Alex Mondale's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Too many downloading for upgrading system in order to run vs express applications.

  Straight to the point, my country does not have very solid internet connection, its getting better but still not good enough. There are too many downloads needed to upgrade a system like win98/win2k/winXP sp1 to a level which able to run applications that developed in vs express edition. I hope I can include those 'installers', all into a cd so no internet access is needed at all. Is it posible to do it Even better if the user can just upgrade all with a single click of button, do not need to 'Yes', 'Yes', 'Accept', 'Confirm', 'Yes', 'Yes'... Do not expect they are computer literal. This is a good ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions my.computer.fileinfo

  I have been attempting to learn some of the new nifty items in the 2.0 framework, i am trying to search my entire c:\ drive for .jpg files and it throws an exception when it gets to a system directory. I have attempted to set system.securty to the min permissions to no avail, will post code and error when i get home, but if someone else has seen this any help now would be appreciated. code below For Each str As String In My .Computer.FileSystem.FindInFiles( "c:\" , "*.jpg" , True , FileIO.SearchOption.SearchAllSubDirectories) 'instance = Security.Permissions.SecurityAction.RequestMinimum tv ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Error while installing the platform SDK

  Hi, while installing the platform SDK I encounter an error: Error 1606. Could not access network location http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/5/f/a5f0d781-e201-4ab6-8c6a-9bb4efed1e1a/PSDK-SDK_Core_BIN-common.0.cab . It gives me the option to retry or cancel - retry doesn't work, and when I hit cancel, it rolls back and uninstalls all files that it had installed of the SDK till that point. Any clue how to get around this Thanks, Yoel http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;en-us;330766 Have you tried following the instructions in there. ...Show All

• Windows Forms MDI Parent and Child form - Close Child

  I am developing a MDI application with a couple of child windows inside the Parent window (frmMain). Each project consists of 2 child windows (frmData and frmPlot). I have a Main Menu which is used to create new Project / open new Project. I want only one Project at a given instant. So when I click on New project menu item (mnuNew_click event) it should close the already open child windows before creating a new project. I tried to use following code but it does not close any child forms. Has someone dealt with similar problem I am using Visual C++ .Net 2003 on Win XP -- private: System::Void mnuNew_Click(System::Object *  send ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to Watch Folder & Files?

  Is There Any Way to Watch The Folder or Files in CompactFramwork See the SDF from OpenNETCF for FileSystemWatcher (OpenNETCF.IO.FileSystemWatcher): http://opennetcf.org/sdf/ Cheers Daniel ...Show All

• Windows Forms Unrealistic animal birth

  When i made my first creature, and when it reproduced first time i was surprised that the child location is chosen randomly from all over the terrarium. I see that it is not right, the child must be placed near his parent. In many means it will be reasonable. Firstly to protect young growth: the parent would be able to protect his children&nb ...Show All

• Visual Basic Creating Arrays

  I have an array that is filled with strings, about 250 to be approximate. Now this is tons of typing as you might think. I already have all the strings in a text file, one string per line. Is there a way of filling the array with the strings from the file. I want each line in the text file to be a seperate value in the array. So, line 1 in the text file would be value 0 in the array, line 2 would be value 1 and so on. Thanks. This is what I am trying to use: Dim tr() As String = IO.File.ReadAllLines(My.Resources._Text) where _Text is the text file I want to add to the array. When I run the program it gives me an error stating ...Show All

• Visual Basic Skin Editor for vs 2005

  I search an Skin Editor for vs 2005 Where i can download a skin editor Hi, You could open it in the VS. Or you could just open it in wordpad. It just contains the image url's for the skin. The editor is not graphical.     cheers, Paul June A. Domag ...Show All

• Visual Basic tab control problem

  hi, i having a tab control and i want my tab to handle a click event and prompt me a message when i click on it.  However, i found that only  inside the tab page can handle the click event not the tab on above. what should i do or is it no such handling for click event on the tab i think selectIndexChanged is more suitable for me..anyway...thanks for ur hint..thanks very much ...Show All

• .NET Development XSD problem on upgrade project to VS2005

  Hi I recently did my first project upgrade from 2003 to 2005.  All went well except for an error with the XSD file i have in there. I can see it in the designer but the code has no code and no dataset.  It wont compile (i cant be specific on the error message as it seems to be a different one each time but at present it says "Custom Tool error: Could not retrieve the current project). Any ideas even better mark. open one that has failed a coversion. open the DataSet using right click | open in the 2005 beta 2 IDE. slide any component in the dataset on the surface creating a need to save. hit s ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Reading Contacts from phone

  Hi developers , I am trying to read the List of contacts from  a phone Book can some one tell me which API to use to get the name of the conatcts and the mobile number. Regards, Parag Kudtarkar Use POOM: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/wceappservices5/html/wce50oriPocketOutlookObjectModelPOOMAPI.asp ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2000: Add column before other column

  How do I add a column in SQL Server table in between two other columns Right-click on table in EM > Design Table. Right-click on the tab on the left of the column above which you want the new column > insert column. Et Voila! Most tasks in EM are done with the right-click. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Designers and Abstract Classes

  Brian Pepin has an interesting article entitled <a href="http://www.urbanpotato.net/Default.aspx/document/970"> Designers and Abstract Classes </a> The Visual Studio designer works by actually creating instances of objects on your form. If you have a form with two buttons and a text box, for example, the form designer creates two real buttons and a real text box. T ...Show All

• .NET Development Request time out ??

  Hi, 1. In web.config I have set MaxRequestLength  to 10000. I believe this value is the size of content that can be transferred using web services.. am I right 2. Is there a maximum value that can be set 3. What about performance as this value increases Does performance get affected by this value Thx, Srilatha   I was curious about this as well.  The limit seems to be 1907MBs in my upload APP. whenever I try to set the MaxRequestLength attribute in Web.Config above 2000000, I get an error basically saying the value is too large.  Is there a way around this to upload larger files ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Polling Access Database

  Hi there, I have an access database that is used on an online ASP system to book holidays, now I'm wanting to create a VB application that can look at the database and as soon as a new record appears have the display update and a message window appear. Problem is that I can get the program to look at the database and display the content, but I don't know how to get it update and refresh the screen automatically, or even to get a message depending on whether or not a new entry appears. Any help would be appreciated. Goodness, that's an unusual profile. A message can be msgbox("You ...Show All