JosephH's Q&A profile

• Visual C# How to determine file reading progress

  I am using streamreader to read lines of text from a file. I would like to indicate on a progress bar the status of the reading process. What would be the best way to determine where I am within the file so that I could divide this number by the filename.Length member to display in my statusBar I'm having trouble finding the right method for indicating where the file pointer is... You can try checking your ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Determining version of SQLCE at runtime

  How can I determine at runtime which version of SQLCE is loaded on my Pocket PC. Actually, I created a netcf v2 project, a new project, not upgraded from vs2003. No refs to sql ce or system.data.common. I read somewhere that before doing vs2005 dev for smart devices, all other versions of vs should be removed. Didn't know if this meant just beta 2005 or if it includes 2003 as well. here's the link that mentions ...Show All

• .NET Development Using the Athelon AMD 64 Processor on a 32 bit Mother board.

  I am an MSDN subscriber now for three years, and recently, I am having a constantly recurring problem with Visual Studio 2005 Team System for Developers. I originally installed the Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite edition, which has a 180 day limit on use, on my development machine. I then started developing with the best programming development environment that I have ever used. I love everything about this ingenious, well designed, and well beha ...Show All

• Visual C# Passing the managed class(with array of stuct as member) to unmanaged function

   I want to pass the managed class to the unmanaged function. The managed class contain the array of struct. Following is the class and struct declaration.   [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)] public struct first { public int One; public string str; } [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)] public class MyClass { private int test; private bool Boolean; private int Integer; [MarshalAs(Unmanage ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions WMI problem installing SQL Server2005 Express CTP

  Hello all, i'm having trouble installing SQL 2005 Express CTP on my Windows XP Prof. german SP2 version.   I got this entry in eventlog: Googled and searched on Microsoft, no result. what can i do Thanks, Helmut Ereignistyp: Fehler Ereignisquelle: WinMgmt Ereigniskategorie: Keine Ereigniskennung: 10 Datum:  21.06.2005 Zeit:  19:58:30 Benutzer:  Nicht zutreffend Computer: STUDIO Beschre ...Show All

• .NET Development Accessing / Mapping a Linux formatted drive from Windows

  Hi, I have a removable hard drive on my system (Windows XP) that is formatted with the Linux ext3 file system. If I can map a drive letter to the drive, the system has drivers installed that will allow me to read/write files to this Linux drive using Windows. However, I am unable to determine how to programmatically map a drive letter to this drive. Is there any way to programmatically map the drive I've been searching through the WMI inte ...Show All

• .NET Development how to set the dataset's namespace

  hi, I'm use the Dataset Desinger of Visual Studio 2005 to design a dataset. Then, I compile the project. The desinger generate a typed dataset class. But the dataset class is inside the global namespace. How to set to generate the typed dataset class in a customed namespace. The namespace above is C# namespace. Not the XML namespace. thanks. Hi, When you create a typed dataset, the generated dataset class inherits the Dat ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) ASP.NET 2.0 Async Pages + WCF = async exceptions?

  There seems to be an interaction problem between ASP.NET 2.0 async pages and WCF service operations. Has anyone else seen this work or fail ASP.NET 2.0 has a cool feature called async pages which provides very efficient handling of asynchronous methods in a page. This feature is perfect for issuing multiple web service calls, letting them run in parallel, and waiting for them to complete before pages render. The feature is built ...Show All

• Visual C# HELP US!!!

  Hi We are at least 4 or 5 people on this forum that are trying to get an answer for this question: We make our own .dll in managed code c#,  and when we use DllImport, we get the exception for invalid entrypoint.. why I saw on a site this definition EntryPoint This specifies the name or ordinal value of the entry point to be used in the DLL. If not given, function name is used as entry point. but we give the fuction name and still that ...Show All

• Visual Basic Visual Basic Winsock and MySQL

  Hello . . . :D I need some help please . . . I have install and run the MySQL Server true Visual Basic. I have set the server running on the 4405 port. How can i see if realy the server running looking the port true winsock I would use the mysql dotnet connector for connecting to the server. With sql server you can specify a non standard port for the server in the connection string. I believe it is the same with mysql. ser ...Show All

• Windows Forms Gridview rows conditional colouring

  Hi I need to color rows of a gridview based on the values of column in gridview. So if the column has value A that row needs to be green if it has value B then the row needs to be in red and so on. How can I do&nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server Maintenance Plan - Not under Management Folder

  Hi,    I installed the SQL Server Management Studio Express this morning and am able to attach to my SQL2000 instance runnng on my laptop. I wanted to confirm my database backup schedules but there is no Maintenance plan under the Management Folder in SQL Server Management Studio Express. Can someone please assit me in wotking this out.. Regards.. Peter. Is there a Legacy node (with its o ...Show All

• Visual C++ Help Finding a Setting

  In VC++ 6.0 you could add a dll's lib file by going to project/settings/link and add the DLL's LIB file to the Object/library modules field.  How do you accomplish this in MS Visual Studio 2005 Hi James: Sounds like you are on the right track.  You might also want to move the other system includes (windows.h, stdio.h and string.h) to the stdafx.h file so they will be included in the pre-compiled header file (.pch).  This ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem with MDI Children not closing

  I have an application that instantiates various MDI Children and incorporates them into the main form. Now, I changed the constructor of the MDI Form to require it to take a custom object I have. In the constructor, I call a bind() method, which binds a few dozen textboxes to the custom object I passed in (I'm using the C1Input control from ComponentOne). This all works fine. The problem is with these few lines of (modified for this post) code: ...Show All

• Visual C# How to implement the "Check for update..." feature?

  I have a WinForm application which cannot be handled by ClickOnce technology because of the limitation of ClickOnce.  However, I would like to implement the "Check for update..." feature using the ClickOnce related technology(may be System.Deployment class ).  Anyone know that Thanks Some of the limitations that you mention are actually security features. The whole idea of ClickOnce is to enable Smart Client Applications to b ...Show All