Mickael Provost 44's Q&A profile

• Architecture XP or XPE for POS application

  Hi, Not sure if this is the correct place to post this - apologies if it's not. I'm developing a custom POS application in VB.Net 2.0 for no more than 4 terminals. The touch terminals all have P4 processors with 512 MB RAM and 40 GB HDDs. I'm just wondering if there are any advantages to installing XP embedded (or XPE for POS) instead of XP Professional. Because of the limited number of clients, it would be more expensive to buy t ...Show All

• Visual J# Is it possible to uninstall J 1.1 from Windows XP without having to uninstall everything?

    I downloaded J 1.1 without realizing it was a programming download.  I am NOT an experienced computer person!  All of my system information has been taken over, somehow.  Please Help and Thank You.  I don't even have e-mail access anymore, my memory is gone.   From where have you installed J1.1 Have you installed .net framework1.1 and J# redist You can goto start->settings->control panel ...Show All

• Windows Forms Issues with Custom TextBox Control and simple Properties.

  Hi all, I have created this Custom Control that will (well, should) allow me to set the BackColor of my ReadOnly TextBox Controls to whatever Color I specify (instead of the standard dull Gray colour). Now I have created a Class and an Interface to do this, and have then added the Compiled .dll into the ToolBox and included the Control on a Windows Form. But, if I set the ReadOnly Property of the Control to True the BackColor of the Control is ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro only VFP can control VFP

  is there a posibility that we can open a VFP appilication at a remote location without using any 3rd party software like pcanywhere .  Example...I am at the server and want to re-open a VFP client application which is closed by the user at the client PC.  i am using winsock for the communication between my VFP server applic. and VFP client applic.  pc How could we do that Is anybody has an idea ... Because I want m ...Show All

• SQL Server SSRS 2005 Connecting to data on 2000

  Hello, I 'm building the reports on SSRS 2005 and connection to a 2000 DB, every thing seems to go ok, except when i try to see the reports on the web browser. At that point i got the following error. An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted) Cannot create a connection to data source 'BI_IVN_RELACIONAL'. (rsErrorOpeningConnection) For more information about this error navigate to the report serve ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System 2 TFS Project - 1 Source Control Root

  Is there a way to create 2 TFS projects that use the same source control tree When creating a new TFS project, when you get to the step where you "Specify Source Control Settings", the three options are to 1) create an empty source control folder, 2) create a branch of an existing, or 3) don't create a source control folder at that time. If you select the last option, is there a way to "bind" the TFS project to an exis ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Check For Existing WorkflowRuntime In Current AppDomain And More

  Hi, Is there a way to check whether WorkflowRuntime instance exists in the appdomain And if it is, is there a way to get reference to the instance In some terms, I'd like to see the WorkflowRuntime as a service provided by hosting application (whatever it is). So, a component that starts a workflow is not the one that enables its execution ( = creates a host for workflows). Thanks, Mark ...Show All

• Visual C# Time-out difference between .NET 2.0 and 1.1

  I have two client-server applications. The difference between the two is only the .NET 1.1 and 2.0 version. The apps simply access data from a remote SQL Server 2000(in mix authenication) using connection string. Some client PCs use .NET version 1.1 app and some use 2.0 app. The problem is that SOMETIME version 2.0 app get SQL Time-out error but version 1.1 app has no problem. Any idea Thanks. Have you upsized the .NET 1.1 version to .N ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is there a smaller Redistributable somewhere?

  Hello All, My Client Desktop Application does NOT need ASP.NET; hence, there is NO need for me to have to package ASP.NET extensions along with my redistributable. Is there a Redistributation that is slim and ready to be used for Desktop Applications  Ju ...Show All

• Visual C# evaluating variables with specific order?

  I'm new to VS C# express edition, coming from foxpro for windows. in Foxpro I can write (silly example ): for i=1 to 5 ii=str(i,1) offer&ii=i*5 next for i=1 to 5 ii=str(i,1) mod(offer&ii,2) next How you do this in C# Any suggestion please! Thanks, danny What does offer & ii do in FoxPro In C#, it does a bitwise and on the two values, and return ...Show All

• Smart Device Development LNK Error 2019

  Hello all, i am developing an application on PPC2003 SE that allows the user to send and receive sms. i have included the sms.h library header file but when i compile i get the followng error : Error 1 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol SmsOpen referenced in function OpenSms MyMapi.obj Error 2 fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals Pocket PC 2003 here's my Build log Build Log Build started: Project: MyMapi ...Show All

• SQL Server RS2000 dataset doubt

  Hi,     I have 2 datasets. The query in the first dataset is executed and it gives the values to the report parameters. The 2nd dataset uses these parameters to execute the query and then get the data. The problem is if the first query returns no data, then the report parameters are blank. When I see the preview of the report, it gives me an error saying "One or more parameters required to run the report have not been specif ...Show All

• .NET Development How to get a download transfer rate.

  Hi... i'm wondering how to get a download transfer rate. suppose you're getting a file from the network, how the KB/s rate would it be thanks in advanced... you can use webclient to do that. There are progress events supplied by the class which you can subscribe to. it supports http and ftp protocols (with auth, ssl, proxy support), broken downloads. but you cannot pause and resume using the APIs.. ...Show All

• .NET Development App.config problem

  hi all, I've developed an application in which the connection string is provided in the app.config for dymanic changes to be made. but now the issue is the changes which i do for the sql connection string is not accepted as i thought. < connectionStrings > < add name = " DatabaseConnection " connectionString = " Server Name=netbiz/sqlexpress;Data Source=Net;Database=Airwaves;uid=sa; " /> &l ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB2005 manual

  G'day I have been struggling with VB2005 express for the past weeks or so. I have made lots of progress by just referring to "VB2005 for dummies" and some VB6 books. Is there somewhere where I can dowload the full Syntax manual and hopefully lots of code snippets on how to do things I have ordered VS 2005 standard edition but the delivery has been postponed for a week in Australia. Going to the launch on Monday, perhaps I can annoy someone ther ...Show All