Martin Flores's Q&A profile

• .NET Development How do I get or set IV and KEY for Symmetric Key in MS SQL Server 2005?

  All Symmetric encryption algorithms have to have Initialization Vector and Key for Encryption/Decryption. It is possible to generate and save them for future use in VS 2005. How do I do it in MS SQL Server 2005 ! I beleive that it has to be such parameters, but I could not find them ... SQL Server 2005 does not have the same rich cryptographic functionality as System.Security.Cryptography, so some things you may be familiar with in .NET ...Show All

• Visual C# TCP send formatted messages

  hi,,, while i was making some tcp server client applications i found my messages sometimes wree bunching up,, and i have some snsitive data that causes errors if my data is corrupted,, so i have read in some places that is good when u sedn a tcp message to di it this way: [type][lenght][data] but,,,, how can i do it ... and then how to read it when i receive it ....... thx mig16 I don't know what exactly is ha ...Show All

• Windows Forms Adding Record to Details Table

  Hello, I have a form showing information from two tables which are related one-to-many as Master-Detail records (as in Customer-Order relationship).  Information is shown in two DataGridView controls, bound to the underlying database tables via BindingSources by dragging & dropping in Visual Studio. I wish to write some code which adds the first Detail record to the database whenever a new Master record is created.  Can ...Show All

• SQL Server How do I force new databases to be created on another drive on same server?

  I successfuly installed SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition today (on the first shot!) but can't figure out how to force new databases, etc to be created on another drive on the server. SQL installed on the c: drive (I had no choice!) but it is a very small partition. I need to install Sharepoint Portal 2003 next (on a different server) and want to make sure everything goes on the other drive. Help me, please!! Thanks :-) ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Address bar - locked

  my address bar will to type in the full name of a web site, but once complete it will not pull up the site, it stays on the main msn page. Like typing in www.miamidolphins.com - but while typing it will drop down and offer a list of sites, if i pick one of those I can go straight to the sight or choose from my favourites. but to actually type a new site name in the address bar and click go - it goes no where. how do I solve this i do have ...Show All

• Visual C++ Why is strdup() deprecated in VS 2005?

    < hyslopc@discussions.microsoft.com > wrote in message news:9a93850c-505b-48c3-bd60-44625db8bbc6_WBRev2_@discussions..microsoft.com ... This post has been edited either by the author or a moderator in the Microsoft Forums: http://forums.microsoft.com You may not care about it, but I do.  I don't want to disable the warning because I think the concerns with most of the deprecated functi ...Show All

• Visual C++ Linking Problems - newbie

  I used the project wizard to create a Visual C++ > CLR > Windows Form Application. I'm trying to use some of the functions in Windows.h, so I added the #include "Windows.h" at the top of my .cpp file. The code I added to my .cpp file was   UINT t = midiInGetNumDevs();   It seems to compile successfully, but I get the following errors when I build:    Error 1 error LNK2028: unresolve ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Visual C++ Express and *.ocx

  I need to create a "signature" .ocx file. RSView will link to an ActiveX .ocx to run on a WinCE 4.10 box, but has to set up the linking on XP. I expect it doesn't need a "matching" COM server, just a stub with the right "signature" to read a table or variables passed. Embedded C++ will create the .ocx for use, but I've not gotten one built for linking. Can Visual C++ Express do this dave ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums additem issue with populating a combobox

  Hello, I have been working at this for days and am no better off. I could really use some help. I need to populate a combobox with data from a column in an SQL table. I have put together the code below but am having an error at this line: invBegNum.additem rs.Fields.Item("RMDNUMWK").Value Error message: "Object doesn't support this property or method" I'm really a newb but am trying hard to get this.  When I write this line of code to popul ...Show All

• Windows Forms Detect data change

  I have a form with TableAdapter, BindingSource, DataNavigator ... and bound controls. When moving to a new item (with the DataNavigator buttons) or closing the form - I need a way to detect if the user has changed anything to ask if they want to save changes. If they answer yes then I will do the appropriate .Update - if they answer no I need to cancel any changes made in the controls. Any ideas You c ...Show All

• .NET Development Authentication Failed - SMTP Email

  Hello, We are in the process of converting a VB6 project to .NET using VS2005. The problem is with sending the email. The error I am getting is the following: System.Net.Mail.SmtpException: Syntax error, command unrecognized. The server response was: 5.7.0 Authentication failed    at DCTEmail.Email.SendMail()    at CustAdmin.frmEmail.btnSend_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in E:\SaberTooth.V4\SaberTooth\SaberTooth\For ...Show All

• Visual Basic Serial Communications

  I am having similar problems as several other postings I've read here concerning reading from serial ports in Visual basic 2005 Express. Unfortunately I have not seen an answer. - I can build a list of available com ports - I can write data to a com port using the " How to: Send Strings to Serial Ports in Visual Basic " - I cannot read from the port using the sample code for " How to: Receive Strings From Serial Ports in Visual Basic" I hav ...Show All

• Windows Forms Invoke blocking details - avoiding deadlock?

    What calls allow pending Invoke calls to execute on the UI thread I assume that DoEvents() will unblock waiting threads are there any other calls with finer granularity The problem I'm running into is that I have a background thread calling delegates to process data. These threads may call Control.Invoke() in order to update UI. A second thread needs to be able to stop the background processing. This thread may or may not be the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem upgrade from TFS B3R to RTM at system health check

  I have follow the instruction step by step in the upgrade guide for TFS B3R to RTM. At the Step 9: Install TFS RTM Single-Server installation at the system health check I received an error database version mismatch. Can anyone give me a pointer on how to fix this problem Thanks, Vinh, Can you execute the following proc on TFSIntegration database and tell me what it returns Exec GetTFSVersion ...Show All

• .NET Development SQL UPDATE - "No value given for one or more required parameters"

  I've used this structure in several other C# database programs with success, until this app.  Now I'm receiving this: "No value given for one or more required parameters." The key is SAMS_ID. The data is text, no numeric fields.  The code I used is below.  I've tried removing the single quotes from around the date field and also from around any fields that contain numbers but still receive the same error. Anyone know w ...Show All