myNameIsRon's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Timers

  Hi! Is there any way i can know how many times a timer has ticked Also, if i make a call to timer.Start(), the timer starts and my code continues execution. Is there any way I can block the code from furthur execution till the timer  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Word/Excel Designer Error in VSTO 2005

  Last week I received a new machine at work. On Friday, I installed VSTO 2005 (which had been previously installed on my old machine and worked fine) with no problems. I modified and existing Excel project that I was working on and everything worked fine. Yesterday I opened another existing Excel Workbook project. I was able to compile and run the project successfully, but I received an error message when I tried to view the workbook in the VS ...Show All

• .NET Development My Application works in Debug mode only

  Hi all, My .NET application works in debug mode only. If I build my application without the "Generate Debugging Information" equal true, the application start properly, looks like everything is just fine, I can use several commands of the same type, but it stops working, I mean it goes in a loop or something. If I run the same application with debug option equal true and I do the same test everything work just fine. This is a prob ...Show All

• .NET Development IEEE1394B programming

  I want to write an IEEE 1394 video playback application -- play a video file out to an 1394 port for decoding and viewing in various analog/digital domains. Does Visual Basic support this and, if so, which version would I buy for the most bang for the buck Ack ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/MS.MSDNQTR.v80.en/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.WIN32COM.v10.en/appendix/hh/appendix/1394_api_cdfdb899-e979-4b58-b442-8abf62d95817.xml.htm Hel ...Show All

• Visual Basic Changing a picture

  Could someone help me with this I want the person to click on image, and when they click another image it changes to the first one. I tried having it store the picture in a system.somethingiforgot.picture, and then having the clicked image change to that variable. I also tried having the first picture change a string, and then have the second picture check if the string is what the first changed it to, and then do picturebox1.image = picturebox2 ...Show All

• SQL Server Single record per page

  Hi All, I am new to RS2000 but have made a report that i need to have 1 record shown per page. the paper i am going to print to is 254mm x 178mm. I cant seem to figure this one out so any help or advise is most welcome You can a grouping to your data region, use RowNumber() function to control how many records belong to each group, and add a pagebreak on the group. This page contains a sample of how to do this ...Show All

• Visual C++ Im new, need overview

  Hey, ive just joined the network, i stated using visual studio 6 c++ , and began learning the basics like the beginners hello world console application and learning basic structure on coding. then my firend told me to scrap VS6c++ and use the Visual Studio c++ express 2005, and the compiler doesnt understand c++ coding, so i type in the basics to just recap, //blah blah #include <iostream.h> int main() {   //blah blah ...Show All

• SQL Server Data Flow Source for dbf (DBASE IV) files

  We're trying to read DBASE IV files as a source, but can't find any providers for that format. Will these be included in the final release Is there another way DBASE has always been supported, so it's kinda stranged. Thanks, Dirk Has anyone had any trouble moving a package using a OLE DB Connection Manager reading DBASE IV files While developing I never had a problem, the confiugration string described here ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro New book on VFP's SQL

  I'm pleased to announce the release of my latest book, Taming Visual FoxPro's SQL: Real World Data Solutions for VFP, from Hentzenwerke Publishing. This is an e-book with lots of downloadable code, available at http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/tamingvfpsql.htm. Here's what Whil Hentzen had to say: You know how once in a while you run into a book that grows on you - each time you read it, there seems to be more in there than the last time yo ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Can a Workflow Host Run more than one Workflow Runtime

  Can the workflow host application run more than one Workflow runtime within the same application domain. The rule is one workflow runtime per appdomain. Since your host lives in an appdomain then it can only have one runtime. ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS SDK March 2006 CTP

  Hi, Just saw they released a new Visual Studio SDK: http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronmar/archive/2006/03/03/543265.aspx Is there anything new with respect to the DSL Tools Couldn't find any info on that. Can I just stay on the February SDK Greets, Gerben. Hi Gerben, There are no new DSL Tools changes in that release of the VS SDK. You can stay on the February SDK if you prefer. Thanks, ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Thoughts about PC Gaming and its current problems

  Hello to all, I’ve been thinking about windows game development and why with the flexibility and power that a PC offers is inferior to the consoles (sure, pc gaming is not dead, but is the business is dying when you compare it with the console business)  and I came to the following problemas that affects pc gaming. 1. Performance. Let’s face it, in order to play the lastest games in a nice way (nice graphics, good f ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Unistalling Visual Basic 2005

  Hi everyone, I did something stupid at work today and I need your help. I do not work for the IT dept, I downloaded the Express edition unto my c drive, I am afraid if it might have affected the SQL Server on the network. Is that possible Is it possible for me to uninstall the whole program from the c drive without it affecting the office network Downloading and installing VB Express will not affect a ...Show All

• SQL Server Use View to speed up?

  In my query, there is two fields using User Defined Function(UDF).  It is the UDF calculation that slow down the query.  The query will eventually become slow when more records(say over 1000) is return. I am thinking to use View to maintain the result of the query so as to speed up the process.  Is it possible   If not, what should I do Thanks. Yes, you can simplify complex query by using U ...Show All

• Visual C++ Accessing Screen Buffer

  I want to take capture of Screen i.e. Screen Shot :P. I have done it using MFC/Win32. But I dont find it very fast. Since every time I have to go through the same procedure which makes processing other things at same time very slow. So I want to directly access the Screen Buffer. Is it possible. If yes, how can I do it . If no, whats the alernate I am ready to go to low-level language to achieve this functionality. But I want to do it like thi ...Show All