M.Balajee's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Parent Child Dimension Question

  I have a simple parent child dimension set up where the root level records have a ParentID of <null>. When I browse the hierarchy the root level appear correctly, but when I drill into one of the levels of the hierarchy, the root level element is duplicated at the next level even though there is no such relationship in the dimension. Here is a simplified example of records in the dimension: ID Name ParentID 1 Root1 & ...Show All

• .NET Development Coexistence between VS 2005 beta 2 and SQL Server 2005 on XP 64

  I just got an e-mail announcing that VS 2005 beta 2 is coming soon. I have SQL Server 2005 beta 2 installed on my XP 64bit. Will VS 2005 beta 2 coexist with it, or will I need to upgrade my SQL Server 2005 (if so, to which CTP ) Bruno No -- VS Beta 2/.NET Framework Beta 2) and SQL Server 2005 beta 2 will not coexist. The Whidbey .NET Framework is not side-by-side with itself between builds.  You will need to use the SQL Server April ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions .NET's INI Replacement ?

  Hi all, After coding using Borland's Delphi and C++ we were able to easily create INI files for the apps we created. Now that I have moved across to VC++ 2005 trying how to create these same files has proved difficult and just now I have found that there is a push to move across to an XML equivalent - is this correct If so, can anyone point me in a direction where I can learn to create/read/write to these files so that I can s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Upgrading from VS2005 Standard to VS2005 Professional

  I installed VS2005 standard when it became available to download via the MSDN downloads for subscribers but now the Professional version is available. I have seen in my searches online that upgrading from the Betas must be done carefully, first unistalling everything in the correct order then installing the new version. Does this need to be done to upgrade from Standard to Professional Or can you just install professional over standard and the n ...Show All

• Windows Forms Retrieving the values from a datagrid

  I select values from the database and display them in a grid but first I apply formatting to the values. So from the database I may get the value 5236.2389 but the grid may display $5236.24 due to my formatting. What I want to do is&n ...Show All

• Visual Basic Print control code

  Iam creating a order form using vb 2005 express beta, Iam having trouble writing correct code to print button that will print form contents. Iam only able to print a blank page. Please any help would br great thanks, Bruni look at the powerpack http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/aa701261.aspx This may help in printing a form ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataView.Find problem

  I am really pulling my hair out with this!  I want to find a record in DataTable dtSegDesc based on two fields, Segment_ID  and Segment_Value ... private void CheckDescriptions() { //This method is called when a new account is created to see if any ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions atlbase.h

  While trying to convert com projects from VC6.0, I  get: LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'atlthunk.lib' This is from atlbase.h . There is no way I can just comment out the #include for that, as some lucky programmer here said he did. It causes many projects to err out. Is there any way to get around this linkage error something like "#pragma error disable: 1104)" (wild stab in the dark here) Note that atlthunk.lib ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Cannot explain diff in values returned from CTime::GetCurrentTime and ::GetLocalTime

  In using the three methods CTime::GetCurrentTime ::GetLocalTime ::GetSystemTime Using VS2005 Beta 2, I get three different values, respectively, when the local time is 11:58, 2005-11-25: 2005-11-24T15:58:12 2005-11-25T11:58:12 2005-11-24T22:58:12 . Time Zone Information via ::GetTimeZoneInformation shows Bias: -720 Standard bias: 0 Daylight bias: -60 So from all of the above, I can explain the diff in the results between ::GetLocalTime (l ...Show All

• .NET Development Is NET Framework fast enough?

  I want to make a MIDI-editor, but I'm not sure if using NET Framework is the right choice. I'll need really fast editors, like fast ListBoxes and fast ComboBoxes, that need to be updated the fastest possible. I've make a comparison between how fast does a Win32 application adds 1000 items to a ComboBox, and how fast does a NET Framework does it. The Win32 application is about 5 times faster!. So, what do you suggest me Is there perhaps a way to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Properties.Settings gives error :"0, 0 is not a valid value for Int32"

  Happens everytime, don't know why... Take a form... In properties: ApplicationSettings...Location...new...opens up a standard window to pick a New Application Setting...Take the default value 0;0 or make that anything you want and then somehow that 0;0 turns into 0,0. Now when I edit it in the Settings.settings and type in 0;0 instead of 0,0 ...pop-up says cann't convert 300;00  to an instance of System.Drawing.Size... Am I missing somethi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Control Design

  How I can design better controls without WinFX Become a better user interface programmer and then you can write better controls. There is nothing in WinFX you could not do by hand yourself, albeit taking much longer to custom write yourself. If you question is really, I want all the cool features of WPF in Windows.Forms then your never going to get it. Phil Wright http://www.componentfactory.com Free user ...Show All

• Visual Studio Adding code view/designer view menu items

  I started from the SampleDocViewEditor (from VS 2005 SDK) for creating a VSPackage for handling a custom Doc/View extension .SXVID. I need to handle the View Code/View Designer views. I have created the base application from Extendibility Wizard of VS 2005 and then I have added the code and definition as indicated on the Overview.xml distributed with the sample application. The result is that VS opens the file in the custom editor, but ...Show All

• Visual Studio How do you Including/Excluding code inside a VS 2005 item template?

  I am using Visual Studio 2005 item templates (zip file with .vstemplate file in it). I have a wizard UI that gathers some information. Based on the users choices I need to include or exclude chunks of code from the template. I could build the appropriate code in my wizard and cram it into the replacementsDictionary to be text replaced in the template, but I would much rather have all the template code be in the template. In one of my templates, ...Show All

• Visual C# ProgressBar.Value

  Ok. I know this is an odd question but I just cant figure it out. Basically, I increment my progressBar value with a certain process. So sometimes the value is 25, or 82 or whatever. Sometimes value passed to the progressBar turns out to be a decimal, then i get the error. My question is as follows: How would I make an if statement something like this: if (progressBar1.Value == a decimal) { do.this } You are getting an er ...Show All