AidyC's Q&A profile

• Visual C# C# RSS reader

  I know there are a TON of rss readers out there but I am new to programming and I thought it might be a good project to start on.  Now keep in mind I basically have no idea what I'm doing, but any suggestions to start this project would help. I am using Visual C# Express Edition to do this so if there are any limitaions please let me know. Thank You in advance to those who help me with this. While playing ...Show All

• Visual C++ Writing to an open document!

  Hallo, It may sound a silly and stupid question. Still please answer my question.I starts an application A written in vc++. This program opens a file F and then it calls another application B. Application B now try to write into this file F which has been opened by A. This is the scenario. Is it possible to realize this Thanks n Regards Swingme swingme wrote: Hallo, It may sound a silly and stupid quest ...Show All

• Windows Forms Manage the control element in a "unique" event

  Hi. I have a mdi application in .net 2.0 wit vs2005. I have a question. is there a "elegant" method to enable/disable the menu and toolbar botton in function of the state of the form For example, if a user write in a listgrid, the application will enabled a particular button. I'am searching a unique event to manage this, similar the onUpdatecmd event in MFC application thanks I a ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WebServiced published Workflows.

  Is there anyway to have multiple WebInput/Output activities where each Input/Output activity set will be accessed by a different user I have tried to implement correlation into the Workflow, but it does not seem to be supported for WebService workflows. Is this correct Correction, it does persist properly. Just doesn't work well when you forget to put back in the UnloadOnIdle tag. (D'OH!!!) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error while installing Team Foundation server

  Hi All, I got the following error while insatlling Team Foundation Server --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Setup --------------------------- Error 28940.TFServerStatusValidator: Calling the Team Foundation Server ServerStatus Web service failed with 503 HTTP ServiceUnavailable status. Verify that Internet Information Services, Windows SharePoint Services, and ASP.NET are configured correctly ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Please help with URLs to get started

  My env is office 2003, vs 2005, wss 2.0. I'd like to use wwf and tie to wss 2.0 events. I have done some simple workflows in b1 of winwf, but could not figure out how to install and tie to events in wss 2.0 Can someone supply me with directions or links to directions on 1) Can I use winWf b2 or do I have to use an earlier version 2) What, if any, add-ins to 2005 should I install 3) Guidance to Installation order 4) How to tie ...Show All

• .NET Development Using in Statement with DataTable.Select in ADO.Net

  I am using this code to get rows from a datatable but it throws an exception (Cannot perform '=' operation on System.Guid and System.String) DataRow [] drows = dt.Select( "RefID in('1e1cde8e-28b6-493d-b6ce-d1b81b69e83f','1e1cde8e-28b6-493d-b6ce-d1b81b69e83f')" ); PS it works with strings and fails when working with guids. Your help is appreciated. I think this may be a bug in the DataS ...Show All

• Visual Studio Unable to debug System.Net.DigestClient throws an exception

  I converted a VS2003 application to a VS2005 application. I have no errors and no warnings when I compile. When I attempt to run I get the error:   Unable to start debugging on the web server. The type initializer for 'System.Net.DigestClinet' threw an exception. Any thoughts on how to fix this There hasn't been any activity on this thread for awhile, but there is good content here so I'm going to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Checking an sql express database for duplicates

  Is there a command to check a SQL Express Database for a duplicate record on submitting a form, say by matching a couple of fields up with a couple of rows in a database If so would this be intesive on the database Kind Regards hi, yes you can do that but you have to know some sql SQLStr = "Select Count(*) From products where ColumnName='"& myvalueTextbox.text &"'" If DBCo ...Show All

• SQL Server Error 14258: Cannot perform this operation while SQLServerAgent is starting. Try again later.

  I'm getting the following error on two of my SQL Servers - Error 14258: Cannot perform this operation while SQLServerAgent is starting. Try again later. The only solution that I have seen is the same solution that Microsoft has published in the following article - KB303287 [http://support.microsoft.com/ scid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.support.microsoft.com%2fkb%2f303287%2fen-us%2f] The solution is to unflag the use of NT Fibers.  However, ou ...Show All

• Visual C++ CallByName in C++.

  Hello !   I need answer to a problem.   We all might be familiar with CallByName in Vb.NET and by reflection we can achieve that functionality in C# and Java also [to call a method when its name is given in string] . Do any one know some way of doing that in C++. If some one can possibly help, that would be great.   Regards, Haroon Its possible if you use C++/CLI or managed Extension, also ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Distribution of Ntrights.exe

  I hope I am posting at the right forum. The product I am working on requires Ntrights.exe, which is part of Windows resource kit, to perform some windows configuration. As not every Windows PC has windows resource kit installed, we plan to include Ntrights.exe in the release package of my product. What I want to ask is will it cause any legal or copyright issue if we distribute this Microsoft tool in our product release. Any comme ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Studio .Net 2005 Beta 2 - can't access MSDN

  Just installed VS 2005 Beta 2, it's great.  Like the new features. Unfortunately, I can't seem to access any help system.  The only help I get is "help on help".  Nothing on MSDN or VC#.  Tried reinstalling MSDN and that didn't help. Has anyone else experienced the same problem   Or is it just me   For what it's worth, here's another manifestation of the same problem. In my case I c ...Show All

• .NET Development System.Security.SecurityException - Exception from HRESULT: 0x800A0046 (CTL_E_PERMISSIONDENIED)

  I get the following erroro when at this method. test = test2.OpenAsTextStream(Scripting.IOMode.ForWriting) where test is Scripting.TextStream and test 2 is  Scripting.File. This was just converted to VB.net from vb6. This seems to be running perfactly on VB6 and i get this error only when running it on vb.net. How can this be fixed. Run-time exception thrown : System.Security.SecurityException - Exception from HRESULT: 0x800A0046 (CTL_ ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do you stop the automatic reorder of rows in a datatable? (when u click on a column)

  Hey, I'm back. Like the question says, how do I do this I'd like to keep the datatable ordered the way it is when it loads because I'm using the cell double click event handler. When I click on a column header the rows reorder themselves alphabetically, but only changes the apperance of the datatable, double click on ay cell and it will return the contents of the cell that was there before the reorder. I've tried searching the forums o ...Show All