John T. Campbell's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I find Song Length

  Hi, i'm using the  AxWindowsMediaPlayer tool to play a song and I want to be able to get the length of the song into a variable. Plz help, I have looked in soooo many places. Thanks Hi. How can I find the length of a song using the Windows Media Player tool (AxWindowsMediaPlayer1) And if I can't do it with that, please tell me how I can do it some other way. Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Studio setup project vb.net 2005 beta2 + Crystal report 11

  Hi all, I have a problem, i have to create a setup project to install a windows application wich use some crystal reports. I have no problem on the computer where i have installed the visual studio development software (obviously). After a lot of searches a discovered the existence of .msm files!!.. But i can't understand wich one i have ti include in my setup project and where i can find them. Can someone help me Thanx a lot _d12 ...Show All

• .NET Development How is comparison done in Generic Dictionary.TryGetValue method?

  I have defined a generic IComparer as shown below. public class MyKey {     private int _value1;     private string _value2;     public MyKey(int val1, string val2)     {         _value1 = val1;         _value2 = val2;     }     public static int Compare(MyKey x, MyKey y)   &nb ...Show All

• .NET Development Open a new connection inside a Transaction Scope....

  This is a simple question regarding Transaction. I have a transaction Scope that I open with: using ( TransactionScope objectTransactionScope = new TransactionScope ()) Inside the scope I have some operation that I don't want to be in the transaction scope, like log activities that I don't want to rollback. How can I implement this Now I have an ArrayList when I sign all the operations, and after closing the scope I run all the ope ...Show All

• .NET Development System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.Send breaks on attachments > 100kB

  Hello, I am attempting to send HTML email with attachments using System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.Send. This works great, until the total attachments size exceeds about 100kB. Then I get: Exception of type System.Web.HttpUnhandledException was thrown. System.Web.HttpUnhandledException: Exception of type System.Web.HttpUnhandledException was thrown. ---> System.Web.HttpException: Could not access 'CDO.Message' object. ---> System.Reflection ...Show All

• Windows Forms GridView DeleteCommand Firing Twice

  I Have a gridview with a command button for delete defined. On the Datasource for the grid I have a DeleteCommand that runs a stored procedure that takes the ID field defined in grid view control. When the delete command is selected in the gridview the deletecommand stored procedure is called twice with the same ID (I have traced this). I have removed all delete events from the gridview and datasource. I have a FormView that has a se ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Express to SQl Server 2005 Data Copy

  Hello, I have started the wizard, but now I am getting the errors and the wizard stops! TITLE: Microsoft.SqlServer.DtsTransferProvider ------------------------------ ERROR : errorCode=-1073548784 description=Executing the query "CREATE TABLE [ SQL2005_194896_jiptravelco].[dbo].[aspnet_Applications] ( [ApplicationName] nvarchar(256) NOT NULL, [LoweredApplicationName] nvarchar(256) NOT NULL, [ApplicationId] uniqueidentifier NOT NULL, [Descriptio ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS on Domain Controller, how do I upgrade to RC?

  Hi, For Beta 3 (refresh), I had Team Foundation Server installed on a Domain Controller. Now the RC has come along and this is no longer supported. Any ideas on how I can move the WIT and Source Control data in my Beta 3 instance to an RC instance and maintain any sort of history Regards, Martin. You'll need to move TFS onto a different machine, or move your domain controller to another server. I'm forwarding this thread to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Office SP1 & SP2

  Hi everybody, As I started with my VSTO project (September 2005), I had to install the Office SP1 so that the customization works. Well of course the SP1 should be installed on the target machine also. But now there is allready the SP2. Now my questions are. Do I realy need to deploay the SP2 And do I need to install first the SP1 and then the SP2 or can I just run the SP2 Or is it better to deploay both and install both on target mac ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to prevent 2nd Instance of EXE

  There is a desktop application developed using .NET v1.1. This application is invoking a new instance every time the .EXE file is double clicked. Can some one throw some light on preventing this behaviour. When invoked for the second time, just show the first instance. Any suggesstions towards this is a great help. Hey, This is a good mechanism, but Scott Allen has more to say on this way of handling. Allen at this posting , expla ...Show All

• .NET Development the order of null in a comparision

  hi, Someone told me that the order of null in a comparision would affect the performance of the statement. he said that if (null == someobject) { .... } would yield in a slightly better perfomance than if (someobject == null) { .... } have anyone ever heared something like that anynote or hint thanks Ah... I remember now some grizzled old C pr ...Show All

• Visual C++ Release Build (Running my program on another computer)

  Good Evening- Using Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition, been very happy with it. I wanted to show someone the work I've been doing, so I set the configuration from debug to release and copy the executable to another computer and try running it... failure, the executable won't run. I'm not using and .NET functionality. The error message reads: "The application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect ...Show All

• Visual Studio Distinguishing between the Express version and the standard version in an addin

  I am writing an addin that needs to be able to distinguish between the Express version and the standard version of Visual C++ at run time. Does anyone know how to do this Thanks, Jim Express versions do not support Add-ins, so configuring your Add-in to detect an Express edition is not necessary. Craig ...Show All

• .NET Development Memomory management in .net

  I want to know who is responsible for memory management CLR or OS CLR takes all responsibility for memory management or it only guides to os There tons of docs and blogs about memory management in .NET. http://ww.live.com can help you. This topic is to big and IS out of scope of this forum. For CLR user CLR is managing memory. That's why it's "managed" world. By it self CLR takes memory from OS to be "good citizen" on your mach ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to access MSSQLSERVER from client

  Hi, I have SQL Server 2005 installed and functioning (it does everything I've asked it to do locally). I also have the Express and Standard Editions installed on a computer running WinXPPro SP2 with all the WinUpdates applied. I also have VS2005 installed on this computer. I've done some development work on this computer, using VS2005 to create a SQLDB, connect to it, add data, etc. This is all okay. The problem is I cannot connect to the& ...Show All