MarkBeau's Q&A profile

• SQL Server best approach

  I've been banging my head for a while now, and it is sore! :-P I'm a best practice/Microsoft approach type of person and want to make sure I do things correctly. I have a database, kind of like a forum. Obviously executing multiple queries in one "batch" (stored proc) would have an impact on the performance. Now, I would like to give a more detailed/specific error back to the caller (either by aid of error code or w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Can the debugger call the method in the application to be debugged?

  Can the method in the application to be debugged be called from the debugger To have to do the same processing as the method generated by the compiler when compiling by the debugger, this question is done. Best Regards. Shinya Watanabe Can be called the method,which in the application to be debugged, from the debugger To have to do the same processing by the debugger, which as the method generated by the compi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Basic Express won't install.

  I recently tried to install the VB express edition. I went through all the agreemetns and such,but when it came time to install, it wouldn't. It has done this on several occasions. it will being to install but then stop and says it cannot be installed. It gives me no error messages or anything. It just says: "The following item could not be installed: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0." Anything I could do   What version of VB express d ...Show All

• .NET Development Unable to load .NET shell context menu extension; CLR version issue

  I have a series of Windows Shell extensions (column, context and namespace extensions) built with .NET 2.0. Everything works as expected until some other application, built with .NET 1.1, calls (via the class library) through to GetOpenFileName() or GetSaveFileName(). The Open or Save As common dialog uses Windows Shell functionality, and if one right clicks to bring up a context menu, our context menu extension is invoked. There is one *smal ...Show All

• Visual C++ SOS:VC2005 B2 Express VC++ Directories Problem

  I downloaded and installed VC2005 B2 Express, I can't set "VC++ Directories". screenshot: http://member.netease.com/~lilong/temp/VS2005ExOpt.jpg is this bug this is a BIG PROBLEM!! charlie_pike@discussions.microsoft.com wrote: i've got exactly the same problem. no list box coming up You should report it under http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/ -- Greetings ...Show All

• Visual Basic Form Clicks etc

  Hi Everyone, I forgot to ask this question... is there a way to set clickable areas of the form without a picturebox or button If there is, how do you find out or determine where on the screen the pointer is when you set up the points I tried to turn the GRID feature on but it never works. I'm using a map as a FORM background, but the pix boxes are slow to load when the form is called. Thanks again, Elgee ...Show All

• SQL Server Transaction context in use by another session.

  I'm having a SP1 on server A. This procedure has a begin trans and a commit. In this procedure i'm inserting data into tables. This data is provided by an extrenal app in staging tables. On the tables i'm inserting data on i'm having triggers that again are starting a SP2. I'm using a cursor on the inserted table to achieve this. The SP2 only insert a record on a table that is on a linked server. For testing reasons at this moment this is ...Show All

• .NET Development Freezing TCP SocketListener

  I'm writing my first local network TCP/IP Client/Server Windows Forms workstation application functionality code in VB 2005 Express. The internet may be connected by the user, but it is playing no role in the Client/Server part of the application. The objective is to write a simple listener and a simple client not demanding anything but the Listener being able to pick up transactions sent on a specific port and up to six Clients  being a ...Show All

• Visual Basic I did the whole "XML Saving Data" thing, how do I load the data?

  Ok, I followed the instructions given to me: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ First, create a class that has properties for the values that you want to change. Make sure that the class has a constructor (Sub New) that doesn't take any arguments. If you don't have a constructor on your class, you're fine. Add read/wr ...Show All

• Windows Forms How should I resize the datagrid

  In the design mode I had created the datagrid which can accomodate 30 rows During runtime this grid has 2 to 1000 rows is there any way when my grid has less than 10 rows I want to minimize the height of the grid in run time ...Show All

• SQL Server PDF files with images get unexpectedly large in SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services

  When using quite small JPEGS (~ 800 KB) in a report the exported PDF is a few megabytes of size. Am I missing something (e.g. some kind of compression) Can anyone give me a hint on this one Thanks, Neno There is a known bug in 2000 (which I know wasn't fixed in the SP2 beta -- don't know about SP2 RTM, though) in the PDF renderer -- It causes images of any type to be converted to bitmaps, then rendered. I bet this is what you're running i ...Show All

• Visual Studio msbuild for all Visual Studio Projects

  I want to use msbuild to build my project files on a build lab machine that does not have VS installed. I  have make some test with Visual Basic and C# project without any problem. but with c++ it 'seems to be, a little more difficult. Msbuild refused the Release option configuration : If i use msbuild myproject.vcproj /t:Rebuild that build both Release and Debug version of my project I want only release version, so I try msbui ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Input mask for a spinner

  I've defined an input mask for a spinner as $$99999.99 It displays the value $ 855.09 as $ 955.9 What am I doing wrong Thanks. I've defined an input mask for a spinner as $$99999.99 It displays the value $ 855.09 as $ 955.9 What am I doing wrong I tested this with a base class spinner bound to both numeric and currency fields and it worked flawlessly. Is you spinner a bound control(is the con ...Show All

• Visual Basic Counting Letters in a string

  Hello,  I am trying to get VB to count how many A's B's C's D's E's etc... that are in a  declared string, can someone tell me how to do this. thanks Ray RFeather[AT][NOSPAM]chstaffing.com Dim aCount As Integer =  0 Dim bCount As Integer =  0 Dim cCount As Integer =  0   Dim myString As String =  "aabbccc" Dim i As Integer For  i = 0 To  m ...Show All

• Visual Studio Clueless SerializationException!

  Hi All, I am getting a System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException and have no idea how to fix it. I get this error at the time deserializing the object. I am developing a VSPackage in C#. From the Initialize() method of my package class (which is derived from class Package), I am trying to read/write a serialized class. I can see in the forum that few other people have had these problems but I could not find any answer. Coul ...Show All