brokolyx's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Message box options

  hi, Is there a way to have buttons on the PPC MessageBox When I make the call: MessageBox.Show("Do you want...whatever ","Alert",ButtonEnum), the compiler won't allow the ButtonEnum. Not having a way to confirm is fairly clumsy. Any suggestions for a workaround besides entire "one size fits all" Forms. I'm using vs2005, wce 5.0, and the PocketPC template. Jim .NET CF supports MessageBox.Show() with custom buttons, however, you must call it with all parameters, here is a correct example : MessageBox.Show( "This is a test!" , "Test" , MessageBoxButtons.YesNo ...Show All

• SQL Server Comment/Uncomment keyboard shortcut changed .. grrrrr!!!!

  Call me old-school, but I happened to like the one-key Shift-Ctrl-C and Shift-Ctrl-R methods of commenting and uncommenting T-SQL code. I've tried to see how I can set up my own macro's to give me those key combos back instead of the double-the-work ctrl-K + ctrl-C and ctrl-K + ctrl-U keyboard short cuts. The k-c one is the worst because it takes two hands to type it, but the two fingered k-u isn't much better. Can someone tell me how I can override or augment these so that I can get these two familiar short-cuts back. I don't care if I have to override something .. whatever it is, it's not nearly as imporant as this to me. ...Show All

• Visual C# Why can't I recast a generic list?

  I don't know if I am looking at this problem in a completely wrong way but I have the code listed below and would like to treat a generic list sometimes as List<Swatch> and sometimes as List<ColorSwatch>. I have many other types of swatches too - so I don't want to have to duplicate the common code. When I try and build the code I get errors telling me I cannot convert from type List<Swatch> to List<ColorSwatch> or vice-versa - the code in red. I have other routines which call the ColorSwatchFile read/write routines and want to receive the more specific ColorSwatch. Also if I were to pass down Swatch to the write r ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Express Activation Website and Key

  Does anyone know how I can get to the website for registration I can't get the activation key thing to work. I keep getting page not found error. Thanks. If you are trying to register any of the Express Editions (other than SQL Express), you must do so from inside the product. There is not a registration web site. Please see the Registration FAQ . Note that registration requires you to set your default browser to IE (Q #8) and that you must successfully validate your e-mail address (or altready have a validated e-mail address) affiliated with your Passport account in order to be shown the registration (acti ...Show All

• SQL Server IBM Informix Ole Db Provider

  Hello, I'm getting the below errors when using sql server's data import wizard. Please Note: My test connection was successful and the error occurs when I click the "Next" button after closing the properties window. For Security reasons I've filled the User Id and DataSource with a bogus account, database, and server i.e. xxxx. Notice the password is blank ... Is that normal I'm in a jam and appreciate your help. Thanks, Matt =================================== Cannot get the supported data types from the database connection "Provider=Ifxoledbc;Password=;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=xxx;Data Sour ...Show All

• SQL Server metadata driven SSIS package--table variable

  Is there anyone know if a simple SSIS package (moving data from source table to target table) or task can be called repeatedly using a variable that obtains value once a time from a metadata table containing only table names. Basically, I would like to pass in a table variable to the SSIS package or task to start the ETL for different tables. Thanks a lot! Oliver Patrick, Can you give some rough ideas as what you are using in terms of programming languages, scripts or SSIS tasks to create metadata driven SSIS packages. Many thanks! Oliver ...Show All

• .NET Development How can I know that a driver is unavailable?

  When I launch the sentence below string[] a1=Directory.GetDirectories("A:\") I get a error because I don't put a floppy disk in driver A: How can I know that a driver is unavailable Do I need to write the sentences below Is there a better way try { string[] a1=Directory.GetDirectories("A:\") } catch { MessageBox.Show("A driver is unavailable!"); } Hello CUE WEI, I recommend catching the most limited set of exceptions possible (e.g. only DirectoryNotFoundException ). There are a number of exceptions that can be thrown in code, and narrowing your error paths and recovery logic will be better for your code maintenance. On a related not ...Show All

• SQL Server "Current day" MDX

  Hi, is there any "update" on how to do the "current day" as a set in MDX with SQL 2005 based on the actual system date If you don't want to base that on the system date is this still the "best practice" to introduce some "flags" in the time dimension to identifiy the actual day, last week, ... Just the way it was introduced with the BI Accelerator tool... Thanks, It's an interesting question... I can't actually remember how SSABI did its current time periods, but from what you say I guess it created sets which filtered on a member property value such as 'Is Current Day'. T ...Show All

• SQL Server Grant CREATE VIEW, CREATE PROCEDURE ...

  Hi, I have currently a problem with setting up the permissions for some developers. My configuration looks like this. DB A is the productive database. DB B is a kind of "development" database. Now we have a couple of users call them BOB, DAVID, ... who are members of the db role db_reader and db_writer for the productive db a but they should be allowed to do nearly everything on db b. Therefor I added them to the db role db_owner for db b. For testing purposes I tried to "CREATE" a view TEST as BOB in database B but I received the error message ' Msg 262, Level 14, State 1, Procedure Test, Line 3 ...Show All

• Visual C++ Mouse Events!

  Hello together! I am sorry, but I am new to Visual C++ and I would like to know how can I react on a mouse click, like a mouseListener in Java. I would also appreciate helpfull links and a few lines example code. Thanks for you help. For what are you trying to catch the mounse event   Is this sort of thing any use _ui_object->MouseClick+=gcnew System::Windows::Forms::MouseEventHandler(this, &DetailedTableView::datagridview_MouseClick); void DetailedTableView::datagridview_MouseClick(Object^ sender, MouseEventArgs^ e) { {    if(e->Button==::MouseButtons::Right) { ...Show All

• SQL Server To change database engine

  I setup Visual Studio .Net 2005 and SQL Server 2005 express edition is installed with Visual Studio .NET 2005. Then I intalled SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition. When I looked at SQL SERVER Surface Area Configuration my database engine is shown as SQLEXPRESS. I want to use SQL SERVER 2005 standard edition and want to change my database engine to sql server standard edition. Can you help me I solved this issue for me at least. I had a problem with my connectionString setting in the machine.config and overriding it in my web.config. // Richard ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET Framework 2.0 and MSN MEssenger

  Does anybody know if there is a problem with .NET Framework 2.0 and MSN Messenger 7.5 Since after installing .NET Framework 2.0 I have not been able to connect with my MSN Messenger 7.5 Im having the same problem and my system date is correct (so seems in the calendar) well i think im having the same problem actually I can sign in with msn messenger but sometimes connection (with msn) falls out. When i try again i get an error message (havent writtin it down yet next time it happens i will inform you). When i push the solve problem button i get the test connection window. When i test them all get a green lig ...Show All

• Visual Studio EnvDTE80.Debugger.CurrentProcess, Process2.Attach2 questions

  1. Is the correct sequence to attach to process: Process2.Attach2("Managed"); EnvDTE80.Debugger.CurrentProcess = p; or the other way around 2. Why are Process2.Break or EnvDTE80.Debugger.Break throwing COM exceptions First one says something about not supported. 3. Are these methods asynchronous i.e. does the attached process continue on executing Is it possible to attach in a way so that after attaching, the debugger breaks into the process 4. Why are breakpoints not honoured after attaching At least that is what I am seeing Thanks Pawan You have asked these questions in multiple posti ...Show All

• Visual C# Convert VC 6.0 to C#

  I have a source code written in VC 6.0 and I want to convert it to C# Is there any tool can do that Thks No, that is not possible, you'd have to rewrite the app. C# and C++ are totally different languages, supported by different libraries, only the most trivial code would convert without changes. ...Show All

• Visual C++ msvcr80.dll not found

  I've created a simple Win32 console application. When I try to debug it, I get the message:  "This application has failed to start because MSVCR80D.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix the problem." The Release version runs fine. Any idea as to what the problem could be Thanks, Jonny This means several things. a) your console application does not have manifest. Either embedded inside or external. To check this, do the following:       `1. Check for <appname>.exe. manifest next to exe. If it is not there, it may be embedded. Go to step&nbs ...Show All