Harry Strand's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WinFX - Setup Error

  I am running into a problem trying to install the Feb CTP on my machine. I tried un-installing .NET 2.0 Compact Framework, turning off the Virus software on my machine with no luck. Nothing is showing up in the event logs. Any help would be appreciated. Steve Schofield Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET ASPInsider Member - MCP http://www.orcsweb.com/ Managed Complex Hosting #1 in Service and Support can you please follow this blog and try to install FEB CTP http://blogs.msdn.com/madhuponduru/archive/2006/02/22/537622.aspx If you are still not able to install FEB CTP,please let us know, you are not able to install winfx r ...Show All

• .NET Development Searching for Network Devices using VB .NET? PLEASE HELP!!!

  I am writing a change management app in VB .NET and I need to be able to scan a network for devices like switches and routers. I don't have a clue where to start! I there a way to be able to find these sorts of things by just searching snmp strings or do these devices have some special response when accessed via .NET I really need help! Thanks in advance. I dont think you can find it if a network device is a hub or a switch in .NET, but you can access network drives - not physical networking devices. you can look at the DriveType enumerator to determine the type of drive found but I think th ...Show All

• Visual Basic Can't understand delegate function

  I'm reading Wrox's Professional VB 2005. I'm just at the beginning of delegates. It has us open a module1 and put in the following code: Public Delegate Function Compare(ByVal v1 As Object, ByVal v2 As Object) As Boolean Public Sub DoSort(ByVal theData() As Object, ByVal greaterThan As Compare) Dim outer As Integer Dim inner As Integer Dim temp As Object For outer = 0 To UBound(theData) - 1 For inner = outer + 1 To UBound(theData) If greaterThan.Invoke(theData(outer), theData(inner)) Then temp = theData(outer) theData(outer) = theData(inner) theData(inner) = temp End If ...Show All

• .NET Development Reflect private field of System.Web.UI.Page

  Hi. I use this code to get the value of private field "_focusedControlID" of System.Web.UI.Page. I place this code into the OnPreRender event: ------------------------------------ BindingFlags f = BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.FlattenHierarchy | BindingFlags.IgnoreCase; object o = this.GetType().BaseType.BaseType.GetField("_focusedControlID", f).GetValue(this); ------------------------------------ The value of o is always null. What's wrong Thanks, Matteo. Have you set it to a non-n ...Show All

• .NET Development how to post a form in asp.net to another aspx page

  Hi, can any one suggest me how to post form date into another aspx page in asp.net development Hi! Thanks for asking!  I'm a member of the ASP.NET team, and was just popping over here to see what was going on.  The best place to ask ASP.NET questions is over on the ASP.NET forums at http://www.asp.net/welcome.aspx tabindex=1&tabid=39 ! HTH, PEte ...Show All

• Visual Studio I want to get the project name on the "New Project" page in VS2005?How to get it ?

  hello all, when we create a new project,VS will call the "New Project" page out. And then you can modify the project name and the locaion of the project. My question is that how to get the project name on this page.   Thanks a lot. I need to ask a few more questions: 1. From where do you need to get this name, in your application From a Visual Studio addin 2. What do you want to do with the project name (this will help us understand if there is a better way) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Setup is the pickiest program!

  Can anyone tell me why I cannot install TFS using a SQL Server that has reporting services installed I have a very large and powerful SQL Server cluster that I cannot use for TFS since it has Reporting Services installed (and no, I am not going to remove them). I understand that TFS wants Reporting Services on the application server but it should not install just because I have them on my SQL Server. We have similar environment. There is a powerful SQL server box we use for all apps including TFS. TFS itself is installed on another app_server i.e. AT TFS DT is where we have the database (RAID box) i.e. DT SQL Reporting ...Show All

• Visual C# read INI file from c#

  Hi Any one know if there a way to read INI format from C# thanks Avi. Avi, You'd have to import GetPrivateProfile* Win32 APIs.  But, if possible try to move away from INI files - they're deprecated. HTH ...Show All

• .NET Development Can I Turn Off the Garbage Collector?

  I'm referencing some unmanaged code (functions and structures) through a DLL created in C that interfaces a data i/o card. I'm using C#'s DllImport, etc to do this. Well I basically use 1 pointer that is used as a reference for sending data out on the card. As I repeatedly send my data out using this pointer, my app eventually crashes giving a NullReferenceException. This tends to happen at different times, but roughly between 5 - 15 seconds after execution. My guess is that the garbage collector is reallocating or deleting this pointer and causing all things to halt. Is there a way to turn off the Garbage Collector completly In my p ...Show All

• SQL Server The operating system does not support encryption

  Hello, I'm use SQL Server Mobile on desktop to create and populate an .sdf file. Everything has been working very well; however I just encountered an issue when I try to create or use the database in any way I receive the following message. The operating system does not support encryption. My solution was to create a new User Account and then after I was able to create/use an .sdf file without any problems. Does anyone know why this message would appear and how I can avoid getting this error. Thanks. Try posting this issue on a Mobile specific newsgroup, like the CE newsgroup from http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/ ...Show All

• Visual Basic Is there anyway to disable the DEBUGGER, it is hogging all my cpu time.

  I have been trouble shooting what I though was a timing problem in my application.  I have discovered that the problem is the debugget taking 15 to 16 millisecond chuncks of cpu time, sometimes (with a lot of trace statements, like) it takes these chuncks every 15 to 20 milliseconds. I would like to produce an exe file with out any debugger code at all.  Is there any way to do that in VB express or VB2005 beta   I read somewhere that it was but I cannot find the wizard or whatever to do it. Can anyone help, Please Thanks Dick Hi Dustin, Well, your solution worked and it didn't.  VB Expres ...Show All

• SQL Server Data Mining Query returns ADOMDDataReader

  Hello, I created a Market Basket Data Mining Model with Association Rules, which I want to query and show in a Report. Everything works fine, when I preview the result in the Reporting Services Data tab I see some sort of table which I can expand and then see the related products. Unfortunately this result seems to be an ADOMD Datareader which I cannot place in a table, matrix or textfield. If anyone knows how I can make this Informationen available in my Report please let me know. Thanks in advance In report designer select "Analysis Services" as data source type. Then you can connect ...Show All

• .NET Development HELP! On Looping Records for Insert

  hi i have a program that reads record from linked text file and insert the data from returned resultset. private void DB_Open() { string connStrAccessDB; string sqlAccessDB; string connStrBtrieveDB; string sqlBtrieveDB; Cursor.Current = Cursors.WaitCursor; btnProc.Enabled = false; connStrAccessDB = @"Provider=MSDASQL;DSN=AccDB"; // Access with CSIList textfile OdbcConnection connAccessDB = new OdbcConnection(connStrAccessDB); connAccessDB.Open(); OdbcCommand cmdAccessDB = new OdbcCommand(); cmdAccessDB.Connection = connAccessDB; sqlAccessDB = ...Show All

• SQL Server What happened to good old object search ???

  Hi There I have been working with MSS Management Studio for some time now. One thing really bothers me, i cannot find the equivalent for object search found in good old query analyser. I have many QA databases, and the all have tens of thousands of tables and views. If i need to find a table or view i go to query analyser and do an object search and i get the result within a second. The only thing i can do in Management Studion is filter the views or tables for the one i am looking for , problem is with the number of objects in these databases i can go for a smoke and come back before i get results. Am i missing some ...Show All

• Visual C++ VC2005 Beta2 Crashes

  Hello, I'm running beta 2 on a W2k SP6 machine. I have a large solution converted from VS2003 that is all native C++ code. The development environment is having persistent crashes. A crash happens every minute or so and I get a group of dialog boxes that say something to the effect "unknown software exception 0xc000000d at location 0x7c3b3984, ok to terminate, cancel to debug"). I can choose 'ok' and continue running the program(!). I usually end up moving the message dialog mostly off screen and continue working (modeless dialog). Is this a known issue Another problem - when I change a project's properties (say disable warning 4996) and ...Show All