g: www.microsoft.com/ log.txt assuming my web service would be at: www.microsoft.com/ service.asmx How do I go about getting the actual path of that folder. The server is not my own; We just bought a few years worth of hosting at this company----- I have no access to ISS manager, much less the actual machine because it also hosts other peoples' web sites I basically want the service the simply open the file and append a few lines and close it again. But the type and amount of information that is logged is very dynamic. this will vary from 60 bytes to a few MB here are my questions: How do I get that directory name with my code How do I set a ...Show All

• SQL Server Failure Audit on domain controller account

  I have SQL 2005 installed in a virtual (ESX) environment with a separate DC. Every minute or so an event shows up in the Application Event Log that says: Type: Failure Audit User: dgtest\dc1$ Computer: sql1 Source: MSSQLSERVER Category: (4) Event ID: 18456 Description: Login failed for user 'dgtest\dc1$'. [Client: <ip address>] Data includes: SQL1 master Any idea what is causing this and how to fix it Thanks, Mindy Hi Mindy, I have the same problem. I am running VS2005, SQL2005 in Win XP SP2. I am trying to install Biztalk Server 2006 and I get this error in the event viewer. Due to this error I cannot configure the Groups in Biztalk Server. Do you have an ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies TIF and PDF content not indexed

  Both were working fine in previous versions, but when I installed 3.0, nothing is there. Any advice Thanks a lot. Jerry, Unfortunately, an IFitler is required to index TIF and PDF content. Right now, there are no TIF/PDF filters that work with WDS 3.0. If you really need to index these file types I would suggest you go back to using 2.6.x until the updated IFitlers are introduced. Sorry for any inconvenience. Paul Nystrom - MSFT ...Show All

• Architecture Deploying a Clustered custom NT Service

  Hi, I'm developing a multithreaded TCP NT Service using .NET 2.0 which will handle connections from many enterprise applications. To avoid creating a single-point-of-failure, how can I install it on a clustered configuration alike App Center does Thanks for any help ! I had asked this question earlier in this forum - and I learnt that the same can be done if we have a Windows cluster ( not a load balancer) Or using "grid computing" products and APIs ( using them as nothing more than a glorified scheduler ) - if there is no cluster. I would definitely be interested in learning more ways to do the same. In my current application - I prefer to keep clustered windows jobs as MS SQL S ...Show All

• SQL Server How to handle ISNUMERIC() function ?

  I have a task (Derived Column Task) and I want to write something like this : IsNumeric(aColumnOfString) == true "All numbers" : "there are some characters" Here aColumnOfString can be something like "123a5" or 12345". I do not want to simply check if the left-most character is a number or not. I want to check the entire expression and return me a TRUE or false. A TRUE is returned if the entire expression contains ONLY numbers, and FALSE otherwise. I read some posting using regular expression. But that is not a solution for this situation. Anyone knows how to accomplish this, please help! Steve, To determine if a string contains only numbers, you could use the data conver ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS package

  Guys I've migrated a SQL Server 2000 DTS package over to SSIS (which seems to have worked), its a really simple package with just one item, it first checks for a tables existance and deletes if necessary, then recreates the table and then inserts data from a selection of other tables, except its only creating the table no data is being inserted, yet the script to insert data works as I've tried it in a query. Any ideas Thanks inadvance Duncan-Countrywide wrote: Hi Jamie After some investigating I discovered that it was the drop object first option, technically the table didn't exist, I had thought it would have been a check statement like if it exists..... obvisouly not, anyway I've ...Show All