Jay Jones's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic how to add VBScript in visual basic 2004

  hi friends,                         i written one vbscript to find out the cpu temperature. now i like add that vbscript  into vb 2005 and i need to execute that one. so please tell if any one know how to run vbscript in vb2005. thx ...Show All

• Windows Forms Custom Control With SelectedValue Property - How to determine correct "default" data type to return?

  I have a custom control that has a SelectedValue property.  It is basically a ComboBox control, if that helps.  Anyway, I have a business object that I'm binding to this control.  In some cases, the business object property that I'm binding to the control is a System.GUID, in other cases, it is a System.Int32 or System.String.  My delimea is that if the custom control's internal _selectedValue member is Nothing, because the u ...Show All

• SQL Server Number of User Databases

  Hello, I am being asked to support a third part y app that will create a new database per session with upwards of 500 databases being created per month, now I know that this is not good but my bosses are asking for the technical reasons why this is not good, can someone help please There are the obvious #of databases to maintain ie backup etc but what else can I add Thanks Julian I can think of ...Show All

• Visual Basic Simulate Mouse Click Using SendInput

  Hi, I tried using http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=144808&SiteId=1 to simulate a mouse click but was unsuccesfull because of an 'inbalanced stack' error (what ever that means). I read a bit more and found a comment that said i needed to SendInput API but i am unsure how to implement it. I just need a single left mouse click. Thanks in advance, TheDarkestShadow Dont worry  ...Show All

• .NET Development Creating Internet Download Setup in .NET

  How can I make an Internet Download Setup for ActiveX controls in .NET Do you have more detailed instruction for an activex newbie For example, the classId specified in the <object> tag, where do I add that in the activex component Would that be: [Guid("xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx")] Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Playing a sound file

  This may have been answered before i am not sure, i am running Visual Studio 2005 beta, i would like to know how i can play a sound file in the background when someone opens a form. Any ideas I am using the my.computer.audio.play function to play an alert. The alert is the result of checking a database for new entries every 10 seconds. If there is a new entry that the software has not seen yet, it uses the VBPower Tools Notificati ...Show All

• Visual C# Capturing output from an external console app

  I have an external application which out puts debugging code in console but rather than calling it from my program and it popping up I want to be able to have all of it's text displayed inside a panel or something in my app. Is this possible Regards Jason Yes it is. The Process class has the StandardInput/StandardOutput/StandardError properties for just this purpose. They are streams so you read them just lik ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista CallExternalMethod to Terminate a Persisted Workflow

  I have a sequential WF with a CallExternalMethod Activity attached. I am wanting to tell the host to terminate another persisted workflow. I have a method in the workflow codebehind that uses the SqlTrackingWorkflowInstance class along with SqlTrackQuery to return a specific workflowInstanceId from the tracking/persistence store. I am attempting to terminate that specific workflow from my current workflow. I know in beta2 it is not po ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do I get the system time

  How do i get the system time what are the objects i will use Thanks ...Show All

• Windows Forms Looking for answers not in Terrarium FAQ

  Hi, I've been trying to find an answer to coule of questions about Terrarium.  I was wondering if you would know. I am getting this error when I try to compile for this line [AnimalSkin(AnimalSkinFamilyEnum.Spider)] No overload for method 'AnimalSkinAttribute' takes '0' arguments Am I not including something I need to include Can I determine if a carnivore is one of my carnivores  IE if I made one named trapdoorspider can I determ ...Show All

• .NET Development XML Web Service Returning DataSet is losing Space chracter

  I have a windows application and web service. I am running on Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1 on both windows application and web service. I select data from database with some of the field are only One Space, *, etc characters are in it. I add those data into a single dataset and write it to the local disk as a xml file on web service server. I found that all the data are in order as i retreived from database. However, After windows applicati ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System 'Work Items' report is failing in VSTS beta3

  Hi there,      I have installed successfully VSTS beta3 server, few reports inabled but few of them are failing. Like 'Work Items' report is failing with error: 'An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted) Query execution failed for data set 'dsExitCriteriaParam'. (rsErrorExecutingCommand) For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable ...Show All

• Windows Forms BUG - Controls Disapear

  In a C# project with VS 2005 pro, I have a TabControl with 5 TabPages. From that, in the 3rd TabPages and 4th TabPages I have a TableLayoutPanel which contain a ToolStrip in the upper panel and a ListView set at Details in the lower panel. After a Build with a DEBUG system configuration, the TableLayoutPanel with its controls from the 4th TabPage just disapear from the Designer View . The controls still exists in Source Code and work ...Show All

• Architecture UML/XMI Compatibilities : Highly Important

  Hello there, I am in a high pressure project where I have to synthesize the differences and compatibilites of different UML versions and different XMI versions and what is included in what. I have to therefore formulize to tables 1 for UML versions and its features & the other one for XMI versions and its features. and the third table for UML and XMI. Its been very difficult to do it. DO you have some idea on where i can find ...Show All

• Windows Forms Custom combobox behavior

  Has anybody modified the behavior of a combobox, so that when you type it looks for items based off of a continious string For example , you have a dropdown of states.  If you hit "I" and then "n", it jumps from the &q ...Show All