Frogmancomethagain's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums Fetching MSN Hotmail contact list

  I'm wondering how ringo and hi5 and alike (sites) implemented login functionalities to access the MSN contact list. Do I need to legally have a tie up with Hotmail to offer this service Or It's a webservice I can use Please advice, Wa-gee Not supported officially , that is. The scripts work by logging in to the server using sockets just like the official client does. The scripts will then get the contact list se ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Setting ASP.NET Configuration in IIS

  hi, im currently working in setup and deployment project using custom installation with System.Configuration.Install; a have already created several custom installation classes, but i have one problem. my deployment includes 2 different versions of .NET which is 1.1 and 2.0. i have created everything including modification of web.config, installation of databases, and Creating Website, Virtual Directory and Application Pool ...Show All

• Windows Forms .NET Framework and Windows Profiles

  Problem: We developed a VB.NET application using Visual Studios 2005 and are using table adapters (via the wizard) to bind the data to the forms. The program is using a hidden textbox field on the form as the key (a SQL identity field) to run stored procedures on an SQL 2000 server. With the issue we are having, the application opens the main form and can access data from the SQL server just fine. However, when trying to run the stored proced ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Why specify workspaces for Build type?

  Why should i specify the workspace while creating the Build type some observation: 1 i can select the solutions only from one workspace. 2 whosever mapped the project,his workspace is listed. So which workspace should i specify X, Y, Z Here is the related link in VSTF forum http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=98488   ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Web tests recording is disabled.

  VS2005TS RTM. When I start a new webtest VS automatically launches IE and I have to activate IE windows myself. The recorder buttons are all disabled (grayed) and surfing around does not result in anything in the project. If I close IE, VS still report "Recording in progress" and I have to click "Stop recording" but nothing reports to the project. Beta1 did work but I had the same problem with CTP August. Hi, can you let me know if there ...Show All

• Visual J# BufferedReader

  Hey all, I'm using BufferedReader to read a .txt file. The file is going to be continously updated and I want the buffered reader to read it as it is being updated. I reach a problem when it reaches the end and reads null, it goes through the exception and ends. How do I make it wait and listen for another line of text to be written I tried to wait() method but it seems to freeze the computer. Thanks try{ ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot create db diagram

  When trying to create a DB diagram on my local SQL Server 2005 db, I get the following error: cannot insert the value null into column "diagram_id" I have searched the web and can't seem to find anything on this. I just simply drag one table from my local db onto the diagram windows and try to Save it and that's what I get. I'm able to save diagrams on a networked SQL Server. Does anybody know how I can resolve this issue ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Adding a table at the end of the document

  Hi All, I'm writing an add-in for MS Word 2003 in VS.NET 2005 and i need to place a table at the end of the document. Can anyone help me in this regard Regards, Pavan Can you tell me how to add a hyperling to an image that is placed in a cell of a table ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows Form from within Internet Explorer

  Hi, Does anyone know how can I get my C#.NET windows form to launch from Internet Explorer Is this possible at all Thanks Dear, if you use a windows user control you can add it to the aspx screen by adding <object> tag <object id="anyID" classid="DllFileName.dll#Namespace.classname" VIEWASTEXT> ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Run a program from my program

  What C++ command should I use to run a program from mine. Example open a ".txt" file with notepad when I hit a button in my program. Use the system method. Search for it in msdn at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/_crt_system.2c_._wsystem.asp Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• SQL Server How to retrieve data from query and link the data to a data number?

  i'm doing a project on SQL Server 2005, i'm stack in searching the data and can't link the data in the data number.. can someone help mi with the programming code as i can search for the words in the table but i can't link with the data number.. because some tables inside contain only numbers so i have to search for the keyword and display the result(omim number) and link this result number to a table contain num ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Visual Studio Team Server as SourceSafe Replacement

  I am looking to replace/upgrade our SourceSafe 6.0 with and upgraded product. If I understand what I have read, the VSTS may be an option. My question is whether this product can be used with non-Microsoft files. For example, in addition to using SourceSafe for all of our VB projects, we store mainframe source code, VBScripts, etc. in our current database. Can the Team Server and Team Explorer be used to duplicate this functionality T ...Show All

• .NET Development Database files as an application document files.

  Is it possible to create a new SQL EXPRES database from inside the WindowsApplication of VB 2005 EXPRES code (equivalent to VB 6.0 - DAO.dll - 'CreateDatabase' method). ...Show All

• Visual C# passing a string (varchar) to a stored procedure

  Hello, I am using VS 2003 and SQL 2005. I can successfully pass an integer to a stored procedure and have it execute correctly, however when I try to pass a parameter with a string, it bombs out when trying to load my dataset. If I run the stored procedure directly on the server, it works great and returns the two rows, its just passing it in C# where it fails. It is a simple query looking for any row with the last name of "Brown". ...Show All

• Windows Forms making combobox read only

  I'm trying to make the comboboxes in my program read only so that the users can select an option but can not change the text or add options to the list.  I know how to do this in asp.net by using the .readonly property but c ...Show All