SubZero's Q&A profile

• SQL Server System Process issues "RESOURCE MONITOR" command and blocks a process

  I have a process which is getting blocked by a System proces. The only information I have about the system process (from the Activity Monitor) is the Command field which is "RESOURCE MONITOR". I've looked up "resource monitor" in books on-line and it says something about clustered servers. I don't have a server cluster. This server is severely underutilized -- the sql server is currently using less than 1 GB of 10 GB avail ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions sample project "addresses" database

  I just downloaded VB Express.   I am a beginner.  In the VBGuided Tour - managing your records, I tried the sample program "addresses" and the 3 addresses came up fine but I couldn't add any addresses to it.  I first hit the add button and blank text boxes came up, then I filled them in and hit the save button but nothing was saved.(that is when I closed the program and then ran it again just the original 3 addresses wer ...Show All

• Visual Studio multiple instance application?

  is it possible to create a multi instance application using visual studio 2005. if true how No I want to make an application that can have several instances. That I can have app.exe and app.exe in the task manager. ...Show All

• SQL Server Changing the ConnectionString property for a File Connection Manager

  I have a package that I plan to run against about 700 databases to look for anomalies. I have several package variables in place that are passed in at runtime. One of them will hold the path and filename of the error log for the current database in process. I want each database to generate it's own error log for documentation and research purposes. However, when I run the package, it continues to use the path and filename that I entered when I c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help Authoring

  Will Express accept a chm help file If not what type of help file does Express require and is there a converter from chm to Thanks Take a look at this article : ...Show All

• Visual C++ 2D Arrays

  Hi all, I have a slight problem and was wondering if anyone would be able to point me in the right direction. I need to read in a .png image and store each pixel in a 2D array. I hava a function that takes as a parameter the following; void example1( unsigned char **image1, unsigned int width1, unsigned int height1, unsigned char **image2, unsigned int width2, unsigned int height2 ) I also don't really understand what the ** operat ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to check null in Datagrid

  I have a column in Datagrid , and I want to check before save, actually I want that if the column is null , then place a 0 here . Could anyone kindly help You need to write the Row Validating event of the data grid. Let me know if you have any questions. Private Sub DataGridView1_RowValidating( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewCellCancelEventArgs) Handles DataGridView1.Row ...Show All

• Architecture Why custom business object's while i can't update my database with them ?

  Hi, i have this big problem in my architecture : i want to build my object model by using the idea of collections, so i have a Customers object, a Customer object, an Orders object, and an Order object, and so on... the Problem is that those custom business objects, hold my data, and of corse, i want to update my database by using the data in those object's, and oop's, the DataAdapter don't accept custome business objects as a parameter !! (o ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Treeview question #4

  Hi Back again. This question is typed boolean :) I had problems when I click on the last node of a branch in treeview. This would invariably cause an 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object.' error. To solve this, I wrapped the offending code in an 'Try...Catch exception' = No more of those errors. Question: Is doing this a 'cop out' If answer = True then why I had tried a number of other 'traps' to avoid the offe ...Show All

• Windows Forms combobox restore previous value

  I have a short list of values in a databound combobox (VS2005). The list contains a specific item that only certain users should be able to select. My question is how do I restore the old value if an unauthorized users tries to select this value I can do "e.Cancel - true" in the validating event but it still allows the value to be selected. I though maybe I could rebind or refresh just the control to get the previous value since I am ...Show All

• Visual C# Databinding in V2.0

  I've been studying C# and Winforms, paying particular attention to data binding for the last couple months. This includes studying Rocky Lhotka's CSLA framework and attending various meetings. The concensus has been to bind your winform to a business object. One of the user group meetings I attended showed the new Table Adapter in V2.0. This seems very powerful, from strong typing to generating a partial class, so you can create custom meth ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) SVCUTIL.EXE Reference

  Does anyone have a decent reference to the options for the SVCTUIL.EXE too I've found the Docs in the SDK to be rather terse. In particular, I'd like to know what the following options do and what might be a good use for them: /reference:<file list> References the specified assembly files. /target:[code | metadata] Specifies the output to be generated by the tool. Default: Inferred ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to identify the particular item in a ListBox right-clicked

    I want to be able to identify the item in a ListBox a User right-clicks (in order to enable the user to change the name of the item listed). I added a ContextMenu control to the Windows Form, associated the ListBox with it, and have a (stil empty) event handler activated when the User right-clicks in the ListBox, but the problem I have is identifying the particular item righ-clicked. How is this done Thanks in advanc ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista can't install the wwf!

  the following are my steps 1.install vs2005 2.install vs2005 extension for wff 2.0 3.start the vs2005 ,it shows wwf is installed in started form 4.file->new project,can't find the workflow node! what's wrong with my steps my system is win2003+office 2000 Do you install the SDK and the Foundation Check in your control panel/AddorRemove program. You should see both the Windows Workflow Fou ...Show All

• Visual Basic Create Log File or .txt file in visual basic 2005

  How do I create a log file or a .txt file in visual basic 2005... Please help me with this...:( If you want to simply write text to a file.... My .Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText( "C:\Error.txt" , "Text" , True ) This will append "text" to a c:\error.txt file.     This is using the new My feature making it very simple.    "Text" can be any string you want. If y ...Show All