Thomas840's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic C# or VB ?

  other than familiar syntax is there any reason to use VB instead of C# is the difference only syntax Hi Ever since .NET arrived this question has stirred emotions between those developing in VB and those developing in C# (needlsessly so in my opinion). You often find the usual ramblings that C# is better than VB which I guess stems from when VB classic was an interpreted language against C++ which was a compiled langu ...Show All

• Visual C# serialize mail messages

  For a message queue I need to serialize (and later on deserialize) many MailMessage s. Quite generally I ask myself, which is the best way to do this To .eml To a mbox format How can this achieved Are there any free libraries (open source preferred) Thanks a lot Jan Yeah, it can get heavy on disk access if you have alot of mail going through that box.  I did do load testing and I averaged it out to be about a 25% performance loss f ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System differences between msf agile and formal?

  Which are the differences Whichi process guidance templates will be with final version of team foundation server How should I decide which one to choose Thanks Both process templates are included with Team Foundation starting with Beta 3. To decide which one to use and to better understand how these process templates are positioned, you should probably read David Anderson's blog posts, "Not so Formal" ( http://www.agilemanagement.net/Art ...Show All

• Windows Forms Monitor a network port?

  Hi all.  Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might go about monitoring and displaying in text the activity going across a particular port on the client   Basically we have a phone app that pops up caller ID info, call status& ...Show All

• Visual Studio User dynamically chooses group-by field

  Hello, I would like to allow the user to dynamic choose which field to group-by in a report. In the Windows form they choose a field by name from a combobox, then I pass that to the report as a parameter. How do I then use that in the report in the group-by dialog I've tried to construct the "Fields" expression using the parameter but I'm missing something. The following does not work. = "Fields!" & Parameter.Mine. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Why will LINQ fail ?

  Microsoft tries to helping object developers to close the gap between the relational world and the object world.And they call this " object modelling approach " Dlinq. Using " custom business entities " in enterprise programming with Dlinq might seem the best thing after " sliced bread " but it isn't. For my part I have written my Mappers and used commercial OR/M tools. They mostly provide the same thing. __Read the table from the datab ...Show All

• Visual C++ Deploying a DLL

  Greetings, I have a DLL that gets loaded from (my) javascript subsystem that executes within the environment of a major, industry stanard, trading application. The DLL was developed using C++ and VS2005. The DLL does NOT use the Common Language Runtime. It uses MSMQ via importing: #import "mqoa.dll" no_namespace The good news is that the DLL works perfectly, on my system. The bad news is that if I send it to ...Show All

• .NET Development Application-name

  Hi! Is there a Property, which contains the File-name of the running Application For example "App.exe" Greets reg3x System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess() Hopefully this is what you want. Rich. ...Show All

• SQL Server Background replication

  We are developing a embedded system based on Windows CE 5 and SQL Server CE 3 in C++ where we need to do merge replication in background while the front end application still need to perform operations on the database. A solution would be to run the merge replication on a separate thread while the application thread still can access the database to do inserts and updates. I have been researching if it is possible to access the database with ...Show All

• Visual Basic Open

  Can someone tell me how to open an application manifest if you do not have .net on your computer. I don't know. What did you want to do A manifest file is for use by your exe. You say the machine does not have .NET on it, if so, then you can't run the app, so I can't understand what you're trying to achieve - to run the app you require the framework. Why would you be playing with the manifest file on a machi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual c# express forms editor not running

  I have installed and uninstalled visual c# express 2005 three times (including SQL express and the add on programs). I can compile and application fine, but when I try to visually edit a form, it throws a nasty error about not having correct assemblies. What can I do I also have .NET 1.1, 1.1 patch and .NET 2.0 installed. I uninstalled .NET 2.0 and let visual c# reinstall it. Hi Andreas, I'm not at the machine right now, but it was to do ...Show All

• .NET Development Programatically establish multiple outbound PPP connections

  I'm not sure if this is the right place to be asking this, but I will anyway. I am designing an application that needs to retrieve data from many (potentially hundreds) of remote sites "in the field", which can be accessed via dial-up PPP. I.e. if I have a pool of several modems, I need to be able to pick a free one, tell it to dial a phone number and establish a PPP connection with the device that answers. I've been going through all ...Show All

• Visual Basic Remove the 5 first lines in a text file

  Hello, How can i do to remove the 5 first lines in a text or excel file with vb.net thanks thanks a lot, i found a very useful function here : http://vbfrance.com/code.aspx ID=22827 ...Show All

• Visual Basic File Watcher

  Hi, I have a fileWatcher set as follow: Private Sub setupFilewatcher() Dim info As New System.IO.FileInfo(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetupInformation.ConfigurationFile) Dim path As String = info.DirectoryName Dim file As String = info.Name Try watcher = New System.IO.FileSystemWatcher(path) watcher.Filter = file watcher.NotifyFilter = IO.NotifyFilters.LastWrite watcher.EnableRaisingEvents = True ...Show All

• .NET Development setup project cannot extract registration info from 64bit COM dlls

  using Beta2, building under 64bit WinXP. Would this be fixed in final release of VS2005 Thanks, V. ...Show All