domlev's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic How to open file with default application

  Hello, how do I open a file with it's default application My program gets the name of a file (.doc, .xls, .pdf, etc) and I want to forward it to the windows program that is default for this filetype. Many Thanks, Alvin That one's really easy: Process.Start(file) ...Show All

• Windows Forms ToolStripItem Ownerdrawn?

  I am looking for a way to do owner drawn toolstrip menu items. I see I can handle the paint event but I see no way to set the ContentRectangle to size my menu appropriatly. How does one do the equivilent of the old menuitem ownerdrawing with the new ToolStripMenuItem   Just set AutoSize for the ToolStripMenuItem to false and set the Size property to whatever you want. If you want to use AutoSize, and ge ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Free tool

  Hi, i'm searching a free tool to develop .net application for Mobile Device (Windows Mobile 200-2005). Anyone can suggest me the best The microsoft Visual Studio 2005 is too expensive for me. Exists another tool Visual Studio 2005 Express is wanderful but it don't generate code for mobile. sigh. Any suggest Thx for support. That I would not know as I'm far away from Italy. I'm not sure Student/Te ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Limit foreign-table retrieval

  using all kinds of tricks I am trying to retrieve all customers which have orders in a specific year. So far, so good, this works. but this customer object refers to the orders-collection and whenever I access that ALL orders are retrieved. No matter how I try to persuade the object to just retrieve needed rows from the DB, if I access the orders through the parent "customer" object, I fail. can someone provide me with a hint on how ...Show All

• Visual C++ favor AMD64 intrinsic functions

  How do I tell my compiler/linker to use the __stosq intrinsic function 32-bit assembly intrinsic functions compile, but 64-bit ones do not. Also, the compiler /favor:AMD64 is considered to be an unknown option. Is there anything I can do to enable this compiler option Are programs that use 64-bit pointers limited by default to 2GBs of memory What will happen when I generate data beyond 2GBs but do not enable the linker /largeaddressawar ...Show All

• SQL Server Slower Execution Of SISS Packages

  Hello, I am experiencing that my SISS packages are executing faster during development from within the Sql Business Intelligence Development Studio environment than when I execute them with dtexecui after I have deployed them as either File System Or Sql Server deployments. After deployment the packages run about twice a long as they do from within Sql Business Intelligence Development Studio (i.e they reference the same data and are execu ...Show All

• .NET Development BUG: TimeSpan.ToString() does not localize the result.

  TimeSpan.ToString() always returns the same format, regardless of region settings. For example, if it returns    10:30:25 on an English server, it will return exactly the same thing on an Italian server. However, in Italy they use periods in times so the result should be    10.30.25 Thanks,    Mike MikeS at Silect dot com I wouldn't call this a bug since the TimeSpan t ...Show All

• Windows Forms I use the print class of FotoVision to make a image print program, why doesn't it work?

  The following code is from FotoVision, I make a image print program using the class, but it doesn't work. Only after I have installed the FotoVision (The name of setup program is " FotoVision Desktop.msi ") my program just work. I think that FotoVision have packaged some other components such as dll or registered photowiz.dll in its setup program, but I'm not sure. If so, how can I register photowiz.dll with C# Could you help me, thanks!   ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Backup Utility not working after TFS installed on Windows Server 2003 Std Edition SP1

  I have installed Team Foundation Server (single-server deployment) and Team Foundation client, on a Windows Server 2003 Std Edition with SP1 with all windows updates. Installation was successful, I can create projects etc no problem. This was a clean install on a DELL Poweredge 800 with RAID 1 SATA HDD. Prior to installing Team Foundation Server and Client I was able to use the Windows backup utility to successfully create a ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Errors in contest entries?

  Some of us who've submitted our entries to the contest may not be aware of bugs in our apps. If you find one, please post it here. We can determine if the problem is in the Activity API or our app's code and then elevate any relevant issues. Please include: The name of the app The exact error message (including line number if displayed) Steps to reproduce the error An objective suggestion to correct the problem By the way, my app is ...Show All

• SQL Server Web Synchronization wizard

  I'm trying to configure web synchronization using the wizard, It errors out on step "Setting The snapshot share permissions". The error I get is The operation completed successfully. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070000) Then all the other steps rollback. I'm using the default location for the snapshot i.e in REPLDATA folder. When creating the publication I used a UNC path to specify the snapshot folder. For testsing purposes I'm ...Show All

• SQL Server can not connect to Report server from SQL SERVER 2005 Management studio

  Hi All, I have a brand new install of sql server 2005 on brand new WINDOWS SERVER2003 with latest versions. Every thing works fine excepting I get a 404 when I connect to report server from management studio.. I am even able to publish reports and all the url://localhost/reportserver url://localhost/reports url://localhost/reportserver/reportbuilder/reportbuilder.application all work fine on local machine and with in the networ ...Show All

• SQL Server Can a Data Flow Task mimic Bulk Insert?

  Hi Guys, The way I understand a Data Flow Task is that it inserts the rows from the source to destination one by one. Is there a way to make it act like a bulk insert task We have been experiencing performance issues when inserting a lot of rows from one table to another. If there's no way to actually do it, can a bulk insert task functionality be scripted Coz what I need is a table to table insert, and the bulk insert task only accepts d ...Show All

• .NET Development I dont khow how to display the XML file "professional" way

  Hi I dont khow how to display the XML file "professional" way (ie like VS 2005 span in / out ) can u help me Thks a lot If you are talking about ASP.NET, one simple way is to make use of eXml Web server control with FriendlyXml property turned on. ...Show All

• SQL Server Synchronize problem

  I want to replicate my database with table like this: +-----------------+ | Table | +-----------------+ | ID | | Distributor ID | | Total Sales | | ... | +-----------------+ At table above you can see that I have a field called Distributor ID. The scene like this, I have 4 distributor that have replication of my database. Each day they synchronize database from distributor (lets call they A, B, C, D) into my server. So at th ...Show All