Alberto Ramacciotti's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ A simple CPP source file change caused entire solution to relink

  My group is new to VS05 and previously used VS 6.0. Several people in our group have had an ongoing battle with the compiler. It seems that when you make a simple change to a CPP source file that it will cause the entire solution to have to relink. We do have dependencies set between several projects within the solution, but if I am not changing a common header file or a method signature then I would not expect all of the project to need to be r ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Binary Search and Sort multidimensional array

  I am using the FileInfo[] array class and i need to sort the array and binary search it here is my code FileInfo[] destinationinfo = new DirectoryInfo(destination).GetFiles(); FileInfo[] sourceInfo = new DirectoryInfo(source).GetFiles(); Please notice i am trimming the array and only getting the dimensions of GetFiles I need to sort and search by the Name Property. Can you guys post me code on how to do that Hi SevenAlive, It is hard t ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Need help Database trigger

  Hi    I have been tasked to convert an old Clipper app to Foxpro Ver 9.0. The old software has 2 fields in all the databases one called ChangedOn and one called DeletedOn. These fields hold the date,time,computer name, and login name of the machine and user. These fields were updated anytime a record was changed or marked for deletion.   I would like to use the database triggers to update these fields because of the numerous place ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Free Online Books

  After completing registration of your Beta 2 Express Edition, you will receive—in addition to your free product activation key—access to free online books from Microsoft Learning, including the following titles....etc... Am I the only one who hasn't figured out how to access these free books !  I am a mad clicker and probably clicked off the page without reading it all...if so I apologize, but can anyone clue me in here to the free referenc ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Icons for my Application????

  HI all., I'm Back due to the spedd and accuracy of the help I received with my last question! This may seem obivious or silly to some- but how do I control what icon windows uses for my application when veiwed in an explorer window Is this even do-able in VC++ Exp Ed I've tried the form icon field in Designer, but that only seems to set the icon for the taskbar. Again, any help would be greatly appreciated. Cherrs DT. ...Show All

• Visual Basic invisible textbox - more complex than it sounds

  It have made a custom combo box that uses icons and populates the list in it to that of windows explorer combo box for browsing. Well I would like the user to edit what is in the combo box. But if I change the combo box style so that it can my icon and all other code is disabled. So if I could have a textbox that is invisible but the text isn't. I could easly modify my code to make it look like the explorer bar. But if anyone knows a way I ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Who to ask?

  I don't mean to post this issue here but, whom would I get in touch with to have someone's MSN Space blog edited. The problem is slander and profanity. I have used the report abuse link and reported the issue 4 times in the last couple of month's with no answer. I have even politly asked the person to edit it. Thanks, lowster11 wrote: I don't mean to post this issue here but, whom would I get in t ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WF custom persistence once again

  I don't want to save my workflows zipped in a blob field in one table like default SqlWorkflowPersistenceService does. It is not transparent and flexible approach, saved data contains class type information, making workflow evolution almost impossible. I would be a happy WF programmer, If someone explains me how to load/save workflow instances in different tables depending on the workflow class name, layout workflow properties in differe ...Show All

• SQL Server ReportService2005.asmx

  Does anyone know of any good documentation for using the Reporting Services Web Service I am having difficulty figuring out a few things, even with Google. pjp http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.wssux.reportingserviceswebservice.rsmanagementservice2005.reportingservice2005(SQL.90).aspx That is the API documentation which lists all of the publicly exposed methods. For a high level overvi ...Show All

• .NET Development how to selected row after sorting a DataViewGrid ???

  Hi, using a DataViewgrid : when double-clicking on a row do I view the selected row in another window. but when I sort DataViewgrid on another column and dbl-click again do I get different row than the one selected. How can I make sure that the selected row is always shown thnx Chris ...Show All

• SQL Server Report Builder - A filter is required

  Using Report Builder, I am querying a table that has: 85,000 rows 5 columns The report will run with only 4 of the columns, but when I add the 5th (data type is nvarchar(1024)), I get an error message that says: Cannot run this report. A filter must be specified. When I add a filter on that 5th column, it will run. Does anyone know if there is a record limit in Report Builder Is there some sort of governor that I can modify Thanks in ad ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Where can I find the @ServiceHost directive attributes?

  Hi Can anyone tell me where I can find the list of what attributes can be specified in the Service host directive for an svc file <% @ServiceHost ... %> Language=C# Debug="true" Service="typename" Factory="typename" CodeBehind="pathstring" unfortunately we don't have MSDN doc on ths topic,recently i had same experience,our SDK team working on this doc ...Show All

• Visual C++ Timing the compiler

  The Visual C++ 2003 linker has an undocumented /TIME option which reports how much time the linker has spent on each phase. Is there a corresponding option for the compiler   It would be helpful to know exactly how long each file took to compile.  I have a 146-file project taking nearly 30 minutes to build; it would be quite helpful to find out where the delays are. You can add the (also undocumente ...Show All

• .NET Development Pet peeve of the day

  Hi; I have the following code: DataTable table = DbProviderFactories.GetFactoryClasses(); foreach (DataRow row in DbProviderFactories.GetFactoryClasses().Rows) DbProviderFactory providerFactory = DbProviderFactories.GetFactory(row); The DbProviderFactories.GetFactory(row) throws an exception when the row has the values: "SQL Server CE Data Provider", ".NET Framework Data Provider for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition", "Microsoft.SqlServe ...Show All

• Visual C++ Books about VC++ 2005

  Does anyone know if there are any books for someone to learn about VC++ 2005, specifically with the new syntax I have the 2003 book, but I can't compile anyone of the programs in it because the language has gone through extensive changes. The MSDN library doesn't give really good tutorials with the new syntax. Thanks for the help. You're talking about managed C++ then - that changed significantly. C++ i ...Show All