Ken Tucker's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Implicit constraints, Pre-defined constraints, User-defined constraints

  Please could someone explain to me the differnece between the following: Implicit constraints Pre-defined constraints User-defined constraints As I understand it, Implicit Constraints seem to be those that come with an object when you drag it onto the designer.  There is a list of implicit constraints, somewhere e.g. SupportsASPNET, SupportsASPWebApplications, SupportsStaticContent, AuthenticationModeConstraint.  Where in the system do I find these objects Pre-defined constraints - these are pre-defined in what sense   User-defined - these are User-defined in what sense Why is there a node named User-defined on t ...Show All

• Visual C# Multiprocessor builds

  I'm looking into buying new machines for my developers and was looking at the new dual core processors from Intel as an option to get faster compiles as compared to a "normal" single core processor. So my question is, does the C# compiler in VisualStudio 2005 take advantage of the dual execution cores or would I just be better off with a faster clocked P4 Thanks in advance for any info. Tom. There is nothing wrong with buying a 64-bit processor, such as the Athlon x64. They run 32-bit code as well as 64-bit. The output of a compiler is dependent on the compiler, not the processor it is run o ...Show All

• Windows Forms Multithreading Windows Forms

  Greetings, Reading in the .Net sdk it appears that single thread apartment model is used and any calls across threads need to be marshalled.   This seems ok - but, my question is, is it possible to create a child form (if using MDI for example) that has its own thread/event queue   I find it hard to believe that we're locked into child f ...Show All

• SQL Server Connection String for classic ASP global.asa to SQL Server 2005

  I migrated my SQL Server 7 database to the new SQL Server 2005 that I installed on my PC.  I have classic ASP programs on my PC that used to access the SQL Server 7 database.  However, global.asa and these ASP programs can no longer connect to the new SS 2005 database. The access to the SS 2005 instance is with Local System for "Log on as". I've tried all the following connection strings in my global.asa and they don't work. dbConnect = "Data Source=CURT-DELL/curt;Initial Catalog=MyDatabaseName;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=curt;Password=_________" dbConnect = "Data Source=C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Se ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to edit the datagrid items(rows and columns) in vb.net window application

  i displayed a table inthe datagrid in a window application using vb.net. can i make the datgrid be editable in the window application as we do in the asp.net application. if possible . how help me........... ...Show All

• Smart Device Development HttpWebResponse Hangs Subsequent Connections

  Greetings, I am having issues with a method I wrote for a compact framework application I wrote. The method is supposed to download an image from a specified URL (functionality easily present in the full framework, but not the Compact one unfortunately). My method works fine on its first trip out, but subsequent trips cause it to hang my application until the request times out. The workflow for this method is that it is called for each photo retrieved from a Flickr.com API call.  The code is below.       public static Image LoadImageFromURL(string URL)       { ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How To Change PaperSize When Printing

  After a lot of errors, false starts and senior moments, with the help of several generous souls who responded to a query I made on the VB Express Forum and with several revelations from the book “Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2005,” by Petroutsos, I am a closer to understanding printing and modifying the papersize and other printer parameters. I am including the code for a small VB windows test program that programmatically creates two different paper sizes. I hope it will help others as they implement printing in their applications. The code contains no error handling and is something that should be added in a full project. The ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB 2003 and 2005

  I have a program written in, vb 2003, and want to convert it to 2005 but am having problems with a keypress , anyways was wondering wether there is just a packager for vb2003 i could use to make the script into an EXE Keypress should work exactly the same in 2003 and 2005. As you are referring to a script - are you sure your using VB.net 2003 as this is a compiled language and not a scripting language. If your using VB.NET 2003 there is a conversion application which will convert you application project into 2005 format. ...Show All

• .NET Development How do I send mail using C#?

  Does anyone have a code snippet that shows how to send mail from c# Dear Mohamed,   I was very interested to try the code snippet using authentificated SMTP you gave us, but I cannot find and member Fields in the System.Web.Mail.MailMessage object. How come I am the only one Did I do something wrong Thanks,     ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Why should I care about WS-ReliableMessaging?

  I've been trying to understand exactly why I should care about reliable service calls via MSMQ. Now I understand that TCP/IP and HTTP are not 100% reliable methods for transport but would it be safe to say that when considering an intranet solution that ReliableMessaging is almost never really worth the effort I will admit to being somewhat ignorant to the drop rates of typical web service / http calls so if someone could either quickly educate me or point me to some good reading materials I would be very appreciative. Another factor in this discussion is the idea that simply building in re-try logic for your web service call might handle ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Again Problem in FxCop when Adding Custom Rules...

  Hi... I m adding new custom rule by the Add Rule.. I have 13 Custom Rule and I developed in visual studio project. After I complied the Project and Make a .DLL File. That DLL file i put in Rule directory where MicrosSoft FxCop 1.32 is located in Rule Directory. After wards i am starting Fxcop Software that time Custom Rule Displaying with the 13 Rule in tree View. When i am analysing the Project .DLL by adding new Target That time its giving information about Customes Rule in Message Board. When i am go through the Information related to the Custom Rule and Click on the that Information that time "Error" Comes on the Sc ...Show All

• .NET Development Using a converted tlb-Library in C# .NET 2005

  Hello .NET-Friends, I have to use a type library (.tlb) in C# .NET 2005 which was once build in VB6. It's not possible to import or point to the library without converting it to an .NET-Library. So I used the TlbImp.exe which is included in the .NET SDK and converted my (three) libraries to .NET DLLs. All this worked fine, but now its not possible, to create an instance of the included class in this new DLLs. The Objectbrowser in .NET shows me, that there is a class inside named BF_APIClass with many nice methods. Now I always get an exception at: private BF_APIClass obj = new BF_APIClass (); Exception thrown (german edit ...Show All

• SQL Server New RDL Spec differences

  Is there somewhere that explains the major differences between the 2003 RDL spec and the new one released in November I will be going through the two specs in detail in January looking at the differences but I was just wondering if there's a quick synopsis out there somewhere. Are there any major differences Darren I guess I'll answer my own post in case anyone else out there is interested.   First the end of the new spec has a very brief and incomplete lists of the changes. The important changes I found were the following: 1) InteractiveWidth and InteractiveHeight subelements added t ...Show All

• SQL Server [LOG] Unable to read local eventlog (reason: The parameter is incorrect) - FLOOD

  [LOG] Unable to read local eventlog (reason: The parameter is incorrect) I just had two seperate SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition machines suddently throw thousands of these errors within the last 24 hours. In both cases the the SQL agent and application event logs are just being flooded with a new entry every couple of seconds. While the errors are being logged the Agent continues to run jobs (e.g. scheduled backups, etc.) without error. A restart of the agent stops the errors and everything seems to be back to normal. There is no commonality between the two machines, they are on different networks, domains, etc. Both machi ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do I get access to these Unicode symbols thru VB.

  How can I access these unicode symbols & show them thru my application. Thanks. http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2200.pdf   William This is part of a code that I found thanks to "Joergen Bech".  & it works fine.   Private Sub btnFillComboBox_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnFillComboBox.Click For x = 1 To 9999 ComboBox1.Font = New Font( "Arial Unicode MS" , 30) ComboBox1.Items.Add(ChrW(x) & " = " & x.ToString( "X4" )) Next End Sub ...Show All