Ric C's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Get system uptime without GetTickCounter

  Hey! How do i get the system uptime for Windows, without using GetTickCounter I'm running Windows XP and Visual Studio 2005. Would be nice if anyone could help me with this! - TankVB Could you tell me where to find some information about this counter I have this code, but i don't know the category: Dim UptimeCount As PerformanceCounter UptimeCount = New PerformanceCounter( "SomeCategory" , "System Up Time" )   ...Show All

• Visual Studio Package Load Failure in VS2005 June CTP

  Two of my different VSIP packages all fails to load with this new VS2005 June CTP. They works fine in VS2005 beta 2. Is this a known problem with this CTP great info for the Ladybug bug submission. I cannot stress how important it is to file bugs. Forum posts are not bug reports. Please take the time to help us deliver a high-quality product for you to be successful developing your product with. ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Express "Total" Edition

  Hi. Currently avalaible editions of SQL Server Express are built from 4 main components (database engine & client components, advanced services, management studio and business inteligence developement sudio). To get full functionality I have to install 2 procucts - SQL Server Express with Advanced Services and SQL Server Express Toolkit. Do you plan to release "total" edition of SQL Server Express with all components included best regards ...Show All

• Windows Forms modifier keys...

  I'm making a Kbtester for a standard 106 kbmodel/layout using vb2005. I'm having problem with the left and right modifier keys example the shift key. the left and right output the same keycode"16". with same output i cant really seperate the two keys. However, it say at keys enumeration that the  <R>shift key is assigned to keys.rshiftkey with keycode 161 and the<L>shift is keycode 160.. how do i enable this to get the 2 shift key Im processing THE KEYDOWN & KEYUP METHOD below is part of my program   Private Sub textBox1_Keydown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.F ...Show All

• SQL Server Lookup task with NOLOCK

  I have an SSIS package that unpivots data - each row from the source becomes 20-24 rows in the destination db. In the dataflow it looks up some type-data IDs before inserting into the destination table. The whole process flies through the data at an incredible rate, however I find that the final commit on data insertion takes a very long time, and two of the lookup tasks remain yellow throughout. It appears that there may be a contention issue because the final table has FKs to those lookup tables. In T-SQL it is possible to do SELECT..... WITH (NOLOCK), but when I modified the SQL statement of the lookup task by adding this clause, it ca ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VC++ noobie questions

    hi. I have just downloaded VC++ Express edition. I have earlyer some experience with good'ol qbasic,been digging around in assembler on the amiga, and and now recently working with Flash and actionscirpt. good fun, but... But now i want to learn VC++ Where should i start I have no C++ experience, So what i really need is a hello world start, and a good free online book. soo... can any one help me out   Cheers! Bjorn erik thanks everyone! ..very nice replays! .. i got enough to read no before my visual c++ 2005 express books lands in my mailbox.. :)   thanks! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Agent problems with Sept CTP

  I installed the new controller/agent on a clean machine.  It appears to have installed correctly, but I can't run any tests on the agent.  The test (a simple web click test) runs fine on my local machine.  I have bumped up tracing on the agent and service.  The controller log says it sucessfully queues the test run and the agent log says it sucessfully connects to the controller, but it just hangs there.  After a while, I get a timeout in VS.  Is there a list somewhere of the debug steps to go through to help diagnose agent problems and any command line tools   Also, should I be seing values in the SQL ...Show All

• Visual C# WebRequest on certain file

  Hi! In some cases there is no absolute url available - when there is an index.html or index.php. Then these parts of the url are not neccesary. But what could I do to fetch such files If I have an address like http://www.pocketpcmag.com/mobile/  - how is it possible to fetch the rest of the url THX! Tobias In this case, http://www.pocketpcmag.com/mobile/ is the "absolute" url.  You can issue a WebRequest that is no different than the other case - it should still work.  The web-server is the one that does the "right" thing and if it decides to hide the file, there's no way you can get it. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Dockable windows with pin and autohide feature

  We need to provide a feature in NET 2.0 with Dockable windows with pin and autohide feature (Similar to the solution explorer window) I tried to accomplish this using the VS.NET 2005 Beta 1. But could not go further. Any hints Thanks Jubin Thanks. The link http://www.dotnetmagic.com/magic_download.html  helped. ...Show All

• .NET Development Supporting .NET v1.1 and 2.0

  We have a commercial application that is currently based upon .NET Framework v1.1. There are no features in our application that compel us to move immediately to .NET 2.0 - yet. Are there any factors we should be considering that would impact the timing of moving our application to .NET 2.0 Thanks in advance for thoughts, comments, and ideas... Rod Kimmel Software On Sailboats The Sales Domain IT Toolbox WebLog: The Sales Domain   Rod Kimmel wrote: We have a commercial application that is currently based upon .NET Framework v1.1. There are no features in our application that compel us to move immediately to .NET 2.0 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Install dialog shows the Cancel button cut in half

  Has anyone seen this behaviour I have a user having this problem, any ideas If you have a long Publisher path and see the Cancel button got cut, this is a known issue. We have a bug on it. Thanks, Patty ...Show All

• Windows Forms Multiple forms?

  Hi, I am making the jump from asp.net to windows so I have very little experience with Windows forms. Requirements: The user leaves the office with a tablet or notebook and travels to a site. The user selects 1 of 4 reports to enter various data. Each report is vastly different than the other and will display at least a screen’s worth of controls.  Here&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Two-way data binding with ColorPicker Demo

  Hi, To gt my head around two way data binding on custom controls I've been trying to bind the Color property of tow of the samle ColorPickers. I'm probably just overlooking something completly obvious but I can't for the life of me see what it is. T add to the confusion the individual bytes Red, Green and Ble bind with no trouble. Any help shaking the cobwebs from my head would be greatly appreciated. You can find the demo here: ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.v80.en/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.WinFX4VS.1033/wpf_conceptual/html/ecb97ed4-e659-48a4-a1e0-893309569f2f.htm Thanks, Andrew That's a great comfort, thanks! ...Show All

• Visual Basic Intellisense worked for 1 or 2 minutes, Beta 2

  Hi All, Just began to convert my code from beta 1 to beta 2.  Intellisense was working correctly for  a few minutes and now it is gone.  The IDE does not list members any more.  I loaded a brand new project and it definetley does not work any more I have checked the options and every thing looks OK.  Working without this is a pain... to say the least. Any help on where to look for or a solution would be appreciated (urgently....) Thank you in advance Hi, After playing with the project I was trying to update from beta 1 to beta 2 for a few hours, Intellisense is back on.& ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. World translation differences between DrawSubset(...) and DrawPrimitive(...)?

  Using C++ and Direct X 9 i have now boxes, sphere and cylinders ect using the functions provided in the Shape Drawing Functions list e.g. HRESULT D3DXCreateBox(           LPDIRECT3DDEVICE9  pDevice ,     FLOAT  Width ,     FLOAT  Height ,     FLOAT  Depth ,     LPD3DXMESH * ppMesh ,     LPD3DXBUFFER * ppAdjacency ); Now using matrix translations of the world you can position origin, in effect, to be wherever you want it to be. So this is created and ...Show All