rmachin's Q&A profile

• Visual FoxPro COM Server not updating tables until released

  Hi Everyone. Do you have any idea why tables wouldn't be updated by a COM Server until the object reference to the COM server is released I have written a COM Server that amongst many other things updates tables. The problem I have is that the tables are not being updated (as visible in another copy of VFP) until the COM Server object reference is released in the client. Does anyone know what would be causing this I am not using any buffer ...Show All

• Visual Studio Bug in Microsoft.VisualStudio.Package.DropDownMember.op_Equality()

  The code for this method is (according to Reflector): public static bool operator == ( DropDownMember m1, DropDownMember m2) { return m1 . Equals ( m2 ); } The problem is that mi can be null, when called from TypeAndMemberDropDownBars.GetEntryText(), GetEntryImage() and GetEntryAttributes(). The 'if ( member1 != null )' test in each of these methods ultimately ends up in DropDownMember.op_Equality(), which throws an excepti ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Window Background to Default

  Is there a way to get the form background to change color automatically when the user changes themes in Windows XP. The form only has an RGB setting. For example, when the user switches to Windows Classic the Form background should automatically change from light brown to grey. The buttons change color automatically I think because they have a Color Scheme property but the forms do not. You're welcome. If ...Show All

• SQL Server Incremental loading

  Hi Friends please let me know how can we incrementally load a destination table with source table. bearing in mind that we need to track that there are no duplicates in the destination table. I need to load only changed or new data in the final load. Please give me some examples also. I am tryin this from last 2 days as I am totally new to SSIS. Sam_dia wrote: Do I need to execute dtexec.exe from command prompt Yes! ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Integration Services (Standard vs Enterprise Editions)

  The advanced transforms only available with Enterprise edition: Data Mining Training Destination Data Mining Query Component Fuzzy Grouping Fuzzy Lookup Term Extraction Term Lookup The advanced tasks only available with Enterprise edition: Data Mining Query Task Now what does all of those terminologies mean above We are trying to determine if we need to really invest in the enterprise edition for the integration se ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to set up an auto build with Team Build?

  Hi,    I heard that Team Build allows user to setup an auto build function. The build server will build the solution when users check in code and send out the build result. But I cannot find how to setup this function. Does anybody know how to do this Thanks!    Adam Hi Adam, Yes - you can configure Team Build to schedule builds automatically. Please refer this post for more info - http: ...Show All

• .NET Development Failed to access IIS metabase

  Hi there, I've an webapplic made under framework 1.0. now we switched to visual studio.net 2005 and i compiled the old webapplication to framework 2.0 on my developers machine everythings works fine. When I installed framework 2.0 on the webserver and placed the new compiled 2.0 version of my webapplic i get the following error: Server Error in '/zipwww' Application. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ...Show All

• Visual C++ how to stop explorer?

  hi folks, dont mind i have a bunch of questions 1. how to stop explorer i know how to stop once it is started i.e By enumarating all the processes in the current state and kill the explorer. but what i want is when the system boots up i want to kill the explorer. mind it except explorer all the functionality should work properly.eg IO processing and my second question 2. how to change logon screen when ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS SELECT / DELETE / INSERT

  I am trying to do the following for a few tables in my DB. I have an ODBC datasource and would simply like to update my DB from this datasource. I want to pull the table data from my ODBC datasource, delete any existing data in my SQL tables and then insert the data from my ODBC datasource into SQL. I am trying to create an SSIS package to do this but am not sure where to start. Any help or examples would be appreciated. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Reports and ReportServer problems...

  I have been trying to get TFS installed on a clean Windows 2003 Server but have been having some issues. SQL Server 2005 April CTP installs without errors and SharePoint Services 2.0 SP1 also.  But before I attempt install TFS I check the web addresses.  http://localhost takes me correctly to the sharepoint default site, but both http://localhost/reports and http://localhost/reportserver throw errors...respectively, Server Error in '/ ...Show All

• .NET Development DataGridView msACCESS

  When will DataViewGrid be debugged It goes FATAL without you needing to write ANY code! If you have one minute try the following... Create a new data source pointing to an existing microsoft access 2003 database (*.mdb don't use connection strings or SQL or anything complex) but do ask for at least one table (prefferably of few columns) Drag one table from the data source onto virgin form1 and magically a grid and navagator will appear. Run th ...Show All

• Visual C++ Where do I find the MSVCP80D.dll

  When I try to run the debug version of my application it fails with the error MSVCP80D.dll not found. I tried finding it on my machine but failed. Does that come with the Beta 2 of Whidbey  I need this to start debugging my apps. It should be picking it up from the SxS directories. Try locating it in the WinSxS directory at the %windir%\WinSxS directory. See related past post for more details: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/Sho ...Show All

• Visual C++ WIN64 Console App with VisualC++ 2005 Express Edition

  I want to develop a WIN64 Console App with VisualC++ 2005 Express Edition. I have followed all advices on the MS web pages on installing VC++2005 so that it would support 64 bit. Yet VC++2005 does not offer me creating a WIN64 console application, only WIN32 applications. Any suggestions what I could try Thanks a lot... I have VC 2005 Pro and I succeeded to build on 64 bits by doing the following: 1. Go to the Visual Studio 2005 to the ...Show All

• Windows Forms Performance question: Arrays vs. Public Variables

  I have come across a few situations where I face the option of either (1) creating a public shared variable and passing this to another called procedure or (2) iterating through an array of records within the called procedure to retrieve the piece of data. Which would be the more efficient approach in terms of speed and memory (Assume (1) the arrays in question usually contain less than 100 records each and (2) the variables would need to remai ...Show All

• SQL Server Drill down on table fields?

  I remember that one of the cool things you could do in SSRS 2005 was drill down. I have a summed field in my SSRS Report table which I'd like to see the records behind that sum. How do I enable this feature where I can double click that field ...Show All