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• SQL Server select query with a join

  We have a product and product_log table with the following data: Product table Product_code Prod_desc retail_price Is_seachable avaialbility 30001 Product one 35.50 0 L 30002 Product two 45.50 0 D 30003 Product three 15.99 1 I             Product_log table Product_log_id Product_code Ins-user Ins_dt ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Error 1 Unable to find manifest signing certificate in the certificate store.

  I am getting this error when trying to publish my program: Error 1 Unable to find manifest signing certificate in the certificate store. I went into the SIGNING tab and un-selected the SIGN THE CLICKONCE MANIFESTS but when publishing, it automatically re-selects it and I get that error. Suggestions Brian The following thread has some details which may be relevent about signing your assembly for clicko ...Show All

• SQL Server Couldn't connect to MSDE

  Hi all, I'm developing smart device application in VB.NET. I couldn't make the connection with MSDE. MSDE is on the same machine where i'm developing my apps. & testing the result with emulator. (NOt using RDA or Replication).Simply using ADO.NET commands to select a table from MSDE engine. Connection strings that i've tried: In a stand alone System: 1)strconnection = "Server = 10.0.0.7;" & "Data Source =HOME\MYINS,1029 ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Deserialization in while loop

  Hi, I am experiencing a performance problem in Beta 2 using a SequentialWorkflow. Every iteration of the loop attempts to deserialize the activities and that is not desirable since, in my case, a delay of a couple of seconds results. Can this deserialization be stopped by setting the UnloadOnIdle flag to false I am not explicity using a PersistenceService and do not wish to use the SqlStatePersistenceService. I have also seen a refer ...Show All

• Windows Forms microsoft access and Visual Basic.net 2003

  i am using microsoft access and visual basic.net 2003...there is a problem i am facing.....i want to use wild cards in my query...i have created a oledb datarader and passed him a wildcards query that is working fine in access but it is not producing any results with datareader......any ideas... Thanks Leburn it worked. one more thing how can i use wildcards with numbers     ...Show All

• SQL Server Neither the partner nor the witness server instance for data...

  I am getting this error while trying to setup mirroring. "Neither the partner nor the witness server instance for database "shop" is available. Reissue the command when at least one of the instances becomes available. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 1431)" I am just using principal and mirror server, there is no witness server. I have tried fully qualified name and ip for the servers also. I can connect from the principal s ...Show All

• Visual Basic ADO/Access Questions

    I've had a moderate amount of of experience with access databases in vb6. We'd declare a file system object and from that declare a workspace and from that a record set descriptor. One could picture and understand what was happening. VS2005 is different though. You could create and delete tables and define them dynamically. VS2005 seems to be different. It seems that things are done up front in the IDE Almost as if the relatio ...Show All

• Visual C# Selecting a pixel region ?

  Hi. Let's say I have a picture box with an image loaded in it...what I want to do is to select a certain region with pixels from this pictureBox and display them in another pictureBox...is there a way to do this... Thanks in advance! You need to use Graphics class. For example, you have Bitmap1 and want to get in Bitmap2 copy of region from Bitmap1. using (Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(bitmap2)) { g.DrawI ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) December CTP Namespace Mapping problem

  I have a scenario where I'm binding to a data object. Worked fine in the Nov release, but in the december release, It's telling me the mapping statement is missing the assembly attribuite. As such, the xaml won't complie. I tried creating a new window and trying a basic mapping statemenet as the only modification, and that fails too. Any feedback   my mapping statement is something like < Mapping xmlnamespace="blah" clrnamespace ...Show All

• .NET Development Who's using .Net?

  I am just starting using VB.Net and loving it. But can anyone point to an example of an application created using .Net It seems as if Microsoft doesn't make many apps with it. I am trying to show coworkers some examples. Thanks, Chris Our company is building a humongous Web appliation that when deployed will be used around the world. I'v eseen several bank financial institutions use .NET There are thousan ...Show All

• .NET Development howto modify a label's/textboxe's value that is a membr of a form in the windows application project from a web service project?

  i want to ask "how to modify a label's/textboxe's value that is a member of a form in the windows application project from a web service project " In my solution there are three projects! one of them is ASP.NET web service, other is classLibrary and another is a windows application... (build order 1.win app, 2.classLib,3.WebServ). firstly i create then show a login form(name: loginForm) that is in my win app project. then when user lo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Auto Update Versioning Info

  When publishing vbexpress application, you can specify that it increases the version number each time, and it does indeed create different published versions with the updated versioning in the name of the folders/files. However, the splash screen displays the versioning info from the Application dialogs, that do NOT increment. Any way to modify splash screen to reference the incrementing publish versioning info, or to get the Application version ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Making Persistent State Machine WorkFlows

  Hi I am a beginner in the Workflow foundation. I have made a workflow using state machine workflow. Can any one pls help me to make the workflow persistent. I need to store these values into the DB and then retrive it when the app user logs back into the application any help would be highly appreciated thanks in advance Bala Hi Bala, There are samples regarding using Out Of Box SQL for Wo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Creating Shortcuts For Applications/Files

  Hello Again Everyone, Once again I am asking for help from all you wonderful people here in the Visual Basic Forum. I have developed a nice small application that runs great and does everything I want it to do.  I would like to include code in the 'Installation' application that I created to create a normal application shortcut to place in the Startup Menu that points to the application I am installing and possibly to place a shortcut on th ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataBinding to ComboBox, setting to -1 index

  I am making a database interface with VS 2003.  I use a bunch of comboboxes so that the user can select from a list of items stored in the database.  For example, a user chooses a Tester for a particular test, the list of Testers is in a seperate table.  I am generating the combobox list with databinding, but I want to have it default to -1 index, just like a combobox does when you manually add items.  I have tried setting th ...Show All