Josh Holmes's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista December CTP Install Problem in Microsoft VPC

  I am trying to install the latest Vista December CTP build on a Microsoft VPC. I have the latest version of VPC with the latest SP. The Vista product key from MSDN works fine. The problem that I am experiencing is that I can not get past the "Where do you want to install Windows " screen where you must specify the hard drive and partition to install Windows. After selecting the unallocated virtual hard drive space, creating a new partition, a ...Show All

• Windows Forms Scroll Bar

  Hello, I am making a word Prossesor, and For my Textbox I have made it a multiline texbox, but I need a scroll bar for it. I have looked in the Tool Box and have not seen any Scroll Bar controls... What can I do Thank You ok, I will try it   EDIT:WOW, thanks, it worked...and I just learn some new code!     ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem with portmapper to localport 3389

  Hi,   I've made a portmapper in VB.NET that listens on localhost port 5100 (on PC1). If a connection has been established it sends all incoming data to 127.0.0.2 port 3389 (RDP port) and all data comming back from 3389 is send back to the other side (PC2). If i use 'Remote Desktop' (mstsc.exe) on PC2 and connect to port 5100 on PC1 i get the Windows logon screen from PC2.   This means the portmapper actually wor ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) OrderBy error

  I have the following code using DLinq that is causing a compile error. var posts = from post in db.Posts orderby post.PostedOn descending select post.Title; The error is the following: The type arguments for method 'System.Data.TypedTableBaseExtensions.OrderByDescending<T,K>(System.Data.TypedTableBase<T>, System.Query.Func<T,K>)' cannot be inferred from the usage. Try specifying the type arguments explicitly. I'm new to DLin ...Show All

• SQL Server Execute Command Process - remote batch file?

  Good afternoon- Can a batch file that resides on another server be executed from a different machine I have a batch file that resides on a server that I would like to run using SQL 2005 Integration Services. Is there anything I can do that would allow me to remotely execute this batch file and have it run in that environment. BATCH FILE: cd C:\Trandev\ otrun -at OTRecogn.att -DINPUT_FILE=%1 -tl 1 -cs dv -lg mylog -I C:\Trandev represents t ...Show All

• .NET Development Download a file from http

  Hi, I have a question about how to download a file on the background from http using C# 2005 I tried the follwing code for example: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.Net; namespace Web_Client_test { class Program { static void Main( string [] args) { string file = "tutorial.rar" ; Console .WriteLine( "Downloading file: {0}" , file); WebClient myClient = new WebC ...Show All

• Windows Forms passing variables between forms again :)

  I have read about five different threads about passing variables between forms and none of them have made much sense to me or helped me. I know i am very new and green but can't seem to figure it out. So one more time could some one help me in simple terms. Show me how to be able to access data from one form to the next. I am wanting to for example access a string that i have assigned in form1 and use it in form 2. Don't know how to do it. I am ...Show All

• SQL Server raw file destination and environment variables

  when using a raw file destination it would be nice to be able to use an environment variable for the filename property. like %my_extract%\data.txt instead of c:\my_extract\data.txt You could use the script task to define a SSIS variable, storing the file name, built using the environment variable. Then you can use this variable in Raw adapters by using the File Name from Variable access mode ...Show All

• Visual C++ Where is the "Code Definition Window" in vc2005 Express beta2?

  When I use the beta1, there is code deinition window like Source Insight, it's useful and fun for me. But after I uninstall the beta1 and install the beta2 , but it seems the code definition window is missing. MSDN Express said that: "The Code Definition window is available while programming in Visual C++, Visual C#, and Visual J#." But MSDN's default Filter is Visual Basic Express, and I think maybe there're some error in reg data file, and ...Show All

• SQL Server Where is the old Enterprise Manager :(

  Why is this new version of SQL Manager so difficult to use Tasks I was able to do in one step, now I have to do in several steps: 1) Genrate Drop Scripts for tables, views, stored procedures 2) Generate Create Scripts for tables, views, stored procedures 3) Import data to the server I used to be able to do all this in Enterprise Manager in one DTS package . Which I could automate to synchronize data beteween two databases. Is there s ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. D3D Sprite Object

  Hello everyone, I've been using the D3D Sprite object to create a simple sprite based game.  Everything was going accordingly until it came to scroll the camera.  After trying many implementations and reading conflicting resources I've come here asking for help. My objective:  Center the camera on an object that moves around the world.  The problems: Setting the device.Transform.View matrix does nothing. Setting the sprite.Se ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problem with the Visual C++

  Hello. I'm a beginner in C++, and I bought a book to learn it. I reprinted program from this book, and pushed F7 to generate the program, But i saw error: Project : error PRJ0003 : Error spawning 'cmd.exe' What is it Is it problem with download, or something else I have screenshot of this, but I don't know how to upload it Take a look at the following previous post thatdeals with similar issue: http:/ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Basic Problems Using DirectX 8.0

  ok, What I really would like is to download visual basic 6.0, but I cant find anywhere to do that.. My problem with visual Basic express edition, is I cant seem to get my reference to Directx 8 to work, I have reinstalled directx 8 and VB but it still wont work for me, any ideas> I am programming in BASIC and am very new at it... if anybody could help me I'd be very thankfull, you can contact me by emailing me at Lukeskiwalker@b ...Show All

• .NET Development Reflection and Plugins

  Hi, I am starting out creating an app that I would like to dynamically load dlls that would be developed, plugins. I am using the C++.NET framework. My question is, Is Relection the way to do this I have been searching for examples in C++.NET but most seem to be in C# or VB.NET. Can any point me in the best direction Examples Relection Thanks Jeff I got this code from a fiew source on the net. http://div ...Show All

• Windows Forms Binding error: Invalid cast from 'DBNull' to 'Guid'

  I'm currently experiencing some problems with the binding source component: I've a procedure that sets the value of a uniqueidentifier (guid) column in a datarowview to DBNull. The datatable, from which the datarowview was created allows dbnull for this column. The column is bound to a property named "selectedvalue" of a control that I've written (derived from user control). The property's type is "object". The binding works fine until I enter ...Show All