Ebenezer Tham's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System IDE crashing after profiling

  I have Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers installed, which was upgraded to from 2005 Professional. Whenever I launch a performance session (either using the performance wizard or by creating it manually) the IDE crashes as soon as I exit the program that I am profiling. I've tried this with a few projects and get the same problem - they are all C# windows forms applications. The programs run fine but when I close them, VS show ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB or VC++ for GUI Development?

  Hi Folks, I want to solicit suggestions regarding the performance of VB. Net or VC++ .Net with regards to GUI development. Thanks. +Ver Hi, If what you meant by VC++.Net is the C++ extension for the .Net framewrok then I could say that its just the same. Both of these uses the same controls from the framework. The only advantage of C++.Net over VB is that it could use MFC or other native objects. But if your not planning to do so, I sug ...Show All

• Visual C# how do I Update multiple controls and forms

  I have a edit form with a detailsview, I use the openfiledialog to retrieve a file.  The file location is saved in a textbox on this form.  That works great.  I have a datagridview on another form I want to reflected the changes made to the database.  Is this possibel Thank you. Moondancer I think I understand....so I would double click the selected row in the datagridview on the Mainfor ...Show All

• Visual C# Hit Detection on a Line

  I want to know if the mouse is over (hitting) a line. Therefore I created a Region object that holds the line and use the IsVisible() method to test if the mouse hits the line. It doesn't work! In the little program below I create two Regions: one is square, the other is a line. Hit testing works on the square-Region, not on the line-Region. How can I do a hit-test over a line //namespace HitTest namespace HitTest { ...Show All

• SQL Server BULK INSERT Format File Problems with SQLNUMERICAL in SQL-Server 2005 Express

  I'm trying to set up a BULK INSERT Format File for some data that I've been sent, which, according to the data documentation, comes in fixed-width format fields (no delimiters except for end-of-row 0D0A) in SQL-Server 2005 Express. The following is the first line... "7999163 09182003 56586 56477 3601942 1278 22139 1102 113 118 51450 1 1 63535647 10000 7999162 09182003 56586 56477 3601942 1279 22139 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions New Express contest - $10,000 and all it takes to start is an idea...

  Just announced, a new contest for Visual Studio Express and SQL Server Express. Do you like to use technology to build cool and useful stuff Do you think you could do it with Visual Studio Express and/or SQL Server Express Would you like $10,000 cash Well then we have a contest for you! Learn more at www.MadeInExpressContest.com . Cool stuff. MJ He either means he wants the contest in another language besides English, or another ...Show All

• Visual C# How to Send mail -help please-

  iam a new C# asp.net developer and i want a code to send mail to mysite users . i want a code and instruction to get my framwork ready tahnks for help If you use the "Object Browser" in the C# IDE, and search for "Mail" you find a ton of classes that can help you perform mailing operation, all documented aswell in the properties and methods. also, google is your friend. ...Show All

• Windows Forms standalone appln

  i developed a small stand alone accounting application using vb.net2005 and ms-access 2003 as backend now, i want to make setup file of my appln and install it on my client system i dont have any idea about deployment issues or different kind of deployment methods pls suggest me the best kind of setup and deployment You can start by checking out ClickOnce. This blog entry has a list of pointers to Clic ...Show All

• SQL Server Running a LIKE statement when searching for a date field...

  I am trying to run a like statement that has a datetime column and for some reason it does not return any values. I looked in the SQL help files and in states in there that when trying to select using a datetime that the preferred way of doing it is using a like statment. Does anybody know a better way of doing this Here is my example: (I have dates in this column ie 2006-02-13 11:30:54.220) SELECT * FROM workorderhistory WHERE wh ...Show All

• SQL Server Getting Flatfile col data into a variable

  I have a flat file with several columns and maybe half a dozen rows I want the value of the first column of the last row captured in a package variable for other processing.  In the old DTS I ran the data through a transformation from the flat file to a dummy table in tempdb and captured the value for that field via the Active X code inside the transform: DTSGlobalVariables("DistrictVersion").Value = DTSSource("Col001")  ...Show All

• System Center WAN linkage sizes

  Am I missing something or is 156 Mb the largest WAN link allowed in an Exchange Model   Richard Siddaway wrote: Am I missing something or is 156 Mb the largest WAN link allowed in an Exchange Model Yes this is the fastest WAN link configuration included in SCCP device configuration library. What is your link speed ...Show All

• .NET Development blobs in datasets & datareaders

  we are running into a situation where blobs were created using myCommand = mContextInfo.Connection.CreateCommand() myCommand.Parameters.Add("p1", OleDbType.Binary).Value = mData myCommand.CommandText = myActionQuery numOfRecordsUpdated = myCommand.ExecuteNonQuery() the command is either a "Update" or "Create" now a datareader retval = .GetBytes(Fields.Data, 0, mData, 0, mData.Length) always returns wh ...Show All

• Visual Basic Intellisense Code snippet auto insert exception try block?

  In the code editor, when I hover over a class e.g. Thread.Start there is a description of the class. This also lists all the exceptions for that class. Does anyone have a code snippet that can insert a try catch final block based on the exceptions listed Something like this try { Thread.Start(); } catch (ThreadStateException) { Console.Write("ThreadStateException"); } catch (InvalidOperationExce ...Show All

• Visual Basic conversion

  when iam trying to change textbox caret i got this error messege : Conversion from string "System.Drawing.Bitmap" to type 'Long' is not valid. my code : CreateCaret(TextBox1.Handle, PictureBox1.Image, 10, 10) ShowCaret(TextBox1.Handle) any idea about converting (system.drawing.bitmap) or (picturebox1.image) to long or integer You need to pass the pointer to the Bitmap instead of the actual Bitmap to Create ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Automating Test Execution

  I would like to know the class which could be used to automate test case execution. Currently, we need to manually start the test case execution in the test manager.  But, I have a requirement to execute the test cases in the test project for multiple times with different types of data. This is to verify the functionality - not to measure the performance or load. I found that test cases can be executed in command line with the command “ ...Show All