Rob Duffy's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Excel truncation error?

  Hi, I am getting real stressed out because while trying to import an excel file into a temporary table i get a truncation error... The max lenght used in the origin column is about 800 characters. So how the hell can i get the column to load Jesus... this should be easy task... :P Anyone experiencing this kind of stuff Regards, Luis Simoes ...Show All

• .NET Development Dial-up connection

  Hi, I have a dial-up connection using .Net application in Windows XP. Is there any way out to get the system information of how many bytes sent and received on the connection. I need to display the information on my UI screen. Any code sample would be great. Thanks. The System.Net.NetworkInformation namespace class should be of use to you. Specifically see: System.Net.NetworkInforamtion. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Phantom SQLEXPRESS

  My installation for SQLExpress April CPT always fails because according to the installer, there are still components in http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/uninstall/  that I haven't uninstalled. I already uninstalled everything. The weird thing is, I still have the SQLEXPRESS service running and the SQL Computer Manager . I have a haunch these two are the culprits. The problem is, I cant find them in "Add/Remove programs". I do have ...Show All

• .NET Development Simple question about multiple versions...

  We know that we can run Framework 1.0 and 1.1 at the same time. However, we have not been able to find information about 1.1 and 2.0. Could someone shead some light on this I believe it is, but best to ask the experts.... Hello Jeremy. The short answer is yes 1.1 and 2.0 applications can peacefully coexist but a lot depends on which framework(s) are installed on the destination/install machine. A program wr ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Datagrid Horizontal Scrollbar

    Does anybody know any way to control the Horinzontal Scrollbar of DatagridControl As I try there isnt any event which fires when there is a change in Scrollbar, and there isn’t also a way to position the scrollbar in the region that i want. If the answer is no as I expect, does anybody know any thridparty component apart than resco smartgrid an ComponentOne C1Flexgrid. Thanks for your help. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Compiling issues, DirectInput .dll is in two different places

  I'm having a problem compiling due to the compiler finding the .dll in two different places since updating my DirectX version. Here's the specific error... Error 1 The type 'Microsoft.DirectX.DirectInput.Device' exists in both 'c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\DirectX for Managed Code\1.0.2902.0\Microsoft.DirectX.DirectInput.dll' and 'c:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_32\Microsoft.DirectX\2.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35\Microsoft.DirectX.dll' C:\Documents and Settin ...Show All

• Visual C# Deploying C# App. Using a Third-Party Installer

  What/where do I check to see that my .NET prerequisites are installed I'll be using a 3rd party installation program, as clickonce is too limiting for what I need in this particular project. But, I will be distributing the prerequisites on the install CD so my users won't have to d/l it. The prerequisites that I need to check are: .NET Framework 2.0 Windows Installer 3.1 SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Thanks for the help! Hi there, y ...Show All

• Visual C++ Interesting problem - Microsoft Word integration with non-MFC application

  Hiya. I've been trying to generate a Microsoft Word document for some time and can't seem to figure out how to do it. I have a GUI program that I have not written in MFC and I need to find a way of exporting information into a Word document. Can anyone help me with this problem What I want is to be able to export text and tables into a Word document. Thanks! ~Landale The most easiest way ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to check if a string is a number

  How do you check to see if a string is a numberic value Dim mystr As String mystr = "12344" If IsNumeric(mystr) = True Then System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show( "All Numbers" ) else System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show( "Not All Numbers" ) End If ...Show All

• Visual C# Array of objects

  hi.. In my application i want to create an array of object of a class.Based on the requirements at runtime i want to create that.. Is there any way like malloc/calloc in C. As a newbie i really need a help.. thanx ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem with RowChanging event

  Hi, if have a DataSet (SQLExpress) whith 2 Tables. On one table I add a RowChanging event handler. When I add a record in a boud datagridview then an exception occures in the handler. (After changing the postion in the DGV the event is fired). Here my handler: void PCs_RowChanging( object sender, DataRowChangeEventArgs e) { if (PCsBindingSource.IsBindingSuspended) { return ; } try { MessageBox .Show(e.Action.ToString()); } catc ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Error C2248

  I searched for other cases of this error, and could not find anything similar to this. The online help hinted at the cause but the solution did not work. I was unable to paste into this form (Win 2000, IE 6 SP1), so I have pasted some code samples at http://spaces.msn.com/members/robertjohnson/ If anyone can be bothered to read through this turgid example I'd like an opinion on how to get it to compile. It worked on VC 7 compiler, and it's prob ...Show All

• Visual Basic Warnings/Errors created during an upgrade of a 2003 Asp.Net application

  Hello: After installing VS2005, I opened a 2003 ASP.Net application and rebuilt it. It comes up with the following error messge: Warning 1 The element 'compilation' has invalid child element 'compilers'. List of possible elements expected: 'assemblies, buildProviders, codeSubDirectories, expressionBuilders'. C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\InnoBox\Web.config 16 5 C:\...\InnoBox\ The offending line in web.config is below: < compilers > ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Inserting and Updating images file from VFP9 to SQL Server 2005

  i am developing a form where i am collecting personal information such as name, address and signature of the person as a bmp file........ i am saving the data in the SQL Server 2005 . My front end is VFP 9 forms. i am building a SQL query to insert the record....... the prob that i m facing is that  i cannot concatenate the image type with the SQL string that i m building the insert works fine if i dont try to insert the image the imag ...Show All

• Visual Basic Socket Encoding and Decoding using Ascii Encoding

  Hi All fairly new to VB .Net and have been trying to port code from vb6. I have picked up the sample application for sockets and my problem is I have a string which come come in with binary data packed as bytes i.e 10101010101001 and the bytes would appear as .>D.... .. .B..." compressed bitmap. It would now appear that I cannot see the full string I have some characters missing and when I read through the data and build a response I can ...Show All