Empy's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Snippets - Is there a db that tells what snippets do?

  There are so many snippets provided by Microsoft that it is difficult to know whether there is a snippet already written that does what you want or not.  It has occured to me that it would be helpful if there was some sort of database or list of the snippets with a description of what each snippet does. Is there such a list or database   If so, where is it and how may I access it Thank You T eam F oundation S erver. Snippets are more of a VS 2005 IDE feature rather than a TFS feature. I'm pretty sure they are not part of the TFS db structure. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Accessing Oracle databases in Visual C# .Net Express

  Can someone please show me / tell me how to connect to an oracle database with Visual C# .Net Express... I have an Oracle 9i databse and I have the 10g client installed. This works fine in Visual Studio .Net 2003 but I can't connect at all in Express. Is it something to do with the .Net Framework 2.0 Any help much appreciated as I'm a complete novice to C# ... I'm a VB programmer by trade ( and VB 6 at that )...   Elton Further to this I get the following error when trying to access the connectionstring property of the connection object: Data provider identified by guid '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000' could ...Show All

• Visual C++ MFC app with Windows Forms and User Control - what am I missing?

  Background: We have a large legacy app written in native C++ (VC6) and MFC. We are doing some major enhancements that require a bunch of new and revamped UI's, and have decided to do the new UI work with Windows Forms. The app has been moved to VS2005 and updated to build with /clr - so far, so good. I have created a new Windows Forms dialog, and am able to launch it and interact with it just fine - looking real good. Here's the problem: I've created a User Control (one of many) that I want hosted in a panel so the controls can be selectively enabled/disabled to replace each other based on other user actions. (These controls are cre ...Show All

• Visual Basic Need app to search servers for file shares

  Hey all!.. I am new around here. I am just a lowly intern and they have me writing apps =( I need to write an application that is capable of taking several UNC paths from a text box. It will then scan these servers for file shares, then ouput the fileshare names. I am having trouble with trying to find the file shares. I tried to use the directory.getdirectories method to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.!!! LDAP is the place to begin. http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/techinfo/howitworks/activedirectory/ldap.asp ...Show All

• SQL Server Recovering from a lost log file

  I'm trying to make sure that we're following the "best practices" with SQL Server and I have some questions about log files. One general DBA rule is that data files must be on a different device than log files. This way, you can lose either disk and still recover all committed transactions. If you lose the data disk, you restore from backup and then rollforward all of the transactions that are in the log file. If you lose the log disk, you roll back uncommitted transactions and then create a new log file. This scenerio doesn't seem to be supported by SQL Server. It looks like SQL Sever can deal with a failed data disk but, it ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions quote more than one line in VB.NET?

  in c#.NET "/*" and "*/" are used to quote more than one line of comments. is there a way to quote more than online in VB.NET     ssfftt wrote: thx pclement, but it's not what i am looking for. However, is "single quote" is the only way to quote more than one line in vb.net imagine i wanted to quote 20 lines of comments, 20 single quotes are therefore needed Yes, that is just the syntax of the language. You can use the toolbar button and shortcut key combination to comment and uncomment multiple lines of text as Luca mentioned, but there isn't really anything similar to the method implemented by th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Manual Install fails using ISOBuster

  ISOBuster extracts files using the 8.1 file names, this causes the setup to fail.  Using MagicISO (even the trial version) will extract the files properly. > I use FreeDownloadManager and ISOBuster and have had no problems with them. So, how do you configure ISOBuster to use long file names instead of 8.3 ...Show All

• Visual Basic Textbox Reading

  Hi All, i have a problem with a certain little textbox which i cant seem to get working again , i wish to read everything in a textbox before a certain character , in this case a space how would i get this done where a button is pressed and it will display only the characters before the space into another texbox eg text1 = "John Smith" where as i would like text2 = "John" since the next character was a space .. many thanks this is in VB6 (just in case) Rob Really not more expensive I can't agree unless you provide me with details. Left() will allocate 1 string in memory a ...Show All

• Windows Forms TabControl left or right -- text not visible

  Hi, I create a new WindowForms app and drag a tabcontrol on it. It has (by default) two pages. When I set the Alignment to left (or right) the Text disappears and the Multiline property is set to true. The text is visible if I use Button or Flatbutton but not with normal. The positive - in .NET 1.1 new added pages "stacked" and now they are vertical one after another. But with the buttons and multiline it makes a big distance ("border") between the buttons and the pages. Is it possible to have the thing with a visible left text in Appearance Normal Cheers Manfred TabControl with VisualStyles only supports ...Show All

• Visual C# Dynamically generation of ItemTemplate and EditItemTemplate in FormView control

  Hello, I would like to develop a library to dynamically generate FormViews for the usual content management tasks; the formview's internal controls (TextBox, DropDownlist ...) must match the schema of a certain DB table that is extracted at run-time. In few words, I need to create at runtime the <ItemTemplate> and <EditItemTemplate> sections of the <FormView> control. Unfortunately, in the last versione of ASP.Net 2.0 these templates could be created directly only at design-time and not at runtime. Investigating about, I have found a solution: to create on the fly a Web Control file containg the <ItemTemplat ...Show All

• Architecture Management of data files

  Hi ! I'm trying to understant what is the best solution to manage data files in my enterprise. I would like to attach metadata to the information, so that it can be searched and i would like to support video and audio documents. What is the best product for my case Tnks There are plenty ECM (Enterprise Content Managmenet) solutions out there. One of the most comprehsive ones is Documentum (now from EMC). Others include solutions from Hummingbird (used where I work today) Vignette and many others Arnon ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Basic Express Edition expired..

  Just opened a new project for today (12:45AM) and Visual Basic Express Edition Beta 2 has given me a prompt that its' expired.. I thought it never did - can someone help me out here please. Thank you. The key word here is 'beta'. All betas expire. The full version of VBEE does not exire, you should download it, uninstall the beta and install the final release. ...Show All

• .NET Development SyncML (XML based) protocol.

  has anyone worked on C# with SyncML (XML based) protocol.... http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/affiliates/syncml/syncmlindex.html ...Show All

• Visual Studio Package Load Failure

  Althogh the installation of VS 2005 completted sucessfully I constantly get the following error message: Package 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.TestCaseManagement, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' has failed to load properly (GUID={A9405AE6-9AC6-4F0E-A03F-7AFE45F6FCB7}). etc. What could be the cause for this message From Amit Chopra BLOG: http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdteam/archive/category/6349.aspx FAQ:I just install Beta 2 (after un-installing the previous version) ... And I get one of these these errors: "The system cannot find the path specified." or "Canno ...Show All

• .NET Development Failed to create an IPC Port: Access is denied.

  I have a service that registers a remoting IPC channel on startup and quite often I will get this error when the service is stopped and then restarted. It doesn't do it all the time but enough to be an annoyance and when the service is stopped I do unregister the channel. Anyone else experience this Thanks!! It's actually hosted in a Windows service. Most times I can stop and start the service successfully but then there are other times when it keeps generating the Access Denied message until I either reboot the server or keep restarting the service until it successfully starts. ...Show All