Steven Leong's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Installation problem with 2.0 Beta

  I had previous .Net Framework 2.0 beta 1 installed and followed instruction of beta 2 installation from http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/uninstall/ But, I keep getting error message Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2 Setup has stopped because item listed above could not be downloaded And I followed trouble shooting from instruction below. Then I still get same problem. Any idea Eddie Hello Eddie, Try the manual un-installation instru ...Show All

• Visual C++ Beginner cin headaches

  int result; cin >> result; while( result > 3 || result < 1) { cout << "Please enter a valid choice, 1, 2 or 3\n"; cin >> result; } return result; ********************************************* Passing an int to the while statement this loop works like a charm, however any alpha will force an infinite loop. I've tried cin.get(result), cin.get(result).get(), type casting to chars, everything I could ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Folder Update Notification

  hi, Is it possible to get folder update notification on Smartphones with WM5.0 I need to get notification on any new files in certain folder and do something accordingly. Most probably there are no built in notification for it but may be it is possible to implement using c#. will appreciate any help I'm not aware of any built-in notification system, but this article should give you an idea as to how to go about coding one http://w ...Show All

• Visual Basic Validating within a User Class

  I need to populate a container with an indeterminate number of label/textbox pairs for input. Since it is indeterminate at design time, I thought I'd create a user class with both a label and at text box in a pair so I could create them at run time and populate the labels appropriately from a data file. I need to validate each text box for numeric value. Then, I need to use that value to build up a subtotal on the form...sort of like this: ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to stop a MulticastDelegate from calling all functions in the invocation list

  Hi, is this possible. Here's a little program. using namespace System; delegate String^ GetResult(String^ s); ref class AnyClass { public : static String^ AnyClassGetResult(String^ s) { // here I need a possibility to make sure, no further handler function will be called String^ r( "*" +s+ "*" ); return r; }; static String^ AnyClassGetResult2(String^ s) { String^ r( "+" +s+ "+" ); r ...Show All

• Smart Device Development where is GPS sample in VB.NET for smartphone

  Hi     I have been try to call data from my GARMIN 10 GPS to my smartphone MPX220 with no luck , just get nothing from my GPS can connect to the port and the rest is only fog , nothing , :) just something I don’t know what I am doing   I can find so many sample good for Pocket PC and few for Smartphone But it is all in C   not VB.NET :)   I just don’t know how to use C,   So if is s ...Show All

• Visual Basic OleDbDataAdapter does not update

  Hi,  I am having a a problem geting a data adapter to update a recordset.  This is the steps.  I added a connection and an data adapter to a form.  The data source is a Access table.  The table has 8 columns.  I selected 2 of them and added a criteria to limit the number of rows selected.  I then generate a dataset.  In my code I call the .Fill method to populate the dataset.  I iterate through ...Show All

• SQL Server SQLExpress w/Beta 2 VS -- Can't Create DB

  We have a clean Windows XP Install w/ Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. I can not create a new database with SQLExpress... We have also been trying to connect to Oracle 10g.. And we constantly get cannot find TNS Names.ora, but we have easily configured this with another clean machine with VS.NET 2003.. What gives with 2005...I can't connect it to any database other than a SQLServer 2000 on another machine.... Please help!!! ...Show All

• .NET Development SCOPE_IDENTITY doesn't seem to work

  For several days, trying everything I can think of and having researched the net until I'm blue in the face, my ExecuteScalar command returns null when I execute: Dim IDCmd As SqlClient.SqlCommand = New SqlClient.SqlCommand( "SELECT SCOPE_IDENTITY()" , MyConnectionString) Dim NewID As Object = Nothing NewID = IDCmd.ExecuteScalar If IsDBNull(NewID) Then Label1.Text = "<NULL>" Else Label1.Text = ...Show All

• Windows Forms "Duplicate Declaration" Error

  Hello: I am creating a user control which inherits from a blank parent user control. when I create the child control and add buttons, etc. onto it and position those buttons, various properties appear in the InitializeComponent method, such as:  this.bt ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions where can i download msdn library express?

  everyone knows that msdn library is the best reference book for vs.net, but i can only download vb.net express, how can i download msdn library express i can not find it in www.microsoft.com. Hi, Upon installing VB Express, MSDN Express is also included in the installation. I've tried it by using the manual installation. It installed MSDN Express alongside with VB Express... cheers, Paul June A. Domag ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums "Building Custom Report Views Webpart"

  Hi, I downloaded "Building Custom Report Views Webprt" white paper from the Microsoft site and tried implementing it. I intially created a Windows Control Library project and created a usercontrol. I built this application in to a DLL,created a strongname to it and then put this asembly in GAC. I then created a pmbuilder.exe.config file in the location given below. "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manag ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System External resource editor

  Hi. I am a project manager using the Visual Studio Team System. In my project, I have a couple of localized resx-files. I would like one of my co-workers to edit these resx-files to translate the strings, however we can not afford one more Visual Studio license. Is there an external tool which allows editing of resx-files Cheers, Chris Here are some possibilities I found. You'll probably need to p ...Show All

• SQL Server send email

  I have a table with email addresses of the customers. How could I send them emails from my tsql script. TIA.. Hi   If i want to do a HTML email like below what should i do exec sp_send_cdontsmail 'someone@example.com','someone2@example.com','Test of CDONTS','It <b>works</b>'   ...Show All

• SQL Server What should I use? SQL Express or MSDE

     Hi ....I am a developer and building an enterprise level application for general purpose. I need to include a database in that. I am working in Visual Studio .NET 2003 having Framwork 1.1 installed. Now what should I do is it necessary to have visual studio .NET 2005 and Framwork 2.0 to work with SQL Server Express can any one help Amir As SQL Server Express is free as well, I would suggest y ...Show All