Hansen Steve's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms DB Type casting

  Hi, To be indepentend from the data provider, I wrote a DataLayer. This datalayer has a GenericParameter class which inherits IDataParameter. When I use a Sql Provider, then I need to convert the DbType to SqlDbType like this: (SqlDbType)param.DbType . But&nb ...Show All

• Windows Forms Set application path (from registry) as installation path

  Hi, How can I set installation path in setup The path is taken from registry that saved by prevous installation. Thank's Alexei Hi, I have found solution: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;en-us;827026&Product=vsnet Thank's Alexei ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to add a new line inside a textfield...

  Ok i'm trying to add a file list into a text field so i can cut and paste... I don't want the file list to be in one continues line, so I'm appending "\n" to the end...   This works BUT I get the new line character ...Show All

• Visual Studio Error 5 Unable to copy file "obj\Debug\BO.dll" to "bin\Debug\BO.dll". The process cannot access the file 'bin\Debug\BO.dll'

  I have been successfully using VS 2005 Beta 2 (VB.NET) for about a month now.  Yesterday, I started getting the error: Error 5 Unable to copy file "obj\Debug\BO.dll" to "bin\Debug\BO.dll". The process cannot access the file 'bin\Debug\BO.dll' because it is being used by another process. C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50215\Microsoft.Common.targets 2274 9 This error does not occur the first time I build ...Show All

• .NET Development Create web response from HTML file ?

  I try to create a firewall that have packet redirect for unwanted web request. The problem that I have next is how to make our HTML file as the web response for the client request. The scene like this : 1. Client request for something on web. [DONE] 2. My firewall scan for the web request from client, check if the request is not allowed [DONE] 3. Create an HTML file that will show when the request from client is not allowed. [DONE] 4. Transfer t ...Show All

• Windows Forms Public Shared Members vs. Global Variables

  I've always thought that it's best to use as few global variables as possible since they take up resources. I've also though that declaring type members as <color="red"><u>public shared</u></color> was similar to a global variable and that& ...Show All

• SQL Server Data Type timestamp

  Hi, I am a bit confused... is the data type in sql express similar to DateTime in other words can i convert this timestamp to DateTime or can i use this data type instead of the data type DateTime regards, rnv Even they store both 8 bytes, they are not the same, read more for this in the BOL. timestamp timestamp is a data type that exposes automatically generated binary numbers, which are guaranteed to be unique within a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to make the setup.exe to deploy my application into a specific directory?

  i'm using vb.net express 2005 to make a fairly simple game with only one project application and a few pictures... i have figured out how to deploy the pictures, in a path relative to the parent directory...but couldn't find out how to make the setup.exe to ask me where to put the parent directory... right now when i run setup, it deploys my application into something like: c:\documents and settings\user name\ local settings\ app\ ........ ...Show All

• Visual Basic Bold the selected tab in a tab control

  Hello, I was wondering how to bold the selected tab in a tab control This is not a property that can be set, but I know it is an accessible one by setting the text of the font that is drawn for the control. I can't seem to get anything I have tried to work. Thanks in advance! ...Show All

• .NET Development Start apllication when windows start

  Hello, How can you automatic start an apllication when Windows starts or when a spesific user logs-in DIII for all users add a registry key under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run for certain user you could do it under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run as alternative you add shortcut to your app in Start Menu for All users in C:\Documents and Settings\All ...Show All

• SQL Server Excel as a data mining client

  Can I use MS Excel to generate the diagrams and charts that are being generated in your data mining project when you use VS.NET 2005   If so, how   I am trying to bring this technology to marketing people the simplest way possible without having to create my custom application.  They just love the graphs, diagrams, and charts generated by VS.NET 2005 when you create data mining projects but I don't want to install i ...Show All

• Windows Forms Typed DataSet

  Hi Guys, I want to ask a very simple question.  I want to make an application. I have a typed dataset with two tables. Customer and Address. Address is a child table of customer. In my mainform that opens I have an instance of the typed da ...Show All

• Visual Basic Unterminating strings returned from DPAPI decryption

  I've just copied an implementation of the DPAPI based on MSDN article http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnnetsec/html/SecNetHT07.asp However, when I run DataProtector.Decrypt, the byte array comes back with an extra byte with the value of 0 (the null memory value). For example, if I encrypt a connection string (96 characters): User Id=testid;Password=passwd;Data Source=dbase;Connection Timeout=30;validat ...Show All

• Visual J# Visual J# General

  What is Visual J# General Re: Visual Studio Licening and... Since I haven't finished my post on the subjet, I'll copy & paste what Prashant Sridharan had to Re: How do I learn to write ga... Michael Abrash summarized the secret to success in three points: Hard work Hard work, and Hard work Re: LINQ May 06 CTP installed ... Here is the proper command line override to work around skipped over installation actions due to V ...Show All

• SQL Server error when changing published article at the subscriber

  Hi Using merge replication - the stored procs are published articles. When trying to change the article at the subscriber (sql express) I get the following errors: Msg 21531, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_MSmerge_alterschemaonly, Line 45 The DDL statement cannot be performed at the Subscriber or Republisher. Msg 21530, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_MSmerge_ddldispatcher, Line 181 The DDL operation failed inside merge DDL replicat ...Show All