Jsamuel's Q&A profile

• Visual C# Link Button - Windows ApplicationC# Signatu

  Hi, How can I make a link button minimize a applicationto taskbar And from the taskbar maximize Thanks C# Signature: [DllImport("user32.dll")] static extern bool CloseWindow(IntPtr hWnd); The CloseWindow function minimizes (but does not destroy) the specified window. To destroy a window, an application must use the DestroyWindow function. Hope This helps ...Show All

• .NET Development Delegate.Combine()

  Is there a way to combine delegates in-place I'm trying to deserialize a delegate for which I need to create an unitialized Delgate (via FormatterServices.GetUnitializedObject) in order to resolve references during deserialization. Once all references are resolved, the delegate will need to be initialized but the refererence to the unitialized multicast delegate cannot change. I can use reflection to initialize the delegate and the Combine method provides a way to add delegates to the invocation list but combining delegates produces a reference to the combined delegate destroying the original reference resolution. Thanks, Ray ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Express Question

  Hi all, I just have a quick question. Aparently theres a 40 Gig limitation on any DB that you create with the Express edition that Microsoft Offers. My question is this, If i created a couple of diffirent databases say one to hold customer data, and another to hold pictures, and another to hold music files........ How hard is it to Integrate all three databases in a web app What are some of thine things i need too do in order to make that all work Any help on this would be great thanks! -Mike- Hi, if you are planing a professional, scalable solution for your application and you already reached the 4GB (not ...Show All

• Windows Forms binding to checkbox or radiobutton...

  Hi, I'm saving to a database the status of checkboxes and radiobuttons (using this.checkBox/radioButton.Checked.ToString() ). The fields where these are stored are of type Yes/No, and in access everything seems to work fine, cause in the field appears a cheked or unchecked box wether it was checked or unchecked in my app. However, in my application, when I do th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unable to add users to Team Project if using VPN.

  Hi Folks, when i'm at work,  i can succesfully add users to the team projects using the Team Explorer in VS2005. Kewl. At home, i use VPN to connect to work, and i can then connect to TFS, etc. When i try to add users to the team project, it fails to find domain\username. This is becuase my home computer is in a workground and not part of the domain (i assume). So, is there any way i can 'register' with the domain, so i can see the work AD, and therefore add the AD users to the team project hmmm..... If Chris's suggestion doesn't work for you there is a workaround.  The TE use a COM object picker to allow you to sele ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Problem starting the Managed Samples

  I'm trying to get started by doing the DirectX\Samples\Managed\Direct3D\Tutorials, but I can't seem to get them to run. When I try to open the solution file, I get an error message box that says "The application for project '...DirectX\Samples\Managed\Direct3D\Tutorials\Tutorial\Tutorial1.csproj" is not installed. Make sure the application for the project type (.csproj) is installed." Any ideas Thanks so much to all of you who are more experienced and willing to answer our silly questions. You're leaving out information that can help us help you: Which SDK version Whi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Report - developers who are not checking in their code regularly

  I would like to create a report showing code that has been checked-out for longer than 2 weeks. I don't see this type of information contained in the BisDWDB, so I would assume I need to access the VSTeamSCC db instead. Is this correct If so, what tables would I need to select Substitute "tf.exe" for "h.exe". When Buck wrote that post we hadn't removed codenames yet (Hatteras -> Team Foundation). ...Show All

• SQL Server Advisability of custom security extension?

  I would like opinions on the advantages and disadvantages of implementing RS 2005 custom 'security extensions' to implement forms-based authentication. The proposal on the table is a B2B extranet scenario. Customer is not thrilled about having to put a domain controller in the DMZ to support a windows authentication model for their web app, and having to maintain all those accounts via the Active Directory interface. Although it's technically feasable to roll your own security extensions for Reporting Services, my concern is having to deal with the inevitable upgrades to Reporting Services and SQL Server. Just how much of a nightmare will ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista I hope this format starts to leak before the next OS.

  The world longs for a PDF alternative.I hope this format finds a home in lower level and lower cost applications.This is where PDF suffers and makes users suffer.Sure there are low price PDF converters but to actually author a decent document you have to invest hundreds of dollars in Adobe products.If this format started leaking out small apps for the internet to play around with before Vista it would generate buzz and lock in success and relieve consumers of anxiety.It short i hope Microsoft keeps this format excessible to the average techhead and not the Office jet set that will shell out 400 bucks for a software suite.Just my opinion.I'm ...Show All

• SQL Server 32bit Admin tools when the only media you have is 64 bit

  We have jumped straight to 64 bit SQL 2005 with no 32 bit 2005 inbetween. However this means the tools we have cannot be installed on windows XP/2000 32 bit. Is there some way to get the 32 bit tools as it appears strange that 32 bit tools were not provided for remote access. Cheers Julian It is not clear which media package you have, but there should be a Tools CD which can be installed on 32-Bit. Thanks, Peter ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to check array string

  Environment:   Running this code on my PC via VS 2005 .Net version 2.0.50727 on the server (shown in IIS) Code is in ASP.NET 2.0 and is a VB.NET Console application   Problem & Info:   I am simply trying to do a couple If statement on comparing the value in my array but not sure how to form it correctly   The problem is here, I just do not know how to form this check:   ElseIf Parts(2).Substring(1, 1) = "MT" Then ElseIf Parts(2).Substring(1, 1) <> "MT" And Parts(2).Substring(1, 1) <> "AR" Then   I’m simply just not ...Show All

• SQL Server Best Practice for retrieving last record

  Hi there, very sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this in. I want to know what is the BEST practice, the correct Microsoft way of doing this: basically, lets say I am inserting a new record into SQL. simple customer record: firstname lastname address city postcode password dateOfRegistration (SQL has this value and the default value is the getdate()) That's all very well. I want to know how I can get the recordID for this and return that back from the caller (returning is easily done) - You cannot really after this insertion, perform a SELECT statement to get the LAST record entered, as there maybe ...Show All

• Visual Basic Programming to Physical Comptuer

  Hello Once again, I need your help I want to know if there is a way that the programming that can affect the real physical computer such as the hard drive, motherboard, RAM, Power Supply, Drive Thank You! all answers to kn1123@gmail.com! dallanadia wrote: Hi, I need your help i have a home pc with windows xp home edition installed my ram is 512MB and the cpu 3.20GHz, well all of the sadden my pc turns off. the temperature is about 88-90 I checked for bugs viruses etc, nothing I re-installed the windows xp I have no big files in my pc and the temperature is not dropping a bit. What can I do ...Show All

• .NET Development Moving database table details to a table in my application

  Hi, I have a problem, i want to move the information of the tables such as the fields and constraints and every related information to a local table. i am to the use that local table in my application. so the details from the database should be exactly matched. This must be working with any database. There should also be an edit option to set the relationship manually (Eg. to set the foreign key relationship manually). can anyone help with the code or logic on how to do this Thanks in advance.. Regards, satish.r Hi, I ll Make it very clear... My task is to create a data dictionary with backend MS SQ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Build Successful Sound scheme?

  How do I get C# Express to emit a sound on Build Successful I dont see any scheme associated with C# Express via the control panel or directly (in the registry). If yours works, please post the registry entries! Thanks. ...Show All