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Visual Studio Express Editions VB + SQL server vs Access
I am very new to programming etc so I may be misunderstanding the situation, but my question is this: VB.Net Express is a programming language which comes with database functionality via SQL Server Express, whereas Access is a Database which is programmable via VBA. So, if one is developing a (fairly simple) database based application what are the pros and cons of using one set of software tools versus the other Thanks for any insights. Eric ...Show All
Windows Forms "Don't show again" MessageBox
Hi! Does anybody know any way to display a messagebox showing a standard message with a "Don't show again this message" check box I know that standard MessageBox does not provide this feature and wouldn't like to create a standard form for that because I will have to reimplement many other features like icons, localized buttons etc. Any ideas I remember that such things could be done using win32 API back in vb6. I'm not ...Show All
Smart Device Development How to re-assign desktop menu item(Soft key button)?
I want to implement setting the desktop menu item programmelly, as the TMAIL.EXE does. When a message comes, the right soft key button becomes "Message". HWND hDesktop=::FindWindow(_T("DesktopExplorerWindow"),_T("")); HWND hDesktopMenu=SHFindMenuBar(hDesktop); I can get the menu window handle by the code above. But I cannot get the menu handle (HMENU). HMENU hMenu=(HMENU)SendMessage(hDesktopMenu, SHCMBM ...Show All
SQL Server FlatFile connection and security
My DTS package, deployed and run from the file system, works just fine for me, but fails when someone else runs it. The only explicit error from the dtexec command is: Error: 2005-06-24 12:35:03.33 Code: 0xC0016016 Source: Description: Failed to decrypt protected XML node "DTS:Password" with error 0x8009000B "Key not valid for use in specified state.". You may not be authorized to access this informa ...Show All
Software Development for Windows Vista SDK for low speed connection?
Far from the town, i have a low speed connection.. :-( For me, 1 Go is a dream I will never reach .....!!! Is there any other way to get the Last SDK OK.... I'm going to try to find a faster freind's connection :-) Thanks for your answer best regards ...Show All
Visual C++ 'static binding' with C++/CLI?
After asking this question in the VC++ Express forum and not receiving a single answer I gather this forum section might be a better place to search for answers. I have a C++/CLI solution I created in VS2005 Express consisting of a windows forms project (the main programm) and a few libraries - now I'd like to create a single executable instead of an executable and a bunch of dll files. As I can't create static C++/CLI libraries (or can I ) ...Show All
Windows Forms Simple multiple form application
I have an application with two forms, FrmLogin and FrmMain. When application opens up, FrmLogin pops up for authentication, once successful, FrmMain should open and FrmLogin should close. Looks like I can not close the FrmLogin! Any idea Thanks. This is&nbs ...Show All
Visual Studio Express Editions Passing an unknown type of a menu in a method.
Hi All, Can somebody help me with the following issue. I want to pass a menu item to a method of a class. What happens if I do not know the type of the menu in advance (could be Visual Basic's menu or a menu item of a third party manufacturer ( Xceed or Sandbar etc). I think the only way is to pass it as an object and handle it in the target function. But as I do not know the type of the menu, it is not possible to manipulate ...Show All
Windows Forms Image in Menu Bar
Hi, I'm trying to create a menu bar for our application to display a busy icon, Internet Explorer globe style. The closest I can come seems to be creating a menu bar using flat buttons on a toolbar, setting the dock to none, and then addin ...Show All
Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. colorvalue in progressive mesh sample
Hi, new to DirectX in C#, not in C++. In the August 2005 DirectX sdk update, there is a sample in C# called "Progressive Mesh". When I compile this sample, I get 36 errors, all of which are type or namespace missing errors. Here's an example. 'ColorValue', which is supposed to be of the Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D namespace simple does not appear to be there. MSDN says it's part of the namespace, auto-complete does not.&nb ...Show All
Visual C# attributes
Could someone explain me(or give me an url) to understand attribute between [ ] before class or methods [..........] public class(--) THX Attributes provide extra information for properties, classes and assemby's. For example the [SerializableAttribute] on a class, specifice that the class can be Serialized. When you create a Control, all public properties will be shown in the Property grid in the designer in Visual Studio. But m ...Show All
Windows Forms CLickonce without the publish.htm
Is there a way to make the program just open up instead of the user hitting the run button I’ve got to ask first... are you looking for a way to just not need the Install button to be clicked but still leave the regular security warning intact Given that all the Install button does is direct you to setup.exe, you could do a add a META tag at the top of the publish.htm file (often within <HEAD>) a ...Show All
SQL Server Table partitioning with multiple key coulmns
Hi champs! I have one table with around 600 million records. I want to partition this table on 5 different coulumns. year, month. coulumn3, coulumn4 and coulumn5. How do I do this best What is the best way of doing this; is there any best practice on ths The obvious thing is to make a partition funktion based on the year and month coulmns, but I also want to partition on coulumn3, coulumn4 and coulumn5. Many thanks K ...Show All
Windows Forms XML Editor "Bug"
This isn't a Winforms specific bug, however I'm not exactly sure where to post VS.NET related bugs. The XML editor provided in VS.NET doesn't properly 'ignore' the CDATA tag. <tag> <![CDATA[it shouldn't matter what I put here <><dsflkj&g ...Show All
Visual Studio How can I listen to the key strike events of the code edit window?
I want to listen to the events which happend when key strikes in the code edit window Through the Automation Object Model Chart, I only find the class TextEditorEvents is related, but it is not strong enough to fulfill my work. I believe that there exist any means to get some information when key down, key up or something else, cause the famous add-in CodeRush has done it, But I don't know how. ...Show All