SPWilkinson's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development How to set menu bar's font size?

  How to set menu bar's font size Thx. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Home screen plugin in Motorola Q

  I have compiled and successfully deployed the Smartphone Home Screen pluing memplug sample that comes with the Smartphone 5.0 SDK. Unfortunately on the Motorola Q this plugin does not work. I get an error "The layout that you have selected cannot be Installed ... " I can't read the rest of the message as it goes off screen and I can't scroll. The plugin was successfully signed and I run sdkcerts.cab on the device. I don't see any new certificates under Settings->Security->Certificates->Personal. Are these certificates supposed to be stored under personal or root Not sure if this is the problem. Has anyone been successful getting a Home screen plugin to work on the Motorola Q Thanks in advance ...Show All

• Visual Basic First chance 'system.invalidcastexception"

  A first chance exception of type 'System.InvalidCastException' occurred in Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll In the immediate window, I keep getting up to 6 of the above exceptions. The program runs normally. They seemed to start appearing when I write e.graphics..drawstring code. I don't know if that has anything to do with it. What would be a common cause of these exceptions The above tells me nothing. Try setting Option Strict ON. The exception you are getting indicates there is a problem with casting a value between types. Option Strict will help identify type casting issues at compile time rather than run time. Jim Wooley ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to add duplicate datacolumn to datatable

  Hi All, How can we add a duplicate column to datatable. I already had a column named "Action" in my datatable, and i want a duplicate column to "Action". Note: Actually the datatable is being filled from dataset. I cannot change the Sql Query because those are predefined by analysts. Thanks in advance. Hi Ken, Thank you so much. This was very helpful. But there is one more query in it. I will change the value of action field when certain key is pressed. But that should not be reflected in 'action2'. Because I want to compare original action and changed action. Whenver I change the 'action' and click on some other cell, the value of that field is being changed in 'action2' also. That sh ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Using LINQ to SQL-enable legacy database

  Hi, I am new to LINQ and I just wanted a quick check with you guys on a question that I have but couldn't find answer to it yet. I have a database and I want to make it support SQL. Currently, it has a query language which is SQL-like, but for the future I want to use LINQ or SQL to access it. Is this possible Regards At this point LINQ to SQL only works with SQL Server/SQL Express databases. There will be a provider model with LINQ to enable people to be able to create mapping structures to other data stores using the LINQ language features. Without knowing what flavor of database you are using it is impossible to know whether anyone is planning on implementing a provider for it at this point. Jim Wooley http://devauthority.com ...Show All

• Visual Basic Why not 'Unsafe'?

  Why not let VB programmers write faster code with Unsafe keyword I don't mean changing anything specific, but just remove array bounds check and things like that, because I believe Unsafe is a good method in a few cases where performance is an issue. I don't think it is a hard thing to enable this functionality, because C# compiles IL code which VB can compile as well. I know that it has never been the purpose of VB to let programmers do dangerous things, but advanced users could use some discretion, and get rid of ever switching to other languages for doing such things. VB has the capabilities of doing messy things in an orderly manner! And about the -> operator, I realized that it is quite unnecessary. the 'dot' operato ...Show All

• SQL Server AS2005. strange Error in MDX.

  Hi AS Fathers, If AS runs under account with no english locale (for example 'de' or 'ru') , the following query select {[Product].[Dealer Price].&[1 . 374]} on 0 from [Adventure Works] returns nothing, but this one select {[Product].[Dealer Price].&[1 , 374]} on 0 from [Adventure Works] returns a member with unique name [Product].[Dealer Price].&[1 . 374] Under such circumstances it isn't possible to select element from member list in oder to set filter etc. ...Show All

• SQL Server Viewing Asian Fonts in SQL Server Management Studio

  How do you configure SQL Server Management Studio to display Asian fonts, either in Open Table or Query Analyzer I can copy & paste the data in a cell into Word Pad to see the Asian text, but not in SQL Server Management Studio. I am running Windows XP Professional with SQL Server Enterprise Edition. Any help would be appreciated! I haven't tried this with 2005, but in 2000 you would need to set the fonts up in the "Regional And Language Options" part of Control Panel. Then it would show the fonts in Query Analyzer. I would guess you need to do the same for 2005. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. build problems (in fact, cant build at all)

  Hello, i need your help badly... Started to have some interests in mechcommander2 source codes about 5 days ago. Downloaded and installed all files necessary ;Mechcommander 2 shared source code,  Xna, Framework, etc... Then i try to build the code...How do i do i searched and finally found something:in visual express, there is a dos command...doesnt work. But, acessed with the shortcut in the start menu, it can be opened. Doing what is told in the webcasts, i type '' C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\msbuild.exe C:\MechCommander2 Source\BuildProj\mechcommander2.proj It doesnt work. Why Cause (i think) DOS takes C:\Mechcommander as a command Then, i rename the folder, deleting the space between m ...Show All

• Visual C# How to prevent a property value to be saved in designer.cs?

  I'm writing a DecimalEdit user control now, which has many "overloaded" Value properties. The real Value property is a decimal: private decimal myValue = 0; [ Description("The stored value in DecimalEdit"), DefaultValue(typeof(decimal), "0") ] public decimal Value { get { return value; } set { myValue = value; } } Until this, there is no problem, property Value stored in designer.cs only if it is not 0. But the control has other properties, too (like AsObject, AsDouble, AsString, etc.), which help to get and set also myValue, therefore I do not want to save their redundant value into the designer.cs file So for example, the AsObject property: ...Show All

• Visual Basic accessing information in an opend word document

  I am trying to create an application that will open a Microsoft Word document then be able to access what the user types in to it. I'm using visual studio 2005. I have opened the document in two different ways; using the shell method and creating a new variable as a process, but once the word document is open, I cannot figure out how to access it's information. If anyone knows how to make the ms word application save, copy/paste, or knows a way for my application to access its information let me know. I've created the application once using a RichTextBox built in to my application, but my client (I'm a college intern in over my head in software development) prefers to enter the data in MS Word. Any replies are appreciated ...Show All

• Visual C# How To Create a Delagate in a TypeConverter

  Hello, I have a Component witth the following field [ DefaultValue ( null )] [ TypeConverter ( typeof ( HandlerConverter ))] public EventHandler Handler { get { return handler; } set { handler = value ; } } in the TypeConverter I try to Create a delagate but it failed with ArgumentException public override object ConvertFrom( ITypeDescriptorContext context, System.Globalization. CultureInfo culture, object value) { if (value is string ) { object res = null ; try { IDesignerHost host = ( IDesignerHost )context.Container; MethodInfo m = Type .GetType(host.RootComponentClassName).GetMethod(( string )value, BindingFlags .Instance | BindingFlags .NonPublic | BindingFlags .Public) ...Show All

• SQL Server Adding Integration Services Node in Server Management Studio

  Hi, Am just getting started with SSIS. Based on an article I saw online, I would expect to find an "Integration Services" node in Server Management Studio, but I don't see this node. I'm trying to create and execute a simple package. Running...  Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.1116 (Intel X86)     Apr  9 2005 20:56:37     Copyright (c) 1988-2004 Microsoft Corporation     Beta Edition on Windows NT 5.2 (Build 3790: Service Pack 1) ...on a named instance. Thanks, krog I am trying to connnect through Object Browser, but I am getting Access Denied error.  Please note I am not the Admin on the box.    What kind of permission I nee ...Show All

• SQL Server SSRS: user unable to view reports if he is not an admin

  Hi, I have couple of reports deployed on a server. My User is unable to view any reports if he aint the admin on the server.. I have added the user to Report Manager and Report Server also but no luck. Dear, Do the user have access to the reporting server database. The shared datasource will not work for the user accessing it over the network. HTH Regards sufian ...Show All

• Visual C# Start application with parameter in a shortcut.

  Hi, I'm trying to find out a way to start my C# application with a parameter (e.g. "c:\program files\applikation.exe /parameter") in a shortcut and the application should detect the parameter and use it differently from when I start it without the parameter. Is there a way to do so Regards Tobbe Every application got a Main method. You can access the parameters from the Main method. The Main Method is defined as : " static void Main(string[] args)", and the "args" is the parameter strings' array. e.g. "c:\program files\applikation.exe /parameter" So you can't use these code to determine where the application go: static void Main(string[] args) { ...Show All