Andy Bisson's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista ExpenseReport Sample Cancle Approval Question

  Recently,I study the ExpenseReport sample. I have a question about that:  The manager first approves it,then he want to cancel his approval,how to deal with this kind of situation. Thanks in advance Hi, In a scenario like that, one way would be to have an additional review point later in the workflow to allow the manager to confirm their approval. Another way is after the manager has completed his approval, you could put ...Show All

• SQL Server False hits with Contains query

  I'lll try this question here too, since I coudn't get an answer in the T-SQL forum http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=166991&SiteID=1 I cant figure out why a query returns false results. It is basically: select * from sometable where somecolumn=1 and contains(someothercolumn, 'arti-b') This query takes forever to process and returns about 100 false hits for every row where someothercolumn actually contains the string ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Registration Benefits

  I have registered: - Visual C# 2005 Express edition and when I go to the benefit portal, the ebook does not show up for it. It is titled Microsoft Visual C# Build it now By: Microsoft Press. Any help will be appreciated. As you probably know microsoft send an e-mail with benefit portal address. The link is: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ LinkId=52054 When I go to that link it asks for my re ...Show All

• .NET Development problem in Byte Array

  hi, i'm learning networking and i have a problem in my simple server program (echo server) ,i have byte array [1024] when i recieve data the recieve method just recieve for example 6 bytes but my array keep its 1024 bound, it instantiate every element in the array to 0, as result for that it send array composed from [1024] elments  (most of them are empty  it  just contains  [ 6 ] letters),  so the client  ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Automatic scrollbars in dialogs (landscape mode)

  Hi, I'm targetting Windows Mobile 5 using VS2005. I noticed that when I compile the code targetting PPC 2003, when swithching to landscape orientation, dialogs with controls that won't fit on the screen at once will automatically create a vertical scroll bar that scrolls the entire dialog so that the cut off controls can be seen. However when I compile targetting WM5, I no longer get these "automatic scrollbars". I've tried comparing v ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridViewComboBoxColumn

  Please help me understand this control... I’ve got a DataGridView with a pretty comboboxcolumn that I’ve successfully managed to populate, but my problem is that I really miss the properties & events that a regular combobox has, like selectedItem & selectedIndexChanged… Is a conversion from a cell in the comboboxcolumn to a regular combobox necessary, or Or how do I deal with the usual stuff like setting the selectedIndex = 0 ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) RichTextBox How To!

  Hi, I have searched the net and the documentation that shipped with Beta 2 and have not found any results or information that was able to aid me.  Hopefully there are some RichTextBox experts that could please help me with the following things: How can I make the RichTextBox single line   (this was possible in Win32, and no, changing the control template to a textbox does not work!  Because then it essentially is a t ...Show All

• SQL Server Errors in relational and OLAP Engine

  Hi Edward, You told me to look into my data source view yesterday. In my data source view i have the dbo.Prescription instead of dbo_Prescription though the error message indicates that the dbo_Prescription table is missing in the data source view. as below. <Batch xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine "> <Parallel> <Process xmlns:xsd=" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema " ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) MSDN Chat: DLinq, May 18th @ 12:45pm Pacific Time

  Show up and tell us what's on your mind! People from the C# and DLinq teams will be there to listen. We're still in the planning and development stage, so rest assured - we can react to your feedback. The official chat schedule entry . Add a reminder to your calendar. The chatroom itself . All upcoming developer chats . Have some time zone questions Check chats category on my blog for the next C# chat. See you there! &n ...Show All

• Visual C# functions

  hi, i'm very new to C# just downloaded Visual C#,  it's pretty clear to understand C# but with functions, how do i have to call it in php it would look like: function test($argument_one,$argument_two){ } and if i call it : function('one','car'); then $argument_one is equild to 'one' and $argument_two = 'car' how to make it in C# just need function header static void test( ){ } test('car','is great') ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Old Fox Pro Code Please Help

  I have the following code from an older version of Fox Pro.  I typed it into VFP 8 and I can't get it to work. Does anyone have any suggestions SET BELL OFF SET TALK OFF SET DEVICE TO SCREEN CLEAR ****** NUM1 = "   " NUM2 = "   " NUM3 = "   " NUM4 = "   " NUM5 = "   " NUM6 = "   " @ 10, 5 SAY "ENTER LOTTERY NUMBERS" @ 10, 50 SAY NUM1 PICTURE "XXX" @ 10, 50 GET NUM1 PICTURE "XXX" @ ...Show All

• Visual C# How to Build A custome IE Toolbar

  I've searched through the internet for answering this question : after making a dll toolbar on Visual C# .. how I can add it to IE .. and if I need to make such an action like saving Image from regular Image that avilable on a web page .. what kind of service that I may use and I'll be thankful for every thought that may help ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How do I handle a click event for a button in a ControlTemplate?

  I have a ControlTemplate that consists of a horizontal StackPanel with a TextBlock and a Button: < Style x:Key = " MyStyle " TargetType = " {x:Type ContentControl} " > < Setter Property = " Template " > < Setter.Value > < ControlTemplate > < StackPanel Orientation = " Horizontal " Margin = " 1,0,1,0 " > < TextBlock VerticalAlignment = " Center " Margin = " 3 " > < Cont ...Show All

• Windows Forms RUNDLL error loading

  Don't know what I did but when XP starts up I get this message, I X out and everything else seems to run fine. Do I need to do something Here is what the whole window says: C:\windows\downloaded program files/bridge.dll       Th ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Creating custom data structures for HID devices via DirectInput

  Hi all, I'm working on accessing generic HID devices on Win32 via DirectInput.  It's generally going well, but I've hit a snag. The devices I want to send and receive data to are non-standard devices - that is, they are not keyboards, mice or joysticks.  So, I think I need to use SetDataFormat with a custom DIDATAFORMAT structure to define a custom structure for these non-standard devices.  I'd expect to itera ...Show All