KYoung's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions OOOPs wrong uninstall

  I unistalled .net framework ver 2 beta 1 before uninstalling CTP of Sql express now I can no longer uninstall sql express should I just reinstall .net 2.0 beta 2 and then uninstall SQL Express and everything else.  Thanks Please try to re-install Framework back before trying uninstallation. The order to uninstall SQL components matter as well. It is order of SQL express first, SQL tool and SQL native c ...Show All

• Windows Forms SQL Server Bugaboo

  Hi Gang! Here's the skinny: I am working on a simple db app that reads and updates a db on SQL Server 7.  When I ONLY have the connection string in the code, I can connect just fine.  When I add code to manipulate data, I lo ...Show All

• .NET Development Serial data to a text box

  Hi I am just starting out with C#. All i want to do is collect data from the serial port and show it on my form Text box etc. Eventually I want to save the data to a file. I have created a form with a button and a textbox, plus serialPort1 tool. The following does not build private void button1_Click( object sender, EventArgs e) { textBox1.Text = serialPort1.ReadExisting; ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Where is d3dim.lib, d3drm.lib, dsound3d.lib?

  My questions: 1) My book ("Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus ed1" ) teaches DirectX 8.1 SDK. Is it fine to have that SDK on for ease-of-understanding w/ the book, or use the updated DirectX 9.0c SDK 2) Relating to DirectX 8.1 SDK, the book says I need the following library files: ddraw.lib dsound.lib dinput.lib dsetup.lib dplayx.lib Now, the next three are nowhere to be found in the library folder: d3dim.lib   d3drm.lib ds ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot open database "eBayTrader" requested by the login. The login failed.

  Hello. I'm using Visual Web Developer, .NET Framework 2.0, ASP.NET 20., IIS 5.1. on Windows XP Pro SP2. I have assigned every possible user i can think of full permissions to the web folder, all of the subfolders, and the database files. This includes Administrator, Administrator Groups, ASPNET user, IUSR_Machine, Interner guest account, Network Group, Network Service Group, Power Users Group, Users. I'm logged on as administrator. W ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Needed help regarding VFP 9 Installation....

  Hi, I've installed the VFP 9.0 in a Win XP(SP 2) environment. Though I've installed I'm still unable to use any of the wizards or the sample files provided. Even i'm unable to invoke the help. When I press F1 the message " out of memory.... swtich to...." appears. When I invoke the wizards, "File corrupted...." sort of message appears. Can anyone help me out. Thanks in advance... Markish >> I'v ...Show All

• Smart Device Development ERROR in RDA.PULL

      [code]     Private Sub create_DB()         If File.Exists("STAFF.sdf") Then             File.Delete("STAFF.sdf")         End If         Dim connStr As String = "Data Source = STAFF.sdf"         Dim engine As New Sq ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Check In Comment

  Is there a setting to require a non-blank Check In Comment I'd rather not create a check in policy for a user defined note called "Comment." Thank you very much. Here is a link referenced from JManning's blog that gives a solution file to create the CheckInCommentsPolicy.dll with instructions on how to configure. http://blogs.vertigosoftware.com/teamsystem/archive/2006/02/27/2302.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Basic Export data to excel

  What code do I need in VB6 to take numbers from boxes in my display and append them to the end of a excel sheet , i would like to do it once per day and have it just added onto the end, so that I can graph the data later. Thanks Ryan, from http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Programming_Languages/Visual_Basic/Q_21195163.html Write (appends data to an existing file): Dim intFileHandle As Intege ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Mail

  Dear Professional, I'm writing a vb program which try to use SQL mail to send an email to Outlook client. It is including document path (e.g. http://server01/document/Management And Design.doc) in the email content. When received email on the client side, it is found that the document path is broken and cannot be opened directly by double click the link. Is there any way to sove this problem Thank you, Cindy ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Hyperthreading and CPU-based T&L

  I'm testing our game on a hyper-threading P5 with an Intel "rasterize-only" graphics chip. When I bring up the task manager, I only get 50% cpu utilization as the game is only really using a single thread. However, it seems like there should be a way to have the DirectX driver do its vertex processing in its own thread. Is there a good way to accomplish this Since the CPU has to do all the transform and lighting on this type of sys ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Custom FxCop rule for detecting empty catch blocks?

  Hi, I'm looking for a custom rule that checks if there are empty catch blocks in a method. If you know of something like this that already exists, that would be great. If you have pointers on how to implement such a rule, that would be great too.   Thanx, -KC The easiest way to write a check would look like this: 1) foreach over all Method.Instructions 2) On encountering an instruction wh ...Show All

• Smart Device Development transfer data to pda

  hi  i want to write an application that transfer data from desktop computer to the pda on remote location through the GPRS connection hwo to do that. ok thaks for reply. will i use the normal .netclasses for the network programming as system.net and receive files on pda. and if i want to test that on the emulator pocket pc 2002 with .net will it work. ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB express edition with odbc connection

  I want to connct through odbc in express edition .........can any one help me Price, If you are going to refer a user to the documentation please be so kind as to give a reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemdataoledboledbconnectionclasstopic.asp ...Show All

• .NET Development Problems with Network Stream and Threading - please help.

  Hi folks, i have threads that are used to retrieve any data from a client after a client connects to the listener. When i try to get the server to close all connections, i do that but after it finishes closing all, it then crashes on a StreamReader.ReadLine() call. how do i make it so that when the TcpClient is closed, then thread stop correctly The StartListening method kicks it all off. Note: I've left out some private properties to ...Show All