AdKhan's Q&A profile

• SQL Server schema relative names in sql queries

  Using Sql Server 2005, when I issue a query on a database created using script I must always qualify table names with the schema name. In Sql Server 2000 using the same script to create the database this issue did not come up. If I create the db using SSMS then I don't need to use the schema name. Has anyone else seen this and is there a setting to make the schema name default. I tried the "Alter user" and "DefaultSchema" ...Show All

• Windows Forms Adding an icon to the form taskbar when using a form with no border?

  Hello, I am making a form in Vb.net using a skin so I do not have a border on my form, but I would like an icon to show up in the taskbar when the form is opened.  Is this possible   I haven't been able to find anything that says you could.  Can someone please help, point me in the right direction, or confirm that this can't be done Thanks, Marc Paul, I tried it on an XP system and t ...Show All

• Visual Basic databinding

  Hi anybody, I'm new to visual studio express 2005. I have learned the data binding metho with a simple table. Everything works as told but when I want to change a record, it will change it in memory but not in the database SQL. I want to creat an application that will let user change any record. Can someone help Thanks. Well, I found some answers already. The VS Express 2005 is limited and will not let The user change the database in ...Show All

• SQL Server database: mssql

  I am conducting a database design and I managed to reach the 3rd normal form. My question is, if i change my primary key, for example '0001' to '0002', is it possible to propagate the change/update to the other linked table. if you require more info, please let me know. Thank you in advance. Hi, In addition to that. If your using sql2k you could just create a diagram and link the tables that you want in Enter ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Web site Unit Test: Object reference not set ... error

  I tried to setup unit testing for an existing web site by: 1. Create a new websit by pointing to an existing site. 2. Create a new test project 3. Create a new UnitTestLogon.cs page (code attached below) 4. Inside the test manager and run UnitTestLogon.cs The test can be executed but get Object Reference not set to an object error when loginBox.Text = "UserName"; being hitted. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks. using System; ...Show All

• Windows Forms ClickOnce updating on a Windows Installer app

  Hey yall  I am wondering if it is possible to enable the "smart" updating features of ClickOnce on an application that would require at least an initial installation with Windows Installer Thanks MacKenzie The only thing I could recommend is to create an installer application that launches the click once application.   The ClickOnce framework allows for applications to be installed on CD and then updated through your specifi ...Show All

• Visual Basic Drawing a line on a user control

  Hi I'm trying to learn about the Graphics in VB by making my own simple Graph control. But i've hit a problem straight away which seems to be a VB bug i' wrote some code to draw a line across the bottom of the control with a margin of 40 from the bottom and a margin of 20 either side. it all works ok unless i make the form over 395 high or 400 wide. if its height >395 i cant see the bottom x axis at all if the width is over 400 then the x ax ...Show All

• Visual Basic vb2005 and crystal report 10

  PLS i have aurgent question , in firt i am downloaded vb2005 from internet and installed and i have installed crystal report 10 before , now how can i use crystal report viewer in my project and how can i use ocx Activex Files in my project he taked ocx files as classes . how thanks in advance Hi, Did you download vbexpress If so you cannot use the crystal reports. This is one of the limitations of the express products. On beta 1 ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problems with moving DirectShow code to VS8

  I'm facing some problems in moving my DirectShow code to VS8. It was building and running fine with VS7. I've also migrated to the latest Platform SDK (Windows Server 2003 R2) and DirectX SDK(April 2006) In tchar.h, I get the error "Need to include strsafe.h after tchar.h" even though I've included strsafe.h. I commented the following lines from tchar.h to make it compile. I know it's an ugly solution - what should I do #ifdef _STRSAF ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFSDeleteProject.exe fails to delete projects which fail in their creation but are partially in existence

  I posted a bug for this on the bug reporting site: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx feedbackid=a02f3956-e1c7-43f3-99f4-0a6959ee81b7 MS say they have fixed it in v1, however, does anyone know how I can remove projects manually from source control or reporting services manually for an orphaned project We ran into one last issue in this process I thought I would share.  On some of the machines, the d ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Why is it possible to generate proxy with svcutil for localhost only?

  Why is it possible to generate proxy with svcutil for http://localhost ... only You can generate proxy for remote services also,can you please give us more info about this problem. -Thank you Madhu ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Debug using Emulator and VS 2005

  I installed VS 2005 machine that had VS 2003 on it, but NEVER a beta of VS 2005. At first I could not even connect to an emulator with VS 2005 (VS 2003 worked fine), but then I was told to delete all the files in the %USERPROFILE%\local settings\application data\Microsoft\CoreCon\1.0 directory and that allowed me to connect. The new problem is I still cannot debug. I select debug with VS 2005 and I can see all the files being deployed, but when ...Show All

• Windows Forms Creating a shape for a window

  I know how to make a window a certian shape and dissable the title bar but how do you allow it to be moved in the same way as a normal window.  Like lets say i make a window that is shaped like a cd and it has no&n ...Show All

• .NET Development Best method to format and convert database??

  I’m writing an application that needs to be able to pull information from a Foxpro database, format it, and then store it into an Access database.  At the moment I'm using a For Next Loop to pass through each field in a dataset loaded  ...Show All

• Visual C# Fastest possible update of a Bitmap

  Hi Assuming image is a Bitmap, is this the quickest way (outside of hardware) to manipulate the bytes bmData = image.LockBits(new Rectangle(0, 0, image.Width, image.Height), ImageLockMode.ReadWrite, PixelFormat.Format32bppRgb); scanline = bmData.Stride; Scan0 = bmData.Scan0; q = (int *)(void *)Scan0; *(q + offest) = someByte image.UnlockBits(bmData); Thanks Ah, yes... that is a good way.  I do something similar (but not quit ...Show All