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• Windows Forms How do you tell if an mdi child is open

  How can you tell what mdi child windows are loaded   Thanks of the help Ken. I am a newbie myself and I was wondering how to achieve this for a little while now. ...Show All

• SQL Server Lookup fields

  I have a report which has data coming from an MDX query. I would like to rename some of the values coming from the data with the results of a relational mapping table. Is it possible to do this in the Data Sources area of the report, or by creating custom code ...Show All

• .NET Development How to remove Oracle schema name hardcoded in tableadapter query?

  I have created a DataSet with a DataAdapter on an Oracle table, say 'employee'. The resulting query, as it was in the designer, was like "SELECT fname, ... FROM employee". But when I looked in the code file EmployeeDataSet.designer.cs, I saw query "SELECT fname, ... FROM company.employee", where "company" is the Oracle schema name. How do I get rid of this schema name I want to be able to connect to different databases with different schema names. Sorry, no answer, rather more information I also spotted this problem in a WinForm application I was working on when I switched t ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Track mouse position

  Hi, I'm working on a PocketPC application in Vb.net on Compact Framework1.0. I have 2 panels on a form, placed one below the other. I want to track the mouse(stylus) position as it is dragged(moved) from one panel to the other one. How to track the mouse position as the stulus(mouse) is dragged over the controls on a panel | form thanks, I beleive I've already answered your question: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=442479&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• SQL Server returned status value 2 error

  Could someone please explain why I get the following errors I have them in 15 out of 20 packages and its always the same, I have tried, removing the columns from the data source but it just seems to jump then to another column. I have also tried redirecting the errors to a differnet error database but ALL the rows just seem to be errors then In event viewer I get no further information simply Event Type: Error Event Source: SQLISPackage Event Category: None Event ID: 12291 Date:  14/01/2006 Time:  14:57:56 User:   Computer:  Description: Package "Policy_PC" failed. [Flat ...Show All

• Visual Basic Delay using nesting in For Next Loop

  I am new to Visual Basic and am using the 2005 Express Edition. Can anyone please tell me why the following code does not produce 10 Beeps with a short delay between each one. For Int As Integer = 1 To 10       For Tim As Integer = 1 To 50            Beep()       Next Tim Next Int The way your code is written it should produce 500 beeps.  Every time the the tim loop runs it should beep 50 times and you run the tim loop ten times.  Try moving the beep to the line right after next ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Can't read Y coordinate value when resizing window in Designer

  Steps: Create a new WinFx app. Resize the window in the designer and try to see the y value. Result: Can't see the left most digit of the y coordinate value because it is written on the edge of the window frame in the same color. Expect: Move it over a little so I can read it. NIK ...Show All

• Visual Studio Error installing VS2K5B2 -

  I get the following error installing the new beta on an XP Professional VPC image: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 Setup Error 1305.Error reading from file y:\vs\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\PermCalc.exe. Verify that the file exists and that you have access to it. Y: is a mounted drive using the vcdControlTool.exe utility. I looked in the directory referenced and the file exists in "read only" mode.  Tried to remove all flags and get a message - Access denied. Anyone have any ideas I get that same problem, with the same file. Also on a VPC with XP as the OS. Win2003 ...Show All

• Visual Studio MsBuild & VCBuild task setting /useenv

  I'm replacing our Nant scripts with MSBuild for building all our projects. We rely on LIB & INCLUDE being set in the environment when building VC projects. When building these projects via the MsBuild task (i.e. building the solution), vcbuild gets invoked without the /useenv parameter, so the environment gets ignored. The VCBuild task doesn't include a Useenv property either. Is there a sneaky way to do this For now I can work around it by using the Exec task to invoke VCBuild directly, but it would be nice to write: < Project DefaultTargets = " build " xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003 " > & ...Show All

• Visual C++ chr() equivalent in VC++

  can anybody tell abt the equivalent VB's chr() in VC++ There is no equvilant because a string is an array of characters and each charater itself is just a storage that holds a 8bit or 16bit value (UNICODE). So a character is just a number. So you can init an integer with a number like this: int i = 65: In the ASCII char set this is the letter A, so ots the same to write this: int i = 'A'; In formated output like printf you can add a char into an output stream: printf("This is my char %c\n",i); Where do you need this! ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Agent and DTExec

  Does SQLAgent use DTExec to execute packages We've run into a situation where a custom written WMI script (to run a remote process) runs fine under the Execute Package Util, but just hangs upon completion of the wmi remote call when executed as a SQLJob! SQL Agent has subsystems.  SSIS is one subsystem, the one that runs SSIS packages.  That subsystem uses DTExec to execute those packages.  Another subsystem is the cmd subsystem it executes processing in cmd.exe. Matt ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to get vga device emulation

  none of the shortcuts emulate a hidpi device, i.e. vga. i created my own shortcut using the command line args, set video to 480x640x16 and it gave a vga screen, but it was not 'hidpi', it was the same as running sevga on a true vga device, i.e. not what the user normally sees. anyone got proper emulation of a wm2003se vga device I was using the 2.0 version, but I tried the 1.0 too, didn't work. I'm using a shortcut: target: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Device Emulator\1.0\DeviceEmulator.exe" Pocket_PC_PE_Emulator_VGA.bin /language 2055 /memsize 128 /video 480x640x16 start in: C:\Program Files\WM03R ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Windows Tooltips kill FPS in my Windowed 3D application?

  Hi all. For a while now, I've noticed on my machine (and others) that when some WINDOWED 3D applications/games are running on Windows (XP/2000 etc), the framerate can drop from 80+ FPS to 5-10FPS if a standard Windows "tooltip" happens to over-lap the 3D window I hope that made sense! The reason it is an issue is because my application runs in a Maximized (not Fullscreen) window directly ontop of the windows desktop (effectively replacing it). As tooltips are a plenty around the taskbar area, tooltips are prone to poping up (well, fading up and back) all the time. Now for the kicker! I don't think it's just m ...Show All

• Visual Basic Photo Matching Database

  User selects a picture and querys the database for a match. How do I write the Code for this SELECT id, image, description FROM pictures [database] WHERE image EQUALS picturebox1.image I am concerned that the "image" format stored in the db will not match  picturebox1.image and that I probably will have to convert picturebox1 into a binary array to match the format already in the database.  Furthermore, I might have to compare byte for byte for both image.  This would be too slow. I need the best (speed) way to match an picturebox with a stored image in the database.  Thanks. ...Show All

• SQL Server Using Alter View in sproc?

  I am getting errors when trying to write a stored procedure with alter view statements in it. Can this not be done or is my syntax just off. If it can't be done is there a common work around or different method I should consider Thanks Umachandar, I do have the ALTER VIEW statement in the body of the SP as static. I will rework the SP to execute it dynamically as you suggested. Thanks alot ...Show All