zebbo's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Rant: .Net Code Access Security Sucks!

  As a certified ISV VB developer who has made a living over the past ten years selling WinForms software, I have seen the onerous stuff in both the VB6 and the VB.Net environments. In VB6 we had the DLL hell problem. Deployment could be difficult if the buyers of our programs had old versions of various Microsoft DLL's. But DLL hell is a minor pain compared to .Net Code Access Security (a.k.a .Net trust or CAS). The people who conceived the ...Show All

• .NET Development calling web service from vb6 error

  on the client (in the vb application) How are you using the web service from VB Did you register the generated proxy with COM interop ...Show All

• Windows Forms Making Child controls selectable in designer

      Does anyone know how to make a Child control of a user control selectable in Designer Like in the SplitContainer control, I can select the whole control, or one of the two panels, or the splitter. Thank you, Aleksey. There's lots you can do design-time, and this article shows how to enhance design-time support for your controls. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en- ...Show All

• Windows Forms Editing datagrid at runtime in window application

  can we edit the datagrid at runtime in window application using vb.net. if possible. how give me sample coding ...Show All

• SQL Server Execute package on a for each loop container

  Hi. I am running a package using 'execute package' inside a for each loop file iteration. I have to iterate through some 10,000s of files to ETL source data, a resonably complex package. I want to set going and get some sleep but every 200 files or so I get a memory exhausted error and the task fails. Is there a short easy fix to refresh memory each iteration. If so please let me know. Just ignoring the failure at task level won't refresh the me ...Show All

• Visual Basic running apps (shell command)

  hi, just wondering what i have done wrong in visual basic 2005 (.net). i used to be able to (vb6) go shell("appnamehere.exe") and it would run if i had the app in the same dir. now i cant seem to work out where i should put the exe when you run the setup of the project i published its like it installs itself and runs in temp or sumthin how do i make it so it just runs from its folder and can run the apps via the shell command ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Do I need WSE3 if I have WCF

  Do I need to download and install Web Enhancements Version 3.0 if I have the latest version of WinFX (Windows Comunication Foundation)   thanks Ralph Absolutely not. WSE 2.0 and WSE 3.0 provide WS* support for VS 2003/.NET 1.1 and VS 2005/.NET 2.0 (respectively)...and WSE is not a complete implementation of the specifications, but supports many security specifications (WS-Security, WS-Trust, ...Show All

• SQL Server Need distributed service broker sample

  Niels, The two link http://staff.develop.om/nielsb/code/routing2.zip http://staff.develop.com/nielsb/code/routing-aprilctp.zip still do not work (a connection with the server could not be established). I do not know if the server is down, or is the document no longer for pulic domain Appreciate your reply ...Show All

• SQL Server Thread was being aborted

  I receive the following errors while browsing the http://server/reports page.Please help me to resolve the issue. Error1. Thread was being aborted. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.Threading.ThreadAbortException: Thread was being aborted. Source Error ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Noob Combobox ?

  Hello, I have a combobox on one form with a list of options. It's set to dropdownlist . I want to have the selected Item in the combobox replace the text in a label on another form. Can someone give me an example of how to do this Thanks Jerry, LA-3243 Jerry wrote: I have a combobox on one form with a list of options. It's set to dropdownlist . I want to have the selected Item in the combobox r ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Compare differences between branches?

  Hi, I am wondering how to compare the differences between source branches. I have tried using the "tf difference" command but I haven't been successful with it at a branch level, only at a file level. Cheers, Clint If you sync both branches onto one machine, there are lots of 3rd-party tools that can compare the file trees: I like UltraCompare for this. Obviously not ideal since there's no tie-in to the version control s ...Show All

• SQL Server What does "Lock Denials" mean in Analysis Services

  Dear Anyone, Theres a counter in perfmon called "Lock Denials" under the Analysis Services counters. What does it mean if you get counts under this. Our server seem to be getting about 4 or 6 during heavy processing time of cube partitions and dimensions. Thanks, Joseph Internal processing operation is trying to acquire a lock. If it is denied of so it will probably wait and will try to acquire it again. You can t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Hi I need a math expert

  Hi i need some help building an advanced calculator using vb .net 1st i want to calculate the logarithm and the ln; i used math.log(x) but it returned a number different than the one i get using the windows calculator. Also i need to calculate sin^-1(x) but i cannotmake it 2nd i need a help with keypresses. i made my codes in the form_keypress but when i click on any button it focuses and then the keypress doesn't work and when i press enter th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Using Existing SharePoint Portal Server

  Hi, I have an existing corporate SharePoint Portal Server.  Is it possible to install TFS on one box and have it use the corporate SharePoint Portal Server for it's sites Thanks! This is a frequently requested feature - but unfortunately we don't support it at the moment. We're considering what options we have to support this in the future at the moment ...Show All

• Windows Forms Application with its unique file type...

  I am using VB.net. My application currently saves to and retrieves its data from a .txt file (stroring the contents, the states of every items, components of my application). I see other applications save to and retrieve their data from compiled files, with their own/ unique file types e.g. Photoshop --> .psd). How to achieve that - could somebody please tell me the solution (I know my current solution is not the best since I see no other app ...Show All