Alex Simkin's Q&A profile

• Visual C# Windows Service

  i have 2 applications, one is windows application, the other is windows service. the windows application must start and stop the windows service. so i neeed to have, a setup that can install both at the same. the windows application must start and stop the service. is that possible i have other question, when i desinstall the program can it stop the service and desinstall the windows service and the windows application my purpose is to make a p ...Show All

• .NET Development Async sockets, receive callback problem

  Hi, I'm writing an async socket server that transport custom serialized objects. However, I ran into a problem when sending a lot of messages in a loop from the server to the client. To simplify matters I shortened my test code: Here I'm sending some data to the client... for ( int i = 0; i < 100; i++) { state.WorkSocket.BeginSend(b, 0, b.Length, SocketFlags.None, sendCallback, state); }   The client receives the data and processe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions A problem connecting to the database. Cant update it from the program

  hello. i started to learn visual basic 2005 express edition. and i learn it from the tutorial in MSDN. i came to the "managing your records: using data in your programs" topic. i did everything the tutorial says: create a database, making a table in the database, adding the database to the "data sources" and creating a dataset. then i carried the table, that i created in the database, onto the form, as the tutorial says. ever ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Build Process and Changesets

  Hello, I have the following scenario: 1) Daily builds for the development team 2) Weekly builds for the QA team, built from a branch/merge of the development tree In a related post ( http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=181767&SiteID=1 ), I noticed that the build can be configured to skip the changesets and workitem updates. However, since the targets file is shared, is it possible to skip the process for daily b ...Show All

• Visual Basic Random Assortment

  How do you randomly assort a string of values This is to virtually "shuffle" cards. You can use the Fisher-Yates shuffle to produce a good random distribution of objects: ' Some things to shuffle Dim myStrings() As String = {"One", "Two", "Three", "Four", "Five"} ' Our random number source Dim rand As New Random For i As Integer = 0 To myStrings.Length - 1 ' Pick an element to sw ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do I add a common click event to a set of dynamically created controls? (2005 beta 2)

  The code below works fine... except I want to hook the buttons to a common event handled for click events. Sorry about the formatting... Public Class Form1 Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load Dim iX As Integer Dim iY As Integer Dim iNum As Integer Dim objNew As Object iNum = 1 'Creates an array of 100 buttons btnNum1 through btnNum100 For iY = 1 To 10 For iX = 1 To 10 objNe ...Show All

• Visual Basic ActiveX Web Browser - Is this possible?

  I was wondering if someone could tell me if the following is possible, and perhaps set me on the right track: Create an ActiveX Web Browser on a form, navigate to a certain page, programatically click links on said page, programatically manipulate a drop-down box on the page, programatically click a button on the page, capture the pop-up web browser which comes up and parse the data from that browser. I would be most grateful for any help I mi ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Binding to a list box item in code

  The ItemSource for my ListBox is a queue<>. Based on a property in the text of each item in the queue, I need to determine its foreground color. I want to use data binding in C# code to do this, but cannot figure out how. You want to use DataTemplates and Triggers. The MSDN documentation for Data Templates should help here. http://winfx.msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wcp_conceptual/html/0f4 ...Show All

• Visual C# How to update a dataset from a datagridview

  Hi, I have created a datagridview and created a dataset by using the wizard of the datagridview. The datagridview displays the information fine and when running the application I can add new records in the datagrid view. The question is when I leave the form how do I get my dataset of the datagridview to update the database. this is the code to load the data to the datagridview this .serverListTableAdapter.Fill( this .serverListDataSet ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Notifyicon with contextmenu and no form.

  Hello, i just downloaded and installed the Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition (C#). I want to make a small app, where a small notifyicon is the "program", it should poll XML/RSS feeds, and then show up in balloontips. But i can't find a way to remove the form, and only startup the notifyicon. Your question has been moved from the Installing and registering Visual Studio Express Editions to the Visual C# Express Edition foru ...Show All

• SQL Server Consume HTTP EndPoint

  Hello, I have problems consuming webservice, I was following this page. http://codebetter.com/blogs/raymond.lewallen/archive/2005/06/23/65089.aspx but in the intelisense the method returns an array of objects[], So I have a problem with this line. localhost. GetEmployees sd = new localhost. GetEmployees (); sd.Credentials = System.Net. CredentialCache .DefaultCredentials; DataSet ds = ( DataSet )(sd.EmployeeList() ...Show All

• .NET Development Student needs help

  Hello out there. I am a new student at the local college and i'm having a problem with this code. The debugger says that BillingCycle is not defined. Can someone help me Public Class WorkDay Private mdteDayWorked As Date Private msngHoursWorked As Single Private msngHoursBilled As Single Private mintProjectNumber As Integer 'Default constructor ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2005 Supports strongly typed variables/parameters?

  Hi, Does SQL Server 2005 support strongly typed variables/parameters i.e can we have a stored proc with input parameter that directly maps to a table column similarly also for local variables.. makes the tables the only point of change when datatypes in tables change Or as a workaround, can we define a UDT that can maps directly to a table column and then use that UDT in an SP parameter You define a UDT and ...Show All

• Windows Forms MS Exchange Data Connectivity

  Hi folks; I was hoping you could help me.  I need to know the best way to connect to an exchange mailboxes through Visual Studio.  I know there is an OLE Provider for Exchange, but I need to connect to over 2 dozen production Ema ...Show All

• Visual J# J# is causing problems for me like usual.

  I have just finished the problem before and then saved my work. I always leave the program running for a while after I save to make sure it saves. The problem is J# will no longer let me access my code, because it wants somthing from the USB key that I backed up to. Unfortunatly I do not have the USB key right now and I need to access the code does any one know how to do that. Sorry about all of the question I keep asking. This is a major ...Show All