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• .NET Development Smart Client State Listener

  Hello... I need to write a Smart Client application that has live update capability. Problem is, I'm more of a web guy, and I've never had to write anything as complex as updating a UI according to what's happening to a back-end data base... Does anyone have any good examples of this..someone here in the office suggested remoting... any help would be appreciated!   Merry Christmas doug ...Show All

• Visual C# ProcessStartInfo.Start() problem

  I have a simple application that takes a folder path and open in the windows explorer. Here is the code i use Process p = new Process(); p.StartInfo.FileName = "explorer.exe"; p.StartInfo.Arguments = strFilePath; p.Start(); The problem is that when the filepath contains spaces it works just fine on my xp machine but on my clients machine which use windows 2000 the application fthrows the exception filenotfound. I ...Show All

• .NET Development IE & Internet Explorer

  Ok... I'm curious how you can manipulate Internet Explorer via the .NET framework. I've searched for a long time through the object browser and I couldn't find anything that looked right. Do you have to use COM Regards, Chris the Newbie I'm using the dotnet bandobject too, and DOM through the 'Explorer' (of type ShdocVw.WebBrowserClass) property of the band object. Here are some links about this webbrowser ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Lost Source Control Output Window in RTM

  I've seemed to have lost the source control output window using the RTM version of TFS. It was there at one time but no longer present. After opening my VSTF bound solution, nothing is in the "Show output from:" combo box in the Visual Studio 2005 output window. Can someone help me get back the "Source Control - Team Foundation" item Thanks. An interesting twist - If you install the VS ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem with displaying dates

  Hi ! I am new to VB .NET. I bound a textbox with a datetime type column of my sql server 2000 database. when I run the application the text box shows the date but it also adds time to the text box. I want to display the date only. Please help me. Thanks for reply, but as I told u I am new to VB .NET so please describe ur reply through an example so that i can understand it. Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) DockPanel Width Limited by Bitmap effect?

  Hi all, Ive been struggling to make a dockpanel component wider than around 900 pixels - im using one as a header on my application - it therefore needs to expand to fill the full width of the application. It seems to be limited by the application of a BitmapEffect drop shadow. For example with the followign code the dockpanel downt paint anywhere near 1700 pixels wide, but when i comment out the bitmap effect element the panel fills the wid ...Show All

• Visual C++ Microsoft Dynamic Link Libraries (dlls) - What ones must be given to the end user?

  Compiler: Visual Studio.NET 2002 Hi everyone, You will probably think I am a bit dim for asking this question but it is one that does confuse me. How do I know what standard Microsoft dlls (Dynamic Link Libraries) must be sent out with my software so Windows users (even the previous Windows release users) can use my programs I was going to link statically (as I got the impression that doing so would automatically put the dll in t ...Show All

• Windows Forms Update of Projects

  I am implementing an UpdateProject method.  If I do it similiar to the UpdateTasks method, that requires a DataSet to be passed back.  Using this pattern, updating a project by sending the entire DataSet back could before _very_ expensive if yo ...Show All

• SQL Server Upgrading mirrored databases

  I am in the process of architecting SQL 2005 HA options and of course mirroring is at the top of the list. Does anybody know what the requirements are regarding upgrading mirrored databases, for example, applying hotfixes and service packs Is it a requirement for the principal and mirror (and witness if applicable) to be at the same build level Is there any requirement to upgrade one first and then the other as there is with replication topologi ...Show All

• Smart Device Development WinCE4.2 in VS.NET2005

  Hi I am building my application with Visual Studio 2005, but I need to run it in WinCE4.2 too. Can someone give me a hint how to deploy Visual Studio 2005 solutions in WinCE4.2 Thanks in advance You can not as generic Windows CE 4.2 is not supported by VS 2005. NETCF V2 SP1 would add runtime support for it, but no support in VS 2005 will be added. Note: if by “Windows CE 4.2” you mean “Pocket PC ...Show All

• Visual Basic Creating IIS virtual directory from VB2005?

  Is anyone aware of a method of getting IIS to create a virtual directory (and ideally set permissions etc) from a VB2005 winforms app I am guessing not or it would involve an unjustified amount of remote-control code. If anyone has any ideas please reply.. many thanks. I probably only need a (qualified) "no don't bother" answer on this folks. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Time Log for Customized Tasks

  Hey all, I have implemented a few customized tasks in our team build. Everything works well, but I would like to see if there's a way to know how much time these tasks take. I checked the Build Summary and Steps report, but it doesn't have the time information for the customized tasks. I think I would have to modify the tasks so that they log the information in the report when they are run. Does anyone know how to do that thanks ...Show All

• .NET Development SqlConnection System.ArgumentException: Invalid SSPI packet size.

  When using a SQL Connection to try and connect to a SQL Server 2000 database I get a "System.ArgumentException: Invalid SSPI packet size" exception.  About 10 people have a working version of the application which does not throw this exception, and one person has a broken version which does throw the above exception.  Here is the stack trace: System.ArgumentException: Invalid SSPI packet size.    at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsP ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions No output from Debug.WriteLine

  Hi, I must have changed something in VB. My Debug.WriteLine("What ever") statements no longer produce any output in the Output window. The window is blank! I would appreciate help in how to get Debug.WriteLine working once again, thanks. I'd need to check in Express but in VSTS it is producing the output in the output window whether I use Debug.writeline or Console.writeline. The dropdown at the top of this window show outp ...Show All

• SQL Server How to avoid having locked tables during update in sql server 2005?

  We are running a shopping mall in Korea and got a database including a table of 4 million product prices, which is to be updated hourly basis.  Updating 4million records requires at least 10 minutes to complete. During the update, our shopping mall exposed to customers does not respond quickly in fact very very slowly and we investigated and found out that many tables of SQL database during the update were being locked.  As you know, s ...Show All