slevytam's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System SMTP Server timeout on Alerts

  Ok.. in trying to get alerts working I have tried to troubleshoot why the TFS is not communicating with the smtp server properly. It continues to timeout. I have done the following to test.   Ran the following code from the TFS using the TFSSERVICE account as the from address with no problems both with UseDefaultCredentials as true and false and works just fine. http://blogs.msdn.com/psheill/archive/2005/11/22/495863.aspx Hav ...Show All

• Visual Basic Opening Files of External Programs

  Hi friends, I am a new basic programmer.. I have 2 develop a program which stores files of diff. formats in some specific folder and then when prompted by user it should be opened in respective program. Like :: *.doc in word, *.pdf in Acrobat and so on.. ......................... Plz help mw with logic and basic code outline 2.. Hi, I'm answering your questions based on this statement.   Kebians wrote: Actually I think it will ...Show All

• Windows Forms ASCII Control Characters in a TextBox

  I have an application where I need to be able to scan a barcode into a text box. The barcode scanner is setup to act like a keyboard, so any characters in the barcode are "typed" into the text box. The problem that I am having is that the barcode embeds the ASCII control characters RS, GS, and EOT (ASCII codes 30, 29, and 4, respectively), and these characters MUST be preserved. Once in the textbox I want to perform a simple replace on ...Show All

• SQL Server Encapsulate encryption with an UDF and a view

  I have a table that has an encrypted account number column.  In order to give users access to the data BUT not access to the symmetric key used to encrypt the data, I'm trying to implement the following: Create an UDF that opens the symmetric key, call the EncryptByKey function, and close the symmetric key Create a view on the table containing decrypted account numbers Grant users select permission on the view ...Show All

• Visual Basic I am new to this

  And I have built a calculator but I still don’t understand this publishing thing. Now I just want just make it so I can send the exe directly to people with out them having to install or anything but I don’t know anything about it. Can someone tell me or point me in the direction of a tutorial I can do. All help appreciated J Hi, In addition to that, VB6 is COM based (so as MFC, ATL, native C++, Delphi, etc...) they are ...Show All

• Windows Forms VS2005: ToolStripContainer NullReferenceException when moving ToolStrips; ToolStripPanel.MoveInsideContainer()

  Hello, When using VS2005 July CTP, I am getting a System.NullReferenceException when attempting to (a) move or (b) show a hidden ToolStrip that is embedded inside a ToolStripContainer. The crash even happens at design time when using the Designer to position (hence, move) the ToolStrip inside its ToolStripContainer. I'm even getting this same runtime exception when referencing the Visible property on a hidden ToolStrip that's embedded inside a T ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Can't install WinFX extensions for VS2005

  Getting this environment set up is painful I'll tell ya.  I've finally got a successful (clean, fresh) install of the WinFX December RTC, followed by Visual Studio 2005, then the SDK... took me several tries to get that far!  But now, when I try to get the last step installed - the WinFX extensions for visual studio - it fails to install because it thinks I don't have the SDK installed What gives Fo ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot access database using SQLCMD

  Hello, I am using SQL Server 2005 Express. I need to run a transact-sql script file to update the database. I am getting a "Login Failed" error when I use the SQLCMD utility. I use Windows Authentication. Here is the command I use: sqlcmd -S .\SQLEXPRESS -d C:\Progra~1\MyProgram\Data\MyData.MDF -i MyUpg.SQL Here is the message I am getting: Msg 4060, Level 11, State 1, Server VAIO\SQLEXPRESS, Line 1 Cannot ...Show All

• Visual Basic AnalogTVTuningSpace and MSVidCtl

  I´m trying to develop a decent tv tuner/capture application (since there are no such apps, nowhere, I say) in Visual Basic 6.0. I´m using the MSVidCtl component together with the AnalogTVTuningSpace and IChannelTuneRequest object to achieve this, as desc ...Show All

• Windows Forms Trust an Assembly WIzard

  Hi I am hosting a .NET control within an html page.  This is hosted on a Win 2003 server in a local intranet. Can anyone help with the following error   It is raised from the "Trust An Assembly" wizard on my PC. Unable to&nb ...Show All

• Visual C++ The old Visual C++ Express Beta Directories problem

  Will this ever be addressed properly I have followed the instructions to edit "VCProjectEngine.Dll.Express.config". I do not have a "vccomponents.dat". Visual C++ still does not  recognise my specified directories and can not find any external header files. This is very frustrating. Yes, the final bits of VS2005 is released at http://www.microsoft.com/events/2005launchevents/default.mspx . One way to inc ...Show All

• Windows Forms Smart Tag Display On Design Surface

  Hi There I'm creating an application which hosts the window forms designer using the DesignSurface Class When I place a Control on to the designSurface all the adornments for that control show up apart from the SmartTag button. I'm just wondering, do I need to create my own implementation of the smart tag panel and If so, am I right in thinking that I just need to create my own SmartTag Adorner (with relevant glyph and behavior) ...Show All

• .NET Development Missing Files in Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727

  Norton System Works' WinDoctor has found the error of C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\ missing files and I believe Windows should address the issue. When I run Norton WinDoctor on my home PC, the following problems appear, with no repair capabilities: Missing program files (10 Problems): C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\AppLaunch.exe C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet.reiis.exe C:\Windo ...Show All

• Windows Forms Do Custom prereq's have to be located in ...

  [VS 2005 installation directory]\SDK\v2.0\Bootstrapper\Packages Is there a way to set VS 2005 to look in any other directory for custom prerequisite packages Thanks. John, There is a way to store packages in directory other than the default. Under HKLM\Softwar\Microsoft\GenericBootstrapper\1.0, set the Path string value to new location of bootstrapper packages. Please note that setting this regi ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Wap wakeup

  Hi, Has anyone tried the wap wakeup for WDP   I've followed the example in the msdn library but nothing happens.. not even any errors.  Is there a procedure that i am missing Thanks, Hasnul Hi Hasnul, Is this ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/apisp/html/sp__mdref_wap_wakeup.asp ) the example that you followed What type of device are you running on I'm not an exper ...Show All