figuerres's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to do this with WCF Extensions?

  I am currently porting some of our .NET Remoting API's to WCF and are looking for some ideas regarding extensions. We have a relatively transparent mechanism in place to handle Server Notifications and Prompts/Responses between server and the client. An example is the client initiatiates some operation on the server, say delete this employee record. The server encounters some unexpected condition like there are pay records associated with this e ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions converting text box entry to type long

  Hi all, im having a bit of trouble with a piece of code, Basically its a user interface with about 48 textboxes on it, the user enters values into the textboxes and presses a button on completion. what i need to do is convert each value to type long before sending it to the serial port. but i keep getting an error saying that type string cannot be changed to type long what should i do (by the way i have already established that ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista The Future of DirectShow

  Hi, I'm getting ready to start a new project using DirectShow that involves displaying text over the display of video files and live feed video, but I'm a bit concerned about the future of this technology. I have noticed that it has been removed from the DirectX SDK, and that Microsoft no longer recommend it's use. If this is the case, what does Microsoft recommend in it's place What is even more confusing is the location of this forum within th ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to Get SPY++ for desktop based application in vsts

  I am new to visual studio team system 2005 I want to install spy++ for windows application not remote spy I try hard but I do not reach to any result please help Spy++ should be installed as a part of VSTS by default.  It can be accessed from the Tools menu in the IDE and also from the start menu via: Start\All Programs\Visual Studio 2005\Visual Studio Tools\Spy++ I hope this is helpful, -Ron Pihlgren &nbs ...Show All

• .NET Development Forms and Controls cause 'Out of Memory' exceptions if not explicitly disposed?

  You can demonstrate this quite simply by performing the following: 1. Create a new Visual Studio Project - C#, smart device application, Pocket PC, windows application. 2. Add a button and a label to Form1.  Call the label 'lblMemoryAvailable'. 3. Create a new form by copying Form1.cs.  Rename the new form to 'Form2.cs' and get rid of the Main function. 4. Create three text box controls, three labels, an input panel and a toolbar on F ...Show All

• SQL Server How to open a SSIS solution with broken Data Sources in less than 20 minutes?

  How can I open an SSIS solution with broken Data Sources in less than 20 minutes Is there a way to open a package with broken Data Source links without validating the entire package first If I open the solution and double click on the first DTS package, the SSIS environment 1) brings up box describing all the data source connection strings that don't match the data source connection strings in the solution, 2) the cursor stays as the pointer w ...Show All

• .NET Development Connecting to an Oracle DB through an XML web service

  Hi, I am trying to connect to an Oracle database in a remote machine through an XML web service. The driver used is System.Data.OracleClient which comes with .net framework 1.1. When I try to connect, it throws an exception saying "System.Exception: System.Data.OracleClient requires Oracle client software version 8.1.7 or greater". But I have Oracle 9i Client 9.2 installed in my machine. Another thing is this only occurs in my office PC where a ...Show All

• Windows Forms Date Time Picker

  Hi, Anyone know how to format the Date Time Picker in C# to shows MONTHS only Hi, Sorry, please allow me to ask more, can you guide me more details on how to traverse the list view items and create the loop Thanks. ...Show All

• .NET Development Webservice SSL issue

  I have a secure webservice that uses SSL (and basic authentication).  I also have a client application that calls functions on this secure web service. We get an error " Could not establish secure channel for SSL/TLS".  We have tried all the suggestions on the net and have finally run out of options.  Has anyone else had this problem   This problem happens sporadically on some machines, and on others it happens with every sin ...Show All

• Architecture Best place to store across Layers

  Hi, In a layered ASP.NET application, with Entity/Collection, DAL, BLL, Service Facade, UI, I would like to know what is the best place to store information. This information could be either a primitive type such as a string, or a complex type such as Collection. We use Oracle 10g as DB and two servers for Load balancing. I'm unable to come to conclusion on giving a generic solution on when to use what, among the four options below: 1. Ses ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Executable for debug cession

  Hello, I am not sure I am in the right forum, and it is possible this has already been mentioned before, please accept my apologise if this is the case. When starting a debug cession of a project, in VC++2005 Express, which has not yet an Executable set in the " Properties/Configuration Properties/debugging/command ", a dialog " Executable For Debug Session " appears asking for the path + name of the executable to be lauched. After cho ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions New to VB, this can't be rocket science... Object reference not set to instance of object

  Hello, I am new at this, and am trying really hard to figure this problem out knowing there is a simple solution to it! Basically I created a form that allowed me to select an item from a list box. When I selected that item I turned it into a variable so that I can do other things with it later in the program. All I want to do now is save that variable back to a new database under a different catagory. I know I might be writing this all w ...Show All

• Windows Forms "Cannot find keycodev2.dll or invalid keycode"

  Hi,    I created winforms and was able to deployed it using NTD. I used VS.Net 2002 and VB.Net. I have crystal reports in my forms. Everything is working except when i tried to view the reports in client (Win 2000, installed w/ . ...Show All

• Visual C# terminate the application

  I am using the attached code within the public frmMain() to check if the VistaDB was started or not but i want to terminate the application when it's not started. In this code it's checking but it's continuing with the application.. public frmMain() { // // Required for Windows Form Designer support // InitializeComponent(); // check for VistaDB; ServiceController[] VistaServices = ServiceController.GetServices(); foreach ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Cleaning up Resources when application crashes

  Hi all, I have an application that makes use of Barcode scanning on a MC50 device. Every now and then the application crashes when the Barcode scanning is enabled. This the device unable to make use of the barcode scanning when I rerun the application. A soft reset resolves my problem - but I don't want me clients to do this all the time. Is there away I can flush out any currently being used resouces/handles etc etc when my application crashes ...Show All