Mike Warren's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Webservice problem

  Hi I have some issues calling webservices. I have a server running on a wireless network that hosts the webservice im trying to access. This webservice has 3 simple methods that return string arrays and a dataset. My problem is that everyonce in a while the webservice stops responding and the pocket application justs gets stuck, sometimes it will achieve 10 calls sucessfully on a row, and sometimes in the first call it fails. Any ideas why is ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do I create a GridView/edit screen?

  Newbie question. I have DataGridView that has a list of records. I want to double click on one row and bring up a NEW form with a detailed edit form for that record. 1) How assign a KEY to the DataGridView 2) How to I access the key and pass it do the new form 3) How do I create all this on a row double click (not cell double click) Thanks. Any objections to using a global static field in the Program class to use as a gl ...Show All

• Visual C++ This is stupid

  Okay, I've downloaded the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition. I cannot, no matter what I do, find the f***ing input window where I actually INPUT the code to actually WORK and practice my C++ coding. Why is this program so retarded that it doesn't OPEN THE INPUT WINDOW WHEN YOU OPEN A NEW PROJECT Old versions of Microsoft Visual C++ did that, why the hell doesn't this retarded program do it I did what I ...Show All

• SQL Server Data of type SQLBIT always 1??

  Hello all, Apologies if this is posted in the wrong forum, however I wasn't exactly sure as to which one would be the best for my query... I have recently inherited the job of maintaining a database of internet logs and I am using the bcp utility to bulk insert rows into the database. The problem is that for the fields which are classified as SQLBIT in the .fmt file (and the field in  the database is bit) are always inserted as '1' e ...Show All

• SQL Server Export Wizard generates errors

  I am trying to export data from my local server to the hosting server. However I get errors when executing it:   Validating (Error) Messages Error 0xc0202049: Data Flow Task: Failure inserting into the read-only column "ID". (SQL Server Import and Export Wizard) Error 0xc0202045: Data Flow Task: Column metadata validation failed. (SQL Server Import and Export Wizard) Error 0xc004706b: Data Flow Task: "component " ...Show All

• SQL Server Size Amount

  Can anyone tell me how much space the SQL Server 2005 actually has. And if I can access the server from pretty much any computer SQL Server 2005 Express Edition supports 4GB database size (note: there can be multiple databases of this size on a server). You can access SQL EXpress from other machine's as long as you configure remote connectivity - learn how to do this at http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlexpress/archive/2005/05/05/415084.aspx . Than ...Show All

• Visual Basic Cannot find file

  Dim options As String = ( "/quiet /norestart /overwriteoem /nobackup" ) Dim updates As String = ( "F:\Updates\" ) Dim di As New IO.DirectoryInfo( "F:\updates" ) Dim diar1 As IO.FileInfo() = di.GetFiles Dim diar2 As IO.DirectoryInfo() = di.GetDirectories() Dim dra As IO.FileInfo 'list the names of all files in the specified directory For Each dra In diar1 Dim myProcess As Process = System.Diagnos ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Few beginner questions about shaders

  Hi! I've just started learning MDX and have few questions: 1. I've done simple N dot L lighting shader, but i'm not sure how should i pass light parameters to the shader. Now i just create ColorValue and Vector4 (direction) objects and pass them to the shader (using effect.setValue). Should i create Light object instead, set its parameters and then pass them to the shader Are there any advantages of creating Light object instead of creatin ...Show All

• Visual Basic IP/DNS resolver

  hey people out there :-) i've just started a new project i VB xpress. however i have encountered som problems: 1. none of the my.computer "info" things have anything about how to find the computers IP adress. how do i make the program show that 2: is it possible to make the computer convert a raw IP adress to a domain name/url adress sa that 999.999.999.999 can be converted to, google.com for instance and how about r ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Package Configurations Stored in SQL Server Table

  I have two SSIS projects each with different packages. I have setup the packages with configurations stored in a SQL Server table in MSDB. When I create the configuration on the second project it overwrites all of the first projects configurations. Is there a way to to get two different project configurations stored in the same SQL Server table Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! I'm just guessing: Wh ...Show All

• Windows Forms Automating login to website with IIS basic authentication

  Hello all, Can someone point me int the direction of writing a script to automate login to a web application that uses basic authentication instead of a normal post login from a form   Basically what I am trying to do is make the authentication ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to set the recordset of a classic ADODC (Data control) in .NET

  rst = goLists.Facilities 'function returns an open recordset Debug.Print( CStr (rst.Collect( "ID" ))) 'this ensure the recordset is really open! me.adoData.Recordset = rst 'error message occurs here Why does this give an error message saying that I need to initialize using the new keyword (or else check for Null before setting the object)  I have tried different variations of syntax, including putting this line first: Me . ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions changing col header names

  Does anybody have any success in changing the column header tesxt for each column somthing like DataGridView1.CurrentCell = DataGridView1.Columns(1) DataGridView1.CurrentCell.Value = "File Name" which does not work any ideas PS in VB2005 hi, you can do something like this colName.HeaderText = "Employee ID" select your datagridview and go to properties , select co ...Show All

• SQL Server Excel Pivot Table Limitations?

  Dear Anyone, We seem to have encountered a bug o a limitation but we're not sure what to make of it. We are using Analysis Services 2005 RTM. Went have a 3 level dimension. We noticed that when we used the dimension in the page field of the pivot table, we noticed that not all members of some parents in the 2nd level does not display. We double checked by browsing the dimension using the Management studio and we confirmed that not all memb ...Show All

• Windows Forms Displaying a User Control Under a selected Parent Row in a DataGridView

  Is it possible, or does anyone have an example of a DataGridView (or any other DataGrid control like Infragistics UltraWinGrid) that can do the following: When a parent row is clicked, the child row would be displayed as a User Control. Thanks, John The DataGridView or DataGrid do not support this. You'll need to follow up with 3rd party grid controls. -mark DataGridView Program Manager M ...Show All