Daniel Svensson's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Need help with loading a form.

  Hi all, I'm new to VB and need some help im trying to get a form to load after a login box below is the code im using so far. Also is there any way i could get the login box to check a database for the usernames and passwords before alowing login If Usrname.Text = ( "greg" ) And Password.Text = ( "password" ) And Domain.Text = ( "United Kingdom" ) Then Im not sure what goes on the end of then. ...Show All

• SQL Server Uploading images to SQL Express

  Hi, Could someone help me on how I can store images into my SQL Table I'm using "Image" as Column Name and I use VWD 2005 Express. I saw a lot of C# examples, but not VB.NET examples. Please help !!!!! Bart Thanks Lars.... can you believe it, I actually figured it out... but I didn't know that there was an auto increment with the ID Key... so I guess I'll go back and take a look at it. I really hate to keep asking questions, but is the ...Show All

• SQL Server Oracle 9i -> SQL Server 2005: Snapshot agent aborts suddenly uninterrupted

  Hi - I hope some of you can help me with this problem. I'm trying to run the snapshot agent for 77 published tables, but the agent stops suddenly uninterrupted. It stops in the middle of taking a snapshot of a table containing 81,719,531 rows. The error message is pasted below. Message 2006-06-14 05:33:33.53 [89%] Bulk copied 100000 rows from "ORAMSSQLREPL"."HREPL_ARTICLE_21_21" (57200000 total rows copied) 2006-06-14 0 ...Show All

• Visual C# DateTime.Parse and empty strings

  I'm trying to import a text file into my SQL table.  I'm running into problems when the date field is empty.  DateTime.Parse(sField[3]) will throw and exception if the field is blank.  I've tried sField[3] =="" null : DateTime.Parse(sField[3]) to no avial, the compiler comlains that it cannot implicitly convert datetime to string. any ideas Glad you got it working. You can streamline the above cod ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VSTS Version Control and Phantom Items

  Has anyone else seen this happen A few of my fellow developers have run into what I've called "Phantom Items" in the VSTS Version Control System. Basically, what I mean by this is items that appear in the pending check-ins dialog but that are [no longer] part of the VS solution. When they appear, there seems to be no way to get rid of them short of directly going to the VSTS Version Control window and manually manipulating the repository fil ...Show All

• Visual Studio Install Service Pack 6

  Hello Tony, it's still the same problem (and error message). Thanks, Ben Thanks Ben. Can you send me a link to the download page you were using Thanks, Tony ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions how connect a Visual Basic express edition application to an Oracle database

  Hi, the title of this message, says quite everything I want to know. I'm developping a human ressource tool and the database I have to use has been developped with Oracle 9i. And I don't know how to connect my application made with visual studio 2005 express edition to Oracle Tkanks everybody -) You can use the System.Data.OracleClient namespace. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Attach a note to a work item

  I do not see any functionality to attach a note to a work item. In my view this is "must have" for any modern tracking solution. And it is available on many systems. When a bug is submitted - we need place to post qwestions, clarifications etc. What is the approach in Team Studio Is any way to do this or such feature have been just pushed to to future releases Alex. After some digging throug the interface ...Show All

• SQL Server Can I get a value from a Matrix Cell?

  I know in a report we can use ReportItems to refer to a cell, however, will this work for a matrix How do I get values from a Matrix Cell ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Virtual Server / July CTP Question

  If you had one machine and wanted to run one of the tiers in Virtual Server 2005, which would you run in Virtual Server   Keeping in mind that you would like to ease migration to the RTM version. Keith My experience of Beta 2 is that the database tier really can do with running on a physical rather than virtual platform. We found that the virtual disks could not keep up with the demands that were being plac ...Show All

• Visual C# File.encrypt method

  I'm just trying to do a simple encrypt of a file.  I'm getting a System.IO.IOException thrown when the method executes.  Am I mis-interpreting this method   The documentation states that it's available in C#.  Here's a snippet of the important parts. using System; using System.IO; using System.Security.AccessControl; try { File .Encrypt( "G:\\test.tx1" );   //this is an NTFS partition } catch ( IOExceptio ...Show All

• .NET Development FileSystemWatcher Service doesnot detect changes when folder containing the file is deleted.

  I am using the FileSystemWatcher Service to monitor xml files within sub folders in a root folder. The problem that I am having is that when I delete the folder within the root folder which contains the xml file, the delete event does not seem to be fired. It works fine when I delete the xml file itself. here is the code. Please let me know what I am doing wrong. watchfolder.Path=WEBDest; watchfolder.IncludeSubdirectories = true ; wat ...Show All

• SQL Server increasing maximum of tables to greater than 256 ?

  Hi, I am submitting a query to SQL server and I'm hitting an error--> Too many table names in the query. The maximum allowable is 256. I CAN find a work around by breaking things up, but, isn't there a way to increase this limit of 256 tables Seems kind of a lowball cieling for SQL Server. Hi, this is a limitation of SQL Server and can't be changed, perhaps you can achieve a workaroun ...Show All

• Visual Basic Problems with converting VB6 to VBNet handling of Fortran strings

  I am having trouble with strings returned from a fortran DLL to a Visual Basic program.  It works in VB6, but I can not seem to get it to work in VB.NET In VB6 I get the full character string, in VB.Net I get only the first character. The simplified VB6 code was as follows Declare Sub ABUT_DLL Lib "ABUT.DLL" (  ByVal vbMsgbox As Long) Sub vbMsgbox1(s1 As String)  debug.print (s1) end sub Call ABUT_DLL( Add ...Show All

• .NET Development bounded buffer using semaphores

  Hi, I am trying to build a bounded buffer using counting semaphores in C++. There are 2 threads using this buffer: a Producer and a Consumer. My problem is that the consumer continues consuming even when the buffer is empty and thus trying to access buffer[-1], which of course resaults in an exception. Can anyone help Here is the code: // Constructor Airplanes_Buffer::Airplanes_Buffer( int size){ m_Size=size; m_Counter=0; m_Buffer= new ...Show All