ksona's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms two questions...

  Hi, 1 - When you click a *.doc file, Word opens, and all the info inside the file is shown. How can I do this with my app, with a file format I created 2 - How can I register a file format, so that when the a specified  ...Show All

• Windows Forms String.Format

  I have a string, for example, "123abcdefg."  I would like to format the string and assign it to a textbox.  The format I would like is, for example "123-abc-d-efg."  I have tried using String.Format, but such custom formats seem& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How To Get Around The Unique Build Numbering

  Hi, I wrote a custom task for Team Foundation Build to use the build number stored in a header file in the source code, which seems to work fine until you get a build error. When a build error occurs I want to be able to delete the folder in the drop location and reuse the build number. Is this possible to delete an item from the log of build numbers that have been used After a build error when I try to reuse the number I get the error: error : ...Show All

• Windows Forms event on scaning barcode

  hi , i am using vb.net 2003 and i want to scan barcodes with the scaner i want if the scaner completes the scaning doesn't matter what the length is the next textbox is focused i tried it on different events but could not find the&nbs ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista backward compatibility with windowsxp?

  hi everyone, I have developed multiple applications for windowsxp (using prof-uis library to take advantage of winxp themes feature) and would like to know (since currently I am unable to run vista on my own) whether do I need to recompile all my applications so they can run under windows vista Or - all my application that were build for winXP (visual studio 2003) will run without any changes needed How will look like the UI of my winxp progr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Express & Standard edition - Commercial application development

  It will be possible to develop commercial applications with -Express Editions -Standard Editions -SQL Express Best Regards Foris Zoltan Thank's a lot. So the answer is yes There is not a real problem that the express supports local databases, because, the design(in my case) was done localy, but the final program will be able to connect to any sql express/sql server through "serverinstance/database". am i right Kind regards, Foris Zoltan ...Show All

• .NET Development DAO Wrapper: Field is DBNull after Addnew and throws error

  First a quick bit of background. I have a legacy app that is written in VB6 using DAO. We are slowly migrating to .Net. DAO is a problem going forward, but we do not have the time (or $$) to rearchitect using ADO/ADO.Net. We decided to write a set of abstract VB.Net classes that present the DAO interface - this will allow us to implement concrete classes using any physical DB engine that we choose to use in the future. I currently have implem ...Show All

• Visual C++ Problem seeing my window

  I just got Visual Studio 2005 and I tried to make a program using Win32. The program is just displaying a window. When I compile the code I get no errors at all, but nothing happens after that. My window doesn't pop up. I made sure that I had the functions: ShowWindow() and UpdateWindow, but apparently that wasn't the problem. Please help. Well, it's really impossible to comment without seeing the code... &nb ...Show All

• Visual C# Getting the base class of an object instance

  I want to make sure that an object instance that I have is actually derived from a particular base class before I cast it into the base class and begin referencing members of the base class. GetType() has thus far only returned the type of the instance itself, not its base type. Is there a way to accomplish this You can use "as" operator which does the typecasting for you or returns null if its ...Show All

• .NET Development How can I parse high precision decimals into an SqlDecimal object

  I have not found a way to create a high precision SQLDecimal value using SQLDecimal.Parse. If the string has more than 28 digits then there is a runtime exception: SqlDecimal sqldecTest = SqlDecimal .Parse( "1234567890123456789112345678921.12345678" ); System.FormatException was unhandled Message="The input wasn't in a correct format." Source="System.Data" StackTrace: at System.Data.SqlTypes.SqlDecim ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot Set Connection String For Bulk Insert Source Connection

  I came across something strange today. I was wondering I was doing something wrong. I want to go through a directory and get files and assign the Fully Qualified File Name to a User Variable. I want to use that variable as a connection string within Expression in Bulk Insert Task Source Connection,  Data Flow Task and File System Task. It is working fine within Data Flow Task and File System task. It is NOT working for Bulk Insert . ...Show All

• Windows Forms Table Adapter Queries Override Command Timeout

  Is there any way to overide the command timeout limit of 30 seconds without inserting command.timeout = X within the .Designer file of the dataset It would be so much more powerful if we could override this value at runtime! Please advise. Hi Just Joe, I've posted a blog entry describing how to change values at runtime: http://blogs.msdn.com/smartclientdata/archive/2005/07/25/443034.aspx Steve Lasker Program Manager Visual Studio Data Des ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums BOTS on MSN

  There have been a number of questions about BOTS in the forum in various theads so I thought I would provide this post with a broader update on the topic. MSN has recently started licensing BOTS on the network.  The huge benefit of a licensed BOT is that it will have contact limitations removed (the reverse list), so that millions of people could connect to the same ID.  Our goal is to enable a broad network of these IM applications ...Show All

• SQL Server Format File For Bulk Insert

  Hello Experts, I am trying to import data from Fixed Width text File into SQL Server 2005 table. Original text file have more then 100 fields (columns) and length about 1500 chars. But for illustration purpose, I am going to use 4 fields and few chars text file here. Data EEWE122LONDONUK EREW456 NY 234232444HoustonUSA Let see file looks like this and I have to bring these data like this Fi ...Show All

• Visual C++ Walk through the call stack on 64bit Windows

  It seems 64bit program do not use stack frame any more. But when debug with VC2005, it can show the call stack. Does any one know how to walk through the call stack Not 100% sure what you mean. There is an API: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/debug/base/stackwalk64.asp And there is also DIA that comes with VS2005. Thanks, Kang Su Gatlin ...Show All