Scott VanDelinder's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Changing comments programatically

  I would like to be able to change comments for items in sourcesafe via the API. I can find the IVSS Version and see comments for an item/version but there does not seem to be a way of modifying a versions comments. I know this can be done via the IDE so there must be a call for me to duplicate this functionality. I found the IVSS VB project that is a VB.net project that attempts to mimic the SourceSafe IDE but it does not allow editing of comments! any help would be appreciated. If this is affecting your business, you can open a support case and ask for a DCR (design change request). No guarantee it will be accepted. You might also log a suggestion at Connect and ask people to vote for it, tha ...Show All

• Visual Basic Emails

  Is there a way to send emails through outlook all the email addresses are on a server. by on a server i mean the only possible options for sending the email to someone are on my school's outlook client list... A couple of questions about your code... the outlookbrowser_load sub is that just what your calling the form and if i wanted to do it on a button click... then i would just put that on the sendemail_click event handler ...Show All

• Windows Forms caller Id

  I made a program that shows the number of the incomning call when caller id is available. For this i dowload an active-x that detects caller id. I use the model 5633 modem of US robotics. The problem is that the number is not always shown . Even when i make call from the same number it 's not always displayed on the screen. The developer of active-x told me that this is problem of modem or drivers. I updated the driver but the problem still remains. Does anyone knows any better PSTN modem that support caller Id in Greece and to show always the number. Sounds like it might be (I'm not at home where my modem is so I can't check). I get to it via Control Panel, Phone & Modems( ), then dbl-click on the mode ...Show All

• SQL Server URGENT BUG FIX REQUIRED- "Internal Query Processor Error: The query processor encountered an unexpected error during execution."

  "Msg 8630, Level 16, State 6, Line 1 Internal Query Processor Error: The query processor encountered an unexpected error during execution." I receive the above error whenever I try to update a particular row/column in one of my tables. I am using SQL Server 2005 SP1. An example query would be: update myTable set myDateColumn = null -- any date value can go in here and it still won't work where myRowId = 12345 I can select the row and update the other columns in the table, but I just can't update this particular column in this particular row. Has there been any occurrence of this bug before I have tried restarting the database and server. There are 1,703,797 rows in the table and 7 columns. The query usually runs instantly, how ...Show All

• Windows Forms Help in implementation of a magnifying glass

  I have an image viewer application which I want to apply a magnifying glass effect on certain area of the image. The problem I've run into is that when I slowly dragged the magnifying glass across (when left mouse down) the magnifying glass window didn't move smoothly. I believe it has something to do with drawing the graphics of the original image on the background. May someone please help me solve this issue Thanks. I tried using a 32-bit format and double buffering, but neither helped. On the other hand, I turn off the interpolation during magnifying, and that helped a lot. I can't really use the referenced NoBlinkPanel class simply because I need the image to completely fit inside the viewer, hence, ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. InvalidCallException in 3D primitives code attempt

  Hello, Lacking full examples in the docs, I threw together some of the sample code in the How to: Draw 3D Primitives section, probably incorrectly, and am getting an InvalidCallException on the following line: graphics.GraphicsDevice.DrawUserPrimitives<VertexPositionColor>(PrimitiveType.TriangleList, 12, nonIndexedCube); The details of the exception are not helpful. They say "External component has thrown an exception." My code is below, hopefully this forum formats it ok, without smiley faces etc. Any suggestions appreciated. By the way, I am using an ATI Radeon Mobility X600 and had no problems compiling and running the Spacewar demo. - Matteus using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework ...Show All

• Windows Forms Context Menu Strip

  Hey, by the way my richtextbox is set up I can not set the contextmenustrip I want to use diectly on the control. I have to use the Form1_MouseClick event. So how would I make it so that it only does somthing if the mouse left button is pressed I tryed: private void Form1_MouseClick( object sender, MouseEventArgs e) { if ( MouseButtons .Left) { } } but that does not work... Thanks :) well there is not a rich textbox I added myself, it is added with code and it has tab control so there is more then one and so the way my code works it uses a code to amke get get the current textbox being used...so I would have to use the form...the event would not work if I did it directly to the rich textbo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Error spawning 'cmd.exe'

    When I compiled the project, there was an error,----Error spawning 'cmd.exe'.   Why The fix from Jaeger worked for me. No restart was required though. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Unable to read data from the transport connection:

  hi, i am trying to send email using VB2005 but i am getting this Exception. "System.IO.IOException = {"Unable to read data from the transport connection: net_io_connectionclosed."}" while from same machine i am able to send email with same SMTP server from OutLook Express. what could be the reason Make sure you can relay (Relay button) and Connect (Connection button)... Both of these have to be set for you to succesfuly send mail this way. Cheers, Matei ...Show All

• .NET Development Double: keep only k significant figures

  Hi, I would like to round a Double to a given significant figures (ex: 50 bits). All functions that I have see, round or trunc to a given number of decimals, which is different: I want to round the same way very big and very small numbers. I wrote a piece of code that does almost what I need, but not exactly: public static double Clear2LessSignificantBits(double value){ ulong l = (ulong)BitConverter.DoubleToInt64Bits(value); l = l & 0xfffffffffffffffc; // c is 1100 so it clear the 2 last bits return BitConverter.Int64BitsToDouble((long)l); } 1. Is there a standard and efficient way of doing it 2. If not, does my function respect the standard [1] 3. To round, do I just have to read the valu ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem Authentication with reporting services.

  Hello everybody: I installed (settled) the example of authentification for reporting services supplied by Microsoft: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/ms160724.aspx For executed the example and after the recording of a new user, he(it) posts(shows) me in the same page this message: " Not valid Space of names” What is that somebody had the same problem Thank you very much. ...Show All

• SQL Server TEMPDB Grew to 118 gig

  I have one sql server 2000 that the log file grew to 118 over weekend I have since shrinked it.... I am monitoring it and now the MDF is at to 16 gig.... It seems the MDF and LDF are grewing at increasing rates. If i look in current activity i see locks/objects I always see tempdb.dbo.##lockinfo65 Lock type Tab Mode X owner xact But im not sure that means anything to me. This seems to have only started happening. Its almost like the checkpoint is not happening...(I was under the impression that tempdb does the checkpoint once its finished) How ofter does checkpoint occur how can i determine if it working or not Tracey Im not sure it happened at weekend....i got the error in log o ...Show All

• SQL Server TOP question

  Hi all, I suspect this is a pretty newbie question, but I've had a good trawl through the SQL Server 2005 documentation and I haven't been able to find an answer, and our resident database experts are not in at the moment. I'm using a SELECT TOP n query, and I would like to be able to know if the result set I get back was actually limited by the TOP or not. @@ROWCOUNT returns the number of rows in the result set, but I need to know if more rows would have been returned if the TOP wasn't there. I don't need to know the actual number of rows that would have been returned, just whether more would have been returned. I'd like to avoid having to run the query twice (SELECT TOP n COUNT(*) and SELECT TOP n), so I'm looking for some way t ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Skip executing activites or execute desired activity from Sequential Workflows

  Hi, We have a workflow requirement to Execute activity A then execute activity B, before executing activity C redirect to human user for response, wait for response, if response is positive, execute activity C, but we will never get negative response. Currently we are using Sequential Workflows. We are invloking these workflow from web services not from application, How to handle this in Sequential WF, because this WF will be executed as an new instance and activity A and B will executed again which we don't want. Is it possible to skip the activities A and B and jump onto the one of our interest e.g activity C or can we directly invoke workflow from activity C Due to varous other issues we don't want to use State Machine W ...Show All

• Windows Forms Refresh DataSet

  Hi There, I have created a simple form containing a DataGridView. DataGridView displays the detail of an account from database. Details updates every 4-6 seconds in the database. My question is that how can I refresh the data displayed in DataGriedView every 5-6 seconds. And how can I retrieve the data into Dataset every 5-6 seconds from the database, which is DataSource for DataGridView control. Here is my code. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ namespace DataGridViewSample { public partial class AccountForm : Form { public AccountForm() { InitializeComponent(); DataTable dataTable = GetAccountDetails().Tab ...Show All