Marc A1's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Caught in the backwash.

  I have looked at VB Express. I purchased VB .Net 2002 when it came out, but I always end up going back to VB6. Why I suppose it has more to do with file I/O than anything. I cannot get a handle on the new FileSystemObject. I can never make it work. VB6 is eight years old now, and I would like to move on, but I'm stuck. Well, yes, there are a "few" (well, maybe more than just a few) things that have c ...Show All

• Visual C# Can't read <mailSettings> from app.config file, why??????

  Common sense tells me it should work. The code compiles but the host is always null. Whatever I try I can not get any data from the app.config file. I have a Class Library and I'm trying to build an email component that sends out email using the mailSettings in the app.config file. I'm using VS 2005. < configuration > < system.net > < mailSettings > < smtp > < network host = " smtp. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Dragging a form around the screen

  Can anyone suggest or let me know how I can drag (move) a form around the desktop by just clicking on the center of the form (with the left mouse button) itself and not on the title bar Thanks! There are a couple of  ...Show All

• .NET Development How to trace time for FTP Upload

  Hi, I've written a windows application to upload the files to our ftp location using .NET v1.1. Now my requirement is to find out the time that will take to upload the selected files. Inother words, how can i show the estimated time to transfer any file on the internet Any suggestion are highly helpful to me.. Thanks and Regards, Chakravarthy Hi! Simple way: time left = used time * downloaded size / total size Smooth w ...Show All

• .NET Development Newbie-What is the proper way to handle special characters in XML?

  I'm having a problem with single quotes in my XML document. I have Xml that resembles something like below: < xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" > <root> <MyText>Text contain's a single quote</MyText> </root> This content resides in a file and when I extract the xml and pass it to a stored procedure, instead of the entire xml being sent to the stored procedure, it is being truncated because of ...Show All

• Windows Forms Getting a DataGridView to Update

  I hope this makes sense. I have a form with a combo box and a datagridview. I have figured out how to get the values on the form. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to update the Database itself. I've purchased many books and still don't get it. I'm trying to upgrade from Access. I would like the value's in the rows to update when the user tabs to the next field in the ...Show All

• Visual C# generics and COM+

  Hi. It is possible to pass a generic type through COM+ Suppose that I have a IList<int>. How should I do it When I run regsvcs.exe it prints a warning message saying "Warning: Type library exporter encountered a generic type instance in a signature. Generic code may not be exported to COM." Thanks. Hi. Thanks for your reply. It seems that Webservices have no problem passing generic types. You ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) About WCF Security

  I have a couple of WCF Services that a client is going to use. When the users login on the client i want to authenticate them using a authentication service that recieves the username and password. The authentication service compares the credentials to a userrow in a database. After the client it authenticated i want the user to be authenticated to all my services. My requiered scenario assumes that i get some kind of "object" as a ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Installing device emulator on pc with VPC 2004 SP1

  Hi I have an issue when installing the above 2 software together. My PC already has VPC 2004 with sp1 installed. When I install the standalone version of the Device emulator, the "Virtual Machine Network Service" that bind to the network card of the PC got removed. The installation completed with no errors. When I launch a PPC image in the emulator, I configure it to emulate the NE2000 card. But when I click ok, it says VPC drivers not installe ...Show All

• .NET Development Getting back the string that will be displayed by Graphics::DrawString

  I have a string that's too long to fit in a control, and want to lop off the end and tack on an ellipsis. Graphics::DrawString does that beautifully. But I don't actually want to draw it, I want to get back the modified string as it would be displayed. Can someone point me to a method that will do that My "brute force" approach would be to call MeasureString in a loop, dropping one character in each iteration, until MeasureString co ...Show All

• SQL Server Service Pack 1 Database Services Installation Failure

  Hi - using SQL Server Standard Edition (64Bit). All of items of the service pack will install execpt for the Database Services. The Details are: "Unable to install Windows Installer MSP file" Log Details Below 05/04/2006 08:18:42.327 ================================================================================ 05/04/2006 08:18:42.327 Hotfix package launched 05/04/2006 08:18:43.827 Product discovery successfully compl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS Warehouse errors

  The trials with Beta 3 are still going well, but I've spotted the following in the Application Log. Apart from watching TFS Version Control, TFS Services, TFS Warehouse and TFS WorkItem Tracking stopping and starting themselves, we've been getting hourly errors. It has settled down now to be: ERROR MSSQLServerOLAPService : Event 3 : OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted ...Show All

• Windows Forms using dictionarybase...

  Hi, I'm trying to build a collection, and I would like to be able to address a certain element in that collection not only by its index, but also by its key name... something like DataTables in DataSets: you can say dataSet.Tables[2] or dataSet ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions export whole program/project to work on another pc?

  hi dudes, sorry i'm very much vb.newby... can someone please explain how i can export my project i'm writing in spare time at work to my home pc, intact with all code and interface design in place please in vb.net express i have tried saving the project and then copying the whole project folder home but this doesn't seem to work properly when i open a file - there's so many, anyway! another thing i thought i might try was to export proj ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions SOS SOS SOS

  I need help . Recently ,I download the "Visual C++ Express Edition" fome this web.but I can not use it . When I run the first programme ,it will post me a dialog which want me to find the "crtexe.c". It says "f:\rtm\vctools\crt-bld\self_x86\crt\src\crtexe.c". But my computer does not have thsy file at all. What is the problem Please include more details How are you running ths program what type of application i ...Show All