penguin666's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms "additional information"

  Hey guys, Would it be too hard to put a status indicator on the web site somewhere indicating the availability of the server.  Ie, a red or green light representing the server status being available or not would be a nice feature. I for on ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do you change the name of projects? How do you edit the projects list that comes up in studio 2005

  I imported a project from VB .NET 2003 to VB 2005 and played with it and had some issues. Meanwhile changes were made in the original VB .NET 2003, so I want to redo the process but not erase the first import. So I figured all I need to do is change the name of the project and everything should be good. I can find no way to change the name of the project and the listing in the list that comes up when you first go into VB 2005 of the availabl ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista SqlStatePersistenceService

  Hi while trying examples at lab10 and sql state persistence all the time an exception of type System.ArgumentException is risen with text 'unable to open database exception'. I have SQL Server 8 installed on my machine in addition to SQL Server 2005 CTP. Could that be disturbing Ho do I communicate to SQL Server 2005 CTP in order to differ to what appear to be SQL Server 8 What are credentials fot SQL Server 2005 CTP Any ideas -Adis ...Show All

• SQL Server sp_dropsubscription, article

  Hi There I needed to change a column definition for a published table. I did the following. sp_dropsubscription for publication specifying the one article. sp_droparticle for the specific publication/artcile BOL is not very clear here, i presume this drops the subscription ONLY for the 1 article , correct Secondly i then altered the table accordingly then ran sp_addarticle for the publication/article then sp_addsubscription for the newly define ...Show All

• Visual Basic Dump locals?

  Is it possible somehow to dump/access all locals when hitting a exception in VB.NET 2005 Today I use reflection to dump all public variables into a mail, but what I really want is to dump the "locals". Is it possible to access them somehow ...Show All

• Visual C++ Find symbol fails if function has different parameter name in declaration and implementation

  I'm working on a legacy codebase where, for some functions, the declaration in the .H file and the implementation in the .CPP file differ with respect to the parameter names. Example: ----- Foo.h ----- void Foo( int aa); ----- Foo.cpp ----- #include "Foo.h" void Foo( int a) {     SleepEx (a, TRUE); } void Bar() {     Foo (1);     Foo (2);  &n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to call a B function/method of a MDI parent (Form1)

  How to call a B function/method of a MDI parent (Form1) from a MDI child (Form2) of that parent (Using C++.) I already attempted to use examples of this site but it somehow does not work for me. Please, how can one refer to Form1's method Thanks for any guidance for a beginner. You've asked this a few times now. I'd say that you need to post some code to make more clear what you're trying ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Agent Failing when trying to run my SSIS Package

  My SQL Agent was working fine.  Now when I try to run it, it failes when trying to run my SSIS package.  I looked in the logs, and job history, no luck in finding any critical errors. My SSIS package runs fine through VS 2005 in debug mode. Here are the only errors: 01/04/2006 09:53:48,,Warning,[396] An idle CPU condition has not been defined - OnIdle job schedules will have no effect 01/04/2006 09:53:48,,Warning,[260] Unable ...Show All

• Windows Forms Control.ControlCollection reordering

  I am building a custom tab control from scratch using vs.net 1.0   Tabs are drawn in the order they appear in the ControlCollection. When a tab is clicked, the tabpage’s visible property is set to true, and the previously selected tabpages visible property is set to false.   Sometimes when I change the visible property, the ControlCollection reorders and the tabpages’ indexes change. Since the tabs are drawn based ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server CTP 16 - Failure to set maintenance plan

  We are miserably failing to setup maintenance plans in SQL Server CTP 16 (Sep. 2005). Has anyone tried and suceeded We were able to use it in CTP 15 (first CTP that it worked for us). I'm pasting the error we receive on screen - TITLE: Maintenance Plan Wizard Progress ------------------------------ Create maintenance plan failed. ------------------------------ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Create failed for JobStep 'Subplan'.  (Microsoft.SqlS ...Show All

• Windows Forms mouse position in vb?!

  in my application i have this stadart  c# code to capture the mouse position if m.Msg == WM_NCRBUTTONDOWN {                     mousePos.x = (short)((uint)m.LParam & 0x0000FFFFU);             ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista sql service doesnt work

  Hi,  Adding a SqlPersistanceService to my workflow host causes the workfow to abort when it tries to persist.  Unfortunatly the WorkflowAbort events arguments don't realy tell me anything usefull. The database is SQl Server 2000 sp3a and the persistance setup scripts have been executed creating the required tables and sp's. Initialising the SqlPersistanceService instance with a valid connections string causes no errors (indic ...Show All

• Visual Basic Datetimepicker with checkbox

  I am using a datetimepicker with a property Showcheckbox set to true. the custom format is "MM/dd/yyyy". After entering the (month, or the day, or the year) the cursor, instead of moving to the next, it focuses on the checkbox control.. for example: 1) Input (MM): 03 2) Focus: Checkbox 3) Input (dd) 04: 4) Focus: Checkbox 5) Input (yyyy): 2006 6) Focus: Checkbox Is there any solution to this error Please ...Show All

• Visual Basic Creating a cluster application with visual basic

  I have a application build in VB and the connection to the data base is using ODBC. Mi question is : what should  I do to my code run in a cluster environment, Im using  SQL server 2000 If your app is a client app then the main thing you have to accomplish in this senerio is to make sure that your ODBC connection string points to the correct machine - the server where the data actually resides... ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Translate visual foxpro suorce code in php language

  I see a nice application vfp 9.0, but how i can translate the source code in php language mdinu, That would wholly depend on the VFP application's source code and whether there are equivalents for everything in PHP. If you are looking for some kind of automated converter for VFP -> PHP, I'm afraid there isn't one. However, if there is something specific that the VFP application is doing and you are of the mind to post some of the co ...Show All