Gidon J's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Unable to install sql server 2005

  I got the following message when I try to install the SQL server 2005 June CTP. "SQL Server 2005 CTP Setup has detected incompatible beta components from Visual Studio or SQL Server. You must run the build cleanup wizard from the CD to remove previous SQL Server 2005 components and .NET Framework components, and then run SQL Server 2005 CTP Setup again. For detailed instruction on uninstalling SQL Server builds, see the SQL Server 2005 CTP rea ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System CMMI work items

  Is it correct behavior, when creating a Team project using the CMMI process template under Beta 3, that only one work item is created, or does it mean my installation is faulty Somehow I had imagined a longer list of work items... ...Show All

• Windows Forms Style question

  I'm new to .NET Windows Forms development.  I'm developing an MDI app (let's call the main MDI parent MyForm) with the standard kind of controls:  MainMenu, ToolBar, StatusBar, TreeView, etc.  I add all of these controls through Visual Studio t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System More ways to minimize instrumentation output?

  I know about /INCLUDE /EXCLUDE and I know about /START... and API. I was just wondering if it possible to for example disable stack collections. I might be happy running whole application and just seeing the times of the functions and call count. I generally know what my call stacks might look like. I wrote a sample profiler with just profiler api (not anywhere near as fancy as vs profiler) and just collect times and counts and it's almost not n ...Show All

• Visual C# Passing Input and Harvesting Results from a Modal Form in C# Windows Form Application

  Hi, I have a main form and when a user selects a certain action I want to show another form modally. I know that showDialog() call can do this, but I need to pass an parameter (and int or an enum value) into the form. Also, I would like to harvest custom enumeration with few extra options that are not available the standard DialogResult enumeration. Is there any way to do this Dwight You can create a form with a constructor that t ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to center MDI child Form ?

  Hai Experts, How can i center MDI child Form in its Parent MDI from Without using the size of MDI parent form. i don't want this- ParentMDIFormwidth/2-MDIChildWidth/2 Is there any method this. StartPosition = FormStartPosition .CenterParent under which event is one supposed to put the above line I tried form_load, form_shown, form_paint events in the mdi child form, none ...Show All

• Smart Device Development My Pocket PC IE browser does not read XML files!!!!

  Hi all, When I uploaded an XML file from my PC to my Pocket PC and tried to open the file with the pocket pc IE explorer, it gives me a blank page, and doesn't show me the contents of the XML file, is there any known issue that I don't know regarding this problem Thanks in advance.. MEDO:where can I find the registry editor of Windows Mobile 2003 You need a 3rd party tool... http://www.kilmist.com/ppcRegistryEd ...Show All

• .NET Development Need System.IO.Ports Help

  I am just trying to write to the com1 port using the System.IO.Ports.  However when I try to write my data an exception is thrown saying that the com1 port does not exist.  I am a newbie when it come to using System.IO.Ports.  This is my first program ever written using this library.  I have posted the trouble code below.  Can someone please help me SerialPort port = new SerialPort ( "COM1" ); string data ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro UPDATE vs REPLACE record locking

  The VFP 9.0 Help file shows the following: UPDATE - SQL Command ,Remarks, Tip: "When updating multiple records in a table opened for shared access, SQL UPDATE uses record locking, unlike the REPLACE command." Locking Data, REPLACE: Current record and all records from aliased fields UPDATE - SQL: Entire table These statements seem to conflict. The first leads one to believe that the UPDATE - SQL command would lock records and i ...Show All

• Windows Forms NumLock key in C#

  Does anyone know how to turn the NUMLOCK key off programmatically in C# with regards ...Show All

• Visual C# bytes in a byte[]

  Hi maybe this will sound idiot.. but.. The number of byte recived( from client ina byte[] buffer) is the buffer.Length What function are you using Normaly this type of function return an integer containing the number of byte read. buffer.Length is the length of your buffer, maybe you allocated 100 byte for only read 10 byte, this way buffer.Length will return 100 not 10, but this all depend on which function your using. ...Show All

• .NET Development Which DB to use?

  Hi, i am writing a program that uses a db. My db will have 3 tables and maximum of 5,000 records. I want that the customers will download my application... The proplem is that i don't know whether they hav a db engine or not. I heard about MDAC for mdb files... 1) How can i check in my installation wizard whether the client has MDAC installed on his local mashine 2) Can u suggest me somthing better re suggestion ...Show All

• Visual Basic 1 context menu for several controls

  I am tring to use the same context menu for several textboxes on my form.(cut, paste, undo etc) How can I tell which textbox was active when the menu was clicked Do I have to use a seperate menu for each textbox This is a bit of an old-school method, I know, and I'll probably get bagged out for it, but you could create a public Control Object and populate it with a reference to the specific text box in it's Mou ...Show All

• Windows Forms Convert XHTML to RTF

  Hi, How can I convert the XHTML to RTF Thank's Alexei ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Bring form objects to overlay over topmost form

  I am working (C#) with navigation software that creates a native form with the map etc. On PC this form is created inside the existing program form and it is possible to bring things such as buttons infront of the map. On PocketPC this is not the case. Forms are independent and to view the map i have to hide the first form. Anyway around this Is it possible to get control over the form the navigation library created (On full framework there is t ...Show All