Mick McGrellis's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Deleting all records in access

  Hello All, I am working on a project for a former neighbor. I originally wanted to build a program for him to distribute. He is doing a Geneology research. I wanted to create a database with the family name but realized I could not. So, I want to be able to let him put in the data, export it to text or HTML, then delete ALL the records and start the next family. I have seen many examples but cannot get them to work on VB 2005 Express. Here i ...Show All

• .NET Development Webservice dll in VS2005 - how ?

  Hi, Please, what should I do to create the webservice DLL in VS2005 After build the web site no bin folder is created like in VS 2003... Regards. ...Show All

• Windows Forms designer can't load form. Where is 'more information'?

  after going from beta2 to rc1, the designer all of a sudden cannot load my forms anymore. instead, i get the infamous window with the red top that says some errors may go away building the project, while other need code changes. needles to say: the file compiles fine, the form could be opened with the beta2 and vs2003 designers and obviously doing a rebuild doesn't help at all. now what the additional error message says; Unable to load one or m ...Show All

• Visual C++ Need help

  I know this sounds really bad, but i cannot even get a Hello World win32 console application to work correctly Here is what I do: 1. open visual c++ 2. Click "new project" 3. select Win32 Console Application 4. type in "HelloWorld" as the name 5. Click next using the wizard, then finish. 6. type: #include <iostream.h> int main(void) {    cout << "HelloWorld";    re turn 0; } 7.  Compile (build) the progr ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) ChemLinq

  My first foray into technical blog posts (where I'm not pontificating in the comments): http://blogs.msdn.com/kfarmer/default.aspx Feel free to email other puzzles... Interesting posts. The indexing capabilities from Brian Beckman relates precisely to what I was referring to in a former post when I talked about a graph mapping. In that case the indexer is a denormalization of your primary graph of entities linking ...Show All

• Visual Studio Document Explorer Crash Bucket 232224388

  Attempting to use search tab in help for Visual Basic 2005 I get the "Microsoft Document Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close" error. Information from event log: Event Type: Information Event Source: Microsoft Document Explorer Event Category: None Event ID: 1001 Date: 4/23/2006 Time: 5:11:52 PM User: N/A Computer: AMDTOWER Description: Bucket 232224388, bucket table 1, faulting application dexplore.exe, version ...Show All

• SQL Server Newbie question about indexes

  Hi , I have following statement : SELECT * FROM Table WHERE Col1=@Var1 AND Col2=@Var2 ... AND ColN=@VarN How should I design indexes for best performance ( Add one index on columns Col1 till ColN or add N indexes, first for column Col1, second for Col2, ... ) Thanks, for your suggestions Here's what the optimizer guys have to say: One index should be fine if he always has every column in the WHERE condition and he is doing equalit ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Load test error

  Hi, When executing load tests from the command line I sometimes get the following error: "Cannot find the test  'WebTest1' with storage 'WebTest1.webtest'". I've opened the .loadtest file and notice that the path attribute in the TestProfile element contains an absolute path to the webtest. I've updated this to point at the correct location for my webtests but occasionally it still gives the error I've  ...Show All

• Visual Studio using MSBuild to build projects from multiple developers

  Hi all, I am starting out to setup a automated build process for our organization. We decided that we are going to get the latest version of the code from sourcesafe whenever a complete build needs to made. But i am having trouble implementing that solution. The project i am currently trying to automate the build process for is being worked on multiple developers. Each of the developers have their projects setup in their own directories local ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How much of WWF designer support in VS is managed by the project system?

  Hello, In order to create a new workflow in VS, one normally selects a template from the Workflow node of a C# or VB.NET project type in the New Project dialog.  I tried creating an empty C# project (not of the workflow variety), copying the .cs and .Designer.cs files to this project, changing the namespace, and adding the same references to my empty project system that are present in the one created explicitly from the C ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Intellisense????

  I'm delighted and amazed that this product is coming however I already have one RFE....object Intellisense, the like of which is done by Prompt SQL (which has just been bought by Redgate). e.g. I type a table name followed by a period (.) and intellisense pops up a list of all the columns names. Any chance of getting that in Thanks -Jamie At this point, Intellisense is not in the product. Trust me, you're not the only o ...Show All

• SQL Server ExecuteSQL Task with Parameters

  I have an insert statement that i am trying to parameterize based on a variable.  I have tried: INSERT MyTable(Col1, Col2, Col3) VALUES(1, @MyParam, 3) INSERT MyTable(Col1, Col2, Col3) VALUES(4, @MyParam, 6) as well as: INSERT MyTable(Col1, Col2, Col3) VALUES(1,  , 3) INSERT MyTable(Col1, Col2, Col3) VALUES(4,  , 6) The parameter is defined in the task.  It fails consistently.  The error in the output shows the SQL witho ...Show All

• Smart Device Development "No such interface supported"

  I recently received and installed Visual Studio 2005. When I create an empty Pocket Pc 2003 (or Windows Mobile 5.0) application and try to deploy it, I get a messagebox that says "No such interface supported". The actual .exe is there and I can copy it and run it on the device.. but it seems that the communication layer between visual studio and the device is broken. I get the same error if I try to deply the application to the e ...Show All

• Visual C# He need some help with authentication

  Im trying to design a login form that will check against a SQL database to see if the username and password are correct. Could some one please supply some sample code of how i would do this. Thanks, Greg Are you working on ASP.net 2.0, check the following link http://www.asp.net/QuickStart/aspnet/doc/ctrlref/login/default.aspx ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Creating custom data structures for HID devices via DirectInput

  Hi all, I'm working on accessing generic HID devices on Win32 via DirectInput.  It's generally going well, but I've hit a snag. The devices I want to send and receive data to are non-standard devices - that is, they are not keyboards, mice or joysticks.  So, I think I need to use SetDataFormat with a custom DIDATAFORMAT structure to define a custom structure for these non-standard devices.  I'd expect to itera ...Show All