Thobias Jones - MSFT's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Problem with adding child controls

  Hello! I am developing custom control. This control contains panel (System.Windows.Forms.Panel) inside. When designer is open, and I am trying to add controls into my control`s panel -  problem occurs: controls are added to the form, but not into my cont ...Show All

• Visual C++ Help ID generation not available for ActiveX Control

  Hi there, Well we have been using an ActiveX control in VC6 for quiet a long time and generating help ID for them but , when We start using newer versions of VC Studio the Option for generating Help IDs for ActiveX control is not displayed and we have difficulty using Context Sensitive Help, If there is any work around Please help us out. Regards Usman Mahmood Yes this is still an issue can I have any work aroun ...Show All

• Smart Device Development VS2005 sucks!!

  I have been using vS2003 for a couple years now. I upgraded to 2005 thinking I'd be getting a better environment with more up to date libraries and tools. What I ended up with is an environment that takes 3 or 4 minutes to open for me to start working. Another 4 or 5 minutes to open my tiny PDA application with 4 forms in it. Errors that make no sense about such and such not existing as a function of a class, yet the editor itself finds every ...Show All

• Windows Forms Updating the data in a datagrid

  I use sqldataadapters to populate the dataset that has a parent table with child tables I have a form with a datagrid, the datagrid has records from a child table that relate to the parent.  When a record is double clicked I open a ne ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Free memory in compact frame work 1.0

  Hi all, I'm writting a Point of Sales application for use on a PDA device, when I move from one screen to the next I use the me.Close() to close the previous screen(form) and then load the next screen. This is working fine, however when I go can check the running programs on the PDA device, it displays a list of all the forms I've entered, even the ones I've closed. This slowly slowly eats away at the available memory I have free on the PDA. By ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS - Connecting to Oracle

  Hi, I am new to using SSIS (after using DTS on SQL Server 2000 for many years). I am trying for the first time to connect to an Oracle 9.2 database and export data from it into SQL Server 2005. I used the Microsoft OLE DB Oracle Provider to connect to the Oracle instance. The test connection works fine, but when I try and preview a table or copy data from Oracle I get the error.... The component reported the following errors Canno ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Version Control Best Practices?

  Can somebody please provide some best practices in the use of Team System Version Control Especially in the area of mulitple builds, etc. Here is an example: We have a single code-base with 2 different clients.  We do daily builds for our internal QA folk.  Usually on a bi-weekly basis we do a build out to the production server as well.  A couple of days later we may do another build that is put out to the production server for th ...Show All

• SQL Server flow of events while sending message from one serivce two another

  Hello, I want to know the exact flow of events when I use this statement: BEGIN DIALOG CONVERSATION @dialog_handle FROM SERVICE [SERVICE1] TO SERVICE 'SERVICE2' ON CONTRACT [MainContract] Assuming that I have defined SERVICE1 for Queue1 in the initiator , and I have defined SERVICE2 for queue2 on the target. Is this the flow: 1.Message first goes to the queue1 or it directly goes to the SERVICE2 on target end point which i ...Show All

• Visual C# sql parameter.value INT <NULL>

  Hy, i want to save some value's but if a int(tb_UseFullAmounth.Text) has no value there will be an error this is my code cmd.Parameters.Add("@UseFullAmounth", SqlDbType.Int); cmd.Parameters["@UseFullAmounth"].Value = tb_UseFullAmounth.Text; cmd.Parameters["@UseFullAmounth"].Direction = ParameterDirection.Input; i just want to send <NULL> Does the SQL table you are using permit the UseFullAmounth field to be null If ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro TXT Files

  Hi there!!! Does anyboady knows how can i print a TXT file in foxpro I don't know what can i do, I've never used VFP before and I need to do this Thanx a lot!!! There are several ways. The simplest one is probably the old TYPE Command: TYPE FileName1 [AUTO] [WRAP] [TO PRINTER [PROMPT] | TO FILE FileName2 ] [NUMBER] http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dv_foxhelp9/html/7e83da43-86c1-4b0d-a00d-ea4123823 ...Show All

• Visual C++ What will cause AfxGetModuleState() return different values during DLL initialization?

  My application has over 100 Dlls. During startup, many resources failed to be found. I finally find out this is because AfxGetModuleState() returns different values in the CDynLinkLibrary's constructor, but I get no idea how can this happen. Anybody can help Thanks. Could it be a failure to use AFX_MANAGE_STATE(AfxGetStaticModuleState( )); on your DLL entry points This macro informs MFC that a DLL boundary has be ...Show All

• SQL Server surface area configuration won't run

  Just completed new install of SQL 2005 Std, replacing a working default instance of SQL 2000 on a Windows 2003 Server.  All maintenance applied.  Things seem to work alright until I attempt to launch the SAC tool: Message is "specified aregument was out of range of valid values. parameter name: index(system.windows.forms.TreenodeCollection.get_item(int32 index) at Microsoft.SQLSAC.Mainpanel.form services and protocols". Should also men ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Please, Help!

  I am about to loose the ability to Windows WorkFlow because a simple problem I cannot seem to figure out and knowbody can seem to answer. Its simple, how do I get the service objects right after a workflow is coming back from being persisted mardo Have you tried the WorkflowLoaded event Add the following where you create the workflow runtime: workflowRuntime.WorkflowLoaded += new EventHandler < WorkflowEventArgs >(workfl ...Show All

• SQL Server Data Access Differences in SQL Server 2005

  Hello, We have a large set of applications that we developed and build for use with Borland InterBase (5.x-7.x). We have moved/migrated off of Borland InterBase to MS SQL Server 2005. We are find some situations where InterBase was an more elegant solution and finding it difficult to find the right way to change our applications to achieve the same result. In InterBase, our Database Transactions allowed our user to make changes to the DB ...Show All

• Visual C# Service and Starting

  When a service is runned, it will start the "OnStart" method. My question is: when I add the code, can I do something like this:         protected override void OnStart( string [] args)         {             Event bla = new Event();             bla.Enable = tr ...Show All