Michael Riffel's Q&A profile

• SQL Server xp_sendmail does not send the mail

  Hi, I have a Microsoft 2003 Server, with SQL Server Standard Edition 8.00.760(SP3) installed. I am using Microsoft Outlook 2002 (10.2627.2625) like my default mail and I have defined a Outlook profile "AutoSend" to use with SQL Mail with a email account POP3 configured. In the Enterprise Manager, I assigned and tested this profile in the SQL Mail settings. It was fine. In Fact, when I send a mail with xp_sendmail to my email account, it execute and display the messages: Mail sent. But, the mail never was sent, it was in the outbox. How Can I configure it to send mail Note: I don't have a Exchange Mail Serve ...Show All

• Windows Forms Status Bar - why do i have to scroll to see it?

  I have this problem every time i use a status panel - and i never know how i actually 'solved' the issue, but now i have a large complicated winform with many panels etc. Anyway, my issue is that I want my statusbar to ALWAYS appear no matter what the size of the form is.  I have added a statusbar to the form itself and set the dock property to bottom.  The Winform has the 'AutoScroll' set to true. Any ideas   The 'DEFAULT' behavior should be to always show the statusbar on bottom and not require scrolling to see it (in my opinion) that makes sense, and thats what i will do. thanks ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can the Date-Time picker value be set to characters (or cleared)?

  Howdy folks, We have an application that uses a Date-Time picker. Currently it's set to default to today's date. The users don't like that because they normally need to enter a date 1 to 3 days ago. Instead of having a default date that they could forget to enter, they would like to have the field default to the text 'MM/DD/YYYY' and force the user to enter it. I thought that perhaps we could just set the default date to 1/1/1900 or something like that and then check if that's the value when they submit the form submit the form (Windows Forms App, not web). They didn't like that idea and would like it to read 'MM/DD/YYYY' ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) z-order in XAML?

  Hi, is there any way to change Z-Order in XAML It would be really helpful as not removing and adding items in code Greetings I have a couple of images in a Listbox (bind from dataset) where i have swapped the regular itemspanelfor a wrapPanel instead. With the help of triggers I managed to change the zIndex for the image thats for examples is mouseover and the result is that the image in focus is on top of the others... < Style TargetType = " {x:Type ListBoxItem} " > < Style.Triggers > < Trigger Property = " IsMouseOver " Value = " True " > < Setter Property = " ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Saving to NVRAM - Filesystem?

  I want to save XML files in NVRAM until they are transmitted to a web service.  Where on the file system can I save these   What's volatile, whats not... Any tips/recommendations Thanks. The files on windows CE are stored in the object store in RAM or in a storage card. These files are persistent if closed properly across processes. Hence, you can shutdown your process and start it up later and still have access to your data. If you want a more detailed description of the windows CE file system see this book: "Programming microsoft windows CE .NET" (chapter 8) Thanks, Sandy ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WorkflowWebRequestContext in Beta 2.2

  I just installed Beta 2.2 and ASP.NET sample code, but ASP.NET sample failed to compile. It says WorkflowWebRequestContext is not available in the default.aspx.cs. When I looked at the help file, I can see that WorkflowWebRequestContext class should belong to System.Workflow.Runtime.Hosting, but when I look at the classes in that namespace, I can't find it. I can see other classes in that namespace such as WorkflowWebHostingModule. Anyone has any idea what might be wrong Thank you, Brian Yeah! I happen to have the same problem too! it's ASPNETWorkflowExample 2006-01-14. It won't run because ...Show All

• Visual C# Collection

  I am attempting to create a collection where store and modify multiple entries (i.e. Key, FirstName, LastName, Address, City, Phone, etc). I have attempted to use the CollectionBase but have not been able to add more that 2 objects. Can anyone tell me how to do this or the best way. Thanks You should create a struct, and then create a dictionary of them ( probably, so that you can look them up by a key ). ...Show All

• Visual Basic Misterious warning dependency 'Microsoft.VisualBasic.Compatibility' could not be found

  My solution consist of more than 30 projects. Whole solution is written on C#. It is compiled always successfully, but with very weird warning: dependency 'Microsoft.VisualBasic.Compatibility' could not be found. Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll doesn't include 'Microsoft.VisualBasic.Compatibility' namespace Propably it's the reason of some mistakes of mine. Pls, if somebody knows what to do, inform me. I will tell you about any details You might check out topic at - it sounds related to your problem: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;en-us;834610 Hope this helps Robert Schoen (MS Visual Basic QA) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions deployment error

  I have created a wonderful windows application with visual C# express, this is quite a feat since I new nothing of programming before I started. Thanks to lots of help from articles and forum entries. Thank you. My issue is I can "click once publish" and install on my production machince xppro and when I try to install on another machine xphome, I simply get the application has encountered a problem and wants to send an error report to microsoft. Any thoughts on how to get more information I am using MSAccess database, directx and interlop to word all installed on the other machine also. hmmmm. help ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Problem with setup and use a GPRS RasEntry...

  Hi everyone, Does anyone has already played with a PocketPC with GSM cellular I’m with a Eten P300B and I’m having some difficults to create and manage DialUp accounts (RasEntry). When I’m creating an Entry trough the Windows Mobile UI, I have to select the "Cellular Line (GPRS)" device and enter a access point name ("tim.br"). I always used the RasGetEntryProperties and RasSetEntryProperties functions to create and manage RasEntry, but I don’t know how to specify value to fill the "Access Point Name" option. If I create the dialup and call the RasDial() function, it connects without problems, but if I need to c ...Show All

• Visual Basic Adding Sound

  How to play sound in my Windows Form http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=13162&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Deploying .net Apps on a machine without .net framework

  hi Can I deploy my .net application on a windows 2000 workstation without .net framework installed on it. sunil Not quite sure why W2k is a problem  The framework runs on w98 as well so what does w2k have to do with it ...Show All

• Windows Forms how can i programaticaly delete the selected item (row) from a listview with 3 or more columns ?

  Hi. I make a form with a listview. I managed to programaticaly add items on the listview but dont know how to edit or remove the selected rows. Can anyone help me Thx. The ListView control's MultiSelect property is set to true by default. If the user selects more than one item, your code will only delete the first one. If you set ListView.MultiSelect = false, then this code is fine. ...Show All

• SQL Server Mapping columns in custom Destination component

  I am working on a destination component where the columns in the destination are already set.  I want to give the user the option to map columns, similar to the way the Excel destination component does it.  So, the Available Input Columns could be mapped to Available Destination Columns.  The Available Input Columns would come from a connection from some other component (either a source or a transformation component), and the Available Destination Columns would be generated from the Data Source. Is there a way to do this without creating a custom ui Man, I suspected it had to do with the ex ...Show All

• SQL Server Internet Merge Replication IIS

  Maybe I am missing something here, but it seems like the point of doing Merge Replication via IIS is so that you do not have to expose your DB server directly to the internet (i.e. all your clients), rather you expose a webserver to the internet and the webserver handles the replication keeping your DB server closed to direct internet access and thus keeping it more secure. However, to set up Internet Merge Replication using IIS a client has to have direct internet access to the DB server as a stored procedure needs to be run on the publisher. So Internet Merge Replciation using IIS makes it so your DB does not have to be directly expo ...Show All