Danny_uk's Q&A profile

• Visual FoxPro Help me to create o column Order

  Hi all, In Visual Foxpro i create a column Order that:      replace all myOrderColumn with recno() |myOrderColumn|                1                2                3        ...Show All

• Visual Basic How can i use nullable (of t) to handle nulls in DateTime

  Hi, As we all know the Datetime in vb.net 2003 cannot handle nulls. I see that there a system.Nullable (of t) How can I make use of this in order to handle nulls in datatime. An example will be appreciated Something like this Option Strict On Module Module1     Sub Main()        Dim dt As Nullable( Of DateTime) = Nothing    &nbs ...Show All

• Visual Basic Help!!! Unsolvable Serial Comm Port problem??

  Hi, My current application requires that I use a PC serial communiction port to talk to a remote device. I am using visual basic from Visual Studio .net 2003. In the older versions of VB I would add mscomm.ocx to the toolbox and add this to my form. I can add Mscomm32.ocx to my toolbox, but when I try to add mscomm32.ocx to my form I receive 'You do not have a license to use this Active X control.' I have registered the file using 're ...Show All

• .NET Development Begginer:Need to get the object of a webservice.

  I am relatively new to .Net Web Services. I have a web service on my local server named TEST_WEB_SERVICE.wsdl. I have added the webreference of the service into my .Net Application. Now, I want to create the object to access the methods of the webservice. Pls help me out!! I am using .Net 2005 beta 2. There must be a namespace named "localhost" (or the name of the machine where the WSDL was get from) in your project with a class define ...Show All

• Visual Studio Random behaviour with ITaskItem[]

  I have a target that I pass an ItemGroup to. I then call a task that takes this ItemGroup as a parameter and a ITaskItem as another parameter. Sometimes, if I pass an ITaskItem[] to the ITaskItem parameter, MSBuild is clever enough to realise that I want the task called once for each item in the ItemGroup. Most of the time, however, I get this error: Multiple items cannot be passed into a parameter of type "Microsoft.Build.Framework.I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Application Designer Error

  I've receive this error from AD. The diagram in now in Lock state. Synchronization for element ResourceType failed. Reason: An error occurred creating the configuration section handler for windows: The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040) (C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50215\Config\machine.config line 31) Any Help Thanks I believe this is a known bug i ...Show All

• Visual C# How To: get all the buttons from a form

  Hi, i'm trying to get all the buttons from my form in some sort of collection, array, ... Is it possible to get a certain type of control out of your form Greetz You can iterate over all controls on the form and lookup of they match a specific type. Control[] textboxes = GetAllControlsOfType( typeof ( TextBox ) ); public Control[] GetAllControlsOfType( Type type ) { ArrayList buffer = new ArrayList ...Show All

• Smart Device Development is there any news for WM 5.0 emulator download ?

  Is there any new progress for WM 5.0 emulator i need it to test active-sync thanks It is available for download and as part of VS2005. The images come as a separate SDK download. Thanks, Vladimir ...Show All

• Architecture Middle Tier Design Question

  Let's say I have two applications that needs to communicate with each other. In a nutschell, when I design an application (not always of course), I have my business component (Facade Layer), data access component, and my domain objects (DTO's), which makes up three seperate assemblies. Now, let's say I am building the Sales & Marketing application that needs to communicate with the Accounting components. I am not sure if the Sales ap ...Show All

• Windows Forms Dialogs inheriting from dialogs inheriting from dialogs get multiple OK events!!!

  I have a stack of inherited classes from which my dialogs inherit various functionality. BaseClass (some function key and other stuff)  is parent of DialogNoDataBase (ok and cancel buttons) is parent of DialogBase (slick mechanism for passing in and out the data) is parent of vaious Working dialogs DialogNoDatabase has protected overridable bOk_click ... to respond to the OK button click event. It sets the dialog result ...Show All

• SQL Server What's the easiest way to copy tables from one 2005 DB to another 2005 DB?

  I've tried creating a simple SSIS package but I get the error: [Transfer SQL Server Objects Task] Error: Execution failed with the following error: "Cannot apply value null to property Login: Value cannot be null..". THis is a known bug and while we wait for SP1 to fix this error, is there another way to simply copy tables (with indexes and without having the identity column renumbered) Any help is appreciated! ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Shaped Avalon application with full alpha-transparency

  Is it possible to create a shaped Avalon app Some kind of shaped opacity mask that will clip the app I also need to be able to animate this mask during certain operations. Is it possible to do this, similarly to how it' s done with WinForms apps, except with full alpha transparency Thanks for any help, Corey my algortihm is probably not as optimized as it could be because it is only a prototype; howe ...Show All

• SQL Server An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server.

  I recently re-formated my personal server and installed SQL Server 2005 on it instead of 2000 which I previously used. Now, I have imported the databases to the new SQL Server 2005, but I seem to get the following error when trying to access the database (from my asp.net page)   I've googled and searched the forum, without any luck. Now I was hoping for someone to answer this question, or perhaps guide me in the right direction. ...Show All

• Visual C# What is the best way to send and receive xml data via POST to server

  Hi all, I need to send POST of some xml data and the server will respond afer checking some parameters for validation. Currently i'm using XmlReader class inside System.Xml reference. From what i know, this XmlReader is actually iterating thru all the nodes in the XML file and stop at my specified nodes to retrieve string/text data. Is this efficient in terms of performance or is there any other means that do not require the cursor ...Show All

• Visual Basic Cannot save my.settings if one of the setting fields is a sortedList

  The following gives me a null reference error. Setting: name = Recipe, type = SortedList, scope = User Code: my.settings.Recipe = new SortedList my.settings.Recipe.Add("aKey", "aString") my.settings.Save() < Null reference error occurrs here. I have tried (and failed) with many different approaches to use a sorted list in my.settings. I would love to know the correct way to do this. Steve, ...Show All