deadlycow1337's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio visual studio 2005 beta 2 installation problem

  i have a pre-install of visual studio 2003 and SQL server 2000 in my machine, now i attempt to install visual studio 2005 beta 2 and SQL server 2005 into the same machine again, do i need to remove all component of the visual studio 2003 and SQL server 2000 can anyone show me a step by step installation guide to install visual studio 2005 beta 2 and SQL server 2005 your help will be appreciate a lot..thanks Yes, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Unable to read data from the transport connection:

  hi, i am trying to send email using VB2005 but i am getting this Exception. "System.IO.IOException = {"Unable to read data from the transport connection: net_io_connectionclosed."}" while from same machine i am able to send email with same SMTP server from OutLook Express. what could be the reason Finally I found the reason for the error: Some of you solve the problem when turn off integrated autentificaion o ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Multi-Lingual application.

  Hello, I live in a bilingual country and, by law, all my programs have to be multi-lingual. I obviously don't want to make 2 versions of each program. How can I create runtime translation files and make the application look it up if the user chooses a different language Hi, Visual Studio has great support for globalization/localization, you can find good information on the subject in MSDN library: htt ...Show All

• Visual C++ How do you define windows version for compiling? & run from VS?

  How do I say what version of Windows I want to use when I make a build Is it possible to have it work for multiple versions (98SE, 2000, ME, xp) Secondly, how do I launch an executable from within the VS IDE Thanks! Code built with VS2005 should work on all the versions of windows you mentioned unless you are using a specific Windows API (in your code) that exists in one version but not the other. As for ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista A new outlook on Windows Vista

  Hi! I am fascinated by the way in which Microsoft plans to change the nature of operating systems radically. Vista promises a better future -- lots of new data exchange solutions, better information organization and an easier GUI. It looks very exciting to me. However, there is still some doubt whether Vista will really be able to define the new wave of technology. I've been a user of Windows for the past 9 years, and have been accustomed t ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to creat nice flat control without highlight bug ???

  I’m building control library which contains flat style controls. Elements of my library are highlighted when mouse is over and highlighting is off when mouse is outside of the control. The problem is in turning off the highlight. OnMouseLeave event don’t work properly In my opinion and because of that control is highlighted even when mouse is outside of the control. I thought that I fix this with IMessageFilter but problem still exist when cont ...Show All

• .NET Development invoking native dlls in c#

  Hi I have faced one problem on calling the native dll's functions from C# .Net coding.Actually i wrote one dll to control the Digital Multimeter in a remote programming mode through GPIB interface. Initially i have imported the win32 dll provided with GPIB driver in my coding and tried to send the data to the Digital Multimeter, Whenever i send the data, it throws this Exception " System.AccessViolationException: Attempted ...Show All

• SQL Server SSAS2005 currency conversion for calculated measures based on measure error

  Hi, I have a problem whith the currency conversion (I've use the SSAS2005 currency conversion wizard) when it comes to calculated measures based on measures. I have a calculated measure a) CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE .Measures.[_Only third party] AS Sum ({ Descendants ([Customer].[CustomerGroup].&[1], [Customer].[CustomerGroup])}, [Measures].[Amount]) and another calculated member b) which uses calculated measure a) CR ...Show All

• Visual C# Keeping the info

  I have several classes inside a class file, at the top of each one is:         Info T = new Info();         other N = new other(); 'info' and 'other' are declared in another class, these are filled with information when the app is running, they are then needed later for a different process, the thing is, i dont know how to access the stored info from an ...Show All

• SQL Server Updatable subscription in Transactional Replication

  Hi guys, I am trying to setup a Transactional Replication for my data. My publisher and distributor is MS-SQL 2000 server; while subscriber is on a Oracle server. All are locally installed. I have also setup the linked server connection and created the publication. Data is able to be replicated correctly onto my Oracle database. However, this time ard, I want my changes in the oracle database to be reflected back into the SQL database. So I had ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) BamlParseException in Feb CTP

  Hi, Started working with Feb CTP release. While having style settings or other tags inside <Window.Resources> , i received " BamlParseException " (not in the very first run of the application but in the subsequent runs ,which i didnt get while i used the same in Jan CTP.) Exception Details: Message "Error at element 'ResourceDictionary' in markup file 'Window1.xaml' : Item has already been added. Key in diction ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to get the size of a double char pointer?

  Basically, I want to get the size of a double char pointer, EG char **x; Not the elements of the individual arrays, but the actual number of elements inside the pointer. I don't want to use vectors or Strings either, I know how to do it that way, but it looks ugly. So if I could get some feedback on this, it would be appreciated. :-) Not sure how you initialize this pointer. But if you do it like this: char ...Show All

• .NET Development Saving connectionstring the secure way

  Hello, I want to save my connectionstring engrypted in the my.settings system. I know how to save settings and how to deal with a connectionstring, but I have no idea how to encrypt my connection string so that nobody can see the the password. I hope you can help me. Thank you Check out this article. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/11/protectyourdata/ ...Show All

• .NET Development Key/ForeignKey performance question

  I've read on various online performance sites that an Int performs better on a WHERE clause than say... VarChar(8). Assuming this is true, does this hold true with relationships Having an Int as a ForeignKey and Key seems a lot more efficient than a VarChar - in terms of space and speed. Thanks :) Yes, it's more efficient and therefore faster to use integers as compared to character fields as integers are ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to add subtotal or grand total on datagrid?

  Hi All, How to add Subtotal and Grand Total on DataGrid   For an example, add new summary row by each order and sum all orders as Grand Total on last row. Please comment. ...Show All