StLThumper's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Why isn't there a MS Access Forum?????

  Ok, I've looked all over and I can't find a forum for MS Access. I can find a forum on every other component of MS Office, but not Access. Am I blind Anyways, seeing as SQL Server is the next closest thing to Access I guess I'm going to have to pick your collective minds and see if you can help me. I've posted my question in another thread. Hope someone can help me. In this thread, however, I'm c ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET bug? - The Undo operation encountered a context that is different from what was applied in the corresponding Set operat

  Hello, I have tried to find a solution for this problem but so far have not found anything that applies to my exception. This is the message in my exception: Message="The Undo operation encountered a context that is different from what was applied in the corresponding Set operation. The possible cause is that a context was Set on the thread and not reverted(undone)." It occurs right after I perform any calls on a Socket that use ...Show All

• Visual C++ Displaying text in a dialog box

  Hi, my name is dinesh. iam new to windows programming. now iam developing an application in win32 platform. according to my application i want to display the status of the program. so i designed a dislog box to display the status in it. i designed a static text control and tried to change the static control caption dynamically. i tried to pass the value of the caption from outside of the callback proc of the dialog box. i used SetDlgI ...Show All

• Windows Forms event on scaning barcode

  hi , i am using vb.net 2003 and i want to scan barcodes with the scaner i want if the scaner completes the scaning doesn't matter what the length is the next textbox is focused i tried it on different events but could not find the&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error with my portal

  Hi  for every one, I have some problems with my Team System and also I can't see me portal, so, I need to change my DB MSDE to SQL Server any idea can I get that   Thanks,   Ray! Can you provide more information Your Project Portal should have automatically been installed on SQL Server not MSDE. What problems are you having ...Show All

• .NET Development MODI not working with Windows 2003 Server

  Hi, We are developing an application which uses MODI 11.0 type library, which ships with the MS Office 2003, for OCR functionalities. Everything seems to be working fine with the development machines which are having Windows XP SP2. Now we want to install the application in our server machine which runs Windows 2003 Server OS (with SP1). But the MODI doesnt seem to be working in the server machine. Everytime we try running the OCR on a docume ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX to differentiate between audio and video files

  Hi, I wanted to know if DirectX could be used to identify a media file as Audio/Video. Audio includes all the common formats in use and so does video. Basically, I would like to know if DirectX could be made use of to classify a media file as audio or video. Thanks, Raichur. Have looked at AudioVideoPlayback library. MSDN doesn't give exhaustive information about it. ...Show All

• Visual J# J2EE: HttpServlet, Filter and FilterChain

  Hi, This is perhaps more pertinent to Asp.Net but I'll ask it here anyhow. What would the equivalent of J2EE's HttpServlet be in Asp.Net and is there something like the Filter and FilterChain mechanism If so how are the filters layered, in a web.xml file or somehow else Try posting your query to following ASP.NET-JSP\Servlets Forum. http://forums.asp.net/45/ShowForum.aspx Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VB 2005 Express and game programming

  Is VB 2005 a capable language for use in game programming I'm a complete novice at programming at this time, and would eventually like to try to program some simple games for foreign language review and acquisition, and maybe even some 2D or 3D action games. Would the action games be beyond what VB 2005 could easily handle I've heard that most game developers learn C++ or C# instead of VB, but isn't VB a capable language for game development as ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Auto-Save of Manual Test Results in Beta2?

  I am using VSTT Beta2 and I have couple of Manual Tests defined. When I run the tests they run alright, but after I close the project I do not see any auto-saved *.trx files. Although the documentation from [ ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.v80.en/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.VSENT.v80.en/dv_vsetlt01/html/043df693-8af2-4a85-b4ba-876446057a82.htm ] states "Visual Studio Team Test automatically saves test results to your computer's hard disk when you run tests. " So wher ...Show All

• Windows Forms Formatting behavior - One machine different than another

  I have a grid which shows sales order data.  Using: Btrieve version 7.90 VS 2003 and 2003  Framework 1.0 and 1.1 The problem: the number 0 shows as 2.37776121520959 -154 in one column and  4.4131277577011 in another column of a datagrid on W2k but&n ...Show All

• Visual C++ How do I control the virtual print driver?

  hi, friends, how do I control the virtual print driver, use C++ language or Delphi. I totally have no idea of this, can anyone please kindly give me some suggestions Please use the newsgroups at http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups for such issues. Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• Visual C# How add row to dataset

  I have a WinForm with a grid on it. I would like to add 2 rows to the grid using the dataset. I would like to have this happen when I click a button. Upon adding each row I would like to put a value in a column called InvNum. My dataset is called DSInvoices and the table I am intersted in in this dataset is called Hours. The instance of the dataset on my form is called dSInvoices. Could someone tell me what code do I need in the click even ...Show All

• .NET Development Clarification on TraceSource/Trace

  I've been going back forth through the documentation and web searches, and haven't found a concise description of this stuff and hope someone can help me sort out the knots I've developed in my brain. From what I can tell, the tracesource class essentially replaces the traditional Trace class. If I add a listener to the trace section of my config file, I receive all the trace information to that listener (ie, calls to trace.write, trace.trace ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView databound throwing exception on row deleted

  Hi all, I'm using DataGridView to display a quite big csv file I need to manpulate. Csv data are stored in a simple List<Data>, where Data is a custom class which derives from INotifyPropertyChanged. I simply bind my List to a BindingSource, bound to the DataGridView as DataSource. Everything is fine, but I have a strange problem when deleting a row programmatically... this is the function used to remove rows: public static int RemoveSh ...Show All