Joseph Karpinski's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Improving Debugging Performance

  I've got SQL CLR debugging going.  It works, mostly.  But it is variably slow.  Two processes seem to be the problem.  The first is the remote debugger (msvsmon.exe).  This one only seems to be problematic when starting debugging, and even then the problem is variable, but it pretty much hoses my box when it does have a problem (CPU pegs at 100% for quite some time).  In fact, I'd say it does this more often than no ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions What is the current build of beta 2?

  Hello, What is the current build of beta 2 I have beta2.050215-4400, is that the most recent one. Where in Microsoft site I can find numbers of latest builds, to be up to date Regards,ProJester. i installed some beta versions and now I can't seem to uninstall them, because it can't find some version of 2.0. do you have links to download these, especially Beta1 - 2.0.40607.16 Bet ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Semaphore for inter process syncronization? Does one exist?

  I need to syncronize two processes, and I need a semaphore. Does one of these exist in .NET CF I found a named mutex in OpenNetCF, however, not exactly what I was looking for. Appreciate any help, Thanks! If you are using .NET CF 2005, have you already checked out the built in System.Threading.Mutex Class that is meant for inter-process synchronization ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions button click Event, just can't get it!! HELP people

  i am in the process of teaching myself VB express basic, i am aiming to create a customer information database, for my company and i am getting abit stuck! Problem, i have created 2 forms, on my first form i have my customer information. i have created a button to open the additional form for my client file, and i would also like this button to copy information that has been entered into customer field on the first form and paste it onto t ...Show All

• .NET Development txt File partition

  Hi, I need to read a .txt file , partition it into smaller .txt files ,and then saving them. The partition process depends on finding the carriage return (enter) character. How can I doing that Thanks in advance , Aya. You might want to be careful doing the way that Kevin suggested as this will cause problems when reading large text files. His solution will read the entire text file into memory a ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro UPDATE vs REPLACE record locking

  The VFP 9.0 Help file shows the following: UPDATE - SQL Command ,Remarks, Tip: "When updating multiple records in a table opened for shared access, SQL UPDATE uses record locking, unlike the REPLACE command." Locking Data, REPLACE: Current record and all records from aliased fields UPDATE - SQL: Entire table These statements seem to conflict. The first leads one to believe that the UPDATE - SQL command would lock records and i ...Show All

• Visual C# Create Too Many Forms

  is there way to create form just when i want like vb6 form.show() shows the form but in C# when i want to show the for i have to use form frm = new form(); that create too many form so when i pass value i cant pass it to the certain form i want and other question if i have more than one form how i can pass the value to the form i want i hope that it was clear sorry for my bad english ...Show All

• Visual Studio How do I add an empty project folder?

  I am trying to add an empty folder "Entities" and create a template reference that is bound to that folder. I am having difficulty accomplishing this. I can create a project folder through an action (in my create solution recipe), but then how do I add the reference It keeps telling me that the folder does not exist (when I try to add the reference through the project template). It seems like this should be an easy task to c ...Show All

• .NET Development how to draw barchart in c#asp.net

  hi i am retreivind datas from my database and data's like students marks. i have to draw barchart for the marks, depans on the level of marks i want to draw the bar chart, so please give me coding to do this........... Two other options, use a 4th party control/component to do this, or use the extended YearIs2006PaintRectangle method. System.Object.Obfuscations.Components.WIndows.Controls.Item.Element.Object.Shape.R ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Web services via class library - how to diagram?

  We write a controller class library which our desktop and web UI shares (as they do fairly similar jobs). This controls communication to our web services, saving us having to write the same code for both apps. The problem is, the application diagram tool doesn't support class libraries. So now I've diagrammed my software architecture, what happens when I put this controller class library into my source Is the application diagram ...Show All

• Visual C# how to make Yahoo mess statusbar effect..

  if you have seen .. and probably you did.. the yahoo messenger windows statusbar effect.. when some one send you something the button for the associate window in statusbar gets.. orange.. Does anybody know how to d that ...Show All

• Visual C++ VCMAME: compiles with VC2003, fails with VC2005

  I'm trying to build the MAME source using Visual C++ 2005. I'm using the VCMAME project files from http://www.vcmame.net/ . I first built the project in Visual Studio 2003, then opened the project in VC++ 2005 and rebuilt. I only had to make a few modifications to the project, like adding _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE to silence a bunch of warnings. However, one of the source files (winalloc.c) implements their own memory handling functions so ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB 2005 Express upgrade from VB6

  I cannot upgrade a VB6 project in VB 2005 Express. The upgrade wizard opens and at the point where upgrading starts it thows and exception: "Unexpected exception occurred during upgrade engine operation: Not able to bind to the source (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8004000A (OLE_E_CANT_BINDTOSOURCE))" I tried the upgrade wizard on a simple VB6 project that contains 1 form with 1 command button on and the same message comes up. The VB ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System GCHandle exception when using work item interface in web application / web service

  Greetings, We are working on a web applaction that uses the WorkItem interface of TFS and we are getting an error that does not seem to make any since. First, the general architecture of the application: ------------------- --------------- | web application |--> | web service | ------------------- --------------- \ / -------------------------- | TFS WorkItem Interface | -------------------------- T ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS2005 intallation fails - The following component failed to install: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition Beta 2

  I am trying to install VS2005 Beta 2 on an XP Pro SP2 laptop. Nothing was intalled on this laptop before (no Framework, no VS).  It is a fresh laptop. VS2005 setup has only installed succefully .NET 2.0 Beta 2 framework and MSXML 6.0 Parser. The next component it tries to install is the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition Beta 2.  And this is where it chokes. The log shows the following: [11/17/05, ...Show All