cvwilletts's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions newbie question about adding a record to Access DB with VWD 2005

  I am new to VWD 2005 and doing some learning. I am using Visual Basic as the language. I have a pretty simple Access DB that I am connected to. I can Edit and Delete records fine. However, I cannot find how to be able to add records to the database with VWD2005. Any assistance or pointing to a good tutorial would be greatly appreciated. I am thinking there is a simple way to do this, but I am just missing it. Flanman   There are a million ways to do this depending upon how you have set up your datastructures. I can provide a way, but it may not match your datastructures   Let’s say that you have a table call ...Show All

• Visual C# A problem about binary file source safe versioning

  Does anyone of you ever try to check in your binary files for versioning We have this habit since the day when we work on VB projects. Since COM versioning is very important, we have very clear habit to keep different versions of the DLLs. Now in .net, with VS.NET 2003, we realize there is a very strange behaviour which prevents binary files checking from working properly. Lets say, we have 3 projects: ClassLibrary1, ClassLibrary2, WindowsApplication1 -->: reference ClassLibrary2 --> ClassLibrary1 WindowsApplication1 --> ClassLibrary1, ClassLibrary2 When I have checked out all WindowsApplication1 binary files, while leaving ClassLib ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Redo a build?

  Hi, I have a very stupid question, but certainly very important and usefull :-) How can you redo a specific build with team foundation server It is possible to get a specific version based on label on the client side or on the TF server, but I don't see how to say "Get that version and build again it!" :-) Thanks in advance, Steeve PS: Well in fact I can see a "non easy and manual way": 1. Create a specific build type specifcally for that where Sources are never retreived from TF (using some skip properties), Labelling is not performed, Work items should not be updated. 2. Ea ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Convert std::string to LPCWSTR (best way in c++)

  Hi! How can I convert an std::string to a LPCWSTR What is the best way to do it in C++ Thanks. "Ciao guaglio!" FabioDeSantis wrote: How can I convert an std::string to a LPCWSTR What is the best way to do it in C++ Instead of using a std::string, use a std::wstring (also called a std::basic_string<wchar_t>). I get the feeling you want to pass a std::string type to a Win32 API. Those APIs don't take LPCWSTRs (or even LPCSTRs), they take a LPCTSTR (long pointer to a tchar-string). In this case, your question should have been: "How do I convert a std::string to a LPCTSTR " Inst ...Show All

• .NET Development OleDbDataAdapter.Update not instananeous

  I have the following piece of code that basically duplicates a selected item from a datagrid. You'll notice the commented out Sleep line. When run without the sleep command, the user is redirected to the current page, thus forcing the page to reload from a fresh state but there's a problem. When the page reloads, it shows the same data. If I manually refresh the page after that, everything is fine. When I added the sleep function, eveything is fine on the first try. It seems as though the update command is not happening instantanously. I've also tried closing the connection, or refilling the datagrid, both of which make it work the first tim ...Show All

• Windows Forms Cannot retrieve application, authentication error.

  Hi, I have enabled Integrated Windows authentication on the deployment location and clicking the Url users would be challenged by IE to enter their domain credentials. Once the user clicks on Install button and after verifying application requirements it would throw an error saying "Cannot retrieve application, Authentication Error". Since IE has challenged the user to enter his domain credentials and for further request click once doesnt seem to use the credentials entered by the user rather it picks up the logged in credentials of the user due to which Authentication error is thrown. How do I make sure if somebody has ...Show All

• Visual Basic Windows Message in VB.NET

  Hi, I am upgrading a legacy system written in VB6. The system is basically consists of a few of EXE programs, they running at the same time and communicate each other with Window Messages. The system use Desaware SpyWorks to do Window Message handling. Can I re-develop the similar application by using VB.Net, which I can handling message by using .NET framework without other 3rd party library installed Hi Donno, to enable message based communication between windows you need get two things sorted. Sending messages Receiving messages Both can be achieved from within VB.NET. Receiving Messages In order to re ...Show All

• Visual Studio It works fine, now!

  I have two reports: Report1, Report2 Report1 --- navigation --- jump to a report, which is report2 I can assign a parameter to report2 with no problem.   Here is what I did with Rreport2: I set up a table from a stored procedure ( parameter1 ) in dataset1, and Report2 uses this table as data source.     My question is : how can I pass parameter1 ( which is stored procedure’s parameter ) to Report2 through Report1 ( if I don’t want to add a new web form to do this )   Thanks in advance.   Long You can pass a report parameter from ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Query for pending Activities with access prvilages for a specific role/user

  in regards to previous question (see http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=188027&SiteID=1 ): Is there a prefeared way to query for "pending" Activities with access prvilages for a specific user Arjun Banker said that in beta2 this would be possible through an api. What api was he talking about, and how would I use it to solve my problem You can use WorkflowInstance.GetWorkflowQueueData: foreach ( WorkflowQueueInfo qi in wi.GetWorkflowQueueData()) { foreach ( string name in qi.SubscribedActivityNames) { HandleExternalEventActivity ha = wi.GetWorkflowDefinition().GetActivit ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Light direction for Windows Vista 16x16 icons?

  Hello,     We are working on updating our application for release in early 2006 and we would like to update our UI to follow guidelines of Windows Vista. Is there a beta for the guideline or when is the official release of the guidelines      We noticed that the icons appear to be generated from a 3D based graphics application. Can you give any insite on the system used It doesn't appear to be Illustrator or an Adobe product. Any ideas would be welcome. Thanks, Cary IMHO, if you are releasing your product early 2006, it's not worth thinking about Vista yet.  There's ver ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to pick up item from combo box and display detail in data grid?

  how to pick up item from combo box and display detail in data grid  From example, from customer combo box, I select a customer "John", I like data grid display order detail about John's order. Data grid is a dataset which is query based on two tables: order and customer. In order table, there is only customer's ID in it. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Clarification about Scheduler services and Workflow Hosts

  Hi there... I have some questions about the scheduler services and workflow hosts. I'm building a WF application using a State Machine workflow and ASP.NET. I' ve read few times that is better use the ManualWorkflowSchedulerService than the DefaultWorkflowScheduler service. I know the differences between them, the first one donate a thread where the workflows instance will be run, this means the workflow instance is synchronous with the Host. DefaultWorkflowScheduler service it's different, creates threads for the workflow instances, this means the workflow host is asynchronous with the host. If my host  ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 - Emulator problem

  Hi! I've got a problem and wonder if anyone else has it (and has resolved it ) My problem is as follows .. I create a new device application and try to run in in emulator.. the emulator starts just fine, but it won't connect to it! At all! The error is "Connection failed. The system cannot find the path specified." Thanks in advance, Tadej I had the same problem so from a previous tip for vs.net 2005 beta 1 I added the service Virtual Machine Network Services to my network connection. I still got the same error so then I saw this tip and deleted the CoreCon directory and it worked fine. (I tried removing ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions unable to write to db (visual basic to SQLServer (2005 Express))

  Hi, keywords: vb, visual basic, sql server, 2005, express, write, read, only, readonly, insert, update, delete I'm working through Bob Tabor's excellent VB Tutorial for Absolute Beginners.  I hit a snag on Lesson09.  I can't write to SQL Server 2005 Express. REF: Absolute Beginner’s Video Series at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/learning/ Using my code, Bob's code or auto created code, I can NOT write to the database using any control other than the VB2005Express Database Explorer show table data tool. The controls do populate correctly with data entered via the show table data.  But the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Encrypt passwords reversibly

  Hi is there a function that I can use to encrypt a password that can be decrypted. the password is stored on the local machine and is used to access the server. So it should be reversible. thanks It doesn't really have to be revisable, what you could do is store the hash of the password in the database and in the client code construct the hash. For example the client would enter the password, you application would then add some text to the value (Either at the end or beginning, or any other position) that only the application would know. Then you would perform a hash on the value and enter it into the d ...Show All