circusfire's Q&A profile

• Visual C# Any help For Graduating Project .. Need Just The Idea

  hello .. I'm senior year at university .. next semester I have to build my project .. unfortunately my supervisor doesn't help me to choose suitalble idea ( in my university .. no one of instructor knows or even cares to know about VS C# !! all they know is poor DBS built on non-microsoft product !!) anyway .. I want my project to be worked under .Net framework ( esp C# or ASP.net with C#) thank for being care he ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem to access web service via ISA server

  Hi, I have the problem to access web services. The machine is behind the ISA 2000 server. When I try to add web reference, it will pop up the screen to enter the username and password. However, I enter the the username and password for our domain, it comes up the following message "The request failed with HTTP status 403: Forbidden ( The ISA Server denies the specified Uniform Resource Locator (URL).  )." Should I configure the ISA to allow ...Show All

• Visual C# PInvoke: C-function returns struct containing pointers to void

  I have an unmanaged .dll which I want to call using PInvoke. The .dll is written in C and I want to call a function in that .dll. This function returns a pointer to a struct. No part of this solution has previously been written in C#, so I'm introducing a new C# project. Before I've solved this type of problem by declaring the struct in C# translating all of the members to managed code equivalents. I've been told to avoid unsafe code as much as ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server upgrade from 7 to 2005

  I have a client that is thinking about moving from SQL Server 7 to 2005. The Some of the applications are old so we are thinking about setting the compatibility level to 70 and test to see if the applications will work. The mainreason for moving to 2005 is due to disk space. We thought about going from 7 to 2000 and then 2000 to 2005, but would hate to go through the pain twice. Has anyone had any experience with moving form 7 to 2005 and need t ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Problem with RelativeSource Binding

  Hi, I have a class called Matching_Question which has 2 observable collection type objects with their respective properties called MQ_Choice_Data and MQ_Answer_Data. I have a datatemplate which has the DataType to be set to Matching_Question class and it has 2 ListBox controls with ItemsSource set to their respective properties (MQ_Choice_Data and MQ_Answer_Data). The second ListBox(MQ_Choice_Data) has two controls, TextBlock and ComboBox ...Show All

• SQL Server Trouble setting-up witness.

  Not sure where I am going wrong ... I am able to set-up the mirroring , but the witness set-up always fails. I am running all the 3 SQL servers (Enterprise edition) with same domain account, which is also a member of sysadmin locally within each SQL server. When I try to add the witness on Principal using the following command: ALTER DATABASE MyDB SET WITNESS = 'TCP://WitnessServer:7022' I have even tried the IP address with p ...Show All

• .NET Development When(why) use DataSet?

  I have a very simple Access database which consists of only one table and an auto number field (ID) has been used as the primary key for the records. All the columns are directly mapped to a object's properties except the ID property of the object is set to 0 initially.  I only use OleDbCommand object to execute sql statement but is there any way to get the value of the ID column of a just inserted row (I ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to decide the errors

  hoh to decide the error C2039 a exist... i have 2 forms, form1 and form2. in form1 i have a button, and when i click in this button, will open form2. whats the code to do this ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Order Tables Ascending in DataSet

  Hey there, I have a problem cause I don't know how to order tables ascending within a dataset, so I need to know how can I do that, I have for example these tablenames within a dataset in this order: "0050Colors" "0021Cars" "0120Symbols" "1008Field" "0215Country" that's the order in what the tables are added into the dataset, and I need them in the next order: "0021Cars& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions preventing thread from abort at specfic stage

  i am creating a thread that will do some work and then enter those info in database. use can abort that thread but i want to prevent that thread won't abort when it is inserting some thing in database, instead it will abort after that Why not disable/enabled the button at the appropriate times.  If the button is disabled then they cant execute the button click event code containing the thread.abort command Button1.enabled = fals ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista SqlStatePersistenceService troubles

  Hi,  Adding a SqlPersistanceService to my workflow host causes the workfow to abort when it tries to persist.  Unfortunatly the WorkflowAbort events arguments don't realy tell me anything usefull. The database is SQl Server 2000 sp3a and the persistance setup scripts have been executed creating the required tables and sp's. Initialising the SqlPersistanceService instance with a valid connections string causes no errors (indic ...Show All

• Windows Forms Exception reading manifest

  Hi, I wanted to test out the Click Once deployment feature in Whidbey. I created a sample Windows app with a single form and no controls on it. In the signing tab of the project properties, i selected the option for signing the manifest as ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions how to load automacticaly tabs

  Hi again, I have form that reads data from a db and insert/update in that db. I have a tabcontrol with 4 tab pages. The thing is when I try to update a data from my form it does not update all the related files. If I don't open any of that 4 pages, data in that pages cannot be updated. Because that pages and their controls are never loaded. I'm using my own insert/update command instead of a table adapter option. It's like "UPDATE ...Show All

• Visual Studio What to use instead of GetDisplayProperties

  In the april version of the SDK I used the override method GetDisplayProperties to filter properties that where not relevant. In the june version this method is no longer available. How can I implement the same behavior with the june sdk John, you can set the IsBrowsable flag on a DomainProperty to false if you don't want it to appear in the properties grid. Does this meet your needs Steve Cook [MSFT] ...Show All

• SQL Server Using different cookies for authentication?

  Hi, Now this is an issue we are working on for days and no a clear solution. All possible solutions are hacks which suck. SO here is the deal: our internet application keeps checking for say cookie "A". Now there is this another web application dedicated to reporting which interacts with report server. We want report server to use our cookie instead of the properitry cookie to check. We do not want to manage two different cookies. Is it pos ...Show All