hda's Q&A profile

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Visual Studio

      I downloaded Visual studio Express eddition, with MSDN, and SQL Server as a bundled package. It sounds like a program that I can use, But the SQL Server part won;t worl on my system. I am still trying. The other 2 parts of the bundle are working fine. My system has 32 bit graphics and windows XP home edition, One of those 2 may be my problem, but I'm not sure. Any how, once I get it to work right, it sounds like a ...Show All

• SQL Server splitting large table

  can anybody help me, my previous collegue designed the database and created a table with around 100 columns which i feel is uneccesary and want to split , as the database is online, i am afraid to lose data , is there any solution. Not sure what your question is. If you split your table, you may have to update your application to retrieve values from both the tables using a join. Let us know the parameter you are working with and perhaps I ...Show All

• Windows Forms Multiple overlapping controls and transparency

  I have a form on which I have a control with a white background. Let's call this control 'A'.  In this same form and on top of A, I have another control, B. B is much smaller than A in dimensions. Now, B is a sort of a& ...Show All

• Visual Basic Dll registry problem

  Hi, Its really very urgent, please do the needful as early as possible. I was working in a VB project in which I was using some abc 1.1 dll. and now currently I am working in a .Net project which is interrelated with the VB project and which I have to use the same dll which I was using in VB but the .Net project needs the latest version of the dll like abc 1.2 dll. Previously I was getting the problem in .Net project like registry ent ...Show All

• Visual Basic Pass a TreeNode argument ByRef or ByVal?

  I used the following code to add a child treenode under a parent treenode, when passing the parent treenode by reference, after adding the child treenode, the selected treenode changed back to the parent node instead of the child node, after I changed the parementer from ReRef to ByVal, after adding the child node, the selected node stays at the added node, which is what I want. But I still do not understand why byRef does no ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Problem grouping data using CollectionViewSource

  When I try to group data using CollectionViewSource I get an error. Am I missing something or is this a bug BindingExpression path error: 'Groups' property not found on 'object' ''null''. 'BindingExpression':Path='Groups'; DataItem=''null''; target element is ''TreeView' (Name='')'; target property is 'ItemsSource' (type 'IEnumerable'); Cannot find mentor for target element. 'BindingExpression':Path='DisplayCollection'; DataItem= ...Show All

• Visual Basic WbemScripting.SWbemLocator

  I have wrote a service with Vb.net for server state reporting (hard disk space for example) and I use WbemScripting.SWbemLocator for doing that. Is there a best way for doing that Small part of code for the object : objlocator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator") Objet = objlocator.ConnectServer(pc, "root\cimv2") Objet.Security_.ImpersonationLevel = 3   ...Show All

• Visual C++ Create an dll from existing c++ project

  Hello... I have a c++ project and want to use this in a c# program. So, I thought I could make a dll from this c++ code. But I didn't find the right solution at this moment. Maybe you can help me The c++ program consists of about 15 files (.cpp and .h). I think I have to remove the main method, but then ... In my c# programm, I want to call some functions of the c++ code... Regards, Jacquipre. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Where is the visual layout state for the state transition root activity stored (and why is it being lost)?

  When you open the completed sample for Exercise 2 of WWF Lab 4 (the State Transitition workflow sample) for the first time, the layout for the 4 activities is lost.  By this I mean all of the 4 acitivities appear one on top of the other in the top-left corner of the design surface. Q1. Why is the visual layout of the 4 activities being lost If I rearrange the activities and save them, close the solution and re-open it, the layout is preser ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can i pass values to a precompiled 3rd party app ?

  I have application1 that is precompiled by another vendor(which i do not have control over it) and i have a string value from application2 (that i am working on it and have full control on it) i wanted to pass it to a textbox in application1 ,any ideas No.  There's no safe way to do this. However, you can use Win32 APIs to get a handle to the TextBox Window and send a message to that window with the WM_SETTEXT message.  But then, ...Show All

• Visual C++ Copy contents of int to float

  I'm trying to copy the contents of an int variable into a float variable... In native code I could just do a memcpy, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to do it with the new .NET code in Visual Studio 2005. So for example, I have an integer value of: 1073741824 or 0x40000000 in hex, and I want it to copy it into a float variable thus having a value of 2.0. Basically I want to preserve the bits, but have the variable be a different type. I d ...Show All

• Visual Studio How is GAT Package information persisted?

  How does the GAT handle a package being used across different machines / How is GAT Package information persisted     For example, a recipe (part of Guidance Package ‘A’) is run, creating a new project. The recipe associates unbound references to the new project. The new project is checked into source control. The new project is checked out on another machine (which also has part of Guidance Package ‘A’ installe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I play a .wav file from Resources?

  Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition: This works, but, I need to get the .wav file from Resources: My .Computer.Audio.Play( "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\OrthoLabRx\OrthoLabRx\Resources\PodVwBy.wav" ) I placed the .wav file in Resources, but, I can't seem to access it from there. This does not work: My .Computer.Audio.Play( My .Resources.PodVwBy) It says "value of type 'System.IO.U ...Show All

• Visual Basic Object Oriented question

  This seems like there is a really basic answer... I have a collection of objects (lets say Products) inside another object (say Order).  The product object has a function called GetTax().  Inside that function it needs to reference a property of its parent object, Order.  How can I access a property of a containing object   In the below sample, the MyParent object is pseudo-code... Imports System.Collections.Generic Pu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can I Create an Access DataBase Without Access?

  I don't own Access and this is for Learning Purposes.... Can I create an Access DataBase with my own Schema(I guess that's the word) with VBE or any Other Way I downloaded Northwind.... Can I change Northwind schema without Access Thanks   Yes. I know you could do it with DAO. I'm not sure about ADO. Since ADO.NET is a little less faciliated in persisting, the USE of ADOX has been recommended ...Show All