Benjamino's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Could someone recommend a good book for VB 2005?

  I'm new to programming and this is the language I've choosen to start with. Could someone suggest a good book to begin with Hey Blair and Ron Nash.... I Had to Lie A Little in the Last Post to Get to Press.... VBESux..... I Love C# Express .......Cheers ...Show All

• Visual C# How to find FIRST non-repeating character in a string using c#

  HI, I am trying to find first non-repeating character in a string. For ex: s s t t b x y r The answer is: b I tried different ways but wanted to know any best solution any one has Thanks, I seem not to have expresso on this machine, but my answer would be a regex, for sure. You can capture each letter and check that it's not the same as the one before or after. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Sorting list in combo box

  I have a combo box list that starts at 16 and goes up to 255, however I can't seem to get it to list numerically. I keep getting the three digit numbers i.e. 100 to display in the list before 16 which is really the first number. Shakalama gave me some advice on a previous combo box question but not the answer to this. Sorry if it is a bit noobish but I'm new to programming and I'm trying to run before I can walk in some areas. Thanks in advan ...Show All

• Visual Studio DataSet Schema and crystal report with VS 2005

  I really appreciate all the help you give. I use the DataSet Schema to create crystal report with VS 2005. I almost follow the tutorial sample code to do it. 1.create a dataset schema 2.write a helper class to populate the dataset     Public Shared ReadOnly Property QuoteDataSet() As DataSet Get Dim myDataSet As DataSet = New DataSet() myDataSet.ReadXmlSchema(DirectoryFilePath & "XMLSchema.xsd" ) Dim ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions 8007007B failure when creating first application

  The good person at my customer site who has to decide after the first of the year which edition of VS 2005 to buy (I'm urging the MSDN subscription route) wanted to play over the holidays so he could get a feel for it. He is running an up to date XP SP 2 system. He has had the same behavior with both VB Express and VS 2005 Standard Edition. When he tries to creat a new windows application he gets an 0x800700B (File name... syntax is incor ...Show All

• Visual Studio Using VSS

  Hi,  I am new to Visual Source Safe. I would like to know of a good site, that can take me through a step-by-step instructions on using the VSS. Also, is it enough if VSS is installed on the server, and all other machines work from the server You can start with the msdn site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/previous/ssafe/ Webcast: Source Control and Team Development Using Visual Studio .NET and Visual SourceSafe http://msevents.mi ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Need UV Atlas help

  I'm very interested in learning how to use the new UVAtlas class on the most basic level. The DX documentation talks about all the steps of usage on an abstract level, but I need an explicit step-by-step example (I am very dense). Can anyone help out Any examples would be appreciated. But specifically I'm looking to do something as simple as taking the "tiny.x" sample and generating a new UVAtlas for it. Thanks much!  ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Access report using VBA

  Hey All! I have a problem. I am creating a screen that includes persons first_name, last_name, phone_number (this is a fields in access) Now I have created a command button and I want that when user clicks on the command button the information in those fields would go to excel page. Sincerely, Boris There's a function in Access that lets you export information to Excel. It's called TransferSpreadsheet. DoCmd.TransferSpr ...Show All

• SQL Server Custom Stored Procs: Determining source table name

  Hello all ... I'm looking at writing some customized insert, update and delete stored procs for a replication target. For various reasons I would like to write a "one size fits all" custom stored proc for each of these tasks. It looks like I can get the data values passed as parameters just fine. I was wondering if there's a way to also pass the source schema and table name as parameters, or to determine these on the fly in m ...Show All

• Windows Forms Visual Studio 2005 Release Date Announced!

  According to <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/60380">this</a> german IT news site, Microsoft announced the release dates of Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk 2006 today (Jun 07 2005) at TechEd. They will be released in the week  ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista one workflow persisted and doing work in two hosts

  Hi, Anybody has sample where workflow host has created instance of one workflow, then persisted it. Now other host gets instance of same workflow and passes some work to it e.g. host A creats instance of workflow A, and then runtime persists it. Host B now tries to load workflow A and provides some external event to start processing further... runtime in host B again persists the workflow. Provide some sample if anyone has it. th ...Show All

• .NET Development Deserialization Problem

     hi  I am communicating with asp.net page by my application at client side... client send data to asp.net page........ at client end i serializes the data to the stream and on server data is recieved and i stored that in a file... but when i try to deserialize data from stream directly or from filestream ..error comes to client application " Internal Server Error (500)............"  i have searched a lot but did not f ...Show All

• Windows Forms Anyone know where to get custom skins?

  I would like to add some custom skins.  Anyone know where to get them Thanks PThomas@Corillian.com Consider enabling script access for the folder that holds your update files (e.g. 1.0.0.1) in iis. Most of the times 403 (forbidden) is a&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Basic managing custom classes

  I hate asking these questions because it seems like I should be able to find it somewhere else, but in the 5 books I have on .net, none of them address this topic in depth. Situation: I have a third party .dll, its function is not important but for clarity it is an OPCautomation dll. It is a little tough to use so I have written a custom component to make interaction with it easier (a wrapper, so to speak), lets call this OPCwrapper. F ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problem executing general C++ code samples

  Hi, I've installed Visual C++ Express Edition and PSDK and I'm able to build and execute simple Windows Forms Applications. But when I try to build the sample codes I've found at "http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms236269.aspx" I always have the same problem, e.g. when I open the CPUID.sln from the CPUID sample program and try to choose "Properties" from the menu, I only get the error message "The operation could not be completed". When ...Show All