Nataraj S. Narayana's Q&A profile

• SQL Server opinion xp_fileexist

  Hi all, Sorry for spamming you with this, I thought it might be the best way to get your opinion on the topic. OVERVIEW: We should not use MS internal procedures, since MS has the right to change/remove them at will. Given that, should the following code be allowed, or not. If not, how does anyone suggest, handling checking for the existance of a file that has been given as a parameter to some T-SQL. --<this code is just an example, hence not neat etc.> SET NOCOUNT ON DECLARE @FilePath varchar ( 1024 ) SET @FilePath = 'D:\Sample Data\Files Processing UR ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions ClickOnce FireFox Replacement

  Hi, I have discovered that FireFox does not support ClickOnce, rather ClickOnce does not support FireFox at this point in time.  I realized the reason why was in all of FireFox's security it wont even allow the installer to access Windows System information, sometimes a thick thick lead wall can be a bad thing. Anyways, my question is is there anyway, to get around that problem with maybe a different installer   I think the problem comes when FireFox is the default browser, because even when running the Setup.exe file off of the local machine it fails but with IE set as defualt it runs with no problems. So is there a work around ...Show All

• Visual Basic AnalogTVTuningSpace and MSVidCtl

  I´m trying to develop a decent tv tuner/capture application (since there are no such apps, nowhere, I say) in Visual Basic 6.0. I´m using the MSVidCtl component together with the AnalogTVTuningSpace and IChannelTuneRequest object to achieve this, as described here:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/directx9_c/directX/htm/hostingthevideocontrolinavisualbasicform.asp  and here:  http://msdn.micro ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error when creating new Team Project

  I've worked through several resources onlnine to fix other errors in the project creation process and have just about got the New Team Project option working from Visula Studio, however I'm running into an error I can't find a solution for. In creating a project named Foo2, the creation process gets through the Currituck Module, handles some CSS and WorkItemType definitions and then throws an exception saying: ---begin Exception entry--- Time: 06/02/2005 08:36:59.706 Module: Engine Event Description: Task "Currituck.WITs" failed Exception Type: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Currituck.Package.CurrituckPcwFatalException Exception Message: Cannot fin ...Show All

• Windows Forms Customizing Setup dialogbox in msi?

  How can embed company logo in title section of setup dialog box   In Visual Studio go to the user interface for your install project, click to select one of the dialogs (e.g., Welcome), open up the Properties Window and set the value of the BannerBitmap property.  You should size the bitmap to fit across the top of the page,  ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista designer and project template support for C# Express Edition 2005.

  Hi, I have installed the SDK package, everything went fine except designer and project template support, there are no templates available when I want to create a new project. Should this be part of the sdk or do I need a separate installer package for this   bicmar wrote: Thank you for the answer. When you say ' Visual Studio 2005 designer extensions' are not supported in the Express edition, what does this mean   No visual design support at all , or just no templates, or ... And is this just for the moment or ...   There's no visual design support within the Vi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Creating Shortcuts For Applications/Files

  Hello Again Everyone, Once again I am asking for help from all you wonderful people here in the Visual Basic Forum. I have developed a nice small application that runs great and does everything I want it to do.  I would like to include code in the 'Installation' application that I created to create a normal application shortcut to place in the Startup Menu that points to the application I am installing and possibly to place a shortcut on the desktop during the 'Installation' execution if the user desires. I have looked on the forums and only find references to code samples in "C" and not VB.  I know there must be a way to do it in ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I make datagrid display the caption instead of the name of datatable column?

  I add my columns to my datatable in the following way: private static DataColumn AddColumn( DataTable dt, DataColumn dc, string name, Type type, string label, string def ) { dc = new DataColumn(name, type); //add name and type of datacolumn dc.Caption = label; //add label to datacolumn (what the users see) dc.DefaultValue = def; //add default value to data column dt.Columns.Add(dc); //add the datacolumn to the table return dc; //return the datacolumn to continue prossess }   I provide my data like this: AddColumn( dt, dc, "FName", typeof ( string ), "First Name", "" );   As you can see it'll ...Show All

• Smart Device Development GSM Network parameter information

  Hi all, Can somebody tell me what API's needs to be used for accessing GSM Network information in smartphone. I am basically looking for following pieces of information using an API call.   Current network MCC (Mobile country code) Current network MNC (Mobile Network code) Current network LAC (Location area code) IMSI of current SIM Also, How my application can stay notified of the changes in any of these parameters. Anybody solved this problem There are tons of Symbian samples, but no Windows Mobile native code ones... I thought I could access via Windows Remote Registry with the CellBroadcast key, but nothing is returned by ...Show All

• .NET Development Can I build a chat server/client app with .NET remoting?

  Hi, I want to build a chat application where clients with windows app clients can chat. Nothing very fancy like MS Messenger, just plain simple chat. Can I do this with remoting or I have to go to sockets (notvery familiar) The part that I have trouble understanding is how the server informs the clients when someone sends a message to A, B and C cilents. Is the clients have an open connection with the server or is polling Thanks in advanced.. Hey check out this chat site, http://chat.roselinsofia.com ubercoder wrote: Hi, I want to build a chat application where clients with windows app ...Show All

• .NET Development error with sytem.xml.dll following VB.net video tutorials

  hey all. im not sure whats wrong here, as i've been following the RSS feed reader video tutorials on the microsoft site for VB express, and have come across an error i just can't seem to get rid of. I have got as far as the section on downloading the MSDN rss feed, and i'm getting an error on the line: rssDoc.Load(rssStream) The error helper tells me: '>' is an unexpected token. The expected token is '"' or '''. Line 3, position 63. and the "immediate window" tells me: A first chance exception of type 'System.Xml.XmlException' occurred in System.Xml.dll i have manually typed in the code as i see it in ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to animate enumeration property (Rectangle.Visibility)?

  Hello,   Sorry for the dumb question, I novice in WPF yet.   Is any way to animate property that has enumeration type I try to animate Rectangle.Visibility My goal: show dotted rectangle when the mouse is over some grid cells. For this I placed rectangle to grid and trying to do such animation:         <Style TargetType="{x:Type Rectangle}">         <Setter Property="Stroke" Value="sc#1.000000, 0.250141, 0.333404, 0.884413"/>         <Setter Property="StrokeDash ...Show All

• Windows Forms ClickOnce Feature / Bug Fix Requests

  As many of the regulars on this forum know I have been toying around with the ClickOnce deployment feature in Whidbey Beta 2 for a few days now. And while there are alot of things I really like about the feature it still leaves a little bit to be desired. Below is a list of features / bug fixes that I would like to see implemented. I hope someone at MS is listening. ;) - Hopefully the bug where having spaces in the Application / Assembly names causes an invalid manifest to be generated can be fixed. This is number one on my list for a reason. - To allow for, dare I say it in this forum, cross-browser compliance ClickOnce's publish.htm should ...Show All

• Visual Basic Powerpoint 2003 w/ VB .Net 2003 (Display Slide Show In Setting)

  I have found the code that will allow me to run a Powerpoint file from within VB .Net but I haven't been able to find the property that will allow me to set the second monitor as the display monitor for the slide show. Need help! Moving question to Visual Basic General forum; this is a non-VSTO related question. Thanks! Mike Hernandez Community Program Manager VSTO Team Off-topic posts will be deleted ...Show All

• Visual C++ linking C++ with a database (ex. Access)

  hello all well for my project, I want to learn how to link a C++ program to communicate with a database, please  I need some detialed help about that, thanks I am using C++ Builder 5 thanks for help   Let me think about it <hmmmmm><2 hours later>... a guess: http://www.borland.com/   ...Show All