mkb137b's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Two active forms

  Hi! I'm developing an application which needs 2 active forms at the same time - something like Photoshop with af form at top of the screen (the mainform) with a menu and a toolbar which can open different childforms. What I wan't is to have the mainform and one of the childforms to be active at the same time so that I can activate the menues and toolbar of the mainform with just a single mouseclick and shortcut keys from the keyboard while a childform is active. I don't wan't to use a MDI form and childforms. When I open a childform I add it as a OwnedForm to the mainform. Is there a way to have 2 forms active at the same time Thanks! Brian I played with this a little myself ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Need to fool VS2k5 Std Edition into thinking I'm an admin...

  Hi. I'm running Windows Vista in Administrator mode and I've disabled UAC. The problem I have is when I choose Web Site link next to open and choose Local IIS, VS2k5 told me I must be a member of the Administrators group on this local computer to access the IIS metabase. However, I AM the owner of my computer and have installed Windows Vista Beta 2 Build 5384 by myself. If I try to create a new website with [code]http://localhost/[/code] and click OK, I will get an error stating either: "The data area passed to a system call is too small" or sometimes I will get an error telling me about the HRESULT or COM object that's something only C/C++ developer can understand; I'm a C# developer. Any way I can get VWD of Visual ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2005 Performance and SP1

  I am wondering if the SQL query engine will behave better after installing the SP1 service pack. Has anyone found this to be true Has anyone found that installing SQL 2005 SP1 resolves any performance problems that they were having We have many complex queries that are doing a lot more IOs under SQL 2005 than they were under SQL 2000. I have found ways to make some of these queries perform better but others are particulary troublesome. There were not many core engine changes for SP1, and nothing in particular I recall that would impact performance.  I am not surprised to hear that you're having perf problems after upgrading from 2000 to 2005 -- the query optimizer changed dramatically, and a lot of code t ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. xna error

  on this .GameComponents.Add( this .graphics); i get this error Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Components.NoSuitableGraphicsDeviceException was unhandled Message="The values used in the attempt to create the GraphicsDevice were invalid." Source="Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game" StackTrace: at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Components.GraphicsComponent.CreateDevice(GraphicsDeviceInformation newInfo) at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Components.GraphicsComponent.ChangeDevice(Boolean forceCreate) at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Components.GraphicsComponent.OnGameChanging(Game previousGame) at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GameComponentCollection.Parent(GameComponent gameComponent) at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GameComponentCollection ...Show All

• Visual C# Generating .exe file as project's Output - C#

  Hello Sir, I am a C# Developer, and I have a very specific requirement. I am developing e-Book Creator Project, and in that I need to give an option whereby on clicking it it will create the Installer for that specific e-Book. (a .exe installer file). I know how to create an installer for a project but i don't know how to create an installer from the application itself, programmatically. Please not that I don't want to make Installer for my project, My project is E-book Creator, and throught that e-Book will be created. Now I want to give an option in My Application through which the e-Book Creator can create .SFX kind of installer, which are distributable, and th ...Show All

• Windows Forms accessing http headers in .NET 2.0 WebBrowser Control

  I am using the WebBrowser Control in my application and I need to somehow access the HTTP headers of the HTTP Request in order to obtain a cookie that is passed from the browser to the server during the submit. The cookie is a temporary one, it is not possible to access it on the file system because it doesn't get saved to a file. Many thanks to anyone that can help, Michael Actually the cookies can be accessed via the DOM. They should be a collection. You may need to cast or Query for an IWindow2 interface or something. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Drawing Lines wider than 1px?

  How can I draw Lines with a width different from 1 px Take a look at: Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Line() You can specify the width Julian ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Need Help with DirectDraw

  Hi I've tried reading some informations about DirectDraw, and from what I understand that its memory saving way to display 2D graphics,but I could not find any sample codes that uses DirectDraw with Visual Basic May anyone help me get started with DirectDraw How do I draw on a form with directDraw 1 or 2 line of sample code will be appreciated, thank you :) Also DirectX or which directdraw is part of has there own forum http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx ForumID=106&SiteID=1 Which is probably the best place to direct your specific directdraw questions ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Print Jobs Incomplete or Corrupt with Serial Printing

  Hi to All! I'm using EPSON TMU-200 POS printer with only serial port available. OS = WinXP2. Print Jobs Incomplete or Corrupt if we print large chunk of data. Does anyone knows how to fix the problem Thanks in advance. Holden ...Show All

• Commerce Server Problem with CS2007 Catalog Manager

  I'm currently working on a project with starter site. After the installation I don't have performed SampleDataImport.exe command. Now When I execute"site connection" to use the CatalogWebservice I don't receive an error but I not be able to create a new catalog with Catalog Manager because all command in submenu "New" are disabled. For the installation I have followed the original installation guide and  if I execute SampleDataImport.exe command I have no problem to create new catalog or modify the "adventure works" catalog. Does anyone know the solution Thanks, F.T In the precedent test I had installed starter site and I had performed a SampleDatai ...Show All

• Windows Forms Check box in datagrid.

  Dear All, I have managed to create a column of check box in my datagrid. Now what I want to do is that upon selection of a number of checkboxes and when the user presses the delete key board button I want to do is to delete that particular rows which was selected. Can some one help me please I know is linking with some datagrid event but I dont know where to start and how Thanks. Hi sukbir, for(int i=0;i<datagridview1.rows.count;i++) { bool checked=(bool)datagridview1[checkedRow,i]; if(checked) //.. Do delete row.... } maybe this can help! ...Show All

• SQL Server Execute DTS 2000 Package Task. Mischievous task??

  Hi everyone, For first time I'm testing this task and surprisingly, when I try "Edit Package" option: 1)The DTS host failed to load or save the package properly 2)The selected package cannot be opened 3)Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component But after these messages you can see all the tasks but they haven't name!! It seem as if RCW mechanism has failed between managed and unmanaged coded-partially. I don't dare to follow doing more stuff, I don't know if that package is well-loaded or not from there. Any guidance or idea about this Do you mean that you are trying to open the DTS package from Management Studio via the Mana ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB.NET and Design Patterns

  I have implemented the Observer and Decorator pattern for the middle-tier of an application I am writting and after making the changes performance dramatically worsened. Has anybody experienced the same behavior Does it have to do with all extra objects created I am at a loss since everybody does nothing but praise the practice (Design Patterns) but I've had nothing but adverse results. Thanks for your help, Danny Hi Danny, Are you accessing the property inside the "Subject" class Theoretically, the "Subject" class should not be accessing data from the observers. Also, are you accessing this property within a tight loop Property access is slower then, say, variable/field access, but unless you were ...Show All

• SQL Server SOLUTION - Logon failu unknown user name or bad password. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007052E)

  I've been pulling my hair out with this problem. I can create reports in BI Studio and see them return data. After I deploy them to the Report Server I get this error message when I try to execute the report: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007052E) I played with the data source and tried every conceivable credential option. Here's the fix (which I picked up on another forum): Goto Reporting Services Configuration (in Start Menu->Programs->Sql Server->Config Tools. Click on Execution Account Uncheck "Specify an execution account" That's it. Hi Jeff, thanks very much, I was trying all kinds of account settings etc ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Sample code / Demo projects

  Hi Due to the abscence of the Sync Designer, it will help immensely if you can post either or all of the following: Documentation for Microsoft.Synchronization.Data.Client, Microsoft.Synchronization.Data.Server and Microsoft.Synchronization.Data.dll Sample code : Any demo projects Regards, Kk All, Good news! The sample is up. Check out the announcement message from more information. More details on my blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/synchronizer Download the sample at: http://blogs.msdn.com/synchronizer/attachment/1531408.ashx Enjoy, and stay tuned from more samples to come. Thanks, Rafik ...Show All