EastNayl's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Windows Services & System Shutdown

  I am writing a Windows Service that connects to a remote Web Service and performs a number of data transfer operations in the background. Being new to Windows Services, I was wondering as to what is the default behaviour when the system is shutdown (under normal circumstances) while a background Windows Service is in the middle of an operation. Does the system notify the user that a background process is performing an operation If not ...Show All

• Visual Basic What happened to F8?

  F8 doesn't step through my code. What do I use in VB.NET Hi. Right out of the box you can use F11. If you want to reassign this you can do so by selecting (from the menu) Tools-->Options, expand the Environment node in the treeview, select the Keyboard node, scroll down until you find "debug.stepinto" and reassign the key combination that fires that command. ...Show All

• SQL Server SqlExpress Bootstrapping

  Hello I'm building an app for retail commercial distribution, and I'm agonizing over which database to use. I'd like to use SqlExpress, as it's supported by the code generation tool I use, but I'm wary of the download size.   SqlExpr32.exe is 35 megabytes, yet Microsoft maintains that it's a " fast download ", a claim whose logic escapes me. If I try to force something like that on my buyers, I won't have any buyers (Framework 2.0 is goi ...Show All

• Windows Forms TabControl leaves me wanting more

  I've got an application that has a TabControl with some tab pages on it. I'd like the users to be able to close a tab if they dont want it any more. The tab control will add the left and right arrows if there are more tab pages than can fit on the tab control, so that you can move down the list of tabs. However, I can not find an intuitive way to allow the user to close the selected tab during runtime. What would be ideal is if there was a wa ...Show All

• Visual Basic Pie chart example

  Hi I am new to Visual Basic, is there a way to create a P ie charts with four variables (20%, 30%,10%,20%,20%) Thanks, MK //with four variables (20%, 30%,10%,20%,20%) That's five variables :-) You have three options 1 - buy a library ( the Dundas one is excellent 2 - use a free library ( there are a few, I don't remember, but google knows ) 3 - write the code yourself ( which in ...Show All

• .NET Development How to write a dataset table to an XML file

  Hi all.. I have an XML file that contains a database using certain schema. The fact is that I need to make updates to that XML database. Currently I use DataSet.WriteXML method to write but with this, the whole database is written to the XML file. If I use DataTable.WriteXML method, the table is written but overwrites all data already present in the database. This is how I am writing the XML file.: private void CommitTable( strin ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista using WWF with SOA

  I need to take some advice from the Architectural community out there, as much of the discussion to date appears to focus on an application hosting the WWF engine and exchanging events in a fairly self contained fashion. Scenario Consider...   Many instances of a windows forms client application communicate with a server application via web services. Traditionally the server side business logic contains set workflo ...Show All

• SQL Server Remote Connection problem on MS SQL 2000

  Hello, First, I want to say I read all threads similar this thread and I couldn't solve problem. My firewall is always off when I tried to connect remotly to SQL Server. I opened 1433 port from my router's configuration page and forwarded it to 10.0.0.4:1433. When I started SQL Server service and checking "netstat" with "-na" paramters. It shows only one row as "TCP - 0.0.0.0:1433 to 0.0.0.0:0". What "0.0.0.0" means and why foreign ad ...Show All

• Visual C# How to make C# & PHP interact with each other

  Hello everybody, I am working on an C# application which would use the remote MySQL database located in my website hosted on a Linux server with PHP & MySQL support . I tried to connect directly to the MySQL database using ODBC drivers, but was not able to connect due to restrictions  at my hoster side. So the only option was to make C# send a request to PHP scripts running at the webserver and make  PHP return data to C# ...Show All

• Windows Forms set client area of control that inherits from panel

  Hi everyone  I have a control that inherits from the panel control, but I need to be able to do some custom drawing in the top 30 pixels of the control and add some controls, the rest of the control area is for controls to be&nbs ...Show All

• .NET Development Basic TCP/IP

  I am making a two programs, a server which will be ran on my computer and a client, which will be distrubuted around so multiple people can communicate with the server. I was hoping someone could show me the code to just connect the two programs using tcp then send a simple string from the client to the server then the server to the client, nothing fancy like encryption or any sort of error checking because i want to be able to learn from it wit ...Show All

• Windows Forms SqlClientPermission

  OK.....I have been searching and haven't found much helpful info on this topic.  I am hosting a winform (user control) on a website.  The form makes a call to a stored procedure...:     Public Function getxxxxx() as dataset      ...Show All

• .NET Development Windows Forms and XAML

  What is XAML And how one can do programming with it Is it supports  both for windows application development and web application Any one is having good material on XAML Thanks in Advance.. XAML is a Markup language for creating UI. This will be supported in Avalon, which is the display subsystem for Longhorn, the next version of Windows. You can get more information from http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/ Rgds, Anand http://www.do ...Show All

• Visual C++ cannot convert parameter 1 from 'wchar_t' to 'const void

  Hello Everyone, I have a code which was written in WIN 32 and I upgraded it to .NET everything went fine, except this passing of parameters .. the function looks something like this... sha_hash( const void * data_ptr, /* data to be hashed */ int data_length, void * buffer_ptr, /* hash buffer ( 20 bytes ) */ int buffer_length = SHA_HASH_LENGTH, void * prefix_ptr = NULL, /* for hmac */ int prefix_leng ...Show All

• SQL Server Setting default values for report items

  Is it too much to ask for the SSRS team to add a "feature" that allows us developers/report designers to set (and save) the default values for report items God only knows how much time I've spent on the tedious and yet remedial task of changing the Padding (left, right, top, bottom) = 0pt, over and over and over... And now in SSRS 2005, I can't even select more than one textbox report item and change the padding property for all ...Show All