dude68's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Embedded C++ and the Samsung i600 Smartphone

  I been trying for several weeks to get my phone to comunicate with the Embedded C++ 4.0 tools.  I am getting the following error in the Platform Manager test view: Unable to load device side components. Please check server configurations. I have sent my smartphone to Verizon to be unlocked, which they say they have done and I still get the message.  I am using Activesync 3.8. Any help on this would greatly appreciated. Thanks. Rob. Thanks. The last link did it.  I was unaware of the need to run the SPDPS program. All is working now. Rob. ...Show All

• SQL Server A problem with connecting to a Oct. CTP server

  Hi, folks I think I need a little help here.  I uninstall the beta2 version and installed Oct. CTP.  The server was using named-instance so I took it as it was.  Installatoin went fine and attached privious databases in SQL Management Studio.  That means, I am able to sign on the SQL server in the same box using SQL Management Studio.  However, from developers (I believe it's beta2 version) could not register this server (my-dev02\sql2005) on their SQL Management Studio. The error is Timeout expired.  The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding. (.Net SqlC ...Show All

• Smart Device Development The designer could not be shown for this file because none of the classes within it can be designed.

  Hi; Im trying to make an smart device application but get this error:  The designer could not be shown for this file because none of the classes within it can be designed. What do I do PLEASE HELP. Thnx I have same problem, I update .net 2003 not solved, then unistall and install it again not solved, then i dowload an instal compact framework it is still not workin is there any one who can help me. I try to create an empty smartdevice project for PocketPC then i can not see Designer. It gives me "The designer could not be shown for this file because none of the classes within it can be designed." Error. ...Show All

• .NET Development DAL best practices

  Hi, I am swithcing from ADO.NET 1.1 to ADO.NET 2.0 Is there any changes on DAL best practices is there ane article or resource that explains ADO.NET 2.0 DAL best practices Any help would be apprecited, Alan If you look a little deeper you will see that the P&P's are infact migrating to the 2.0 framework....check the latest release on the enterprise library for example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/guidetype/appblocks/default.aspx pull=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/entlib.asp Although methods and properties have changed between 1.1 and 2.0 very little has actully changed in the way (P&P) it is ...Show All

• SQL Server Group By Expressions

  I'd like to dynamically create a group by expression. I have select sourcecd FROM dbo.ITMV_ScanCardHistory GROUP BY dbo.fn_GroupBy (@GroupBy) Where: @groupby = sourcecd and fn_GroupBy = CREATE FUNCTION dbo.fn_GroupBy (@ColumnName Varchar(55)) RETURNS Varchar(55) AS BEGIN RETURN @ColumnName END I keep getting this error message: Server: Msg 164, Level 15, State 1, Line 48 GROUP BY expressions must refer to column names that appear in the select list. Please help. Hello, This won't work as the Group By clause is looking for a column name, whereas you are supplyin ...Show All

• Windows Forms change ms access password....

  Hi, Is there any way I can programmatically change the password of an MS Access db Thanks Sorry Freja, I have no idea - I found that link by searching within MSDN. I did more searching now, and found this one, which might be more helpful: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dndao/html/daotoadoupdate_topic7.asp But perhaps not what you need. I'll loo ...Show All

• Windows Forms MDI + external exe

  Hi can anybody give me the code so that i can load external exe's as MDI childs into my application. Also cn anybody give me code so that i can load exe's from .dlls as MDI childs into my application Thx Assuming your exe or dll is .NET.... ' MyAssembly exe or dll contains the form to be instantiated System.Reflection.Assembly asm = System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFrom( "MyAssembly.exe" ) ' This create an instance of an Object Class, but it's castable to the proper  System.Windows.Form or custom Form Class. objClass = asmExternal.CreateInstance("Form Name") objClass.Parent = MainForm ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Foxpro, or Access, or Filemaker?

  I was a professional foxpro programmer 9 years ago, and haven't used it since. I have written some fairly large programs, including my first, which was the tax collection system for Samoa. My last version was the first windows version. Unfortunately, that version, will no longer run on the current XP operating system. I now own a wedding photography business, and need to track leads, and send emails, write invoices, and keep track of services and products for the client. Which software would be better for my needs Foxpro, or Access, or Filemaker   I need a relational system, and if I could program some of it myself, I wou ...Show All

• .NET Development Why is Thread.Name a write-once property?

  In my application, I have run into an InvalidOperationException when I did try to re-assign the Thread.Name property. Looking at the doc, it says that this property is write-once. Can someone tell me why For me this constraint is just annoying (the workaround is easy but painfull). Thanks in advance, Joannes Actually, there is no constraint (at least no constraint specified in the doc) about the time when the Thread.Name can be set. Therefore the Thread.Name can be set at any time (at the middle of its execution) and confuse whatever debugging tools that rely on it. Is there something that I have missed in ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Integrate custom issue tracker

  We have our own issue tracking software that we use in house already.  Since not all projects will be under Team System, I don't want to have two ways of tracking project issues.  Therefore, I would like to replace or integrate with Team System. I believe through extensibility this can be done, can someone point me to a sample or provide any other information on where best to start Dave Thanks Michael for your thoughts. Yes, I guess keeping dual systems is a possibility but not what I'm looking for. I guess I was looking for an acutal MS reply regarding support for extensibility around the issue tracking aspects of tea ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Smartphone device debugging problem with VS 2005

  I have just setup VS 2005 beta 2 and I'm having trouble debugging native C++ apps on my smartphone device (even the simple one created by the New Project wizard). The error I get is: Unable to start program '%CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES%\TestApp\TestApp.exe'. Operation not supported. Unknown error: 0x89731102. Obviously I can't find any info about error 0x89731102. Now, I can debug on the emulator, both for smartphone and pocket pc, and I can also debug on my pocket pc device. I can also debug on the smartphone device with EVC 4 from the same machine so I know the phone itself is setup correctly (all the right certificates and whatnot). *And* I can ...Show All

• Visual Basic database data seatch by testbox.text-->HELP!!

  how can i serch database data by using textbox.text i have large database with 5 colums and .......10-12000 rows i need 2 find all rows = textbox.text then select 1 of them (if more than 1-variable) and display efect value-5 columns value- in 5 textbox's i try do this by query but....how can i select filter by textbox.text O_o thx a lot 4 help Hello. One way you do this, assuming you're using SQL Server, or some other database that allows this, is to build a stored procedure that will get the data from the database based on parameters you send in. Actually, that's the way I do it ...Show All

• Windows Forms Merging Menu strips

  I have an MDI child form which contains a menu strip, and an MDI parent also containing a menu strip. When I open the child form, the menus merge correctly. However, when my child form contains a usercontrol with its own menu strip, the menustrip from the usercontrol gets merged with the MDI parent menu, and I lose the menus from the child form. Is there anyway that I can get all three menus to merge together correctly As I would like to create a form template containing standard options (which may or may not be used as an MDI child), user controls with specific options and the MDI parent with options relating to that. Any ideas/tips w ...Show All

• Visual Basic UserControl.Parent

  I have a VB6 ActiveX control that is hosted on a .NET form (obviously, the aximp util was first used). It works fine except that the control invokes a public property on the parent form:    UserControl.Parent.MyPublicProperty = True The app then dies with an error in the VB6 error handler, displaying the message:    Runtime error ' 5'    Invalid procedure call or argument   I assume I have an interop problem. However, I don't know how to fix it. Is there a way that I can use the code "as is" I don't have access to the code and I need to use the OCX. Any help would be greatly appreciated ...Show All

• Visual Basic Images - including TIFF multiframe/Image - Overlay images with text...Sample programs enclosed. Suggestions welcome.

  Hey folks, I have tested the following program with a small tif size (say less than 500 KB). But, if it is more than 5 MB, the system is taking much time to load the image. Please note that the problem is happening only if i am using TIF image, which is having size more than 500 kb. I would like to know any alternate method to add an overlay text to a multipage/TIFF image without concerning size or any LZW compression technique. The following are sample procedure: Eg for testing : AddTextOnImage("c:\temp\test.tif","Sample Text") Imports System.Drawing Imports System.Drawing.Image Impor ...Show All