Ronn's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Network connectivity?

  I have an app that relies on network connectivity.  What's the proper way to determine that the client has a working network connection Thanks Duncan Mackenzie wrote a Component that should help you <a href="http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/De ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Installation error - Error 28927. TFServerStatusValidator: Invalid Arguements (sic)

  Trying to install the services tier of Team Foundation Beta 3 Refresh in a dual server environment but keep getting the above error which results in a failed installation and the message:- Error occured during setup The following failed to install: Microsft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server (services) - ENU Any help/suggestions appreciated.   Was this a clean install Did you have p ...Show All

• .NET Development Custom plug-in dll Problem in Win 2003 Standard edition

  Hi all chemas-microsoft-com ffice ffice" /> >   >   We develop a Custom logging plug-in dll in C# (using IWMSEventNotificationPlugin Interface)that fetch data from Windows Media server client log file information   and load in to Sql server through Webservice. The plug-in dll is working fine in Win 2003 chemas-microsoft-com ffice marttags" /> lace>Enterprise lace> edition But it is not working in standard edition. > &nb ...Show All

• Visual Basic navigate through records one at a time displaying info from multiple tables vb.net 2005

  Hi, I need to create a Windows Form that displays the fields from multiple linked tables and allows the user to navigate through the records. Basically, I would like to create the functionality of the bindingnavigator programmatically (no drag-and-drop because I must use the Enterprise Library Data Access Block). I have created a dataset with the group of records I would like to display, but am not sure how get the bindingnavigator to work to ...Show All

• .NET Development VS 2005 hardwa AMD or Intel?

  I have VS 2005 Beta2 installed on my P4 2,4MHz machine and now I'm planning to buy a new machine with x64 processor. Can anyone suggest what to buy: Intel or AMD chip. Which is better for VS Regards Go with AMD, they own the x64 instruction set and the OS was built against their processors. Intel have licensed x64 from AMD and built their own processors. Personally I see no reason at all to use Intel, unless th ...Show All

• SQL Server filter in table

  hi.. i'm using table to display the dataset. when i edit group at the tablerow, there's a tab for filtering. however the or/and column is disabled. is this because i'm using the evaluation version or i need to manually enable this option please help... thanks alot! Hi, And/Or Displays the relationship with the filter on the next row. Enabled for one row when you start entering an expressio ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista ASP.NET And a State Machine Workflow

  I recently read the MSDN magazine article, Windows Workflow Foundation, Part 2 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/04/CuttingEdge/), where Dino Esposito demonstrates how to work with workflows in ASP.NET. Dinos' demonstration provides a helpful solution to working with Sequential workflows; however, it left me a little confused with how to work with a State Machine workflow. In the article, Dino demonstrates how to pass parame ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I create command line software that works in MS-DOS mode?

  Hi, I was wondering why the console app that I made works in the MS-DOS prompt under Windows, but doesn't work under MS-DOS mode, when booting from an emergency disk. Any ideas Any application you make in Visual Basic Express requires the 2.0 .NET Framework which unfortunately is far too large to be able to run from most emergency disks. To add insult to injury though the framework also ties into Windows in such a way that some sort of Win ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions HELP!

  I was testing my first litle app in VCPP at school. School doesn't have any of the visual studios stuff on it, i build the app at home. When i open the app the following error presents itself "[application path name] this application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem." how do i overcome this Wilko :-} ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums What version of Team System do EmpowerISV members get?

  Current MSDN Universal subscribers get a free upgrade to their choice of one of the Team editions of Visual Studio 2005 when its released.  What about current EmpowerISV members   And what will future members get   I'm planning on joining the program, but I want to be sure I know what my team will be  getting long-term, especially as it relates to Visual Studio Team System. Hi Tim Do you reme ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System S Rule to check String.Empty is used instead of ""

  hi, i want to create a custom rule for FxCop that should check is String.Empty is used instead of "". Please give some idea for this and any code snippet will be more helpful. Thanks See my reply to this question in the following post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=439674&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Visual C# how to open a ur custom file extension in ur application

  hi, i am developing an application in C#.For saving the state of an application i am using a custom file format.Now suppose a user using the application want to save the state of the application he can save it as "savedstate.abcd" where .abcd is the new extension to be supported by my application.Now when he double clicks on this saved file named "savedstate.abcd" my application will open up and the objects being used in my application will be i ...Show All

• Visual C++ I'm stuck and cunfused. ARR U C++!

  ok. i made a small ...small SMALL msdos program with Visual C++ express (yep a newbie) and all it was, was a whats ur name age and if u like this kind of music or game. now i figured out the whole press one if u like this or press 2 for no. but i want to make it a says YES FOR YES! and so on. get it good. here's my code. im really stuck #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { int number; /* This de ...Show All

• Windows Forms ADO.net Connection Error

      I am unable to register a SQL Server in Studio.net. I am SA on my SQL Server. However, when I attempt to register the server I get a DBNETLib (Connection Open) error.  I need this to do some ADO.net with my Windows& ...Show All

• .NET Development using Visual studio works fine, using commnad doesnot work

  Hi, I am trying to compile the WebServices using command. im using nmake and my make file has following: ABC.dll: csc /out:bin\ABC.dll /t:library /r:bin\XYZ.dll;bin\PQR.dll *.cs it doenot give any error when i execute this. and when i check localhost/ws/ws.asmx service page comes up. when im trying to connect to this WS from client, it receives input and gives me output with error saying object reference not set to an in ...Show All