Steve Hirth's Q&A profile

• SQL Server SQL 2005 Mobile loading 2003 Cabs

  I am moving a VS 2003 Pocket PC app to VS 2005 and when I deploy the app from Visuyal Studio 2005 two sqlce cabs are deployed (in addition to the sqlce30 ones) namely sqlce20.dev.ppc.wce4.armv4.CAB and sqlce20.ppc.wce4.armv4.CAB. Now as I have documented in another thread ( SQL 2005 Mobile : The file is not a valid database file ) this gives me problems when I want to access the database being produced by replication. So I'm trying t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Same or Different? Visual Basic 2005 and Visual Studio 2005

  Still being relatively new to the whole VB world I am confused by something. Is Visual Basic 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 the same thing or different animals all together The reason I ask is, I have checked out some books from the library, I'm trying to teach myself this stuff. One of the books I got was Mastering Visual Basic 2005, where I thought I was getting something for Visual Studio 2005. If the two programs are different, then I don' ...Show All

• Visual C# byte to integer conversion - client server programming

  hello... I have written a client in java and a server in C#... when i write those programes in my computer, opening same port and listening to same IP...everything works fine. But when I move my server to another computer(also running win XP pro), at one point of the communication, i need to make multiple readings from server on integer value sent by client. The way i did it is by converting the integer into 4 bytes BYTE, and send it ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Windows Media - Live Broadcasting.

  Hello, I'm using windows media encoder SDK to broadcast live video from a capture card (Osprey).  But the live video is 6 to 12 seconds delayed.  Please let me know if you have a solution to reduce the delay or any other technology, which gives live video without delay. All I'm looking for is to broadcast video LIVE from a capture card with zero delay. Thanks in advance. Don't forget that video encoders like WMV, uses Intra f ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How can I persist the Checked list in Test Manager?

  When the Test Manager window is closed, all checked tests revert to an unchecked state.  I would like to persist this info from one session to the next.  How can I do that We don't persist the checked state between IDE sessions. Sorry :( If you submit a bug on MSDN feedback centre, we take a look at it for our next version. ...Show All

• .NET Development Client information available to server

  Hi, I have an remoted object served by IIS.  I'm looking to find out what information I can get about the client that has connected or is making a particular method call. I saw an MSDN article saying that I could use System.Web.HttpContext.* to get some information about the client, but I'm unable to use .HttpContext for some reason.  All I get available to me under the System.Web namespace is ASPNetHostingPermission, ASPNetHostingP ...Show All

• Visual C++ Importing class from dll

  Hi My problem is that I cannot import a class from a dll without an import library. Thank You, Attila. Just a few more details: I have found, and can use LoadLibrary, GetProcAddress etc. functions, but only for importing functions. What is the name of the function I should use instead of GetProcAddress for importing classes from my dll thanx, Attila ...Show All

• .NET Development Help on UserControl for simple value / unit editing

  I have a simple VB.NET class called Temperature.  It has two private members; _val and _unit (_unit is an enumerated type, TemperatureUnit, defined above the Temperature class).  There are a pair of public properties TheUnit and TheValue to access them. I also have a simple VB.NET user control that has a text box (actually a modified text box that only accepts valid numeric syntax) and a combo-box DropDownList that corrospond ...Show All

• Visual Basic overwriting in a text file

  Hi! I have the following problem - I have a text file called Settings.txt in this form: some data... [path]c:\mypath\blahblah\ some more data... Now, I have to overwrite this text file so that it can contain another path. Simple, but complicated :) Of course, the path I need to insert is inserted from the application, and it's a string. Anyway, the result should be something like this: some data... [path]c:\new ...Show All

• SQL Server Can a Data Flow Task mimic Bulk Insert?

  Hi Guys, The way I understand a Data Flow Task is that it inserts the rows from the source to destination one by one. Is there a way to make it act like a bulk insert task We have been experiencing performance issues when inserting a lot of rows from one table to another. If there's no way to actually do it, can a bulk insert task functionality be scripted Coz what I need is a table to table insert, and the bulk insert task only accepts d ...Show All

• .NET Development How do i secure my DLL from being spoofed

  Hi, i have this model. a wndows application made up of  GUI and 3 DLLS DLL perform the presentation layer duties. DLL2 is the business layer and DLL3 is th DATA acess layer... Now DLL3, is encrypted, obfuscared etc... it has a unique serivce acount (single user account and password) to access the database. The acount info are embded within the DLL.   What is wrong with this model   What can i do to improve it or to prevent so ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Using color dialog on form

  Was VB6, now starting with Express. How do I place a color dialog on a form, or where do I look for the 'how-to' information When I try to add a dialog it is displayed 'under' the form being designed, but next step (or prior step) is not obvious. Help does not seem to answer this type of question. Remove the ColorDialog1 off your form, and just call something like the following in a Button click or Menu click event. Private Sub but ...Show All

• .NET Development Side by side execution +COM components

  Hi, I have created one com component using .Net framework 1.1 which i am calling in VB application. It is working fine. Now I installed framework 2.0. When I am trying to call this COM component using .Net application it is working fine. But when I am trying to call this COM comp. using my VB application it is now working. It is throwing exception. Root of problem which i think is when I am calling this COM comp. using VB, Framwork 2.0 is gettin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Example Server

  There should be a server for public use (of Team Foundation) for evaluation of the product. Someone should do it! The VPC was handed out at TechEd last week. I was told that it will be available for MSDN subscribers to download some time this month. ...Show All

• .NET Development Is it necessary for me to learn .NET Framework?

  I am studying vb.net now,and i am eager to be an excellent vb.net programmer. So i want to know that is it necessary to learn .net framework. Thanks! In the .NET World, the language less important as compared the Framework since language just exposes the capabilites of the framework. Knowing the framework is extremely important and the language is just a means to use the framework. Omce you have a good understanding of the framework, ...Show All