Sternman's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista As consumers of applications

  What is the best way to drag application vendors and developers into this forum so they can learn to code more securely What websites, sdk, documents and books [besides Writing Secure Code Second Edition] should be recommended to such vendors If hitting them over the head with Writing Secure Code doesn't work, remember that there's a Russian edition... in hardback. Seriously, I'm starting to think that certain vendors (and you and I both think of the same one) aren't going to get this message until a big news item hits with the title "Accountant says SlowBooks data was exposed because Inhibit would ...Show All

• Visual Basic Having a newline in text box, but not newline in the text. How?

  Ok, here's the deal. This is for VB6. I have a mutiline text box and just one string to paste in it, through code. This single string is logically in 4 parts, but for the purpose of the program, the string is a single, long string, with no CR or LF. However, for the sake of user visuals, I'd like the string to be split on 4 lines in the text box, along these 4 logical sections. But say the user goes and does a select-all, or ctrl-A or in other words selects all the text, I do NOT want newlines or carriage returns in the selection, it is meant to be juse one long string. If there is CR or LF, the use of the program will fail because these cha ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Identify that an old library is used.

  Hi I am new to creating FxCop rules, however I have got to the point where I have written rules for our corporate naming guidelines which test for any violations. My question is as follows. I want to add a rule which checks whether a class is "using" a library and advise to use the new recommendation. Has anyone done this one before and can provide me with some pointers to get started Thanks for any help Brendan Brendan, Override the Check(Module) method and make use of the AssemblyReferences field:         public override ProblemCollection Check(Module module)   ...Show All

• Visual C# COM+

  Hi. I have a COM+ component done in C# (A class that inherits from ServicedComponent class). I have this component registered in, suppose, computer A. The question is: how can I use this component from, suppose, a computer B using remoting what is the best way of doing that Thanks. You need to set up an Application Proxy. Follow these steps: Set up your COM+ package normally on the SERVER machine using Component Services Right-click on your COM+ Application on the SERVER, and choose Export Choose Next on the introduction screen Enter a file name to export the proxy, eg. "C:\temp\myProxy.MSI&quo ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Preview problem

  I have Microsoft Windows Desktop Search installed on a number of computers but on one the preview is not working. No e-mail, contacts etc are previewed. Only a message saying in Swedish "Det gar inte att visa en forhandsgranskning" (approx "preview can not be shown") is shown. Any ideas what to do Thanks Anders Sneckenborg Hi Anders, Just a few quick questions.. Is Outlook Open while you are trying to index it What version of Outlook are you running Do you know if there are any group policies or machine preferences in place that may stop Outlook from indexing the Exchange Server directly E ...Show All

• Visual Basic VS 2005 seems unusable for large VB converted project. How do I turn off the background compiler.

  VS 2005 seems unusable for large VB converted project.  How do I turn off the background compiler. I have a fairly large project that I migrated from VB6 to VS2005.  This is the RTM version of VS2005.  There are many issues that I need to fix up in the code, but every time I change one line of code, my system runs 100% CPU for 30 seconds. This is not even close to usable.  You might think I have a slow machine, but I am running this in a P4 3.5 GHZ with 1GB of RAM, and a SATA 150 hard drive. I will be forced to abandon use of VS 2005 for this project unless I can find a work around for this issue. Please help! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Compartiment with multiple classes to be added

  Is there a way to add two or more attributes from diferent classes in the same compartment   Thanks Mapping compartments to relationships to abstract classes is now enabled in DSL Tools December CTP, so Luiz's initial issue shoudl be solved. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Could you recommend a test tool for .net cf?

  Could you recommend a test tool for .net cf ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions graphing readings (1,2,3,3780)on X axis and volts ( 0 to .017562) on Y axis

  1. Is there a way to draw graph from lower left of screen instead of top left only 2. can the coordinates be "scaled" like they used to in QB45 { screen (0,3780) - (0,.017562) } I have the large array(3780). I can put it in a textbox. I can console.writeline(array(k)) to the output screen. I can multiply my Y data by a thousand to see a little of the graph, but I need an example to scale the window and change the origin of the graph. OX this draws a nice upside down graph if I can send the data file. Suggest how I can send the data file code: Public Class Form1 Dim volts() As Single ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Remoting with TcpChannel and Smartphone

  I'm planning to do a simple client server application. The server is going to run on windows xp pro, and client is going to run on smartphone 2005. If I use TcpChannel class to construct the server, can I access the servers remote objects from smartphone running with Compact Framework 2.0 I have not found the TcpChannel class in Compact Framework 2.0, so what steps i need to take to access the server And is it hard to make the connection/transmission secure and safe BestRegards, Antti K. You could have saved a lot of time just by visiting http://gotcf.net – the house of the remoting a ...Show All

• SQL Server How to capture the entire DML statement in a DML trigger?

  Hi, In Yukon, is it possible to capture the entire DML statement with the parameter values that triggered the DML trigger inside the trigger body Basically trying to see the equivalent as the eventdata() in a DDL trigger, that provides the CommandText() Rgds SMO cannot be used within CLR trigger right now. It is not supported. Also, using profiler to do these type of actions from trigger code is not ideal. Triggers should usually be very light weight and efficient. The more complex logic that you put inside your trigger the harder it is in terms of performance, development and management. Also, I am not sure how useful it will be to k ...Show All

• SQL Server Why no standard toolbar in SQL 2005?

  I AM VERY UPSET AND ANNOYED why the STUPID sql Server Management studio does not have the standard text edit toolbar with buttons like "undo", "redo", "cut" etc.!!! Unbelievable! >_<"""  Am i going back to the dos time Hi there. You can right click the toolbar and customize it to your taste. It will take you 30 seconds to add these three buttons.   Happy to help! :-) ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Automation class, some questions

  Hi guys, I am experimenting with the automation classes but I have some questions: - Is it possible to do a search for an element by using wildcards in findfirst/findall e.g. I would like to search for "TestWindow*" which would then return either the first window it finds or all windows that match that ciriteria. (TestWindow1,TestWindow2,...) - The treescope defines ancestors & parent, but where can I use these I only get invalidparam when I try to use them in findfirst/findall. So how can I get the parent of a control without using win32 - Is there any way to control a window without having to use it's name A contr ...Show All

• Windows Forms Adding text to a Cell Programmatically

  I have code that will add text to a datagrid column through code.  However when I do that, the text will display in the column but it will not enter "Edit" mode and give me another new row.  So if you don't type in the cell and leave the row, that text is lost. Is there any way to enter the grid in "Edit" mo ...Show All

• SQL Server SMO Scripter generated script does not run on SQL 2000

  I seem to be running into a problem getting a script (of the entire db) generated by SMO to run on 2000.  It looks like it puts all kinds of SQL 2005 specific TSQL in the script, which fails on 2000.  Any ideas Angelo Thanks Peter, I can't believe I missed that. Looks like it did the trick. Angelo ...Show All