barneyk's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Finding what Domain a user is a member of.

  All, Is it possible to programatically find out what Domain a user is a member of -Mabuti Both classes seem to hold this information so take your pick. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista windows vista beta 2

  Where can i download windows vista beta 2. Please see this thread for details. ...Show All

• .NET Development Storing ConnectionString in app.config

  Hi, I'm sure I'm missing something really obvious here, but I can't see it!!  I have a Data Access Layer project (DLL) which contains a typed dataset (just containing stored procedures - no DataTables).  This is fine, and does what I want  except the connection string is stored in the Project Settings. My problem with that is the DAL is used from different WinForm projects which may require a different connection string (tw ...Show All

• SQL Server COnfiguring Number of records per page?

  Is there a way I can specify how many records per page should be displayed > This is a very basic functionality that needs to go in the deployment at any cost for us ...any ideas. thanks Assuming you display your data in a list or a table, you could add a grouping expression like this: =Ceiling(RowNumber(Nothing)/20) This will cause the list/table to group on every 20 rows. On the grouping dialog, select to add a page break on ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions adding folder name to DataImageUrlField

  Hi Hi I'm displaying a picture in a webpage where the DataImageUrlField will load the image filename from a SQL Express field and display image in a ImageFiled. My problem is that I want to change the default folder from where it reads the image file from as it only looks in the root folder and not in the folder where the image file is actually stored in. I'm using VS Express with VB Express and SQL Express. Does any body know how to ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Emulator not connecting to internet but device thru ActiveSync 4.1 can

  I built a small VB 2005 appliction for the Pocket PC. I put a browser control on the form and if I have my devce connected to my computer thru ActiveSync 4.1 I can access a web page. If I use an emulator I can't get a connection. Is there something I have to do to the emulator to get a connection Thanks. You may want to have a look at http://blogs.msdn.com/akhune/archive/2005/11/16/493329.aspx -Thanks, M ...Show All

• Visual Basic Deploying a remote vb .net application

  I am developing an application in VB .net 2002 that will be installed on multiple client PC’s. I am using MS SQL Server 2000 as the database server which will be stored at a central location. Do I have to develop the application on the same machine that is hosting the database or it doesn’t matter Is there a special way to package the application for installation on multiple client PC’s to allow it to access the remote server ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to search for files by using only filenaems?

  How to search for files on the drive by using only the filenames.ie i want to exclude file extensions while searching You can use Directory.GetFiles(String, String) to get an array of strings with the filenames in a certain directory matching a search pattern. String[] arrFiles = Directory.GetFiles(@"c:\", "*.bat"); ...Show All

• Visual Basic Memo field in dataset getting cut off when going to Access

  I have an Access 2002 database with a memo field in it. When in Access, I can populate the field with just about any number of characters I want (more than 255). Now I have a VB.NET program with a form with textboxes on it. These text boxes are tied into a Dataset object. That dataset object has a dataset defined in it. To get the table that is defined in the dataset I simple dragged the table with my mouse from the server explorer into the data ...Show All

• .NET Development Asyncronous Sockets support TCP Message Boundary?

  In The Name of God hello as u know tcp doesn't protect message boundries it means messages might be mixed into each other. in addition to that in TCP it's possible that a message would be delivered in diffrent times. so you must use a while loop to get the complete message. like this: int size_Total = 0; int size_Dataleft = 4; int size_Received = 0; byte[] size_Container = new byte[4]; ...Show All

• Visual C++ problem using CString::Format

  Hi, I wrote the following code in my project: CString s; s.Format("%2d", num1); but it generates the following error message when compiling: d:\my documents\visual studio 2005\projects\pt24\pt24\expression.cpp(74) : error C2664: 'void ATL::CStringT<BaseType,StringTraits>::Format(const wchar_t *,...)' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'const char [4]' to 'const wchar_t *' with [ BaseType=wchar_t ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development MF_ProtectedPlayback Sample doesn't work for Video on Vista Beta 2:

  1. Installed Vista Beta 2; 2. Installed Vista Beta 2 SDK; 3. Build MF_ProtectedPlayback Sample from provided samples; When starting both Release and/or Debug versions of MF_ProtectedPlayback Sample with both Adminitrative and not-Administrative priv. as well as with DRM and not-DRM Video content => getting complain in the form of 3 Message Boxes: "Windows -- Bad Image: X is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains ...Show All

• Windows Forms Form designer generate code in incorrect order in my usercontrol

  Hello everyone, I create a control via visual basic .net 2002. My control uses ImageList and ImageIndex properties. I add an ImageList control to the form and bound it to my usercontrol. When I use usercontrol, Form Designer generate code with two problems: 1. ImageIndex come before ImageList (alphabetical order).      this create a problem because ImageList need to set first. 2. Form Designer ge ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problems with Terrarium server application

  I managed to install the Terrarium Server (Beta 1) on my machine without errors and changed the permissions on the website as per section 5 of the readme: " 5.1     Setting up Directory Permissions for ASPNET account     The first&nb ...Show All

• SQL Server WWW Service overload when trying to print a rs2005 report

  Hi When I try to print a very simple report with rs2005 via the print button on the http://servername/report/pages/... website, it says "printing" but nothing happend. When I look at the server (win2003 SP1 + latest hotfixes) the www and sql2005 (SP1 CTP installed) services eat up 100% cpu for ever. I get no error messages neither in the rs log's nor in os application or system log. With profiler I found out, that there must be some lo ...Show All