Bill Griffis's Q&A profile

• SQL Server My SQL application on Windows Mobile 5

  Hi My application : On PC : Access application + Access DB On PocketPC : Embedded Visual Basic 3.0 application + PocketAccess DB I synchronise my DBs through ActivSync. It runs good before Windows Mobile 5. My customers asked me for new PocketPC with this application, so I bought some new PocketPCs : but as I see, syncronisation with Access is no more supported. So what are my solutions My customer wait for there PocketPC, so I need a quick solution, I don't want to rewrite all my application now. My application run before WM5, so now I don't want to have to pay for a Visual Studio .Net, some SQL Server, etc .... Please, what are the solut ...Show All

• Windows Forms Update a combobox

  I have a toolstripcombobox with a dataset as source. When I add something in my database, I want to automatically update the combobox. How can I do that I have the feeling that it's something very easy, but I can't see it... maybe a fridayblues thanks! hi, how do you want to add in database, i mean thru a User Interface thank you, bhanu. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) svg + xaml

  Why can I only have 1 scalable vector graphic reference file saved with-in a xaml file and thats the only view and detail the glpyh/icon can have... if you scale-down a 256x256px graphic to like 16x16px it looks bad unless the 256x256px is very simple which brings be to my next point that if you would make a simple 16x16px graphic and scale-up to 256x256px the graphic would look to simple and not rich enough which would make that size pointless to scale to... wouldnt it be a better solution  if you could set a scalable vector graphic reference file for each square number example ..., 16x16px, ... 32x32px, ..., 256x256, ... ...Show All

• .NET Development NTFS ACLs via WMI over UNC and DFS???

    " anonymous@discussions..microsoft.com " <Mark A. Richman@discussions.microsoft.com > wrote in message news:e10414a3-0453-4b89-a104-7f1959753f0e@discussions.microsoft.com ... I'm trying to use WMI to get/set directory permissions, where the directory is a UNC path, available via DFS. For example, ManagementObject lfs = new ManagementObject(@"Win32_LogicalFileSecuritySetting.Path='\\foo.bar..baz\mydfsroot\mydfslink\somefolder'"); Any operations on this object throw a "Not Found" ManagementException. If I use a local directory, it works just fine: ManagementObject lfs = new Ma ...Show All

• Visual Basic Determine TopMost Window on the Desktop

  Hi All, I have a tricky one (well, tricky for me) that I am having trouble finding a solution for. Here is the problem; I have a Form that is open and a Notify Icon.   I want to be able to click the icon and have one of two things occur depending on the current state of the form. If the form is the Top Most (i.e. on top of all other normalised or maximised Windows) I want to hide the form. If the form is NOT the Top Most (i.e. behind another form) then I want to bring the form to the top. You can determine the topmost form for the desktop using a couple of Windows API's as follows; 'GetForegroundWindow will get the handle of the F ...Show All

• Visual Basic Setting Custom PaperSize

  Hello guys, I am a basic Programmer... The task I need 2 do is print a small bill using dot matrix printer. The problem I am getting is abt the paper size.. The paper size in which I have 2 print the bill is about 6X3.5". I haved searched some posts also and found the usage of system.printers.papersize class to set the custom papersize. but I am not being able to find the reference 2 system class and use if.. ............................... Plz help me with the logic and basic code outline 2... ANd also the method by which I can use system class in VB Hye can't I set custom papersize from VB 6.0 or can't I use the same object from ...Show All

• .NET Development strongly typed dataset

  Hi, The following line populates a datagrid using a strongly typed dataset. dsEmps is the .xsd file in the foreach line I would like to loop through each record I get an error on the foreach line and it says: specified cast is not valid I think this line has to be somehow casted employeeDetailsData.Employees.Rows EmpBusRule.EmpService.dsEmps employeeDetailsData; EmpBusRule.Employees br = new EmpBusRule.Employees(); employeeDetailsData = br.GetDataEmployee(); if (employeeDetailsData.Employees.Rows.Count < 1) { throw new Exception("No record found."); } grdEmps.DataSource = employeeDetailsData.Employees; forea ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView RowValidating event

  I'm making a Data Entery form using DataGridView. My DataGridView is bound to Access database. I'm using RowValidating event of the DataGridView to validate data. This event is working properly for all other functions but I get an error [Object reference not set to an instance of an object] when I want to cancel the AddNew action. When I click AddNew button the focus moves to the new row, now if want to cancel the AddNew I get the error[Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]. The codes are are below: Private Sub CreditsDataGridView_RowValidating(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewCel ...Show All

• Architecture Message vs Service.

  EmailValidation message vs EmailValidation Service. SOA is mostly about services and messages. Rather than create a number of services with different names would it be recomended if we create 1 generic service and have it request/reply messages. For ex: EmailValidation service. Instead of creating a service for email validation, create a validationService and have it process all the validation messages for the application. Just wondering how others are approaching this. Thanks Sailu Hi sailu, I think SOA is more about bringing people, business processes, policies and technology more closely aligned by using loosely coupled ...Show All

• SQL Server For each container - performance problem?

  I have a for each container configured to iterate over files in a directory (around 2600 files). The for each container contains only one data flow task. The data flow task is very simple. Only 3 steps. Read from file using flat file source (ragged right), format column values (eg. converting YYYYMMDD into yyyy/mm/dd and TRIM spaces - 13 such conversions) using derived column transform and inserting them into a table (23 columns - mostly nvarchar, few numerics and few dates) using Ole Db Destination. The table has one non-unique clustered index on nvarchar(18) column. Each of the 2600 file has at an average 750000 rows. It seems to me ...Show All

• Visual C++ Saving image failed 80004005

  I have a application using VC++ MFC, I can't save the file in the "Chinese Folder" and the PC used Chinese XP Window SP2. lionbrian wrote: I have a application using VC++ MFC, I can't save the file in the "Chinese Folder" and the PC used Chinese XP Window SP2. Your question is not very clear. What I understood so far is that you have XP SP2 Chinese language version, and you have a folder with Chinese characters in its name. And an app is unable to save into it, correct My best guess would be that, that app was compiled for Ansi, and thus may not be able to handle non-Ansi characters in a path. ...Show All

• Windows Forms transfer files between two application

  Hello all, I have an application and I need to be able to send a file from one user to the other.  I am not quite sure how to get started with this, i guess i am looking for something similar to a IM file transfer system, but they will be on an intranet.  Any advice would be great thanks!! You have a wide variety of options for file transfers within an intranet. You could: Use FTP. There are various FTP client/server components written in .NET. Drop the file in a common UNC ( \\fileserver\somedir\ ) and send a link. Use a peer-to-peer package. Use Web Services. Use sockets or a higher-le ...Show All

• .NET Development Using returned value from SqlDataSource1

  I, a newbie, can't seem to figure this out or find the answer on forums. Any help you could offer me is appreciated. VS2005, C#, Web forms. What I'm doing is writing the login name and password to Profile.Login & Profile.Password from the text boxes on a login screen only if there is such a combo. I also want to write the person's UserID but can't get it out of the SqlDataSource1. I have an SqlDataSource1 that returns a distinct integer value (134 for example). I can display this value in a grid view, details view, and so on by linking the datasource to the grid view. The query works but... I want to be able to write the returned valu ...Show All

• Windows Forms Form wont close

  I created a custom control with some textboxes and comboboxes and a delete button.  Then I load a bunch of data from a database and create one of these controls for each record and display them on a form (it ends up looking like a datagrid with each row being one of my custom controls)  Then I have some buttons that do various  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Test list - how to display all Response Time results at once

  Hi, I added 46 tests to a test list and would like to be able to see all of the response times at once. Currently I need to click every single test, which opens on a separate tab. Is there a way to configure this Error messages appear on the same page and we would like to  see the response times too.   Thanks, Burkhard There are a few ways to do this. Here is a post which discusses a fwe solutions. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=122964&SiteID=1 ...Show All