thebeek's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Getting Started SQL 2005

  Can anyone help with REAL Fast Track links to Getting Started with SQL 2005 DB Design I have loads of ideas on implementing databases but I'm stuck on where exactly to start from. No prior DB or programming experience but I possess remarkable aptitude. >> No prior DB or programming experience but I possess remarkable aptitude LOL - gotta love confidence. Well, your first step is almost always a good ...Show All

• Visual Basic Graphics

  So far in my programming 'career' I have managed to avoid graphics. Mostly because I have not needed it but also because it is an alien area to me. Now I need to do something and would appreciated any pointers on how/where to start. I am sure this has been done many many times before The specification outline is I have a series of objects - each of which is a rectangle described in terms of it's type, placement point, width, length and heading ...Show All

• Windows Forms Detecting if webcam is already in use !

  Hello. I'm using the WM_CAP_DRIVER_CONNECT message in order to connect to the webcam driver. The problem occures whenever the driver is already busy by other application (for example NetMeeting) - I always get a "popup" window to select a different source for Video input Is there a way to disable this popup window or to know ahead if the webcam is already busy by some other app. or not ! ! ...Show All

• Windows Forms Activate Context Menus with a right click

  How can I make a Context Menu (asociated to a button) activate with a left click Thank you friends! If you handle the Mouse_Up event then you can use the following code to pop up a context menu named "mnu": If e.Button&nb ...Show All

• .NET Development How to set a specific RUNTIME for a library?

  I have used Visual Sturdio 2003 to create a DLL compativle with COM and I want that dll to run in .net 1.1 even if .net 2.0 is installed. Can I set this property in anyway to my library or it will always run with the las .net installed in the machine Hi! If you compile assembly under 1.1 it will always run under 1.1. 2.0 runtime will run only 2.0 compiled versions. .NET will always try to match ve ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Can not convert CCeSocket to WM 5.0

  Hi all! I have a problem on WM 5.0. Anyone can help me. I have a project on Pocket PC 2003 and I use CCeSocket class to connect to the NET. Now, I want to convert this project to Window Mobile 5.0. I use Visual Studio 2005 IDE to convert it but VS 2005 not supports CCeSocket class. On the msdn documents, they say that CCeSocket encapsulates CAsyncSocket. I've replated CCeSocket by CAsyncSocket but the application still can not connect to the Net ...Show All

• .NET Development Problems with kerberos authentication.

  I have this source code listed below. When I run the application I will get message error saying: The kerberos ticket cannot be retrieved.The RetriveKerbTicket call failed with the following message: There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request. What is the problem Can anyone help me I am stuck with this problem for 2 months. I need help desperately. Thnx. private void SubmitButton_Click( object sender, Sys ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. ID3DXFragmentLinker::Link*Shader Question

  Hi all! I have the following question: When using the ID3DXFragmentLinker::Link*Shader functions , will the fragments be linked in the order they appear in the rgFragmentHandles array Thanks! You are correct! JT ...Show All

• SQL Server Number format with negatives

  I am trying to change the negatives to (1) instead of -1.  I am using N0 as my format but I dont want to use currency because I dont want the dollar sign.  How can I change this Is there anyway to use currency without the $ sign Matt Try the following format code on the textbox: ##.00;(##.00) More details about format codes for numeric values can be found on MSDN: * http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Drew Speedie Dies in Accident

  The following is a re-post fromt he FoxPro Wiki about the accident that killed one of our long-standing Visual FoxPro Forum contributors and a personal friend of mine, Drew Speedie and his son, Brent, last Friday: On Friday, September 16, 2005, Drew Speedie and his son, Brent, fell a few hundred feet to their deaths from a bridge in Yellowstone Park. The Speedie family was on vacation there. Details of this tragedy are extremely limited at this ...Show All

• SQL Server How to sort that does not include duplicates in display?

  Hi everybody,    I like to asked anyone who is very good at sql to help me display this data in a table format that duplicate headings, subheadings or other columns won't appear twice or more. Can anyone help me I need to sort them and load them in a Datatable. Loop thorugh all records and display them in a label control created at run time. Thanks in advance. Sample Data: Topics Table TopicId  TopicLevel  Topic  ...Show All

• Visual Basic It's slow!!!

  Hello After I turn on my computer and when I launch first program (which programed by VB2005), it's take a long time to show main form. VB6 was faster.   CPU speed: 2600 MHz Memory: 1024 MB  Is there a solution for that   Thanks & Regards What do you mean by 'long time' It's possible that, even though windows appears to have finished booting up, it hasn't - it's still ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Load of fxcop input assembly failed

  In Vis Studio 2005 beta 2 I receive the 'Load of fxcop input assembly failed' when I open my c# project. I have read the material at the thread shown below http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=2386 It does not seem to apply to my project, as I have the output path under the project directory. However, I observe that, after a build, beneath my project directory, I have a both a bin\debug and a obj\debug. The obj\debug cont ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VSTS Sharepoint requirment

  We currently have Sharepoint Portal Server installed in production for use with our Intranet and then we have a child domain used for development. Does any one know if the Sharepoint Portal Server that hosts the project portal sites have to be in the same domain as VSTS or can it be in a different (the parent) domain Thanks Michael In version 1, the SharePoint server used for the project portal must b ...Show All

• Visual Basic Help reading xml data into my application

  http://www2.mvr.usace.army.mil/OMNI/ws/OMNIdataWebService.cfm Help! Based on this page, I have used their .xsd file to generate classes in my VB express application. I then load in their "sample xml" file. To test, I run this code: MessageBox.Show(vesloc206.SERVER.POOL(1).VESSEL(0).VESSEL_NAME) It works. However this code: MessageBox.Show(vesloc206.SERVER.POOL(1).VESSEL(0).STATUS_RECORD) gives me err: Value of type 'vesloc206.STATUS_RE ...Show All