jcraigue's Q&A profile

• .NET Development using()

  hi, What is the best way to rewrite this method with the keyword using() I know I can use it for the connection and command.   public int EmployeeDetailsAdd( string strFirstName, string strLastName, string strTitle, DateTime dtBirthDate, string strNotes) { string strSQL = "usp_EmployeeDetailsAdd"; string strConn = clsDataHandler.GetConnectionString; try { SqlConnection oCon = new SqlConnection(strConn); SqlCommand oCmd = new SqlCommand(strSQL, oCon); oCmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure; oCmd.Parameters.Add("@FirstName", SqlDbType.NVarChar, 10); oCmd.Paramete ...Show All

• Windows Forms Terrarium Server Temporary Difficulties

  I am trying to access the terrarium server without much luck. I get the following message on the screen. The Terrarium server is experiencing temporary difficulties.  This is why you are probably not receiving any animals.  Please bear with us while we get the issue resolved. I do not know if this problem is truly with the server or if it is  ...Show All

• Visual C# favourites in web browser

  does anyone Know how to add favourites for a web browser. Do you mean you're making a web browser and want the user to be able to save favourites If so, you could use an SQL database or even an XML file. ...Show All

• Visual C# C# in 21 Days

  C# in 21 days is ok for a newbie but it seems to leave out some important novice topics on C#...I think its a little two basic...So i am wondering whats a good solid book that goes over most of all topic dealing in C# from inputing vairbles to screens, and advanced class and struct interface implementation...It almost seems that i have better advanced skills than simple basics, from the learnings in this book Any suggestions or does practice make almost perfect Hi, In my opinion the following two books are good for understanding advanced concepts and internals of .NET Framework: 1. Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programm ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS.NET 2005 (June) fails to install SQL 2005 Express?

  Hello, Thanks for reviewing my question.  I had VS.NET 2005 Beta 2 installed on my PC and decided to uninstall it (hopefully in order) in order to install the VS.NET 2005 (June CTP). Everything seems to install expect for the SQL Express.  I uninstalled everything and installed the SQL 2005 (June CTP) thinking I would use this instead of express but VS.NET 2005 didn't install.  And, of course, I have read their not compatible. So, I am back to square one.  I have run the cleanup tool but it doesn't seem to do anything. Any suggestions is appreciated. Thanks for your time. Peter I had this ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Debugging and deployment problems on WM5.0

  Hello I have a couple of questions I can't figure out on my own. I've written a program that runs fine when I use the PocketPc 2003 emulator. It also builds for smartphone 2003 and both smartphone/pocketpc WM5.0. The problem is that it doesn't run on other emulators than the pocketpc2003. When trying to run any of the other versions I get: Data Abort: Thread=9798b6a0 Proc=80fc7010 'PhotoEditor.exe' AKY=00008001 PC=000988cc(PhotoEditor.exe+0x000888cc) RA=00098a1c(PhotoEditor.exe+0x00088a1c) BVA=10c110a5 FSR=00000405 RaiseException: Thread=9798b6a0 Proc=80fc7010 'PhotoEditor.exe' My second issue is this. I have a qtek 8310 as my target device ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Distorted texture after lost/reset device

  Hi, I'm drawing a textured mesh using DrawIndexedPrimitive, using an effect interface. After a windowed/full screen toggle the texture appears distorted. Interestingly when I draw another mesh in wireframe mode in the same render call the problem doesn't occur. Can somebody help Nico Depending on where you load the textures to, you need to release them and recreate them. Make sure that you are properly handling them. Look at the Samples in the DirectX SDK install directory and also under lost devices in the documentation. It explains clearly how you must handle a lost device and how to reset it. I hope thi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFSSERVICE needs to be a member of Enterprise Admins - problems accessing http://localhost

  I had problems accessing http://localhost on the Data/App tier of my Team Foundation Server after a clean install of VSTS Beta3 - Refresh on Windows Server 2003 with Active Directory enabled. I followed exactly the instructions in the Single-Server Deployment Checklist. The problem was resolved by making TFSSERVICE a member of Enterprise Admins and then rebooting the server. Clearly, there are some permission issues here. Is this a known bug Can TFSSERVICE be made a member of groups with less power than Enterprise Admins Will It does seem that the overhead of VSTS for small teams (less than 5) is growing to the point at which I quest ...Show All

• Visual C++ Error on delete [] v

  Hi, I have a problem with a class. The declator is class Configuration { public : struct conf_table { char name[40]; char value[10]; }; struct conf_table *conftable; int size; //rows on conftable int max_size; //maximum rows on conftable public : Configuration( void ); //Constructor ~Configuration( void ); //Destructor }; And the code is Configuration::Configuration( void ) //Constructor { size=0; max_size=256; conftable = new conf_table[max_size]; //initialize conftable } Configuration::~Configuration( void ) //Destructor { d ...Show All

• Visual C++ Beta 2 error, Project : error PRJ0003 : Error spawning 'cmd.exe'.

  Hi, I've just installed the new visual c++ beta 2, and I get this weird error when compiling a project. ------ Build started: Project: FindWeights, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ Embedding manifest... Project : error PRJ0003 : Error spawning 'cmd.exe'. Build log was saved at " file://c:\My\Active\FindWeights\Debug\BuildLog.htm " FindWeights - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s) ========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ========== Any idea what I can do to fix this Thanks Just for the record: I am running into the exact same problem with a clean install of beta 2 after removing all the ...Show All

• SQL Server Complex SQL Query

  Well, at least I think it's complex! It might be easy for you! I have the following 3 tables: ContentPages (Primary Key is PageID) stores information about pages, such as where the file is on the server, who created the page etc. ContentProtocols (PK is ProtocolID) stores the names of "protocols". In my content management system, a protocol is made up of a sequence of pages. So " Ben's Protocol " could be a sequence of " BensPage1 . html ", " BensPage2 . html " and " BensPage3 . aspx ". The order of the pages is important. ContentProtocolsPages . This table stores pageIDs next ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows Application Deployment

  Hi Windows application developers :) i'm web developer guy, i just wondering if i can run a.net window application without .net framework,, mmmm for sure not without framwork ( sure we need the framework, mscorlib.dll, system.dll  ...etc ) in other word can i deploy my windows application by XCopy concept (just copy the needed libraries without any previous installat ...Show All

• Windows Forms Messagebox Not Going Away!!

  Hello all, I'm having a particular issue that I seem to can't correct or fix.  I have a form that display buttons which support actions when pressed.  Some of the buttons send a confirmation box which ask yes or no to confirm.  If the user press Yes, the action starts.  The problem is, the action starts but the confirmation box particial ...Show All

• Visual C++ Multiple Resource Files

  Hello. I have been "told" that my app may need to operate in multiple languages. As far as I can tell this will need me to create another resource file, with all the same dialogs, menu's etc just with different languages. So "File" is something else in spanish. I realise that this is a labourous task etc. I was wondering where it is in Visual studio that you can specify to use a different .rc file As I understand it is a .res file thats actually used in the build (i assume its a compiled rc file). I know where this can be changed in visual studio but is there somewhere that i can say instead of using "some path\m ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error: The "CreateWorkspaceTask" task failed unexpectedly

  I am getting an error when trying to run a build in TFS. The specific error is a casting error from object of type 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Tasks.SerializedWorkspace' to type 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Tasks.SerializedWorkspace'. The builds used to work a while back and I don't know of any changes that have occured on either the development machine, build server or TFS server. Any ideas The contents of the log are such: Build started 4/26/2006 7:58:25 AM. __________________________________________________ Project "e:\vsts\build\LarryIsHere\testbuild\BuildType\TFSBuild.proj" (EndToEndIteration target(s)): Target ...Show All