mcclgn's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Advice sought on storing data between sessions

  What's the best way to store data between application sessions I'm using the built-in Settings to store user prefs, but that does not appear to be the way store other data. I could use a text file or binary; maybe even XML/SOAP. For exanple, I'd like to keep a list of searches or favorite folders, files or bookmarks. Suggestion would be appreciated. For this app., the data is typically file or folder paths. Thanks for the reply. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Auto-sized Labels within a SplitContainer

  I have a table where the column headers have a label and picture box in them. The picture box is used as a link for sorting by that column. In order to get both element into a single cell, I need to use some other type of container, so I choose a SplitContainer.  However, it doesn't seem like the SplitContainer honors the size of the objects within it. So if my column header text changes, the split container does not. This is a headache for localization. Is there a way to accomplish this Does the split container pass the width of it's contents up to the cell for auto-sizing and I'm accidently screwing it up Or should I use another con ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unable to connect to the database STS_Config

  Hi, The following error occured in the event log of our Team Foundation server. (single server installation) I've checked the connections to the database ... Any Idea Thanks, Arno #50070: Unable to connect to the database STS_Config on FOUNDATION.  Check the database connection information and make sure that the database server is running. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp . Arno, Sorry for the problems you are having. Can you tell me: Is this B3R or Dec CTP Was this a clean install Was Sharepoint re-installed ...Show All

• Visual Basic TextBox BackColor change OnFocus and LostFocus

  Hello, Is it possible to extend the TextBox class to include an event where the TextBox changes it's background color on focus and returns it to the default on lost focus Kind regards, Hello, Appreciate your answer. It works perfectly. Would the same solution apply with a form that has, say ten TextBoxes- I mean, repeating the same code for each one of the TextBoxes (TextBox1,....2,...3. etc) Kind regards, -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This newbie can't talk and can't walk. Embarrassing. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Yay, another question

  Heh hi again. I'm trying to open a MDIChild form from a child form, but I seem to be having trouble. How can I designate the parent by calling from a child Thanks Finished Code: Map^ newMDIChild = gcnew Map(); newMDIChild->MDIParent = this->ParentForm; newMDIChild->Show(); Works like a charm ;) ...Show All

• SQL Server installation bug found SQL Server 2005

  Hi! I had the earlier builds and this did not happen but: just downloaded SQL Server 2005 (RTM) from msdn When selecting to install integration services (amoungst other options), whilst installating it gives me an error saying I do not have admin privledges to install one of the .NET libraries/runtime files I cannot remember the file name at all im afraid. Error: 0x80131501 So I cancelled the install and just installed everything but the integration services... and it works fine now. I do not know if this is a bug but just thought I would let you know Issue resolved. see my new thread about installation issue resolved http://forum ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2k5 connection to SQL 2k

  So I posted this question here... http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=325966&SiteID=1 but perhaps that was the wrong forum. I have a new SQL2005 instance that is not able to connect to my old SQL2000 instance. However, I have many other instances of each and all the OTHER 2k5 instances can connect to the 2k instance above, and the 2k5 instance above is able to connect to all the OTHER 2k instances. I have been searching and uninstalling/reinstalling for almost a week now, and I'm approaching a deadline for getting the production system migrated to 2k5. Any help would be greatly appreciated. flyonthew ...Show All

• Visual Basic Rename a Table in MS Access using VB or SQL statement

  Hi all, How can I rename an MS Access table in VB or thro' SQL statement I have 2 clues as given below, but I am not able to get to use these ideas. These statements does not seem to refer the ADO library and hence, I do not know how to arrive at framing a program for these statements. Please help me in using these clues by guiding me how to frame a program around the statements or please let me know if there are any alternative ways. Clue 1: This creates a copy of the original table and you then delete the original leaving you with a newly named table. DoCmd.CopyObject, "myTableOld", acTable, "myTable" DoCmd.DeleteObject acTable, "myTable ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Managed DirectX

  Besides the 5 forums already there, a seperate Managed DirectX forum Or is the amount of people working with managed directx still too low Regards, Wytze Ok, Thanks for clarifying the reasoning behind this and I agree. Regards, Wytze ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What is the purpose of the standard categories of checkin notes?

  I can understand why a developer might want to add some notes to describe a changeset, but I can't see the purpose of the standard categories of: Code Reviewer Security Reviewer Performance Reviewer If you make it mandatory to provide these three types of notes before check-in are you envisaging that three different people will have to call by your desk and type-in some comments before you can submit your changeset Hopefully not! It would make more sense for you to simply type the name of the person who was responsible for performing these reviews in respect of the changes you are making. Is this the intent of this feature What are people ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Create A Book and/or Tutorial for 'Visual Web Developer Express Edition Beta'

  Create A Book and/or Tutorial for 'Visual Web Developer Express Edition Beta'. That would be very, very helpful. Thank you, CF  Thanks for the feedback -- there are several books for Visaul Web Developer Express Edition being written right now, and should be available by launch in november.  In the meantime check out the Visual Web Developer Express guided tour at http://beta.asp.net/guidedtour/ Thanks, Brian ...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 data files as sources. Thanks! Kervy KervyChoa wrote: I tried using perfmon to see what can be done, but I can't find the SQL Server: SSIS Pipeline Pe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions where is the "ConfigSample.exe" file?!

  Hello everyone. During this week I installed the VS EXPRESS with all his programs. After that I search my computer for a file called "ConfigSample.exe". this file install a few databases such as "PUBS", "Northwind" and etc... my question are: Does VS EXPRESS include the "ConfigSample.exe" file If no, Can I download it from the internet If Yes, from where Thanks for everyone who can help. Didi. You can download samples and sample databases. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=E719ECF7-9F46-4312-AF89-6AD8702E4E6E&am ...Show All

• Visual C++ DeviceIoControl does not work when query LCD brightness

  Hi, All I wrote a test program to get/set the LCD display brightness. I followed instructions on MSDN as http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/power/base/ioctl_video_query_supported_brightness.asp but it seems that DeviceIoControl with IOCTL_VIDEO_QUERY_SUPPORTED_BRIGHTNESS always fails and GetLastError() reports error code 2: system can not find the file specified; If I call DeviceIoControl with IOCTL_VIDEO_QUERY_DISPLAY_BRIGHTNESS, it succeeds but the number of bytes returned is zero. I don't know what is wrong. Can anyone explain why Thanks in advance. Chris below is the code of the test program: -- ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Extracting rotation/translation information from a transformation

  Is it possible to extract the rotation and translation matrices from a matrix that is the concatenation of the two, given that you don't have the rotation or the translation matrices available If so, how would you do this Thanks, Mike ...Show All