Ferryandi's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeCompatibilityAttribute error

  I have installed the september CTP of VS 2005 and the WinFx SDK. If I load any Avalon project and run it I get the following exception .. "Could not load type 'System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeCompatibilityAttribute' from assembly 'mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'.":"System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeCompatibilityAttribute" I have followed the correct installation process and I have .Net Fra ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) XmlPad doesn t work

  Hi Falks, I know tere is a lot of people who encounter the same probleme :   was able to successfully install the WinFX November CTP on one machine. However, on a VPC and on another machine it doesn't work. The XamlPad Won’t even come up, I'm getting the above error in my WinFX Windows Apps : “Error at element 'StaticExtension' in markup file '' : Binary format of the specified custom attribute was invalid..” however I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Passing One Var Between Two Forms Using Constructers?????

  I know it has been asked at least 3 Times.... The answers are way to general and assumming an Understanding of OOP to be helpful to me.... Could someone Please post some very simple EXECUTABLE Code that does this using two forms...... two buttons and One variable.... Thanks Hi There Ron Nash Works a Charm!!! Thanks ...Show All

• .NET Development Accessing Webservice from PDA very slow

  I have an application on PDA which talks to the webservice, whenever I am getting data from webservice in the form of Dataset the reponse from is slowed. Please help its very very urgent Hello Partha, Reviewing older postings still unresolved.... The internal serialization of a dataset object is supported by our webdata/database group. They will be able to explain why serialization of this object is taking too long. If you haven't alrea ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Express Silent install failure

  I am getting this error: Error: Action "LaunchLocalBootstrapAction" threw an exception during execution.  Error information reported during run: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap\setup.exe" finished and returned: 0 in this file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap\LOG\Files\SQLSetup0001_CBXP_Core.log Maybe that's not a fatal error, but the SQLExpress service does not get installed. I am tryi ...Show All

• Visual C++ error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _strncmp referenced in function "public: int __thiscall ...."

  Hi I am new to C++.  There is a project earlier written in VC++ 6.0.  I opened the same project in VS. NET 2005 and I am trying to compile.  The code compiles properly (with couple of warnings) but while linking I am getting unresolved external symbol errors like this: sha.lib(Sha.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol @_RTC_CheckStackVars@8 USBClient.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __RTC_Shutdow ...Show All

• SQL Server strange refresh of the parameter area

  Hi, I have a couple of parameters on a report that prompts the user. My problem is that I fill a value in the 1st parameter and to fill the next one I have to click twice on the input because of a strange refresh that my browser does when I left the 1st parameter. This is happening for all parameters, not only between the 1st and the 2nd. Do you have any idea how can I make to avoid this because is so unfreandly for the user! ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Highlighting a row in a grid, but not focusing into a cell.

  I have a grid which displays the results of a query. This grid is only for the purpose of diplaying the information - no data manipulation is being done. How can I change the behaviour of the grid so when the user clicks somewhere in the grid, the ROW will be highlighted, but no CELL will be seen as focused. Right now when I click into the grid, a cell gets focus and gets the 'frame' around it, and it looks like you can enter somethin ...Show All

• Windows Forms draft fonts in Crystal Report 9 VS .NET?

  how can i have a draft font in crystal reports for .net  everytime i print with draft fonts it always shows up as arial pls help me! Hi, Hmmm. quite interesting. I've encountered the same problem before, but the error there was that the default windows printer wasn't set to the printer being ...Show All

• Windows Forms parent form event which should trigger a routine in each child form without changing the focus

  I have an MDI app (VB.NET) that allows the user to create as many children as they want.  Each child is basically a panel that draws graphs depending on the properties the user chooses.  In addition, a TCPIP connection (in the parent  ...Show All

• Visual Basic Need some advice in solving....

  Hi guys, I have an application(MDI form with 4 forms in it). I want to do the following: 1. Checking whether my application is active(focused) among others(like winamp,word,etc) 2.If it is active, i need to find the number of minutes it was idle(ie. without mouse movements,etc.. I donno how to check for all the 4 forms and MDI form). 3. if the appln is idle for 2 minutes, i need to open another form from the appln(which has a ...Show All

• Visual C# Compiler warning CS0728

  I'm getting a compiler warning with the following code: foo = someOperation(); lock ( foo ) {    ...    internalmethod( ref foo );    ... }   The warning is: file.cs (3,1): warning CS0728: Possibly incorrect assignment to local 'foo' which is the argument to a using or lock statement.  The Dispose call or unlocking will happen on the original value of the local. Has the compiler not r ...Show All

• SQL Server Implementing message queue in SQL Server 2000

  I am implementing a message queue system in SQL Server 2000. My queue table looks something like this: [MessageId] [uniqueidentifier] NOT NULL, [MessageType] [uniqueidentifier] NOT NULL, [Status] [tinyint] NOT NULL, [SubmittedTime] [datetime] NOT NULL, [StartTime] [datetime] NOT NULL, [DispatchedTime] [datetime] NULL, [CompletedTime] [datetime] NULL, [MessageData] [image] NULL This is how I retrieve the next message for processing: SELE ...Show All

• .NET Development HOw can i connect o MS SQL server

  Hi everybody Can anybody write a code and tell me how can i access a table called KF_STATUS which is stored in MS SQL server2000. and it thas 3 fields called KF_ID ,KF_DATE, and KF_STATUS and how can i display contents of those fields Hi Garry, what youre asking is no problem in .Net. I think you'd benefit from a quickstart tutorial, see here: http://samples.gotdotnet.com/QuickStart/howto/default.aspx url=/quickstart/howto/doc/adoplus/ADO ...Show All

• SQL Server Output Varchar column

  Hi, I am dumping varchar(40) column from a OLE DB Source to Excel file but it is failing due this error [Excel Destination [239]] Error: Column "ItemDescription" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types. How can I resolve this issue Thanks You have to insert the Data Conversion transform to convert the column data type from DT_STR to DT_WSTR. Excel expects Unicode (DT_WSTR) strings. Than ...Show All