naxtell's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Best way to launch a .net application (with parameters) from another .net app.

  I'm trying to launch a windows installed .net application - often with parameters - for instance using file associations - from another .net application. The obvious way to do that is, once you have the path: Process.Start(path, parameters); Although this does launch the app, there are some problems: 1. The lauched app. uses another 'Settings' file than when launching from the start menu. For instance if I save the form's location a ...Show All

• SQL Server Slow Startup from Idle

  Is it possible to stop the server from going to sleep when it is idle to improve responsiveness to new connections I've got the same problem. I'm going to make a stupid thread in my app that dumps stuff into a table periodically to keep SQL Express awake. I'll let you know how well it works. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to use DEBUGMSG macro?

  Hi, What is the TRACE like method for Smartphone In debugging process I want ot put some message to Output window, is that DEBUGMSG macro is appropriate one In order to use that macro, what kind of header file I should include I included the dbgapi.h file, but it doesn't work. So how to use this kind of trace method Thanks. Well, there is nothing wrong with your code. The problem is that Windows CE ...Show All

• Visual Basic Database question....

  In my VB 6 app I used an access DB with 77 tables each representing a different company products. They are ALL the same format just different company names for each table. In VS2005 I would like to use just one table and have about 3000 records with the column MFG. Obvioulsy this makes for quick response from the program. Here's the problem.... In the old app I populated a combobox with each table so the user could quickly navigate to the ...Show All

• SQL Server Para F. Dwarf o personas de habla hispana (crear un data desde código)

  Hola, lo que quiero hacer es, al igual que se puede con el Visual Basic 6, poder crear un data source desde codigo, junto con un adodc i un recordset, para poder encontrar un valor de un campo (de cada fila del datasource principal), que desde el datasource principal y mediante la expresion sql, me seria muy dificil (ya que hace muchos calculos, accede a muchas tablas, etc.). Si alguien sabe como hacerlo que me lo diga, o al menos, como hacer p ...Show All

• SQL Server Encrypting passwords

  A friend of my self asked me how he can save a password not as clear text. He wanted to encrypt the password and save the encrypted string in the database. How can he do this Maybe somebody can help me here. Regards Markus What does your friend need the password for If it is used for authentication (to verify that another password submitted is matching the password stored in the database), then you can ha ...Show All

• .NET Development How to handle Windows Users in an application (C# or VB)

  Hi all, I had a problem in fetching / setting Windows Users and Groups by coding. Let's assume the user of my program will login as Administrator, the program needs to check whether a certain user with certain privileges exists.  If such user is not found, the program will create such user with correct privileges. How can I achieve this functionality Any kind of help or piece of idea are welcome! I code in C# or VB 2005 release version, ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. frames per second benchmark for games

  Hello all,       I'm John, a newbie to real-world apllication development.  My experience so far has been in the classroom working with C/C++, no DirectX knowledge yet.  I would l ike to write a program that will allow users to benchmark games by analyzing frames per second (FPS).  My main hurdle at this point is retrieving the FPS information from the games.  I believe the answer lies in un ...Show All

• Visual C# Class Designer in Express?

  I'm a developer by profession, but it looks to me like Visual C# Express has enough functionality for the little things I want to work on at home ;-) However, I was reading the 'Product Activity Enhancements' page at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/2005/overview/productivity/ and I can't find the Class Designer functionality as depicted (where there's a grid of the class details and a toolbox with 'Class', 'Inherit' etc. Can anyone confi ...Show All

• SQL Server Copy Table from another table

  The simplest method of all for doing this is to simply use the SELECT INTO statment. Here's how: Suppose you're trying to copy the authors table of the Pubs SQL Server database with data and structure. To do so simply use this SQL script: ----------------------- USE Pubs GO SELECT * INTO copy_of_authors FROM authors GO ----------------------- Executing this script will create a table named copy_of_authors containing all data from the authors ta ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't connect with Visual Web Developer Express

  When attempting to use VWD Express' built-in web server I recieve the following error in browser window: An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) I've done the following: ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to show a form depending on ListView selected item

  Hi all, I have several C# Winforms created in my project. On the Main menu, there is a listview that lists all my contents. Each item when clicked should show the corresponding winform that has been created. For example, item Account will point to the form named "Account" and item Inventory will point to form named "Inventory". And I have ten items listed. How can I programmatically show that form once I click on the listv ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is SQL Server 2005 June CTP compatible with VSTS Beta 2?

  Hi all, We have been trying unsuccessfully to install VSTS for quite a while now (error 32000). Everytime we installed SQL Server 2005 April CTP, we always had "missing" files errors during the setup process for which we had to say "Ignore and continue". Is the June CTP compatible with VSTS Beta 2 Anyone installed VSTS with success using the SQL Server 2005 June CTP Is it installing "smootly" without "files missing" errors Thanks for ...Show All

• SQL Server Management Studio and Enterprise Manager on Same Machine?

  Greetings! Do any of you know whether or not it's possible to install Enterprise Manager onto a box with SQL Server 2005 installed I've come across a couple of problems when trying to admin some SQL 2000 servers, so I need EM somewhere. Also, it's incompatable with SQL Server 7.0, of course, and I've got two of them to admin as well. Thanks! Yes, it's OK, I've done it. But it's not recommended for a produc ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to embed child datagrid into its parent in windows forms

  Hi  I want to embed a child datagrid into its parent grid in windows forms so that the user can select some rows in the child for processing. I tried adding a relationship between the two tables but the datagrid shows a + sign which takes me to a new datagrid. I want to display the child datagrid into the parent grid. I searched a lot in the net and could find one similar in Sync fusion. I don’t want to purchase the same ...Show All