Luis Alonso Ramos's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Loading Crystal Reports Report, How To Stop Prompt Enter Login ID And Password, This Never Happen Before

  How do I stop VB from asking me this I want to view the Crystal Report immediately without the prompt. With a simpler version of my application, it never asked me this. Thank you, Christopher Lusardi This is a pretty common problem. So common that they created a nice knowledge base article on it which I think should shed some light on the situation. http://support.businessobjects.com/library/kbase/articles/c2010371.asp In addit ...Show All

• Windows Forms retaining focus

  My form must load and the first field must be focused upon.  I can do this just fine. However, I'm working on a project where the user has a bar-code reader sleeve on his iPaq.  This simply acts like a SIP and saves him time  ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I make datagrid display the caption instead of the name of datatable column?

  I add my columns to my datatable in the following way: private static DataColumn AddColumn( DataTable dt, DataColumn dc, string name, Type type, string label, string def ) { dc = new DataColumn(name, type); //add name and type of datacolumn dc.Caption = label; //add label to datacolumn (what the users see) dc.DefaultValue = def; //add default value to data column dt.Columns.Add(dc); //add the datacolumn to the table return ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Next WCF CTP?

  My project is currently using the January CTP bits, and we refrained from moving to the February drop because we want to avoid the overhead of switching to every new build that comes out. March and April, however, proved to be CTP-less months, and the more work we do with the January code, the more we feel we might have to rewrite bits. We already have things we know will require reworking for February, but the more time passes, the more we'r ...Show All

• SQL Server sql replication

  As a newbie to sql I am currently investigating a deployment across 2 branches. My idea is to have 1 database, replicated between the 2 locations for performance reasons. In other words users in site A modify the local database while users in site b modify their local database and somehow changes in each site are replicated each way over the wan on a daily basis. Is this possible with SQL server standard 2005 If so, my only other question is I ...Show All

• Visual C++ GetDC function

  "anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com" <lewix@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:5c171357-414c-4815-a105-05f8076d448d_WBRev3_@discussions.microsoft.com > This post has been edited either by the author or a moderator in the > Microsoft Forums: http://forums.microsoft.com Hi, > i hope i'm not posting a newbie question. > I have to get current DC handler of my window dialog, so (as > ...Show All

• Visual Studio What does it mean for "warning MSB4098: MSBuild is invoking VCBuild to build this project."

  After running "msbuild xxx.vcproj", build is OK but one warning msg like: warning MSB4098: MSBuild is invoking VCBuild to build this project. Project-to-project references between VC++ projects (.VCPROJ) and C#/VB/VJ# projects (.CSPROJ, .VBPROJ, .VJSPROJ) are not supported by the command-line build systems when building stand-alone VC++ projects. Projects that contain such project-to-project references will fail to build. Please bui ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Express 2005 and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS

  Hi, Does anyone know if WSS is compatible with SQL Express 2005 I am aware of the file limit (4GB) which the WMSDE does not have. But will the Express version work with WSS Also, does SQL Express 2005 support Full-text indexing Thanks! Jeff Actually, it does now. You'll need SP2, so check here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA100806971033.aspx Buck ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Is there a way to add actions to right click menu in Word?

  Yes. The right-click menu is a CommandBar, just like the toolbars. You can see all the possible right-click (Context!) menus by going into Tools/Customize/Toolbars and activating "Shortcut menus". A small toolbar should appear with three menus: Text, Table, Draw. Under these all the existing menu names are listed. Choosing an entry will show you the commands (Controls) currently in the menu. So, in o ...Show All

• .NET Development SqlConnection and thread safety

  I believe I know the answer to this, but I would like confirmation. I have been experiencing NullReferenceExceptions being thrown from a call to ExecuteScalar(). The occurence is intermittent, but only happens when two separate threads try to use the same pooled SqlConnection on synchronous schedule (i.e. every 5 seconds). I surmise that the cause of the NullReferenceException is a conflict between the two threads trying to simultaneously ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Animation tearing - is it being worked on?

  I've noticed some really bad tearing with animations during my WinFX development. Since WinFX seems to be DirectX based, I tried turning on VSynch in my ATI control panel, but this didn't seem to do anything. As for hardware, I'm running a Radeon X800XT PE with 256 MB of DDR2... so hardware definately shouldn't be an issue here. It's probably obvious to say that this is a big for developers who use animations (which is probably every Wi ...Show All

• .NET Development Access db on server with 5ish users grinding to a halt - help!

  Hi all, Thank you for reading this post, I am hoping to get some advice/help. I have created a winforms application that sits on 5 users machines. The database is Access 2003 which sits on the server. When more than one or two people are using the application, it becomes very very slow. Some background details follow. Size of Access database = 27mb Users machines have 256k Ram 2.2 or more processing speed Server is Windows Server 2000 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Full Circle error MSB3202

  I'm having trouble building a team build. I am able to define a team build just fine, and when I try to run it, the log files seem to suggest that it can find the source files just fine. But I end up with a lot of errors. My solution uses Enterprise Library 2005, so here is one of the errors that reference it (so, I don't think it is custom code related): error MSB3202: The project file "..\..\..\..\..\..\Program Files\Microsoft Enter ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. .x Model and duplicated vertices issue

  I can see that in a .x template template VertexDuplicationIndices { <b8d65549-d7c9-4995-89cf-53a9a8b031e3> DWORD nIndices; DWORD nOriginalVertices; array DWORD indices[nIndices]; } There is a duplication of vertices. I believe this was done during the export when faces sharing a vertex duplicates that vertex. Am I right to say that My main problem is how can I get pointers or references back to the origina ...Show All

• .NET Development Databind Textbox

  I am using vb.net 2005 conntected to a Access 2000 database. I have a textbox whichh is data bound to a numeric field in the database. If I delete the value in the text box or type alpha characters the textbox will not lose focus. In vb.net 2003 I could delete the value or type alpha characters in the text box and change focus to another control. I want the ability to still do this so I can show a custom error message or do something else. ...Show All